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John Howard was born in London. His fiction has appeared in several anthologies and the collections The Silver Voices , Written by Daylight , and Cities and Thrones and Powers . The majority of his stories have central and eastern European settings; many are set in the fictional Romanian town of Steaua de Munte. The Defeat of Grief is a novella set in Steaua de Munte and the real Black Sea resort of Balcic; Numbered as Sand or the Stars attempts a 'secret history' of Hungary between the World Wars.

Between 2003 and 2007 John Howard collaborated on eight short stories with Mark Valentine, six of which featured Valentine’s long-running series character The Connoisseur, an occult detective whose real name is never revealed. All 23 tales of The Connoisseur, including the collaborations, were reprinted in The Collected Connoisseur .

Secret Europe is a collection jointly written with Mark Valentine comprising 25 short stories set in a variety of real and fictional European locations. Ten of the stories are by Howard and fifteen by Valentine.

John Howard has written articles for numerous magazines including Book and Magazine Collector, Supernatural Tales, Wormwood, Studies in Australian Weird Fiction, and All Hallows. He contributed essays to the Fritz Leiber special issue of Fantasy Commentator and to the books Black Prometheus: A Critical Study of Karl Edward Wagner , Fritz Leiber: Critical Essays , and The Man Who Collected Psychos: Critical Essays on Robert Bloch , all edited by Benjamin Szumskyj.

John Howard also wrote the introduction to the Ash-Tree Press edition of Francis Brett Young’s classic 1924 horror novel Cold Harbour .

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John Howard

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Books from John Howard

The Collected Connoisseur

All Souls' Night

Secret Europe

Cinnabar's Gnosis

Pagan Triptych

Infra Noir

Splendid in Ash

Buried Shadows

Sacrum Regnum II

The Gift of the Kos'mos Cometh! A Homage to Night and Kosmos

The Silver Voices

Transactions of the Flesh: A Homage to Joris-Karl Huysmans

Written by Daylight

Intimations of Death

This Spectacular Darkness: Critical Essays

And the Whore is This Temple

Strange Tales

Romances of the White Day

The Defeat of Grief

Inner Europe