Jonathan L. Howard

Jonathan L. Howard is a British writer and game designer, known mainly for his novels about Johannes Cabal the Necromancer. He lives with his wife and daughter near Bristol.

Work

Howard worked as scriptwriter and video game writer since the early 1990s,[1] and co-wrote the Broken Sword series of games,[2] among others. He came to readers' attention with his series of black comedy novels about the necromancer Johannes Cabal.

Other works include the Russalka Chronicles, a series of young adult submarine warfare science fiction novels. Set on the ocean planet Russalka, named after the mythical mermaid by its Russian colonists, they follow young civilian submariner Katya Kuriakova as she lives through a time of increasing conflict between the colonists' two main factions and the remnants of a failed Terran invasion. The first novel, Katya's World (2012) was well received by critics, with Publishers Weekly noting its "strong cast and a believable sense of danger",[3] and io9 highlighting that, unusually for young-adult fiction, the novel featured a broad cast of competent adult supporting characters and refrained from giving the protagonist a romantic interest.[4]

Bibliography

The Johannes Cabal series
  • Novels:
  • Short fiction (included in the 2015 collection):
  • "Johannes Cabal and the Blustery Day," 2004
  • "Exeunt Demon King," 2006
  • "The Ereshkigal Working," 2011
  • "The House of Gears," 2011
  • "The Death of Me," 2013
  • "Ouroboros Ouzo", 2014
  • "A Long Spoon", 2014
  • Short story (title unknown) in the Of Shadows, Stars, and Sabers anthology (February 2025)[5]
The Russalka Chronicles novels
  • Katya's World, 2012
  • Katya's War, 2013

Carter & Lovecraft Series

  • Carter & Lovecraft, 2015
  • After the End of the World, 2017
Standalone novels
  • The Shadow on the Glass (Call of Cthulhu), 2024
Short story collections
  • Kyth the Taker, 2017

References

  1. ^ "Jonathan L. Howard | Penguin Random House". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved 26 August 2023.
  2. ^ Tanzer, Molly (25 April 2011). ""Fascinated by the Grotesque and Macabre": An Interview with Jonathan L. Howard". Strange Horizons.
  3. ^ "Katya's World". Publishers Weekly. 29 October 2012. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
  4. ^ Dobbs, Michael Ann (12 December 2013). "Thank goodness for a YA heroine who doesn't have a romance". io9. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
  5. ^ "Jonathan L. Howard page". Patreon. 31 August 2024. Retrieved 31 August 2024.