

She meets Harriet, a homeless superstitious woman taking refuge in her barn along with her mentally challenged son. Soon she receives ominous messages from a fortune teller machine in the manor, as well as occasionally hearing strange music. Don becomes more aggressive towards his wife and even rapes her in a controversial scene.

Unknown to the happy two, Zoltan the magician was into black magic and had summoned an evil demon which possessed him, causing him to murder his wives.Īdrienne unwittingly releases it shortly after moving in during her exploration of the manor and it possesses Don. Immediately upon moving into the house, Adrienne begins having nightmares.

Adrienne is hoping to get in the mood for writing her next novel and Don, a photographer, wants to photograph things. The story by Roberta Williams, somewhat similar to that of The Shining, revolves around paperback writer Adrienne Delaney, who has together with her husband Donald Gordon just bought a remote, enormous mansion previously owned by a famous magician in the late 19th century, Zoltan Carnovasch (Carno).
