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“Deathworlder is epically apocalyptic”

My Kind of Weird

PUBLICATIONS

DEATHWORLDER

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Black Library Novel (April 2024)

On a planet trapped in the closing jaws of the Great Devourer, Major Wulf Khan of the Catachan 903rd receives a final, desperate mission – one which will take her soldiers into the maw of the tyranid threat.

NIGHTSIDER IMPERIALIS

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Warhammer 40,000 Short (December 2023)

Major Wulf Khan must recover a fighter pilot from kroot-infested mangrove forests before vital intel can fall into the hands of the t'au.

BONE ARMOUR

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Grimdark Magazine (April 2022)

"Victoria Hayward's short but razor-sharp story Bone Armour couldn't be more suited to Grimdark Magazine" - Track of Words

"Economical, creative, twist that lands hard"  -Tim Linward

TRAVELLING ROME WITH THE LAST VICTORIAN

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Anthem Press (June 2021)

Challenging conventional academic ‘authority’, each contributor writes, from memory during the Covid-19 lockdown, about a place they have previously visited, ‘accompanied’ by an historical traveller who published an account of the same place.

"Fascinating, thought-provoking and genre-blurring"  - Carl Thompson, Reader in English Literature, University of Surrey, UK

"Captivating collection of personal, historical essays"  - Onni Gust, Professor, University of Nottingham, UK

WINGS OF FAITH

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Warhammer 40,000 short (November 2022)

Inferno! Presents: The Emperor's Finest

BLOOD SANDS

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Warhammer 40,000 short (January 2023)

A squad of Sentinels crosses a desert on a covert mission against the Genestealer Cults. But is there a traitor in their midst?

"Great pacing, good action and plausible characters make this an excellent short" - Goodreads Reviewer

NO CITY FOR HEROES

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Warhammer 40,000 short (October 2023)

In the sprawling hive city of Varangantua, crime lords and gangers, law enforcers, and vigilantes live cheek-by-jowl – killers, thieves, and worse from all echelons of society doing what they can to survive.

"the most tense story in the anthology" Goodreads Reviewer

THE CARBIS INCIDENT

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Warhammer 40,000 short (November 2021)

This special volume of Inferno! includes eleven short stories featuring agents of the iconic Imperial Inquisition. From puritan witch hunters to radicals of the Ordo Xenos, these ruthless individuals will stop at nothing to purge the galaxy of heresy in the Emperor’s name!

"There’s an enjoyable sense of increasing wrongness throughout" - Track of Words

"One of the more horrifying entries in this anthology, and one
of the strongest as a result" - At Boundary's Edge

"Perhaps more than any other title in this collection it gets the tone of the universe just right"
- Goodreads Reviewer

"I love it when Warhammer 40k fiction features more explicitly Lovecraftian themes, like the lurking threat of seemingly dead civilizations, the inscrutable cosmos, and deep time" - Goodreads Reviewer

THE SIEGE OF ISMYR

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Warhammer 40,000 (September 2021)

The city of Varangantua is a choking sprawl that festers on the surface of Alecto. Within it, some of the most treacherous criminals in the whole Imperium make their living. Standing up for the law are the Enforcers, though many of them are as immoral as the criminals they oppose.

"Magnificent. Populated with characters who are tangible, and in locations that are as alive. Highlight of the collection" - Goodreads Reviewer

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