Johannes Cabal the Necromancer

This witty and splendidly macabre spin on the classic Faustian legend introduces a strikingly original new novelist. Johannes Cabal, a brilliant scientist and notorious snob, is obsessed with raising the dead. Tormented by a dark and harrowing secret, he travels to the fiery pits of hell to retrieve his soul, long ago sold to the Devil. Satan, incredibly bored and hungry for a challenge, proposes a little wager: Johannes has one year to persuade one hundred people to sign over their souls or he will lose his forever. To keep things interesting, he generously throws in a traveling carnival to help Johannes collect on the bargain. With little time to lose, Johannes raises a crew from the dead and enlists his brother, Horst, a charismatic vampire, to be his right-hand man. Once on the road, Johannes and his troupe of reprobates cause mayhem at every stop. But are his tricks enough to beat the Devil at his own game? Combining the chills and thrills of old-fashioned gothic tales, the rollicking humor ofWicked, and the sophisticated charms ofJonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, JOHANNES CABAL THE NECROMANCER turns the oldest tale in the world into a fresh and irresistible adventure.

JONATHAN L. HOWARD is a computer-game designer and scriptwriter. He coscripted the first three Broken Sword adventure games and published an acclaimed story about Johannes Cabal in H. P. Lovecraft’s Magazine of Horror. He lives near Bristol, England.

In Which a Scientist Visits Hell and a Deal is Struck	p. 1
In Which Cabal Practices His Map-Reading and Meets an Old Acquaintance	p. 18
In Which Cabal Covers Old Ground and Gets the Show on the Road	p. 36
In Which Cabal Applies Himself With Mixed Results	p. 55
In Which Cabal Plays With Dolls and Horst Broadens His Vocabulary	p. 71
In Which Cabal Makes an Unplanned Stop and Talks About the War	p. 96
In Which Cabal Discovers That Hell Comes in Different Flavours and That One Should Always Make Time	p. 113
In Which Cabal is Educated in Business Affairs and Undertakings are Undertook	p. 134
In Wich I Go to the Carnyval and See Stuff	p. 153
In Which the Carnival Reaches Journey's End and Difficulties Present Themselves En Masse	p. 169
In Which Cabal Preys Upon Misfortune and There is Unpleasantness	p. 182
In Which Cabal Discovers Some Places are Nice to Live in But You Really Wouldn't Want to Visit	p. 198
In Which the Carnival of Discord Opens Its Gates for the Last Time and Things Go Terribly Wrong	p. 214
In Which Needs Must When the Devil Drives	p. 231
In Which Midnight Strikes and Dawn Breaks	p. 251
In Which a Scientist Returns to Hell and a Deal is Broken	p. 270
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