Jonathan L Howard: 34 books

During World War II, the major cities of Britain were protected against spies, saboteurs, and unusual threats by secret teams made up of superhuman Talents. Manchester's was codenamed STOAT/6, the forerunner of the modern day GOON SQUAD. Comprised of three Talents -- the inhumanely strong BULLDOG,...

The Exterminating Angel has struck once more, the body count is climbing, and the GOON SQUAD are on their way to face the entity. If only they had a plan. The one thing they're sure of is, if they fail to defeat or contain the murderous Angel, the only possible result is the deaths of many more people,...

It is a city of fear. The entity known as the Exterminating Angel roams freely, spreading fear wherever it goes. Even the police Special Talents Unit known as the GOON SQUAD has proved helpless in the face of the supernatural terror. Bloodied but unbowed, the Squad plan their next move and try to...

Puppet Girl has been inducted into the Goon Squad -- Manchester's Special Talents Response Team -- but is very much on probation. When her first time in the field goes badly wrong, it looks like her new career might be over before it has even started. But she has one champion who will stand up for...

After the End of the World by Jonathan L. Howard brings the H.P. Lovecraft mythos into the twenty-first century. The Unfolded World is a bitter and unfriendly place for Daniel Carter and Emily Lovecraft. In this world, the Cold War never happened because the Soviet Union ceased to exist in...

The GOON SQUAD finally close the net on the vicious career gangster Des Garbo and the arms deal he has set up. What they discover, however, is not at all what they were expecting. PUPPET GIRL will prove vital in the fight, but at the cost of revealing truths about herself that frighten even her. But...

It starts quietly, with an incredible murder committed in broad daylight, but without a single witness. Soon the unseen killer progresses to a macabre mass killing, but why does the sole survivor blame the victims for their own deaths? Unpredictable and unstoppable, the killer strikes across...

What if you could see the future? What if the future could see YOU?Johannes Cabal, a necromancer of some little infamy, has discovered a way to give some insights into how he should conduct his future researches; by drinking a glass of the legendary "Ouroboros Ouzo." Rare and precious, the liquor...

Just what do superheroes get up to when they're not fighting the forces of evil? If they're the GOON SQUAD, they patrol the city, chat, train, and chat some more. The FREE Goon Squad 2014 Summer Special contains an introduction to the Squad, and four short stories: "Red Wolf, Red Wolf, Does Whatever...

A charmingly gothic, fiendishly funny Faustian tale about a brilliant scientist who makes a deal with the Devil, twice.    Johannes Cabal sold his soul years ago in order to learn the laws of necromancy. Now he wants it back. Amused and slightly bored, Satan proposes a little wager: Johannes has...

Airship Shape & Bristol Fashion brings together tales from the light and dark sides of steampunk. Living ghosts, walking ferns and ingenious androids populate visions of the city of Bristol at once familiar and peculiar. Above them soar magnificent men, and women, in their flying machines. Whether...

You may have heard of Johannes Cabal; he is a necromancer and a little infamous. He is also very sensitive to attempts on his life. When a murder of crows tries to... well, murder him, and the contents of his bath are transmuted into hot nitric acid, he suspects someone may mean him harm. The trail...

Horst Cabal has risen from the dead. Again. Horst, the most affable vampire one is ever likely to meet, is resurrected by an occult conspiracy that wants him as a general in a monstrous army. Their plan: to create a country of horrors, a supernatural homeland. As Horst sees the lengths to which they...

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...