Chaos

Graham McNeill

A turning-point novel about the pressures and manipulations that push the Warmaster toward rebellion.

Graham McNeill

A Mars-centered Heresy novel about the Mechanicum's internal fracture and the strategic cost of rebellion spreading off the battlefield.

John French

The Siege begins at system scale, turning the long Heresy arc toward the final assault on Terra.

Guy Haley

A ground-level escalation of the Siege as defenders and attackers settle into catastrophic attrition.

Gav Thorpe

A Siege installment focused on the outer defensive ring, where strategic pressure and ground combat begin to compress around the Palace.

Chris Wraight

A Space Wolves-focused battle novel that places an old Legion rivalry into the long aftermath of the Heresy.

Josh Reynolds

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

Peter Fehervari

A horror-leaning 40k novel where faith, memory, and corruption turn the setting inward rather than following a conventional war-front structure.

Dan Abnett

The final Eisenhorn novel in the core trilogy, following the consequences of earlier compromises into a more hunted phase.

Sandy Mitchell

Cain's Guard lane crosses into a more directly heretical threat while keeping the series' focus on reputation, luck, and survival.

Dan Abnett

The first Tanith novel, built around survival, command, and a regiment trying to matter in a vast war.

Dan Abnett

A character-building Gaunt's Ghosts entry that fills in the regiment's early campaigns and why the Tanith survive as more than a lost-world relic.

Dan Abnett

A defining Guard siege novel that turns the Ghosts into part of a larger Imperial war machine while reshaping the regiment's identity.

Dan Abnett

A holy-war Guard entry where the Ghosts move from battlefield disgrace into a mission shaped by relics, faith, and impossible timing.

Dan Abnett

A campaign-focused Ghosts novel that shifts the regiment into a high-risk operation tied to Imperial supply lines and air-war pressure.

Dan Abnett

A grinding war-front entry that shows the Ghosts trapped inside older military thinking while the Sabbat campaign keeps demanding adaptation.

Dan Abnett

A pivotal Saint-focused Ghosts novel where battlefield duty and religious symbolism collide around the Crusade's moral center.

Dan Abnett

A Sabbat Worlds spin-off that moves the reader-decision lane from infantry survival to the air war supporting the wider Imperial retreat and counterattack.

Dan Abnett

A behind-enemy-lines Ghosts novel that narrows the huge Crusade into a desperate Imperial special operation with strategic consequences.

Dan Abnett

A command-and-identity entry where the surviving Ghosts have to re-enter Imperial structures after a mission that changed their place in the war.

Dan Abnett

A liberation-war Ghosts novel that tests what Imperial victory means when the same world has already scarred the regiment.

Dan Abnett

A fortress-defense Ghosts entry that turns the regiment's endurance into the central question while command and morale fracture under pressure.

Dan Abnett

A Sabbat Worlds spin-off that gives Titan warfare its own map presence while staying tied to the Crusade's industrial and strategic stakes.

Dan Abnett

A quieter but tense Ghosts entry where rear-line security becomes dangerous and the enemy's discipline starts to matter as much as its numbers.

Dan Abnett

A raid-focused Ghosts novel that turns the regiment toward intelligence gathering and sets up the later Urdesh endgame.

Dan Abnett

A late Ghosts sequence entry that brings the regiment into the Urdesh campaign and raises the stakes around the Crusade's high command.

Dan Abnett

A late Ghosts culmination point that pulls years of Sabbat Worlds fighting into a direct confrontation with the enemy's command structure.

Robert Rath

A large-scale account of Cadia's final crisis and a key bridge between classic late-M41 stories and the Era Indomitus.

Mike Brooks

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

Guy Haley

A central modern-era novel about Guilliman's returned Imperium facing strategic, political, and daemonic pressure in Ultramar.

Guy Haley

The Plague Wars escalate as Ultramar becomes a strategic and ideological test case for the revived Imperial order.

Guy Haley

The Dark Imperium trilogy closes with the Plague Wars pushing into questions of faith, power, and what the returned primarch can actually fix.

Mike Brooks

A modern Dark Angels anchor that follows the Lion's return into a changed Imperium rather than treating the era as only Guilliman's story.

Steve Lyons

A grim siege novel chronicling the Death Korps of Krieg's brutal, attritional war to reclaim the rebellious armoury world of Vraks. It captures the relentless, self-sacrificing fatalism of Krieg's soldiers as a planned operation grinds into a years-long campaign of trenches, artillery, and worsening horrors. A strong showcase of Astra Militarum siege warfare in the 41st Millennium.

Robbie Macniven

A Space Marines standalone with a colder, predatory chapter identity, useful for readers who want a chapter-focused story far from Ultramarines or Blood Angels defaults.

Sandy Mitchell

A later Ciaphas Cain novel for readers who already like the series' mix of self-preservation, Guard action, and Inquisitorial complications.

Gav Thorpe

Part of the Last Chancers series following Colonel Schaeffer and his penal legion of condemned soldiers thrown into suicidal missions. Narrated by the hardened survivor Kage, it continues the squad's grim story as they are hurled against impossible odds. The book delivers a bleak, brutal take on the expendable foot soldiers of the Imperial Guard.

C.S. Goto

A novelisation tied to the real-time strategy game of the same name, following Captain Gabriel Angelos and the Blood Ravens Space Marine Chapter. On the embattled world of Tartarus, the Marines find themselves caught between Orks, Eldar, and a darker threat buried in the planet's past. It serves as an accessible action-driven entry point built around the video game's setting.

Sandy Mitchell

A later Cain story that benefits from knowing the character's rhythm, useful for readers continuing the commissar lane rather than starting it cold.

Nick Kyme and Lindsey Priestley

An anthology of short stories within the Horus Heresy series, gathering tales from across the galaxy-spanning civil war that broke the Imperium. The collection fills in side stories and lesser-seen corners of the conflict from multiple authors, including perspectives beyond the major Legions. It rewards readers already familiar with the broader Heresy narrative.

Mike Lee

A Horus Heresy novel centered on the Dark Angels Legion, continuing the storyline begun in Descent of Angels. It splits its focus between events on the Legion's homeworld of Caliban and its sons fighting far away, sowing the seeds of one of the setting's great betrayals. It is most meaningful for readers tracking the Dark Angels' arc through the series.

Graham McNeill

A key Horus Heresy novel for understanding the Thousand Sons, Prospero, and the tragedy of knowledge turning into catastrophe.

James Swallow

A clandestine cabal assembles a team of Imperial assassins from the rival temples for an audacious mission to strike at Warmaster Horus himself during the early years of the galaxy-spanning civil war. Told largely from the shadowy perspective of the assassin clades rather than the Space Marine Legions, it is a tense espionage thriller that widens the Heresy's lens beyond the front lines.

