About the Author

Dan Abnett is the author of the Horus Heresy novels Horus Rising, The Unremembered Empire, Know No Fear and Prospero Burns, the last two of which were both New York Times bestsellers. He has written over fifty novels - his other work for Black Library includes the acclaimed Gaunt's Ghosts series, the Eisenhorn and Ravenor trilogies, and I Am Slaughter, the opening novel in The Beast Arises series. A prolific comics writer, he scripted the first Horus Heresy graphic novel, Macragge's Honour. He lives and works in Maidstone, Kent in the UK.

David Annandale is the author of the Horus Heresy novel The Damnation of Pythos, the Adeptus Titanicus novel Warlord and the Grey Knights books Sons of Titan and Warden of the Blade. He also writes the Commissar Yarrick series, which includes the novella Chains of Golgotha and the novels Imperial Creed and The Pyres of Armageddon. For the Space Marine Battles series, he has written the novels The Death of Antagonis and Overfiend, while he is also the author of three volumes in The Beast Arises series. David lectures at a Canadian university on subjects ranging from English literature to horror films and video games.

John French is the author of several Horus Heresy stories including the novels The Solar War, Praetorian of Dorn, Tallarn and Slaves to Darkness, the novella The Crimson Fist, and the audio dramas Dark Compliance, Templar and Warmaster. For Warhammer 40,000 he has written Resurrection, Incarnation and Divination for The Horusian Wars and three tie-in audio dramas - the Scribe award-winning Agent of the Throne: Blood and Lies, as well as Agent of the Throne: Truth and Dreams and Agent of the Throne: Ashes and Oaths. John has also written the Ahriman series and many short stories.

Guy Haley is the author of the Horus Heresy novel Pharos, the Primarchs novel Peturabo and two volumes in The Beast Arises series: Throneworld and The Beheading. He has also written many Warhammer 40,000 novels, including Dante, Valedor and the Imperial Battle Tanks novels Baneblade and Shadowsword. His enthusiasm for all things greenskin led him to pen the eponymous Warhammer fantasy novel Skarsnik, as well as the End Times novel The Rise of the Horned Rat. He has also written a number of novellas and short stories set in Warhammer's new Age of Sigmar setting. He lives in Yorkshire, England with his wife and son.

Nick Kyme is the author of the Horus Heresy novels Old Earth, Deathfire, Vulkan Lives and Sons of the Forge, the novellas Promethean Sun and Scorched Earth, and the audio dramas Red-Marked, Censure and Nightfane. His novella Feat of Iron was a New York Times bestseller in the Horus Heresy collection, The Primarchs. Nick is well known for his popular Salamanders novels, including Rebirth, the Sicarius novels Damnos and Knights of Macragge, and numerous short stories. He has also written fiction set in the world of Warhammer, most notably the Warhammer Chronicles novel The Great Betrayal and the Age of Sigmar story 'Borne by the Storm', included in the novel War Storm. More recently he has scripted the Age of Sigmar audio drama The Imprecations of Daemons. He lives and works in Nottingham.

Graham McNeill has written many Horus Heresy novels, including The Crimson King, Vengeful Spirit and his New York Times bestsellers A Thousand Sons and the novella The Reflection Crack'd, which featured in The Primarchs anthology. Graham's Ultramarines series, featuring Captain Uriel Ventris, is now six novels long, and has close links to his Iron Warriors stories, the novel Storm of Iron being a perennial favourite with Black Library fans. He has also written the Forges of Mars trilogy, featuring the Adeptus Mechanicus. For Warhammer, he has written the Warhammer Chronicles trilogy The Legend of Sigmar, the second volume of which won the 2010 David Gemmell Legend Award.

Gav Thorpe is the author of the Horus Heresy novels Deliverance Lost, Angels of Caliban and Corax. He is particularly well known for his Dark Angels stories, including the Legacy of Caliban series and the Space Marine Legends novel Azrael. His Warhammer 40,000 repertoire further includes the Path of the Eldar trilogy, The Beast Arises novel The Beast Must Die and the Phoenix Lords novels Asurmen and Jain Zar. For Warhammer, Gav has penned The Sundering trilogy, the End Times novel The Curse of Khaine and the novel Warbeast in the Realmgate Wars series. He lives and works in Nottingham, UK.

Chris Wraight is the author of the Horus Heresy novels Scars and The Path of Heaven, the novellas Brotherhood of the Storm and Wolf King, and the audio dramas The Sigillite and Grey Talon. For Warhammer 40,000, he has written the Space Wolves novels Blood of Asaheim and Stormcaller, the Inquisition novel The Carrion Throne and the Space Marine Battles novels Wrath of Iron and War of the Fang. Additionally, he has many Warhammer stories to his name, including the Time of Legends novel Master of Dragons and the End Times novel The Fall of Altdorf. Chris lives and works near Bristol, in south-west England.