

Johannes Cabal the Detective, Doubleday, 2010

“The House of Gears,” in Fantasy Magazine, April 2011 Johannes Cabal the Necromancer, Anchor, 2009 “Johannes Cabal and the Blustery Day,” in H.P. “The Ereshkigal Working,” in The Way of the Wizard (ed. As a guide, the chronology is probably best described as follows: There is a chronology, although not an utterly rigid one, at least not as far as the short stories go. As the author of a series, do you think about chronology when writing shorts like “House of Gears”? If so, where does “House of Gears” fit?

Your story, “The House of Gears,” has as its protagonist Johannes Cabal, “a necromancer of some little infamy.” Herr Cabal is also the, um, “hero” of your two published novels and upcoming third, as well as several other short stories. Howard to tell us a bit about the background for his story for Fantasy Magazine, “ The House of Gears.” In this Author Spotlight, we asked author Jonathan L.
