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Alone Against the Flames

August 26, 2024

YOU become the star of the movie The Wicker Man, more or less. You catch the bus to Ossipee, on your way to Arkham for a new job. It’s not exactly wide eyes full of hope, but it’s a change. As is the way of horror stories, the bus breaks down and leaves you at […]

The Darkness Over Arkham

July 8, 2024

YOU become caught up in a murder when you find a professor’s notebook carelessly left at a diner. When you bring it to the Miskatonic University to return it, you find the professor dead and are usually accused of the murder. A prophecy-poem and a trail of other professors missing, drives you to keep investigating. […]

The House on Sentinel Hill

August 29, 2022

YOU become the investigator … Review and Opinion Errors Maps Publication Written by Graham Plowman Illustrated by XXX 2022 Other Players and Links Graham Plowman’s webite – HoSH and atmospheric music

Legend of the Shadow Warriors

January 5, 2022

YOU become the hero but much too late to save the town of Karnstein from being destroyed by the Seven Golden Vampires ancient and mythical Shadow Warriors. But the stakes are higher than just one town – the entire web of life is threatened by mankind’s plundering of the environment, causing the earth itself to […]

Creature of Havoc

April 23, 2021

YOU become the monster in the dungeon, killing hapless intruders into your dungeon home and feasting on their flesh. In particular, you have a fondness for hobbit meat, especially still warm. Your actions are random and thoughtless until you stumble across a vial of fog, the Vapor of Reason, and gain free will. Now you […]

Highway to Hell

January 16, 2020

YOU become Jimmy El Camino, and you are no hero. Jimmy El Camino was an angry boy with a taste for blood. He stayed that way as a soldier in Desert Storm and beyond, until his drinking got him kicked out. A string of broken-up relationships, a fancy car that he wrecked for fun. Then […]

Can You Survive the Zombie Apocalypse?

YOU become zombie food nine times out of ten. It’s Monday morning, 9am, in Manhattan. A boring work meeting is suddenly interrupted by The Zombie Apocalypse that’s all the rage in movies and media these days. Do you join the throngs of people trying to flee the city, or do you hole up in your […]

Other Gamebooks

April 15, 2019

There are more gamebooks beyond the big-name series that attracted me! They’re even being written nowadays, in a variety of genres. How cool is that? Freeway Warrior by Joe Dever Freeway Warrior is set in the futuristic year 2020, eight years after nuclear terrorism wrecked the world. You become a scout for a caravan on […]

Revenge of the Vampire

April 23, 2016

YOU became the hero of Mortvania back in FF38 Vault of the Vampire. Good job on killing the evil vampire lord who was terrorizing the land. But in true Hammer Films fashion, some blood dripped onto the ashes of Count Heydrich and he’s as good as new… and mad as hell. But this time he […]

Vault of the Vampire

March 25, 2016

YOU become the hero of Mortvania… Wait, what? Who names a place Mortvania? Oh, the vampire who runs the place. Yeah, the local Count is a vampire (aren’t they all?) and the village lives in terror as they’re sucked dry one by one. A sad story, but when you hear that the latest kidnapping was […]

The Keep of the Lich Lord

March 7, 2016

YOU become the hero of Stayng Island, when a necromancer named Mortis (of course) comes back from the dead, not only building an army of undead from the corpses of his victims, but also making deals with the local pirates to raise hell and pillage in addition to taking slaves to be turned into zombies. […]

House of Hell

August 20, 2015

YOU become a hapless chump when your car breaks down. In a move straight out of Rocky Horror Picture Show, you see a castle with a telephone line and go ask for help. Unfortunately, the castle is not populated with singing, dancing transexuals and transvestites (that’d be awesome), but a murderous earl and butler, a […]

Beneath Nightmare Castle

March 27, 2015

YOU become the hero of Neuberg, a peaceful town in Khul, ruled by your good friend Baron Tholdur. All is not well in Neuberg. On your way into town, you’re ambushed, knocked out, and locked in a cell. (an arrow to the knee?) And that’s where your adventure starts: tied up and in a cell. […]

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