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Jonathan Creek is called upon to try and uncover what happened to a young woman's family in her eerie childhood home, Daemons' Roost.

According to legend, a 19th century sorcerer Jacob Surtees would summon the powers of Hell to terrorize and subjugate his victims at his home, Daemons' Roost. A hundred and fifty years after his death the house is occupied by another, equally macabre, figure: veteran horror film director Nathan Clore. With his health now failing he has summoned home his stepdaughter Alison, to share with her the chilling truth of what happened to her family there. However, just days before her arrival Nathan Clore has suffered a debilitating stroke, rendering him terribly paralyzed and unable to communicate the very truth that she has come to learn. After assisting Alison's husband in the past, Jonathan Creek is called upon to help again but as the story unfolds, with ever more sinister twists and turns, the gruesome rituals that were once enacted in the dungeon of Daemons' Roost are frighteningly revived with horrifying consequences.

Young marrieds Alison and Stephen Belkin visit Daemon's Roost, the home of her step-father, former horror film director Nathan Clore, now an invalid attended by adoring carer Phillipa, since Alison is keen to discover what caused the deaths of her mother and sisters. Years earlier Jonathan's evidence had been instrumental in acquitting Stephen of a murder charge and vicar Wendell Wilkie, a huge admirer of Jonathan, asks him to help Alison in her enquiries. However Nathan is found dead, despite the water-tight security system surrounding his house. More deaths follow before Jonathan, working on Nathan's film background, establishes the identity and motive of the culprit, whilst Alison finally learns what killed her family.—don @ minifie-1