Black Library Prepare A Series Of Chilling Tales With Warhammer Horror
March 7, 2019 by dracs
Later this month, Black Library will be launching a new range of stories based in the 41st Millennium and the Mortal Realms. However, these stories aren't tales of action and adventure. These are Warhammer Horror.
Maledictions is the first collection of stories in the range, featuring works from well-known Black Library authors such as C. L. Werner and Graham McNeill.
From Gothic tales of grief and tragedy and harrowing accounts of psychological torment to murderous hauntings and bizarre, cosmic horrors, we’re taken on a terrifying and emotional journey to discover the wakeful terror of life in the Warhammer universes.
- Hannah, Black Library editor
The universes of Warhammer have plenty of horrifying goings-on, making them fertile ground for horror fiction. A lot of Black Library's stories in the past have included horror elements, but I am looking forward to seeing how it goes when those talented pens turn towards scaring the crap out of us!
This book will become available to pre-order come March 23rd.
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The range will not just feature new stories though, as some old classics are coming back to bolster Warhammer Horror, including Kim Newman's well-loved Genevieve the Vampire novels from the World That Was.
Genevieve is an iconic character of the Warhammer background, with her stories even predating Black Library itself! She may also be familiar to those who have not read Black Library stories before, as alternate dimension versions of her have appeared in Newman's excellent Anno Dracula and The Diogenese Club series.
I am very excited about this new range as it promises to breath new life and variety into Black Library's catalogue.
Can you think of a good horror story for the Warhammer settings?
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Good more BL horror to get.
These are the releases I’ve most been looking forward to. The best BL books were often away from the battle lines and the settings are perfect for horror. The Drachenfels books were some of the best written and despite having the older novels, I’ll definitely be grabbing these again. Beasts in Velvet is stupidly good and a book I use as a reference whenever my WFRP group visit Altdorf.
I hope we also see new editions of Brian Craig’s novels, such as ‘Plague Daemon’.
That would be cool. Not sure it’ll happen though. I read them recently and they’re littered with a lot of stuff that isn’t Canon anymore. It’s a different pantheon of Gods and Chaos is viewed as a dodgy ideology rather than something that could destroy all mankind. That said, Drachenfels takes an attitude to vampires that definitely didn’t fit with the last version of the Old World we had.
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What would you say is the biggest difference between the vampires of the old Old World and the Old World that was? I didn’t stick around for the End Times, but have always looked back fondly at the lore of the late eighties to early ninties.
In the early lore Vampire were viewed almost the same way as magic users. Something to be feared and often turned on but they weren’t the bloodthirsty warlords that they had turned into by the time Vampire Counts arrived. The vampire Genevieve helped the Empire and lived in Altdorf. Beasts in Velvet describes a tavern (I forget the name) that is used solely by vampires.
Yes please!
Never got around to checking out the Genevieve series while it was still in print so will have to do so when it’s reprinted; coincidentally, just finished listening to the Anno Dracula audiobook about half an hour ago – if the WH Ginevieve books are anything like AD, then I’m sure they’re going to be an entertaining read (or listen to if BL do audiobooks of them, especially if they get Jonathan Keeble to narrate them like they do for many HH audiobooks).
Good horror books have to be written really, really well. Stephen king is a great writer — not just a great horror writer. I read a lot of black library and their quality of writing is very hit and miss. I will be sceptical but hopeful with this initiative.
Although it’s been years since I read it, I’m pretty sure Drachenfels had one of the best anti-Hollywood/D&D party stories in it I’ve ever read. With party members dying horribly left, right and centre, I remember a scene where they discover the remains of a group that he basically cast a ‘Hold’ spell on, then left a feast in front of them and then left them to starve to death. gruesome stuff but a great read.