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Aaron Dembski-Bowden

Aaron Dembski-Bowden is a distinguished author in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, known for compelling storytelling and deep lore.

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  • Cover of the ebook edition of 'A Rose Watered with Blood': Captain Lotarra Sarrin must confront the hell of the warp as the warship Conqueror slowly closes ...

    A Rose Watered with Blood

    by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

    Short StoryAaron Dembski-Bowden

    The Conquerer, flagship of the World Eaters Space Marine Legion, has changed. As it makes the long journey to Terra, the vagaries of the warp – and the infernal nature of the beast chained in the bowels of the warship – are altering the very fabric of the vessel. For Lotara Sarrin, long-serving shipmaster of the once-proud craft, and her human crew, the ship has become dangerous. Some think it's trying to kill them. Sarrin has another theory… and it's one she likes even less.

    • 1 edition
  • Cover of the paperback edition of 'Betrayer': Blood for the Blood God

    Betrayer

    by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

    NovelAaron Dembski-Bowden

    The Shadow Crusade has begun. While the Ultramarines reel from Kor Phaeron's surprise attack on Calth, Lorgar and the rest of the Word Bearers strike deep into the realm of Ultramar. Their unlikely allies, Angron and the World Eaters, continue to ravage each new system they come across - upon the garrison planet of Armatura, this relentless savagery may finally prove to be their undoing. Worlds will burn, Legions will clash and a primarch will fall.

    • 3 editions
  • Cover of the ebook edition of 'Prince of Crows': In midnight clad

    Prince of Crows

    by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

    NovellaAaron Dembski-Bowden

    The Thramas Crusade draws to its inevitable conclusion, with the forces of the Dark Angels and the Night Lords locked in a struggle that neither side can bring themselves to abandon. The Night Haunter lies comatose after being mauled by his primarch brother Lion El’Jonson, and in his absence it falls to First Captain Sevatar and the remaining members of the Kyroptera to command the Legion. But the self-styled 'Prince of Crows' has his own plans to save the VIII Legion from annihilation – plans he intends to follow, with or without his comrades in tow...

    • 5 editions
  • Cover of the ebook edition of 'The Long Night': Even when held captive by the Dark Angels, Sevatar still seeks to punish the guilty

    The Long Night

    by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

    DramaAaron Dembski-Bowden

    The Dark Angels and the Night Lords fought one another to a bloody stalemate during the Thramas Crusade and, though the Lion eventually claimed victory, it left both Legions scattered and under-strength. Jago Sevatarion, First Captain of the Night Lords, languishes in a gaol cell in the heart of Ultramar. Far from a spent force, the Night Lords must consider where their loyalties lie, and what path they will take in the days and months to come.

    • 5 editions
  • Cover of the ebook edition of 'Eye of Terra': I am the Emperor's vigilance

    Aurelian

    by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

    NovellaAaron Dembski-Bowden

    After the destruction of Monarchia and the Emperor's reprimanding of the Word Bearers Legion, the primarch Lorgar spent many long years searching the stars for the universal truths of the cosmos when he finally came to gaze deep into the Eye of Terror, with grim inevitability he found that the Eye stared back. Now, guided by the daemon Ingethel, he undertakes a spiritual journey into the heart of Chaos itself and sees that the entire destiny of mankind and the Imperium could rest upon just a few nexus events. As the Great Crusade burns itself out in treachery and deceit, Lorgar weighs the cost of his ambitions, and sets his course for eternal damnation.

    • 5 editions
  • Cover of the ebook edition of 'The Burden of Loyalty': Featuring stories by Dan Abnett, Aaron Dembski-Bowden, John French, Gav Thorpe, Chris Wraight and...

    Into Exile

    by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

    Short StoryAaron Dembski-Bowden

    When the traitorous allies of Horus and Kelbor-Hal seized Mars, they sent elite hunters to apprehend key targets and ensure that any loyal resistance would fail. One such target was the legendary technoarchaeologist Arkhan Land, the discoverer of many lost treasures and curiosities from mankind's Golden Age - and the Imperial Fists cannot allow such a valuable mind to fall into the hands of the enemy. Does Land have good reason to fear his apparent saviours?

