Laurence Payne

When a composer’s ailing wife won’t grant him a divorce after learning of his affair with her half-sister, he devises a plan to get rid of her.

Jealous rage compels a man to murder a romantic rival and bury him under his floorboards where the sound of his victim’s beating heart drives him mad.

As the plague runs rampant throughout the countryside, a quarantined village is visited by a traveling circus, and children begin to disappear.