Chaos Reading Order

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.

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.

Gav Thorpe

A Deathwatch kill team led by the revered Captain Artemis investigates a genestealer taint on what should be a routine purge. As the mission unravels, the diverse band of Space Marines drawn from many Chapters must rely on one another to survive a foe far more insidious than they expected.

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.