Find in-depth articles about everything from horror tropes to reviewing horror novels and games in this section of Flames Rising, a horror and dark fantasy webzine.
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Tarot for Storytellers: a how-to book for authors and gamemasters is a full-color eBook offered in ePub and as a fully-interactive PDF. Written by author and narrative designer Monica Valentinelli (World of Darkness, Cyberpunk RED, Shadowrun, Firefly, Mistborn), this eBook is jam-packed with prompts, guidance, and examples to teach you how to develop new characters, […]
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Lynnvander Studios Announces Munchkin® 5.5E RPG, the Official Tabletop Roleplaying Game Based on the Iconic Munchkin Card Game Officially licensed by Steve Jackson Games, Munchkin® 5.5E RPG brings the humor, monsters, and outrageous treasure of the beloved card game to a full 5E-compatible roleplaying experience. Lynnvander Studios has announced Munchkin® 5.5E RPG, an officially licensed […]
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The Midnight Show is a new Halloween album dropping on September 28th. The album, produced by Rondo-award nominee Sam Haynes, includes musical influences such as The Cramps, Depeche Mode, Siouxsie and The Banshees, and The Prodigy. Every year, Sam Haynes releases a horror album for Halloween, and this year’s tracks offer a variety of sounds […]
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Do you write stories? Searching for tips to help improve your fiction? To support your writing practice, we took a look at nonfiction books on DriveThruFiction.com that will help you worldbuild, tell spooky stories, address common issues in science fiction and fantasy, manage your writing career, and more! Here are eight recommendations penned by a […]
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The stars are aligning over at DriveThruComics.com. Nyarlathotep has spoken! Take up to fifty percent off cosmic horror-themed comics and graphic novels for mature readers. Find small-press comics creators as well as several well-known and established publishers like Top Cow, Dark Horse, Vault, and Rebellion in this sale!
Don’t know which comics or graphic novels to get? We’ve curated a list of cosmic horror recommendations for you.
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In churches and convents and other religious communities, sisterhood takes many forms, forged and tested by such mundane threats as disease and despair, but also by terrors both spiritual and existential—Satan’s subtle minions and the cosmic nightmare of the Cthulhu Mythos. Sisterhood: Dark Tales and Secret Histories presents sixteen horror stories by some of the […]
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During an unforgettable night at Gen Con: Indianapolis 2026, Wizards of the Coast announced several upcoming releases and new creative initiatives. The night of announcements included the introduction of a new Universes Beyond initiative that kicks off this November with the launch of Dungeons & Dragons: World of Warcraft. The first expansion for D&D under […]
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Bring fear to your virtual-or-in person gaming table with a newly-released supplement for Dungeons ∓ Dragons. Ravenloft: The Horrors Within is the ultimate horror expansion set in D&D’s most popular setting. This book is a complete toolkit for DMs to create a wide range of fear-based campaigns across multiple genres of horror. Whether you’re looking to adventure based on gothic horror, cosmic, dark fantasy, the occult, or another type of horror, the Dungeon Master is provided with all the tools necessary to explore shadowy Domains of Dread, battle malevolent Darklords, and face grotesque monstrosities. This is a nightmare your party can’t wake from… and you’re in control.
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Vala Foundry and Vault Comics recently announced Barbaric: The Board Game, a tabletop adaptation of the hit comic series by Mike Moreci and Nathan Gooden. Barbaric the comic follows a ruthless barbarian cursed to use his violence only for good, sending him, his talking axe, and a young witch on a road of self-discovery, redemption, and revenge.
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Dream Realm Storytellers (DRS), known for their immersive 5E worlds (Svilland, Bloodpunk, Corpus Collection, and Silverplate), open the gates of hell with a new trilogy of Demonheart supplements compatible with DaggerheartTM. Funded on Kickstarter in six minutes, the three-book codex of evil contains over five hundred pages of material. Demonheart – The Vile Codex for […]
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Sally Face: Strange Nightmares – Corruption is now live on Kickstarter and has already reached full funding, signaling a powerful return to the haunting world of Sally Face. Maestro Media and creator Steve Gabry invite fans back to Nockfell with a thrilling expansion featuring new finales, new enemies, and brutal new challenges.
