Horus Heresy Reading Order

Dan Abnett

The opening novel of the Heresy arc, built around the early triumphs and fractures around Horus.

Graham McNeill

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

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.

Graham McNeill

A faction-focused descent story showing how pride, art, and corruption reshape a legion.

Mitchel Scanlon

A Dark Angels-focused Heresy novel that reaches back into Caliban and shows how older loyalties complicate the Legion's future.

Dan Abnett

A spy-war entry that reframes the Alpha Legion through secrecy, human agents, and competing visions of Imperial survival.

Ben Counter

A compact void-war Heresy entry built around an Imperial pursuit of a massive Word Bearers threat moving toward Ultramar.

Graham McNeill

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

Graham McNeill

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

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.

Dan Abnett

A companion route into the Prospero disaster through the Space Wolves, best paired with A Thousand Sons for a fuller view of the same rupture.

Dan Abnett

A decisive Ultramarines and Word Bearers Heresy novel that turns a planned campaign into a brutal lesson in betrayal.

James Swallow

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

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.

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.

John French

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

Aaron Dembski-Bowden

A Terra-centered novel about the hidden war beneath the palace and the cost of the Emperor's plans.

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.

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.

Graham McNeill

A compact pre-Heresy story focused on belief, power, and the ideological roots of the Imperium.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Nick Kyme

A Salamanders-focused novel in which the Legion, reeling from the loss of their Primarch Vulkan, undertakes a perilous mission to return his body to their home world of Nocturne in the belief it may restore him. It continues threads from earlier Salamanders entries by Nick Kyme and deals heavily with the Legion's faith and grief.

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.

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.

Nick Kyme

A Nick Kyme anthology centred largely on the Salamanders Legion and their primarch Vulkan, collecting shorter fiction that fleshes out their part in the Heresy. The stories complement Kyme's Salamanders novels and sit among the late-series collections before the Siege.

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.

Nick Kyme

During the Great Crusade, the Salamanders Legion and their primarch Vulkan fight a brutal campaign to cleanse the world of One-Five-Four Four of an entrenched eldar foe, while the Emperor himself walks among his sons. The novella explores Vulkan's compassion and his bond with his warriors set against the savagery of xenos warfare.

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.

Nick Kyme

Ferrus Manus and the Iron Hands campaign across a harsh desert world during the Great Crusade, hunting an eldar adversary who seems always one step ahead. Confronted by visions of his own future, the unyielding primarch must reckon with a fate he refuses to accept.

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.

Chris Wraight

Jaghatai Khan and his White Scars wage a fast and ferocious war on the plains of Chondax, far from the unfolding galactic crisis. As rumors of treachery reach the Legion, the Khan and his Stormseers must decide where their loyalty truly lies before the wider war engulfs them.

Nick Kyme

In the devastating aftermath of the Dropsite Massacre on Isstvan V, two surviving Salamanders defy their comrades and venture into the ruined battlefield to learn the fate of their lost primarch Vulkan. Their grim search becomes a meditation on grief, faith, and the will to endure against impossible odds.

Dan Abnett

A fleet-action novella tied to the graphic novel of the same name, following the Ultramarines starship Macragge's Honour as it answers the Word Bearers' treachery in the void above Calth's wider war. Captain and crew wage a desperate ship-to-ship struggle to make the traitors pay for the slaughter of the XIII Legion, turning a single vessel into a symbol of Ultramarian defiance.

Gav Thorpe

Primarch Corax leads the shattered remnants of his Raven Guard on a vengeful guerrilla campaign after the massacre at Isstvan, hunting traitor forces and seeking to wound the rebellion that crippled his Legion. Driven by grief and a thirst for retribution, he turns his sons into a weapon of shadow and ambush against a far larger foe.

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.

Graham McNeill

The battered crew of the Sisypheum, survivors of the Shattered Legions, are drawn into a covert strike on a hidden Alpha Legion outpost orchestrated by the warleader Shadrak Meduson. As always with the sons of Alpharius, nothing is as it appears, and the raiders find the true architect of the battle is a foe unlike any they expected.

Rob Sanders

Set on Mars as the Heresy ignites, a wounded warrior retrained as a Techmarine fights alongside stranded legionaries against the rogue might of a turncoat Mechanicum. On Terra, Rogal Dorn and Malcador weigh a terrible final solution for the Red Planet, exposing how far the Imperium will go to purge the traitors.

Chris Wraight

Primarch Leman Russ and the Space Wolves are lured into a deadly trap by the Alpha Legion, forcing the Wolf King into a brutal contest of cunning against a Legion that fights through deceit. Russ must outthink as much as outfight his shadowy enemy if the Rout is to survive the ambush.

Rob Sanders

In the burning arcologies beneath Calth, Captain Steloc Aethon leads survivors of his Ultramarines company through the subterranean Underworld War against the Word Bearers. He must wrestle with his own consuming desire for vengeance even as he tries to deliver his brothers to victory and escape the deadly solar flares scouring the world above.

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.

