A man named John Christopher arrives at Mr. Sweet’s bookshop, desperate to see the bookseller, but he is killed shortly after hiding a parchment inside one of the antique books. In a sinister taxidermist’s shop, the dark magician Estabis, also known as Mr. Stabs, is searching for the ‘Seven Serpents’ parchment, which holds the secret of turning base metal into gold; he is assisted in his task by the smelly Luko and a spirit named Polandi.
