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Greg Chapman Strikes Again With ‘The Sublime Darkness’: Book Review

Greg Chapman is a horror author in the truest, purest sense of the title. He thrives in darkness and basks in the bleak world of fear. I am a big fan and I was so happy to read his short story collection: The Sublime Darkness: And Other Dark Stories. This is the second book I have read of Chapman’s and so this time I was prepared for the dive into the depths of darkness…and it was a fantastic journey! Characters The characters in these stories are impressive. Not only are they always unique and intriguing, but they are realistic. Even in the darkest of his universes, the characters in Chapman’s stories seem like regular people in traumatic situations. They could be your neighbor, or the person you just passed on the street last time you went on a walk. Not only does he create such great characters, but he does it in an impressive way. Chapman excels at fully introducing

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Capt McNeely
Sep 19, 2020
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Game Review: ‘Vampire’s Fall: Origins’

I don’t know about you but where I live there’s a chill in the air with a hint of autumn in it, and Early Morning Studio was awesome enough to offer me a chance to make the season feel more like Halloween with their gothic RPG Vampire’s Fall: Origins. In Vampire’s Fall: Origins play as a customized character that you can name, who becomes a vampire after failing to fight the dreaded Witchmaster who has raised an army and terrorizing the land. Now on a quest of vengeance, your character must get stronger as they travel the land with the goal to bring down the Witchmaster and avenging the carnage done to your village. Now onto the game itself! Controls are pretty simple with no need to memorize them as they are always labeled on the screen when you’re exploring and engaging in combat. When it comes to graphics, it’s reminiscent of a flash game but it renders well on

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Capt McNeely
Sep 17, 2020
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Game Review: ‘Kingdoms Of Amalur: Re-Reckoning’

THQ Nordic again came through and gave me the opportunity to give the remastered version of a past hit of EA’s, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning a try. The original RPG fantasy came out in 2012 and was praised highly by critics but today, I’ll be checking out THQ’s Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning! In this game, you play as a hero who started off dead but because of an experiment, was brought back to life! You awaken to a world that’s at war pitting mortals and immortals against one another and because your fate has yet been decided, you’re caught up in the middle of it. Now onto the game itself! When it comes to controls they’re easy to get a hold of and the tutorial helps a lot in the beginning and the manual on the main menu is a lifesaver. Wish I could say the same for the camera controls which are, sorry to be blunt, trash as it

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Capt McNeely
Sep 14, 2020
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Age Won’t Be Just A Number In ‘Chronos: Before The Ashes’

THQ Nordic has announced details about their new game with a unique ‘aging system’ that will truly entice players to try. Chronos: Before the Ashes is a prequel to Remnant: From the Ashes set in a world where you play as a young hero is chosen to be sent to an ancient labyrinth to defeat the evil there in order to save his home. Inside they will face mystical enemies, and puzzles to solve, but if our hero fails, he’s cast out of the labyrinth and has to wait a year to come back and try again. In Chronos: Before the Ashes, players will experience an adventure that combines adventuring with RPG mechanics, combat where unique weapons, abilities, and powers. The main feature of the game is the aging mechanic that whenever a player dies, they lose a year of their life meaning that they start again a year older. Players will start off as a nimble, quick youngster who

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Capt McNeely
Sep 13, 2020
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The ‘Splatter Club’ Is A Club You Definitely Want to Be Part Of: Book Review

A few days ago, I was introduced to the Splatter Club. I thoroughly enjoyed reading K. Trap Jones’ short story collection Welcome to the Splatter Club. This book is a collection of fantastic short stories written by authors who write without holding back and without censoring the stories they want to tell. When reading this book, I got an “Are You Afraid of the Dark” feel. No, the stories are not for children…definitely not for children. They are not simplistic or predictable or anything like that. What I mean is that it has the feel of a bunch of friends sitting around a camp fire telling their horror stories to each other and trying to out-scare one another. I love it! It is fun, weird, violent, sex-filled and extreme. Honestly, it’s just a great, fun escape into splattering horror. These stories are not for everyone. They are extremely violent and dark. They are sex and drug-filled. They are uncomfortable and

Continue reading →
Capt McNeely
Sep 11, 2020
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‘The Suicide Of Rachel Foster’ Is If ‘Firewatch’ Took Place At The Overlook Hotel

