Artist and photographer Ronald Underwood Pitman takes writer Robert Black underground so that he may better understand the dream-world beneath reality.Robert Black continues writing in his Commonplace Book, first giving his narration and impressions of the events seen at the end of last issue's story, then the events in this issue. - Title page and credits. Background reproduces the northern half of an old map of Providence, Rhode island. VII: The Picture - The characters and situations in this story are primarily based on H. P. Lovecraft's story "Pickman's Model". The title is taken from Lovecraft's story "The Picture in the House", which is otherwise not referenced. - The inside back cover reproduces the southern half of an old map of Providence, Rhode island. - The back cover is an excerpt of a letter from Lovecraft to Duane Rimel, written 1934.
