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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].。広瀬雄一は、7歳の少女伊織と出会い、彼女を自分のアパートへ連れ帰った。みなし児だった伊織は、那波家にひきとられたが、ひどいこき使われ方をされていた。人間不信に陥っていた彼女を、雄一はひきとるため那波家を訪ねる。東京に家のある雄一は、仕事で札幌に赴任しており、彼の面倒は家政婦のカネが見ていた。カネは反対するが、親友、津島大介の励ましもあって、雄一は伊織を育てる決心をする。十年の歳月がたち、伊織は17歳。雄一は伊織に北大を受けさせようとしていた。彼女の高校には、同じく北大を受けようとする那波家の次女、佐智子もいた。そして伊織の住む雄一のアパートに、那波家の長女、裕子が引っ越して来た。裕子の歓迎会がアパートの住人たちによって開かれ、見事な舞踊をみせた彼女は、一たん自室へ引きあげた。。