The Howl of the Werewolf heard in Finland

Howl of the Werewolf, by Jonathan Green, is published today for the first time in Finnish, by Epic Ermine. Just in time for Halloween.

Only a fool would willingly enter Lupravia, a bleak realm of hungry predators. But you're on your way there because you have no other choice. 

You have been the target of a giant wolf's rage and now you feel strange powers growing inside you. The werewolf's curse will turn you into a beast among beasts unless you find a cure before the next full moon.

Will you be able to save yourself in a land ruled by darkness, where everyone trembles at the sound of the werewolf's chilling howl?

In this book, YOU are the hero. All you need is a pencil and an eraser - and you're ready for adventure. You decide which route you take, which creatures you fight, and which deadly trials to undertake. This gamified, interactive book will captivate even those who are otherwise not interested in reading. The book has enough alternative storylines for multiple playthroughs. And the book's stunning illustrations are by world-renowned artist Martin McKenna.

With the publication of Ihmissuden Kirous, Howl of the Werewolf is now available in six different languages - English, Portuguese, French, Spanish, Danish, and Finnish.

If you are a Finnish fan of Fighting Fantasy gamebooks, or a hardcore collector, you can pick up a copy of Ihmissuden Kirous here.

Fighting Fantasy in Spain

The Fighting Fantasy series is available in Spain again, courtesy of Celaeno Books.

So far, the publisher has released four titles - two classics - The Warlock of Firetop Mountain and Return to Firetop Mountain - and the two titles that marked 40 years of FF in the UK - Shadow of the Giants and Secrets of Salamonis.

If you are a Spanish speaker, or a hardcore collector, you can buy the Spanish language editions here.

Fighting Fantasy at Fantasy Festival

This weekend, the town of Esbjerg in Denmark will be taken over by Fantasy Festival 2026, and Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks will be there!

Danish games publisher Faraos Cigarer has been releasing translations of Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks under the Sværd og Trolddom banner for several years now. There are currently 22 titles in print, including Steve Jackson's Sorcery! quartet...

and many of Sir Ian Livingstone's newest titles, such as The Port of Peril, Assassins of Allansia, Shadow of the Giants, and The Dungeon on Blood Island.

Faraos Cigarer will be launching the newest entry in the Sværd og Trolddom range - Night of the Necromancer - at Fantasy Festival, and the book's author, Jonathan Green, will be one of the Guests of Honour in attendance.

GENFÆRDETS HÆVN! - Night of the Necromancer

Fantasy Festival opens at 10:00am Saturday 19th September, and from 2:45pm-3:30pm on that day, Jonathan will be talking to Morten Gottschalck in the Theater Hall, at the Music Hall Esbjerg, which will be followed by a signing at the gamebook stall in the foyer.

On Sunday 20th September, Jonathan will join Morten Gottschalck for the Fantasy Quiz, in the Meeting Hall at the Music Hall Esbjerg. This will again be followed by a signing at the gamebook stall in the foyer.

So, if you are attending Fantasy Festival this weekend, you know what to do.

Starship Traveller - Turn to 400!

Starship Traveller was recently published in Danish, by Faraos Cigarer, with a new translation by Morten Gottschalck.

However, Morten didn't just translate the Steve Jackson-penned adventure - he also added 60 sections to the adventure to take the total count up to 400. Here's Morten to tell you more about it...

Night of the Necromancer is coming to Denmark

Genfærdets hævn, the Danish translation of Jonathan Green's Night of the Necromancer, is currently live on Kickstarter.

If the crowdfunding campaign is a success, the translation - by Morten Gottschalck - will be published by Faraos Cigarer.

If you are a Danish speaker, or a dedicated Fighting Fantasy collector, you can pledge your support to the crowdfunding campaign here.

You can view the FF adventures already in print in Denmark here.

40 years of Sword of the Samurai

40 years ago today, Sword of the Samurai was published for the first time.

Written by Mark Smith and Jamie Thomson*, the twentieth book in the series presented readers with the Fighting Fantasy version of Japan, in the form of the mystical land of Hachiman**.

The hero of the adventure is a young Samurai, Kensei, who is tasked with recovering the Dai-Katana - the Shogun’s great sword - which has been stolen by Ikiru, the Master of Shadows, who dwells deep in the Pit of Demons.

“At the time, the whole Samurai/Ninja thing was big and breaking out of the niche world it was in, into the bigger niche of gamebooks and RPGs, which had become substantially more popular than they had been for a long time,” says Thomson. “Still a niche, compared to cinema and even games like Monopoly and stuff, but a big niche.”

Sword of the Samurai was only the second time that Alan Langford had appeared on internal art duties at the time, while Peter Andrew Jones contributed his first cover since Talisman of Death***.

“I’ve been fascinated with the East ever since I read a book called The Earth is the Lord's by Taylor Caldwell,” says Langford. “It’s about the early life of Genghis Khan – Temujin – and that fired up my interest. The other source is Kubla Khan, and that was illustrated by Frank Frazetta. So Sword of the Samurai was quite an interesting job for me to do.”

Sword of the Samurai was translated into numerous languages, including Bulgarian, Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese****, and, appropriately enough, Japanese.

