Chapters (36)
- Cover
- Backlist
- The Horus Heresy
- Dramatis Personae
- Prologue
- One
- Two
- Three
- Four
- Five
- Six
- Seven
- Eight
- Nine
- Ten
- Eleven
- Twelve
- Thirteen
- Fourteen
- Fifteen
- Sixteen
- Seventeen
- Eighteen
- Nineteen
- Twenty
- Twenty-One
- Twenty-Two
- Twenty-Three
- Twenty-Four
- Twenty-Five
- Twenty-Six
- Twenty-Seven
- Afterword
- About the Author
- An Extract from ‘Wolf King’
- A Black Library Publication
We're many years and books on from when Dan Abnett sat down to put finger to keyboard and begin this grand saga. It has been a decade and more in the making, but we're now at a point in the Horus Heresy where the end is in sight. The branching stories of the Legions are braiding themselves together into one mighty thread. As Horus commits to his move on Terra, things that we have known will happen for a long time are now happening. One of those events, Russ' assault on Horus and his Legion's near destruction, is the heart of this book.
We are future historians, and like historians it is our job to make sense of these pivotal events, and construct feasible narratives as to why they happened. Why, for example, is Russ so neglectful of the Emperor's Spear? Why does he, against all good sense, strike out to face Horus one on one? We know these things happened. It is future historical fact. The why is the interesting part. The why is where Black Library novels come into their own, both in the writing and the reading. Writing these books often feels like an act of discovery rather than creation, an uncovering of true futures through the parsing of facts.
By the 41st millennium most Space Marine Chapters have an element of cultish mysticism to them, but the Space Wolves are among the few Legions that started out that way. Exploring their beliefs was one of the most enjoyable parts of this process. In a strange way, creating the part where Russ passes through Syrtyrs door to the Underverse linked satisfyingly with the sometimes oddly transcendental aspect of writing a book. Through the exercising of the joined imaginations of writer and reader, we create a kind of reality between us, somewhere new that is different every time the words are read, and somehow real because of it. It's a peculiar, sometimes frightening thought. A story is the safest way to explore such lands, for in these places lie the domains of the Erlking.
This, then, is Wolfsbane. May the saga of these bold warriors fire your own courage, and entertain you on the coldest of nights.
Fenrys hjolda!
Guy Haley,
November, 2017
About the Author
About the Author
Guy Haley is the author of the Horus Heresy novels Wolfsbane and Pharos, the Primarchs novel Perturabo: The Hammer of Olympia and the Warhammer 40,000 novels Dark Imperium, The Devastation of Baal, Dante, Baneblade, Shadowsword, Valedor and Death of Integrity. He has also written Throneworld and The Beheading for The Beast Arises series. His enthusiasm for all things greenskin has also led him to pen the eponymous Warhammer novel Skarsnik, as well as the End Times novel The Rise of the Horned Rat. He has also written stories set in the Age of Sigmar, included in War Storm, Ghal Maraz and Call of Archaon. He lives in Yorkshire with his wife and son.
