Horus Heresy Books in Order

This illustrated background volume introduces the Horus Heresy through artwork from the collectible card game. Alan Merrett's accompanying text places its warriors and battles within the developing history of the rebellion that shattered the Emperor's Imperium.

The second illustrated background volume continues Horus's rebellion, exploring events including Prospero, Signus, and Calth. Card-game artwork and John Blanche's concept sketches accompany accounts of the Imperial Army, the Dark Mechanicus, and spreading betrayal among the Legions.

This third art-book volume develops the history of the Horus Heresy through Alan Merrett's background narrative. Illustrations from the collectible card game and John Blanche's concept work depict the warriors and conflicts of humanity's devastating civil war.

Warmaster Horus leads the Great Crusade while struggling with resentment among his brother primarchs. Wounded on Davin, he becomes vulnerable to the temptations of Chaos, placing his loyalty to the Emperor under a dangerous new strain.

Horus leads Imperial forces against rebels on Isstvan III, but victory conceals a devastating betrayal. Virus bombardment and clashes between former battle-brothers force loyal Space Marines into a desperate struggle as the Warmaster's rebellion erupts openly.

At the height of the Great Crusade, newly appointed Warmaster Horus leads the Luna Wolves in expanding the Emperor's realm. Captain Garviel Loken witnesses their triumphs and emerging tensions as hidden forces threaten humanity's confident march across the stars.

The final volume of the illustrated Horus Heresy background series covers the war's climactic events and immediate aftermath. Alan Merrett's historical text accompanies artwork depicting the struggles that bring the rebellion to its decisive confrontation.

This omnibus gathers four illustrated Horus Heresy background volumes, combining Alan Merrett's account of the civil war with card-game art and John Blanche's concepts. The collection also includes the short story The Kaban Project.

On forested Caliban, young Zahariel and Nemiel aspire to join the knightly order led by Lion El'Jonson. The arrival of the Imperium changes their world's future, forcing the Lion's followers to consider a new destiny among the stars.

Fulgrim leads the Emperor's Children against an alien enemy during the Great Crusade. The campaign plants the seeds of corruption within the proud Legion, threatening his brotherhood with Ferrus Manus as the galaxy approaches catastrophic betrayal.

Nathaniel Garro escapes the betrayal at Isstvan aboard the Eisenstein, carrying news that Horus has turned traitor. It is one of the key early Horus Heresy novels and the start of Garro's loyalist legend.

Loyal Space Marines from several Legions discover a traitor fleet advancing toward Ultramar, led by the immense Furious Abyss. Facing overwhelming firepower, the small force must intercept and destroy the battleship before it can devastate the Ultramarines' homeland.

The secretive Alpha Legion joins an Imperial Army campaign against uncanny forces on a distant world. As an alien intelligence reveals its schemes, soldiers confront questions of trust and allegiance that could shape the approaching civil war.

As Horus seeks allies throughout the Imperium, civil war erupts on Mars among the Mechanicum's rival factions. The conflict draws technological armies and Titan Legions into the struggle, threatening the forge world's future and the Emperor's war effort.

Lion El'Jonson battles traitors near the forge world Diamat while Luther remains sidelined on Caliban. As rebellion forces the Dark Angels to question their loyalties, an ancient evil beneath their home world threatens an even deeper division.

This anthology explores heroism and tragedy during Horus's rebellion, when Space Marines turn against their former brothers. Stories by several authors examine the warriors and choices caught within a civil war threatening to tear the Imperium apart.

After censure for sorcery, Magnus and the Thousand Sons continue their forbidden studies on Prospero. A vision of Horus's betrayal prompts Magnus to warn the Emperor using outlawed powers, bringing Leman Russ and the Space Wolves against his world.

During the Horus Heresy, assassins are sent to end the war by killing Horus. The mission becomes a tense, morally murky hunt where loyalty and murder are almost the same tool.

Leman Russ receives orders to apprehend Magnus after the Thousand Sons primarch endangers Terra. Leading the Space Wolves toward Prospero, Russ prepares to confront a brother whose sorcerous home world presents formidable dangers to the approaching force.

After the Emperor shames Lorgar and the Word Bearers, the Legion goes searching for a new truth. What they find at the edge of the universe will help set the entire Horus Heresy in motion.

