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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].。1，因驾驶失误，富商爱德华（Bruce Payne 饰）的妻子爱玛（Denice D. Lewis 饰）不幸死于车祸，极度伤心和内疚的爱德华通过《死亡之书》的帮助，使爱玛复活。然而事情的发展却出乎他的意料…… 2，疯狂科学家迈登博士（David Warner 饰）躲在寒冷的实验室里，潜心进行他的长寿研究。百年的岁月流逝，他和女助手日久生情，然一场突如其来的火灾摧毁了一切…… 3，夫妻警察在追捕罪犯时走失，莎拉（Signy Coleman 饰）为寻找丈夫保罗（Obba Babatundé 饰）走入一间布满残肢断体的恐怖房间，她的噩梦从此开始…… 本片根据魔幻小说的创始人美国作家霍华德•菲利浦•勒夫卡夫特的作品《死亡之书》中的几则短篇故事改编，并荣获1994年意大利罗马奇幻电影节最佳特效奖、1994年葡萄牙奇幻电影节国际奇幻电影奖最佳特效奖。。