I read Gabriel Knight: The Beast Within by Jane Jensen

Jane Jensen is kind of a genius IMO? I got totally obsessed with Gabriel Knight 2 when I played it with Stephen, and putting it next to Phantasmagoria, which, while equally visually weird and wacky plotwise, just does not really have the sauce when it comes to writing or characters, and leans back a lot on predictable or even offensive 80s/90s horror movie tropes (the hickish idiots subplot is truly, truly unbearable). Jane Jensen's writing avoids all that while weaving together a bunch of fun characters in a plot that incorporates the gleeful tourism guide style omnivorousness that's so charming about Mirrors, as well as a historical mystery involving King Ludwig II suppressed homosexuality that extends into the present via an immortal werewolf lover. It is as goofy yet charming as playing the game all over again. It really makes me want to read some of her other novels (including pseudonymous gay romances!)