As 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'Brien, fearing that her mother will be next, enlists the aid of P.I. Joe Connolly to stop the murders.
A psychologist specializing in art therapy to help traumatized victims, Chloe Marin, the survivor of a brutal attack ten years earlier, encounters the killer from her past while investigating the disappearance of a young swimsuit model.