Midnight Pals: Pickman's Model

HP Lovecraft: submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the story of the pickman's model
Lovecraft: what if there was a painting so scary
Lovecraft: like it was so scary
Lovecraft: like SO scary

Lovecraft: so there's this painting that's SO scary you can't look at it
Barker: what happens if you look at it
Barker: do you go insane
Lovecraft:
Lovecraft: yeah you go insane
Barker: damn howard really going outside your wheelhouse tonight
Poe: clive don't start

Lovecraft: so this painting is so scary that you can't even look at it
King: wow! imagine if there was a painting like that!
Stephen Gammell:

Garrett Cook: a scary painting huh? i got a twist on that
Cook: what if a picture was scary
Cook: because it was drawn with haunted chalk?
Lovecraft:
Cook: just think about it for a minute

Lovecraft: oh yeah that's good
Cook: like, chalk cursed by the soul of a debauched libertine
Lovecraft: oh no i don't like that
Barker: wait wait i want to hear more about that
Lovecraft: but clive
Barker: shut up howard
Barker: adults are talking

Lovecraft: no guys you don't understand
Lovecraft: the reason that the painting is so scary
Lovecraft: is it's a painting of, like, a scary dog
Dean Koontz: i wouldn't be scared of a dog
Lovecraft: oh you'd be scared of this dog, dean
Lovecraft: it's real scary

Lovecraft: but the scariest thing about this scary dog
Lovecraft: is
Lovecraft: wait for it
Lovecraft: the scary dog is real
Koontz: what!
Lovecraft: it turns out pickman drew it from life!
Lovecraft: from his model!
Lovecraft: pickman's model!

Koontz: gosh howard
Koontz: i think that's just great!
Koontz: seeing a picture of a dog is great
Koontz: but then finding out that the dog is real and you can go see the real dog
Koontz: that's even better!

Lovecraft: dean you don't understand!  
Lovecraft: the dog is evil!
Koontz: i don't believe that  
Koontz: there are no bad dogs