    • 4 editions
  • Cover of the ebook edition of 'War Without End': Featuring stories by Aaron Dembski-Bowden, John French, Graham McNeill, James Swallow, Chris Wrai...

    Howl of the Hearthworld

    by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

    Short StoryAaron Dembski-Bowden

    In the wake of Prospero and Magnus' betrayal, Space Wolves watch packs were sent to keep an eye on each primarch, ready strike should treachery rear its head. One pack made their way to Terra itself, assigned to the Emperor's praetorian, Rogal Dorn... and they're not happy about it. After all, the only thing that awaits them on Terra is boredom. Isn't it?

    • 5 editions
  • Cover of the paperback edition of 'The First Heretic': Fall to Chaos

    The First Heretic

    by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

    NovelAaron Dembski-Bowden

    Amidst the galaxy-wide war of the Great Crusade, the Emperor castigates the Word Bearers for their worship. Distraught at this judgement, Lorgar and his Legion seek another path while devastating world after world, venting their fury and fervour on the battlefield. Their search for a new purpose leads them to the edge of the material universe, where they meet ancient forces far more powerful than they could have imagined. Having set out to illuminate the Imperium, the corruption of Chaos takes hold and their path to damnation begins. Unbeknownst to the Word Bearers, their quest for truth contains the very roots of heresy...

    • 3 editions
  • Cover of the ebook edition of 'Bringer of Sorrow': Black Library Celebration 2019

    Bringer of Sorrow

    by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

    Short StoryAaron Dembski-Bowden

    At the height of the Webway War, renowned Mechanicum technoarchaeologist Arkhan Land ventured into that alien labyrinth in defence of the Imperium. At his side was a wounded warrior of the Blood Angels, Zephon. Now, Land faces a great challenge – to repair the damage done to Zephon, partly as a result of the tech-priest's own tinkering. But how can Land succeed where the greatest of Apothecaries have failed? And when all is done, will the only person the tech-priest comes close to calling friend still be the same man?

    • 1 edition
  • Cover of the paperback edition of 'The Master of Mankind': War in the webway

    The Master of Mankind

    by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

    NovelAaron Dembski-Bowden

    While Horus’ rebellion burns across the galaxy, a very different kind of war rages beneath the Imperial Palace. The ‘Ten Thousand’ Custodian Guard, along with the Sisters of Silence and the Mechanicum forces of Fabricator General Kane, fight to control the nexus points of the ancient eldar webway that lie closest to Terra, infested by daemonic entities after Magnus the Red’s intrusion. But with traitor legionaries and corrupted Battle Titans now counted among the forces of Chaos, the noose around the Throneworld is tightening, and none but the Emperor Himself can hope to prevail.

    • 3 editions
  • Cover of the limited_edition edition of 'Echoes of Eternity'

    Echoes of Eternity

    by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

    NovelAaron Dembski-Bowden

    The walls have fallen. The defenders are broken. The Inner Palace lies in ruins. The Warmaster’s horde advances through the fire and ash of Terra's dying breaths, forcing the loyalists back to the Delphic Battlement – the very walls of the Sanctum Imperialis. Angron, Primarch of the World Eaters and Herald of Horus, has achieved immortality through annihilation – now he leads the armies of the damned in a wrathful tide, destroying all before them as the warp begins its poisonous corruption of Terra's very soil. For the Emperor’s beleaguered forces, the end has come. The Khan lies on the edge of death. Rogal Dorn is encircled, fighting his own war at Bhab Bastion. Guilliman will not reach Terra in time. Without his brothers, Sanguinius – the Angel of the Ninth Legion – waits on the final battlements, hoping to rally a desperate band of defenders and refugees for one last stand.

    • 5 editions
  • Cover of the paperback edition of 'Legacies of Betrayal': Featuring stories by Aaron Dembski-Bowden, Nick Kyme, Graham McNeill, Chris Wraight and many more

    Butcher's Nails

    by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

    DramaAaron Dembski-Bowden

    The primarch Angron: gladiator-king and Horus's lunatic attack dog. Never having hidden his resentment for his brothers, he now carves a bloody swathe through the galaxy in the Warmaster's name, with the Heresy providing a convenient excuse to indulge his love of brutal warfare. When they are tasked with a secretive mission alongside the Word Bearers Legion, the World Eaters' violent tendencies soon attract the attention of xenos raiders, troubled by the portents surrounding the primarch's berserk fury and his ultimate destiny as 'the Blood God's son'...

