Horror Reviews on Flames Rising
From role-playing games to television series, Flames Rising horror webzine offers hundreds of reviews on products from every world of horror imaginable. We feature nationally-distributed and licensed products like Hellboy, to small press ventures like the game InSpectres from Memento Mori.
Our philosophy on reviews is simple: we encourage our horror reviewers to channel their inner Poe to write reviews that are easy-to-read and provide you, the horror fan, with the best information possible.
Whether you enjoy paranormal romance or post-apocalyptic horror, this list has a little something for the monster in all of us. If you would like to be a horror reviewer for Flames Rising, we encourage you to visit our submission guidelines. We go out of our way to reward our regular horror reviewers, and encourage you to add your voice to our choir.
Our reviews are listed in alphabetical order by type of review category (click on the “Read more…” link just below this paragraph). For an alternative means of navigation, feel free to take advantage of the search box on our site to find what you’re hunting for.
Interviews on Flames Rising
From artists and authors to RPG line developers, Flames Rising specializes in bringing you interviews with professionals from all aspects of the fiction, gaming industry and beyond. Our mission has been to interview both creative professionals that are top names within the entire entertainment industry, as well as and up-and-coming people to watch for as they embark on their horror-ific career. We invite you to read these interviews to learn more about these talented folk, and are happy to entertain suggestions for new people to interview.
Our Interviews are listed in chronological order, with the most recent Interviews at the top (click on the “Read more…” link just below this paragraph). For an alternative means of navigation, feel free to take advantage of the search box on the left or use the Tag Cloud to find what you’re hunting for.
Favorite Horror Game Contest Wrap-up
By Matt-M-McElroy | March 28, 2008
The Flames Rising Favorite Horror Game Contest wrapped up on the 15th and our special guest judge, Jason Blair (author of Little Fears and The Long Count), helped us sort through all of the great entries.
Don’t Rest Your Head, Chill and Kult were the top mentioned games. Great Cthulhu made a variety of appearances ranging from Arkham Horror to Cthulhu Live 3rd Edition. other games mentioned include Vampire: the Masquerade, Silent Hill, All Flesh Must Be Eaten and a|state.
Our amazing sponsors offered so many cool prizes that everyone who entered the contest was rewarded with at least one cool item. The judges awarded a few entries with extra prizes for creativity and content. E-mails have been sent and prizes shipped to those lucky folks. When you get the chance check out the Contest Prizes Spotlight to see what was offered to the lucky contestants.
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Favorite Horror Game Contest Ends Today!
By Matt-M-McElroy | March 15, 2008
Today is your last chance to get your entry posted in the Flames Rising Favorite Horror Game Contest!
In one paragraph (250 words) or less, tell us what your favorite horror game is and “why.” By “game” we mean role-playing game, card game, computer/video game, or board game. It may also be alternative platforms like a “Flash”-based game or MMORPG.
Prizes include a variety of products from Abstract Nova, Apophis Consortium, Bob Goat Press, Cubicle 7 Entertainment, Eden Studios, Evil Hat Productions, Monolith Graphics, Neoplastic Press, Rogue Games, Snarling Badger Games, Talisman Studios and 12 to Midnight.
Visit the Contest Page for more details!
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Contest Prizes Spotlight!
By Flames | February 27, 2008
Have you entered the Flames Rising Favorite Horror Game Contest?
Well, if you’ve been following the recent Flash Fire Mini-Reviews, you’ve just seen a small glimpse of what we have to give away. So far, in Contest Edition and Contest Edition 2 we’ve highlighted new games, like Thousand Suns and supplements like All Tomorrow’s Zombies. With over 12 publishers sponsoring our contest, our prize pool is getting so huge we just had to blog about more of the great prizes that are perfect for any horror fan.
Here are just a few of the great prizes available in the Flames Rising Favorite Horror Game Contest.
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Reviews Wanted!
By Matt-M-McElroy | February 26, 2008
The new Review Guidelines have been posted on the Flames Rising website. We are currently seeking a few good reviewers to help us expand our collection of horror and dark fantasy reviews. RPGs, fiction, movies, video games and more are all welcome on the site…
What do you get out of it?