Nine stories explore the years after the Isstvan massacres, as Horus begins a galaxy-wide campaign against the Emperor. Across distant battlefields, secrecy, divided loyalties, and emerging plans shape the long road toward a final confrontation on Terra.

After Isstvan V, Corax returns to Terra seeking a way to rebuild the devastated Raven Guard. Ancient secrets offer hope, but Alpha Legion infiltrators are already working to destroy the Legion before it can rise again.

Astropath Kai Zulane learns a secret capable of altering the war and flees into Terra's dangerous underworld. Accompanied by renegade Space Marines and hunted by former allies, he must decide whom to trust and whether the truth should survive.

Fulgrim offers Perturabo an expedition to recover devastating alien weaponry from a dead eldar world. Their Legions venture into a star maelstrom, pursued by Isstvan survivors and haunted by forces that threaten the supposed alliance between brothers.

Lorgar and Angron lead the Shadow Crusade through Ultramar while the Word Bearers and World Eaters burn world after world. The battles are huge, but the real damage is being done inside the men leading them.

Sanguinius and the Blood Angels are lured to Signus Prime, where Chaos hopes to break or claim them. The novel is central for readers following the Legion's Horus Heresy tragedy.

Guilliman gathers the Ultramarines for a campaign, unaware of the rebellion spreading elsewhere. When their supposed Word Bearer allies launch a devastating attack on Calth, the Legion must survive betrayal, shattered defenses, and the arrival of daemonic forces.

Seven stories and novellas follow the Heresy across Phall, Isstvan, and Terra. Accounts of Rogal Dorn's dispatched fleet, the Night Lords, and preparations for the Imperial Palace's defense reveal the war's widening reach and hidden struggles.

Four novellas explore the Emperor's sons and the fractures within their Legions. Fulgrim's possession, Ferrus Manus's destiny, the Lion's choices, and an internal Alpha Legion conflict expose rivalries and secrets behind the primarchs' legendary authority.

As Calth burns, traitor and loyalist Titans battle through the city of Ithraca. Beneath their devastating weapons, civilians fight to survive while the remaining engines of the True Messengers stand against overwhelming odds.

After the attack on Calth, Ultramarines commander Marius Gage pursues Kor Phaeron's fleeing vessel aboard Macragge's Honour. Cut off from reinforcement, the opposing crews carry their battle to the edge of reality in this graphic novel.

Following the betrayal at Calth, survivors retreat beneath a surface scorched by their damaged star. This anthology follows Ultramarines and Word Bearers through the underground war, where daemonic threats and enduring hatred make survival a continuing struggle.

Army officer Khalid Hassan returns to the Imperial Palace after a disastrous secret mission. With the Emperor absent and Malcador exercising immense authority, Hassan confronts disturbing truths about humanity's destiny and the regent's uncertain motives.

Cut off from Terra by warp storms, Guilliman gathers loyalist refugees on Macragge and plans a future for isolated Ultramar. The arrival of powerful outsiders blurs friend and enemy as his ambitions raise troubling questions about loyalty.

Believed lost after Isstvan V, Vulkan remains alive in the custody of his brother Konrad Curze. Enduring relentless torture intended to break him, the Salamanders primarch searches for a way through captivity and confronts revelations with consequences for the war.

This Horus Heresy anthology ranges across a galaxy at war, gathering stories of loyalists, traitors, and the cost of choosing a side. Aaron Dembski Bowden's contributions deepen the World Eaters thread before and during the wider collapse.

The White Scars' allegiance remains uncertain as Horus's rebellion divides the galaxy. An unexplained Alpha Legion attack forces Jaghatai Khan to investigate conflicting claims and decide whether his warriors will follow the Emperor, the Warmaster, or another path.

Survivors from the Iron Hands, Raven Guard, and Salamanders regroup on the death world Pythos after Isstvan V. Protecting refugees amid hostile jungles, the uneasy allies confront monstrous creatures and a gathering darkness that threatens their fragile sanctuary.

Horus targets the heavily defended world of Molech, seeking a secret connected to the Emperor's extraordinary power. As vast armies clash, returning loyalists and rival factions face a campaign whose stakes extend beyond conquest of another Imperial planet.

Refusing to accept Vulkan's death, Artellus Numeon urges the Salamanders to carry their primarch's body home to Nocturne. Their journey toward Mount Deathfire becomes a test of faith and survival amid the dangers of a galaxy consumed by war.

