October is the right time to dim the lights, grab a book, and settle in with some of the bone-chilling tales from the Warhammer Horror series. As the season of all things spooky reaches a crescendo, jump in and give yourself the willies thanks to a pair of newly released horror audiobook collections bringing creeping dread and sudden frights to hobbyist's ears as we speak.
The first of these begins with David Annandale’s The House of Night and Chain, a gripping Horror tale of a haunted Astra Militarum colonel returned from war to assume the mantle of planetary governor – unaware of the nightmares that inhabit his childhood home. Then, in The Deacon of Wounds, a pious member of the Ecclesiarchy discovers just what dark paths he must tread to save his dying world from plague, famine, and drought.
Finally, the mysterious homeworld of the enigmatic Angels Resplendent Space Marines comes under scrutiny in The Reverie by Peter Fehervari, as three figures are drawn towards a mysterious forest and the conspiracy that guards it. What could a Chapter who have long claimed to have conquered the genetic curse rife within the blood of Sanguinius have to hide?
The second Collection returns to the 41st Millennium with The Bookkeeper’s Skull by Justin D Hill, starring a young enforcer cadet embroiled in a succession crisis for his father’s position as Chief Enforcer. His first mission to suppress a rebellious agri-facility goes awry when dangerous sanguine cults are discovered at the edge of civilisation, and a shocking series of deaths soon plunge his operation into jeopardy.
The frights continue in The Oubliette by J C Stearns, as a newly anointed planetary governor entreats with a malign living weapon to stave off the doom of her bloodline. Meanwhile, in Nick Kyme’s Sepulturum, all Morgravia Sanctus can remember is that she’s being hunted and that a terrible plague standing between her and the information broker that can restore her memories is turning people into blood-crazed monsters. Will she escape, and can the corruption be stopped before the city drowns in death?
These two Horror Collections are available right now, each giving you three full audiobooks for the price of just one, so load up your favourite listening app and descend into the nightmares that only Warhammer can bring.
If you’re hungry for more gripping tales from the dark corners of the Imperium, a new compilation of stories from Peter Fehervari’s Dark Coil setting is also being compiled together in a new tome titled The Dark Coil: Damnation.
This collection of two novels and seven short stories is the first of two omnibus editions gathering the myriad stories of the Dark Coil together – a series of seemingly disparate tales linked by mysterious characters and settings that weave together in fascinating ways. Many of this first crop of stories deal with the insidious influence of the T’au Empire, including the classic Black Library novel Fire Caste, but even more of the enemy without are to be found within its pages.
The Dark Coil: Ascension, the second in the series, comes out later next year and contains the novels The Reverie and Requiem Infernal plus eight further short stories – The Crown of Thorns, The Sins of My Brothers, The Thirteenth Psalm, Nightbleed, <Nightshift Nineteen>, Aria Arcana, The Walker in Fire, and Nightfall.
We’ll have more information about The Dark Coil: Damnation and The Dark Coil: Ascension as we get closer to their respective releases.
