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].。剧情简介: 这是一部描绘非线型历史的神话故事。 人类大战持续了将近50年,世界由此分化为大亚细亚连邦共和国和欧共体两大阵营。持久战结束后,大亚细亚连邦共和国终于取得了胜利,并统治了欧洲和亚洲部分大陆,但战利品并不可观,除了土地的荒废,人心的慌乱外,还残留了很多战争后遗症。比如一些在战场上使用过的杀伤性化学武器、细菌武器、核武器等等。 这一情形告诉我们拯救人类、拯救社会、拯救世界刻不容缓,人类处于即将崩溃的状态。怎样去面对这一切?怎样去寻找重生的道路?社会呼唤有志之士勇敢地战出来给这个被战争荒废了世界寻找一个公道。在这样危急的时刻,东博士提倡“完整地制造出人类所有器官的新造细胞”理论,这一理论在学术会上得到了认可。东博士的爱妻绿已久病卧床不起,为了把妻子从死神手中夺回来,东博士也必须完成这个研究。但社会保健部门从研究初期开始就企图...。