The battle for poisoned Tallarn intensifies as Imperial Army tanks confront Iron Warriors Dreadnoughts and Titans. Beneath the vast armored conflict lies a hidden purpose, leaving the defenders to question what truly drives the traitors' relentless offensive.

Imperium Secundus relies on the mysterious Pharos beacon on Sotha to sustain its isolated realm. Watching from the shadows, the Night Lords prepare an assault that could destroy the Ultramarines' hopes and the fragile future Guilliman has envisioned.

This Forge World campaign volume examines the betrayal at Calth and the conflict between Ultramarines and Word Bearers. Background material, army rules, missions, and deployment maps let players recreate the battles or shape their own struggle for the planet.

Nathaniel Garro's long road through the Horus Heresy continues as faith, duty, and the work of the Knights-Errant pull him toward another dangerous mission. A compact Garro story for readers following his loyalist arc.

Hounded into the Alaxxes Nebula by the Alpha Legion, Leman Russ and the Space Wolves receive no aid from their brothers. Stranded with supplies dwindling, the wounded Legion prepares to fight a seemingly overwhelming enemy for survival.

As Lord Protector of Ultramar, Lion El'Jonson responds brutally to the Night Lords' attack on Sotha. His actions threaten the fragile alliance of Imperium Secundus while old rivalries on Caliban risk dividing the Dark Angels themselves.

This anthology examines the loyalties and tensions surrounding the primarchs and their sons before and during the Heresy. Tales of ambition, defiance, and warfare trace warning signs within the Emperor's dream as rebellion spreads across the galaxy.

After Calth's devastation drives combatants underground, Ultramarines captain Steloc Aethon leads his company against surviving Word Bearers. The cramped arcology shelters become a new battlefield, where his desire for vengeance threatens to complicate the fight for victory.

After years of punishing warfare, Jaghatai Khan must bring the White Scars back to Terra for its coming defense. Pursued by traitor Legions, his Stormseers seek a viable route through dangers that threaten to trap the exhausted army.

Troubled by the Word Bearers' assault on Calth, Chaplain Kurtha Sedd descends into the planet's haunted underground war. He and his brethren must continue fighting the Ultramarines, setting aside doubts and other concerns as the cost of their betrayal mounts.

A broad Horus Heresy anthology showing the rebellion spreading into every corner of the Imperium. It gathers shorter tales of loyalty, prophecy, and ruin, including two sharp Aaron Dembski Bowden stories.

Lorgar journeys into the heart of Chaos after the shaming of the Word Bearers. It is a dark, idea-heavy novella about revelation, temptation, and the choice that leads him toward damnation.

One of the last surviving Thunder Warriors makes his living in Terra's gladiatorial pits, long after the Emperor ordered his kind destroyed. Drawn into dangerous events on the Throneworld, he faces a deadly confrontation involving a hunting Custodian Guard.

Captain Maximus Thane and his Imperial Fists wait on Terra for Horus's assault as defenses tighten and morale declines. Their immediate danger comes from civilian unrest, forcing them to confront the consequences of preparing a population for a siege that has not begun.

A virus attack turns Tallarn from a verdant staging world into a toxic wasteland. Emerging from underground shelters, the surviving tanks of the Jurnian 701st fight the Iron Warriors while hidden powers attempt to influence the opening battle.

Iron Hands warrior Ahrem Gallikus faces execution by his own brothers, but first must recount his actions above Isstvan V. His testimony revisits a desperate boarding attack against former allies and the events that led to his disgrace.

After the devastating Webway War, Constantin Valdor leads the surviving Custodian Guard as they prepare for Horus's arrival. Conflict with Rogal Dorn over their place in the Imperium revives memories of earlier tensions between the Emperor's guardians and his primarchs.

Reborn beneath Mount Deathfire, Vulkan gathers trusted sons and confronts an uncertain destiny. As fractures weaken the alliance of the Shattered Legions, he must choose between joining their vengeance against the traitors and following a mysterious path toward Terra.

Perturabo leads the Iron Warriors through the Great Crusade, growing bitter over the thankless wars assigned to his Legion. When rebellion erupts on Olympia, he abandons another campaign to confront the world that raised him.

Rogal Dorn and the Imperial Fists defend the Emperor's realm as the Solar System comes under attack. Seemingly impregnable fortifications prove vulnerable, while attention to the approaching enemy leaves Dorn exposed to a threat operating within his own defenses.