Backers can pledge for the Corruption expansion, including an exclusive Collector’s Edition Set designed to immerse players even deeper into the strange, dark world of Sally Face.
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Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s the super kitties!
Atlas Games, publisher of Magical Kitties Save The Day 2nd Edition, has launched and funded a Kickstarter for three new supplements: Mice’s Gambit, Trouble in River City, and a new city book called “Mewotropolis.”
Meowtropolis is a big, bustling city filled with supervillains plotting to control the planet, steal the world’s largest diamond, or get revenge on everybody who ever laughed at them.
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Dream Realm Storytellers, known for their immersive 5E worlds (Svilland, Bloodpunk, Corpus Collection, and Silverplate) are excited to announce their newest project, Demonheart – The Vile Codex for Daggerheart™. Demonheart is a 3-book codex with over 450 pages, a new class, 7 new domains, 66 new subclasses, a Hellish setting, a full adventure, and more for Daggerheart.
This project marks DRS’ first descent into Daggerheart, a system originally created by Critical Role. It will include the first major adventure ever written for the Daggerheart™ system, and embraces an edgy, unflinching plunge into a biblical Hell that is very dark and very gory. Players descend into a brutal infernal metropolis of torture, execution gardens, and endless chains, taking on the roles of the damned themselves. With subclasses inspir
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Rebellion Unplugged has just launched Tunnels & Trolls: A New Age, a brand-new roleplaying game and reimagining of Ken St Andre’s classic Tunnels & Trolls from 1975, the world’s second-ever RPG, after Dungeons & Dragons on Kickstarter. Your characters are at once ordinary but fated Kindred, and adventures take you deep into dark tunnels, dangerous […]
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Evil has never required this much teamwork. From the wicked minds of Headlock Games comes Dreadquarters, a 1-4 player strategy game of villainous cooperation and tactical defense, launching on Kickstarter April 7, 2026. In Dreadquarters, players take on the roles of supervillains who have been “strongly encouraged” to cooperate while establishing a new shared evil […]
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Fighting Fantasy Quest: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain adapts the iconic 1982 gamebook into a cooperative dungeon crawler board game for 1-4 players. The game preserves the core ideas that defined the original adventure – choice, consequence, risk, and discovery – while transforming the journey into a shared experience at the table. The publisher, Ulisses […]
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Question Games, the independent game development studio behind The Blackout Club and The Magic Circle, announces that its upcoming horror deckbuilder, The Killing Stone, launches on Steam for PC on February 18, 2026 and stars Emma Gregory and Liam O’Brien in a story written and performed twice: in 17th century period English prose and again […]
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Free League Publishing and Two Little Mice are thrilled to announce the launch of the Twilight Sword Roleplaying Game on Backerkit Crowdfunding. Inspired by beloved video game classics like the Legend of Zelda and Final Fantasy, and the enchanting worlds of Studio Ghibli and Dragon Quest, Twilight Sword invites players to RISE! and become Champions […]
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Cyber Monday has rolled into DriveThru with seventy-five percent off select titles on DriveThruRPG, DriveThruFiction, and DriveThruComics. Deeply-discounted titles range by site. On DriveThruComics.com, find The Few and the Cursed, Destiny Gate, and Hellboy. DriveThruFiction.com includes Arkham Horror, Island of the Dead, and Tarot for Storytellers, while DriveThruRPG.com features The World Below and The Black Ballad.
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Posted on by Monica Valentinelli
Tarot for Storytellers is a full-color eBook written by author, narrative designer, and FlamesRising.com contributor Monica Valentinelli (World of Darkness, Cyberpunk RED, Shadowrun: Court of Shadows, etc.). The eBook is jam-packed with prompts, guidance, and examples to teach you how to develop new characters, plots, and setting using a deck of tarot cards. Tarot for […]
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