The Patient Librarian

I have been working on ideas for the patient librarian for many years. These are some of the literary decisions I have come to about it.

Story Outline

Jasmine Peak, a goth girl in emotional turmoil, arrives at the United Free Hospital to spend a year working in the Patient Library. The patient library is situated three floors below ground level near the morgue and is run by the mysterious Patient Librarian, Mr Eap. Soon Jasmine is engrossed in her work and finding out all about the world, love, life and death which inhabit every corner of the hospital and can be explained by her new boss, Edgar, and the stories he holds in his collection.

The story is divided into three and I have in mind a number of Edgar Allan Poe stories I thought could be incorporated into each part.

Part One - Arrival
1. MS found in a bottle
2. Ligeia
3. William Wilson
4. The man of the crowd

Part Two- Captivity
5. A descent into the maelstrom
6. The masque of the red death
7. The Tell-Tale Heart
8. The Black Cat

Part Three -  Departure
9. A tale of the ragged mountains
10. The facts in the case of M. Valdemar
11. The cask of Amontillado
12. Hop frog

I'm not sure about the Poe ideas as yet, I think he will be in there somewhere, but possibly as a more subtle influence.