Johannes Cabal Series by Jonathan L Howard

Johannes Cabal is a series of dark comic fantasy novels written by Jonathan L Howard. They all feature the titular detective who also happens to be a necromancer. Currently in three volumes the series is both highly engaging and an enormous amount of fun.

reviews in the series

Johannes Cabal the Fear Institute

by Jonathan L Howard

So here we reach the third novel featuring that acerbic anti hero Johannes Cabal who this time get's recruited by the mysterious Fear Institute to lead an expedition into the Dreamlands - an alternative reality created by peoples dreams. There they must hunt and destroy the dread Phobic Animus - the source of all fear.

I really do love this series, there is such a welcoming charm that immediately disarms the reader and draws them into the world of Johannes Cabal. This time arou...

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reviewed on Wednesday 19 October 2011

Johannes Cabal the Detective

by Jonathan L Howard

So here we have the return of Johannes Cabal, a little older, maybe a little wiser; at the very least more "complete" than he was, this time he's attempting to steal a rare book in his continued quest to understand how to defeat death. Captured in the act and awaiting execution Cabal is forced to resurrect an inconveniently deceased would be Emperor.

Using that rare mix of resourcefulness and diabolical ingenuity we have come to expect, he engineers an escape on board a state-o...

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reviewed on Wednesday 12 October 2011

Johannes Cabal the Necromancer

by Jonathan L Howard

Another book found at random during one of my frequent book hunts which usually end up with more books on my shelf that I don't have the time to read. This time however I have been sent the third novel in the series by those wonderful people at Headline so I thought it a good idea to read the first two books first. The story is all about a Necromancer called Johannes Cabal who made the naive error of selling his soul to Satan as a jejune young adult.

Now he's older and a littl...

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reviewed on Monday 19 September 2011