The Black Library is the publishing wing of Games Workshop plc and brings readers kick-ass action and adventure from the dark and gothic worlds of Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000. From battlefield looters scratching a living amongst the detritus of war to the noble battle-brothers of the Space Marines, Black Library novels hit the target on every level.

OUR SERIES…

Warhammer 40,000
It is the 41st millennium and war plagues the galaxy. For more than a hundred centuries the Immortal Emperor of Mankind has sat immobile on the Golden Throne of Earth. A master of a million worlds, he is a rotting carcass writhing invisibly with power from the Dark Age of Technology. To be a man in such times is to be one amongst untold billions in the cruellest and most bloody regime imaginable.

The galaxy of man teeters on the brink of destruction. There is but a slim hope… the Space Marines, warriors created through the Emperor’s genetic genius, stand as a bulwark against the daemons, the aliens and the Traitor Legions of Chaos. For without them, and the massive armies of the Imperial Guard, surely all of humankind would be lost.

The Horus Heresy
Led by the Emperor’s superhuman progeny, the primarchs, the vast armies of Earth have conquered the galaxy in the Great Crusade. The Emperor’s elite warriors, the heroic and battle-hardened Space Marines, have smashed all aliens, tyrant despots and traitors into compliance. Gleaming citadels of marble and gold celebrate their many victories. Triumphs are raised on a million worlds to record their epic deeds, but such vainglory will not last…

Rebellion looms when the Primarch Horus, he who once stood by the side of the Emperor, is tempted by the Chaos gods. Horus’s defection will shake the foundations of the nascent Imperium and take it to the edge of annihilation. As the flames of war spread across the galaxy, mankind’s champions will be put to the ultimate test, as brother faces brother and the universe trembles with the beat of war.

Warhammer
This is a dark age, a bloody age, an age of daemons and of sorcery. It is an age of battle and death, and of the world's ending. But it is also a time of mighty heroes, of bold deeds and great courage.

But these are far from civilised times. Across the Old World, from the heartlands of the human Empire to ice-bound Kislev in the far north, come rumblings of war. In the World's Edge Mountains, the orc tribes besiege gold-loving dwarfs. In the east, the dead do not rest easy, and there are rumours of rats that walk like men emerging from the dark places of the world. From the northern wildernesses there is the ever-present threat of Chaos, of daemons and beastmen corrupted by the foul powers of the Dark Gods ...

Time of Legends
Sigmar, chieftain of the Unberogens, unites the tribes of man and offers hope in the face of rising darkness. At Black Fire Pass he wins his greatest victory turning back the greenskin tide and sets about forging the Empire.

Far to the south, thousands of years before, the high priest Nagash discovers the secret of immortal life, and masters the arts of dark magic to conquer a nation. The shadow of the Lord of the Undead, as he will come to be known, is long and everlasting – one day it will touch the Empire and Sigmar himself…

The name of Malekith lives forever in infamy in the history of the elves. His dark ambition instigates the civil war that will engulf the magical island of Ulthuan and tear a race in half. The echoes of that struggle will sound for eternity…

These are the legendary heroes and events that shaped the Warhammer World.