Synopsis according to legend, the dark, forbidding edifice of daemons' roost was once home to a sorcerer named jacob surtees, who harnessed the powers of hell to subjugate his victims. Living there today is the veteran film director nathan clore, whose output of schlock horror movies in the seventies generated its own brand of terror among cinema audiences. His health now failing, he has summoned home his stepdaughter alison, to share with her, finally, the dreadful truth about what happened to her family there when she was just a child. Were her mother and sisters really killed by demonic forces? And what is the macabre background to the seemingly impossible death of her husband stephen's first wife in a locked room? Murder that became known as the striped unicorn affair? The chilling solution to it all is one that will tragically resonate with events in jonathan creek's own distant past region region 2 release date 6 feb. 2017