Pickman's Model

"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