Jonathan L. Howard
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After the End of the World
- By: Jonathan L. Howard
- Narrator: Ari Fliakos
- Length: 11 hours 15 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: November 14, 2017
- Language: English
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4(1652 ratings)
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 because the Soviet Union ceased to exist in 1941. In this world the Nazi Grossdeutschland is the premier superpower, and is not merely tolerated but indulged because. In this world, the Holocaust happened behind the ruins of the Iron Curtain and consumed only Bolsheviks, Communists, and others the West was glad to see gone. In this world, there are monsters, and not all of them are human.
But even in the Unfolded World, there are still bills to pay and jobs to do. Carter finds himself working for the German secret security service to uncover the truth behind a major scientific joint project that is going suspiciously well. The trail takes Lovecraft and him to a distant, abandoned island, and a conspiracy that threatens everything. To fight it, Lovecraft must walk a perilously narrow path between forbidden knowledge and soul-destroying insanity.
Fortunately, she also has a shotgun.
This dark, captivating audiobook will send listeners into a twisted version of the world they will be thankful not to inhabit.
... Read moreCarter & Lovecraft
- By: Jonathan L. Howard
- Narrator: Ari Fliakos
- Length: 9 hours 19 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: October 20, 2015
- Language: English
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3.86(4302 ratings)
“Carter & Lovecraft is a Pandora’s box loaded with all the wonderfully twisted stuff I love, including a two-fisted homicide cop turned PI, warped realities, a mysterious bookstore, the Cthulhu mythos, a dash of romance, and creepy fish-men. What’s not to love? Jonathan L. Howard knows how to show his readers a wickedly good time.” –Christopher Golden, New York Times bestselling author of Dead Ringers
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 finished with him.
First he inherits a bookstore in Providence from someone he’s never heard of, along with an indignant bookseller who doesn’t want a new boss. She’s Emily Lovecraft, the last known descendant of H.P. Lovecraft, the writer from Providence who told tales of the Great Old Ones and the Elder Gods, creatures and entities beyond the understanding of man.
Then people start dying in impossible ways, and while Carter doesn’t want to be involved, he’s beginning to suspect that someone else wants him to be. As Carter reluctantly investigates, he discovers that H. P. Lovecraft’s tales were more than just fiction, and he must accept another unexpected, and far more unwanted, inheritance.
... Read moreGoon Squad
- By: Jonathan L. Howard
- Narrator: Gabrielle de Cuir
- Length: 14 hours 28 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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3.71(312 ratings)
An ongoing, episodic “prose comic” from which the pictures are summoned by the magic of words, Goon Squad is set in an alternate version of modern-day Manchester. Its biggest divergence from the real city is that it–along with most other large urban centers–has a team of superheroes to protect it against unusual threats with which the conventional forces of law and order would have problems.
Goon Squad: Year One features three action-packed volumes in a single collection: Goon Squad: Special Talents, Goon Squad: Without Sin, and Goon Squad: Old Enemies.
... Read moreGoon Squad, Vol. 1
- By: Jonathan L. Howard
- Narrator: Gabrielle de Cuir
- Length: 4 hours 42 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2015
- Language: English
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3.93(56 ratings)
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–has a team of superheroes to protect it against unusual threats with which the conventional forces of law and order would have problems.
Goon Squad, Volume 1: Special Talents is composed of six tales: “The New Girl,” “Nightclubbing,” “By the Water, by the Grave,” “Changes,” “No-No Dojo,” and “Exterminating Angel,” as well as an introduction read by the author.
... Read moreGoon Squad, Vol. 2
- By: Jonathan L. Howard
- Narrator: Gabrielle de Cuir
- Length: 5 hours 14 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2015
- Language: English
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3.9(42 ratings)
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–has a team of superheroes to protect it against unusual threats with which the conventional forces of law and order would have problems.
Goon Squad, Volume 2: Without Sin is composed of “A Star in Strange Ways,” “Holy Fool,” “Dead Man Tells Tale,” “A Brief History of the Goon Squad,” “Tale of Terror,” and “Pomona Island,” as well as an introduction read by the author.
... Read moreGoon Squad, Vol. 3
- By: Jonathan L. Howard
- Narrator: Gabrielle de Cuir
- Length: 4 hours 30 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2015
- Language: English
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4.08(37 ratings)
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–has a team of superheroes to protect it against unusual threats with which the conventional forces of law and order would have problems.
Goon Squad, Volume 3: Old Enemies is composed of: “Life during Wartime,” “Red Wolf, Red Wolf, Does Whatever a Red Wolf Can,” “Shadow of the Vivisector,” “The Man from Switzerland,” and “The End of the Year Show,” as well as an introduction read by the author.
... Read moreJohannes Cabal and the Blustery Day
- By: Jonathan L. Howard
- Narrator: Nicholas Guy Smith
- Length: 7 hours 19 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2015
- Language: English
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4.3(1620 ratings)
Johannes Cabal is a necromancer–and he’s slightly infamous.
