Pickmans Model, H. P. Lovecraft
Pickmans Model, H. P. Lovecraft
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Pickmans Model

Author: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrator: Oliver Wyman

Unabridged: 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/20/2013

Categories: Fiction, Horror


Synopsis

Widely regarded as one of the one of the greatest horror writers of the twentieth century, H. P. Lovecrafts stories are known for their profound indifference to human beliefs and affairs. Here is Pickmans Model, one of his more terrifying stories. Richard Upton Pickman is a Bostonian painter, notorious for creating horrifying paintings. His ghoulish works are brilliant, but theyre so graphic that his membership in the Boston Art Club is revoked and he finds himself shunned by his fellow artists. Then Pickman mysteriously disappears, and his friend finds himself on a mission of horror and evil to discover the truth.

About H. P. Lovecraft

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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Glenn

"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

Goodreads review by Sandra

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

Goodreads review by Peter

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