Jonathan L. Howard

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  • Bibliography:
    38 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    July 2009
  • Latest Book:
    July 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Johannes Cabal

1 - Johannes Cabal the Necromancer (Jul-2009)
2 - Johannes Cabal the Detective (Jul-2010)
3 - Johannes Cabal: The Fear Institute (Oct-2013)
3.5 - Johannes Cabal and the Blustery Day (Nov-2013)
4 - The Brothers Cabal (Oct-2014)
5 - The Fall of the House of Cabal (Oct-2016)

Book List in Order: 38 titles

  • Johannes Cabal the Necromancer

    Johannes Cabal - 1

    In this uproarious and clever debut, it's time to give the Devil his due. Johannes Cabal, a brilliant scientist and notorious snob, is single-mindedly obsessed in heart and soul with raising the dead. Well, perhaps not soul... He hastily sold his ...

  • Johannes Cabal the Detective

    Johannes Cabal - 2

    Johannes Cabal, necromancer of some little infamy, returns in this riotously clever and terrifically twisted tale of murder and international intrigue. In this genre-twisting novel, infamous necromancer Johannes Cabal, after beating the Devil and...

  • Katya's World

    The distant and unloved colony world of Russalka has no land, only the raging sea. No clear skies, only the endless storm clouds. Beneath the waves, the people live in pressurised environments and take what they need from the boundless ocean. It is a...

  • The Death of Me

    Johannes Cabal, a necromancer of some little infamy, has this much in common with Emily Dickinson; because he could not stop for Death, she kindly stopped for him. Well, perhaps not that kindly. ...

  • Mojito Doomsday

    The tale of a girl and her mecha. Freya works the fields of her parents' farm with the help of Mohi, a semi-intelligent robot. Once, Mohi fought in the war against the mysterious Xenos, but that's all over now. Nothing exciting's ever going to happen...

  • Johannes Cabal: The Fear Institute

    Johannes Cabal - 3

    A Darkly Gripping Comic Fantasy Beyond the wall of sleep lies the Dreamlands, a world formed by dreams, but not a dream itself. For countless millennia, it has been explored only by those with a certain detachment from mundane reality, its strange...

  • Between the River and the Road

    A short story about a small city with a deep and dangerous past. The oddest little things can hide the darkest secrets. There's a little oddity along the path that runs between the river and the road. Nothing major, but interesting. Just the sort of ...

  • Exeunt Demon King

    Johannes Cabal, a necromancer of some little infamy, has faced many horrors during his career, but in this tale he tells of an early encounter with something that horrified even him. Pantomime. A provincial theatre has seen a series of strange deaths...

  • Filming the Ghost

    Making a movie on a small budget is a labour of love. "The Ghost" is one such production. It has a brilliant script, and a dedicated cast and crew. It also has a producer who has little love for film.Despite all the obstacles, the movie is coming tog...



  • Katya's War

    The battle lines have been drawn. The people of Russalka turn upon one another in a ruthless and unwavering civil war even while their world sickens and the deep black ocean is stained red with their blood. As the young civilisation weakens, its vita...

  • Johannes Cabal and the Blustery Day

    Johannes Cabal - 3.5

    Johannes Cabal has faced down the undead, ghosts, monsters, and Satan himself. But before all that, he fought the terrifying Bonewind, a supernatural being that devours life itself, and he did it all without leaving his house."Johannes Cabal and the ...

  • An Unreasonable Doubt

    There’s nothing the police like more than an open and shut case. Unfortunately, the Cresswill case was anything but. It started as a suicide, but then it was a murder pretending to be a suicide. Then it appeared that it was a suicide masquerading a...

  • Airship Shape & Bristol Fashion

    Airship Shape & Bristol Fashion brings together tales from the light and dark sides of steampunk. Living ghosts, walking ferns and ingenious androids populate visions of the city of Bristol at once familiar and peculiar. Above them soar magnificent m...

  • Airship Shaped & Bristol Fashion

    Airship Shape & Bristol Fashion brings together tales from the light and dark sides of steampunk. Living ghosts, walking ferns and ingenious androids populate visions of the city of Bristol at once familiar and peculiar. Above them soar magnificent m...

  • Goon Squad #1

    THE THREAT: There are villainous monsters, mutants, freaks, and warped masterminds in the world, beyond the ability of conventional police forces to deal with. THE SOLUTION: Recruit your own monsters, mutants, freaks, and warped masterminds,...

  • Ouroboros Ouzo

    What if you could see the future? What if the future could see YOU? Johannes Cabal, a necromancer of some little infamy, has discovered a way to give some insights into how he should conduct his future researches; by drinking a glass of the legendary...

  • Goon Squad #2

    Puppet Girl has been inducted into the Goon Squad - Manchester's Special Talents Response Team - but is very much on probation. When her first time in the field goes badly wrong, it looks like her new career might be over before it has even...

  • Goon Squad #3

    The GOON SQUAD finally close the net on the vicious career gangster Des Garbo and the arms deal he has set up. What they discover, however, is not at all what they were expecting. PUPPET GIRL will prove vital in the fight, but at the cost of revealin...

  • Goon Squad #4

    It starts quietly, with an incredible murder committed in broad daylight, but without a single witness. Soon the unseen killer progresses to a macabre mass killing, but why does the sole survivor blame the victims for their own deaths? Unpredictable ...



