THE STORY
Two centuries ago, the Imperium of Man and the upstart Tau Empire fought to a standstill in the Damocles Gulf. Now, as the 41st millennium draws to a close, the tau have returned. As the world of Agrellan falls under attack, the White Scars and Raven Guard rush to its defence, but with the skilled Commander Shadowsun leading the alien forces, the Space Marines and their allies are hard pressed. Kor’sarro Khan, Huntmaster of the White Scars, swears that he will win the day in the most direct way possible – by taking Shadowsun’s head.

ABOUT THIS BOOK
Gathered within this volume are four novellas that focus on the events of the second Damocles Gulf Crusade. This book contains:

Blood Oath by Phil Kelly
Broken Sword by Guy Haley
Black Leviathan by Ben Counter
Hunter’s Snare by Josh Reynolds
Damocles is released on Saturday March 22nd. All pre-order copies will commence shipping in the week commencing March 17th 2014.

THE STORY
In the wake of an apocalyptic war against the alien tau, the White Scars take to their bikes and hunt the fleeing commander of the xenos forces across the plains of Voltoris. As they chase down their quarry, the Brotherhood of the Running Star begin to realise one inescapable truth: that this will be their final hunt. But if Suljuq Khan and Stormseer Checheg are to die this day, they will ensure that they take the alien Shadowsun into oblivion with them...

ABOUT THIS EDITION
An Apocalypse audio drama by Joe Parrino. Approximate running time 75 minutes. Download includes bonus material with original script, maps, images and more.

This mp3 will be available to download on Friday 21st March.

April 2014 • ISBN 9781782515449

Joe Parrino

Kor’sarro Khan, Huntmaster of the White Scars, swears that he will win the day in the most direct way possible – by taking Shadowsun’s head.

In the wake of an apocalyptic war against the alien tau, the White Scars take to their bikes and hunt the fleeing commander of the xenos forces across the plains of Voltoris. As they chase down their quarry, the Brotherhood of the Running Star begin to realise one inescapable truth: that this will be their final hunt. But if Suljuq Khan and Stormseer Checheg are to die this day, they will ensure that they take the alien Shadowsun into oblivion with them...

 Alpharius wrote:
Eldrad died, I thought?

But then he...got better?

 Alpharius wrote:
Eldrad died, I thought?

But then he...got better?

 BrookM wrote:

 Alpharius wrote:
Eldrad died, I thought?

But then he...got better?

I think they actually retconned that out of existence and pretend it never ever happened.

 Alpharius wrote:
Eldrad died, I thought?

But then he...got better?

THE STORY
As war continues to ravage the galaxy, the new Age of Darkness sees whole systems simply lost and countless battles forgotten. Surely, there can be no hope for peace, forgiveness or respite in such times, and all that will be left are the dying warp-echoes of supreme galactic ruin...

This two-disc anthology features seven short Horus Heresy audio dramas – ‘Veritas Ferrum’ by David Annandale, ‘Warmaster’ by John French, ‘Strike and Fade’ by Guy Haley, ‘Lucius, the Eternal Blade’ by Graham McNeill, ‘The Eightfold Path’ by Anthony Reynolds and ‘Guardian of Order’ by Gav Thorpe. Plus Chris Wraight’s brand new audio drama ‘Wolf’s Claw’.

LISTEN TO AN EXTRACT NOW



ABOUT THIS PRODUCT
This CD collects our six Horus Heresy audio shorts which were first released in our 2012 and 2013 Advent Calendars and places them alongside Wolf's Claw, a brand new audio short by Chris Wraight.

Running time approximately 75 minutes.Also contains an additional CD with Original Script, images and more. Flash (version 9 or above) is required to play CD-Roms.

This CD will be released on Friday the 28th of March. Pre-orders will start shipping week commencing the 24th of March.

ENTER THE DARK CITY OF COMMORRAGH

Greetings, kabalites, and welcome to the Dark City.

