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艾本（约瑟夫·科顿 Joseph Cotten 饰）是一名画家，靠着自己的勤奋和努力生存，然而，那个时代实在是太萧条了，所以艾本始终活在濒临破产的边缘。某日，画家偶然中遇见了一位名为珍妮（珍妮弗·琼斯 Jennifer Jones 饰）的女孩，艾本为珍妮画了一张速写，让他没有想到的是，这张速写被画廊老板相中，并交代他再画一些这样的画。 之后，艾本和珍妮断断续续的见着面，画家以她为模特创作出了一幅又一幅作品，随着时间的推移，艾本和珍妮之间渐渐产生了一种奇妙的羁绊。珍妮长大了，艾本所画的一副珍妮的肖像油画被博物馆收藏了，他的生活亦渐渐得到了改善。可是，与此同时，珍妮却消失了。。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].。