With Konrad Curze broken and the Thramas Crusade collapsing around him, Sevatar tries to keep the Night Lords from complete ruin. It is a hard, fast novella about command, loyalty, and a Legion already falling apart.

Learning that Terra still stands, Sanguinius, Guilliman, and Lion El'Jonson abandon Imperium Secundus and set out to defend the Emperor. The vast Ruinstorm blocks their passage, while an unseen enemy exploits the weaknesses that divide and trouble the three primarchs.

Survivors of the Iron Hands, Salamanders, and Raven Guard launch a campaign against Horus's forces after Isstvan V. These collected stories follow the Shattered Legions' resistance, including Shadrak Meduson's leadership and a ship's crew drawn into Alpha Legion subterfuge.

Perturabo's Iron Warriors devastate Tallarn with a virus bombardment, forcing survivors underground before an immense armored war begins. This collection follows the struggle for the ruined world, where the primarch's objectives extend beyond the destruction of another Imperial stronghold.

As Horus closes on Terra, Malcador communes with the Emperor and plays a desperate wargame to test possible paths to victory. Each move reveals the sacrifices, risks, and human pieces behind the coming Siege.

After Prospero's destruction, Magnus the Red and the Thousand Sons retreat into the Eye of Terror. Their primarch's damaged mind and fading memories deepen the Legion's crisis, leaving his sons to confront the consequences of their exile and his broken condition.

A traitor Warhound pack hunts a loyalist Titan through the devastated hive world of Absalom. The Ember Wolves believe they have found prey worthy of their combined strength, but bringing down the giant machine does not end their battle.

Ultramarines captain Lucretius Corvo is due to receive the Laurel of Defiance for battlefield heroism. Yet the creation of Imperium Secundus troubles him, leaving him to consider whether he can voice doubts before the primarchs who intend to honor him.

While the wider Heresy burns, a different war rages beneath Terra in the webway. Custodes, Sisters of Silence, and Arkhan Land fight beside the Emperor himself as his secret project begins to fail.

While armies fight openly, Malcador the Sigillite sends agents on secret missions that may shape the Imperium's survival. This anthology follows espionage, concealed loyalties, and covert conflict as Rogal Dorn prepares the Solar System for Horus's approaching forces.

Lotara Sarrin watches the World Eaters flagship change into something warped and hostile on the road to Terra. The real threat may be the ship itself, and what Chaos is making of everyone aboard.

Imprisoned aboard a Black Ship, scribe Aveth Vairon believes a mysterious guiding power has brought him toward his destiny. A faceless fellow prisoner may hold the next step, but an attack on the ship threatens everything he has followed.

Custodian Amon Tauromachian returns from the Emperor's Blood Games and receives a mission to investigate suspected treason in Terra's hives. As rebellion divides the Imperium, he enters a network of deceit where loyalties are unclear and the Throneworld's security is at stake.

This collection follows Vulkan and the Salamanders through the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy, exploring their commitment to human life amid betrayal and near-extinction. Novels, novellas, and connected stories trace the Legion's trials and determined resistance to destruction.

This Horus Heresy collection follows Corax and the Raven Guard after Isstvan V, as they rebuild, strike from the shadows, and confront enemies within their ranks. It gathers connected stories of a Legion fighting to survive.

Former Death Guard captain Nathaniel Garro serves Malcador as a Knight Errant, defending the innocent and confronting Horus’s allies. His missions across the fractured Imperium deepen doubts about his assigned duty and the destiny he must choose.

Garro serves Malcador as a Knight-Errant, taking on secret missions while the Imperium reels from betrayal. This collection tracks his move from disgraced Death Guard captain to one of the Heresy's key loyalist agents.

Sixteen stories follow figures whose actions helped bring the Horus Heresy toward its final confrontation. As Horus's fleet approaches Terra, soldiers, leaders, and civilians prepare for war, while the collected tales reveal smaller struggles beneath the approaching siege.

Malcador the Sigillite follows troubling visions to Thawra, where organized psykers have unleashed terrifying warfare. Their conflict forces him to consider the dangers of uncontrolled warp power and what the devastated planet might reveal about the Imperium's future.

