Johannes Cabal: The Fear Institute
by Jonathan L. Howard
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Pub Date Oct 01 2013 | Archive Date Oct 01 2013
St. Martin's Press | Thomas Dunne Books
Description
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. . . .
A Note From the Publisher
Advance Praise
Praise for The Fear Institute:
“Howard’s affectionate, witty homage to Lovecraft’s dream stories, complete with early-20th-century setting and language, is an enjoyably macabre comic adventure, and his antihero Cabal is, for all his overweening self-confidence, an engaging protagonist whose heart is not quite as hard as he would like to pretend.” —Publishers Weekly
“Howard’s characters, relentless imagination,
twisting plotlines, and use of language make the Johannes Cabal series a real
pleasure to read, and The Fear
Institute is the best Cabal yet.” —Richard Kadrey, author of the Sandman
Slim novels
“Comedy meets high-concept fantasy in Howard’s latest
Johannes Cabal outing. … Genre fans will appreciate Howard’s attention to world
building, while more general readers will simply enjoy all the horrific fun.”
—Booklist
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Available Editions
EDITION | Other Format |
ISBN | 9781250037527 |
PRICE | $24.99 (USD) |