Games Workshop Pre-Order Preview: Black Library Celebration and Warhammer: The Horus Heresy dominate the week
It’s that time of the year for the Black Library Celebration! Along with books, there’s some limited miniatures and beyond that, a lot of releases for Warhammer: The Horus Heresy. Check out below for what you’ll be able to pre-order from Games Workshop starting next week.
For those into Warhammer 40,000, there’s Hell’s Last miniatures and novel! Minka Lesk of the Cadian 101st has fought tooth and nail to survive in the wake of the tragedy of Cadia, but war is eternal in the 41st Millennium and new challenges are on the horizon. She stars in upcoming novel Hell’s Last by Justin D Hill, which is also accompanied by a set of miniatures featuring Captain Lesk herself, Commissar Shand, Confessor Talbeas, Veteran Sergeant Grawnya and Veteran Trooper Jaromir.
The regular hardback, eBook and audiobook formats are joined by a special edition in a cloth case with foil details – each copy is signed and numbered, features a gilt page edges, a purple ribbon bookmark, and the short story Arcady Pride.
Into Age of Sigmar? You can get Maleneth Witchblade and Shade of Khaine! Gotrek’s infamous associate Maleneth Witchblade has accompanied our truculent hero across the Mortal Realms in several stories. Now she’s breaking out on her own and joining him on the tabletop with a new plastic miniature, and starring in new novel Shade of Khaine by Evan Dicken.
Shade of Khaine will be released in the usual formats, as well as a signed and numbered special edition with a presentation case, gilt page edges, a purple ribbon bookmark, and the extra short story On Shadowed Tides.
Anyone who purchases a book during the celebration will receive the Black Library Celebration 2025 Anthology. This year’s collection features Visage by Rich McCormick, The One Road by David Guymer, Web of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky, and The Long Promise by Mike Brooks. Those who make a purchase in store will receive a paperback copy while stocks last, while if you buy from Blacklibrary.com, you will receive an eBook edition.
The Black Library: The Art of Warhammer 40,000 contains over 100 beautiful illustrations including cover art and interior art from Black Library books published over the years, and comes in an A4 hardback.
Blood of the Imperium features stories written by Mike Brooks, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Jude Reid, Marc Collins, and others, featured alongside Jon Flindall’s four-part story Tome Keepers: Legacy of Defiance, first published in White Dwarf issues 496 to 499.
Fifteen Hours by Michael Scanlon returns for a 20th anniversary edition hardback. A lone guardsman finds out some warzones are worse than others when they’re thrust into combat against the Orks, where his life expectancy is estimated at just 15 short hours.
Gotrek and Maleneth: The Omnibus contains Bone Desert by Robbie MacNiven, The Neverspike, Ghoulslayer, Gitslayer, Death on the Road to Svardheim, Soulslayer, and the Crown of Karak-Khazhar by Daris Hinks, plus The Dead Hours by David Guymer. It will be available in paperback and eBook formats.
Grey Seer by C L Werner returns in paperback as one of the Black Library Reader’s Choice winners for 2024. The legendary Grey Seer Thanquol is plotting to poison the city of Altdorf with the noxious Wormstone and cement his legacy as the most cutthroat of all Skaven – he just has to contend with all the subordinates, superiors, smugglers, and mysterious sorcerers who stand before him.
Titanicus by Dan Abnett is the second Black Library Reader’s Choice winner for 2024. Having just secured victory in one military campaign, the Legio Invicta heads to the forge world of Orestes for refit and repair, but a twisted force of Chaos Titans ambushes them just as a religious schism begins to tear the Adeptus Mechanicum in two. As tensions rise and casualties mount, Legio Invicta are pushed to their limits.
There are also a lot of French and German Language Releases! French and German readers can each look forward to four different books from as part of the Black Library Celebration, with the paperback and eBook releases of Gotrek and Malaneth: The Omnibus, Hell’s Last by Justin D Hill, Interceptor City by Dan Abnett all on their way. You will receive a physical copy of the Black Library Celebration 2025 Anthology when you make a purchase at a Warhammer retail store, while stocks last, or an ebook edition with orders from Blacklibrary.com.


For Warhammer: The Horus Heresy, you can get the Mechanicum Heavy Support Force. It includes a Thanatar Calix Siege-automata equipped with sollex heavy-las and graviton ram, a Krios Strike Tank which can be built with a lightning cannon, an irradiation blaster, or as a Krios Venator with a pulsar fusil, and the Karacnos Assault Tank sporting a radiological mortar battery. This set also includes two Mechanicum Macro Constructs Transfer Sheets, which each comprise 394 transfers.
The Arcuitor Magisterium is a Forge World resin kit. The technologies used to create those machines have been thoroughly vetted by an Arcuitor Magisterium, an all-in-one judge, jury, and executioner for those found practicing tech-heresy.
The Secutarii Axiarch protects the Titan Legions from small forces at close range. They lead forces in defence of these treasured god-engines with arc lance and mag-inverter shield in hand. The Secutarii Axiarch is a Forge World resin kit.
The Iron Hands Legion Praetor is a cold and calculating commander kitted out with some serious enhancements and a cyber-familiar, made from Forge World Resin and supplied with a choice of two heads.
The Iron Warriors Warsmith is armed with a colossal graviton crusher and wearing immense cataphractii terminator armour, the Warsmith is an expert kit made of Forge World resin and comes with a choice of two heads.
Space Wolves Caster of Runes obscure allies and tear at foes in equal measure. This expert kit is made of Forge World resin and comes with a choice of two heads.
You can get Loyalist and Traitor Herald Consuls feature banners and standards blessed by the Primarchs, and toppling or claiming one was often considered as high a priority as slaying an enemy general. The Loyalist and Traitor Herald Consuls are separate expert kits made of Forge World resin, and each comes with a choice of two heads.


The Loyalist and Traitor Overseer Consuls ensured supplemental forces followed Legion doctrines and maintained good order – or suffered the consequences. The Loyalist and Traitor Overseer Consuls are separate expert kits made of Forge World resin, and each comes with a choice of two heads.


Warhammer 40,000 Water Canteen is themed after those carried by the Astra Militarum – it’s made of aluminum, comes with a synthetic leather jacket which features an Astra Militarum pin badge, and can carry a litre of the life-giving liquid of your choice.




















