Guy Haley
A Blood Angels character novel that makes Dante's long service legible before the chapter enters one of its defining modern crises.
998.M41 - 998.M41
exact date, high confidence
First published 2017
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Noble and artistic warriors haunted by the death of their angelic primarch, fighting a constant inner battle against the Black Rage and the Red Thirst.
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Guy Haley
A Blood Angels character novel that makes Dante's long service legible before the chapter enters one of its defining modern crises.
998.M41 - 998.M41
exact date, high confidence
First published 2017
Guy Haley
A major Blood Angels and Tyranids war novel that bridges old late-M41 continuity into the new strategic era.
998.M41 - 999.M41
range date, medium confidence
First published 2017
James Swallow
A Blood Angels Heresy novel that makes Sanguinius and his Legion's curse central before the road narrows toward Terra.
001.M31 - 014.M31
range date, medium confidence
First published 2012
David Annandale
A Horus Heresy novel in which the loyalist primarchs confront the collapse of Imperium Secundus and resolve to break through the warp storms separating them from Terra. Guilliman, Sanguinius, and the Lion press their fleets into the perilous Ruinstorm in a desperate bid to reach the Emperor before the war is lost. It serves as a major turning point closing out the Imperium Secundus arc.
001.M31 - 014.M31
range date, medium confidence
First published 2017
Chris Wraight
This novel illuminates the noble Blood Angels' primarch, beloved by his brothers yet shadowed by a hidden curse and visions of his own doom. It captures his grace, his battlefield heroism during the Great Crusade, and the quiet weight of the fate he alone foresees.
000.M31 - 333.M31
era date, medium confidence
First published 2022
James Swallow
A force of Blood Angels is drawn into a desperate war over a fallen world, fighting against the corruption of Chaos while wrestling with the gene-curse that haunts their bloodline. As the campaign turns to betrayal and the lure of the Black Rage looms, brothers must hold to their honour amid mounting horror. The first half of a two-part saga that sets the stage for a deeper crisis of faith within the Chapter.
667.M41 - 999.M41
era date, medium confidence
First published 2004
James Swallow
Picking up the war begun in Deus Encarmine, the Blood Angels are pushed to the brink as schism and the temptation of the Black Rage threaten to tear the Chapter apart from within. Loyalty, madness and the legacy of Sanguinius collide as the sons of the Angel confront an enemy that strikes at their very soul. The concluding volume brings the duology's struggle over faith and damnation to its climax.
667.M41 - 999.M41
era date, medium confidence
First published 2005
James Swallow
When a fragment of the Blood Angels' lineage strays toward heresy, Captain Rafen is drawn into a conflict that threatens the unity and purity of the Chapter's gene-seed. The hunt pits brother against errant brother as questions of legitimacy and the precious blood of Sanguinius come to a head. A fast-moving tale of loyalty and internal strife among the sons of the Angel.
667.M41 - 999.M41
era date, medium confidence
First published 2008
James Swallow
Following the events of Red Fury, Captain Rafen leads a small band of Blood Angels on a perilous mission into hostile, daemon-touched space to root out a lingering threat to the Chapter. Cut off and outnumbered, the warriors must endure horror and corruption to see their duty done. A tense follow-up that closes out Rafen's confrontation with the enemies of his bloodline.
667.M41 - 999.M41
era date, medium confidence
First published 2010
Darius Hinks
Chief Librarian Mephiston, the Lord of Death who alone mastered the Black Rage, journeys to a shrine world that has vanished from the Astronomican's light and fallen into religious civil war. Drawn by the hope of understanding his own survival of the Flaw, he and his honour guard descend into a conflict over a relic said to be wrought by the Emperor. As his composure begins to fray, a young Librarian becomes entangled in his strange and dangerous fate.
667.M41 - 999.M41
era date, medium confidence
First published 2017
Darius Hinks
As the Great Rift splits the galaxy, Mephiston finds his psychic sight inexplicably blinded at the moment he needs it most, leaving him haunted by ghostly visions of unclear purpose. He takes his ship and his Blood Angels to a war-torn world where he believes the source of his affliction lies, only to find it gripped by an ancient and bitter conflict. The Lord of Death must navigate both an external war and the darkening of his own powers.