A big thank you to ONE-O-ONE Games and Daedalic Entertainment for hooking me up with a copy of their thrilling atmospheric mystery, The Suicide of Rachel Foster. Warning, there are spoilers ahead. Onto the game itself, you take on the role of a woman named Nichole who just inherited her late father’s motel located in the mountains of Wyoming. While looking over the property for her lawyer, she becomes trapped due to a snow storm and her only connection to the outside is a cell phone connecting her to a FEMA agent named Irving. While stuck in the hotel, Nichole starts to experience strange events that that centers around the suicide of a teen girl connected to the hotel and Nichole’s past. When it comes to the game’s controls, there’s no tutorial really, but luckily there’s not really a whole lot you need to remember. The game advises that you use headphones and I’ll admit, it’s worth it! The voice

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Capt McNeely
Sep 10, 2020
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Interview With Author/Editor Lee Murray: Her Upcoming Book, Feeling Like An Outsider, And Her Love Of Horror

I reviewed a collection of short stories by author Lee Murray a while ago. It is a collection of stories that has stayed with me and so I was thrilled to hear from Murray again recently. This time, Murray, along with Geneve Flynn, is the editor of Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women which comes out on September 26. This book promises to be an incredible collection of stories focused on racial traditions and roles, being an “outsider” and — of course — horror! “As haunting and versatile as the Chinese erhu, the stories in Black Cranes pluck and bow the strings of the Southeast Asian experience with insightful depth and resonance.” —Tori Eldridge, author of the acclaimed Lily Wong novels, The Ninja Daughter and The Ninja’s Blade. “This anthology has a power to it. An instant classic.” —Nightmare Feed. Almond-eyed celestial, the filial daughter, the perfect wife. Quiet, submissive, demure. In Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women, Southeast Asian

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Capt McNeely
Sep 9, 2020
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Too Scary To Be Fiction! ‘The Organ Thieves’ : Book Review/Interview

Here on horrorfuel.com we focus a lot on entertainment and horror as a fun world of terror that we escape into. I absolutely love doing book and movie reviews, press releases, and anything else possible to expand this world of horror that I love. However, the time comes now and then when real life is far more terrifying and crushing than any movie or novel. The book by Chip Jones The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South outlines the horrifying story of Bruce Tucker. On May 24, 1968 Bruce Tucker went into the hospital after suffering a serious head injury. The hospital claims to have tried urgently to contact his family, but nobody seemed to notice his brother’s business card stuck in the front pocket of his jeans. Meanwhile, Bruce had not come home from work and his family was searching frantically for him. When he entered the hospital, Bruce was said

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Capt McNeely
Sep 4, 2020
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‘Perish’ Is A Perfect Sequel: Book Review

If you read my review of L.C. Barlow’s Pivot, you know how much I loved the story of Jack Harper. Raised in a cult, destroyed the cult leader and the adventure had just started! I will try and avoid major spoilers from Pivot, but just in case, I do suggest you read the book before reading this review. Characters Jack is still the same person in this book, only with more depth. She finds herself in a world without the comfort of her familiar life. Although she knows the cult she left was evil and absolutely destructive to her, she finds herself lost I the real world and struggling to know what to do. I was extremely happy that Barlow wrote Jack with this struggle in Perish because, regardless of the horrors of her life before, it was still the life she know and change, especially drastic change is always a challenge. She still finds herself tied to Cyrus and

Continue reading →
Capt McNeely
Sep 1, 2020
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New ‘Remotherd: Broken Porcelain’ Trailer Shows Happiness Found In The Darkest Of Places

In the new Gamescom “Whispers” trailer for Remothered: Broken Porcelain, fans are treated to something a bit different, someone actually finding happiness in the dark world of Remothered. It really should be no surprise that in the middle of everything that goes on, our heroine Jennifer and her friend and fellow housekeeper at the Ashmann Inn Lindsay (Lin) find shelter with each other in the dark halls of the Inn where danger lurks, a fact we’re sadly reminded in the middle of the happy couple’s moments… Remothered: Broken Porcelain will be coming October 20, 2020 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and STEAM.

