BSOLO: Ghost of Lion Castle

BSOLO "Ghost of Lion Castle" (1984) by Merle M. Rasmussen is a Basic D&D solo adventure featuring a haunted wizard's castle.

Module BSOLO "Ghost of Lion Castle" (1984) by Merle M. Rasmussen.  Cover illustration by Bob Maurus.

The first time I tried to play it, each one of the six pregens suffered a grisly fate, one after another.  I found the adventure very tough to complete.

Illustration by Bob Maurus.  Note the lion's pawprint embedded in the keystone.

Location:

Lion Castle is described to be "on the grassland plains in the land they now call the Ethengar Khanate".

Possible locations for the village of Sarsdell and Lion Castle

It's an eight-day journey from the village of Sarsdell, six days east along the Streel River, followed by a two day hike north.

Clues in the text suggest that Sarsdell is on the outskirts of the Broken Lands, which places Lion Castle deep within the plains of northern Ethengar.*

*see also "Where the heck is Sarsdell?" on the Piazza (July 23, 2014)