History NightmareFuel / Gamebooks

*** Your character giving an OhCrap look as you are seconds away from being killed. Anything illustrated by Judith Mitchell will invoke this multiple times, even on some of the pages that don't have bad endings. Paul Granger has done a few of these illustrations as well, one of the most memorable being from ''Journey Under the Sea'' just as you [[spoiler: are literally about to become [[ThreateningShark shark bait]]]].

** ''The Crystal Trap'' is loaded with endings in which Zelda (the protagonist this go-around) gives an OhCrap as she awaits a terrible fate (sinking in quicksand or becoming a sitting duck for enemies) for failure to have the correct item. The whole book is one big AndIMustScream moment for Link, who is frozen immobile in a block of crystal at the beginning of the book and will be that way irretrievably if Zelda can't find the PlotCoupons to free him within 24 hours. In one of the Game Overs, Zelda is too late and has to watch. And [[spoiler:if you attack Ganon with the wrong weapon in the final fight, he just casts the spell again, meaning Link has to relive this suffering.]]

*** Your character giving an OhCrap look as you are seconds away from being killed. Anything illustrated by Judith Mitchell will invoke this multiple times, even on some of the pages that don't have bad endings. Paul Granger has done a few of these illustrations as well, one of the most memorable being from ''Journey Under the Sea'' just as you [[spoiler: are literally about to become [[TheateningShark shark bait]]]].

*** [[SwallowedWhole Your character is eaten alive]]. If the book is illustrated by Paul Granger, the illustration will feature a hideously large, detailed, close-up illustration of the animal about to eat you (a sabertooth tiger in ''The Cave of Time'', a giant grouper in ''Journey Under the Sea'', the cat after you are shrunken in ''The Mystery of Chimney Rock'', or a giant rat beast in ''The Third Planet from Altair'').

*** Your character giving an OhCrap look as you are seconds away from being killed. Anything illustrated by Judith Mitchell will invoke this multiple times, even on some of the pages that don't have bad endings.

*** ''The Cave of Time'' also shows you in the act of being devoured by none other than the Loch Ness Monster.

** ''The Crystal Trap'' is loaded with endings in which Zelda (the protagonist this go-around) gives an OhCrap as she awaits a terrible fate (sinking in quicksand or becoming a sitting duck for enemies) for failure to have the correct item. The whole book is one big AndIMustScream moment for Link, who is frozen immobile in a block of crystal at the beginning of the book and will be that way irretrievably if Zelda can't find the PlotCoupons to free him within 24 hours.