Beyond helping out fellow Flames Rising readers by letting them know what you think of these products, we’re giving away some pretty cool stuff. Regular Reviewers can earn free products to review, which is their to keep after the review is submitted to the site.
Be sure to check out John Walsh’s “How to Write Reviews of Role Playing Games Books” and Monica Valentinelli’s “On Reviewing Fiction” Essays for some helpful advice on writing Reviews for the Flames Rising website.
Use the Contact Page to submit reviews or let us know if you have any questions.
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Flames Rising Favorite Horror Game Contest!
By Flames | February 14, 2008
We’re proud to announce the first Flames Rising Fan Appreciation contest. Some of you may remember that Flames Rising hasn’t always been a horror and dark fantasy webzine; it started out as a Live Action Role-Playing Site devoted to those dark and brooding vampire clans from White Wolf’s Mind’s Eye Theatre system. Through a love for gaming and other things that go bump in the night, Flames has evolved to its current incarnation, a horror webzine that shines the spotlight on up-and-coming authors, horror artists, game designers, and more!
To celebrate the new site launch, we want to show our appreciation to the fans who make Flames Rising possible by returning to our dice pool and pencils. Prizes include a variety of products from Abstract Nova, Apophis Consortium, Bob Goat Press, Cubicle 7 Entertainment, Eden Studios, Evil Hat Productions, Monolith Graphics, Neoplastic Press, Rogue Games, Snarling Badger Games, Talisman Studios and 12 to Midnight.
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Flames Rising Shopping Updates
By Flames | February 6, 2008
Lots of updates to the Flames Rising Amazon Store today. Horror & Dark Fantasy fiction, games, movies and more. Included in these updates is the option to pre-order:
Ventrue: Lords Over the Damned (Vampire the Requiem)
Battlestar Galactica (Season 3)
Small Favor (Dresden Files)
Purge the Unclean (Dark Heresy)
Over at FlamesRising.RPGNow.com you can check out a ton of new eBooks like Thousand Suns from Rogue Games and Daemornia RPG: 2nd Edition from Better Mousetrap Games.
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Flames Rising News Feeds & Updates
By Matt-M-McElroy | February 3, 2008
Visit the RSS Page to check out the available Flames Rising news feeds. Stay up-to-date on the latest Flames Rising Horror & Dark Fantasy product Reviews, author and artist Interviews and more!
You can also find Flames Rising on MySpace.com:
http://www.myspace.com/flamesrising
Other updates include new books and games at the Flames Rising Amazon Shop and tons of new eBooks at the Flames Rising RPGNow Store.
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Flash Fire Mini-Reviews! (Second Attempt)
By Matt-M-McElroy | February 1, 2008
Welcome to the second installment of the Flash Fire Mini-Reviews series on Flames Rising!
This week we’re talking about ghosts, werewolves, alien slugs and fantasy kingdoms in a mix of books, games and even a movie. Some of these are brand-new releases and others are items that caught my eye for one reason or another this week.
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Flash Fire Mini-Reviews!
By Matt-M-McElroy | January 25, 2008
Welcome to the first installment of the Flash Fire series of mini-reviews on the new Flames Rising website!
Every Friday (hopefully) we’re going to post a series of short reviews of new-to-me Horror & Dark Fantasy products. These will usually be one or two paragraph highlights of whatever caught our eye that particular week. Basically…stuff we think is cool and want to share. We will try to keep it a mix of stuff, but you never really know just what we will be up to in a given week.
This week we’ve got some Changeling, a few zombies, a conspiracy, Cthulhu and something unnatural…
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Welcome to the New Flames Rising!
By Matt-M-McElroy | January 17, 2008
Welcome to the redesign of Flames Rising! The last, few months has been an exciting time for us and we hope you’ll stick around.
Over the next, few days we will be working behind-the-scenes to ensure all technical issues are resolved from transferring to this new site. So please, pardon our soot.
We’re happy to announce that all interviews, reviews and fiction were successfully transferred from the old site and we’ve added a ton of new reviews for your reading pleasure. We invite you to sign up for our RSS feed, for those of you enjoy your Flames in your Inbox.
Stay tuned for more fiery updates as we push to bring you the content you want to read.
E-Mail flamesrising01@yahoo.com with questions/feedback or leave a comment.
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