The Haunted Inn is an 1828 melodrama by the British writer Richard Brinsley Peake.Kabatchnik, p. 79 It was first acted at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and was part of a group of plays that used a country inn as a setting for sinister or threatening events.Burwick, p. 94
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