Dr. Reid

Dr. Reid is a fictional character created in 1926 by the late American author H. P. Lovecraft for his iconic short story "Pickman's Model," although he is given little more than a passing mention in the story.
==Background==
Dr. Reid was a well-educated man who possessed a morbid interest in what many would describe as the more unsavoury side of science, perhaps even the occult. He was tutored at the Cabot Museum by the skilled taxidermist Will Minot (: "The Studies of Dr. Reid"), a character who debuted in "Out of the Aeons".
==History==
===In Lovecraft's Works===
Dr. Reid's initial mention tells only that Reid was one of the "fussy old women" described by the narrator as being responsible for Richard Upton Pickman's pariah status among the Bostonian artistic community, a result of the morbid nature of his painting ("Pickman's Model"). 
===In Other Works===
Peter Rawlik expands upon the character in his short story "The Studies of Dr. Reid," explaining that Reid had not in fact cast aside Pickman as originally believed, but simply wished to distance himself from the young artist after an extended period spent in close contact (the issue of social propriety is also implied). 
However, Reid continued to watch Pickman, and eventually bore witness to his liaisons with the ghouls which he was so fond of painting: this revelation prompted Reid's study of taxidermy. 
Later, Dr. Reid brought Pickman with him to the lair of some ghouls, in the hope that he would be of assistance in acquiring a specimen for dissection. Whether this endeavour was successful or not is unknown, but unlikely.
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