DarkChaplain Posted July 8, 2020 Share Posted July 8, 2020 https://www.warhammer-community.com/2020/07/08/horror-returns-this-october/ We're getting a new lineup of Horror for the Fall/Winter seasons, as expected. What's more, Peter Fehervari is spearheading it! They've not given details or further teases just yet, but they confirm it is the start of the next wave. I'd expect another launch anthology at the minimum, along with one audio drama. The rest should be sprinkled throughout the months following October. ...at least that's my educated guess after seeing the previous Horror season and their Crime lineup. Roomsky, Shinros, JH79 and 6 others 9 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knockagh Posted July 8, 2020 Share Posted July 8, 2020 This might even tempt me to buy a horror book! Nice to see Fehervari back. DarkChaplain, DukeLeto69 and byrd9999 3 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Marshal Posted July 8, 2020 Share Posted July 8, 2020 (edited) I'm only posting because I am legally required to as a member of the Peter Fehervari cult here on B&C. I have to laugh at them calling Requiem Infernal a non-horror work though, especially when one of the more prominent questions people put was why it didn't have the branding despite doing horror far better than most of their offerings. Edited July 8, 2020 by Lord Marshal Felix Antipodes, DukeLeto69, byrd9999 and 4 others 7 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roomsky Posted July 8, 2020 Share Posted July 8, 2020 Dang, all Fehervari's interviews lead me to believe it would be a while before we saw more from him, glad I was mistaken! Cover is gorgeous as is par the course for the horror imprint, and his name on it is all the marketing I need! Not that any back-of-the-book summary is remotely indicitive of what Fehervari puts between the covers anyway. DarkChaplain, DukeLeto69, Fire Golem and 2 others 5 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkChaplain Posted July 8, 2020 Author Share Posted July 8, 2020 (edited) I'm just so floored & happy by the fact that Fehervari is delivering the flagship novel this time. In nobody's shadow, just there as the first offering to be marketed, and first out the door. He absolutely deserves this! That being said, I expect this to be another tale for the Coil, Horror imprint or not. His setting is flexible enough to accomodate it, allows for drawing on parallel ideas, and he makes sure to deliver a self-contained narrative despite the meta-network. There's no reason to expect The Reverie to be an isolated story, even if direct links may end up toned down a little. I expect it to be a fantastic getting started point to his Dark Coil at any rate. ....now they just need to make a print lite-omnibus collecting the Phaedra stories (Fire Caste, Out Caste, Sanctuary for Wyrms, Vanguard) and call it Thunderground, harkening back to one of the working titles like they did with Cult of the Spiral Dawn when it got paperback'd. Make it so, BL. Edited July 8, 2020 by DarkChaplain Lord Marshal, Fire Golem, Roomsky and 3 others 6 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheywood Posted July 8, 2020 Share Posted July 8, 2020 I’m slightly surprised to see this. I was expecting Fehervari’s next novel to be about the Angels Penitent. He mentioned submitting a first draft in that Track of Words interview last year. Unless of course this is what his Angels Penitent novel became. Either way more Fehervari is always great. DukeLeto69 and byrd9999 2 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Marshal Posted July 8, 2020 Share Posted July 8, 2020 (edited) I’m slightly surprised to see this. I was expecting Fehervari’s next novel to be about the Angels Penitent. He mentioned submitting a first draft in that Track of Words interview last year. Unless of course this is what his Angels Penitent novel became. Either way more Fehervari is always great.Especially when he's admitted to being an extremely slow writer (I think). I wonder if there being more buzz surrounding Requiem Infernal compelled GW to offer him a more specific commission? Edited July 8, 2020 by Lord Marshal Shinros, byrd9999 and cheywood 3 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jareddm Posted July 8, 2020 Share Posted July 8, 2020 I have to laugh at them calling Requiem Infernal a non-horror work though, especially when one of the more prominent questions people put was why it didn't have the branding despite doing horror far better than most of their offerings. My understanding was the only reason Requiem Infernal didn't make it into Warhammer Horror was a disconnect in publishing schedules. I can't imagine there was anything about it that specifically kept it out of WHH. byrd9999 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fire Golem Posted July 8, 2020 Share Posted July 8, 2020 I'm only posting because I am legally required to as a member of the Peter Fehervari cult here on B&C. I have to laugh at them calling Requiem Infernal a non-horror work though, especially when one of the more prominent questions people put was why it didn't have the branding despite doing horror far better than most of their offerings. I assumed they meant non-horror as in not part of the warhammer horror brand, rather than non-horror genre. byrd9999 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beren Posted July 8, 2020 Share Posted July 8, 2020 Another Fehervari is absolutely brilliant. Reverie could always be the Angels Penitent story (all of his works are pretty much horror anyway, and could slot into the horror line pretty easily) though I would hardly be disappointed to see that it's something unexpected. byrd9999 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DukeLeto69 Posted July 8, 2020 Share Posted July 8, 2020 I can confirm that The Reverie is an Angels Resplendent novel. VERY much looking forward to this. Gorgeous cover. Gongsun Zan, Lord Marshal, cheywood and 3 others 6 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DukeLeto69 Posted July 8, 2020 Share Posted July 8, 2020 I’m slightly surprised to see this. I was expecting Fehervari’s next novel to be about the Angels Penitent. He mentioned submitting a first draft in that Track of Words interview last year. Unless of course this is what his Angels Penitent novel became. Either way more Fehervari is always great.Especially when he's admitted to being an extremely slow writer (I think). I wonder if there being more buzz surrounding Requiem Infernal compelled GW to offer him a more specific commission? I am not sure he is particularly slow but as writing is not his primary source of income (he earns his living as a TV editor) he only writes part time. Then again compared to a machine like Guy Haley he would of course be considered glacially slow! DarkChaplain and byrd9999 2 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theSpirea Posted July 8, 2020 Share Posted July 8, 2020 Super excited for this one and the cover is top notch. Looking back at Avenging Son joke... Now, this book better not sell-out so I can get my copy, or two. Also, was it necessary to create a new thread? There are already two threads for Warhammer Horror and it seems the book is also being discussed in the general upcoming BL stuff. byrd9999 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shinros Posted July 8, 2020 Share Posted July 8, 2020 Glad he is back, Peter is my favourite Black Library writer so far. byrd9999, Lord Marshal and DarkChaplain 3 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
