Jonathan L. Howard is a British writer and game designer, known mainly for his novels about

Johannes Cabal the Necromancer ''Johannes Cabal the Necromancer'' is a 2009 supernatural fiction and black comedy novel written by Jonathan L. Howard. It is the first book of an ongoing series chronicling the ventures of Johannes Cabal, a necromancer of some little infamy. Sum ...

. He lives with his wife and daughter near Bristol.

Work

Howard worked as scriptwriter and video game writer since the early 1990s, and wrote the ''

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'' series of games among others. He came to readers' attention with his series of

black comedy Black comedy, also known as dark comedy, morbid humor, or gallows humor, is a style of comedy that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are normally considered serious or painful to discus ...

novels about the necromancer Johannes Cabal. Other works include the ''Russalka Chronicles'', a series of

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novels. Set on the

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Russalka, named after the mythical mermaid by its Russian colonists, they follow young civilian submariner Katya Kuriakova as she lives through a time of increasing conflict between the colonists' two main factions and the remnants of a failed Terran invasion. The first novel, ''Katya's World'' (2012) was well received by critics, with ''

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'' noting its "strong cast and a believable sense of danger", and ''

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'' highlighting that, unusually for young-adult fiction, the novel featured a broad cast of competent adult supporting characters and refrained from giving the protagonist a romantic interest.

Bibliography

;The ''Johannes Cabal'' series *Novels: :*''

'', 2009 :*''

Johannes Cabal the Detective ''Johannes Cabal the Detective'' is a 2010 supernatural fiction/ dark comedic/Ruritanian romance mystery novel by Jonathan L. Howard and the second book in the ''Johannes Cabal'' series. The novel follows Cabal, an infamous necromancer on adventur ...

'', 2010 :*''Johannes Cabal: The Fear Institute'', 2011 :*''The Brothers Cabal'', 2014 :*''Johannes Cabal and the Blustery Day: And Other Tales of the Necromancer'', 2015 (collection) :*''The Fall of The House of Cabal'', 2016 *Short fiction (included in the 2015 collection): :*"Johannes Cabal and the Blustery Day," 2004 :*"Exeunt Demon King," 2006 :*"The Ereshkigal Working," 2011 :*"The House of Gears," 2011 :*"The Death of Me," 2013 :*"Ouroboros Ouzo", 2014 :*"A Long Spoon", 2014 ;The ''Russalka Chronicles'' novels :*''Katya's World'', 2012 :*''Katya's War'', 2013 Carter & Lovecraft Series :*''Carter & Lovecraft'', 2015 :*''After the End of the World'', 2017 ;Short Story Collections :*''Kyth the Taker'', 2017

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* * Writers from Bristol Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{UK-writer-stub