My friend, can your heart stand the shocking facts about Tales from Castle Balderstone?

See, EctoComp is an interactive fiction competition held every Hallowen. From 2018 to 2021 I entered each competition with an anthology text adventure featuring several tales from Castle Balderstone.

Every year, the most perversely talented authors of horror fiction meet at Castle Balderstone to terrify each other with their latest nerve-curdling stories. Every year, I am there too, because I wrote the scariest book in the English language back in 2012. And every year, from 2018 to 2021 at least, I have brought you along with me to Castle Balderstone, to hear these stories—indeed, to interact with them in a text adventure parser game format.

I think the original game in 2018 won first place, the second game in 2019 took third place, and the third game in 2020 took second place. "Even Some More Tales from Castle Balderstone" took first place in 2021, and that's because it's HUGE. AND ALSO VERY GOOD.