Chaos Timeline

Graham McNeill

A short, early Horus Heresy tale exploring the descent of Konrad Curze, the haunted primarch of the Night Lords, as visions of doom and a brutal sense of justice drive his actions. It offers an intimate, grim look at a primarch wrestling with the nightmares that define him.

Aaron Dembski-Bowden

A Horus Heresy audio drama giving the first deep look at Angron and his World Eaters, dispatched on a covert task alongside the Word Bearers. As the legion's berserk savagery erupts, it draws unwelcome xenos attention to the primarch's escalating fury and the doom that hangs over his fate.

Aaron Dembski-Bowden

Set in the aftermath of the Drop Site Massacre, this novella follows the Night Lords and their primarch Konrad Curze as they wage a desperate war against the Dark Angels in the Thramas Crusade. It delves deep into Curze's fractured psyche and his lieutenant Sevatar, exploring the bleak fatalism that drives the VIII Legion.

Anthony Reynolds

A Word Bearers tale that follows the corrupted sons of Lorgar as their zealotry and daemonic transformation deepen during the early Heresy. It explores the warped faith and brutal warfare of the XVII Legion as they wage holy slaughter in the name of the Ruinous Powers.

David Annandale

Word Bearers chaplain Kurtha Sedd descends into the caverns of Calth during the Underworld War, haunted by the humbling of his Legion at Monarchia and the doubts it left behind. Embracing the darkness his faith demands, he marches toward a fateful clash with an Ultramarine he once called brother.

Anthony Reynolds

This tale charts the descent of Kharn of the World Eaters as the Legion spirals deeper into bloodlust and the worship of the Blood God. It captures the savagery of Angron's sons and the making of one of the Heresy's most infamous berserkers.

Graham McNeill

Within the fractured Thousand Sons, Ahriman and his fellow sorcerers grapple with the slow flesh-change consuming the Legion and the forbidden lore that might arrest it. As Magnus's sons reach ever deeper into the warp for answers, the seeds of a terrible remedy and greater ruin are sown.

Graham McNeill

A character study of Lucius the Swordsman of the Emperor's Children, charting the duellist's bottomless vanity and his obsession with being the finest blade in the galaxy. As the Legion descends into excess under Slaanesh's shadow, Lucius's pride drives him toward the curse that will define his eternal existence.

Aaron Dembski-Bowden

This Night Lords novella revisits the brutal legacy of the VIII Legion and the shadow cast by Konrad Curze, weaving terror, judgement, and the Legion's bleak self-image into a focused tale. It reinforces the themes of fear as a weapon that define Curze's sons.

David Annandale

A companion audio drama to the Tallarn arc following an Iron Warriors Warsmith left stranded in the poisoned ruin of the battlefield after a catastrophic crash devastates both sides. Alone in a hostile wasteland, he must recover his strength and find a way back to the fighting.

Anthony Reynolds

Stranded on the daemon-haunted world of Sicarus after a costly void engagement, Kor Phaeron and his dwindling band of Word Bearers are beset on all sides by hostile warp-spawn. Seeking any means of survival, the Dark Cardinal bargains with strange new allies and confronts an unsettlingly precise prophecy that ties his fate to the distant Lorgar.

Anthony Reynolds

In the war-torn aftermath of the Horus Heresy, the World Eaters give themselves wholly to slaughter as the bonds of the broken Legion fray. Driven by Khorne's hunger and the madness spreading through their ranks, the warriors descend further into bloodshed. A brutal snapshot of the Legion's fall into Chaos during the Heresy's dying days.

Aaron Dembski-Bowden

The first novel of the Black Legion series, narrated by the sorcerer Iskandar Khayon, recounting how the shattered remnants of the traitor legions were forged into a new power in the aftermath of the Horus Heresy. It chronicles the rise of Abaddon and reframes the Long War from inside the Eye of Terror, blending dark fantasy and tragedy.

Aaron Dembski-Bowden

The sequel to The Talon of Horus, continuing Khayon's account of Abaddon's campaign to unite the warbands of the Eye of Terror under a single banner. It follows the consolidation of the Black Legion and the opening moves against the Imperium that will define the millennia of the Long War.

Josh Reynolds

A Chaos-focused character novel following Fabius Bile as old Legion ambition turns into a long, unsettling project of reinvention.

Rob Sanders

An Alpha Legion warband story for readers who want the secretive, fractured side of Chaos rather than a straightforward legion campaign.

