House of Hell 2910437 215453129 2008-05-28T07:39:08Z DOI bot 6652755 Citation maintenance. You can [[WP:DOI|use this bot]] yourself! Please [[User:DOI_bot/bugs|report any bugs]]. {{Infobox Fighting Fantasy book 2covers| |image1=[[Image:houseofhell.jpg|150px]] |caption1=The original cover of ''House of Hell'' illustrated by Ian Miller |image2=[[Image:Ff7wizard.jpg|150px]] |caption2=The Wizard cover of ''House of Hell'' illustrated by Nicholas Halliday |location=[[Earth]] |references=400 |authors=[[Steve Jackson (UK)|Steve Jackson]] |illustrator=Tim Sell |coverillustrator=Ian Miller |year=1984 |number=10 |ISBN=ISBN 0-14-031831-3 |wcoverillustrator=Nicholas Halliday |wyear=2002 |wnumber=7 |wISBN=ISBN 1-84046-417-8 }} '''''House of Hell''''' is a single-player roleplaying gamebook written by [[Steve Jackson (UK)|Steve Jackson]], illustrated by Tim Sell and originally published in 1984 by Puffin Books. It was later republished by Wizard Books in 2002. It forms part of [[Steve Jackson (UK)|Steve Jackson]] and [[Ian Livingstone]]'s [[Fighting Fantasy]] series. It is the 10th in the series in the original Puffin series (ISBN 0-14-031831-3) and 7th in the modern Wizard series (ISBN 1-84046-417-8). The US version of the book, published by Dell Laurel-Leaf, was titled ''House of Hades'' as the word 'Hell' can be considered a profanity there. == Creation == A short version of the adventure was first published in [[Warlock (magazine)|Warlock: The Fighting Fantasy Magazine]]. It was made up of 185 references. The adventure was expanded for the final book but a few of the original references were removed. == Story == {{Quotation|''Stranded miles from anywhere on a dark and stormy night, your only hope of refuge is the strange, ramshackle mansion you can see in the distance...''<br /><br />''But entering the House of Hell hurls you into an adventure of spine-chilling and blood-curdling terror. The dangers of the torrential storm outside are nothing compared to the nightmarish creatures that await you within its gruesome walls.''<br /><br />''Be warned! You must try to keep your fear under control - collect too many FEAR points and you will die of fright. Can you make it through the night without being scared - ''to death''?''}} ''House of Hell'' is a horror themed book, and the only Fighting Fantasy book set on modern day Earth. The player's car breaks down during a rain storm, forcing the player to seek shelter in a nearby mansion. Though this is the only Fighting Fantasy book to employ this type of setting, books such as ''[[Beneath Nightmare Castle]]'' use the horror theme in the more common fantasy setting of [[Titan (Fighting Fantasy)|Titan]]. The player's quest to escape the mansion is hampered by the presence of [[Satanism|Satan-worshippers]] and various demons, though not all are entirely hostile. Much of the gameplay involves searching a series of rooms, most of which bears an obscure religious or satanic titles, including the [[Shaitan]] Room and the [[Mammon]] room. If the reader is to be successful, he must recover a hellfire-forged [[kris]] dagger and survive an encounter with the house's Master. == Rules == ''House of Hell'' uses a Fear score in addition to the usual scores. Every time the player encounters some particularly disturbing event, he must add between 1 and 3 Fear points to his total Fear score. Once the character reaches their maximum score, determined at the beginning of the game, he will quite literally die of fright. As the book is set on modern day Earth, the reader is unarmed at the start of the book and suffers a Skill penalty until they find a weapon. == See also == * [[Fighting Fantasy]] * [[List of Fighting Fantasy gamebooks]] == References == <div class="references-small"> * {{cite web | title=Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks on gamebooks.org | url=http://www.gamebooks.org/show_series.php?id=11}} * {{cite web | title=House of Hell on gamebooks.org | url=http://www.gamebooks.org/show_item.php?id=47}} * {{cite web | title=House of Hell on the Internet Archive record of the old fightingfantasy.com site | url=http://web.archive.org/web/20051127132124/www.fightingfantasy.com/ffb10.htm}} Official sites: * {{cite web | title=House of Hell on the official Fighting Fantasy website | url=http://www.fightingfantasygamebooks.com/ff7.htm}} * {{cite web | title=House of Hell on the Wizard Books website | url=http://www.iconbooks.co.uk/wizard/wbook.cfm?isbn=1-84046-417-8}} Magazines: * {{cite journal | year = 1985 | month = June | title = Open Box | journal = White Dwarf | issue = 66 | pages = 6–7 }} </div> {{DEFAULTSORT:House of Hell}} [[Category:1984 books]] [[Category:Books by Steve Jackson]] [[Category:Fighting Fantasy]] [[fr:Le Manoir de l'Enfer]] [[pt:Mansão das Trevas]]