As the mystery unfolds and Poe and Landor grow closer to their primary suspects, the Marquis family, we find that no one is precisely who they seem to be.Ĭooper perfectly captures the chilly terrain of the Hudson Highlands and fills the twisting story with a gothic atmosphere fitting of the poet who walks within the pages. He enlists a young cadet named Edgar Allen Poe ( Harry Melling) to be his eyes and ears among the soldiers. Set in 1830, during the brief time Poe was a cadet at West Point, Bayard’s novel follows retired detective Gus Landor ( Christian Bale) as he endeavors to find a killer roaming the snowy academy grounds. But Poe steps into the spotlight in Scott Cooper’s Netflix adaptation of The Pale Blue Eye, a historical novel by Louis Bayard. From “The Pit and the Pendulum” to “The Raven,” Poe’s legacy as one of the great American poets and authors of horror fiction is firmly established. Edgar Allan Poe is known in the literary world as the imagination behind some of history’s most haunting stories.
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