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American psychologist John Holden arrives in London to participate in a symposium aiming to expose witchcraft and devil-worship as a fraud, with attention centered on a cult run by a Julian Karswell. Debarking his plane, Holden learns that the symposium leader, Henry Harrington, has suddenly died and he is now in charge. What only the audience knows is that Harrington was clearly killed by a demon, apparently summoned by Karswell to avenge his persecution. Despite both threatening and cajoling behavior by Karswell, Holden determines to proceed, though the only cult member willing to talk about his experiences is in a prison psychiatric ward, catatonic after allegedly killing yet another cult member. However, Harrington's niece, Joanna, believes, based on her uncle's notes, that Karswell may indeed have some satanic powers derived from an ancient tome in an obscure language which he has been able to translate, and attempts to warn the skeptic Holden. Karswell's mother also attempts to warn Holden off. However, the thing which begins to most get to Holden are the occasional, but mounting, sensory and mental disturbances he begins experiencing after an encounter with Karswell, and the discovery that, during this encounter, Karswell secretly slipped a slip of parchment with a curse in runic symbols on it into Holden's belongings, a parchment identical to one Harrington recorded having had passed to him in a similar manner shortly before his death... [N.B. Holden at no point stays at the Karswell estate].。历史悠久的楚公馆祖传大量珍贵古玩文物，但长子楚汉其不务正业，嗜酒又好赌，输后便悄悄拿出家中古玩变卖，赋闲在家的齐燕深恶痛绝，百般劝阻均无效，小弟楚汉林则是旅英的实业家，酷爱中国古代文化，既回祖国兴办水电站又修建乡村路，给政府写信，表示要将自己家，改建成向社会开放的博物馆。 文物工作者李婷系书画鉴定家兼画家，奉命前往楚家协办博物馆，不料楚汉其坚决反对，李婷无意中卷入楚家的激烈矛盾纷争中。李婷丈夫赵南本系广告公司经理，精通古玩，但企图从中牟取暴利，因而不择手断，先是巧获秘书长之女申洁好感，帮助一心想自力更生的申洁开办画廊，企图以画廊为中转站倒卖古玩，又将楚汉其玩弄于股掌之间，不断从其手中摄取珍贵文品，申洁委屈求全，但暗中却和李洁一起保护文物。李婷极为反感丈夫的表里不一，但赵南却声称拼命赚钱的目的是为了让投稿屡屡不中的妻子举办画展，让怀才不遇的李婷获得社会...。