A traveller from an antique land

Fabled Lands LLP is undertaking to bring back into print all the gamebooks in the ‘80s and ‘90s written by me, Oliver Johnson, Jamie and Mark Smith. There’s about three dozen of them in all, and none of us have Jovian parentage, so it won’t be accomplished overnight. But in the course of the next six months you should at least see my four Virtual Reality books and another old-time gamebook series that we can't talk about yet, but that will also include a new prequel and maybe a new sequel that I have been specifically asked to note is not licensed to Fabled Lands LLP, so in other words we'll publish the old paperbacks of those but not the new books, if there are any. Hope that's completely clear.

This week, as an amuse-bouche to that feast of gamebook awesomeness, we’re releasing Oliver Johnson’s Curse of the Pharaoh. This has been out-of-print for over two decades. It was originally published in the Golden Dragon series, which also included Eye of the Dragon (which, judging by Mrs Giggles's uncompromising review there, I had better do some revision work on!) and The Lord of Shadow Keep. Egyptology is one of Oliver’s hobbies, so you can expect something a little bit more authentic than the usual mummy’s curse adventure.

Curse of the Pharaoh is on sale on Amazon now. And, if you played and enjoyed it back in the day, please go on over and give it a review. The only way we can keep doing these books is if the wider world starts to take notice of them, and there’s no better way to achieve that than by word of mouth.