Inspiring Fear: The Haunting Hour, Season 2

Posted on September 28, 2011 by Jason L Blair

The new season of R.L. Stine‘s The Haunting Hour hits the Hub this Saturday, October 1st! If you’re a fan of Little Fears or Little Fears Nightmare Edition, you need to watch this show. I loved the first season and can’t wait to dig into the new one.

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Hurricane Irene Flood Relief Bundle

Posted on September 26, 2011 by Jason L Blair

The good folks at Savage Mojo have put together a bundle of PDF games and supplements to benefit the rebuilding efforts of the Schoharie County Community Action Program in the wake of Hurricane Irene.

The bundle includes such great products as Savage Suzerain, Interface Zero, Shadows of Cthulhu, Killer Thriller, adventures for the Hellfrost setting, a bunch of Savage Worlds and Pathfinder goodness and more.

Here are the details from artist-extraordinaire Aaron Acevedo who helped coordinate the bundle:

Hurricane Irene Flood Relief is a charity bundle created in support of upstate New York victims of flooding from Hurricane Irene. All revenue generated by the sale of this bundle will be donated to the Schoharie County Community Action Program to help in their work. If you are not interested in this product, please consider contributing directly to the SCCAP’s relief efforts by visiting their website at http://www.sccapinc.org.

The reason I’m telling you all this (outside of my naturally generous and charitable nature) is that I’ve added the corebook of Little Fears Nightmare Edition to the bundle. So if you know anyone who’s been on the fence about the game, they can now buy it along with about $200 worth of great corebooks and supplements for only $25.

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Inspiring Fear: Goosebumps TV Show

Posted on September 5, 2011 by Jason L Blair

I spoke previously about the kid-focused horror anthology series The Haunting Hour so I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention that the show’s spiritual forebear is returning to television! The Hub is bringing back the classic Goosebumps television series based on the eponymous books.

The show will be airing at 5:30p each weekday afternoon starting tomorrow. If you’ve never watched the show, I urge you to give it a shot. The show features some amazingly imaginative stories (and some of the best Canadian accents you can hope for) and each episode is perfect inspiration for Little Fears, whichever flavor of the game you prefer.

I know I’ll be clearing out space in the DVR for some episodes. I still haven’t seen all them so I’m eager to see ones I’ve missed as well as rewatch some of my favorites.

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Now in Stock: Happy Birthday, Little Fears

Posted on September 2, 2011 by Jason L Blair

I’ll update the rest of the site to reflect the fact this weekend but let it be known that print copies of Happy Birthday, Little Fears are in stock! Later than I had hoped but they are here, hot off the press (at least, mildly warm from the stoop). I aim to pack up and ship out all current order by early next week.

Photo Evidence:

I have yet to change the price on the order page so, y’know, until I do you can save some cash on the print and/or print+pdf bundles. Take advantage of my busy schedule!

And speaking of busy schedules, while I do have one currently, I plan to release a couple more Little Fears Nightmare Edition products before the end of the year. More details on that later though!

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Inspiring Fear: Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark

Posted on August 24, 2011 by Jason L Blair

Out Friday.

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Happy Birthday to Me!

Posted on August 22, 2011 by Jason L Blair

I didn’t plan this, I promise.

The proof for Happy Birthday, Little Fears arrived today on my birthday. I have to give it a thorough once- or twice-over but it looks good upon first glance. If it’s good, I’ll sign off on it and I should have physical copies inside a week-and-a-half or so.

Incredibly shoddy photo evidence follows:

Ten years of Little Fears
When I first started work on that little game about kids fighting werewolves, I had no idea it would change my life so much or that it would inspire so many others. If nothing else, Little Fears proved to me that dreams matter and that hard work and passion should never be underestimated. Thank you again, all of you, for the past ten years. Here’s to many, many more.

top l-r: Little Fears (original), Kleine Aengste (German), Little Fears (French), GM Screen (French)

bottom l-r: Janus – Auferstehung (featuring the official Kleine Aengste soundtrack), Little Fears Nightmare Edition, Book 2: Among the Missing (for LFNE), Little Fears (10th Anniversary aka Happy Birthday, Little Fears), Kleine Aengste (Storybook)

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The Icing on the Cake

Posted on August 17, 2011 by Jason L Blair

If you already purchased and downloaded your copy of Happy Birthday, Little Fears through DriveThruRPG or RPGNow, you may wish to download the file again because I have just updated the PDF with over 20 pages of new old material. In my rush to get the game out, two supplements for the original Little Fears slipped through the cracks but I have corrected that grievous oversight.

