The Fear Institute
The Johannes Cabal Novels, Book 3
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Nicholas Guy Smith
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The third novel in the acclaimed cult-favorite series starring necromancer Johannes Cabal.
Johannes Cabal and his rather inexact powers of necromancy are back once more. This time, his talents are purchased by the Fear Institute as they hunt for the phobic animus - the embodiment of fear. The three institute members, led by Cabal and his silver key, enter the Dreamlands and find themselves pursued by walking trees plagued with giant ticks, stone men that patrol the ruins of their castles, cats that feed on human flesh, and phobias that torment and devastate. The intrepid explorers are killed off one by one as they traipse through this obfuscating and frustrating world, where history itself appears to alter. Cabal, annoyed that the quest is becoming increasingly heroic, finds himself alone with the institute's only remaining survivor, and after a shockingly violent experiment, begins to suspect that not everything is quite as it seems.
©2011 Jonathan L. Howard (P)2014 Blackstone Audio, Inc., and Skyboat Media, Inc.What listeners say about The Fear Institute
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- benjamin
- 09-09-20
Must Listen!! Funny and captivating
I loved this book, loved the flow of the story.
I would recommend 100%
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- Rachel Ward
- 12-04-24
Too funny
If you love HP Lovecraft and Douglas Adams you will adore Johanas Cabal’s own Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath. The descriptive writing is unmissabley Adamsesque and the story is pure Lovcraftian, with a twist. Absolutely delightful!
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- Tomas O'CONNELL
- 14-02-23
Terrific story.
A real anti hero you can get behind, even knowing he is an absolute swine, with occasional redeeming behaviours, and a habitually brilliant adventurer. Too clever by half and knowing it. The story is deep, and criss crossing, folded and complex, but the plot carries you effortlessly along with it. The writing is excellent and lots of fun, the reference to supernatural mythos and the thick helping of Lovecraftian lore has its tongue firmly in its cheek - as does the whole story, but is flawlessly done, and simultaneously chilling very funny and touching at times. Great piece of work. I look forward to the next book - and am curious to see if I have guessed the identity of the mysterious character appearing at the end of this story. Well worth it and the narration was just perfectly pitched, excellent job.
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- Bob
- 03-12-21
Fascinating yarn well performed
Nicholas Guy Smith did an excellent performance.
I picked this up as a free offer from Audible and really enjoyed it. Some real humour and a decent pace. Fantastic scene setting. All round entertaining
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- Arcady
- 11-09-24
Fantastic story and performance
This is a really engaging story with a memorable main character. The performance is absolutely spot on.
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- Amazon Customer
- 20-01-22
Brilliant! Witty and clever. Highly recommend!
Really enjoyed this creative story of dark humour and unexpected twists and turns. Very original and well written. The performance is excellent and I'm launching straight into the next book now... Enjoy!
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- Catherine🧡
- 29-08-22
entertaining story. and perfect narration. thanks
What a brilliant story, I was completly absorbed from the start. Characters dialogue, setting all worked for me, I've listened to a few Johannes cabal books, this is my favourite so far ,
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- SARAH
- 18-10-21
Kept getting lost!
Found the story hard to follow, lots of jumping about and if I lost concentration for a few seconds he was in a completely different place and I had no idea how he got there! The narrator has a nice voice but so many words were pronounced wrong it was driving me nuts, especially "prehaps" instead of perhaps, "follongs" (phalanges?) and tiara rhyming with Sierra. Made me realise just how often the word perhaps is used in this book. I think this is one I have to read rather than listen to, to have any idea what's going on.
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- SAQ
- 09-11-22
Excellent
Love this anti hero and book series, Flashman meets Terry Pratchett . The narrator was fantastic.
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- JimboJames
- 07-06-22
loved it
I do not usually read this type of book, but found it very interesting, humourous and thoroughly enjoyable.
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