Dead of Night by Jim Bambra and Stephen Hand

My brother recommended this one to me as an example of a good gamebook in the Fighting Fantasy series. YOU are a demon stalker!

What I liked about the opening is that you're heading back home to check up on your parents — not some princess in a distant tower, not your gendered sweetheart, not some random person you don't know but whose distress you intend to banish anyway.

Also, there's a special section just to provide explicit warnings about how cunning and deceitful demons can be, which immediately made me paranoid. It actually drew me more deeply into the story, because I accepted that premise and treated the threat as real. My decisions weren't made casually, but instead followed a Princess-Bride-Vizzini-esque train of thought.

So off I went to rescue the parentals. (I try to steer clear of spoilers, but have cut for length.)(...)
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