Ameri??;@can p_^sychologist )[?John (Holden ar[.rives in London to p= ,artic;##i`(pate?= in a symposium aiming to e]
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witchcraft= and devi/;l-wor`ship a( s a fraud, with ;^atten
tion ?/cen@]tered on a cult run b:(`
y a Julian K#_-#arswell%. Deb:
arking hi,]s p_+lane, Holden l#ea[rns th]^ at[ t he symposiu$m leader, He:nry Harrington,_)` has suddenly d#i%/ed and he #?.is now in cha@r*=ge. What only the?- aud. ienc\ e knows is that Har:=rington! (was clearly)/( killed by a demon, appa^re[+ntly sum=;`moned by #^ K ?^arswell]^@, to-  %_avenge his,- persecution. D)*,espite bo @^!th$_[ ]\threat^ening and cajoling beha)$vior by Kars-*+wel);l, Holde(?n d
eter#@: mines t%;o pr//oceed, #though the on(%l;]\y cult ,+m =ember wil![lin+g t\]o t)?alk a(bout his /=experience^s .@@[is;) in a!
 prison ps?ychiatric/  war*d,@]- catatonic after alle[gedly kil@=%ling :/*,yet another$
cul,t member. H_owe+/ver, Harri(ngton's n[] ,i.]^e$%ce, $$_Jo,+;anna, [\be.li,-eves, base-[d on he r uncle's notes, that Kars@^,,w! %ell may inde+ed have some satanic powers ^derived! from an ancie \.nt to\$ me in=+
an 
 ob-*scure l?anguage which he has b?-/een able /_to [tr/ _an%:slat!e, and attempts to war;%- n the skeptic  .*Ho*-lden. +Karswell'@_s ! mother, also attem+ pts to warn^-_ H ?olden o,^ ff. Ho]!wev(/)er, the thing which begins to \most get to H [#olden ar? e th#e occas_ional, __bu=
]t]. m[,?ountin@\g, sens^ory and mental disturbances he begins ex]@periencing after .@an encount] er with Karsw^ ell, and the di sc :ov;+e$ry that?, d-uring thi)[!s $(encounter,- , Ka%\!rs*=well sec@*r/=`e^tly s,l_)^ipp+ed a *slip of p)[archment wit[h a curse in- r` unic s?!ymbols ?o#@.n =?(it into Ho)lden's belongi` :$ngs[
, a% + parchment i(dentical t,o one+ , ^ Harringt_)on r ecorded ha[=vin -$g !had ,passed ?to him in a .]s++imilar manner(/ shortl=.y be:fore his deat#,%h... -,[^#N.B. ;^Hol/-d^#e:n at no point st)/ays at :the+$ Kars,)we;ll estate%].