Barney Parrish is the pen name of George Wolk, and you probably want a pen name when you're writing a Satanism cash-in this lurid and tawdry. The Closed Circle revolves around Lila Gerard who is described by the berserk back cover copy as, “Lila: Crazed or Possessed? Lila: Shy Bride or Wanton Bitch? By day, quietly religious, by night, lewd and possessed of a strange psychic power that enables her to witness events a continent away – weird events, diabolic orgies, and a cult of evil which calls itself THE CLOSED CIRCLE.” Lila, who is taking a “university-level” course in weaving, starts sleepwalking, possessed by “nocturnal Lila” who is really into sex, much to the horror of her husband, and because she wants to have sex they decide to institutionalize her. Once safely locked away, her psychiatrist realizes that she has an ESP open line on the Closed Cirlce, a bunch of thinly-veiled Hollywood celebs who abduct hitchhikers and sacrifice them at LSD devil orgies.