Archives for September, 2004

Pickman’s Model

September 12th, 2004

It is, to this day, easy to get lost in Boston. From the 1600s its streets grew, like crystalline or fungal growths, according to a plan known only to themselves, and in all that time many byways have never made it onto street maps. The natives will help if you ask directions, but there are few among the living who could find their way out of the labyrinthine rat’s nest that exists beneath the ancient streets and houses.

H. P. Lovecraft takes us to the North End, 1925, through a dark tangle of alleys, down into a dank cellar, and into the mind of mad genius to find out why no one’s seen Pickman [...]