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Literature

Pickman’s Model

Pickman’s Model follows an admirer of an ostracized Boston painter into a studio where artistic realism acquires a literal and terrifying explanation. Told as a nervous conversation after the painter’s disappearance, the story gradually turns criticism of disturbing pictures into evidence of a concealed nonhuman world.

8 min read · 1,579 words

Literature

The Electric Executioner

The Electric Executioner follows an investigator who encounters a would-be killer during a delayed railway journey through Mexico. The man’s electrical invention, grandiose ambitions and occult claims force the narrator into a prolonged struggle to gain time. An apparent escape becomes a deeper mystery when the same death is reported at a distant mountain cave, accompanied by objects that may connect the two locations.

7 min read · 1,373 words