The Horus Heresy · Book 21

Fear to Tread

by James Swallow

Published
28 August 2012
Pages
416
ISBN-13
9781849701952
Type
novel

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About this book

"Fear to Tread" (2012) is a Horus Heresy novel at number 21 in the Horus Heresy, written by James Swallow, and spans 416 pages. Like the rest of the Horus Heresy, it's part of Black Library's prequel saga to Warhammer 40,000, telling the ten-thousand-year-old origin story of the Emperor's Great Crusade and the Warmaster Horus's turn to Chaos.

Its place in The Horus Heresy

Fear to Tread is book 21 in the The Horus Heresy series. It follows The Primarchs. It is followed by Shadows of Treachery. See the full The Horus Heresy reading order.

The Horus Heresy is Black Library's monumental prequel saga to Warhammer 40,000 — the ten-thousand-year-old origin story every 40K fan knows in outline, finally told in full across 54 official volumes by a rotating team of authors. In the 31st millennium the Emperor of Mankind has nearly completed the Great Crusade, reuniting the human galaxy through his twenty superhuman primarch sons and their Space Marine legions. He names his most brilliant son, Horus, Warmaster — then returns to Terra on a secret project…

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