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Capt McNeely
Aug 31, 2020

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Greg Chapman Strikes Again With ‘The Sublime Darkness’: Book Review

Greg Chapman is a horror author in the truest, purest sense of the title. He thrives in darkness and basks in the bleak world of fear. I am a big fan and I was so happy to read his short story collection: The Sublime Darkness: And Other Dark Stories. This is the second book I have read of Chapman’s and so this time I was prepared for the dive into the depths of darkness…and it was a fantastic journey! Characters The characters in these stories are impressive. Not only are they always unique and intriguing, but they are realistic. Even in the darkest of his universes, the characters in Chapman’s stories seem like regular people in traumatic situations. They could be your neighbor, or the person you just passed on the street last time you went on a walk. Not only does he create such great characters, but he does it in an impressive way. Chapman excels at fully introducing

Continue reading →
Capt McNeely
Sep 19, 2020
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Game Review: ‘Vampire’s Fall: Origins’

I don’t know about you but where I live there’s a chill in the air with a hint of autumn in it, and Early Morning Studio was awesome enough to offer me a chance to make the season feel more like Halloween with their gothic RPG Vampire’s Fall: Origins. In Vampire’s Fall: Origins play as a customized character that you can name, who becomes a vampire after failing to fight the dreaded Witchmaster who has raised an army and terrorizing the land. Now on a quest of vengeance, your character must get stronger as they travel the land with the goal to bring down the Witchmaster and avenging the carnage done to your village. Now onto the game itself! Controls are pretty simple with no need to memorize them as they are always labeled on the screen when you’re exploring and engaging in combat. When it comes to graphics, it’s reminiscent of a flash game but it renders well on

Continue reading →
Capt McNeely
Sep 17, 2020
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Game Review: ‘Kingdoms Of Amalur: Re-Reckoning’

THQ Nordic again came through and gave me the opportunity to give the remastered version of a past hit of EA’s, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning a try. The original RPG fantasy came out in 2012 and was praised highly by critics but today, I’ll be checking out THQ’s Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning! In this game, you play as a hero who started off dead but because of an experiment, was brought back to life! You awaken to a world that’s at war pitting mortals and immortals against one another and because your fate has yet been decided, you’re caught up in the middle of it. Now onto the game itself! When it comes to controls they’re easy to get a hold of and the tutorial helps a lot in the beginning and the manual on the main menu is a lifesaver. Wish I could say the same for the camera controls which are, sorry to be blunt, trash as it

Continue reading →
Capt McNeely
Sep 14, 2020
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Age Won’t Be Just A Number In ‘Chronos: Before The Ashes’

THQ Nordic has announced details about their new game with a unique ‘aging system’ that will truly entice players to try. Chronos: Before the Ashes is a prequel to Remnant: From the Ashes set in a world where you play as a young hero is chosen to be sent to an ancient labyrinth to defeat the evil there in order to save his home. Inside they will face mystical enemies, and puzzles to solve, but if our hero fails, he’s cast out of the labyrinth and has to wait a year to come back and try again. In Chronos: Before the Ashes, players will experience an adventure that combines adventuring with RPG mechanics, combat where unique weapons, abilities, and powers. The main feature of the game is the aging mechanic that whenever a player dies, they lose a year of their life meaning that they start again a year older. Players will start off as a nimble, quick youngster who

Continue reading →
Capt McNeely
Sep 13, 2020
Horror Fuel

The ‘Splatter Club’ Is A Club You Definitely Want to Be Part Of: Book Review

A few days ago, I was introduced to the Splatter Club. I thoroughly enjoyed reading K. Trap Jones’ short story collection Welcome to the Splatter Club. This book is a collection of fantastic short stories written by authors who write without holding back and without censoring the stories they want to tell. When reading this book, I got an “Are You Afraid of the Dark” feel. No, the stories are not for children…definitely not for children. They are not simplistic or predictable or anything like that. What I mean is that it has the feel of a bunch of friends sitting around a camp fire telling their horror stories to each other and trying to out-scare one another. I love it! It is fun, weird, violent, sex-filled and extreme. Honestly, it’s just a great, fun escape into splattering horror. These stories are not for everyone. They are extremely violent and dark. They are sex and drug-filled. They are uncomfortable and

Continue reading →
Capt McNeely
Sep 11, 2020
Horror Fuel

‘The Suicide Of Rachel Foster’ Is If ‘Firewatch’ Took Place At The Overlook Hotel

