In present-day Melbourne, a group of power-hungry academics are trying to reassemble a 19th century grimoire designed to summon Satan. For centuries magicians have compiled grimoires to call up demons. In Victorian London an ambitious warlock called Peter Owling designs a book to summon the Lord of Demons himself and thereby achieve eternal life. But not even his beautiful young acolyte Christian grasps the full extent of his master&;s plans.... In 20th century Melbourne, a group meets in secret at Humberstone College, dedicated to reassembling Owling&;s book. But there are others meeting at Humberstone, too: three students drawn to the College&;s mysterious past, its gloomy underground labyrinth and what they come to suspect are its current secrets. When a beautiful man appears to one of them in a mirror, he says he carries a warning...but can his dreadful story be true? |