Howl of the Werewolf

Infobox Fighting Fantasy book


caption=The cover of "Howl of the Werewolf" illustrated by Martin McKenna
location=Old World, Titan
references=515
authors=Jonathan Green
illustrator=Martin McKenna
coverillustrator=N/A
year=N/A
number=N/A
ISBN=N/A
wcoverillustrator=Martin McKenna
wyear=2007
wnumber=29
wISBN=ISBN 1-84046-838-6

"Howl of the Werewolf" (ISBN 1-84046-838-6) is a single-player roleplaying gamebook written by Jonathan Green and illustrated by Martin McKenna. It was published in 2007 by Wizard Books. It forms part of Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone's Fighting Fantasy series. It is the 29th in the Wizard series. It will be the first completely original Fighting Fantasy gamebook published by Wizard ("Eye of the Dragon" is an extended version of the adventure from Ian Livingstone's earlier book "Dicing with Dragons"). The book is made up of 515 references rather than the usual 400.

Story

At one point the book's listing on Amazon.co.uk described it as '"Fighting Fantasy" meets "American Werewolf" in London!'.

Setting

The book's setting of Lupravia is another of the principalities of Mauristatia, like Mortvania which featured in the previous Fighting Fantasy book "Vault of the Vampire". [cite web
url=http://www.fightingfantasygamebooks.com/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=1821&view=findpost&p=50772
title=Post by Jonathan Green on the official Fighting Fantasy website forums]

Creation

Although the book was only written recently, Green had conceived the idea before the cancellation of the series by Puffin Books. [cite web
url=http://uk.geocities.com/amylaseff/letter-jg.html
title=Letter from Jonathan Green on the AMYLASE website] Green came up with the premise, the name of the book, the beginning of the story and the very end, along with a few background details years at this earlier time, but came up with the majority of the ideas in the book when he began plotting it in 2006. [cite web
url=http://www.fightingfantasygamebooks.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=1821&st=90&p=53494&#
title=Post by Jonathan Green on the official Fighting Fantasy website forums]

In writing the book, Green wanted to create an adventure that drew on the mythology and folklore surrounding werewolves, having found that their previous appearances in Fighting Fantasy took the form of shallow side-encounters. [cite web
url=http://www.fightingfantasygamebooks.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=1821&st=0&p=50737&#
title=Post by Jonathan Green on the official Fighting Fantasy website forums] Green has stated that he took the criticisms of his previous work on the official Fighting Fantasy website forums into account when writing "Howl of the Werewolf". [cite web
url=http://www.fightingfantasygamebooks.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=1473&st=225&p=54553&#
title=Post by Jonathan Green on the official Fighting Fantasy website forums] The procedure for creating a character in "Howl of the Werewolf" is somewhat different than for previous Fighting Fantasy books.

See also

* Fighting Fantasy
* List of Fighting Fantasy gamebooks

References

* cite web
title=Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks on gamebooks.org
url=http://www.gamebooks.org/show_series.php?id=11
* cite web
title=Howl of the Werewolf on gamebooks.org
url=http://www.gamebooks.org/show_item.php?id=7516Official sites:
* cite web
title=Howl of the Werewolf on the official Fighting Fantasy website
url=http://www.fightingfantasygamebooks.com/ff29.htm
* cite web
title=Howl of the Werewolf on the Wizard Books website
url=http://www.iconbooks.co.uk/wizard/wbook.cfm?isbn=978-184046838-0