Appearing in "Pickman's Model"
Featured Characters:
- Thurber (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
Supporting Characters:
- Eliot (First appearance)
- Richard Upton Pickman (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- "Pickman's Model" (First appearance) (Behind the scenes, sounds, photography and painting) (Only in flashback)
Other Characters:
- Roy Thomas and Tom Palmer (Earth-1218) (Hosts)
- H.P. Lovecraft (Mentioned)
- Good Lord (Invoked)
- Puritans (Mentioned)
- Cotton Mather (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
- Humans (Main story and flashback)
- Fiends from Hell (Mentioned)
Locations:
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- United States of America (Main story and flashback)
- New England (Main story and flashback)
- Massachusetts (Main story and flashback)
- New England (Main story and flashback)
- United States of America (Main story and flashback)
- Hell (Invoked)
- Heaven (Invoked)
Events and Eras:
- Salem Witch Hunt (Mentioned)
Synopsis for "Pickman's Model"
- Synopsis not yet written
Appearing in "I Dared to Enter the Haunted Room!"
Featured Characters:
- Mr Smith
Locations:
- United States of America
- Elmwood Falls
- Wormwood House
- New York City
- Elmwood Falls
Items:
- Bismuth Nuclear Bomb
Synopsis for "I Dared to Enter the Haunted Room!"
A scientist creates a bomb powerful enough to destroy the earth and decides to threaten the planet to receive power, he looks for a place to hide it and eventually finds a old house with a room people believe is haunted and don't dare to enter. The man stashes the bomb into the room only to discover it's truly haunted when he's turned into a ghost.
Appearing in "The World That Was Lost!"
Featured Characters:
- Captain Jordan (First appearance)
Supporting Characters:
- Linus Vermeer (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Numerous unnamed crewmembers (First appearance)
Races and Species:
Locations:
Vehicles:
- Captain Jordan's ship (First appearance)
Synopsis for "The World That Was Lost!"
A sea captain named Jordan is hired by an old eccentric in wheelchair by the name of Linus Vermeer to take him to a spot where he believes that the lost continent of Atlantis lies. When the crew reach their destination he reveals himself to be a merman and thanks the sailors for bringing him home before diving overboard.
Appearing in "The Threat from the 5th Dimension!"
Featured Characters:
- Unnamed Man
Antagonists:
- Dream Denizens
- "Dr. Allen Brown"
- Numerous unnamed beings from the Dream Dimension
Races and Species:
Locations:
Synopsis for "The Threat from the 5th Dimension!"
The Dream dimension is the 5th dimension. The creatures there are trying to pass into this dimension, but belief in their existence as opposed to surmising a mere dream experience disrupts the structure of the dream dimension and forces the creatures to withdraw from our world. The narrator sells his story to Strange Tales to encourage readers to believe in the creatures and frustrate their invasion aspirations.
Solicit Synopsis
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Notes
- "Pickman's Model" is adapted from the short story "Pickman's Model" (written in September, 1926; first published in the October, 1927, issue of Weird Tales) by H.P. Lovecraft, by permission of Arkham House, copyright holders of Sauk City, Wisconsin. It is part of the Cthulhu Mythos.