him stories about their encounters with the supernatural. [return][return]I am new to the horror genre and did not really know what to expect but suspense and ...more Overall I did not dislike this book but it was definitely not my type of book. It's a collection of several short stories tied by the character of Carter Weston, a student at Miskatonic University who is send on an errand by his professor to retrieve a dangerous old artifact. In the course of his search he meets several men who share with him stories about their encounters with the supernatural. [return][return]I am new to the horror genre and did not really know what to expect but suspense and fright would have been my guesses and I was neither. I was really bother by the foreshadowing at several places and half way through the book I just wanted to get to the point where Carter would just do something rather than just sit back and listen.[return] [return]Besides that the book was well written and some of the characters were very alive to me even though I don't expect I will be rereading "That Which Should Not Be" any time soon. (less) That Which Should Not Be is a rather lovely compendium of Lovecraftian vignettes. There's an odd pair of -logues both pro and epi that attempt to give the book the feel of a "found footage" film for reasons beyond my understanding, but the real meat of the tale is the "diary" of