Jonathan L Howard: 20 books

A short story about a small city with a deep and dangerous past.The oddest little things can hide the darkest secrets. There's a little oddity along the path that runs between the river and the road. Nothing major, but interesting. Just the sort of thing you'd mention while chatting.But,...

Making a movie on a small budget is a labour of love. "The Ghost" is one such production. It has a brilliant script, and a dedicated cast and crew. It also has a producer who has little love for film.Despite all the obstacles, the movie is coming together. But the script is based on actual...

The tale of a girl and her mecha.Freya works the fields of her parents' farm with the help of Mohi, a semi-intelligent robot. Once, Mohi fought in the war against the mysterious Xenos, but that's all over now. Nothing exciting's ever going to happen on the colony world of Neper...

Johannes Cabal, a necromancer of some little infamy, has faced many horrors during his career, but in this tale he tells of an early encounter with something that horrified even him.Pantomime.A provincial theatre has seen a series of strange deaths. The young Cabal investigates, even...

There’s nothing the police like more than an open and shut case. Unfortunately, the Cresswill case was anything but. It started as a suicide, but then it was a murder pretending to be a suicide. Then it appeared that it was a suicide masquerading as a murder pretending to be a suicide. It was all...

Johannes Cabal has faced down the undead, ghosts, monsters, and Satan himself. But before all that, he fought the terrifying Bonewind, a supernatural being that devours life itself, and he did it all without leaving his house."Johannes Cabal and the Blustery Day" was the story that first introduced...

Manchester is an old city with many shadows in its history. Most lie quiet, but now and then, one is stirred from its rest by the actions of foolish men.Pomona Island is a curiosity -- a backwater of the city left to nature for generations. Development reveals an old secret from which a fool...

THE THREAT: There are villainous monsters, mutants, freaks, and warped masterminds in the world, beyond the ability of conventional police forces to deal with. THE SOLUTION: Recruit your own monsters, mutants, freaks, and warped masterminds, and give them warrant cards. Every large urban centre has...

Listen to the tale the dead man tells.Ian Mears is the longest continuously serving member of Manchester's GOON SQUAD. As the Revenant he has fought crime, confronted supervillains, and had more limbs severed than he cares to think about. Whilst regenerating his most recently lost right...

Nadiya Kysla aka PUPPET GIRL approaches the end of her first year with the GOON SQUAD. In that time she has fought organised crime, nearly died at the hands of an angel, faced off against an ancient serial killer, and found real friends, even if one’s a corpse, one’s a werewolf, and one’s a...

At last the GOON SQUAD may have the break in the VIVISECTOR case they have so desperately been seeking. A man from Switzerland claims to know exactly who the killer is, but is he telling the truth, or does he have a dark agenda of his own? He certainly seems to know a great deal about the legendary...

The police and the GOON SQUAD comb the city looking for the Vivisector, a monstrous serial killer apparently risen after 70 years to continue his reign of terror. It seems impossible, however, and some members of the Squad wonder if they are actually up against a copycat. Then RED WOLF encounters...

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,...