简介 A large, black, four-poster bed, possessed by a demon, is passed from owner to owner. In the 15th century, a knight killed the demon, but the demon's blood splashed onto the bed, causing the possession. Those who come i nto contact with the bed are frequently consumed by it (victims are pulled i nto what is apparently a large chamber of digestive fluids beneath the sheets). A running commentary or chorus is supplied by the ghost — if that is the correct word — of an artist (who would appear to be Aubrey Beardsley, though this is never stated directly) trapped behind a painting ...