Aaron Dembski-Bowden

One of the clearest Heresy origin novels, showing why the Word Bearers matter and how religious devotion becomes a galaxy-changing fracture.

Christian Dunn

An anthology of short stories set during the long, scattered years of the civil war, filling gaps between the major novels and spotlighting numerous Legions and characters across the galaxy. It serves as a connective collection that broadens the scope of the conflict through a range of authors and viewpoints.

Graham McNeill

Set on Terra as news of the betrayal reaches the Imperial Palace, this novel follows an astropath caught up in the paranoia and danger gripping humanity's homeworld alongside a band of imprisoned Space Marines from traitor and loyalist Legions alike. It offers a ground-level, human-scale view of Terra during the Heresy's anxious early days.

Gav Thorpe

In the aftermath of the catastrophic Dropsite Massacre, primarch Corax leads the shattered remnants of the Raven Guard in a desperate effort to rebuild his Legion, pursuing a daring gene-seed project while a hidden enemy works against him. A key Legion-focused entry covering the Raven Guard's struggle to survive and recover.

Christian Dunn

An anthology of longer novellas each centered on one of the demigod primarchs, offering focused character pieces that deepen the portraits of several of the Emperor's sons during the era of the Heresy. It rewards readers seeking more intimate insight into these central figures.

James Swallow

A Blood Angels Heresy novel that makes Sanguinius and his Legion's curse central before the road narrows toward Terra.

Christian Dunn and Nick Kyme

An anthology that gathers several novellas and short stories spanning key moments of the early Horus Heresy, including pieces focused on the Word Bearers, Night Lords, and the war's wider unfolding. It collects previously limited-release and audio-origin material into a single volume, filling gaps between the major novels. Best read once a reader is already invested in the series rather than as a starting point.

Graham McNeill

A Horus Heresy novel following Perturabo and the Iron Warriors as they are drawn into a scheme alongside Fulgrim and the Emperor's Children toward a mysterious and dangerous prize. It deepens the characterization of two traitor primarchs and explores the corrupting pull of forbidden power. A strong entry for readers already following the traitor legions' arcs.

Aaron Dembski-Bowden

A defining World Eaters and Word Bearers Heresy novel, strong for readers who want the emotional and brutal heart of the traitor-legion arc.

Laurie Goulding

An anthology of short fiction set in the aftermath of the devastating betrayal on the world of Calth, exploring the underground war and survival amid the ruined planet. The stories expand on events introduced in earlier Ultramarines-focused novels and feature multiple authors. Supplementary reading that enriches the Calth storyline rather than driving the main plot.

Nick Kyme

A Horus Heresy novel following the Salamanders primarch Vulkan in the wake of the catastrophe at Isstvan, intercut with the struggles of survivors trying to regroup. It probes Vulkan's nature and endurance while advancing the loyalist threads scattered after the dropsite massacre. Rewarding for readers tracking the Salamanders and the war's aftermath.

Dan Abnett

A mid-Heresy Imperium Secundus anchor that gathers major loyalist figures and shows how the war fractures command, certainty, and communication.

Chris Wraight

A White Scars-focused Heresy novel that gives the Legion a distinct identity and makes their loyalty feel like an active decision, not background color.

Graham McNeill

A Horus Heresy novel that returns focus to the Warmaster Horus and the Sons of Horus as they pursue a campaign with deep stakes for the traitor cause. It advances Horus's own arc and his growing power, set aboard and around his flagship's wider war. An important entry best read once a reader is well into the series.

David Annandale

A novel following a group of Iron Hands and other loyalist survivors who, after the Dropsite Massacre, attempt to establish a refuge on a remote death world. What begins as a struggle for survival becomes a darker tale as the planet's secrets and the corrupting influence of Chaos take hold. It sits in the post-Isstvan period of the Horus Heresy and is a more contained, horror-tinged entry.

Laurie Goulding

A short-story anthology gathering tales from across the Horus Heresy era, spanning numerous Space Marine Legions on both loyalist and traitor sides. The collection fills in smaller moments and side-stories rather than advancing one central plot, making it supplementary reading for those already invested in the series.

Laurie Goulding

An anthology of Horus Heresy short fiction collecting stories from a range of authors and Legions across the conflict. As with the series' other collections, it broadens the tapestry of the war with self-contained tales rather than driving the main narrative forward.

Guy Haley

Set on the world of Sotha, this novel centres on a mysterious xenos beacon device guarded by the Ultramarines during Roboute Guilliman's effort to hold the Imperium Secundus together. The Night Lords descend on the installation, turning the story into a tense siege with high stakes for the loyalist cause.

Laurie Goulding

A Horus Heresy short-story anthology assembling tales from various points in the war and a wide cast of Legions and characters. It serves as supplementary material that enriches the wider conflict rather than functioning as a standalone narrative.

Chris Wraight

A White Scars novel following Jaghatai Khan and his Legion as they fight to break free of a long pursuit and make their way toward Terra. Continuing Chris Wraight's arc for the Khan, it blends fast, mobile warfare with the Primarch's struggle over which side he truly serves.

Laurie Goulding

A Horus Heresy anthology of short stories focusing largely on the shadow war waged around Terra and the Emperor's forces, including the clandestine and esoteric arms of the Imperium. It collects connected tales that flesh out the conflict's secret fronts rather than telling a single continuous story.

Gav Thorpe

A Dark Angels-focused Horus Heresy novel set during the era of Imperium Secundus, where the Legion is scattered across many systems and Lion El'Jonson governs as Lord Protector of Ultramar. Old rivalries within the I Legion and the Lion's ruthless methods strain the fragile alliance of loyalist primarchs gathered in the realm of Ultramar. It deepens the Dark Angels' internal politics and the secrets of their command.

John French

A late-Heresy Imperial Fists and Alpha Legion novel that sharpens the road to Terra through siegecraft, deception, and loyalist preparation.

Gav Thorpe

A collection of stories following Corvus Corax and the Raven Guard in the aftermath of the disaster at Isstvan, as the battered Legion struggles to rebuild and strike back at the traitors. The tales explore Corax's character, his Legion's attempts to recover their strength, and the moral costs of their secret programs. A good companion read for those following the Raven Guard's arc.

James Swallow

An anthology gathering the saga of Nathaniel Garro, the former Death Guard battle-captain who breaks with his Legion and becomes an agent of loyalist resistance and a knight errant in service to the wider cause. The collected stories trace his transformation and the founding of a secret brotherhood of warriors loyal to the Emperor. It connects directly to the origins of the Grey Knights and the Sigillite's hidden agents.

