恶魔之夜

简介

American psycho>+logis>[ t John
\ Hold="en "@arrives
,_=i#^*n Lon&`@don to`; participate in<[ a sympo`%si#:um aiming to expo=se\+,: witchcra+,ft an;# d devil-worship) as a fr(%aud$'@ ,[ with *,attent ion centered on a c+ult ru "n by?- a Julia+
*n Karswell. Debarki=!%n'
`g his plane, Holden_ lear,ns that th+ e sy,$ mp$osium leader, He@nry Harrington"-, has?[ suddenl;))`y died \!*and he[! is now in charge./?  )What<( only the aud:ience knows is th;^at Harr$
+ington^ )wa,,s clearly ki,]\ l-\le"'`d by a demo="!n, ap,pa,!re ntly summ$+.on,,ed by Karswell to ave\nge his)`" p#)[ersec=ution. )"D/'#espite-/ b#,`oth thr< =<eatening and cajo
-li>]ng behav"/ior b\y Karswel^l, Ho+<=&lden deter-mines to proce ]e%d,^&` tho)u_g& h t>-,he<- only`< `>> cul% t member willing t<o talk about his ex?peri .)e$nces i#^` s in a prison psychi a$tric ward, $$catatonic a=
fter _all?_egedl y ki\**lling ^[."yet ]"another cult member. However, Harri/[ngto@ &n's n%iec]'e, Joanna, believe/s, based o?*:n her un$!cle'_$s notes;, that@." Karsw%<ell ma;$y ?#-indeed have &%so.m:!e sat,*+#anic po+!wers derive[)d from an ancient%$ ]tom( >`e]<@ in( an obsc. *u"re lang<uage which he h++-(as .<been able to translate,,$ and a'ttempt<^/=s .]to warn th"%:[e s.$keptic H<!olden. Ka^)%rswell's @(mo/<ther also attempts to - war;+n H, ?o"-]\lden o]$ff.` However>, the thing' whic).h begins=:? ,$]to most get t!+$[o H&(?olden are the ^occasi`onal, ()but moun&"!ting, `.!sensory an#.d mental disturbance;
s he be
[,gi`]/ns exp
.[\er-.iencing after= an encounter with Kar
-swell, and the. discovery that, durin#^g this encou)@nter, Karswe?.l^ l secretly slip^< +ped a:; s:+lip of% parchment wit_/ h a curs .&e in runic [sy]mbols on it&& in>to Holden's belon;,gin
&,gs, a parchment `identical t; .=o one Har;*ring,ton recorded :-[havi^ =ng had p ):ass>#e'd %$to him in a similar manner shortl,y befor$e <[his death. _^.. !)-[>*N.B. Holden at_ n=)
^o-"]" point st@a
ys_#< a>+t the Kar)=swel(='+l estate].