The second piece in our trilogy of Cosmic Horror takes us from the vast expanses and furtive depths of the Pacific in "Dagon" to the tightly packed and dilapidated alleys of Boston's historic North End neighborhood. Set as a recounted tale to his friend Eliot, our narrator Thurber tells of the greatest painter in all Boston, Richard Upton Pickman, who is both revered and shunned for his skill and life-like monstrosities set to canvas. But what begins as a little more than a professional admiration soon becomes artistic obsession as Thurber finally meets his idol and is granted a window into his method....and his madness.