jonathan l howard carter and lovecraft book 3

After some thought, I've decided on the following. Loads and loads more than that, really, but that's enough to be getting on with. From ancient to modern, I'd suggest 'The Bride of Frankenstein,' 'The Dead of Night,' 'Night of the Demon,' 'The Innocents,' 'The Haunting,' my favourite four Hammers ('The Plague of the Zombies,' 'The Devil Rides Out,' 'Quatermass and the Pit,' and 'Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter), 'The Company of Wolves,' 'Re-Animator' (Yes, that's Lovecraftian, but tremendous fun), Svankmajer's 'Alice' (not actually a horror film per se, but nightmarish in places and a film I think anyone with a scrap of imagination should see) and then bang up to date with 'Crimson Peak,' which is the epitome of gothic. Given he also wrote the Mapp & Lucia novels, one can only assume his mother was startled by a good-looking middle-aged woman while he was in the womb.įor film, my goodness, that's a long list. M.R.James, Arthur Machen, William Hope Hodgson, Edith Wharton, and E.F.Benson, even if the lattermost has this odd horror of good-looking middle-aged women.

For literary horror, I always support the classics. I would give it 3 out of 5 stars.Alas I've only got around to answering these last questions after the event. I enjoyed the book, but I can’t say that it was awesome. The book ends with a set up for the next book, which was intriguing but not enough to make me rush off to the next book. I thought that this helped make the book enjoyable, particularly during the time that I was hoping Johannes would fail. I guess it would be considered dark humor. By the end of the book, I was once again hoping that Johannes would win.Īlthough the book is a horror novel, it contains a lot of humor. Then I found myself hoping he would fail, but that would mean the devil would win. I started out cheering for Johannes until I realized that I was cheering for him to have 100 people sign over their souls. Horst is a vampire, although it never actually stated outright. Johannes also gets his brother, Horst, to help him secure the souls. The devil gives him a travelling carnival to help him secure the souls. To do so, he must convince 100 people to sign their souls over to the devil in one year. However, not having a soul interferes with his research so he makes a deal with the devil to get his soul back. Johannes Cabal is a scientist who sold his soul to the devil to learn necromancy. (I still haven’t read that novel yet.) The cover caught my attention, so I read the description. Howard because someone recommended Carter & Lovecraft to me.

I stumbled on Johannes Cabal the Necromancer by Jonathan L.

Jonathan l howard carter and lovecraft book 3