Flames Rising is an online resource for fans of Horror and Dark Fantasy entertainment. This horror fanzine offers reviews of Games, Fiction, Movies and more ranging from Top-Selling authors to the coolest Small Press and “indie” publishers. The popular Interviews at Flames Rising include Horror authors, artists and other creators of dark entertainment. Stay tuned to the Flames Rising news feed for the latest news on upcoming products, genre conventions and industry developments.
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Posted on April 10, 2026 by Flames
Our Brilliant Ruin is: “the first story-world developed by Studio Hermitage. Created for multiple formats including tabletop and video games, Our Brilliant Ruin features the Dramark, an elitist society unraveling against the backdrop of a preternatural catastrophe. Welcome to a gilded age in which upstairs-downstairs personal and sociological drama meets existential horror.” Created by Justin […]
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Posted on April 4, 2026 by Flames
Somewhere, lost in the shrouded realms of death, lies a land of endless night where long?forgotten horrors are revealed to those who travel through the mist. There, in a crooked house lives a Crooked Man with a crooked grin. He raises crooked arms to a Crooked Tree at the edge of midnight and hears the […]
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Posted on April 2, 2026 by Flames
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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Posted on March 23, 2026 by Flames
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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Posted on March 18, 2026 by Flames
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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Posted on March 10, 2026 by Flames
DriveThruRPG is embracing Game Masters everywhere by putting 1,000s of titles on sale. The 2026 DTRPG GM’s Day Sale is massive! We took a peek, and got excited that some of our favorites games, comics, and stories are on sale. Here’s a list of our recommendations! Our lists are not arranged in any particular order–we just thought you’d like our hand-picked recs that include games with GMs, games without, and games for solo play–where the GMs get to play, too.
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Posted on February 24, 2026 by Flames
Buried Treasures is our campaign for two new books to let you delve deeper into The World Below and illuminate some of the darkness. The Delver’s Guide is a Player’s Manual for The World Below. Delvers may be brave, but that doesn’t mean they don’t require help once in a while. That’s what this guide […]
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Posted on February 12, 2026 by Flames
Our Brilliant Ruin: Horror at Crane Mansion is described as: “upstairs-downstairs drama meets existential horror in this Edwardian-inspired comics tale of high society and creeping dread. Created in collaboration with Studio Hermitage and in association with the Our Brilliant Ruin TTRPG, the comic explores a gilded Edwardian setting where intricate social ties of allegiance and conflict are threatened by the presence of the Ruin—a mysterious force that turns creatures and people into horrific monsters.”
Published by Dark Horse Comics, Horror at Crane Mansion collects the first three issues into a graphic novel, and features writing by Cullen Bunn, art by Christopher Mitten, colors by Piky Hamilton, letters by Frank Cvetkovic, and covers by Helen Mask.
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Posted on January 29, 2026 by Flames
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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Posted on January 21, 2026 by Flames
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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Posted on December 3, 2025 by Flames
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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Posted on December 1, 2025 by Flames
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 October 14, 2025 by Flames
Cultists and Cthulhu 2nd Edition was designed by William Sininger and John Harris, and is illustrated with full-color, entertaining art by Steve Robbins. The cards are full of geek culture references including Meddling Kids, LARP-ER, We Have Cookies, and several nods to popular Cthulhu Mythos tales by HP Lovecraft. The components are well made and include cute, little tentacle meeples and Ritual dice. Steve Robbins’ Lovecraftian art adds a healthy dose of humor and helps keep the gameplay light and fun.
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Posted on October 11, 2025 by Flames
The Curseborne Player’s Guide, an expansion for the Curseborne tabletop roleplaying game from Onyx Path Publishing, is funding now on Kickstarter.
In Curseborne, which Onyx Path Publishing funded last year, you play as Accursed, descendants of monstrous lineages lurking in a modern world that closely resembles our own. This is the Onyx Path team’s return to Horror game design after years of shepherding the World of Darkness 20th Anniversary lines, as well as Chronicles of Darkness and other games including They Came From Beneath the Sea! and Dystopia Rising: Evolution.
We had a chance to talk to the team a bit about this new Player’s Guide project and some of the material within.
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Posted on September 30, 2025 by Flames
Currently funding over at Kickstarter is Cringe Wizard, a TTRPG-themed isekai story by Paul Matijevic, set in a long-time Dungeon Master’s first, terrible campaign.
Today Paul stops by to tell a bit about the inspirations for the book and what helped fill in the tale…
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Posted on September 29, 2025 by Flames
Just in time for Halloween spooky season, Dark Horse Comics has expanded their catalog on the DriveThruComics.com digital comics shop!
New additions include the complete Hellboy collections by Mike Mignola, B.P.R.D., Lobster Johnson, Witchfinder, Baltimore, and more. These join our catalog of Dark Horse titles including Critical Role, The Witcher, and Cyberpunk 2077 graphic novels.
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Posted on September 28, 2025 by Flames
Gothic horror instrumental and Halloween music composers, Midnight Syndicate have released an EP of previously unreleased and rare material spanning a period of twenty years entitled DARKENED CORNERS.
With album artwork by French artist Pascal Casolari, the EP features music the band has composed for amusement parks and theme parks, as well tracks from their live shows.
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Posted on September 26, 2025 by Flames
Paizo has announced its participation and sponsorship of Power Word Meal, a tabletop charity event benefiting Share the Meal. For each backer of Pathfinder Quest on BackerKit—including backers before the charity event began—Paizo will donate one meal to the campaign (up to a maximum of 10,000 meals donated). Power Word Meal’s campaign runs through October […]
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Posted on September 25, 2025 by Flames
CCP Games is calling FPS players to the frontlines! The makers of EVE online just launched Operation Nemesis, the latest public deployment for EVE Vanguard, the studio’s in-development multiplayer sci-fi shooter set in the EVE Universe. This free, limited-time event introduces a narrative-driven New Player Journey, a new map, formidable new enemies, and an expanded arsenal of far-future weaponry. Participants embark on faction-driven Expeditions and squad up in fierce PvEvP combat, marking the next step toward EVE Vanguard‘s Steam Early Access launch in Summer 2026.
Operation Nemesis runs until 11:00 UTC on October 2, 2025, and is accessed via the EVE online game launcher, downloadable from the EVE Vanguard website.
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Posted on September 16, 2025 by Flames
Heroes of the Borderlands (2024) is the newest starter set for DUNGEONS & DRAGONS and is now available at your local and online game stores in North America. Designed to pick up and play in just minutes, Heroes of the Borderlands is the perfect entry point for newcomers to D&D, or experienced players looking to […]
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