

Pickmans Model
Author: H. P. Lovecraft
Series: Going Public in Shorts
Narrator: Oliver Wyman
Unabridged: 36 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 12/20/2013
Author: H. P. Lovecraft
Series: Going Public in Shorts
Narrator: Oliver Wyman
Unabridged: 36 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 12/20/2013
Howard Phillips "H. P." Lovecraft (1890-1937) was an American author who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. Virtually unknown and only published in pulp magazines before he died in poverty, he is now regarded as one of the most significant twentieth-century authors in his genre.
"The madness and monstrosity lay in the figures in the foreground—for Pickman’s morbid art was preëminently one of daemoniac portraiture. These figures were seldom completely human, but often approached humanity in varying degree. Most of the bodies, while roughly bipedal, had a forward slumping, an......more
Short story, narrated by main character Thurber, who tells his friend Eliot why he dropped an artist he admired named Pickman. It seems Pickman fell out of favor with society after he created some extremely gruesome paintings. But Thurber still remained fascinated, until the day Pickman took him to......more
In my opinion this is one of Lovecraft's creepiest stories. Thurber talks about Pickman, an exceptional artist of nightmarish works in the style of Goya or Fuseli ('Ghouls Feeding' is one of Pickman's latest works). Pickman invited him to his studios and show him incredible works in the cellar where......more