[Directed by Gabrielle de Cuir and Cassandra de Cuir][Read by Nicholas Guy Smith]The fourth novel in the acclaimed, cult-favorite series starring necromancer Johannes Cabal.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 is to create a country of horrors, a supernatural homeland. As Horst sees the lengths to which they are prepared to go and the evil they cultivate, he realizes that he cannot fight them alone. What he really needs on his side is a sarcastic, amoral, heavily armed necromancer. As luck would have it, this exactly describes his brother.

Product Description: An ongoing, episodic prose comic from which the pictures are summoned by the magic of words, "Goon Squad" is set in a version of modern-day Manchester. Its biggest divergence from the real city is that it along with most other large urban centers has a team of superheroes to protect it against unusual threats with which the conventional forces of law and order would have problems...read more

Product Description: [Young Adult Fiction (Ages 12-17)][Read by Gabrielle De Cuir][Introduction read by the author - Jonathan L. Howard] The infamous Goon Squad must protect modern-day Manchester from monsters, mutants, freaks, and masterminds. An ongoing, episodic ''prose comic'' from which the pictures are summoned by the magic of words, Goon Squad is set in a version of modern-day Manchester...read more

"Howard's characters, relentless imagination, twisting plotlines, and use of language make the Johannes Cabal series a real pleasure to read, and The Fear Institute is the best Cabal yet." ―Richard Kadrey, author of the Sandman Slim seriesBeyond the wall of sleep lies the Dreamlands. For countless millennia, they have been explored only by those philosophers, mystics, and poets with a certain detachment from mundane reality. Well, those halcyon days are over, beatniks.Johannes Cabal is coming.Cabal, a necromancer of some little infamy, is employed by the mysterious Fear Institute to lead an expedition into the Dreamlands to hunt and destroy the dread Phobic Animus, the very source of all the world's fear. Along the way, they will encounter witches, vile abominations, and far too many zebras.And, when they finally come close to their goal, Cabal will have to face his own nightmares. But for a man who communes easily with devils and the dead, surely there is nothing left to fear. . . .