Death Guard

Ben Counter

A direct continuation of the opening trilogy, moving from conspiracy into open betrayal.

James Swallow

A survival and warning story about loyalists carrying news of treachery back toward Terra.

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.

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.

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.

David Annandale

This novel explores the Death Guard's primarch, raised under a tyrannical overlord on the toxic world of Barbarus and forged into a being defined by endurance and resentment. It delves into his stubborn pride and the bitter relationship with the Emperor that leaves him vulnerable to darker influences.

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.

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.

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.