Fantastic Fights

About Fantastic Fights

A middle aged man plays every single Fighting Fantasy book in order.

Publisher

Haunted Phonograph

Category

leisure

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

9 Apr 2020

Latest episode

6 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

140 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   6 Oct 2026

   Bonus Episode - Bite the Hand

   We’re doing another bonus episode and perhaps appropriately for Halloween we’re covering the first part of Bite the Hand, an epic two volume zombie apocalypse gamebook from Joseph Daniels who did the rather interesting Ghosts of Craven Manor previously covered on the podcast.

2. 

   22 Sept 2026

   Episode 76 - The Dungeon on Blood island

   We’re at the penultimate mainline Fighting Fantasy book (at the time of going to press) with Ian Livingstone’s The Dungeon on Blood Island which forms a sequel of sorts to Deathtrap Dungeon and Trial of Champions. Sukumvit might have the original Deathtrap Dungeon but his brother Lord Carnuss reckons it can’t be that hard to build a murderous underground challenge so he’s created his own and made sure the prize money is even bigger. The question is: is he right? Listen along to find out.

3. 

   14 Sept 2026

   Bonus Episode - Tarzan and the Tower of Diamonds

   It’s another bonus episode as we play through Tarzan and the Tower of Diamonds by Richard Reinsmith (who I repeatedly call Neimsmith through the course of the episode). Art is by Jeff Butler and the frankly awesome cover art is by Jeff Easley. It’s another Endless Quest book published by TSR, best known for being the original publishers of Dungeons and Dragons. The Conan book we played a while back was actually pretty good. Can Richard Reinsmith do the same for Edgar Rice Burroughs most famous creation? Listen along to find out.

Who has been a guest on Fantastic Fights

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Graham Plowman
• Robin Waterfield
• Russ Nicholson
• Terry Oakes

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

7 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 37 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

41

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

85

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Guest appearances

Books guests

Based on episode analysis; this does not confirm that the show is currently accepting guests.

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