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Warhammer Horror
Series · 9 books · 2019-2023

Books in series

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#10

Briardark

2022

A Warhammer Horror Novel An evil entity stalks the forest of Briardark, and the revered beasthunter Samuel Helmgaart must recover from tragedy to protect his village. READ IT BECAUSE Continue exploring the tale of Mhurghast and find out what life looks like in Shyish, the Realm of Death, as nightmares become reality. THE STORY Evil stirs in Briardark, an ancient forest that looms over the Shyishan village of Felstein, where whispers abound of the spectres and brutes that lurk amongst the trees. One man keeps these perils at bay – Samuel Helmgaart, the revered beasthunter of Felstein – but when tragedy strikes his family, an unknowable foe is unleashed, one that stalks the villagers and turns neighbour against neighbour. Soon, a witch hunt ensues, and in the midst of his own sorrow Samuel’s daughter, Cicely, struggles with grief that has twisted into something dark. To save her, the beasthunter must track down the entity in the forest, and the evil that beckons to his daughter from beyond a most hostile grave.
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#12

The Bookkeeper's Skull

2022

A Warhammer Horror Novel Follow in the footsteps of Rudgard Howe, an enforcer cadet who, while on their first mission, and embroiled in an embittered succession battle back home, uncovers a heinous sanguinary cult… READ IT BECAUSE In the grim darkness of the far future, horror lies in the most unlikely of places, as a routine investigation becomes something all the more sinister. THE STORY On the captital world of Potence, young enforcer cadet Rudgard Howe is caught up in a bitter internecine feud to inherit his father's position of Chief Enforcer. As the tithe fleets approach, he is sent on his first mission to ensure that the planet's distant agri-facilities fulfil their quotas to the God-Emperor. Farmed with serfs and managed by ex-Militarum soldiers, the agri-facilities are places of shocking brutality and hopelessness. But when he is sent to the outlying farmstead of Thorsarbour, Rudgard discovers a community where the crops are left to rot as the inhabitants indulge in the bloody ecstasy of a sanguinary cult. As Rudgard imposes the strict Lex Imperialis upon the farmstead, he begins to uncover a place where sanity is rapidly slipping. Just a single step into his nightmarish mission though, a series of cruel deaths threatens to dismantle everything he has ever known about the Imperium, his faith in the Emperor, and the strength of his very soul.
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#21

Der letzte Aufstieg des Dominic Seroff (Warhammer Horror)

2020

Librarian note: This is a German translation of "The Last Ascension of Dominic Seroff," a short story that appeared in Maledictions and has never been published on its own in English. Eine Warhammer Horror Geschichte Eine mysteriöse Seuche bietet einem entehrten Kommissar und Inquisitor die Chance, erneut zu Helden zu werden. Zumindest ist das ihre Hoffnung. WARUM DU DIESE GESCHICHTE LESEN SOLLTEST Du kennst die Geschichte von Kommissar Yarrick – jetzt kannst du erfahren, wie es jenen ergeht, die ihm in die Quere kamen und dafür bestraft wurden. DIE GESCHICHTE Auf einer sterbenden Welt, auf der die Menschen so gut wie alles ausschlachten, darunter auch Technik und einander, um einen weiteren Tag zu überleben, trinken ein Kommissar und ein Inquisitor gemeinsam etwas. Für Kommissar Dominic Seroff ist dies eine Bestrafung dafür, sich vor vielen Jahren auf Armageddon auf die Seite von Gouverneur Hermann von Strab gestellt zu haben. Inquisitor Schenk ist aufgrund einer lange zurückliegenden Begegnung mit Kommissar Yarrick in Unehre gefallen, einer Gestalt, welche die beiden in ihrem Hass vereint. Als sich plötzlich eine unbekannte Seuche ausbreitet, sehen sie darin die Chance, wieder von Bedeutung zu sein und sich vielleicht sogar von ihren Sünden reinzuwaschen. Doch in der finsteren Zukunft des 41. Jahrtausends ist das Schicksal nur selten so gütig. Geschrieben von David Annandale Übersetzt von Birgit Hausmayer
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#24