Barrington J. Bayley

One of Black Library's earliest novels follows an ambitious Rogue Trader chasing power and fortune in the fringe worlds bordering the Eye of Terror. A parallel thread tracks two Space Marines, one a fervent servant of Khorne and the other an ancient Great Crusade warrior slowly succumbing to corruption. Written before much of the setting was codified, it is an eccentric, anything-goes vision of the warp's edge.

Brian Stableford

On a feudal world whose people unknowingly serve the Dark Gods, a humble villager begins to sense that the faith of his community hides a monstrous truth. As an Imperial crusade bears down on the planet, ordinary mortals are caught between zealous invaders and the corrupting powers they worship. Brian Stableford tells a ground-level story of how Chaos claims and uses the common folk who are merely its pawns.

Graham McNeill

The Iron Warriors, masters of siegecraft, lay siege to a heavily fortified Imperial citadel world in a grinding campaign of attrition and artillery. The narrative follows both the relentless traitor legionaries and the desperate defenders, building toward a brutal clash of bunkers, breaches, and betrayal. It is widely regarded as one of the definitive Chaos Space Marine siege novels.

Ben Counter

On the Chaos-saturated world of Torvendis, a planet ruled for ten thousand years by a daemon prince of Slaanesh, ancient powers and ambitious champions converge as cosmic forces move toward a reckoning. Warbands, sorcerers, and the planet's own twisted inhabitants are swept into a struggle whose stakes reach far beyond a single world. Ben Counter delivers a lurid, self-contained descent into the daily horror of life under the Ruinous Powers.

Simon Spurrier

A Night Lords assassin, marooned on an Imperial world and driven by visions of his primarch, wages a one-warrior campaign of terror against the planet's defenders. Hunting him is a determined Imperial agent, setting up a tense cat-and-mouse duel across a city gripped by fear. An early, atmospheric exploration of the traitor Legion's psychology of dread.

Aaron Dembski-Bowden

The Night Lords warband of the Exalted hunts for an artefact that could change their fortunes, scheming and turning on one another as paranoia festers among the traitor Astartes. Pursued by their enemies and haunted by their dead primarch's legacy, the renegades navigate betrayal and desperation. An audio drama that deepens the saga of the Night Lords and their cynical war against the Imperium.

Graham McNeill

The half-breed Iron Warrior Honsou wages a brutal campaign of vengeance, marshalling his renegade host to break the defences of those who have crossed him. A grim audio-driven tale of siegecraft and spite, it follows the traitor warsmith's relentless drive to tear down anything that stands in his way.

Henry Zou

Reeling from the betrayal that cost them their leader, the renegade Blood Gorgons answer a desperate call from one of their recruiting worlds, only to find it overrun by a plague that raises the dead. The warband must wade through hordes of the undead while their own fractured command threatens to tear them apart. The final Bastion Wars novel shifts focus fully onto its Chaos Space Marines.

C.L. Werner

On an Iron Warriors forge-world, the traitor legionaries and their enslaved populations face an overwhelming Ork assault that threatens to overrun the entire planet. The story unfolds largely from the perspective of the embattled defenders, exposing the cruelty and internal rivalries that define the Iron Warriors. A rare extended look at a traitor Chapter fighting a desperate defensive war.

Anthony Reynolds

Deep within the Eye of Terror, a berserker champion of the old World Eaters summons his former comrade Kharn the Betrayer to help forge a vast war host in the Blood God's name. But Kharn is far more cunning than his reputation suggests, and his own agenda will always come before any alliance.

Nick Kyme

On a besieged world, Emperor's Children warbands seeking the ultimate sensation find their hunt for 'perfection' disrupted when the arrival of bloodthirsty World Eaters threatens to set the rival Chaos forces against one another. As Slaaneshi champions are murdered one by one, ancient enmities boil over into grotesque violence.

Justin D. Hill

Deep beneath an Inquisitorial fortress, an interrogator is set to break a captured Space Marine who claims to be Alpharius. As the questioning drags on, the prisoner's words begin to unravel the acolyte's certainty about himself, his master, and where true loyalty lies. A short, claustrophobic story built entirely on Alpha Legion mind games and the impossibility of knowing the truth.

Mark Clapham

Huron Blackheart leads his Red Corsairs to seize the mysterious Hollow Worlds of Lastrati, only for a Space Wolves force to arrive and contest the prize. With neither the renegade tyrant nor the sons of Russ willing to relent, the fight for the strange artificial worlds escalates into a brutal, sprawling war.

