This month’s Warhammer Preview Online: Black Library 2022 showed off a ton of new releases coming to a shelf near you in 2023. You’d almost be forgiven for thinking that’s all the next few months had in store, but far from it – audiobooks are also on the menu.
We start with books 10 and 11 of the Gaunt’s Ghosts series. Armour of Contempt has the Tanith First and Only return to the embattled world of Gereon, only to find its people tainted – perhaps irreversibly – by the dark powers they seek to repel, while Only in Death tasks Gaunt with defending a critical pass from enemies outside and ghosts within.
The Astra Militarum stories continue with Choose Your Enemies, the triumphant return of Ciaphas Cain and the Valhallan 597th. Their task to purge Chaos influence from a string of worlds is fraught with danger, but perhaps less than the heroes of Fifteen Hours – a story so named for the life expectancy of the unfortunate Guardsmen fighting their first ever battle.
More legendary characters continue their sagas with Manslayer and Elfslayer, the ninth and tenth novels in the beloved Gotrex and Felix series. The wars against Chaos engulf the Old World, and a trip aboard the mighty airship Spirit of Grungni begins a series of unfortunate events involving cultists, wizards, and the nefarious Dark Elves.
Back in the 41st Millennium, Ragnar Blackmane’s story begins in Space Wolf, William King’s venerable epic charting the rise of the now-infamous Wolf Lord. Njall Stormcaller meanwhile appears in Chris Wraight’s Stormcaller, as the Rune Priest arrives to reinforce his comrades on the plague-wracked world of Ras Shakeh.
Finally, three more Space Marine audiobooks complete the list. The Uriel Ventris saga reaches its incredible climax in The Chapter’s Due, Grey Knights battle Angron for the fate of Armageddon in The Emperor’s Gift, and seven Black Templars tales come together in the action-packed anthology Crusaders of Dorn.
Let us know which audiobooks you’re looking forward to most at our Facebook page, and don’t forget that you too could join the hallowed ranks of Black Library authors through our Open Submissions Window coming early in 2023. If you’ve ever dreamed of writing your own stories set in the 41st Millennium and the Mortal Realms, it could all begin here.