恶魔*之夜

剧情简介

Ame%?-rican psycholog,ist J
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[\<hn Hol>den arrives(= in London to %;>#:participat @e in a symposium aiming to(? expos"e w  itchcraft &and d*?evil -#%?-wor#ship ,&as a .+fraud, ]with!% at&*te[ntion ce=nt?ered )*on a cult run by a Julian Ka\;;rswe'll. Debarking
!/@his plane, Holden learns that th;e(>% sy)</<mposium lea>$der, H=e ? =nry  Harrin!.-)gto\",n, has su+/d??@($denly%:? died_ and he is now in .c-harge. Wh:at only the\+, a[=,'u\";dience kno.*ws?_ is that Harrin._%gton w
'[as =?clea+\rly killed by a demo_&n, apparently summo
$ne<+`d by Kar?s!,well !` to a /venge his per/secuti+,#o$- n. D`[\esp@ite both threat <ening and ca&
<joling b<$ehavior by Karsw=ell, Holden-> determine;+s t)'o pr.)o$ceed, though [/ t-#;he only cult_ membe>(r'= _.
/w.illin%>g++ /to% talk about h[/is ex/-pe !rienc*%.es is- in a !p;rison ?psy 'ch_>iatr
ic w.!@ard"(+<, catatonic after allegedly killing !/y@%et another cult member. However, Ha.%rringt<_$o@n's niece, ^.(Jo@anna, **@believe's,%  based on_ her uncle's no:`te,%s, tha+>t Karswell may indeed h?%ave= s@[*ome 
=&sa:=t\anic pow% ]ers derive`d from an a'/nc("-`]ien; t$ tome i_)_n? an # %ob=@scure[ +lan /!g)%)ua!"ge .>wh ich h@e has bee n ab`*+le to t *ra@_!^nslate, and &<atte^*=>mpts to warn the skeptic \\Holde'? n.
K";arswell's mother also atte_>mp/t>?s to wa.-^rn@$.; Holden off. Ho@/ we
&ver, the@* thi`
ng which begins to most get to :_Ho^_lden are t
\[he o<[`\cc$-[asio>'nal, but mounting,_, sen?sory and ment/al di#::;stur$ b(<%ances he begins exp%;@erie\'ncing after an ]>en?!"counter with K* a?**rswe([\ll"$"+, and the discovery that, during this ( >encounter+*, Ka. =rswell secr[<et!=@ly slipped a slip of pa_rchment wit;[h a curse in run^<ic].$ symbols on it into Hold:$e.,$_n's be^[)longings, a^ pa&rch?#m%`[_ent i?%*dntical to o ne Ha;:$r rington r"*eco#@'rded =+'!"ha&"(?ving had passed t.$o him in a sim: ]ilar [[%manner sh/or]$tly +bef [or]],e his death... ,- [N.B. Hol,,den at no`  point stays at the Karswel]
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