Nick Kyme

A Salamanders novella in which a trusted forgefather is charged with safeguarding the last of Vulkan's greatest artefacts after the primarch is believed lost. Gathering a band of elite warriors who never reached the killing fields of Isstvan, he sets out to hide the relics in a secret vault, only to find enemies already lying in wait.

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.

Dan Abnett

A short, introspective Horus Heresy piece in which Rogal Dorn confronts the grim necessity of transforming the resplendent Imperial Palace into a fortress as civil war looms. As he scars the seat of the Emperor with gun-emplacements and ramparts, the primarch reckons with fear, duty, and what the coming war will demand of 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.

Chris Wraight

A quiet, character-driven novella centred on Malcador the Sigillite, the enigmatic right hand of the Emperor on Terra. It explores his manoeuvring among the Imperium's power structures during the war and hints at the vast secret burdens he carries.

Graham McNeill

This Space Wolves novella follows a pack hunting a quarry across hostile ground during the Heresy, testing the loyalty and ferocity of the VI Legion. It is a tense, focused chase story tied into the wider events surrounding Bjorn and the sons of Russ.

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.

Gav Thorpe

This audio-drama-derived story features the mysterious Cypher and the secret manoeuvrings tied to the Dark Angels and the Fallen during the turmoil of the Heresy era. It teases the enduring riddle of the figure who walks his own inscrutable path through the Imperium.

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 short story centered on Sigismund, the Imperial Fists' first captain and greatest champion, as he wrestles with his nature as a warrior born to duel and the burden of an oath that will define him. Set against the legion's grim defensive duties during the Heresy, it explores what it means to be the Emperor's perfect blade. A character study of one of the Heresy's most iconic loyalist swordsmen.

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.

Josh Reynolds

The first installment following Endryd Haar, a disgraced World Eater turned Blackshield, who leads a warband of renegades loyal to no legion as the galaxy burns. Cast out and pursued, Haar fights his own brutal war on the fringes of the larger conflict. An audio drama that introduces one of the Heresy's most compelling outcast figures.

Josh Reynolds

Endryd Haar and his battered warband of Blackshields raid a tithe-world in search of warriors and plunder, only to uncover something there that forces a fateful choice. Courted by Malcador the Sigillite to serve as a weapon against Horus, the conflicted renegade must decide what path to walk as Terra's hour approaches. The second audio drama in the Blackshields saga.

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.

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.

Gav Thorpe

An audio drama set on the Dark Angels' homeworld of Caliban while the Lion wages the Thramas Crusade far away, charting the rising tension as Luther consolidates control and former Chapter Master Astelan responds. It quietly seeds the betrayal that will eventually sunder the First Legion.

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.

Gav Thorpe

A grim short tale following the Space Wolves of the Rout in the bitter wars of the Heresy, centring on the toll that endless slaughter takes on the sons of Russ. Loyalty, savagery, and the burden of being a weapon forged for the Emperor are weighed against the cost of becoming exactly that.

David Annandale

As the Warmaster's rebellion grinds on, the High Lords of Terra are crippled by bureaucratic paralysis, and the Mechanicum faces a crisis of legitimacy with two adepts claiming the title of Fabricator General. Loyalist Zagreus Kane must navigate cold logic and council intrigue to secure Mars and Terra against the traitor Kelbor-Hal. A dialogue-driven study of politics and the priesthood of the Machine God.

Andy Smillie

Ultramarines and Word Bearers muster together at Calth in the fragile hope of healing the rancour left by the burning of Monarchia. As the two proud Legions gather, a captain's obsession and the lurking threat of treachery turn a moment of reconciliation toward catastrophe, told through interwoven past and present.

Nick Kyme

A covert scheme unfolds to bring ruin upon Ultramar, drawing the warriors known as the Red-Marked to the moon of Bael. Tied to Aeonid Thiel and the defence of the Ultramarines' realm, the story is a tense thread of infiltration and sabotage amid the wider war against the Warmaster.

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.

David Annandale

Crippled by an earlier ambush, the Iron Hands warship Veritas Ferrum limps into the Isstvan system with the second wave of the doomed Dropsite Massacre assault. When desperate survivors of the slaughter below beg for rescue, the battered crew must weigh the cold logic of survival against the cost of mercy. This short audio drama sets up the events of The Damnation of Pythos.

Guy Haley

In the wreckage left after the betrayal at Isstvan V, a small band of Salamanders survivors refuses to simply die. Hunted across the ruined world, they turn ambusher and set a lethal trap for a pack of Night Lords who think they are the predators. A taut hit-and-run revenge piece told from the loyalist side of the massacre.

Gav Thorpe

As the Word Bearers' treachery sets Calth ablaze, traitor god-engines of the Legio Fire Masters march to butcher the fleeing civilians of the city of Ithraca. Standing against them are the dwindling loyalist Titans of the Legio Praesagius, who choose to make a doomed stand even as the Ultramarines are scattered and lost. A story of towering war machines and sacrifice during the Battle of Calth.

John French

The Warmaster's seemingly-loyal allies turn on the legions sent to bring Horus to heel, and a planetary landing zone becomes the killing ground that defines the Heresy's great betrayal. Told from both sides of the treachery.