Reactions to Little Fears Nightmare Edition have been overwhelmingly positive. I was (and still am) truly humbled by how warmly folks received the new edition. But, as fans will with any new version or reimagining, people had questions about some of the changes. Why Belief instead of Innocence? Why the change in tone? Why a new system?
All good questions, but folks asked one question more than any other: Why did you get rid of the Seven Kings?
I had my reasons, which I’ve stated elsewhere, and I stand by the decision to keep them out of the main book. They are of another time, another tone, another idea, another Little Fears. They didn’t have a place in the Nightmare Edition.
Despite what I’ve said over the past eighteen months since the new version’s release, it appears my whim was only a suggestion to them. I should have seen it coming. I should have known the Kings would not stay silent forever.
It seems those cantankerous tyrants have busted their way out of the old edition and into the new.
Seven kids gone missing at the same time from seven different places. Authorities believe it was the work of professionals. But you have a different idea.
Everyone’s heard the stories about them but no one’s ever seen them. Far as anyone knows, they are just a rumor. A twisted take on an already twisted reality.
Story goes there are monsters older than Closetland. Or as old as anyway. They each had their own part of it, and they ruled over their terrible lands and did terrible things. They were the meanest of the monsters.
No one knows what happened or why they went away. But the story goes, those monsters, they want to come back.
And maybe, just maybe, they have.
LITTLE FEARS NIGHTMARE EDITION
THE SEVEN KINGS.
Introducing Little Fears Nightmare Edition: The Seven Kings: a seven-part journey into the parts of Closetland you thought were closed forever.
More details at a later date.
