Hammer & Bolter is Black Library’s monthly fiction magazine. Each issue is packed with all-new short stories, serialised novels, interviews, previews and more.
In this issue:
Far below the Empire, in the catacombs and warrens that criss-cross the Old World, the nefarious rat-things plot the downfall of Gilead the High Elf, in Gilead’s Curse: Chapter Three by Nik Vincent and Dan Abnett
Beneath the Flesh (Part One of Two) is the first half of a new Flesh Tearers story from Andy Smillie
After rebelling against his master, Burias faces punishment. But the voices in his head will not let him go quietly, and he may yet have a greater destiny among the Word Bearers... in the short story Torment by Anthony Reynolds.
When the Silver Skulls First Company return to a long-dead recruitment world they are forced into an uneasy alliance lest the ancient evil they’ve disturbed wipe out both Space Marine and Eldar alike, in The Pact by Sarah Cawkwell