We already know that Fighting Fantasy is big in Japan, but it is even bigger now that YOU ARE THE HERO: An Interactive History of Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks has been published in Japanese.

* Who had previously worked together on Talisman of Death.

** Which Marc Gascogine would later make part of Khul.

*** The Wizard Books' edition featured cover art by Mel Grant.

**** Sword of the Samurai - or A Espada do Samurai - is still in print in Brazil.

Sir Ian Livingstone at Budapest Comic Con

At the weekend, Sir Ian Livingstone was in Hungary, appearing at Budapest Comic Con 2026.

While he was there, as well as hanging out with the team from Chameleon Comix, who publish Fighting Fantasy in Hungarian...

...Sir Ian also met Krisztián Balla, who illustrated The Dungeon on Blood Island...

...and László Arpad, the talented illustrator behind the Qatlas Fighting Fantasy solution maps.

Sir Ian's Saturday signing session was a record in that it took over 8 hours, virtually non-stop, for him to sign everyone's books!

Adventures on Blood Island

Incredibly, it is over 18 months since Sir Ian Livingstone's latest Fighting Fantasy gamebook was launched at Fighting Fantasy Fest 5.

The Dungeon on Blood Island took adventurers back to Lard Carnuss' private, offshore, holiday hangout and sent them into a labyrinth filled with savage creatures and deadly traps.

The prize on offer was the fabled Golden Orb of Fang, if only the brave adventurer who found it could then also escape from the dungeon alive.​​​

Illustrations from The Dungeon on Blood Island, by Krisztián Balla.

Since then, The Dungeon on Blood Island has been published in Danish and Hungarian, by Faraos Cigarer and Chameleon Comix respectively.

So, speakers of which language will be given the dubious pleasure of exploring The Dungeon on Blood Island next?

Adventures Overseas

The latest Fighting Fantasy gamebooks to be given a glow up by Gallimard in France are Sir Ian Livingstone's Eye of the Dragon and Steve Jackson's* Scorpion Swamp.

Both feature brand new cover art by Regis Torres, and they look suitably threatening as well as fantastic.

The Pool Beast from Le Marais aux Scorpions
by Regis Torres.

The Two-Headed Troll from L'Œil d'Émeraude**
by Regis Torres.

To add these books to your collection click on the cover images above.

* The US Steve Jackson.

** The Emerald Eye.

Sir Ian Livingstone to attend Comic Con Portugal 2026

Sir Ian Livingstone will be in Santa Maria da Feira on 25th April, to attend Comic Con Portugarl 2026. To find out more, follow this link.

Portuguese publisher Porto Editora reissued the Fighting Fantasy collection in Portugal in 2025, where it is historically known as Aventuras Fantásticas. The first reissued titles, O Feiticeiro da Montanha de Fogo and A Masmorra Inferna, are already available in bookstores, with A Cidade dos Ladrões joining them this year.

Starship Traveller - Turn to 400!

When it was first published back in 1983, Steve Jackson's Starship Traveller was notable for two reasons. (1) It was the Fighting Fantasy series' first foray into science fiction, and (2) it was the first FF gamebook not to have 400 sections.

But now, Danish gamebook author Morten Gottschalck has extended the adventure, with the full permission and approval of Steve Jackson and the FF team, so that it has 400 sections.

There is currently a crowdfunding campaign running on Kickstarter to publish this revised edition in  Danish, but it would seem likely that, if it funds, when Steve Jackson Games come to publish Starship Traveller in the US again, there could be an English language edition of the extended adventure as well.

If you would like to support the Kickstarter, follow this link. And to support the current Steve Jackson Games Fighting Fantasy Kickstarter campaign, click this link.

La Guerre de la Dent-du-Troll

Available now from Scriptarium is the French translation of The Trolltooth Wars graphic novel - La Guerre de la Dent-du-Troll.

La Guerre de la Dent-du-Troll first went on sale at the French RPG and Games convention OctoGônes in Lyon last month. As you can imagine, it went down a storm!

Translated from the graphic novel by Gavin Mitchell and PJ Montgomery by Fabienne Berganz, as with other Scriptarium-related FF products, the French edition includes some bonus material.

There is an illustrated Archives de l'Allansia section written by Florent Haro, an interview with Steve Jackson, and another with PJ Montgormery, who wrote the script for the graphic novel, while Gavin Mitchell, drew, inked, coloured, and lettered it.

A spread from La Guerre de la Dent-du-Troll.

Archives de l'Allansia.

If you would like to buy a copy of La Guerre de la Dent-du-Troll, you can do so via Scriptarium's online store, where you will also find the French edition of the Advanced Fighting Fantasy book Blacksand, Le Port du Sable Noir, which has been adapted and expanded with information from other official sources.

Fighting Fantasy finally returns to Finland!

Available in Finnish for the first time are The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, Return to Firetop Mountain, and Deathtrap Dungeon.

Published by Epic Ermine, the three Fighting Fantasy gamebooks were launched at the  Helsinki Book Fair, on 23rd October 2025.

Finnish fans and hardcore collectors can buy the books here.

Warehouse Delivery

Exciting news from Steve Jackson Games in America... they have recently taken delivery of the new US editions of the Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks.

Watch this space for more news soon!