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故事发生在十九世纪的英国，皮普从小成长于贫苦家庭之中，看着他长大的是个性暴躁的姐姐和姐夫。一次偶然中，皮普来到了一幢神秘的庄园之中，在那里住着的是他的雇主哈文森姆小姐和她的侄女艾斯黛拉。 随着时间的推移，皮普深深的爱上了性格冷艳高贵的艾斯黛拉，深知自己配不上她的皮普在内心里燃起了想要跻身于上流社会的念头。一笔突然到来的神秘财产让皮普得以实现了他长久以来的愿望，他来到了伦敦，开始了自己的“变身计划”，而此时的他并不知道，本以为是时来运转，但自己不过只是棋盘上的一颗棋子而已。。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].。