Series
The Horus Heresy
Graham McNeill, Gav Thorpe, Chris Wraight, John French, Nick Kyme, James Swallow, uncredited, Dan Abnett, Guy Haley, Aaron Dembski-Bowden, David Annandale, Laurie Goulding, Rob Sanders, Anthony Reynolds, David Guymer, Ben Counter, Christian Dunn, Ian St Martin, Andy Smillie, Matthew Farrer, Mike Brooks, Mike Lee, Alan Merrett, Andy Clark, Darius Hinks, George Mann, Josh Reynolds, Lindsey Priestley, Marc Collins, Mitchel Scanlon, Neil Roberts, Rich McCormick & Robbie MacNiven · 81 novels · 1 graphic novel · 34 novellas · 34 novelettes · 130 short stories · 5 collections · 28 anthologies · 2006–2026
The Horus Heresy is a series of science fantasy novels set in the fictional Warhammer 40,000 setting of tabletop miniatures wargame company Games Workshop. Penned by several authors, the series takes place during the Horus Heresy, a fictional galaxy-spanning civil war occurring in the 31st millennium, 10,000 years before the main setting of Warhammer 40,000. The war is described as a major contributing factor to the game's dystopian environment.
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Reading order
The order the books came out.
- Omnibus editions(15 editions)
Map
The Horus Heresy at the centre, 6 subseries around it, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 2000s21
- 2010s242
- 2020s49
Shape
81 novels · 1 graphic novel · 34 novellas · 34 novelettes · 130 short stories · 5 collections · 28 anthologies
31 authors
reads like:grimdarkwargalactic scalefar futuredarkadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 99% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · brighter = more books148 of 312 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Magnus the Red: Master of Prosperodarkest
- Roboute Guilliman Lord of Ultramarbrightest · most intense
- Perturabo: The Hammer of Olympiacalmest