Blood Follows
- Published
- 30 April 2002
- Pages
- 125
- ISBN-13
- 9781597800044
- Type
- novella
About this book
Blood Follows opens Steven Erikson's dark-comic Malazan novella sequence in 2002, introducing necromancer Bauchelain, his near-silent partner Korbal Broach, and their long-suffering manservant Emancipor Reese as they investigate a serial murderer in the city of Lamentable Moll. It runs 125 pages.
Key facts about Blood Follows
Steven Erikson wrote Blood Follows, a novella on our list. It has been out since 30 April 2002. The book has 125 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novella. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781597800044 to find the main one.
Blood Follows is book 1 of 7 in The Tales of Bauchelain and Korbal Broach series. The series has 7 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with. Upon a Dark of Evil Overlords is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 31 October 2020.
Additionally, Steven Erikson writes Malazan Book of the Fallen, The Kharkanas Trilogy and Willful Child, plus 1 more series. Those series sit on our epic fantasy and science fiction shelves. Meanwhile, No Life Forsaken is the latest published Steven Erikson book on file, from 23 October 2025.
About Steven Erikson
Steven Erikson is the pen name of Canadian author Steve Rune Lundin, a trained archaeologist and anthropologist whose academic background directly shaped his approach to epic fantasy. He is best known for the Malazan Book of the Fallen, a ten-volume series co-developed with collaborator Ian Cameron Esslemont from a shared tabletop role-playing campaign, beginning with Gardens of the Moon in 1999. See every Steven Erikson book in order.
Its place in The Tales of Bauchelain and Korbal Broach
Blood Follows is book 1 in the The Tales of Bauchelain and Korbal Broach series. It is followed by The Healthy Dead. See the full The Tales of Bauchelain and Korbal Broach reading order.
A run of dark-comic novellas set in the Malazan world, following the necromancer Bauchelain, his monstrous and near-silent partner Korbal Broach, and their long-suffering manservant Emancipor Reese as they wander from one doomed town to the next, leaving chaos, corpses and reanimated horrors behind them. Where the main Malazan Book of the Fallen aims for tragic scale, these novellas are Erikson at his blackest and funniest -- gothic horror-comedy with the pitch-dark wit of a man who clearly enjoys writing…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781597800044