Jimmy Yuill

A couple renting an island cottage while trying to repair their marriage comes to learn that an airborne virus has killed everybody on the mainland.

During Stalin's reign of terror, a literature professor serving ten years at a Siberian gulag meets a camp doctor and comes back to life.

In 19th-century Baltimore, Detective Emmett Fields makes a horrifying discovery: The murders of a mother and daughter resemble a fictional crime described in a story by Edgar Allan Poe. When another murder occurs, also seemingly inspired by Poe's writings, Fields realizes a serial killer is on the loose and enlists Poe's help in catching the felon.