183 pages
English language
Published Dec. 6, 1979 by Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday.
183 pages
English language
Published Dec. 6, 1979 by Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday.
A psychiatrist who by chance guilds his house on a barrow, an ancient burial ground, begins to dabble in black magic and to use it, in combination with hallucinogenic drugs, to blackmail rich and credulous old ladies. His manservant, who is a true practitioner of the black art and a Magister of the First Degree, turns the doctor's play acting into the real thing, and, at the story's end, manages to conjure up the very flames of Hell.