The world-weary veteran detective Augustus Landor is hired to investigate the grisly murder of a West Point cadet. Stymied by the cadets’ code of silence, he enlists one of their own to help unravel the case—a young man the world would come to know as Edgar Allan Poe.

Christian Bale stars alongside a glimmering supporting cast—Gillian Anderson! Charlotte Gainsbourg! Timothy Spall!—in this gothic murder mystery. Unfolding against a snowscape in 1830s New York, this bone-chilling thriller involving a young Edgar Allan Poe makes for perfect festive viewing.