H. P. Lovecraft
Pickman's Model
Published: 1927
Language: English
Estimated Reading Time: ~2 hours
A free public-domain edition of H. P. Lovecraft's Pickman's Model, prepared by Unspeakable Tales.
An artist's hideous paintings force a terrible question: what if his monsters are not imagined at all?
An artist's hideous paintings force a terrible question: what if his monsters are not imagined at all?
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This Unspeakable Tales edition presents Pickman's Model as a free designed eBook for readers of art horror, urban nightmare, and classic weird fiction.
The story follows the reputation of Richard Upton Pickman, a painter whose grotesque work seems too anatomically certain, too historically rooted, and too convincingly vile to be mere fantasy.
Set among hidden spaces and old terrors beneath Boston, Pickman's Model is one of Lovecraft's most controlled and satisfying shock tales.
The story follows the reputation of Richard Upton Pickman, a painter whose grotesque work seems too anatomically certain, too historically rooted, and too convincingly vile to be mere fantasy.
Set among hidden spaces and old terrors beneath Boston, Pickman's Model is one of Lovecraft's most controlled and satisfying shock tales.