Hello and My novel, That Which Should Not Be

[Brett]

Hey guys! Good to find a group dedicated to Lovecraft's fiction. I've been reading it for the last decade or so, and I'm glad to have a place where I can find out about new additions to the genre. I also wanted to do a little self promotion. I've written a novel, available on Amazon, that incorporates parts of the mythos as well as other classic, Gothic horror elements. If you decide to check it out, I'd love to know what you think. I am relatively new to this whole writing thing, and I will take any criticism I can get. I've included a description of the book below. Thanks!



Miskatonic University has a long-whispered reputation of being strongly connected to all things occult and supernatural. From the faculty to the students, the fascination with other-worldly legends and objects runs rampant. So, when Carter Weston’s professor Dr. Thayerson asks him to search a nearby village for a book that is believed to control the inhuman forces that rule the Earth, Incendium Maleficarum, The Inferno of the Witch, the student doesn’t hesitate to begin the quest.

As Carter departs for Anchorhead, a nor'easter descends upon the Massachusetts countryside, and he is forced to seek shelter in a seaside tavern. Inside, he meets four curious men. Each one has his own story to tell, and each is stalked by the same dark forces, forces that lurk in dreams and the black void just beyond man's imagining. Through their tales, Carter is taken from the haunted woods of Western Massachusetts to the mountains of the Carpathains, through the horrific secrets of the Danvers State Asylum to the great and unfathomable mysteries of the sea. He learns about native legends of unnatural forces that walk in the shadows of the western woods. He is told of unholy Walpurgis rituals where ancient evils gibber beneath the Beltane moon. Of beings without form or limit, nameless evils that inhabit the spaces between space and speak to man through dreams and nightmares. Of their ancient rule, of their banishment from this world, and of their burning desire to rise from the depths to conquer and rule again. As these tales unfold, it becomes clear that the tie that binds them all is the very tome which he seeks, and that Carter, the student who started the night as a skeptic, may be the only hope for mankind. What begins as a simple assignment transforms into a race against time, with nothing less than the fate of the world at stake.