The End Times are coming. When death falls upon the free city of Marienburg, in the form of the hordes of Chaos commanded by the dread Glottkin, the fractious citizens of the town must rally together to hold the foe back. Unexpected aid, in the form of the vampire gangster Mundvard the Cruel, comes, but can the citizens of Marienburg accept it? Will they be damned by association with the vile undead, or will they forfeit their lives – and souls – to Chaos?

READ IT BECAUSEThis prequel to The Fall of Altdorf takes the same main premise as the novel – humans and undead in an uneasy alliance against Chaos – but takes it in a very different, though perhaps equally tragic, direction…