A fan-operated Tumblr dedicated to Johannes Cabal (a necromancer of some little infamy) and his general mischief.
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allysonkelleyillustration:

Doing some late night fan art of Johannes Cabal cause I can’t wait for the next book!
Such a good series, and I am in love with Cabal. He’s just perfect.
If I don’t find a new book to read be prepared for more fan art!

Hannibal was going to do Johannes a favour, that was all. What if Leonie Barrow remembered? What if she remembered as clearly as it had happened? Johannes was so close to discovering the secret to resurrection that it just didn’t seem fair for him to be prosecuted. Besides, Johannes was his friend. You protect your friends, don’t you?
-Boy with a broken soul; heart with a gaping hole.

Boy with a broken soul; heart with a gaping hole. [Cabal&Hannibal Crossover, 3600 words]

“It has never been about the attention.”
“Hasn’t it, though?”
“I prefer to attract the least amount of attention as possible.”
“My good man, we both know that’s not quite the case.”
And it was unclear who had spoken first, or who had sipped his wine after the smallest of smirks, because they had trapped each other and themselves in this charade, and Johannes had been warned by his brother about therapists, and he had been warned by his mother about men like this one, men who hide who they really are and are as dangerous as they don’t appear to be, and he blatantly ignored them all, taking another bite of the enticing appetizer in front of him.
Hannibal Lecter poured them both another glass of blood-red wine. They might’ve toasted something, but not something cliche, like their health or happiness, but to a darker creature, one they were both a bit afraid to acknowledge.

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…Cabal was flipped into the air like an especially sociopathic pancake…
— Joanthan L. Howard: Johannes Cabal the Detective (via msfehrwight)
He weighed the gun in his hand; the man behind the counter had looked at him quizzically when he’d enquired whether they stocked the Webley .577 revolver. Thwarted, Cabal had settled on a Senzan revolver, but at least had the mild pleasure of finding one in an equally untidy calibre – 10.35 mm. His mind was usually quite pristine, but – O! secret sin – he had always taken a perverse joy in dangling decimals.
— Jonathan L. Howard: Johannes Cabal the Detective (via msfehrwight)
Cabal blinked; the bulb contained the powder of Ibn-Ghazi and its power was to render the invisible visible. For ten heartbeats, for an eternity, he looked upon the true face of the Bonewind.

“Seen worse,” said Johannes Cabal and bolted for the stairs.

— Johannes Cabal & the Blustery Day, by Jonathan L. Howard (via oneinchwonder)
I let my front garden eat him.”
“Your front garden?”
He wrinkled his nose. “You didn’t expect me to do it, did you?
— Jonathan L. Howard  – Johannes Cabal the Detective (via msfehrwight)
cohanlon37 asked:
I hate to bother you but I tried to use the link for Exeunt Demon King file and it doesn't work :( is their any way you could post it again, please it's the only one I haven't read yet.

My apologies, but we’ve removed any digital file of the Johannes Cabal shorts as per Jonathan L. Howard’s request. I would say purchase the magazine (because I did and it is full of other great shorts), but they seem to be sold out of issue 3 on the publisher’s website! My apologies! Here is a link though, to check on in case they get it again. Maybe if you contact them, they can assist you in purchasing a copy.
http://www.wildsidebooks.com/HP-Lovecrafts-Magazine-of-Horror_c_204.html 
Christmas comes around but once a year. To Johannes Cabal, this showed shocking over-familiarity and ill-breeding.
— Exeunt Demon King, by Jonathan L. Howard [p.1]. (via oneinchwonder)
The new day found Johannes Cabal the necromancer sitting by a ruined and rotting train on a long abandoned spur line, his head in his hands, the gravel between his feet splashed wet with drops of saline, his sunglasses tossed carelessly to one side when he could no longer see.
— Jonathan L. Howard: Johannes Cabal, the Necromancer (via msfehrwight)
And Cabal No.4 draft 0 (i.e. the crappy first draft I don’t show anyone) enters its last third and is still, miraculously, on schedule.
— Jonathan L. Howard’s Twitter
Or perhaps you will. People are so insensitive, these days. Once upon a time, all you had to do was finish a story with a revelation in the form of a single paragraph in - and this was the powerful part - italics to shred the sanity away from anyone more psychologically vulnerable than a lamppost.
It was his own face.
Or….
There were still two glasses upon the mantelpiece.
Or….
The library book was terribly overdue.
— - Jonathan L. Howard, Johannes Cabal the Fear Institute (via sarcasmisfluffy)
He smiled. … The vicar smiled back. Cabal felt a need to check his own smile in a mirror to make sure it was still the thing of fear that he’d carefully cultivated for years.
— Jonathan L. Howard: Johannes Cabal, the Necromancer (via msfehrwight)

How did YOU stumble upon Johannes Cabal?

I was in a Barnes and Noble in Sacramento, and it was on one of the aisle caps for recommended fiction. I picked it up, and an employee walked by and said ‘Oh yeah, I recommended that one. If you like dark humor, it’s right up your alley.”
So, what’s your story?

oneinchwonder:

“His whole psychology, his point of orientation, is to dabble with death and yet somehow surmount it”
- Philip K. Dick

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