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NEVERMORE is a contemporary take on Edgar Allan Poe set in present-day Baltimore. Troubled grad student, Lena Bell is obsessed with the Poe Toaster-a real-life mysterious man who visits Poe's grave every year on his birthday to perform a ritual.





Lena's eager to prove herself and leave the memories of her broken childhood and institutionalized mother behind. Secretly, she fears she'll end up like her mother-delusional and dead from suicide at a young age. She's determined to finish her graduate thesis, a documentary on the Poe Toaster, and launch a career as a documentarian. Lena and her friends gather in a cemetery at midnight, waiting for the Poe Toaster. Intent on capturing footage, Lena interrupts his ritual and finds an ominous note left at the grave that reveals they're cursed.





Disturbing things begin happening. Lena wakes up to find her boyfriend talking in her dead mother's voice and OCD compels her to perform odd rituals. At a Mardi Gras party, costumed guests burn to death while Lena watches. Lena pieces together that the curse involves scenarios from Poe stories and she feels responsible for it. She vows to find the Poe Toaster before more of her friends die.





Using clues the Poe Toaster left at the grave, Lena tracks him down. She begs him to perform the ritual a second time to lift the curse. He agrees, but during the ritual, he's possessed by Poe's spirit and believes Lena is his long lost love. He kidnaps her and locks her into a flooding crypt. Lena has to confront her personal demons-in the form of her mother-to summon her wits and save herself before she drowns.