Heroquest: The Singing Skull [Paperback]

Dave Morris (Author), Hasbro (Illustrator)

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Corgi (December 3, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0552527769
• ISBN-13: 978-0552527767
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,952,415 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Dave Morris is a bestselling author - in fact, he was 1990's top-selling author in the UK.

In addition to having written a string of adventure novels and role-playing gamebooks for older kids and young adults, he is also an award-winning videogame designer with two Top Ten hits to his name.

As a mentor in the American Film Institute digital content lab, he has worked with partners like NBC and Microsoft to create new forms of entertainment that fuse the best of traditional storytelling and interactivity. As a scriptwriter he has worked for the BBC, Endemol, Carlton, Pearson and Flextech.

All of these skills of drama, visual storytelling, interactive design and new media come together in his epic 900-page graphic novel saga Mirabilis, part-funded by Random House, which was launched in both digital and print media in early 2011.

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A must buy for fans of HQ, April 23, 2006

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is2000M915HE "Sam" (Americas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Heroquest: The Fellowship of Four (Paperback)

I bought this because I'm a fan of the game. Dave Morris is a very skilled writer and I like how each of the first 4 chapters introduced a specific character. First the leader of the group, Fortunato the Wizard, next chapter Eildonas the Elf who meets Fortunato, then Asgrim the Barbarian and finally Anvil the Dwarf. Morris gave the characters personality and dialogue, something which MB/GDW didn't in the game. The final two chapters are the battles with magic, orcs and zombies. It's only about 100-odd pages long, but there's another 60 pages of a "choose your own adventure" style quiz supplement. The later books in the series added HQ-style quizzes. If you don't have the game, I think you'd still enjoy this short novella, but if you like the game than I heartily recommend this so you know what the characters did before entering the dungeon and how they all met and came to be. 4 out of 5 as the endings seems a bit abrieviated and the story's pretty short.