Chris Dows

Khârn the Betrayer leads a warband of frenzied berzerkers on a relentless trail of slaughter as Abaddon's Thirteenth Black Crusade convulses the galaxy. The Warmaster wants to bend Khârn's fury to his own designs, but the Champion of the Blood God bows to no one, carving a bloody road that pits him against the Imperium and the Black Legion alike. Originally released as a serialized run of short stories.

Ian St. Martin

Lucius the Eternal, the deathless swordsman of the Emperor's Children, finds his warband worn thin by endless war and his own indulgences, forcing him to seek out a fellow renegade to rebuild his strength. Beset by treachery on all sides, the champion of Slaanesh confronts the one threat that even an immortal might have cause to dread. A horror-tinged spotlight on one of Chaos's most arrogant and dangerous swordsmen.

Chris Wraight

Aboard a plague-ridden warship, a company of the Death Guard sails the warp in service to Nurgle, their bodies and souls reshaped by the Plague God's gifts. When a new campaign draws them toward a fresh atrocity, the warband's twisted camaraderie and grim devotion are laid bare. Chris Wraight offers a darkly characterful, surprisingly intimate portrait of Chaos Space Marines who have made peace with rot and ruin.

Mike Brooks

A Space Marine captain arrives at a Schola Progenium to claim the finest recruits for his Chapter, but the students soon sense that something about their visitor is deeply wrong. The short tale peels back the corruption working its way into one of the Imperium's most trusted institutions. It is a sharp little study of how the Alpha Legion turns the Imperium's own pride against it.

Mike Brooks

Solomon Akurra, a Chaos Lord of the Alpha Legion, slips into a Deathwatch watch station to confront its kill-team with an uncomfortable offer. He claims to hold a truth that could shatter the certainties of the Imperium's most elite and devout warriors. The story leans hard into the legion's signature theme of subverting faith with revelation.

Mike Vincent

A disgraced and betrayed Night Lords lord, once the feared Skin-Taker who ruled the Blades of Atrocity, claws toward revenge after losing everything to a hated rival. Drawn by rumors of a ghostly voidship, he gambles on reclaiming his stature with only a renegade tech-priest and his warband's casual brutality to rely on. The novel leans into intrigue, void warfare, and the self-destructive cruelty of the VIII Legion.

John French

The Thousand Sons sorcerer Ahzek Ahriman finally lays hands on the ancient Necron device he believes can rewrite his Legion's doom and undo the curse of the Rubric. Betrayal at the moment of triumph strands him in a strange limbo beyond ordinary space and time, forcing him to fight through surreal warp-touched landscapes. The fifth Ahriman book caps his long, tragic quest for redemption with arcane confrontation and introspection.

Mike Brooks

Solomon Akurra, the Alpha Legion Harrowmaster, has bound scores of fractious warbands into a single domain and now reaches for something far greater than mere raiding. His ambition to turn his Primarch's weapon against the whole Imperium draws a massive retaliatory assault and a swarm of Imperial assassins. The sequel to Harrowmaster balances grand strategic schemes with the constant infighting of those who follow him.

Anthony Reynolds

The opening novel of Anthony Reynolds' Word Bearers trilogy, told largely from the perspective of the traitor Legion devoted to the dark gods as they wage a brutal crusade of corruption and conquest. It offers a rare sustained look at Chaos Space Marines as protagonists, centred on a Dark Apostle and his warband in the late 41st Millennium.

Anthony Reynolds

The middle book of Anthony Reynolds' Word Bearers trilogy, continuing the campaign of the Chaos-worshipping Legion as their warband presses on with its bloody designs and internal ambitions. It builds on the characters and conflicts of the first novel, staying firmly in the perspective of the traitor Astartes during the late 41st Millennium.

Aaron Dembski-Bowden

The opening novel of the Night Lords trilogy, following a warband of the traitorous Eighth Legion as they raid the Imperium ten thousand years after their fall. Told largely from the perspective of these terror troops and their human bondsmen, it is a landmark example of Chaos Space Marines portrayed as fully realized, conflicted characters rather than simple villains.

Anthony Reynolds

The final volume of Anthony Reynolds' Word Bearers trilogy, bringing the warband's long campaign to its climax as their schemes collide with Imperial defenders and their own dark devotions. It resolves the arcs of the earlier novels, concluding one of Black Library's notable Chaos-focused series in the late 41st Millennium.