Laurie Goulding

A Horus Heresy anthology following the survivors of the loyalist Legions devastated at Isstvan as they wage a scattered insurgency behind enemy lines. The stories weave together Iron Hands, Raven Guard, and Salamanders remnants and their guerrilla campaign of sabotage against the traitor forces. It collects shorter works into a broader account of the loyalist fightback.

Graham McNeill

A Thousand Sons novel that follows the broken Magnus the Red after the burning of Prospero, as the primarch's fractured psyche and shattered Legion seek a path forward. It delves deep into psychic lore, the consequences of Magnus's choices, and the Thousand Sons' descent further into the orbit of Tzeentch. A strong pick for readers invested in the XV Legion and the setting's sorcery.

John French

A Horus Heresy collection built around the massive armored war on the poisoned world of Tallarn, one of the largest tank battles in the setting's history. The stories follow loyalist and Iron Warriors forces grinding through a toxic wasteland in a brutal contest of attrition. It is notable for foregrounding armored warfare and the Iron Warriors Legion rather than pure Space Marine infantry action.

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.

Nick Kyme

The closing chapter of Nick Kyme's Salamanders arc, following the reborn primarch Vulkan as he and his loyal sons undertake a perilous journey toward Terra and the truth behind his resurrection. It ties off threads from Vulkan Lives and Deathfire while pushing the loyalist cause toward the final defence of the Throneworld.

Laurie Goulding

A short-story anthology gathering tales from across the late Horus Heresy, exploring the strain that divided loyalties place on warriors, agents, and Legions as the war grinds toward its climax. The collected stories span multiple factions and characters rather than telling a single continuous narrative.

Guy Haley

Guy Haley's novel centres on the Space Wolves and their primarch Leman Russ as he pursues a desperate, long-foreshadowed mission against the Warmaster Horus. It delivers a pivotal Legion-versus-Legion confrontation in the run-up to the Siege of Terra.

John French

A late-Heresy traitor-side staging novel that helps explain the unstable coalition approaching Terra and why Horus' war machine is already damaged.

Nick Kyme and Laurie Goulding

An anthology of short stories set on the eve of the Siege of Terra, gathering vignettes of loyalists and traitors alike as both sides make their final preparations for the assault on the Throneworld. It serves as a bridge collection leading directly into the series finale.

Guy Haley

Guy Haley's novel depicts a massive Titan Legion clash at Beta-Garmon, the colossal war-engine battle fought to delay the traitor advance on Terra. It showcases the god-machines of the Adeptus Mechanicus and Collegia Titanica at the gateway to the Throneworld.

James Swallow

The closing mainline Horus Heresy novel before the Siege of Terra, especially important for the Death Guard and the final pre-siege alignment.

Dan Abnett

A central Siege of Terra novel that combines large-scale battle, character tragedy, and decisive palace-front momentum.

John French

A Siege of Terra installment that turns to the Titan Legions and the apocalyptic god-machine combat raging across the dying world as the Palace is besieged. It deepens the scale of the assault and the toll it takes on Terra's defenders.

Chris Wraight

A Siege of Terra entry centered on the White Scars' role in the palace war, giving the late Heresy a fast, forceful loyalist viewpoint.

Aaron Dembski-Bowden

A late Siege of Terra novel with heavy Blood Angels weight, pushing the palace conflict toward its mythic and emotional breaking points.

Dan Abnett

The first part of the Siege finale, best treated as the start of one long ending rather than a casual standalone.

Dan Abnett

The second part of Dan Abnett's sprawling three-volume conclusion to the Siege of Terra, picking up as the assault on the Imperial Palace reaches its most desperate and surreal heights. Loyalist defenders fight a war that is no longer only physical, as the conflict bleeds into the warp and the stakes for Horus and the Emperor escalate toward their final reckoning. As a middle volume of the saga's climax, it assumes deep familiarity with the preceding Horus Heresy and Siege of Terra books.

Dan Abnett

The final volume of Dan Abnett's epic that closes out both the Siege of Terra and the entire Horus Heresy, bringing the confrontation between the Emperor and his favoured son to its long-awaited resolution. It delivers the saga's ultimate turning point and the consequences that will shape the grim future of the 41st Millennium. This is a payoff book for readers who have followed the series to its end, not an entry point.

Andy Clark

A Dawn of Fire continuation that widens the early Indomitus Crusade and gives the modern-era lane more religious and military texture.

Gav Thorpe

A Dawn of Fire entry with Space Wolves emphasis, useful for readers following the Indomitus Crusade through chapter-specific pressure points.

Guy Haley

A Dawn of Fire continuation that leans into the spiritual and political strain of the new crusade, best read as part of the sequence.

Nick Kyme

The fifth book in the Dawn of Fire series, set in the Era Indomitus as the Imperial Crusade contends with a beleaguered region of the galaxy during the ongoing war to reclaim humanity's worlds. It continues the series' long-form storyline and rewards readers following the sequence in order.

Marc Collins

The sixth Dawn of Fire novel turns from the wider Indomitus Crusade to a single embattled shrine world, where defenders of the Imperial faith make a desperate stand against a tide of plague-ridden corruption. It centres on the warrior-faith of the Adepta Sororitas alongside Black Templars and an agent of the Imperial Regent, exploring the human cost of holding the line.

Chris Wraight

The seventh Dawn of Fire novel pushes the Indomitus Crusade deeper into the perils of warp travel and the secrets binding the Imperium's recovery together, told with Chris Wraight's focus on character and the strain of duty. It advances the series' overarching arc of agents and warriors converging on a larger threat to Mankind.

Nick Kyme

The eighth Dawn of Fire novel draws the series' threads toward a confrontation with one of the Warmaster's schemes, following loyalist agents and Ultramarines against rival Chaos acolytes vying for the favour of the Dark Gods. It raises the stakes of the wider conflict as ambitious servants of Chaos reach for an ancient power.

Guy Haley

The ninth and concluding Dawn of Fire novel brings the long Indomitus storyline to its climax, with Guy Haley returning to wrap up the cast and plot threads built across the series. As its title signals, the awakened Necron Silent King looms over the Imperium's struggle, drawing the great crusade arc to a head.

Graham McNeill

The third Ultramarines novel sends Uriel Ventris on a grim penitent journey into hostile, Chaos-tainted territory, far from the support of his Chapter. A darker, more harrowing chapter in the saga that tests Ventris against the horrors of the Traitor Legions and a daemon-haunted world.