Johannes Cabal and the Blustery Day: And Other Tales of the Necromancer features seven of Cabal’s most frightening adventures:
“Exeunt Demon King,””The Ereshkigal Working,””Johannes Cabal and the Blustery Day,””The House of Gears,””The Death of Me,””Ouroboros Ouzo,” and”A Long Spoon.”
Also included is an original introduction written and read by the author.
... Read moreJohannes Cabal the Detective
- By: Jonathan L. Howard
- Narrator: Robin Sachs
- Length: 12 hours 50 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2010
- Language: English
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 being reunited with his soul, leads us on another raucous journey in a little-known corner of the world. This time he’s on the run from the local government.
Stealing the identity of a minor bureaucrat, Cabal takes passage on the Princess Hortense, a passenger aeroship that is leaving the country. The deception seems perfect, and Cabal looks forward to a quiet trip and a clean escape, until he comes face-to-face with Leonie Barrow, an enemy from the old days who could blow his cover. But when a fellow passenger throws himself to his death, or at least that is how it appears, Cabal begins to investigate out of curiosity. His minor efforts result in a vicious attempt on his own life—and then the gloves come off.
Cabal and Leonie—the only woman to ever match wits with him—reluctantly team up to discover the murderer. Before they are done, there will be more narrow escapes, involving sword fighting and newfangled flying machines. There will be massive destruction, not to mention resurrected dead . . .
Steampunk meets the classic Sherlockian mystery in this rip-roaring adventure where anything could happen . . . and does.
... Read moreJohannes Cabal The Necromancer
- By: Jonathan L. Howard
- Narrator: Christopher Cazenove
- Length: 2 hours 10 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2009
- Language: English
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 years ago in order to learn the laws of necromancy. But now, tormented by a dark secret, he travels to the fiery pits of Hell to retrieve it. Satan, who is incredibly bored these days, proposes a little wager: Johannes has one year to persuade one hundred people to sign over their souls or he will be damned forever.
To make the bet even more interesting, Satan throws in that diabolical engine of deceit, seduction, and corruption known as a “traveling circus” to aid in the evil bidding. What better place exists to rob poor sad saps of their souls than the traveling carnivals historically run by hucksters and legendary con men?
With little time to lose, Johannes raises a motley crew from the dead and enlists his brother, Horst, a charismatic vampire, to be the carnival’s barker. On the road through the pastoral English countryside, this team of reprobates wields their black magic with masterful ease, resulting in mayhem at every turn.
The Brothers Cabal
- By: Jonathan L. Howard
- Narrator: Nicholas Guy Smith
- Length: 13 hours 5 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2014
- Language: English
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4.36(3415 ratings)
The fourth novel in the acclaimed cult-favorite series starring necromancer Johannes Cabal
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 is to create a country of horrors, a supernatural homeland. As Horst sees the lengths to which they are prepared to go and the evil they cultivate, he realizes that he cannot fight them alone. What he really needs on his side is a sarcastic, amoral, heavily armed necromancer.
As luck would have it, this exactly describes his brother.
... Read moreThe Fall of the House of Cabal
- By: Jonathan L. Howard
- Narrator: Nicholas Guy Smith
- Length: 14 hours 55 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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4.4(2183 ratings)
The fifth novel in the acclaimed cult-favorite series starring Johannes Cabal, necromancer.
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 that, quite literally, no one has ever seen before. The task is too dangerous to venture upon alone, so he must seek assistance, comrades for the coming travails.
Assisted–ably and otherwise–by his vampiric brother, Horst, and by the kindly accompaniment of a criminologist and a devil, they will encounter ruins and diableries, mystery and murder, the depths of the lowest pit, and a city of horrors–London, to be exact.
Yet even though Cabal has risked such peril believing he understands the dangers he faces, he is still underestimating them. He is walking into a trap of such arcane complexity that even the one who drew him there has no idea of its true terrors. As it closes slowly and subtly around them, it may be that there will be no survivors at all.
... Read moreThe Fear Institute
- By: Jonathan L. Howard
- Narrator: Nicholas Guy Smith
- Length: 10 hours 21 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2014
- Language: English
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4.08(4514 ratings)
The third novel in the acclaimed cult-favorite series starring necromancer Johannes Cabal
Johannes Cabal and his rather inexact powers of necromancy are back once more. This time, his talents are purchased by the Fear Institute as they hunt for the phobic animus–the embodiment of fear. The three institute members, led by Cabal and his silver key, enter the Dreamlands and find themselves pursued by walking trees plagued with giant ticks, stone men that patrol the ruins of their castles, cats that feed on human flesh, and phobias that torment and devastate. The intrepid explorers are killed off one by one as they traipse through this obfuscating and frustrating world, where history itself appears to alter. Cabal, annoyed that the quest is becoming increasingly heroic, finds himself alone with the institute’s only remaining survivor, and after a shockingly violent experiment, begins to suspect that not everything is quite as it seems.
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