Pentimento

2020

A Warhammer Horror story Investigating a series of gruesome murders, Mabeth is sure that the killer sees themself as an artist – and will pursue that theory to the very ends of her life and sanity. READ IT BECAUSE Experience a slice of life – and the slicing knife of death – on a world isolated by the Great Rift. You thought the Imperium was grim and dark before? Wait until you see what horrors have been unleashed… THE STORY Death stalks the streets of Durgov. A killer is at large in the city, dissecting and arranging their victims in a grotesque display of their madness… if indeed it is madness. Mabeth, tasked with tracking the perpetrator, is not so sure. She thinks this murderer is something more, something above the common herd of killers. She thinks she seeks an artist, and will stop at nothing to find them… even if it costs her life, soul, and sanity.
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#28

Anathemas

2020

A Warhammer Horror anthology Unexplained deaths terrify the crew of a tank. A strange instrument beguiles its audience. A man fears for his sanity within a plague-riddled hive. This grim collection of unspeakable cosmic horrors and arcane menaces unveils the subtle darkness that lurks within the souls of mankind and the sinister forces tormenting them. READ IT BECAUSE Experience bite-sized chunks of terror in a collection of spine-chilling short stories that will shine a light on the very darkest corners of the Warhammer worlds. DESCRIPTION A bitter sacrifice haunts the forest of a backwater planet; in a plague-riddled hive, a man faces a harrowing choice; an instrument of singular beauty beguiles a failing musician… There is darkness within the beleaguered souls of those who suffer the worlds of Warhammer. Whether it’s the arcane menaces of the Mortal Realms, or the cosmic nightmares of the 41st Millennium, none are immune to the evil that preys upon the desperate, exploits the cruel and seduces the unfulfilled. The third in the series of Warhammer Horror anthologies, Anathemas includes more razor-sharp tales of terror and insanity from the imaginings of David Annandale, C L Werner, Jake Ozga, Lora Gray and many more. CONTENTS A Threnody for Kolchev by Darius Hinks Vox Daemonicus by James Forster The Thing in the Woods by Paul Kearney Hab Fever Lockdown by Justin D Hill Voices in the Glass by Richard Strachan Skin Man by Tim Waggoner These Hands, These Wings by Lora Gray A Deep and Steady Tread by David Annandale Mud and Mist by John Goodrich Suffer the Vision by Jake Ozga The Funeral by Darius Hinks The Shadow Crown by C L Werner [Runner](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52870703.Runner "Runner") by Alan Bao [Miracles](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52347892.Miracles "Miracles") by Nicholas Wolf
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#30

Tithemarked

2020

An Ossiarch Bonereapers story When young Petras loses an arm to the bone tithe, he determines that he will gain a new limb to replace it – whatever the cost. READ IT BECAUSE Get a glimpse at life in the Realm of Death and how the bone tithe hangs heavy over the people of the realm. THE STORY Across the Realm of Death, Nagash's Ossiarch legions demand the bone tithe from the Great Necromancer's subjects… and they will not be denied. When young Petras is forced to lose an arm to fulfil the demand, he becomes tithemarked. He hears of a craftsman who produces artificial limbs to replace those given in tribute, and determines that he will be whole again. He works hard for his prize, until a scavenger with a sinister secret offers him another way to achieve his goal… a dark and dangerous way that could lead him to damnation.
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#52

Maledictions

2019

A eclectic collection of gut wrenching tales to spook and scare. Horror is no stranger to the worlds of Warhammer. Its very fabric is infested with the arcane, the strange and the downright terrifying. From the cold, vastness of the 41st millenium to the creeping evil at large in the Mortal Realms, this anthology of short stories explores the sinister side of Warhammer in a way it never has been before. Psychological torment, visceral horrors, harrowing tales of the supernatural and the nightmares buried within, this collection brings together some of the best horror writing from the Black Library. Featuring stories from Graham McNeill, Cassandra Khaw, Alec Worley, David Annandale and more.
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#53

The Wicked and the Damned

2019

A chilling mosaic novel by masters of their craft. On a misty cemetery world, three strangers are drawn together through mysterious circumstances. Each of them has a tale to tell of a narrow escape from death. Amid the toll of funerary bells and the creep and click of mortuary-servitors, the truth is confessed. But whose story can be trusted? Whose recollection is warped, even unto themselves? For these are strange stories of the uncanny, the irrational and the spine-chillingly frightening, where horrors abound and the dark depths of the human psyche is unearthed.
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#Omnibus

