A killer obsessed by Poe's macabre tales selects his victims from members of a literary society devoted to the master writer. Author Genevieve O'Brian, fearing her mother will be next, enlists the aid of P.I. Joe Connolly to stop the murders. As Connolly investigates the homicides he is unsettled by the help and warnings he is receiving from those he knows to be dead.
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