Graham McNeill

The fourth Ultramarines novel follows Uriel Ventris as he fights to return home, only to be drawn into the troubles of a beleaguered Imperial world burdened by a dark legacy. It continues the series' exploration of duty, loyalty, and the cost of straying from the Codex Astartes.

Graham McNeill

Graham McNeill's climactic Ultramarines novel in which Uriel Ventris and his Chapter face a sweeping assault led by an old Iron Warriors nemesis. It serves as a capstone to the original Uriel Ventris series, resolving long-running threads of duty, rivalry, and redemption.

Graham McNeill

A later entry in Graham McNeill's Uriel Ventris chronicles, originally released as an audio-format story, following the Ultramarines into renewed conflict on and around the world of Calth. It revives the Uriel Ventris line for modern 40k continuity, blending personal command drama with battlefield action.

Guy Haley

A direct sequel to The Devastation of Baal by Guy Haley, in which the Blood Angels rebuild and plan to reclaim worlds lost to the Imperium's great division, while Chief Librarian Mephiston wrestles with his evolving psychic nature. It pushes the Chapter's story into the Indomitus era of 40k.

Chris Wraight

Chris Wraight's Space Wolves novel following a pack of the Fenrisian warriors, including a returning veteran, as they answer a call to defend a beleaguered shrine world. It is a strong, character-driven introduction to Wraight's take on the Space Wolves and their fierce, saga-bound culture.

Chris Wraight

The sequel to Blood of Asaheim by Chris Wraight, continuing the story of his Space Wolves pack as Fenris itself comes under dire threat and the warriors are drawn into a conflict touching the heart of their homeworld. It deepens the characters and lore established in the first book.

Chris Wraight

Chris Wraight's conclusion to his Space Wolves arc following Ragnar Blackmane, set in the war-torn opening years of the Indomitus era. The Wolves face a deepening crisis on their home world and its surrounds as old grudges and new threats converge, deepening Wraight's character-driven take on the sons of Russ.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Simon Spurrier

An early and influential T'au-focused novel following a young fire warrior whose first taste of battle against the Imperium spirals into a far larger ordeal. The story offers a rare perspective from inside the T'au military and their idealistic society as it collides with the brutality of the wider galaxy. A formative tie-in tied to the same era as the Fire Warrior video game.

David Annandale

A Warhammer Horror novel that transplants the haunted-house tale into the 41st millennium, following a battered Imperial officer who returns to his ancestral home only to find it steeped in malign secrets and the lingering corruption of his family's past. Told in an intimate, first-person voice, it is a gothic, claustrophobic descent into madness rather than a war story.

David Annandale

A novel of the Collegia Titanica following a Warlord-class Titan and its crew as they are deployed into a desperate war zone. It dwells on the bond between Titan princeps and god-machine and the devastating power these engines unleash, set against the backdrop of the Adeptus Mechanicus at war. Suited to readers who enjoy large-scale Titan combat and Mechanicus themes.

Steve Lyons

A standalone Imperial Guard tale set on a frozen world, following a Valhallan Ice Warriors regiment as they fight through a brutal campaign in punishing cold conditions. It is a self-contained slice of ordinary-soldier warfare in the grim far future, showcasing the resilience expected of the Guard.

Aaron Dembski-Bowden

A grim Imperial Guard novel by Aaron Dembski-Bowden following a Cadian regiment fighting a desperate campaign on a plague-stricken world against the forces of Nurgle and the walking dead. Known for its strong characterization and bleak tone, it is a well-regarded standalone that highlights the suffering and faith of the common Guardsman.

Mark Clapham

A standalone Imperial Guard novel by Mark Clapham following the Mordian Iron Guard, famed for their rigid discipline, as they are deployed to a mining world afflicted by a spreading corruption. As panic and rebellion take hold, the regiment finds itself beset by enemies from both within and without the local population.

Andy Clark

Tank commander Hadeya Etsul takes charge of a Leman Russ Demolisher named Steel Tread and must earn the trust of a wary crew amid a planetary war against the servants of Chaos. Andy Clark delivers tight armoured-warfare action and crew drama, and the book serves as the opening volume of Black Library's standalone Astra Militarum novel line. It is a strong, self-contained beginner-friendly read.

Steven B. Fischer

A former Cadian officer, now a newly sanctioned psyker, is assigned back to her old regiment on a grim, mist-shrouded world where they face traitor Guard. Steven B. Fischer uses her viewpoint to explore fear, mistrust, and the precarious life of a battlefield psyker within the Astra Militarum. It is a standalone, atmospheric entry in Black Library's Astra Militarum series.

Josh Reynolds

A Death Korps of Krieg story in which a Krieg regiment is sent into the catacombs of a plague-ravaged world to locate a missing inquisitor, only to confront horrors that test their legendary resolve. It blends the relentless, sacrificial ethos of the Death Korps with elements of supernatural horror. Catalogue author attribution for this title is uncertain.

Ben Counter

The opening Grey Knights novel gives readers the daemon-hunting side of the Imperium: secretive Space Marines, Inquisitorial pressure, and occult war.

Ben Counter

The Grey Knights lane continues with a stronger focus on corrupted technology, forbidden war zones, and the uneasy overlap between machine faith and daemon war.

Ben Counter

A Grey Knights continuation that pushes further into daemon-world territory, best read after the earlier books in the same lane.

Aaron Dembski-Bowden

A Grey Knights and Inquisition-focused standalone that is useful for readers interested in the secrecy, politics, and aftermath of daemon-hunting wars.

David Annandale

The first book of a Grey Knights duology following the daemon-hunter Castellan Crowe and his terrible burden, the cursed Blade of Antwyr, which constantly whispers to corrupt its bearer. It is a focused character study of one warrior's struggle against a relentless source of temptation while pursuing the enemies of the Imperium.

David Annandale

The conclusion to the Grey Knights duology begun in Warden of the Blade, continuing Castellan Crowe's battle to contain the malevolent Blade of Antwyr while leading his brothers against a major Chaos threat. The pressure of carrying the cursed weapon escalates as the campaign reaches its climax.

Andy Clark

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

Rob Sanders

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

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.

Andy Clark

Set on a feudal Knight World, this novel follows the noble houses of Imperial Knights as they march to war and face a sudden, devastating betrayal that throws their crusade into chaos. It explores the honor-bound culture, oaths, and rivalries of the Knight houses through large-scale war-machine combat.

Andy Clark

The sequel to Kingsblade continues the saga of a Knight World's noble houses, following a young heir who must take up an ancestral war machine and confront the consequences of the previous conflict. It deepens the focus on Imperial Knight tradition, succession, and the burden of a Throne Mechanicum across sweeping battlefield action.

