The Wicked and the Damned

Warhammer Horror

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The Wicked and the Damned

By: Josh Reynolds, David Annandale, Phil Kelly

Narrated by: Doug Bradley, Richard Reed, Emma Gregory, John Banks

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A Warhammer Horror portmanteau.

Drawn together by mysterious circumstances, three strangers meet in the mists of a desolate cemetery world. As they relate their stories, the threads of fate are drawn around them, and destiny awaits....

Read it because: It's a classic horror portmanteau comprising three Warhammer 40,000 novellas, each with its own distinct feel - a ghost story, a monster saga and a psychological horror tale - that all draw together through the terrifying linking story.

The story: On a misty cemetery world, three strangers are drawn together through mysterious circumstances. Each of them has a tale to tell of a narrow escape from death. Amid the toll of funerary bells and the creep and click of mortuary-servitors, the truth is confessed. But whose story can be trusted? Whose recollection is warped, even unto themselves?

For these are strange stories of the uncanny, the irrational and the spine-chillingly frightening, where horrors abound and the dark depths of the human psyche is unearthed.

Josh ReynoldsDavid AnnandalePhil KellyDoug BradleyRichard ReedEmma GregoryJohn BanksBlack Library

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“Warhammer horror” was something I saw on a Warhammer community post a while back that really caught my eye. As a huge horror book fan, and an avid Warhammer 40k player the concept excited me. The two world mesh so perfectly together when you consider how truest terrifying the 41st millennium truly is.

My recommendation is only pick this one up if you’re a true 40k fan who just loves being immersed in the world. It’s got some rough edges and a lot of stuff i’d change but it’s a true promising start to the venture that’ll hopefully lead to some really impressive stuff down the line. A successful step into the world of 40k horror from black library.

It took me a while to get into, I’m so used to the scale of 40k being focused on such big characters, battles, unbelievable numbers, sizes and scope that it was difficult, but refreshing to be given the perspective of some (relatively) inconsequential mortals. However I feel like this is also where it slipped up. It fell too easily (on the last story in particular) to the trope of this supposedly helpless and weak characters overcoming unbelievable odds in the face of horror. In a world where ridiculous 8ft tall power armoured supergene monster soldiers and regularly munched down by nasty space critters without so much as a second to swallow, it all felt a bit too forced to me. However this all makes sense come the end (no spoilers don’t worry), but it’s just odd that a setting that coins the term “grim dark” and consistently likes to show us how ultimately f**ked humanity is when facing the terrible things out there in the universe, and yet rarely shows it on an individual level.

The sense of TRUE horror just wasn’t there. It was too optimistic, had some lovely lovecraftian elements and often reminded me of something from a Blackwell or James if you’re a fan of horror, but didn’t have enough of that special depressiveness that I love about the 40k setting.

I did enjoy the listen but I’m more excited about what’s to come in the future.