Though the author wrote his stories in the 19th century, murder is still murder and hunting down killers will never go out of style. Edgar Allen Poe's stories come to life when he joins up with Emmett Fields, a detective with the Baltimore police, to solve a murder involving a psychotic serial killer. The killer uses Poe's story ideas to perform a series of brutal murders. When the grizzly story winds up in the local newspapers Poe finds himself being questioned by local cops who wonder why a murderer is using the author's ideas to kill. When Fields discovers the murders mirror stories that have been showing up in the newspapers and are among a series of stories written by Poe, he is first suspicious of the writer but then finds another similar murder has happened even as the writer is held by police.ohn Cusack (Con Air, Pushing Tin) plays the part of Edgar Allen Poe in his last days, Police Inspector Emmett Fields is played by Luke Evans (The Three Musketeers, Immortals) who asks the famous Poe for his help in solving the murders and catching the killer before more are killed. Virginia Clemm-Poe is Poe's wife and played by Alice Eve (She's Out of My League, Sex and the City 2).