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The images come from Realm of Chaos Slaves to Darkness, Space Hulk Campaigns and Horus Heresy Drop Assault

Deathrow sank to his knees, breathing hard. He kept his back to us. He raised his hands to his face and tried to push his damaged visor back together. I took a step towards him. The cattle dog trotted up and stood between us. It glared at me, but not unkindly. ‘Deathrow?’ I said. The dog...

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We went deeper into the Salleys, moving north towards the Undergate district. The...

The frightful war between the Traitor Marines was splintering the plaster and threatening to burst throughinto the main hall. Some of the heraldic gesso plaques were falling off the walls and shattering on the hall floor. Sister Bismillah led us outside, her arm around me. Lightburn followed...

‘I am protected,’ said Blackwards. ‘Those sell-swords will not stand a chance against what lies in this house,’ I replied. ‘You will not be taking us to your clients.’ ‘I will not have to,’ he replied, and casually clicked a small vox-pulser. I felt an ultrasonic tingle. A nasty blue-white light...

I spoke the word. The force of it struck Teke and hurled him away from me. He looked surprised for a moment. Then he vanished in the astonishing shockwave of fury that followed the pronouncement, and crashed through several walls. They splintered and shattered like glass. I didn’t know how long...

We ran, slamming doors behind us. The old, dark house shook. He was behind us, howling in a feral, sing-song voice. Screams echoed from other parts of Feverfugue, out of the darkness of night and trees that enclosed the place. I imagined it was servants and household staff, woken in terror by...

I was already in a heightened, distressed state because of the murder of my friend. On top of that, I seemed to be facing incontrovertible proof that he had been Grael Magent, or that Grael Magent had somehow resided within him. Was that why the thought-form had interceded on my behalf against...

‘Don’t hurt them, smiling one,’ said Alace Quatorze. ‘Of course I won’t,’ said the giant. ‘You Glaws, always so very suspicious. Your father was the same, and his sire before him. Just because we were built for war, it doesn’t follow that we must always act with violence. I was relaxing. I was...

Then I heard a reply. A voice like soft music, a man’s voice. ‘But of course, Alace, show them in.’ I went to the door with Judika. Beyond Alace Quatorze, I saw a large anteroom. More pictures, the product of Shadrake’s madness, hung there. The room was lit by many, many tapers and glow-globes...

Teke the Smiling One Again, in the commune. And in the confusion of the brass reading room, I could not be sure that the laughter of children had not echoed somewhere in the background. ‘Are there children here?’ I asked sharply. Alace Quatorze looked stunned. ‘Children?’ she said. ‘Are there...

When we found the archpriest Dazzo, he was close to death. A battle of titanic proportions had taken place in the tetra scape where he lay. Thousands of dead lay on the tiled floor: Mirepoix infantry and heretic troops alike. Two Children of the Emperor and three Deathwatch were among the...

Explosive flashes blew water ooze and vegetable matter up from the tanks, and the air became foggy with plant fibre and sappy moisture. There was an abrupt change in tone in the enemy fire. The boom of a bolter rang out over the crack and snipe of the laser weapons. I looked down the silver...

Bequin had also been transmuted by experience in the months since I had first met her on Hubris. A hard, serious woman had replaced the scatty, selfish pleasure-girl from the Sun-dome, as if she had at last found a calling that suited her. She had certainly thrown herself into her new life with...

‘Because whatever their combat inexperience, they’ve seen a tetrascape. Those are the men I want at my side.’ Madorthene and Brytnoth exchanged glances, and the procurator shrugged. ‘As you wish.’ ‘As for the others, like I said, don’t stint on the training regime.’ ‘We won’t!’ he chuckled...

‘Were they successful, Inquisitor Eisenhorn?’ the Space Marine asked suddenly, staring directly at me. ‘No, brother-captain, they were not. The effort was desperate and close run, but my force was able to spoil their contact with the xenos saruthi. The aliens were driven off, and most of the...

Abruptly, a rough, foul psychic force burst into my mind, breaking the spell. I began to turn, to look away from the opening book. That half-turn was just enough to stop me dying. I was felled by a monumental blow to the shoulder. As I dropped, the book spun helplessly from my yearning hand. The...

Two clattered forward suddenly, towards the bewildered trooper escort. Electric-blue discharges fizzled around the saruthi’s swaying heads and thenspat raking beams of ice-bright energy at their attackers. Two troopers were vaporised, their constituent matter boiling away in searing flashes of...