This weekend sees the release of the final instalment in Andy Chambers’s Dark Eldar trilogy. Path of the Archon follows on from the events of the first two books, Path of the Renegade and Path of the Incubus, and plunges us right back into the dark and labyrinthine world of treachery, murder and betrayal that is the dark eldar city of Commorragh.






To celebrate the release of the final volume, we’ve collected the full series together into one great value eBundle. This contains the full trilogy in eBook formats as well as a trio of accompanying short stories and the eldar harlequins novella The Masque of Vyle, which features an important character from the trilogy.

This eBundle is available to download today (meaning that you get to read the final book a few days early). Path of the Archon will be available for general download on Friday.

Here’s a quick extract to whet your appetite:

‘The supreme overlord calls for the lord Sythrac and the lady Malys.’

His words were greeted with a frosty silence. The two so named exchanged a calculating look before striding confidently into the scrying chamber. Behind them the remaining Archons were left to contemplate one another and reassess their potential standings in the supreme overlord’s eyes.


AN EXTRACT FROM PATH OF THE ARCHON:
‘So the faithful hound has returned just in time to heed his master’s call,’ Malys observed slyly as the doors swung shut behind them.

‘It only remains to be seen why the master calls for his bitch at the same moment,’ Sythrac shot back. Lady Malys smiled thinly at his crude response. In truth Vect’s desire for her had waned all too quickly. Malys’s quick wit and cunning mind – attributes the supreme overlord had once found so highly attractive – seemed only to irritate him now. Finding herself paired with Vect’s puppet kabal-master was a novel and not entirely reassuring development.

‘It was fortuitous that you escaped the moment of Dysjunction, Valossian, it was quite the most terrible I’ve witnessed at its height. How is it that you always have the good fortune to be away at just the right moment?’

Sythrac paused and looked her full in the face before answering. Malys was renowned as an aston­ishing, indeed bewitching, beauty even by the extreme aesthetics of High Commorrite society. Unsurpris­ingly Valossian Sythrac seemed entirely unmoved by the sight of her. He knew that the beautiful face was merely a mask over a cold, intricate intellect of cogs and gears. Her comradely observation was just a probe, a reconnaissance-by-fire to reveal weakness or self-doubt on his part. It was easy to rebuff as he had none to be revealed.

‘The webway was riven and the portals failed as soon as the Dysjunction occurred,’ Sythrac said flatly. ‘Find­ing my way back was… challenging. Had I delayed leaving the Sable Marches by even an hour I would have been completely trapped there. So tell me, Aure­lia, if I knew what was about to occur why would I go hunting in some backwater and risk not being able to come back at all? Now, assuming that your pointless curiosity has been satisfied, I, for one, do not wish to keep our supreme overlord waiting any longer.’

Malys smiled radiantly and nodded indulgently to him as if to imply that their brief dalliance had been at Sythrac’s own behest. He paid her no heed and stalked away with the dangerous poise of a hunting cat. The scrying chamber was circular in plan. Its fac­eted walls rose high overhead until they came together into a central point lost in shadows. The floor of the chamber was almost entirely occupied by concentric rings of tall, irregular crystals, each flattened and pol­ished on their inward-pointing face. At the centre of it all they found Vect poised like a spider in the middle of its web.’


MORE DARK ELDAR FICTION ON THE WAY SOON
Dark eldar fans will be pleased to learn that there’s more fiction on the way exploring this twisted and vicious race, this time penned by author Guy Haley. Guy’s new book will also feature their more restrained craftworlder kin. We caught up with Guy to ask him about taking up the mantle of chronicler of the eldar race. He had this to say:

GUY: I enjoy the eldar background greatly - it's a link between the present of the Warhammer 40,000 universe, the near-ish past, and the deep, deep past of millions of years ago, when the necrons and Old Ones were at war and Chaos was unleashed for the first time. I love poring over Codexes and supplements looking for little hints as to how the universe as-is came to be, and the eldar material is particularly rich in this regard.

