Johannes Cabal the Necromancer is a 2009 supernatural fiction and black comedy novel written by Jonathan L. Howard.

It is the first book of an ongoing series chronicling the ventures of Johannes Cabal, a necromancer of some little infamy.

His goal has always been to completely restore the dead to their previous living state, but Cabal has now found that his lack of a soul is standing in the way of his research.

[1][2][3] The Wisconsin State Journal was mixed in their opinion, as they felt that the work had some initial promise but "loses a bit of steam partway through".

[4] AudioFile praised the audiobook narration by Christopher Cazenove, who they felt "delivers a wickedly clever, macabre tale of horror and suspense.