Appearing in "Pickman's Model"
Featured Characters:
- Thurber (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
Supporting Characters:
- Roy Thomas and Tom Palmer (Hosts)
- 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:
- Ludwig Vandoom
Supporting Characters:
- Helga Vandoom
Antagonists:
Locations:
- Transylvania
- Wax Museum
Items:
- Gamma Gun
Vehicles:
- Spaceship
Synopsis for "I Dared to Enter the Haunted Room!"
The owner of a Transylvanian wax museum named Vandoom sets out to build a new monster in order to bring customers back to the museum. A lightning bolt brings the creature to life, but despite the fearful attacks of the villagers, it is not hostile and does not strike back. An invasion force of Martians lands and Vandoom convinces his creation to attack them. The wax figure defeats them, but the effort drains the life force out of it.
Appearing in "The World That Was Lost!"
Featured Characters:
- Phineas Stokes
Supporting Characters:
- United States Government
- Two unnamed government officials
Antagonists:
- Aliens
Other Characters:
- United States Army (Dream)
- Numerous unnamed scientist
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Earth-Unknown
- Milky Way
- Solar System
- Earth
- United States of America
- Phineas Stokes' Home
- Washington, D.C. (Mentioned)
- United States of America
- Mars (Mentioned)
- Earth
- Solar System
- Milky Way
Items:
- Iron Deep Freeze
Vehicles:
- 137-X Spacecraft
- C113 Spacecraft
Synopsis for "The World That Was Lost!"
Afraid that a war will soon break out, Phineas Stokes, a proclaimed scientist invents the Iron Deep Freeze that will allow him to enter cryogenic suspension for a million years to wake up after the war had passed. When he wakes up he discovers a war didn't break out and that he actually slept through an age of peace and that most of Earth has left to explore new worlds. Instead he is conscripted in an alien war by aliens gathering up the few remaining Earthlings left on the planet.
Appearing in "The Threat from the 5th Dimension!"
Featured Characters:
- Phineas Stokes
Supporting Characters:
- United States Government
- Two unnamed government officials
Antagonists:
- Aliens
Other Characters:
- United States Army (Dream)
- Numerous unnamed scientist
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Earth-Unknown
- Milky Way
- Solar System
- Earth
- United States of America
- Phineas Stokes' Home
- Washington, D.C. (Mentioned)
- United States of America
- Mars (Mentioned)
- Earth
- Solar System
- Milky Way
Items:
- Iron Deep Freeze
Vehicles:
- 137-X Spacecraft
- C113 Spacecraft
Synopsis for "The Threat from the 5th Dimension!"
Afraid that a war will soon break out, Phineas Stokes, a proclaimed scientist invents the Iron Deep Freeze that will allow him to enter cryogenic suspension for a million years to wake up after the war had passed. When he wakes up he discovers a war didn't break out and that he actually slept through an age of peace and that most of Earth has left to explore new worlds. Instead he is conscripted in an alien war by aliens gathering up the few remaining Earthlings left on the planet.
Solicit Synopsis
(January) One of the most monstrous masterworks of all - from the scarlet-dipped pen of H. P. Lovecraft himself! Plus - more shockingly spooky sagas!
- (February) AND, STILL ON SALE- One of H. P. Lovecraft's spookiest shockers - "Pickman's Model!" And two more dead-of-night masterworks!
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.