Gordon Rennie

The first novel of the Gothic War, this is a fleet-action story chronicling the opening of a massive void war as an Imperial Navy battlefleet confronts a Chaos incursion in the Gothic sector. It is one of the few 40k novels centered on capital-ship naval combat, drawing on the Battlefleet Gothic wargame setting.

Gordon Rennie

The second Gothic War novel picks up the void-war campaign as the Imperial Navy presses its struggle against Chaos forces across the embattled Gothic sector. It continues the large-scale fleet engagements and naval tactics of its predecessor, tied to the Battlefleet Gothic game.

Gav Thorpe

This book centers on Luther, the charismatic Dark Angels commander and one-time mentor to the Lion, charting his pride, his loyalty, and the slow corruption of his ambitions. It examines the bond and growing jealousy between him and his primarch that ultimately leads the Legion toward catastrophe.

Jude Reid

When a fallen warlord and his Night Lords descend on the cardinal world of Ophelia VII, the Abbess Sanctorum Morvenn Vahl defies the High Lords of Terra to lead the Sisters of Battle in its defence. Torn between her duty as a warrior-crusader and the cold politics of her office, she must rally the faithful and even the power of Living Saints to stand against the slaughter. The novel pairs furious Sororitas action with a character study of one of the Imperium's most senior figures.

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.

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.

Henry Zou

When daemon-worshipping renegades invade the Medina sub-sector, Inquisitor Obodiah Roth races to find and secure a cache of ancient artefacts before the enemy can unleash their power. Backed by the Imperial Guard, he must move faster than the tide of war engulfing the region. The first Bastion Wars novel blends Inquisitorial intrigue with sweeping military campaign.

Henry Zou

The Guardsmen of the 31st Riverine Amphibious deploy to a jungle world expecting a routine action, only to be swallowed by a brutal rebellion and a war turning against them. Set within the wider Medina conflict, the novel grinds its soldiers through guerrilla horror and the slow rot of insurgency. It is a grim, mud-and-blood Imperial Guard story that runs alongside the events of the first Bastion Wars book.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

David Annandale

A young Sebastian Yarrick, fresh from the schola progenium, takes up his first posting under a veteran lord commissar on a world wracked by baronial rebellion. What begins as suppressing an uprising unravels into a web of political scheming, a hidden Chaos cult, and clashing Imperial factions that test the future hero's resolve. An origin story tracing how an ordinary officer becomes a living legend.

Gary Kloster

Supreme Grand Master Azrael dispatches Master Lazarus and his Fifth Company to the troubled Knight world of Reis to honour an old debt as the warp turns its hungry gaze upon the planet. Amid political strife and ancient grudges, Lazarus uncovers a buried secret and a deathless enemy whose origins threaten to test the Dark Angels' oaths and their loyalty to the Imperium.

Cassern S. Goto

Drawn into the Eye of Terror while protecting the Blood Ravens' gene-seed, Librarian Rhamah crash-lands on a strange Eldar world of libraries and museums hidden within the warp's tempests. As an unsettlingly familiar warband descends to plunder its forbidden lore, the amnesiac Librarian must fight alongside the planet's guardians while struggling to recall who he truly is. The third Dawn of War game tie-in.

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.

Justin D. Hill

Set during the climactic 13th Black Crusade, this novel follows the Cadian defenders as Abaddon's vast Chaos host assaults their fortress world, the Imperium's bulwark before the Eye of Terror. Through the eyes of officers and rank-and-file Guardsmen, it chronicles the brutal, desperate stand to hold Cadia against impossible odds as the planet's fate hangs in the balance.

Aaron Dembski-Bowden

An aging Space Marine of the Adeptus Vaaris recounts the saga of the Emperor's Spears, an isolated Chapter clinging to survival in the embattled Elara's Veil region far from Imperial reinforcement. As the Veil comes under siege, the warband and its mortal allies must decide what loyalty and sacrifice truly mean when the Imperium itself feels impossibly distant. The story leans into the brutal, fatalistic camaraderie of warriors who expect to die unremembered.

Dan Abnett

Alizebeth Bequin, now drawn deep into the shadow-war over the secret of Sancour, navigates a web of rival Inquisitors, hidden powers, and her own dangerous nature. As factions converge on the planet's deadly mysteries, old allegiances fracture and the true scale of the conspiracy begins to surface. This continues Abnett's labyrinthine successor saga to the Eisenhorn and Ravenor novels.

Ian Watson

Inquisitor Jaq Draco of the Ordo Malleus uncovers hints of a vast conspiracy reaching into the highest echelons of the Imperium, and assembles a strange retinue including a deadly Callidus Assassin and an irreverent squat to pursue the truth. His investigation drags him into heresy, daemonic peril, and secrets that could shatter his faith. As the earliest 40k novel ever published, it is gloriously weird and very much of its era.

Ian Watson

Pursued as a renegade and haunted by loss, Jaq Draco delves further into the conspiracy he uncovered, his quest entangling him with the enigmatic Harlequins of the Aeldari and their hidden knowledge. Driven toward forbidden lore and the Black Library itself, Draco wrestles with whether his ends can justify increasingly heretical means. The middle volume escalates the trilogy's surreal, cosmic stakes.

Ian Watson

In the trilogy's finale, Jaq Draco's long descent reaches its climax as the full shape of the conspiracy and the terrible choices it demands are laid bare. Now branded a renegade and meddling with powers no sane Inquisitor should touch, Draco confronts the cost of his crusade against the dark gods. The conclusion pushes its hero to the brink of damnation in classically baroque fashion.

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.

William King

The opening chapter of the Macharian Crusade, narrated by a common Imperial Guardsman in the army of the legendary Lord High Commander Macharius. As the conquering crusade pushes across the stars, the troopers uncover a daemonic horror buried within a captured world that threatens far more than a single battlefield. A ground-level, soldier's-eye view of one of the Imperium's greatest galactic conquests.

William King

The closing volume of the Macharian Crusade trilogy charts the twilight of the great conquest as Macharius's empire begins to fray. With the Lord High Commander's strength waning and his generals scheming, the loyal Guardsmen must endure betrayal, civil war, and the collapse of everything they bled to build. A grim meditation on how even the mightiest of human triumphs decays.

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.

Nick Kyme

The Salamanders pursue a relentless campaign against forces of Chaos while internal tensions within the Chapter threaten to split it apart over questions of belief and ambition. Brother Dak'ir's strange gifts draw scrutiny even as a more ruthless rival rises through the ranks. This middle volume of the Tome of Fire trilogy deepens the conflict between duty and destiny.

