Michael Gentry's Anchorhead is very good horror IF; the author has a nice feel for the challenges posed by the genre, and the game is consistently both scary and playable, no small feat.

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After slogging through pale Lovecraft imitations, someone finally gets it right.	Windows	Terrence Bosky (5239)
Captivating; very well-developed story and excellent attention to detail	DOS	Mirrorshades2k (275)

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Written by:

Michael S. Gentry

Beta‑Testers:

Joe Barlow, Dave Gatewood, David Gilbert, Brian Uri, Michael Kearns, Dennis Matheson, GD Brehm, Scott Forbes, Laurel Halbany, Karen Grogan, Brenna Murdock

Special Thanks:

Graham Nelson (for providing the programming language and the compiler), Andrew Plotkin (for helping me streamline the code), Irene Callaci (for reminding me to breathe when I hit the 64k limit), L. Ross Raszewski (for excellent suggestions on how to dodge it)

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