Sons of Horus

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.