Then there's that deep sense of melancholy and doom that the race is infused with - it appeals to my sub-goth rubbish poet side. Ordinarily I'm more orky, but I do have hidden depths, man, really. The hope of a resurgence of the eldar race, and the idea that maybe, just maybe, together the eldar and humanity can defeat Chaos for once and for all, only makes the misery more deliciously piquant. (And even if they do, what about all those tyranids and death robots? But one foe at a time, I suppose.)

Capturing all that in a novel about non-humans is very satisfying. The trick with writing any non-human race is to make them human enough to empathise with, but not so human that they cease to be alien. This is pretty difficult. All aliens/monsters/fantasy races we conceive of are born of the human mind. In order to make something "alien" we exaggerate certain human characteristics, and so really most aliens represent a narrow expression of part of the human experience. Such a genesis can make for one-note individuals within that race.

You have to stay true to the archetype, while broadening it enough to make compelling characters. Again, if you broaden too far, you just end up with Homo Sapiens people, and not eldar people (in this case). Trying to hit the right balance is technically rewarding, in a writerly sense.

With my new novel, I was very lucky in that I could look at several factions of the eldar - the dark kin, harlequins and two craftworlds - and examine the frictions between them all, the similarities, differences and conflicting agendas. I came to the conclusion that once you look beneath the surface there are differences where you'd expect similarities, and vice versa, between the eldar sub-groups.

And Yriel! I got to write about Prince Yriel, one of my all-time favourite Warhammer 40,000 characters. (I had an Eldritch Raiders army in the 1980s, you know).



Thanks Guy. We’re looking forward to the new book.

Well, that’s all for today. Keep checking New@BL each day for more news on new releases and author interviews. Thanks for reading.

- Eddie, Path of the Reader

Hey Readers,
Today we bring you new announcements about the upcoming Horus Heresy Weekender event, as well as your first look at a brand new piece of Horus Heresy artwork from Neil Roberts.

THE EVENT
The Horus Heresy Weekender is the ultimate weekend getaway for fans of the series. The event returns for its second year this May and promises to be even bigger and better than the last. Tickets are all but sold out, so if you want join us, grab yours now to avoid disappointment.
Guests Announced
It just wouldn’t be a Weekender without an awesome lineup of Black Library guests. This year’s Horus Heresy event will feature eight of our authors currently writing for the series. :

Aaron Dembski-Bowden, Chris Wraight, Nick Kyme, David Annandale,
Gav Thorpe, Guy Haley, John French and Rob Sander

During the weekend, you’ll be able to hear from these august individuals on all matters Horus Heresy at seminars across the two days. You’ll also be able to meet them face-to-face at their author signings, and, with a bit of luck, you might even bump into them in the evening at the fabled Weekender bar.

ur buddies from Forge World will also be along. The Forge World area will include gaming, hobby demonstrations and a miniatures showcase, and they will also be joining our authors in the main seminars. Last year's event was also the first time that the Fulgrim primarch miniature was made available, and they have been hinting that they might have a few surprises for this year as well.

A great lineup of new releases
This year’s Horus Heresy weekender will be your first chance to pick up a whole host of Black Library titles. Here are some of the highlights:

- Sedition's Gate
A brand new event exclusive novella, featuring new stories from five of our authors at the event.

- The Damnation of Pythos
The next novel in the Horus Heresy series, on sale for the first time in the world at this event.

- The Crimson Fist and Prince of Crows Two novellas, available in a new collectible hardback format for the first time.


SEVAT-ART
Speaking of Prince of Crows, Horus Heresy artist Neil Roberts (who will also be at the Weekender) has recently finished this amazing new cover art for Aaron Dembski-Bowden’s novella.

Prince of Crows will be available as a collector’s hardback edition from the Horus Heresy Weekender. The story also features in ‘Shadows of Treachery’, which is available now.

We'll have more new artwork on the way from Neil very soon, so keep an eye on New@BL every weekday.
Well that’s all for now. Tomorrow, we have another upcoming Black Library event to tell you all about.
Thanks for reading!

- Eddie, Prince of Sparrows

 Alpharius wrote:
Is is a bit like Kickstarters where you can pay to get yourself into a game's materials, maybe?

Sounds interesting, and certainly out of my price range!