Dave Morris (born in 1957) is a British gamebook author of the 1980s and 1990s. He is most famous for the Fabled Lands series, but also wrote the Virtual Reality, Blood Sword, Dragon Warriors and Golden Dragon series, as well as penning a single Fighting Fantasy gamebook (The Keep of the Lich Lord) and a number of combination novella/gamebooks related to the Knightmare TV series. A gamebook is a book with a branching plot that serves as a medium for gameplay. ... Fabled Lands is the name of a series of fantasy gamebooks written by established gamebook authors Dave Morris and Jamie Thomson and published by Pan Books, a division of Macmillan in the mid 90s. ... Blood Sword is a series of Gamebooks created by Oliver Johnson and Dave Morris. ... Dragon Warriors is a fantasy role playing game system written by Dave Morris and Oliver Johnson and published by Corgi Books between the years 1985 and 1986. ... For a list of Fighting Fantasy media, see List of Fighting Fantasy gamebooks Fighting Fantasy is a series of single-player role-playing gamebooks created by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone, originally published by Puffin and now by Wizard Books. ... Keep of the Lich Lord is a single-player roleplaying gamebook written by Dave Morris and Jamie Thomson, illustrated by David Gallagher and originally published in 1990 by Puffin Books. ... For other uses, see Knightmare (disambiguation). ...

Morris rarely worked alone on gamebooks; most of his creations were co-authored with other gamebook writers, usually Jamie Thomson (Fabled Lands and The Keep of the Lich Lord) or Oliver Johnson (Blood Sword, Dragon Warriors and Golden Dragon).He has worked successfully with many illustrators including Russ Nicholson, Leo Hartas, and Martin McKenna. Jamie Thomson is the author of several choose-your-own-adventure type gamebooks. ... Russ Nicholson is a talented British illustrator, best known for his work on Fighting Fantasy books and numerous Games Workshop products, most notably for Warhammer Fantasy Battle, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay and Warhammer 40,000. ...

He is an alumnus of Magdalen College, Oxford. College name Magdalen College Latin name Collegium Beatae Mariae Magdalenae Named after Mary Magdalene Established 1458 Sister college Magdalene College, Cambridge President Professor David Clary FRS JCR President Jessica Jones Undergraduates 395 MCR President Eloise Scotford Graduates 230 Location of Magdalen College within central Oxford , Homepage Boatclub Magdalen College (pronounced...

He is also notable for having a more poetic writing style than most other gamebook authors at the time. Poetry (ancient Greek: poieo = create) is an art form in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content. ...

Morris also co-authored a book on the computer gaming industry.

In addition to his writing, Morris was a leading developer of the Empire of the Petal Throne gaming system (created by MAR Barker and published by TSR), creating a playable rules system (Tirikelu) was well as editing a superior fanzine (Eye of All-Seeing Wonder).

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• List of books by Dave Morris