The Hagstone Demon

Burned-out investigative reporter Douglas Elmore accepts a temporary caretaker position at the crumbling Hagstone. The building seems to breathe around him, and that first night the ghost of Julie Elizabeth Elmore materializes, shattering his fragile grip on reality. The encounter pulls him into Hagstone’s strange, unsettling secrets.

Early the next day, Mr. Thompson corners Douglas with a blunt demand to remove Karna and her hairless cat Victoria from the basement. Moved by Karna’s fragile dignity, Douglas offers her a small apartment near the laundry, hoping to shelter her from Hagstone’s strange dynamics. His act draws him deeper into the building’s web of secrets.

Douglas visits his priest brother-in-law, Fr. Carl Becker, to seek guidance about Julie’s visits and Hagstone’s unease. He recounts the spectral happenings and the growing dread in the building. When he returns, he learns an innocent tenant has been murdered, intensifying the pull of Karna’s mystery.

That night, a Hagstone tenant is brutally murdered, shattering Douglas’s fragile routine. Suspicion begins to turn toward Karna as tenants whisper and watchful glances sharpen. The building’s menace feels increasingly personal.

Karna asks Douglas to repair something in her apartment, foreshadowing the intimate entanglements to come. He agrees, drawing closer to Karna and easing a sense of trust that the Hagstone feeds on. This simple act locks him deeper into the secrets surrounding the building.

That night, Douglas shadows Karna through the city’s labyrinthine streets and witnesses a disturbing encounter with a pale, sinister man in a deserted alley. The scene unsettles him and raises questions about Karna’s true nature. Yet he remains drawn to her magnetic presence.

Back at Hagstone, tensions mount as Mrs. Brennan’s suspicions about Karna surface. An accusatory mood spreads among tenants while Douglas tries to shield himself from the gossip. The atmosphere thickens with paranoia and fear.

The next day, Douglas discovers Mrs. Brennan’s blood-streaked corpse in the rear stairwell. Detective Willis questions him with blunt certainty, making it clear that Douglas is the prime suspect. Willis hints at digging up Julie’s grave and reopening the case, pulling Douglas further into danger.

Douglas confronts Karna, accusing her of the killings, but she overpowers him with her daunting presence. She slips a drug into his drink and carries him away to a bizarre satanic sex ritual that culminates in a human sacrifice.

Douglas wakes in Barbara Halloway’s apartment, where she urges him to abandon the Hagstone for good. He refuses, then breaks down Karna’s apartment door to find it empty and abandoned. Barbara ferries him to his brother-in-law Carl, and they grow convinced that demonic forces are using the police to exhume Julie’s body.

The trio travels to the cemetery and finds Detective Willis murdered at Julie’s grave. The stakes feel impossibly high as they confront the possibility that Julie’s body holds a dark, supernatural purpose. They brace for a confrontation with Hagstone’s powers.

Back at The Hagstone, Douglas, Barbara, and Carl confront the fully demonized Karna and Mr. Thompson. Douglas discovers Julie’s corpse buried in the sub-basement, and the body re-animates to overpower him and escape. Carl is killed in the chaos.

They challenge Karna’s monstrous cat Victoria in the boiler room, fighting the last of the demonic forces. With the victory secured, the trio flees The Hagstone for the final time. Julie’s apparition lingers, watching with cold calculation as she contemplates her next victim.

Outside, the survivors escape The Hagstone, but Julie’s lingering presence makes clear that the horror may not be finished. The ending leaves the fate of the building and its inhabitants shrouded in chilling, unresolved silence. The haunting persists, hinting at new victims yet to come.