Jonathan L Howard Books in Order

Johannes Cabal sold his soul to learn necromancy, and now he wants it back. Satan agrees to a wager, collect one hundred souls in a year, with a traveling carnival and a vampire brother as help.

On the run from the authorities, Johannes Cabal steals an identity and boards the aeroship *Princess Hortense*. A suspicious death and an old enemy named Leonie Barrow drag him into a locked-room mystery with very sharp edges.

Hired to guide a mission into the Dreamlands, Johannes Cabal joins a hunt for the embodiment of fear itself. As the expedition unravels and the dead pile up, he starts to suspect the real danger was never the official one.

On the ocean world of Russalka, Katya Kuriakova expects her first submarine voyage to be routine. Instead she finds pirates, war criminals, and an ancient threat in the deep that could wipe out every human life on the planet.

A small city has an old, dangerous past, and one odd little detail along a quiet path points straight toward it. Curiosity seems harmless here, right up until looking twice becomes the worst possible idea.

A string of strange deaths at a provincial theatre draws in a younger Johannes Cabal. To investigate, he must step onto the stage in red tights and play the Demon King, which may be the most horrifying part.

A film production reaches back into history for its material and stirs up something that never settled. The script may be finished, but the business behind it is not, and vengeance has had a long time to wait.

Before carnivals, devils, and airships, Johannes Cabal had to deal with the Bonewind, a supernatural force that devours life itself. The catch is that he has to survive the whole business without even leaving his house.

Russalka is tearing itself apart in civil war, and Katya Kuriakova can see that waiting for peace will not save anyone. A dangerous offer from the past may stop the fighting, but only if she becomes the enemy of her own world.

Freya's quiet life on the colony world of Neper revolves around her family's farm and Mohi, a semi-intelligent robot with a military past. When real danger finally arrives, heroism costs far more than she expected.

Johannes Cabal may know more than most about death, but that does not make him ready when Death takes an interest in him personally. This brief Cabal tale is sharp, grimly funny, and very aware of professional irony.

When murderous crows and a bath full of acid suggest someone wants him dead, Johannes Cabal follows the trail into Hell. His guide is Zarenyia, a devil he absolutely should not trust, and may like more than is wise.

With the city still reeling from the Exterminating Angel, the Goon Squad starts digging into what the entity really is. The deeper they go, the clearer it becomes that someone else is hunting the same answers.

What looks like suicide turns into murder, then into something even less stable. As the Cresswill case twists through impossible interpretations, the police need help from someone odd enough to think the whole mess through.

The Goon Squad closes in on gangster Des Garbo and the arms deal he has arranged, only to find a worse problem nearby. A petty act of vandalism in a cemetery unleashes a horror far beyond organized crime.

Ian Mears, the Revenant and the longest-serving member of the Goon Squad, gets his turn in the spotlight. The result deepens the team's history while showing the price of staying in the fight for so long.

An impossible daytime murder with no witness is only the start. As a killer tears through the city with terrifying power, the Goon Squad faces an enemy that is fast, unstoppable, and very hard to understand.

The Exterminating Angel strikes again, and the Goon Squad is running out of bodies and plans. With Talos missing and others damaged, Puppet Girl and Red Wolf are left to face the threat, and the mystery of the Holy Fool.

Puppet Girl's first field assignment with the Goon Squad goes badly enough to threaten her place on the team. A fresh line of inquiry sends the investigation into Manchester's nightlife, where probation gets a lot more dangerous.

Johannes Cabal stops at a curious tavern where a strange drink offers glimpses of what may be ahead. What follows is a sly, unsettling encounter with fate, identity, and several possible versions of Cabal himself.

Horst Cabal is resurrected by an occult conspiracy that wants him to lead a monstrous army. To stop them, the affable vampire needs the last person anyone would call reliable, his brother Johannes, armed, sarcastic, and not remotely heroic.

Nadiya Kysla wants a quiet life after the very public disasters of her past. Instead, trouble forces her back into the role of Puppet Girl and toward an even stranger future with Manchester's Goon Squad.

Former homicide detective Daniel Carter inherits a Providence bookstore and an unwanted partnership with Emily Lovecraft. When impossible deaths begin to mount, they uncover a nastier inheritance, H. P. Lovecraft's monsters were never just stories.

In 1944, Manchester's wartime super-team STOAT/6 investigates a string of grotesque killings. Their search leads to a depraved murderer called the Vivisector, and the answers may matter just as much in the present.

Development work on the half-wild backwater of Pomona Island uncovers an old secret and lets something terrible loose. For the Goon Squad, the case is not just dangerous, it may be tied to the very first one they ever handled.

A monstrous serial killer seems to have returned after seventy years, and the city is running scared. Some suspect a copycat, until Red Wolf comes face to face with the real thing and learns just how impossible the case is.

As Nadiya Kysla reaches the end of her first year with the Goon Squad, she starts to understand both her powers and the tensions around her. Unfinished business, dark revelations, and a mass sacrifice threaten a very busy evening.

A clue to curing death sends Johannes Cabal into territories no one should know how to reach. With Horst, a criminologist, and a devil in tow, he walks into a trap built from old obsessions, hidden horrors, and very bad assumptions.

A stranger from Switzerland claims to know the truth about the Vivisector case the Goon Squad has been chasing. His help could break the mystery open, unless his own agenda is darker than the killer's.

Daniel Carter and Emily Lovecraft are thrown into the Unfolded World, a brutal alternate history where the Nazi Reich became the leading power. To stop a conspiracy on a remote island, Emily must risk knowledge that can break a mind.