The Fear Institute, Jonathan L. Howard
The Fear Institute, Jonathan L. Howard
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The Fear Institute

Author: Jonathan L. Howard

Narrator: Nicholas Guy Smith

Unabridged: 10 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Skyboat Media

Published: 11/11/2014

Synopsis

The third novel in the acclaimed cult-favorite series starring necromancer Johannes CabalJohannes Cabal and his rather inexact powers of necromancy are back once more. This time, his talents are purchased by the Fear Institute as they hunt for the phobic animus—the embodiment of fear. The three institute members, led by Cabal and his silver key, enter the Dreamlands and find themselves pursued by walking trees plagued with giant ticks, stone men that patrol the ruins of their castles, cats that feed on human flesh, and phobias that torment and devastate. The intrepid explorers are killed off one by one as they traipse through this obfuscating and frustrating world, where history itself appears to alter. Cabal, annoyed that the quest is becoming increasingly heroic, finds himself alone with the institute's only remaining survivor, and after a shockingly violent experiment, begins to suspect that not everything is quite as it seems.

About Jonathan L. Howard

Jonathan L. Howard is a game designer and scriptwriter who has worked in the computer games industry since the early nineties, notably co-scripting the first three Broken Sword adventure games. This is his first novel. He lives near Bristol with his wife and daughter.   Johannes Cabal is a necromancer of some little infamy, who has been digging up bodies without permission for several years now. His first appearance in print was in the short story “Johannes Cabal and the Blustery Day,” published in the premier issue of H.P. Lovecraft’s Magazine of Horror. Where he lives is none of your verdammt business.

About Nicholas Guy Smith

Nicholas Guy Smith is an award-winning audiobook narrator and a much sought-after voice actor for film trailers, commercials, and documentaries. He has voiced characters for Disney, Warner Bros., Universal, and the Cartoon Network. A postgraduate of Cambridge University, he resides in Los Angeles.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Gabrielle (Reading Rampage) on December 28, 2021

Joannes Cabal books have somehow become a Holiday tradition for me: Book-Santa (aka my husband) gives me a new one every year, and every year, I drop all other books and read the necromancer's latest adventure while stuffing my face with cut-out sugar cookies. This latest romp see the misanthropic ne......more

Goodreads review by Bradley on October 26, 2018

Quite interesting. Maybe not the best book I've read of Howards, but this is still a fascinating almost-sword and sorcery adventure in the realms of dream... and Cthulhu monsters abounding with a huge dose of Ghouls. :) And why not? This takes place in the dreamland where necromancy is more than sli......more

Goodreads review by Tina on June 16, 2012

I start with the admission that I am a Johannes Cabal fan. I follow him on Twitter. If I were not already married and he were not a fictional character I would marry him. He is an anti-hero of the deepest dye, duplicitous, selfish, and anti-social to the point of sociopathy. In this latest account o......more

Goodreads review by Mel (Epic Reading) on April 16, 2020

Going into the third book of a series is always nice as generally you know exactly what to expect. Jonathan L. Howard delivers the same sarcastic, pompous character in Johannes Cabal, strange fantastical things, long monologues about 'why are we here' suppositions, and words to look up in the dictio......more

Goodreads review by Mara on January 22, 2020

This was definitely a fun romp of a book-- I absolutely love Howard's dry humor in this series, and those comedic moments were definitely where the book shone for me. That said, I think I keep chasing the high of book #2 in this series where the tone AND the plot AND the characters AND the humor all......more

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