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Pickman's Model (short story)

  • Type: Short Story
  • Length: 21 pages

Pickman's Model is a 1927 short story by Horror fiction author, H P Lovecraft. - AsNotedIn

You needn't think I'm crazy, Eliot -- plenty of others have queerer prejudices than this. Why don't you laugh at Oliver's grandfather, who won't ride in a motor? If I don't like that damned subway, it's my own business; and we got here more quickly anyhow in the taxi. We'd have had to walk up the hill from Park Street if we'd taken the car.
H P Lovecraft, Pickman's Model




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Timeline

Y/M/D Association Description Place Locale Food Event
1926/09/01 H P Lovecraft Author HPL composes the short story "Pickman's Model".
1927/10/01 Weird Tales (magazine) Publisher HP Lovecraft's short story "Pickman's Model" is published in Weird Tales.

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Particulars for Pickman's Model (short story):
Area of Significance Art expression of creative skill and imagination such as painting or sculpture
Narrative Arts Art as a Means to Truth revealing hidden meanings by the expression of creative skill and imagination
Narrative Arts Fiction prose literature, especially short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and people
Narrative Arts Narrative an account of connected events
Occupation Painter an artist who works with paint, a colored substance which is spread thin over a surface and dries to a decorative coating
Narrative Arts Prose ordinary written language
Art Type Short Story short form narrative fiction
Narrative Arts Speculative Fiction a genre of fiction that encompasses works in which the setting is other than the real world, involving supernatural, futuristic, or other imagined elements

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Original Language: English



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