Unholy

Tales of Horror and Woe from the Imperium

2023

A Warhammer Horror Anthology The 41st Millennium is scary enough, but it becomes truly terrifying in these four Warhammer Horror tales. Not even the God-Emperor can protect you as you explore the darkest corners of the grim, dark future. Are your nerves up to it? READ IT BECAUSE It's a chilling collection of Warhammer Horror fiction, where the victims of this vast and lonely galaxy are pushed to their limit. DESCRIPTION Amidst the bloody wars, fanatical cults, and mad tyrants of the Imperium, there lurks a far quieter horror. Valgaast is an entity that compels and corrupts. Darker than the pits of hell, incomprehensible as death, it seeps into the hearts and minds of those weakened by misfortune. A premature heiress grieving the loss of her family. A bleak man of faith with unquenchable desires. A woman whose broken memories replay terrible violence. A little town left to rot in a sun-scorched wasteland. Such victims are easy prey for a being like Valgaast – and through its malicious intent, they are pushed to their very limits. CONTENTS – The Oubliette by J C Stearns – Sepulturum by Nick Kyme – The Deacon of Wounds by David Annandale – The Bookkeeper's Skull by Justin D Hill

Authors

Nick Kyme
Nick Kyme
Author · 91 books
Nick Kyme (b. 1977) writes mostly for Black Library. His credits include the popular Salamanders series and several audio dramas.
Paul Kearney
Paul Kearney
Author · 25 books

Paul Kearney was born in rural County Antrim, Ireland, in 1967. His father was a butcher, and his mother was a nurse. He rode horses, had lots of cousins, and cut turf and baled hay. He often smelled of cowshit. He grew up through the worst of the 'Troubles' in Northern Ireland, a time when bombs and gunfire were part of every healthy young boy's adolescence. He developed an unhealthy interest in firearms and Blowing Things Up - but what growing boy hasn't? By some fluke of fate he managed to get to Oxford University, and studied Old Norse, Anglo-Saxon and Middle English. He began writing books because he had no other choice. His first, written at aged sixteen, was a magnificent epic, influenced heavily by James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Robert E Howard, and Playboy. It was enormous, colourful, purple-prosed, and featured a lot of Very Large Swords. His second was rather better, and was published by Victor Gollancz over a very boozy lunch with a very shrewd editor. Luckily, in those days editors met authors face to face, and Kearney's Irish charm wangled him a long series of contracts with Gollancz, and other publishers. He still thinks he can't write for toffee, but others have, insanely, begged to differ. Kearney has been writing full-time for twenty-eight years now, and can't imagine doing anything else. Though he has often tried.

Lora Gray
Author · 4 books

Lora Gray is a writer and artist from Northeast Ohio. Their fiction and poetry can be found in Shimmer, Strange Horizons, and The Dark, among other places. Lora is a member of the Science Fiction Writers of America, a graduate of Clarion West, a recipient of the Ohio Arts Council's Individual Excellence Award for Fiction Writing, and a Rhysling Award nominated poet. As an illustrator, Lora has provided cover and interior art for various novels, anthologies, and comic books and has been a featured instructor for the Cleveland Museum of Art's MIX series. Lora also works as dance instructor and occasionally moonlights as a musician. In their free time, Lora can be found wrangling a very smart cat named Cecil.

Richard Strachan
Richard Strachan
Author · 12 books
Richard Strachan lives in Edinburgh, UK. He has had stories published in magazines like Interzone, The Lonely Crowd, Gutter and New Writing Scotland, and writes for Games Workshop's Black Library imprint.
Phil Kelly
Phil Kelly
Author · 30 books

Phil Kelly (born 1977) is the Creative Lead for 'Warhammer: Age of Sigmar' in the Games Workshop design studio. He has written over 60 gaming books in the last twenty years. He has also written several Warhammer 40,000, Age of Sigmar and Warhammer Horror books and audio dramas for Black Library. Librarian Note: there is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

Tim Waggoner
Tim Waggoner
Author · 81 books
Tim Waggoner has published nearly fifty novels and seven short story collections, and his articles on writing have appeared in Writer’s Digest and Writers’ Journal, among others. He's won the Bram Stoker Award and has been a finalist for both the Shirley Jackson Award and the Scribe Award. He teaches creative writing at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio. Visit him on the web at www.timwaggoner.com.
Joshua Reynolds
Joshua Reynolds
Author · 109 books

Josh Reynolds’ work has previously appeared in such anthologies as Historical Lovecraft from Innsmouth Free Press and Horror for the Holidays from Miskatonic River Press, and his novel, Knight of the Blazing Sun, is currently available from Black Library. He can be found at: http://joshuamreynolds.wordpress.com Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.

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