H.P. Lovecraft’s “Pickman’s Model” turns dark arts into shock art in this story that inverts ideas found in Poe’s “The Oval Portrait” and Wilde’s DORIAN GRAY. An outcast painter creates monsters in his gallery that are all-too-real.
In anticipation of my forthcoming horror story collection BACKWATERS: 12 MURKY TALES, I am sharing my thoughts on horror, weird, and bizarro short stories that have influenced, impressed, and stuck wiIn anticipation of my forthcoming horror story collection BACKWATERS: 12 MURKY TALES, I am sharing my thoughts on horror, weird, and bizarro short stories that have influenced, impressed, and stuck with me....more