A big thank you to ONE-O-ONE Games and Daedalic Entertainment for hooking me up with a copy of their thrilling atmospheric mystery, The Suicide of Rachel Foster. Warning, there are spoilers ahead. Onto the game itself, you take on the role of a woman named Nichole who just inherited her late father’s motel located in the mountains of Wyoming. While looking over the property for her lawyer, she becomes trapped due to a snow storm and her only connection to the outside is a cell phone connecting her to a FEMA agent named Irving. While stuck in the hotel, Nichole starts to experience strange events that that centers around the suicide of a teen girl connected to the hotel and Nichole’s past. When it comes to the game’s controls, there’s no tutorial really, but luckily there’s not really a whole lot you need to remember. The game advises that you use headphones and I’ll admit, it’s worth it! The voice

Continue reading →
Capt McNeely
Sep 10, 2020
Horror Fuel

Interview With Author/Editor Lee Murray: Her Upcoming Book, Feeling Like An Outsider, And Her Love Of Horror

I reviewed a collection of short stories by author Lee Murray a while ago. It is a collection of stories that has stayed with me and so I was thrilled to hear from Murray again recently. This time, Murray, along with Geneve Flynn, is the editor of Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women which comes out on September 26. This book promises to be an incredible collection of stories focused on racial traditions and roles, being an “outsider” and — of course — horror! “As haunting and versatile as the Chinese erhu, the stories in Black Cranes pluck and bow the strings of the Southeast Asian experience with insightful depth and resonance.” —Tori Eldridge, author of the acclaimed Lily Wong novels, The Ninja Daughter and The Ninja’s Blade. “This anthology has a power to it. An instant classic.” —Nightmare Feed. Almond-eyed celestial, the filial daughter, the perfect wife. Quiet, submissive, demure. In Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women, Southeast Asian

Continue reading →
Capt McNeely
Sep 9, 2020
Horror Fuel

Too Scary To Be Fiction! ‘The Organ Thieves’ : Book Review/Interview

Here on horrorfuel.com we focus a lot on entertainment and horror as a fun world of terror that we escape into. I absolutely love doing book and movie reviews, press releases, and anything else possible to expand this world of horror that I love. However, the time comes now and then when real life is far more terrifying and crushing than any movie or novel. The book by Chip Jones The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South outlines the horrifying story of Bruce Tucker. On May 24, 1968 Bruce Tucker went into the hospital after suffering a serious head injury. The hospital claims to have tried urgently to contact his family, but nobody seemed to notice his brother’s business card stuck in the front pocket of his jeans. Meanwhile, Bruce had not come home from work and his family was searching frantically for him. When he entered the hospital, Bruce was said

Continue reading →
Capt McNeely
Sep 4, 2020
Horror Fuel

‘Perish’ Is A Perfect Sequel: Book Review

If you read my review of L.C. Barlow’s Pivot, you know how much I loved the story of Jack Harper. Raised in a cult, destroyed the cult leader and the adventure had just started! I will try and avoid major spoilers from Pivot, but just in case, I do suggest you read the book before reading this review. Characters Jack is still the same person in this book, only with more depth. She finds herself in a world without the comfort of her familiar life. Although she knows the cult she left was evil and absolutely destructive to her, she finds herself lost I the real world and struggling to know what to do. I was extremely happy that Barlow wrote Jack with this struggle in Perish because, regardless of the horrors of her life before, it was still the life she know and change, especially drastic change is always a challenge. She still finds herself tied to Cyrus and

Continue reading →
Capt McNeely
Sep 1, 2020
Horror Fuel

New ‘Remotherd: Broken Porcelain’ Trailer Shows Happiness Found In The Darkest Of Places

In the new Gamescom “Whispers” trailer for Remothered: Broken Porcelain, fans are treated to something a bit different, someone actually finding happiness in the dark world of Remothered. It really should be no surprise that in the middle of everything that goes on, our heroine Jennifer and her friend and fellow housekeeper at the Ashmann Inn Lindsay (Lin) find shelter with each other in the dark halls of the Inn where danger lurks, a fact we’re sadly reminded in the middle of the happy couple’s moments… Remothered: Broken Porcelain will be coming October 20, 2020 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and STEAM.

Continue reading →
Capt McNeely
Aug 31, 2020
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