Pickman's model by H.Pichmann's model by H.P. Lovecraft, read by Mike Bannett.

You needn't think I'm crazy,

you needn't think I'm crazy, Elliot. Plenty of others have queerer prejudices than this.

Why don't you laugh at Oliver's grandfather who won't ride in a motor? If I don't like that

damn subway, it's my own business, and we got here more quickly anyhow in the taxi.

We'd have had to walk up the hill from Park Street if we'd taken the car.

I know, I'm more nervous than I was when you saw me last year, but you don't need to hold a clinic over it.

There's plenty of reason, God knows, and I fancy I'm lucky to be sane at all.

By the third degree, you didn't used to be so inquisitive?

Well, if you must hear it, I don't know why you shouldn't.

Maybe you ought to, anyhow, for you kept writing me like a grieved parent when you heard I'd begun to cut the art club and keep away from Pickman?

Now that he's disappeared, I go around to the club once in a while, but my nerves aren't what they were. No I don't know what's

become of Pickman and I don't like to guess. You might have surmised I had some inside information when I dropped him, and that's why I don't want to think where he's gone.

Let the police find what they can. It won't be much, judging from the fact that they don't know yet of the Old North End place he hired under the name of Peters,

I'm not sure that I could find it again myself,

not that I'd ever try, even in broad daylight. Yes, I do know, or I'm afraid I know why he maintained it. I'm coming

to that. And I think you'll understand before I'm through why I don't tell the police and they would ask me to guide them

But I couldn't go back there even if I knew the way

There was something there

Now I can't use the subway. You may as well have your laugh at this too. Go down into cellars anymore. I should think you'd have known that I didn't drop Pickman for the same

silly reasons that fussy old women like Dr Reed or Joe Meinert or Bosworth did

morbid art doesn't shock me. And when a man has the genius Pickman had, I feel it an

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