The first of three Endless Quest books by Bruce Algozin (and not the best of them), in this book you play Eric, a young wizard apprentice, and son of a wizard yourself. As the gamebook starts, you find your father has been the victim of an attack and a robbery.

However, the attacker wasn’t just a normal thief, but an evil lich who stole your dad’s spellbook. So, as you can imagine your mission is to retrieve the spellbook from Castle Necropolis (what an original name!). In this quest you have the help of Pnimm, a kind of homunculus which at first looks like a halfling or nome, but really is magically created and very annoying.

I only had access to the Spanish version of this to read, and that is a very different experience from reading the English (a Lich is a “Wandering Corpse” for example) so it’s a bit hard to judge this in terms of literary quality, these were the kinds of book that didn’t really hire the most expert translators. Still there’s some fun and creepy art in this one, with cover by Jeff Easley and interiors by Jim Roslof, with some cool illustrations of monsters like an intellect devourer, owlbears and plenty of undead.