Aaron Dembski-Bowden

The second Night Lords novel, continuing the saga of Talos and his warband as they ally with a notorious raiding power to strike deeper into Imperial space. The book widens the scope of the Eighth Legion's grim existence while sharpening the personal struggles and fragile loyalties within the warband.

Aaron Dembski-Bowden

The finale of the Night Lords trilogy, bringing Talos and his fellow warriors of the Eighth Legion toward a reckoning long foreshadowed in their fated bloodline. It closes out one of Black Library's defining Chaos-perspective stories with a focus on prophecy, brotherhood, and the cost of the legion's long decline.

John French

The first novel in John French's Ahriman series, following the exiled Thousand Sons sorcerer in the wake of the catastrophic spell that doomed his legion. Wandering the Eye of Terror as an outcast, Ahriman is drawn back toward the pursuit of power and knowledge that has always defined him, in a tale steeped in sorcery and ambition.

John French

The second Ahriman novel, deepening the exiled sorcerer's schemes as he gathers allies and unravels deeper mysteries of fate and the warp. John French continues to explore ambition, regret, and the seductive cost of arcane power among the Thousand Sons.

John French

The concluding volume of John French's Ahriman trilogy, following the Thousand Sons sorcerer Ahzek Ahriman as his long-laid schemes to undo the catastrophe that doomed his Legion reach their climax. It draws together the threads of betrayal, rivalry, and forbidden knowledge built up across the earlier books, set in the late 41st Millennium.

Andy Clark

An Alpha Legion-focused Chaos novel built around infiltration and opportunism, giving readers a different traitor perspective from daemon-heavy war stories.

Josh Reynolds

The second novel in Josh Reynolds' series about Fabius Bile, the renegade Apothecary and master geneticist of the Emperor's Children, as his obsessive experiments and creations draw the attention of rivals and former allies. Set in the late 41st Millennium, it blends grim body-horror with dark wit while exploring one of Chaos's most singular characters.

Josh Reynolds

The third novel in Josh Reynolds' Fabius Bile series, following the renegade geneticist deeper into his monstrous ambitions as old rivalries and his own creations threaten to consume him. Closing out a key arc of the trilogy in the late 41st Millennium, it leans into the dark humour and grotesque invention that define the character.

John French

A continuation of John French's saga of the Thousand Sons sorcerer Ahriman, picking up his ambitions after the events of the original trilogy as new schemes and old enemies pull him back into galaxy-spanning manipulation. It deepens the portrait of Tzeentch's most infamous servant in the late 41st Millennium and rewards readers already familiar with his story.

Mike Brooks

A modern Alpha Legion novel that makes the legion's scattered identity and covert warfare easier to place in the late-era Chaos lane.

Mike Brooks

A Chaos standalone centered on Huron Blackheart and the Red Corsairs, useful for readers who want a late-M41 renegade perspective.

Chris Wraight

This novel rides with a warband of the Death Guard aboard their decaying plague-hulk, offering an intimate, blackly comic look at life among the Plague Marines of Nurgle. As old veterans bicker and rot in their devotion, a new campaign and a fresh recruit force the warband to confront what their long service to the Grandfather has truly made of them.

David Guymer

With the galaxy torn by the Great Rift, the daemon primarch Angron returns to the materium, and his scattered World Eaters heed the call to slaughter. Warlords who have struggled for millennia to reunite the broken Legion must reckon with what their gene-father's coming truly means, while an outsider seeking to join their ranks witnesses the savagery up close. David Guymer captures the Red Angel as an unstoppable force of nature around whom his sons orbit in blood-soaked devotion.

Mike Brooks

Huron Blackheart, lord of the Red Corsairs and master of the lawless Maelstrom, must hold his renegade empire together as the resurgent Imperium of Roboute Guilliman presses in from without and ambitious rivals scheme from within. As his lieutenants chase their own dangerous prizes, the former Tyrant of Badab navigates betrayal and shifting loyalties among his vicious followers. Mike Brooks foregrounds the treacherous internal politics of a Chaos pirate empire.

Rich McCormick

A warband of the Emperor's Children cuts through the Imperium in pursuit of ever-sharper sensation, led by a champion whose appetites threaten to devour his own followers as readily as his foes. As rivalries inside the warband turn predatory, the distance between ambition and self-ruin narrows to nothing. A dark, character-driven Chaos novel about excess, dominance, and the price of serving Slaanesh.

David Annandale

A Dark Apostle of the Word Bearers spreads the gospel of Chaos across a doomed world, binding daemon and faithful to his crusade. A grim study of the galaxy's first and most fanatical traitors in the present age.