Nick Kyme

Civil strife and an overwhelming external threat converge on the Salamanders' beleaguered home world, forcing the Chapter to defend Nocturne itself while a schism among its warriors comes to a head. Dak'ir must finally confront the meaning of the prophecies that have shadowed him. The trilogy reaches its climax as the fate of the Chapter hangs in the balance.

Ben Counter

A proud Space Marine Chapter clashes with the Imperial Navy over a sacred relic, and the dispute escalates until the Soul Drinkers find themselves branded renegades by the very Imperium they served. Their commander Sarpedon must choose between blind obedience and a dangerous new path that begins to reshape them body and soul. The series opener launches one of Black Library's defining renegade sagas.

Ben Counter

Now hunted across the galaxy as renegades, the Soul Drinkers race to find a cure for the creeping mutations corrupting their gene-seed before they lose themselves entirely. Sarpedon's desperate search is dogged by a relentless Inquisitor while a plague-wielding heretic schemes to carve out an empire of disease. The second book intensifies the Chapter's struggle for survival and identity.

Ben Counter

The renegade Soul Drinkers Chapter, now hunted as heretics after rejecting Imperial authority, fight to survive while the Inquisition closes in. Caught between their warped ideals and the Imperium they once served, Sarpedon and his warriors are driven toward an apocalyptic reckoning as their gene-curse continues to mutate them. A grim tale of fallen idealism and the thin line between heroism and damnation.

Rob Sanders

As a tide of Chaos cultists and the Word Bearers descend upon a doomed world, the Excoriators Chapter mounts a defence that seems destined to end in annihilation. Amid the carnage, the legendary spectral warriors known as the Legion of the Damned may be the defenders' only hope. A grim siege narrative steeped in fanatical faith, sacrifice, and ghostly intervention.

Chris Wraight

The merciless Iron Hands lead a brutal crusade to purge a star system consumed by heresy and daemonic corruption. Their cold, unyielding doctrine is tested as the war drags them deeper into spiritual and physical horror, raising the cost of victory ever higher. An unflinching look at a Chapter that has all but abandoned its own humanity.

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.

Gav Thorpe

In the aftermath of the Great Rift's opening, Rune Priest Njal Stormcaller finds his mind invaded by the spirit of a long-dead Thousand Sons sorcerer, who claims lost Space Wolves still survive on cursed Prospero. Torn between distrust and the chance to reclaim his lost brothers, Njal gathers a small band and risks a journey into the heart of his Chapter's oldest enemy. A character-driven Space Wolves tale that unearths startling secrets about the burning of Prospero.

Josh Reynolds

The final volume of the Space Marine Conquests arc brings the Indomitus Crusade's struggle for the Indrian system to a devastating climax. A coalition of Adeptus Astartes, including Primaris reinforcements, must hold the line as Chaos forces escalate the conflict toward total catastrophe. Reynolds ties together the threads of the preceding novels in a large-scale, faction-spanning campaign.

William King

Ragnar earns his place among the veteran Grey Hunters of the Space Wolves and is drawn into a wider war against the forces of Chaos. Old enemies resurface as a Chaos plot threatens worlds dear to his Chapter, forcing him to confront daemonic horrors and traitor Astartes. The third novel marks Ragnar's maturation into a seasoned and respected warrior.

Phil Kelly

Commander Shadowsun, the T'au Empire's master of stealth warfare and the patient Kauyon strategy, leads an expansion into former Imperial space beyond the Startide Nexus. When her cold, logical methods meet the daemon-haunted Death Guard, whose plague-ridden warriors defy all rational planning, she faces an enemy unlike any she has hunted. As treachery threatens her alliances, Shadowsun must adapt or watch her campaign unravel.

John French

Inquisitor Covenant hunts a hidden conspiracy through the underbelly of the Imperium, drawing together a band of agents bound by suspicion and necessity. As a radical scheme involving forbidden artefacts comes to light, the line between heresy and salvation grows perilously thin in this opening to the Horusian Wars.

John French

Inquisitor Covenant and his retinue press their dangerous investigation as a Horusian plot to forge a vessel for a fragment of divine power gathers momentum. Rival inquisitors, assassins, and the lure of forbidden knowledge converge, deepening the moral murk of the secret war within the Imperium.

John French

This collection gathers shorter tales from the Horusian Wars, following Inquisitor Covenant and his agents through schemes, betrayals, and confrontations across the shadowed corners of the Imperium. The stories expand the wider conflict between radical and puritan factions of the Inquisition surrounding Covenant's hunt.

Dan Abnett

Following the Space Marines of the Iron Snakes Chapter, this episodic novel chronicles a young battle-brother's campaigns defending the worlds under their watch against xenos, raiders, and heretics. Each engagement reveals the duty, honour, and brutal cost of the Chapter's warrior creed across a string of self-contained conflicts.

William King

An Eldar farseer navigates the threads of fate to avert a catastrophe foretold for his craftworld, manipulating human and xenos alike across the strands of a daemonic conspiracy. The story offers a rare window into the alien, calculating worldview of the dying Aeldari race and the terrible prices their prophecies demand.

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.

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.

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.

Guy Haley

Archmagos Belisarius Cawl gathers powerful figures of the Imperium on an artificial world, hoping to win their backing for a grand scheme to counter the galaxy-splitting Great Rift by unlocking the secrets of an ancient pylon network. His plans are upended when the Chaos fleshcrafter Fabius Bile arrives uninvited, setting two brilliant, monstrous architects of humanity's future against one another. Guy Haley weaves Mechanicus intrigue with a philosophical duel over what it means to save mankind.

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.

Ian St Martin

After his Marauder bomber is shot down, a traumatized young airman finds an unlikely refuge aboard a Cadian Leman Russ battle tank, joining its cynical, battle-worn crew as a raw gunner. Cut off from their lines amid the horrors of the Crimson Slaughter during the 13th Black Crusade, the tankers must endure and survive against relentless Chaos butchery. Ian St Martin delivers a gritty, claustrophobic armored-warfare novella from the perspective of the Imperial Guard.

Aaron Dembski-Bowden

Lorgar, primarch of the Word Bearers, undertakes a harrowing pilgrimage into the heart of the Warp in search of proof of the gods he has come to worship. Guided by daemonic forces, he is tested and transformed as he embraces the dark path that will help damn the galaxy.

Graham McNeill

In the aftermath of the Thousand Sons' tragic fate, Fulgrim and his Emperor's Children descend further into excess and madness aboard their fleet. A sinister presence aboard the flagship manipulates events, and certain legionaries begin to suspect that their primarch is no longer entirely himself.

Rob Sanders

When a security breach threatens a covert Alpha Legion installation, Omegon assembles an elite team to infiltrate and neutralize the site by any means necessary, even turning the Legion's tradecraft against itself. A tale of deception within deception that hints at hidden agendas at the very top of the XX Legion.