000.M42 - 333.M42
era date, medium confidence
First published 2018
Darius Hinks
The closing volume of the Mephiston trilogy follows the Blood Angels' Chief Librarian deep into Imperium Nihilus, where cryptic visions draw him toward a war-torn world on the edge of the Great Rift. There the sorcerers of the Thousand Sons work to bind a chain of arcane towers into a ritual that would feed the power of their daemon primarch, and Mephiston must master his own buried fears to stop it.
667.M41 - 999.M41
era date, medium confidence
First published 2019
Graham McNeill
Part of the Siege of Terra sequence, this novella follows a desperate mission to the moon to secure the gene-cult of the Selenar, whose secrets the loyalists hope can replenish their dwindling forces. A team of disparate warriors must navigate the lunar enclave's defenses while a returning figure pursues his own dark designs.
334.M31 - 666.M31
era date, medium confidence
First published 2020
James Swallow
A squad of Blood Angels investigates a derelict drifting through the void, only to confront the relentless horror of the tyranid menace and the bloody curse that lurks within their own gene-seed. Isolation and dread close in as the Sons of Sanguinius battle to survive. Originally released as an audio drama, it is a tight, claustrophobic showcase of the Chapter's flaw.
667.M41 - 999.M41
era date, medium confidence
First published 2009
Nick Kyme
A Blood Angels successor Chapter contends with the dark inheritance written into their blood as old wounds and rivalries surface. The flaw of the Sons of Sanguinius drives the conflict as warriors struggle against the rage and thirst lurking within. A character-focused look at the legacy carried by Sanguinius's descendants.
667.M41 - 999.M41
era date, medium confidence
First published 2010
Gav Thorpe
A squad of Blood Angels Terminators boards a vast, drifting space hulk to recover ancient technology, only to find its labyrinthine corridors swarming with relentless tyranid Genestealers. Trapped in the dark with dwindling numbers, every step deeper into the derelict becomes a fight for survival. A tense, close-quarters horror tale based on the classic board game.
667.M41 - 999.M41
era date, medium confidence
First published 2009
David Annandale
Lemartes, the Blood Angels' Guardian of the Lost, leads the maddened Death Company into battle on a war-torn world where a tide of blood-madness mirrors his own barely-restrained Black Rage. As the Chaplain wrestles to keep control of himself and his charges, they clash with insane servants of Chaos bent on a horrific ritual. The novel is an intense character study of a warrior balanced on the knife-edge of damnation.
667.M41 - 999.M41
era date, medium confidence
First published 2015
Ben Counter
Exiled from his Chapter after a grievous failure, a Blood Angels captain leads a band of battle-brothers on a desperate pilgrimage into the Eye of Terror to recover a sacred relic blade. Beset by daemons and the warp's madness, the warriors must hold to their honour even as damnation closes in around them.
667.M41 - 999.M41
era date, medium confidence
First published 2012
C.Z. Dunn
On a contested hive world, a squad of Blood Angels Scouts undertakes a perilous ascent of a towering hive city to open the way for an aerial assault while their brothers battle in the streets below. The short, focused tale showcases the courage and sacrifice of young Astartes proving themselves in their first great war.
667.M41 - 999.M41
era date, medium confidence
First published 2013
Andy Smillie
An anthology gathering novellas and short fiction about the Flesh Tearers, the savage Blood Angels successors who battle both their xenos and traitor foes and the murderous curse in their own blood. Following Chapter Master Gabriel Seth and his warriors, it spans the Chapter's violent origins and its desperate fights for survival in the 41st Millennium.
667.M41 - 999.M41
era date, medium confidence
First published 2016
Guy Haley
Astorath the Grim, High Chaplain of the Blood Angels, travels the scattered successor chapters delivering the Emperor's mercy to those lost to the Black Rage. A somber meditation on the flaw in the sons of Sanguinius.
000.M42 - 333.M42
era date, medium confidence
First published 2022
Chris Forrester
A Blood Angels successor chapter battles a foe that preys on its gene-cursed flaw, and brothers must master their own rage to survive. A visceral Space Marine war story.
000.M42 - 333.M42
era date, medium confidence
First published 2023