Showing results by author "Rachel Harrison" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

Take your first steps into the adrenaline-fuelled fiction of the 41st millennium with a thrilling collection of tales, including an action-packed novella pitting noble Ultramarines against sinister necrons. Whether you're dipping a toe into the galaxy of Warhammer 40,000 or are a hardened veteran of the universe, this anthology is the perfect way to discover the many factions of the games in action-packed tales.

The Sabbat War is a savage Imperial crusade, cutting a bloody, burning path across a vast swathe of the Imperium's lost territory. On the front line, the stalwart regiments of the Astra Militarum, including the valiant Tanith First-and-Only—better known as Gaunt’s Ghosts—confront the relentless menace of Chaos, the Archenemy of Mankind. There is, and ever will be, only war.

Sally has recently left an unfulfilling job to volunteer at a living history museum, where she is assigned to the Death House. Every day, she dons Victorian mourning garb and describes traditional funeral services to tourists. It sounds depressing as hell, but for Sally, it’s less depressing than her tepid marriage to her childhood sweetheart. This becomes all too clear when she accidentally travels through time and space to a liminal world where the ghosts of the living history museum haunt its grounds. There, she meets and falls hard for Victorian-era pretty boy Nathaniel.

Uncompromising and fierce, Commissar Severina Raine has always served the Imperium with the utmost distinction. Attached to the 11th Antari Rifles, she instills order and courage in the face of utter horror. The Chaos cult, the Sighted, have swept throughout the Bale Stars and a shadow has fallen across its benighted worlds. A great campaign led by the vaunted hero Lord-General Militant Alar Serek is underway to free the system from tyranny and enslavement, but the price of victory must be paid in blood.

In the midst of a vast gas nebula lies a remote watch-station, hanging silently against a tapestry of dying stars. It sits alone, patiently awaiting lost travellers adrift in the freezing vastness of the void. To such souls it appears as a blessing, a safe haven from the warp storms that wrack the immaterium and destroy the ships of those foolish enough to test the tides. To Captain Arq and her crew, it is one thing - refuge. But things are never so simple.

Annie meets Sophie. Beautiful, charming, magnetic Sophie, who takes a special interest in Annie, who wants to be her friend. More importantly, she wants Annie to stop apologizing and start living for herself. That's how Sophie lives. Annie can't help but gravitate toward the self-possessed Sophie, wanting to spend more and more time with her, despite the fact that the rest of the town seems… a little afraid of her.

With the birth of the Cicatrix Maledictum the Imperium of Mankind suffers as never before. Conflict and corruption is rife on every front and precious little hope remains, save for those who hold to their faith when faced with destruction.... Denied a martyr’s death during the battle for Ophelia VII, Sister Evangeline of the Order of Our Martyred Lady is blessed with a new and grave duty: to embark on a pilgrimage beyond the Great Rift to recover a precious and powerful artefact - the Shield of Saint Katherine.

This collection contains all-new stories of coulrophobia (fear of clowns) from some of the most talented horror writers alive!

Kompromisslos und entschlossen diente Commissarin Severina Raine dem Imperium stets mit äußerster Hingabe. Unter den Soldaten des 11. Antarischen Schützenregiments hält sie selbst angesichts größter Schrecken Ordnung und Pflichtgefühl aufrecht. Aber das Grauen hat viele Gesichter und Raines unerschütterlicher Glaube steht vor einer schweren Prüfung. Als ein Chaoskult zwischen den Leidsternen wütet, fällt ein Schatten auf die umnachteten Welten. Lord-General Militant Alar Serek zieht aus, um das System vor Tyrannei und Unterjochung zu bewahren, doch der Preis des Sieges wird mit Blut bezahlt.

Nach dem Erscheinen der Cicatrix Maledictum leidet das Imperium der Menschheit wie nie zuvor. Krieg und Korruption herrschen allerorts und Verzweiflung ergreift all jene, die im Angesicht der Vernichtung nicht an ihrem Glauben festhalten... Nachdem ihr während der Kämpfe um Ophelia VII ein Märtyrertod versagt blieb, erhält Evangeline vom Orden der Heiligen Märtyrerin den Segen einer neuen und schwerwiegenden Pflicht: Sie soll sich auf eine Pilgerfahrt jenseits des Großen Risses begeben, um ein wertvolles und mächtiges Artefakt zu retten – den Schild der Heiligen Katharina.