John French

Stranded and cut off in the wake of catastrophe, Alexis Polux of the Imperial Fists leads a desperate fleet action against overwhelming traitor forces. Outnumbered and isolated, Polux must hold the line and prove the resolve of Rogal Dorn's sons far from Terra.

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.

Gav Thorpe

The final novel of the original Horus Heresy series before the Siege of Terra arc, this brings the long feud between Leman Russ and the renegade Thousand Sons to its bitter close. Magnus the Red weighs the cost of his choices as the consequences of past wrongs come due, drawing the Space Wolves' vendetta toward its reckoning.

Graham McNeill

A Siege of Terra novella centered on the wounded primarch of the Thousand Sons as he is drawn back into the war for Terra at a pivotal moment. Old grudges and the broken bond between Magnus and the Emperor surface as psychic forces gather over the embattled world, setting consequences in motion for the final battles.

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.

Gav Thorpe

After the catastrophe of the Dropsite Massacre, the shattered remnant of the Raven Guard fight to survive amid the mountains of Isstvan V, hunted by traitor legions. As their primarch leads a desperate bid for escape, a loyal officer on their home world is tormented by visions urging him to mount a rescue.

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.

John French

This short tale turns the spotlight on Horus himself as the rebellion grinds onward, examining the Warmaster's inner state and the burdens of leading a galaxy-spanning insurrection. It offers an intimate look at the corruption and resolve shaping the architect of the Heresy.

Nick Kyme

Set on Calth in the underground war that followed the Word Bearers' betrayal, this audio-drama-derived tale pits Ultramarines against the traitor forces lurking in the dark. It centres on a grim siege of attrition where faith and discipline are pushed to the breaking point.

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.

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.

John French

A grim tale of the Warmaster's forces enacting a so-called compliance on a world that has already fallen to Horus, exposing the cruelty and corruption that now drive the traitor crusade. Loyalist ideals of bringing planets into the Imperium have curdled into terror and subjugation. The story shows how far the rebel legions have fallen from their original purpose.

Various

An anthology of short stories spotlighting the primarchs of the Space Marine legions, told by a range of Black Library authors. Each tale offers a window into the character, triumphs, and flaws of these transhuman demigod sons of the Emperor across different moments of their lives. A collection that rewards readers curious about the legends behind the legions.

Various

A companion anthology continuing the primarch-focused short fiction, gathering tales of the Emperor's gene-sons from authors across the Horus Heresy range. The stories range across loyalist and traitor primarchs, deepening their personalities and the bonds and rivalries between them. A second collection for readers who enjoy primarch-centric vignettes.

Alec Worley

Sister Adamanthea, a Repentia redeemed and now hailed as a living miracle, is paraded before pilgrims on a shrine world while secretly tormented by a sin she believes is beyond forgiveness. When an ancient conspiracy stirs and Chaos threatens to expose the lies, she must become the legend others claim her to be or watch a world's faith shatter. An audio drama continuing Worley's acclaimed Sisters of Battle saga.

Robbie MacNiven

When an isolated forge world is menaced by a Chaos-infested space hulk serving the Arkifane Vashtorr, the secretive Carcharodons make their stand alongside the Adeptus Mechanicus. The void-dwelling Space Marines must reckon with their uneasy place in a changed Imperium even as they fight to destroy the hulk before the world is lost. A grim, isolated tale of the Chapter from the edge of the galaxy.

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 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.

Darius Hinks

The disgraced Rogue Trader Janus Draik seeks to restore his ruined fortunes by plundering the secrets of the Blackstone Fortress, a vast and ancient space station of unknown origin. Operating from the lawless orbital shantytown of Precipice, he assembles a motley crew of treasure-seekers and rivals to brave the fortress's shifting depths and lethal mysteries.

Darius Hinks

Rogue Trader Janus Draik returns to the enigmatic Blackstone Fortress, hunting a monstrous ambull before a rival can capture the creature and unleash it. With the kroot tracker Dahyak Grekh and a band of retainers at his side, he plunges into a labyrinth swarming with Chaos cultists and lethal alien horrors.

Rob Sanders

Hunted relentlessly since fleeing the eldar Black Library with the daemon-warding Atlas Infernal, Inquisitor Bronislaw Czevak journeys to a corrupted world in search of a powerful Chaos artefact. With the sorcerer Ahriman and the Thousand Sons racing to claim the same prize, Czevak must outwit his oldest enemy while the colony hides a darker secret of its own.

Rob Sanders

Having become the only human ever invited to study within the eldar's Black Library, Inquisitor Bronislaw Czevak escapes clutching the Atlas Infernal, a living map of the webway. Now a fugitive across four perilous decades, he is hunted by the arch-sorcerer Ahriman of the Thousand Sons, who will destroy anything to seize the forbidden knowledge the tome contains.

John French

The opening chapter of the Agent of the Throne audio series introduces Ianthe, a former Guard soldier now serving Inquisitor Covenant as a covert operative. Tracking a spreading cult, she navigates deception and danger across the underbelly of the Imperium. Part of the wider Horusian Wars storyline.

John French

In this award-winning second Agent of the Throne installment, Ianthe and her fellow agents are confined alongside a rogue psyker they have been hunting. To stop him she must confront buried memories from her own past. Continues the inquisitorial operative's arc within the Horusian Wars setting.

John French

The third Agent of the Throne entry sends Ianthe and Covenant's retinue on a mission that goes badly wrong on a desolate world. Cornered, she is forced into an uneasy bargain with a mysterious figure and tasked with eliminating a traitor. The story deepens the cost of serving as a secret agent of the Inquisition.

Mike Brooks

Following the death of her Navigator husband, the matriarch of an ancient Navis Nobilite house must steer her family through poisonous court intrigue, a scheming rogue trader, and a creeping Chaos threat. A tale of Imperial high society and the mutant aristocracy who guide ships through the warp, rather than a conventional battle novel.

Jonathan Green

When a critical forge world falls under assault, the cold and unforgiving Iron Hands deploy to reclaim it, leaning on flesh-scorning logic and heavy armour. An early-era Space Marine action novel that leans into the Chapter's machine-obsessed, emotionless ethos. A self-contained read from Black Library's earlier line.

George Mann

An audio drama in which a Chapter of Space Marines infiltrates an ancient temple-tomb on a mortuary world to recover a sacred relic before Chaos forces can claim it. From the shadows, the secretive Raven Guard observe and intervene, their true intentions left deliberately ambiguous. Stealth, misdirection and shadow warfare define the tale.

