Black Library Reveals Four Upcoming 40K Books Including Ghazghkull, Chem Dogs
Black Library has revealed four upcoming 40K releases, a deluxe illustrated Necrons reissue, Callum Davis’s first full-length Chem Dog novel, a Ghazghkull warboss tale, and a Grombrindal anthology, pre-orders soon.
1. The Infinite and the Divine: Illustrated and Annotated Edition
Robert Rath’s Necrons novel returns in a deluxe illustrated and annotated edition that Warhammer Community bills as “back like you’ve never seen it before, with a glorious illustrated and annotated edition.” The announcement names Trazyn the Infinite and Orikan the Diviner as the central figures and promises that the new edition is “now cut with author insights and new illustrations,” offering fresh context even for repeat readers. Warhammer Community sums the book’s tone up tight: “This epic tale of two Necrons holding a grudge over thousands of years is an incredible adventure with hair-raising fights, courtroom drama, and witty banter aplenty.” If you missed Rath’s original run or want the extra commentary and art, this is the one Black Library is pushing as a deluxe revisit rather than a straightforward reprint.
2. Chem Dog, Callum Davis
Callum Davis is bringing his first full-length Black Library novel with Chem Dog, a story built on an earlier short featuring Commissar Bastun Hasp. As Ixbt Games puts it: “Callum Davis will present his first full-length novel ‘Chem Dog’. Savlar Chem-Dogs are a notorious penal regiment where redemption for sins is only possible in death.” The plot description leans hard into a commissar-versus-regiment dynamic: “Having at his disposal unruly and riotous soldiers, whom he considers little better than mongrels, Hasp is forced to lead his group through enemy-infested territory to obtain important intelligence. However, there is a nuance: he needs them much more than they need him. As a result, the commissar will have to trust the Chem‑Dogs if he wants any of them to survive.” Expect a gritty, squad-level war novel that foregrounds trust under fire and continues Hasp’s arc from short fiction into a full-length narrative.
3. Ghazghkull-related novel (reported title and author)
Warhammer Community’s announcement teases Ghazghkull material among the four forthcoming books; secondary reporting on the same announcement identifies the title as Ghazghkull Thraka: Warlord of Warlords and credits Danny Flowers (the author of Grotznick: Mad Doc) as the writer. Ixbt Games supplies key plot beats that frame this as an Ork-internal survival story centered on Slitta da Stubba: “Readers will learn how the newly minted warboss of the Blood Axes, Slitta da Stubba, found himself between a rock and a hard place – treacherous allies and vengeful Black Templars. He will need to quickly choose a side, because even his own orcs are starting to wonder if it's not time to overthrow Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka – the great prophet of Gork and Mork.” In short, the item reads like an Ork power struggle under the looming shadow of Ghazghkull, with questions of loyalty, betrayal and the cult of the warboss at the centre, details that Black Library/Warhammer Community grouped in the teaser and that hobby outlets expanded into a named novel and author.
4. Grombrindal: The Legend of the White Dwarf (short-story collection), publication note
Frontline Gaming and aggregator reporting identify the fourth book as Grombrindal: The Legend of the White Dwarf, a collected anthology that “gathers the White Dwarf’s adventures into one collected tome. These stories were serialized in White Dwarf magazine, and now they are finally in one place. So if you like mysterious wandering hero energy, this is your book.” Alongside the four title details, Warhammer Community’s announcement reiterates that “All of these books will be available to pre-order soon,” and points readers toward the upcoming Black Library Celebration week for more details and pre-order rollouts. No concrete release or pre-order dates, pricing, or format specifics have been published yet, so expect covers, ISBNs and format notes to drop with the Celebration-week follow-ups that Warhammer Community says are “just around the corner.”
Final note: Black Library’s teaser is precise about content and tone but light on dates, use this announcement as a roadmap for what’s coming (a deluxe Necrons edition, a commissar-led Chem Dogs novel, a Ghazghkull-era Ork tale, and a Grombrindal anthology) and watch for the Celebration-week details that will confirm official titles, authorship attributions, and pre-order windows.
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