As the traitor armies close on Terra, their leaders must unite before loyalist reinforcements arrive. With Horus wounded and daemon primarchs increasingly difficult to command, Maloghurst struggles to preserve the Warmaster's Legion and draw its master back from oblivion.

A Horus Heresy anthology about loyalists trying to survive as Horus closes on Terra. It gathers stories from across the war, including Aaron Dembski Bowden's *Into Exile*.

The Beta Garmon system stands between Horus's armada and Terra, making its defenses decisive for the war. Loyalist and traitor forces assemble immense armies and Titan hosts, bringing their giant war machines into battle for the route to the Emperor's throne.

Two spears forged by the Emperor connect the destinies of two very different warriors: a scholar-servant and a savage king. Following blades that are both gifts and burdens, the story examines how their wielders' intertwined futures serve a purpose they cannot fully understand.

Artwork and historical notes recount Horus's betrayal of the Emperor and the civil war that divided the Imperium. Images of Space Marine Legions and their leaders accompany an illustrated guide to the conflict that transformed the Warhammer universe.

Leman Russ withdraws the Space Wolves from Terra despite his brothers' opposition, determined to stop Horus before he reaches the Solar region. Reports of the Warmaster's vast new power force Russ to confront whether keeping his oath means undertaking a doomed attack.

After the webway war, Arkhan Land tries to repair the shattered Zephon and discovers how dangerous good intentions can be. It is a smaller Heresy story with real bite, focused on friendship, damage, and uneasy ethics.

The Emperor arrives on Nocturne as the Outlander and tells Vulkan of his destiny among the stars. Reluctant to leave the people he protects, the Salamanders' future primarch must weigh loyalty to his home against his father's vision for the Great Crusade.

Eight stories explore the Emperor's primarchs through the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy, examining deeds both heroic and terrible. Figures including Sanguinius, Vulkan, Perturabo, and Horus reveal differing responses to their father's ambitions and the conflicts that fracture their brotherhood.

An archivist uncovers a buried truth and is drawn into one of Sevatar's impossible stories. What follows is a tense glimpse of the moment Konrad Curze and Magnus the Red almost went to war.

The Horus Heresy nears its end as Mortarion, the Death Guard, and Garro face turning points that will shape the Siege of Terra. It is a major late-series bridge into the finale.

After Mars falls to the traitors, survivors of House Taranis attempt to restore their shattered knightly household. They must contend with corrupted machinery and the Dark Mechanicum, whose forces are determined to eliminate the remaining loyalists.

Former Sister of Silence Amendera Kendel serves Malcador on a mission to the Jovian shipyards. Searching for followers of Horus, she must uncover hidden loyalties in a place where treachery threatens the preparations for war.

As the Unification Wars end, Constantin Valdor faces decisions about the soldiers who secured the Emperor's victory. A new military force promises expansion into the stars, but the transition threatens forgotten warriors and demands dark acts from the leader of the Custodian Guard.

The White Scars remain out of contact while Horus's rebellion spreads and both sides seek their allegiance. Fighting orks in the Chondax system, Jaghatai Khan's Legion begins turning its attention beyond the campaign toward a galaxy divided by treachery.

Exiled in Albia, former Night Lords Chief Librarian Fel Zharost receives an unexpected offer from Malcador. Joining the Knights Errant could give him a new purpose, but the prospect of redemption forces him to confront his past.

Imprisoned for ten thousand years, Luther recounts the history that made him both a hero and a traitor to the Dark Angels. His captors struggle to untangle repentance, betrayal and the fate of their secretive order.

Corax and the Raven Guard wage a guerrilla war against traitor-held worlds after Isstvan V. A reunion with another survivor leads them toward a prison colony and forces Corax to face ghosts from Deliverance.

Disillusioned by Malcador's plans for the Knights Errant, Nathaniel Garro leaves his duties to search Terra for Euphrati Keeler. As the Warmaster's armies approach, the Living Saint may hold the answers he needs about faith, purpose, and his place in war.

As the Great Crusade draws to a close, remembrancer Solomon Voss questions Sigismund about a future without war. The Imperial Fists captain recounts the childhood, battles, oaths, and rivalries that shaped his relentless devotion to combat.

The Death Guard descend on a loyal world, leaving devastation in their wake. As Calas Typhon guides Nevak through the campaign, the slaughter becomes an education in corruption and the dark purpose taking hold within their Legion.