Short Fiction · Character
Richard Upton Pickman
A Boston painter whose canvases of ghouls and subterranean horrors are too anatomically true to be merely imagined.
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Also known as Pickman
First appearance: Pickman's Model
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A brilliant but disturbing painter whose works depict ghouls and hellish scenes with terrifying realism, hinting at his own inhuman nature.
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Pickman is the black sheep of an old Boston family, a painter whose work is so repellent that even hardened gallery circles recoil from it. He insists his ghouls are drawn from life, and his talk of tunnels, charnel…
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