Johannes Cabal has never pretended to be a hero of any kind. There is, after all, little heroic about robbing graves and selling your soul to the Devil. All routine inconveniences, however, when your business is raising the dead. But now Cabal wants his soul back and he descends to Hell to retrieve it.

The third novel in this fantastic new series, a must for fans of Terry Pratchett and Tim Burton

A charmingly gothic, fiendishly funny Faustian tale about a brilliant scientist who makes a deal with the Devil, twice.
Johannes Cabal sold his soul years ago in order to learn the laws of necromancy. Now he wants it back. Amused and slightly bored, Satan proposes a little wager: Johannes has to persuade one hundred people to sign over their souls or he will be damned forever. This time for real. Accepting the bargain, Jonathan is given one calendar year and a traveling carnival to complete his task. With little time to waste, Johannes raises a motley crew from the dead and enlists his...