Hey look everyone! It's the Lovecraftian Canterbury Tales! ........Well, sort of, there is no contest to win a meal but......ahhh you get the drift. The prologue is a letter from David Ashton from the firm of Lovecraft, Hartford and Shanks (some nice nods to the forerunners) concerning documents found in Carter Weston's belongings after his disappearance. Weston talks about attending Miskatonic University in Arkham, Massachusetts and his professor Dr. Atley Thayerson sending him him to Anchorhead to find the legendary book, Incendium Maleficarum. Weston travels to Anchorhead and arrives in a raging storm to find a tavern, The Kraken, where he meets four men and hears their tales of mystery.The book does a good job of catching the nuance of the Lovecraft mythos, things long dormant, terrors just out of sight, fleeting glimpses of horror. I thoroughly enjoyed the story and find it a fine addition to the mythos. 5 stars. What a great book."What did he see? A citadel, nay, a city of unimaginable proportions and expanse, stretching forth in that hellish valley between the mountains. Cyclopean stone blocks of a hew and craftmanship he could not know, cut from the earth eons before the Great Pharaoh raised his eyes to the plain of Giza and found it worthy of grandeur. Ruined towers and walled fortresses, dwelling of such size and dimension one might wonder if the mountains themselves did not call them home. All locked beneath solid sheets of ice. But it was not that which broke his mind. No, it was the thing that lurked in the titanic abyss, the infernal pit that lay in the center of that most ancient city. The thing that called to him in a voice that was not of man. The thing that, as he stood frozen in place from terror and wonder combined, began to rise."
What do You think about That Which Should Not Be (2011)?
Wow, this was a really good, spooky book. Can't wait to see what this author does next.
—Ally
excellent lovecraftian story. a lot of fun and well written. H.P. would be proud.
—Mirry
