The Warm

"The Warm" is a short Cthulhu Mythos story by American author Darrell Schweitzer. It was first published in the S. T. Joshi-edited anthology The Madness of Cthulhu: Volume 1 in October 2014.
==Synopsis==
"The Warm" is a retelling of H. P. Lovecraft's 1927 short story "Pickman's Model" but told from the perspective of the ghoul, itself something of an outcast from its own society, who first inspired Richard Upton Pickman's most controversial works. Pickman befriends the creature, persuading it to pose for him, then later encouraging it to tell him stories of its kin to be used as subject matter.
However, through extended contact, the ghoul begins to become more human as Pickman becomes more animalistic. Although the creature wants the man to introduce it to human society he refuses and, in despair, the ghoul summons its fellows who take Pickman below ground to join them, as shown in the finale of "Pickman's Model".
==Publication History==
Since it’s first appearance, "The Warm" has also been included in the collection of Schweitzer's own works Awaiting Strange Gods: Weird and Lovecraftian Fictions, published by Fedogan & Bremer in September 2015.
==Trivia==
*The first picture Pickman paints of the ghoul is stated to be the infamous Ghoul Feeding; it is also the subject of the photograph seen by Thurber in "Pickman's Model".
Category:Darrell Schweitzer works
Category:Expanded Mythos Works