byrd9999 Posted July 8, 2020 Share Posted July 8, 2020 YES! An insta-buy in hardback on the day it comes out. A big Yes! also to every post in this thread. Super super excited :) Congratulations also to the BL commissioning team for recognising, nurturing and helping to promote Peter Fehervari's work! DarkChaplain 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkChaplain Posted July 8, 2020 Author Share Posted July 8, 2020 Super excited for this one and the cover is top notch. Looking back at Avenging Son joke... Now, this book better not sell-out so I can get my copy, or two. Also, was it necessary to create a new thread? There are already two threads for Warhammer Horror and it seems the book is also being discussed in the general upcoming BL stuff. I'd say so, considering this'll be "season 2" of Horror, so to say, with more announcements to come over the coming weeks. The posting on Upcoming actually happened within a minute of this thread being posted, anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gongsun Zan Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 I think PF has mentioned that his Angels Resplendent novel was shaping to be even more horrific than Requiem Infernal, so I'm not surprised to see it marketed under the Warhammer Horror label. But no hint of SPACE MARINES on the cover seems like a bit of an oddity to me, I thought they would have wanted to pull in some of the crowd that only reads Space Marine fiction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b1soul Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 I assume this is about how the Angels Resplendent turn into the Angels Penitent? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Marshal Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 (edited) But no hint of SPACE MARINES on the cover seems like a bit of an oddity to me, I thought they would have wanted to pull in some of the crowd that only reads Space Marine fiction. That was what surprised me as well. A great deal of the 'your favourite BL book' lists on here attest to that being a very real thing. The impression I get from the Horror and Crime labels (because I am sure I read this somewhere) is that they're aiming for audiences who might shrug off seeing typical 40k covers as 'sci-fi military tripe' (which, in fairness, they mostly are) and instead use less Warhammer-specific covers in order to fit onto a shelf with other fiction of that genre. Edited July 9, 2020 by Lord Marshal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DukeLeto69 Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 I am one of those who mostly avoids Space Marine novels (except by ADB, Wraight and also HH books) because most are poor! The horror books have steadfastly not shown 40k imagery as they do indeed want to appeal to a different/wider audience. Most of the covers have been excellent. DarkChaplain and Knockagh 2 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knockagh Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 My only dip into the horror books so far has been watcher in the rain. Which I only bought for the cover. Yes, an audio book I bought for the cover. Clever or what? It was ok. I definitely didn’t find it horrific. The covers for horror have been superbly gothic. PF won’t do a bloody shock horror book so I’m cool with buying this. Can’t wait Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
byrd9999 Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 The Way Out by Rachel Harrison is probably the best BL audio drama I have heard. I listened to it on headphones in the dark, and it was genuinely scary. I have Watcher in the Rain, but I'm saving it for when he nights get dark early. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkChaplain Posted July 11, 2020 Author Share Posted July 11, 2020 Personally, I wasn't as keen on The Way Out as you - although it was pretty cool, too! - but The Watcher in the Rain really impressed me with its thick atmosphere. That was an easy to recommend audio drama, even for folks outside of 40k, and pretty much on point for BL's attempts to strike out to non-fans. Darkly Dreaming was also very well written and chilling, with just the right amount of bite, as expected from a Reynolds script. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheywood Posted September 16, 2020 Share Posted September 16, 2020 There’s an interview with Peter Fehervari up on Warhammer Community: https://www.warhammer-community.com/2020/09/16/the-reverie-the-author-speaks/ It’s pretty much entirely focused on The Reverie but it does name the next two books coming in the imprint: The Deacon of Wounds and The Harrowed Paths. They’re both coming in 2021 so there won’t be any full length Horror works in November/December. It’s also great to see Fehervari so excited about the future of Horror as an imprint. DukeLeto69 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RolandTHTG Posted September 16, 2020 Share Posted September 16, 2020 I'm only posting because I am legally required to as a member of the Peter Fehervari cult here on B&C. I have to laugh at them calling Requiem Infernal a non-horror work though, especially when one of the more prominent questions people put was why it didn't have the branding despite doing horror far better than most of their offerings. He actually acknowledges that point in the above interview, and said it's exclusion came down to publishing schedule, as he actually pitched the story as a horror one. DukeLeto69 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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