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	Title: (Critically Speaking...Multi-Systems) The Lurking Horror
	Source: Computer Entertainer, v6(3)
	Date: June 1987
	Transcription by Steve Derby
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**THE LURKING HORROR (NA/⭐⭐⭐⭐)** is a departure for ***<u>Infocom</u>***
and the story's author, Dave Lebling: a modern horror story inspired
by the works of H.P. Lovecraft and Stephen King. You are cast as a
student at the mythical G.U.E. Tech (modeled losely on M.I.T., the
training ground of so many Infocom authors). Late on a snowy night,
you are working on a term paper which is due the next day when you
seem to slip into a dream state. From that point, reality and fantasy
blend, and a strange force seems to lure you downard into the
catacomb passages of the G.U.E. basements. There you meet the dread
creatures of your worst nightmares. Unknown horrors hide in every
corner, but you must explore them all and solve the clever puzzles. The
descriptions are so vivid that you may have a few nightmares of your
own! The tension builds and explodes -- and then builds again. This is
irresistibly heady stuff, especially for anyone who enjoys reading
horror stories. No horror story you read in a book could ever be quite
as alive in your mind as this one that seems to be happening to you.
(Solo play; Keyboard; Blank disk required.) Available for Amiga,
Apple II, Atari ST, Atari XE/XL, C64/128, IBM, Macintosh.

**Recommended** (MSR $39.95 except Atari XE/XL, C64/128 at
$34.95)
