The Hunter in the Shadows
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Joab is an avid tabletop RPG player and game master of horror, espionage, fantasy, and science fiction genres, including Savage Worlds (Mars, Deadlands, Agents of Oblivion, Apocalypse Prevention Inc, Herald: Tesla and Lovecraft, Thrilling Tales, and others), Call of Cthulhu, Lamentations of the Flame Princess, Pugmire, and Pathfinder.
Joab channeled his role-playing experiences in the Utgarda Series, which are pulp adventure novels with Lovecraftian influences set in the 1920’s.
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The Old Man’s Request
Book One of the Utgarda Series
Fifty years ago, a group of college friends dabbled in the occult and released a malign presence on the world. Now, on his deathbed, the last of the students, now a trustee of Reister University enlists the aid of three newcomers to banish the thing they summoned.
Russian anthropologist Anna Rykov, doctor Harry Lamb, and Father Sean O’Malley are all indebted the ailing trustee for their positions. Together, they pursue the knowledge and resources needed to perform the ritual.
Hampered by the old man’s greedy son, the wizened director of the university library, and a private investigator with a troubled past, can they perform the ritual and banish the entity?
The Old Man’s Request is a pulp adventure set in the 1920s, and the first book in the Utgarda Series.
Available in paperback and ebook formats, and as an Audible audiobook
The Missing Medium
Book Two of the Utgarda Series
While Father Sean O’Malley is summoned to Rome to discuss the “Longborough Affair” with his superiors, Russian anthropologist Anna Rykov and Doctor Harold Lamb travel to New York City where they encounter merchants, mobsters and madmen in pursuit of the spirit medium who advised their mentor shortly before the start of the whole adventure.
The Missing Medium is a pulp adventure set in the 1920s, and the second book in the Utgarda Series.
Available in paperback and ebook formats, and as an Audible audiobook
The Other Realm
Book Three of the Utgarda Series
Having discovered the location of Brian Teplow, Russian anthropologist Anna Rykov, doctor Harry Lamb, and Father Sean O’Malley travel to a secluded asylum to collect him.
But things are not so simple, and Anna must travel to the land of Teplow’s imagination to rescue him, where she finds a different world from the one suggested in the Missing Medium’s journals.
The Other Realm is a pulp adventure set in the 1920s, and the third book in the Utgarda Series.
Available in paperback and ebook formats, and as an Audible audiobook