![]() ![]() ![]() These beings were so much more advanced and powerful than mankind that if and when they deigned to notice humanity at all it was in the same way that a busy corporate CEO might view an ant crawling around his desk – as a bug to be indiscriminately crushed without a second’s thought. Lovecraft posited a reality in which extremely powerful demi-gods, known as the “Great Old Ones,” at least partially led by an aquatic-based, huge and powerful tentacled horror named Cthulhu, ruled before humanity’s forebears ever climbed out of the ancient, antediluvian mud and slime of a young planet earth. Lovecraft’s atmospheric styling and to the sub-genre and author-created, fictional universe Lovecraft began and is famous for. TWSNB is a ( if one is allowed to use the word to describe a horror novel) ‘loving’ and faithful homage to H. ![]() ![]() The novel lives up to its hype in that it is, for those fond of very traditional Lovecraftian horror, an extended work that fully achieves such purpose. Brett Talley’s first novel, That Which Should Not Be (TWSNB), comes with a sterling pedigree, having won its publisher’s 2011 JournalStone horror writing contest, having been named a 2011 GoodReads Choice Awards Semi-Finalist, and also having been named as a 2011 Finalist for the Horror Writers Association Bram Stoker Awards™ in the “Best First Novel” category. ![]()
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