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El modelo Pickman

H.P. Lovecraft

Paperback | Pages: 72 pages

Rating: 3.88 | 2089 Users | 171 Reviews

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Title	:	El modelo Pickman
Author	:	H.P. Lovecraft
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Clásicos del Terror
Pages	:	Pages: 72 pages
Published	:	June 2010 by Editorial Planeta (first published October 1st 1927)
Categories	:	Horror. Short Stories. Fiction. Lovecraftian. Classics. Fantasy. Weird Fiction

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El modelo de Pickman es uno de los mejores cuentos de Howard Phillips Lovecraft. La historia gira en torno de Richard Upton Pickman, un desaparecido pintor, cuyos cuadros han cruzado la frontera de lo excéntrico para entrar en lo perversamente grotesco.
Pero el suspenso y el horror del relato no están directamente ligados a los vívidos lienzos del artista, sino al modelo en el que fueron inspirados.
Es una obra extraña para Lovecraft, cercana a ciertos clásicos de Poe, en la que convierte a toda la ciudad de Boston en un laberinto de pasadizos subterráneos que conectan el cementerio con el mar; túneles y sótanos donde se arrastran y susurran horrores sin nombre. Varios críticos consideran que el final de este relato es uno de los mejores y más escalofriantes de la literatura de terror.

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Original Title:	Pickman's Model ISBN13 9789504923824
Edition Language:	Spanish
Setting:	Boston, Massachusetts(United States)

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Ratings: 3.88 From 2089 Users | 171 Reviews

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A re-read.When someone speaks of an artist's model, the first thing that probably leaps to mind is an attractive woman. But when an artist specializes in painting the weird, the grotesque and the macabre, the feminine form is likely not what he's seeking out. When the artist in this story invites a fan to see his secret studio, in the depths of Boston's North End slums, what is revealed has implications for the whole city.

As Fuseli and Goya before him, Richard Upton Pickman is a master at bringing fear to life on canvas. The story centers on the one dreadful monster portrait but the ones Im desperate to see are his Fae inspired works. Pickman was showing what happens to those stolen babes - how they grow up. But even more frightening are the images of those monsters left in the soft cradles to grow up, wolves among sheep. Every face but one showed nobility and reverence, but that one reflected the mockery of

As is often the case with Lovecraft, this story is told post facto by a rather passive observer character to Eliot, a mutual acquaintance who inquires as to what happened to the friendship between the two men. I thought HPL did a good job with few words sketching this character, an artsy type who wants to be more dark and transgressive than he really is and hangs on the creepier and more talented Pickman until he finds out just how far Pickman has gone. Note: not actually that far. There is no

The ending twist is visible from space, but that doesn't detract from the story.Lovecraft evokes a dark and mysterious setting, with the character of Pickman painted with particular relish.Whilst it's never going to set you screaming, it's a deeply unsettling tale, although tame by modern standards, Lovecraft leaves you to imagine your own worst horrors and give yourself sleepless nights.

A spooky BR with Craig and Lovecraft as our entertainer.I read it last night. A peculiar story. I drifted a couple of times in the beginning! It's quite bad as the story is short :D But, I must admit that this a bit creepy story worked for me in a way, the atmosphere was quite well created. I guess I had a stronger feeling just because it reminded me of Slade's Saxon (Ghoul) in a way. The main character felt like an odd person, too. But I prefer Slade's version more, it was way more believable!



First published in Weird Tales (October 1927), Pickmans Model--although perhaps a little too pat and slick to rank among Lovecrafts bestis not only remarkably effective as a piece of terror but also presents one of the clearest articulations of Lovecrafts aesthetics that may be discovered in the tales themselves, asserting the paradox that the creation of otherwordly terror requires, above all, a realists eye and an experts knack for bringing the most unreal things into breathing, believable