Night of the Demon, director Jacques Tourneur, 1957 β based on the short story Casting the Runes by M.R. James
βA long consultation took place. The paper was narrowly examined. As Harrington had said, the characters on it were more like Runes than anything else, but not decipherable by either man, and both hesitated to copy them, for fear, as they confessed, of perpetuating whatever evil purpose they might conceal.β















