The novelization I encountered was written by the series’ creator, Jane Jensen, and it was a faithful adaptation-maybe too faithful. It’s a nice bit of gothic pulp with a dash of Dan Brown in a genre that mostly stuck to comedy or grab bags of bargain-basement fantasy tropes. Gabriel researches the occult history of New Orleans, and starts to uncover a conspiracy while simultaneously learning about his own family’s history with the occult. It’s a dark, moody point-and-click adventure game about a charming writer researching a string of recent voodoo murders for his book.
The game is a classic with a certain crowd.
In those stacks of self-help prescriptions and new age bibles there was another paper pulp refugee: I found the novelization of Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers.
If I wanted books, I had to wait until the mall’s bi-monthly book fair, so I never got what was new or interesting, just what nobody else wanted. When I was about 10, the mall’s bookstore closed down and nothing opened in its place.
