He came to readers' attention with his series of black comedy novels about the necromancer Johannes Cabal. Howard worked as scriptwriter and video game writer since the early 1990s, and wrote the Broken Sword series of games among others. He lives with his wife and daughter near Bristol. Howard is a British writer and game designer, known mainly for his novels about Johannes Cabal the Necromancer. Of direct sf interest is the Young Adult Russalka series, set on the remote, now-independent, ocean-dominated colony planet of that name (see Colonization of Other Worlds): Katya's World ( 2012), in which young submarine navigator Katya Kuriakova meets various perils Under the Sea, including a world-threatening Monster and Katya's War ( 2013), with the human colony plunged into a debilitating civil War.Jonathan L. Johannes Cabal: The Fear Institute ( 2011) records a physical expedition into the Dreamlands of the Dream Cycle stories written by H P Lovecraft under the influence of Lord Dunsany. Johannes Cabal the Detective ( 2010) enters Steampunk mode with murder aboard a great Airship lifted by "Laithwaite gyroscopic levitators" (see Antigravity Imaginary Science) and traversing a Ruritanian-flavoured Europe.
The first series novel, Johannes Cabal the Necromancer ( 2009), is a comic Pact with the Devil story set in a slightly retro or Alternate-World England. Lovecraft's Magazine of Horror), conducts obsessive research into reviving the dead, as in H P Lovecraft's Herbert West – Reanimator (February-July 1922 Home Brew as "Grewsome Tales" vt March 1942-November 1943 Weird Tales 1977 chap).
The eponymous Antihero of the darkly humorous Johannes Cabal sequence, introduced in "Johannes Cabal and the Blustery Day" (Spring 2004 H.P. (? - ) UK game designer, involved with the Broken Sword sequence of occult-conspiracy Adventures (which see), and author who began to publish fiction of genre interest with "Between the River and the Road" (June 2001 Realms of Fantasy).
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