H. P. Lovecraft, Pickman's Model LP read by Andrew Leman, score by Theolgian 1st Edition

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* Pressed in 150 gram vinyl

* Printed on our deluxe heavy weight tip-on gatefold jacket

About: 

In the H.P. Lovecraft story, "Pickman's Model," there is something of the writer himself to be found. In narrator Thurber's relation of the tale of his acquaintance, friendship, and subsequent breaking of ties with the artist Richard Upton Pickman, one can imagine Lovecraft working out some of the criticism he might have had directed at the "fussy old women" who didn't understand what true artists could do.

If ever there were a more self-relexive line in all of Lovecraft's work than "only a real artist knows the actual anatomy of the terrible or the physiology of fear," it's difficult to imagine, but that's what makes "Pickman's Model" such a delight to experience. In this short story, the reader – or in this case, the listener – gets to come along with their surrogate, Thurber, as he gets a behind-the-scenes look at what the Lovecraft surrogate, Pickman, does in the darkness.

And, oh my goodness, is it ever a descent into darkness. Much as "The Statement of Randolph Carter" is a quite literal trip underground, so is "Pickman's Model," and the journey to the darkest, oldest corners of Boston feel as though it's a trip to another world, unseen just beyond the known universe. Thanks to reader Andrew Leman's adroit transitions between Thurber's upper-crust tones and Pickman's staunchly New England accent, the listener is not simply hearing Thurber tell a story, but getting to walk alongside the narrator into the depths of the house in the North End.