As "Curses" opens, you're hunting about in the attic of your family home,
looking for a tatty old map of Paris (you're going on holiday tomorrow) and
generally trying to avoid all the packing. Aunt Jemima is potting daisies
and sulking; the attics are full of endless distractions and secrets; Greek
myths, horoscopes, sixth-century politics, a less than altogether helpful
demon, a mysterious bomb plot, photography, ritual, poetry and a dream or
two all get in your way; and somehow you keep being reminded of your family
through the ages, and all its Curses...

...could it be that even you are Cursed?