The Portrait
From charlesreid1
A truly creepy, astounding, and fascinating short story. This story follows an artist, a painter, who buys a portrait that contains a large sum of money inside of it, and the shattering effect that the money has on the course of the artist's life.
The Wikipedia article on this short story gives an excellent synopsis of the story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Portrait_(Gogol_short_story)