One of my favourite reads of last year was R.S. Belcher’s Six-Gun Tarot. I recall playing around with words like “Steampunk” and “Lovecraft” to describe the occult western. In the head I mentioned Cthulhu, the Deadlands RPG but not steampunk. I’ll stick to my guns for The Shotgun Arcana. There’s less Lovecraft in The Shotgun […]
Short film: Witch
One for Halloween. Breaking up can be bloody painful thing to do. In this short film we meet a couple in the middle of a breakup and things go from bad to nightmare when they meet a woman who is not what she seems to be. Are you looking for another watch? Use this teleport […]
Free to Download: Happy Halloween the horror collection
Happy Halloween is a free comic from indie creators. It’s great to see the indie community giving back to their readers and fans. There are 13 stories in this 62 page collection. Who’s made this possible? Giuseppa Barresi, Brett Burbridge, Andy W Clift, Patrick Cline, Luke Cooper, Shaun Dobie, Mike Garley, David Hailwood, Samantha Holmlund, […]
Silent Hill – The cosplay fan film
Made by cosplayers for cosplayers. Silent Hill is the spooky came that’s created several cosplay favourite characters and plenty of nightmares. Seems perfect for a Halloween release. A female Pyramid Head, who would have expected that?
Watch 12 iconic horrors morph
Infographic design agency Neomam has created this 12 character animated gif to celebrate Halloween and showcase their talent. The company is named after the “neomammalian complex” which is the part of the brain found in mammals that is involved with perception, reasoning, conscious thought and language. This animated gif takes 12 characters from the history […]
The Devil’s Advocate: A Review of Demon: The Descent
The World of Darkness got an excellent makeover in 2013 with The God Machine Chronicle. The sourcebook, which unites the entire world under the idea of a cold, uncalculating machine that makes and ruins lives for reasons no mortal could possibly understand, evolves the early gothic influences of the older World of Darkness to the […]
A feast of art from Kari Christensen
Kari started out a games studio and working for the likes of Interactive Magic and Activision. He’s gone on to manage a department of over 20 creatives and now works freelance. Gamers will recognise his clients; Games Workshop, Wizards of the Coast, White Wolf Publishing, Alderac Entertainment Group, Sabertooth Games, Fantasy Flight Games and others. […]
Will it be a spooky success? Chill 3rd edition goes to Kickstarter
Halloween is at the end of this month. Come Halloween we’ll known whether Matthew McFarland’s 4 Kickstarter is successful. This time round his Growling Door Games is attempting to bring about the return of Chill. [Back this Campaign] I’m a fan of games like this. Whispering Vault, Kult… and even Beyond the Supernatural are all […]
Adult art and RPG publisher risk taking in No Salvation for Witches
Lamentations of the Flame Princess have made their funding goal for No Salvation for Witches. This is 64 paged full-colour hardcover adventure and you can pay as much or as little as you want for it. Curious? You can check out the Indiegogo page here. At the time of writing there are three days still […]
Short film: Black Sugar
Bored teenagers trying a new drug? The name “black sugar” reminded me straight away of “soy sauce” and of John Dies at the End. There is some overlap – and that’s perhaps in a Lovecraftian otherworld sense. This is a really good short film from Hank Friedmann. What starts off feeling like a Steven Spielberg […]
