Fear to Tread
- Published
- 28 August 2012
- Pages
- 416
- ISBN-13
- 9781849701952
- Type
- novel
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.
Key facts about Fear to Tread
James Swallow wrote Fear to Tread, a novel on our list. It has been out since 28 August 2012. The book has 416 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781849701952 to find the main one.
Fear to Tread is book 21 of 54 in The Horus Heresy series. The series has 54 published books. However, the series starts with Horus Rising (2006). The Buried Dagger is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 23 February 2019.
Additionally, James Swallow writes Blood Angels: Rafen, Sisters of Battle and Marc Dane as separate series. Those series sit on our science fiction and thriller shelves. Meanwhile, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Toward the Night is the latest published James Swallow book on file, from 29 April 2025.
About James Swallow
James Swallow is a London-based British author and scriptwriter, born in 1969, whose career spans novels, comics, video games, radio and television. He is a New York Times, Sunday Times and Amazon bestseller, a BAFTA nominee, and the only British writer to have worked on a Star Trek television series. See every James Swallow book in order.
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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781849701952