    • 5 editions
  • Cover of the ebook edition of 'Heart of the Conqueror': Angron's ascension to daemonhood drives the Legion's mortal followers into madness

    Heart of the Conqueror

    by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

    Short StoryAaron Dembski-Bowden

    The Navigator Nisha Andrasta has served the XIIth Legion for over a century. She saw the War Hounds reunited with their progenitor, Lord Angron. She witnessed the rebirth of the Legion as the World Eaters. She looked on in confusion and horror as the primarch joined Horus's rebellion, and now she has seen him betrayed by Lorgar Aurelian, becoming the maddened monster he was always destined to be. Now, as the character of the XIIth changes along with their father, what course of action yet remains to this loyal daughter of Terra?

    • 2 editions
  • Cover of the paperback edition of 'Mark of Calth': A Horus Heresy anthollogy featuring New York Times bestsellers Dan Abnett, Aaron Dembski-Bowden a...

    The Underworld War

    by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

    Short StoryAaron Dembski-Bowden
    • 3 editions
  • Cover of the hardcover edition of 'Heirs of the Emperor': An Anthology

    The Abyssal Edge

    by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

    Short StoryAaron Dembski-Bowden

    When an archivist uncovers an unthinkable truth, he comes to the attention of the First Captain of the Night Lords, the dreaded 'Prince of Crows' himself. Terrified yet enrapt, Ulatal listens as Sevatar tells him a tale that cannot exist in any Imperial archive. It is a tale from the world of Zoah, of the moment when Konrad Curze and Magnus the Red almost went to war...

    • 6 editions
  • Cover of the ebook edition of 'War Without End': Featuring stories by Aaron Dembski-Bowden, John French, Graham McNeill, James Swallow, Chris Wrai...

    Lord of the Red Sands

    by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

    Short StoryAaron Dembski-Bowden

    Angron, gladiator-primarch of the XIIth Legion, is renowned across the galaxy for his savagery and brutal martial code. But amidst the ruins of Isstvan III, even as he slaughters his own wayward sons, he finds a unique serenity in the carnage of warfare... no matter whose blood he spills. And for what does the Eater of Worlds hunger above all else? Nothing more than freedom.

    • 6 editions
  • Cover of the paperback edition of 'Lupercal's War': Dan Abnett, Graham McNeill, Aaron Dembski-Bowden, John French, Chris Wraight and many more

    Savage Weapons

    by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

    Short StoryAaron Dembski-Bowden

    For two years, the Dark Angels have battled the Night Lords on the worlds of the Aegis sector, and they are no closer to victory. When the traitor primarch known as the Night Haunter issues a challenge, Lion El'Jonson of the Dark Angels descends to an abandoned world for a final confrontation with his treacherous brother. But the Night Haunter has a darker purpose...

    • 7 editions
  • Cover of the ebook edition of 'Eye of Terra': I am the Emperor's vigilance

    Massacre

    by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

    Short StoryAaron Dembski-Bowden

    Shunned by the rest of the Legions after the destruction of their home world, the Night Lords have fought without their disgraced primarch Konrad Curze for many years. But now the self-proclaimed ‘Night Haunter’ has returned and will lead them to the backwater world of Isstvan V, where a great treachery is unfolding, and the grim legionaries of First Claw will soon be forced to embrace their dark destiny.

    • 4 editions
  • Cover of the ebook edition of 'Era of Ruin': Horus is dead. His Heresy is over. The scars of mankind’s great schism will never fully heal. For...

    The Carrion Lord of the Imperium

    by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

    Short StoryAaron Dembski-Bowden
    • 4 editions

Series they've contributed to

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The Horus Heresy Series

Multi-AuthorEditorial
178 publications
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The Horus Heresy Mainline Series

Multi-AuthorNarrative
54 publications
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The Horus Heresy: Siege of Terra

Multi-AuthorNarrative
14 publications
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The Horus Heresy: Primarchs Series

Multi-AuthorEditorial
37 publications
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Stories by Year and Type

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19 total stories•2010 – 2025•Peak: 2014 (3)
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