The story is linear enough so it is easy to follow and not very difficult. This is of course heavily inspired by Lord of the Rings and Star Wars and I guess that's what attracted many young boys my age to the book series. It is a simple one: after the destruction of the monastery where he was studying to become a Kai master (some kind of priest/ninja/Jedi Knight) by the Darklords, destruction of which he is the sole survivor, Lone Wolf (the hero) takes the road to the capital city, to warn the king of the upcoming invasion. Very dark in fact.Īnyway, so I was fascinated by the title and the cover, enough so before I ended up reading/playing the book a few years later, its plot became the starting point of many make belief games my brothers, my friends and I were playing. A fat demonic creature plunging a dagger into the eye socket of a skull, a stream of blood running from it. Both the title and the image on the cover struck me then. In French the title was Les Maîtres des Ténèbres, translated The Lords of Darkness, a free translations of the Darklords of the series, who are the nemesis and the ancient evil the hero (played by the reader) fights. A friend of mine had it and I saw it on the table of his living room before going to school. I first played/read The Chasm of Doom, but it is Flight from the Dark that caught my attention. You see on the left the French cover of Flight from the Dark of the Lone Wolf saga, written by Joe Dever. Here is another nostalgic post about a gamebook from my childhood.
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