Johannes Cabal the Necromancer


Johannes Cabal has never pretended to be a hero of any kind. There is, after all, little heroic about robbing graves, stealing occult volumes, and being on nodding terms with demons.

His purpose, however is noble. His researches are all directed to raising the dead. Not as monstrosities but as people, just as they were when they lived: physically, mentally, and spiritually. For such a prize, some sacrifices are necessary. One such sacrifice was his own soul, but now he sees that was a mistake - it's not just that he needs it for his research to have validity, but now he realizes he needs it to be himself.

Unfortunately, his soul now rests within the festering bureaucracy of Hell. Satan may be cruel and capricious but, most dangerously, he is bored. It is Cabal's unhappy lot to provide him with amusement.

In short, a wager: in return for his own soul, Cabal must gather one hundred others. Placed in control of a diabolical carnival - created to tempt to contentiousness, to blasphemy, argumentation and murder, but one may also win coconuts - and armed only with his intelligence, a very large handgun, and a total absence of whimsy, Cabal has one year.

Johannes Cabal the Necromancer is the first novel written for Jonathan L. Howard's Johannes Cabal series. Before the novel, Howard has written several short stories in the Cabalverse. JC the Necromancer is followed by Johannes Cabal the Detective.

Howard has also written a character sheet for Cabal, available here.

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Tropes used in Johannes Cabal the Necromancer include:
  • All There in the Manual: In addition to the three main novels (Necromancer, Detective, and Fear Institute,) Johnathan L. Howard has also written several short stories about Cabal. These short stories can be read as standalones, but provide readers of the novels extra insight into Cabal's character. (Good luck finding “Exeunt Demon King” and “Johannes Cabal and the Blustery Day” - they were published in a now-defunct magazine.) The House of Gears, the latest Cabal short story is available online.
    • Jonathan L. Howard also released a Dungeons and Dragons character sheet for Cabal. It includes a good amount of additional back-story and even includes floor plans of Cabal's house.
  • Aloof Big Brother: Horst Cabal, Johannes' suave older brother.
  • Ambiguously Evil: Cabal
  • Anti-Hero: Cabal is a Type V, probably.

Old Man: You're not nice.
Cabal: Your...founder has given me the task of sending one hundred souls to eternal torment. To be quite frank, I don't think my name is ever going to become a byword for popularity.

Old Man: Neat, eh? Goes down a bomb at parties, I can tell you.
Cabal: Really? I’ll have to hold a soirée just to impress my friends.
Old Man: You haven’t got any friends.
Cabal: I’m not holding a soirée, either. You have a problem with sarcasm, don’t you?

Horst: Look, what's bothering you? It's the homoerotic aspect, isn't it? (Runs after Cabal) Well, don't flatter yourself. It's just a transfusion, for crying out loud.

Horst: (to Johannes) Good God, you’re not still bitter about that time at Conrad’s party, are you? I’ve apologised for that a dozen times over. It was a joke.

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