We Tell Stories: professionaly made interactive fiction from Penguin

March 21, 2008 2:39 PM

We Tell Stories is a new interactive fiction site from Penguin with 6 stories based on Penguin Classics. The first story online is The 21 Steps by Charles Cumming, based on Buchan's classic thriller The Thirty-Nine Steps. It is told through narrative bubbles that pop up as the story picks its way across a Google Earth-like satellite map, and describes the experience of a man suddenly caught up in sinister events that he can’t seem to escape. Future classics will include The Haunted Dolls House (M R James), Thérèse Raquin (Emile Zola), Fairy Tales (Hans Christian Anderson), Hard Times (Dickens) and Tales from the 1001 Nights.
posted by stbalbach (3 comments total)

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posted by euphorb at 2:44 PM on March 21, 2008

Yep, sorry. Weird how the URL didn't show up on preview - I think because I used "www" and the original poster didn't.
posted by stbalbach at 2:50 PM on March 21, 2008

I like this one better - gives me more reason to actually check out We Tell Stories.
posted by batmonkey at 3:13 PM on March 21, 2008