If you haven’t already purchased your copy of Happy Birthday, Little Fears, well, I have good news! There are over 20 more reasons to do so! Y’know, if each page counts as a separate reason. Anyway…

You can purchase your own copy of this version of the original game using any of the links found in this post right here. I’m still giving folks the pre-order price but that will change once the hardcopies arrived next week. Order now and save!

(Oh, and yes, these will be in the print edition which I should have ready to ship next week.)

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Little Fears: Pesadelo

Posted on August 12, 2011 by Jason L Blair

The folks at Retropunk Game Design are hard at work on the Portuguese translation of Little Fears Nightmare Edition! I heard from fans in Brazil for years about wanting an edition in their native tongue and I was excited when Retropunk took on the challenge. I was even more excited when I heard they brought LFNE and HBLF contributor Grumbleputty (Doug Snook) on board, not only for interiors to their edition but to do the cover as well!

Here’s the latest mock-up:

I love this image. This is very reminiscent of the Goosebumps series and other horror books featuring kids as protagonists. It’s still a work in progress, and they’re asking for input from the fans if you want to speak up on the matter, but I think this is great.

I’m really looking forward to this version of the game and I hope it does well for Guilherme and company.

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LFNE Scenario in Protodimension #9

Posted on August 11, 2011 by Jason L Blair

The good folks at Protodimension Magazine have just put out the ninth issue of their PDF periodical that supports some of the finest horror roleplaying game there are. I’m honored they count my own Little Fears in the company of Dark Conspiracy*, All Flesh Must Be Eaten, and other genre classics, and even more honored they’ve included a new scenario for Little Fears Nightmare Edition in their latest issue that hit digital shelves just last night.

Tad Kelson’s “Some Yards” begins as a haunted house scenario but soon turns into much more. It all starts when a friend of the group goes missing and ends with, well, that’d be cheating.

The latest issue of Protodimension boasts an impressive 94 pages of horror scenarios, gear, opinion, fiction, poetry—even a standalone RPG! You can grab your own copy right here. The Little Fears scenario begins on page 72 but you’ll want to check out the rest of the magazine after you savor that.

Thanks again to Norm, Lee, Tad, and everyone else involved with Protodimension. Here’s to many more issues!

*And so y’know, Dark Conspiracy 3rd Edition is due out soon!

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Inspiring Fear: The Old Willis Place

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Jason L Blair



Mary Downing Hahn knows how to write a Middle Grade thriller, and in her 2004 release The Old Willis Place, she spins one of her best, a ghostly yarn of loss and loneliness about a pair of siblings forced to live under some very strange restrictions.

From the Clarion paperback:

Diana and her little brother, Georgie, have been living in the woods behind the old Willis place, a decaying mansion, for what seems like forever. A strict set of rules won’t allow them to leave the property or even show themselves to anyone.

But when a new caretaker and his young daughter, Lissa, come to live there, Diana is tempted to break the mysterious rules for the first time in hopes of making a new friend. She and George learn quickly, though, that breaking the rules can have deadly consequences…

This book is perfect inspiration for a Little Fears episode (or mini-series of episodes). Its tone, as well as the truth the story slowly reveals, is straight out of the original Little Fears*, but the events have very strong ties to some of the elements found within Book 2: Among the Missing (for Little Fears Nightmare Edition)**. Whichever edition you fancy, The Old Willis Place has something for you.

If you enjoy the book, I highly recommend Ms. Hahn’s other works as well, especially Wait Till Helen Comes. I have another of her books, All the Lovely Bad Ones, on my to-read list as well. She’s one of the few authors whose books I’ll pick up without hesitation.

*The tenth anniversary edition of which just came out in PDF (and will be out in print shortly).

**And, coincidentally, touches on some stuff in the works for the not-yet-announced Little Fears Nightmare Edition Book 3.

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