Indiana Jones and the Cult of the Mummy's Crypt

Indiana Jones: Find Your Fate #7

by R.L. Stine

By the author of "Goosebumps" and "99 Fear Street."
When two priceless mummies are stolen from the National Museum, it is your job to get them back. You travel with the intrepid Indiana Jones to Cairo, where an ancient cult has come back to life after a thousand years, but with a modern laboratory cats trained as vicious killers.
The mysterious pyramids hold other terrors. Deep within the maze of secret chambers and underground chasms, scorpions and snakes abound. And something else lurks in the shadows -- mummies that emerge from age-old tombs to walk the earth, hungry for human brains . . .

Genres: Gamebooks, Fiction, Young Adult

117 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 12, 1985

About the author

Robert Lawrence Stine known as R. L. Stine and Jovial Bob Stine, is an American novelist and writer, well known for targeting younger audiences. Stine, who is often called the Stephen King of children's literature, is the author of dozens of popular horror fiction novellas, including the books in the Goosebumps, Rotten School, Mostly Ghostly, The Nightmare Room and Fear Street series.

R. L. Stine began his writing career when he was nine years old, and today he has achieved the position of the bestselling children's author in history. In the early 1990s, Stine was catapulted to fame when he wrote the unprecedented, bestselling Goosebumps® series, which sold more than 250 million copies and became a worldwide multimedia phenomenon. His other major series, Fear Street, has over 80 million copies sold.

Stine has received numerous awards of recognition, including several Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards and Disney Adventures Kids' Choice Awards, and he has been selected by kids as one of their favorite authors in the NEA's Read Across America program. He lives in New York, NY.

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Reviews

[Erin *Proud Book Hoarder* · Rating 3 out of 5]

I don't have much patience for these as an adult, but loved them as a kid. Trying to clear them off my TBR pile, whcih has grown so large it's almost frightening. Stine wrote well with his wording choice as I followed down one journey. Having Indiana Jones at the time added in, especially considering it was about adventures and dangers and treasures and all that jazz, was a worthy touch for the decade it was written in. The choices are clever and the adventure fine, but again it's annoying to end one journey and forget the previous pages to try again where you made a 'wrong turn.' If they expect the reader to start all over again from the first page, then argh, really now? No age is that determined for long!

[Tym · Rating 3 out of 5]

It talks a lot about the pyramids etc but Iwent through 4 story lines and never left the museum ho-hum, oh and Indy isn't much of a fighter

[Jameson · Rating 3 out of 5]

I had no idea these existed. A choose your own adventure (knock off) starring Indiana Jones written by Mr. Fear Street himself? I would have devoured these as a kid. As an adult they seem a little ADHD-inducing. You have to make a choice on every single page. You barely have time to get into the story. Worse, there seemed to be no rhyme or reason to the choices since the outcomes depend on luck instead of wit. It wouldn’t have been much more difficult to make the choices depend on smarts instead. For instance, say there’s a grease fire: should you put it out with a pail of water or a fire extinguisher? Not, for instance: you’re being chased by thugs, should you turn left or right? More intelligence behind the choices and fewer choices would have been great. The smattering of drawings weren’t bad, the voice of Indy was on point, and all the traditional Indy elements were there, but I’m in no rush to get the others. The Curse of Horror Island will be difficult to resist, though.

[Ethan · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was a lot of fun and the pacing was pretty nonstop. A couple of the decisions quite abruptly ended the story and left me a little puzzled and the characterisation of Indy felt a little too Nathan Drake at times but it was a lot of fun and the role of the protagonist was nicely left without much character or a gender being mentioned so was very easy to get lost in it unlike other chose your fate books I’ve read.

[Andrew Overbye · Rating 2 out of 5]

Yo R.L. did not feel like going to work the day he wrote this one.

[Tonk82 · Rating 2 out of 5]

Los libro-juego que la editorial Toray publicó, basados en Indiana Jones, son en general bastante agradables de leer.

Este en concreto ocurre en Egipto y con momias vivientes. Interpretas a un niño que acompaña a Indy en sus aventuras, y acabas tomando casi todas las decisiones por él. Tiene buenas ilustraciones y en general las opciones no están mal pensadas.

Tiene un un tono aventurero bien llevado, Indiana Jones es bastante fiel, y en general se hace todo bastante divertido. Lo peor, de largo, es que las historias pueden diferir tanto entre si que cuesta ver en el libro algo de coherencia de fondo, sobre todo en su segunda mitad. Algunas muertes son bastante imprevistas, además.