  • Goon Squad #5

    It is a city of fear. The entity known as the Exterminating Angel roams freely, spreading fear wherever it goes. Even the police Special Talents Unit known as the GOON SQUAD has proved helpless in the face of the supernatural terror. Bloodied but...

  • Goon Squad 2014 Summer Special

    Just what do superheroes get up to when they're not fighting the forces of evil? If they're the GOON SQUAD, they patrol the city, chat, train, and chat some more. The Goon Squad 2014 Summer Special contains an introduction to the Squad, and four shor...

  • Goon Squad #6

    The Exterminating Angel has struck once more, the body count is climbing, and the GOON SQUAD are on their way to face the entity. If only they had a plan. The one thing they're sure of is, if they fail to defeat or contain the murderous Angel, the on...

  • The Brothers Cabal

    Johannes Cabal - 4

    Horst Cabal has risen from the dead. Again. Horst, the most affable vampire one is ever likely to meet, is resurrected by an occult conspiracy that wants him as a general in a monstrous army. Their plan: to create a country of horrors, a supernatural...

  • Goon Squad #7

    Listen to the tale the dead man tells. Ian Mears is the longest continuously serving member of Manchester's GOON SQUAD. As the Revenant he has fought crime, confronted supervillains, and had more limbs severed than he cares to think abo...

  • A Long Spoon

    A Long Spoon is a dark steampunk fantasy novella from British author Jonathan L. Howard, a Tor.com Original storyYou may have heard of Johannes Cabal; he is a necromancer and a little infamous. He is also very sensitive to attempts on his life. When ...

  • The New Girl

    An ongoing, episodic prose comic from which the pictures are summoned by the magic of words, Goon Squad is set in a version of modern-day Manchester. Its biggest divergence from the real city is that it-along with most other large urban centers-ha...

  • Carter & Lovecraft

    Daniel Carter used to be a homicide detective, but his last case―the hunt for a serial killer―went wrong in strange ways and soured the job for him. Now he's a private investigator trying to live a quiet life. Strangeness, however, has not finish...

  • Nightclubbing

    An ongoing, episodic prose comic from which the pictures are summoned by the magic of words, "Goon Squad" is set in a version of modern-day Manchester. Its biggest divergence from the real city is that it along with most other large urban centers ...

  • Old Enemies

    The Goon Squad has finally closed the net on the vicious career gangster Des Garbo and the arms deal he set up. What they discover, however, is not at all what they were expecting. Pupped Girl will prove vital in the fight, but it comes at the cos...



  • Goon Squad #8

    Manchester is an old city with many shadows in its history. Most lie quiet, but now and then, one is stirred from its rest by the actions of foolish men. Pomona Island is a curiosity -- a backwater of the city left to nature for generations. Developm...

  • Goon Squad #9

    During World War II, the major cities of Britain were protected against spies, saboteurs, and unusual threats by secret teams made up of superhuman Talents. Manchester's was codenamed STOAT/6, the forerunner of the modern day GOON SQUAD. Comprised of...

  • Goon Squad #10

    The police and the GOON SQUAD comb the city looking for the Vivisector, a monstrous serial killer apparently risen after 70 years to continue his reign of terror. It seems impossible, however, and some members of the Squad wonder if they are actually...

  • Goon Squad #12

    Nadiya Kysla aka PUPPET GIRL approaches the end of her first year with the GOON SQUAD. In that time she has fought organised crime, nearly died at the hands of an angel, faced off against an ancient serial killer, and found real friends, even if o...

  • The Fall of the House of Cabal

    Johannes Cabal - 5

    Johannes Cabal, a necromancer of some little infamy, has come into possession of a vital clue that may lead him to his ultimate goal: a cure for death. The path is vague, however, and certainly treacherous as it takes him into strange territories tha...

  • Goon Squad

    [Young Adult Fiction (Ages 12-17)][Narrated by Gabrielle de Cuir, Jim Meskimen, Nicholas Guy Smith and Stefan Ridnicki]An ongoing, episodic ''prose comic'' from which the pictures are summoned by the magic of words, Goon Squad is set in an alternate ...

  • After the End of the World

    AFTER THE END OF THE WORLD by Jonathan L. Howard brings the H.P. Lovecraft mythos into the twenty-first century. The Unfolded World is a bitter and unfriendly place for Daniel Carter and Emily Lovecraft. In this world, the Cold War never happened ...

  • The Shadow on the Glass

    When two spiritist swindlers accidentally summon something horrific from beyond the stars, they must thwart a sinister time-spanning plot, in this first Victorian-era gaslight fantasy set in the world of Chaosium’s Call of Cthulhu.London, 1891. Eli...

  • Goon Squad #11

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    At last the GOON SQUAD may have the break in the VIVISECTOR case they have so desperately been seeking. A man from Switzerland claims to know exactly who the killer is, but is he telling the truth, or does he have a dark agenda of his own? He cert...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jonathan L. Howard has published 38 books.

The next book by Jonathan L. Howard, The Shadow on the Glass, will be published in July 2024.

The first book by Jonathan L. Howard, Johannes Cabal the Necromancer, was published in July 2009.

Yes. Jonathan L. Howard has 1 series.
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