The Fear Institute

The third novel in theacclaimed cult-favorite series starring necromancer Johannes Cabal
Johannes Cabal and hisrather inexact powers of necromancy are back once more. This time, his talentsare purchased by the Fear Institute as they hunt for the phobic animus-theembodiment of fear. The three institute members, led by Cabal and his silver key, enter the Dreamlands and find themselves pursued by walking trees plaguedwith giant ticks, stone men that patrol the ruins of their castles, cats thatfeed on human flesh, and phobias that torment and devastate. The intrepidexplorers are killed off one by one as they traipse through this obfuscatingand frustrating world, where history itself appears to alter. Cabal, annoyedthat 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.