Johannes Cabal: The Fear Institute

Jonathan L. Howard

Oct 2013 · Johannes Cabal Novels Book 3 · Sold by Macmillan

About this ebook

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 seas navigated and its vast mountains climbed by philosophers, mystics, and poets. Well, those halcyon days are over, beatniks.

Johannes Cabal is coming.

Cabal, a necromancer of some little infamy, is employed by the mysterious Fear Institute to lead an expedition into the Dreamlands, an expedition to hunt and destroy the dread Phobic Animus, the font of terrors, the very source of all the world's fear. They will enter exotic lands where magic is common and monsters abound. Cabal will encounter witches, vile abominations, and far too many zebras.
And, when they finally come close to their goal, Cabal will have to face his own nightmares. But for a man who communes easily with devils and the dead, surely there is nothing left to fear. . . .

Ratings and reviews

While I really enjoy the series as a whole I feel this is possibly the weakest book. Nevertheless it is still worth reading in order to get all of the plot threads in the final fifth or sixth book.

I await for each book to come out, and even read some of the short stories that feature Johannes Cabal. Great character, very dry, (desert like), wry humor. Can't get enough.

Reminds me of Austen with his perfect zingers.

About the author

Jonathan L. Howard is a game designer, scriptwriter, and a veteran of the computer-games industry since the early nineties, with titles such as the Broken Sword series to his credit. He is author of Johannes Cabal the Necromancer and Johannes Cabal the Detective, as well as the YA novels Katya's World and Katya's War. He lives in the United Kingdom with his wife and daughter.