Story Overview

It tells the story of the esteemed sculptors Kalos and Musides, very close friends who live together, who have become rivals in the creation of a monumental statue of Tyche the Goddess of Fortune commissioned by the Tyrant of Syracuse.

Story Style and Themes

It is an old fashioned kind of story—a little Damon and Pythias, a little Cain and Abel—which Lovecraft brings to a satisfying, if somewhat elliptical conclusion.