George Mann

An audio drama following the Mor Deythan, the legendary Shadowmasters of the Raven Guard, who can cloud the minds of their foes. Summoned by Chapter Master Shrike, a shadow captain and his gifted brethren undertake a treacherous mission into a labyrinthine fortress to break the siege of a entrenched traitor warlord. A tense, infiltration-driven story of the Sons of Corax.

Ben Counter

Pursued and dwindling, the Soul Drinkers face a daemonic horror unleashed from the warp as Sarpedon's gamble to redeem his Chapter grows ever more perilous. Faith, mutation and desperation drive the brethren toward a confrontation that tests what remains of their humanity. A grim later entry in the Soul Drinkers saga steeped in Chaos corruption.

Nick Kyme

An Ultramarines patrol vessel is hurled off course by the cataclysm tearing the galaxy apart and crashes on an ice-bound world far from home. Stranded and cut off, the surviving Space Marines must hold the line against horrors closing in while desperately seeking a way back to the fight. A survival-driven tale set against the backdrop of the galaxy's great sundering.

Sarah Cawkwell

When the renegade Red Corsairs seize control of the strategically vital Gildar Rift, the Silver Skulls Chapter answers the call to break the traitors' grip before they can entrench themselves. The clash escalates into a sprawling void war and boarding action as the loyalists hunt the arch-renegade Huron Blackheart through contested space.

David Annandale

The Black Dragons Chapter, already mistrusted for their mutant-tainted gene-seed, confront a plague of undeath spreading from the world of Antagonis. As they battle a Chaos sorcerer raising legions of the dead, the Space Marines must also wrestle with the prejudice and suspicion that shadows their own cursed heritage.

Ben Counter

Pursuing an old enemy, the Imperial Fists return to the daemon world of Malodrax, a nightmarish planet warped by Chaos and ruled by the Iron Warriors. Told across two timelines, the novel follows Captain Lysander's harrowing captivity and his later quest for vengeance against the twisted horrors that dwell there.

C. Z. Dunn

When a Chaos warband led by the Daemon Prince Abaddon's lieutenant threatens the Pandorax System, the Grey Knights and Dark Angels deploy alongside Imperial Guard regiments to contain the daemonic incursion. Tensions simmer between the secretive Chapters as a far older threat tied to the Fallen lurks beneath the campaign.

Various

A Primarchs-series anthology gathering six tales that each turn a spotlight on a different one of the Emperor's demigod sons, exploring formative moments and hidden facets of their characters. The collection spans loyalist and traitor figures alike, deepening the mythology around the primarchs without advancing a single continuous plot.

Various

A Primarchs audio-drama anthology presenting full-cast tales that delve into figures of power during the age of the Heresy, including the brooding Konrad Curze and the embittered Perturabo, alongside the secretive machinations surrounding the Emperor's inner circle. The stories trade on intrigue and the burdens carried by those closest to Terra's throne.

Guy Haley

Framed as a tale an old fisherman passes to his apprentice on an ocean world, this short audio drama follows a pack of Space Wolves charged with keeping watch over the slippery Alpha Legion and its primarch. The arrangement leaves the Wolves uneasy about exactly who is hunting whom.

Chris Wraight

A brief audio drama following a young Space Wolf named Bjorn, newly maimed and burning to reclaim his honour in battle after his pack is cornered by treacherous Alpha Legion forces. It threads into the wider Bjorn arc as the Wolves take refuge and reckon with the cost of replacing a proud warrior's lost limb.

John French

Told as a sequence of recovered vox transmissions, this audio drama recreates a tense boarding action as Imperial Fists recon squads infiltrate a massive transport ship to stop it landing during the Battle of Tallarn. The fragmented found-recording format makes for a claustrophobic, escalating mission.

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.

Nick Kyme

An audio drama featuring the disgraced Ultramarines sergeant Aeonid Thiel, who wears his mark of censure as a badge of honour while stranded on a garrison world. Noticing listening posts falling silent and traitor warband activity rising, he leads a band of rogue veterans to uncover a lurking threat.

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.

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.

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.

Nick Kyme

A pack of Space Wolves, including thunderwolf-mounted hunters, is dispatched to an ice world overrun by a plague that raises the dead. As they track the source of the corruption, one of their own begins to succumb to the dreaded curse of the wulfen, and the brotherhood must save him before a darker truth surfaces.

Steve Lyons

Two Crimson Fists Space Marines hunt the daemon that slaughtered their battle-brothers, guided by a Librarian whose psychic gifts are pushing him to the brink of sanity. A tense fusion of grimdark action and horror, the story asks how much of his mind a warrior can sacrifice to destroy his prey.

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.

Christian Dunn

A choose-your-own-path gamebook that casts the reader as an Imperial Guardsman who wakes amnesiac in a cell on a plague-ridden world at the dawn of the Thirteenth Black Crusade. Survival means piecing together a lost past while fighting through the walking dead, daemons, and Death Guard forces, with dice and decisions deciding whether the protagonist lives.

Andy Hoare

Captain Kor'sarro Khan of the White Scars pursues a renegade Alpha Legion daemon prince across the stars on a decades-long hunt to claim his head. The chase culminates on a world wholly consumed by the traitors, where the White Scars and their Raven Guard allies must wage war against an entire planet to end the beast's reign.

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.

Ian St. Martin

In the turbulent aftermath of the Great Rift's opening, an Ultramarines force defends the worlds of the Realm of Ultramar against the rising tide of Chaos. As fresh Primaris reinforcements join the old guard, questions of brotherhood, tradition, and what it means to be a Space Marine come to the fore.

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.

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.

Chris Dows

Rogue Trader Neyam Shai Murad and the crusader Gotfret de Montbard claw their way back toward Precipice carrying an artefact that could tip the balance of power within the Blackstone Fortress. To survive, the mismatched pair must evade a rampaging Ambull, bargain with a treacherous genetor, and fight off mutants and cultists in the station's deadly depths. A self-contained adventure set in the Blackstone Fortress.

Denny Flowers

With the runtherd Killaskun dead, his leaderless grots are about to turn on one another just as bloodthirsty Chaos worshippers close in. The scheming grot Redsnot expects to rally the runts himself, but the legendary Red Gobbo turns up and steals his spotlight, leaving Redsnot plotting a backstabbing of his own. A darkly comic, vaguely festive greenskin caper.

S.P. Cawkwell

The Silver Skulls Chapter answers the visions of their Prognosticars and deploys to crush an insurrection on Valoria Quintus, expecting a swift victory. But their Inquisitorial allies take a dangerous interest in the Chapter's prophetic psykers, raising the unsettling question of whether the Silver Skulls are being steered by the very enemies they have come to destroy.