We bring you the reading order of the Horus Heresy books, based on the year published, along with a list of the novellas and short stories, and the audio dramas.Emperor of Mankind mortally wounded and placed within the Golden Throne Horus slain by the Emperor Traitor Legions broken and flee towards the Eye of Terror The books first came into publication in 2006 by Black Library, and are written by various authors, and was started as a campaign setting for the Warhammer 40,000 miniature wargame until it became a full-fledged line of novels that continue to tell the story set in different time periods before the 41st century, before and after the fictional civil war.

It is a devastating galaxy-spanning civil war that engulfs the nascent galactic empire of the Imperium of Man early in the 31st millennium of the universe timeline the war is a major cause of the science fantasy universe’s dystopian environment. The Horus Heresy is a cornerstone even in a fictional universe that provides the background story for the Warhammer 40,000. The Warhammer 40,000 is a tabletop miniature war game that is produced by Games Workshop and is set in a dystopian sci-fi universe. The Horus Heresy is a dark, far future, sci-fi war saga that takes place during the Horus Heresy, a cornerstone event of the dystopian science fantasy Warhammer 40,000 universe.

Horus heresy timeline