John is an award winning Script Writer, Novelist, and Games Designer
John French is an award winning script writer, novelist, and games designer. He has written twelve novels over a decade long career, notably the Ahriman series and Horusian Wars trilogies set in the dystopian far future of Warhammer 40,000, and five novels in the New York Times Bestselling The Horus Heresy series, most recently with The Solar War. His other work includes cosmic horror in the Lord of Nightmares Trilogy from Fantasy Flight Publishing, and detective fiction in The Last Visitor in Further Associates of Sherlock Holmes from Titan Books (writing as Stephen Henry). In 2018 he won a Scribe Award for Best Audio with his script for the drama Agent of the Throne: Blood and Lies.
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What are Letters From An Unknown Land?
31/01/2023As you look around this site you might have noticed a series of stories all labelled s ‘Letters From An Unknown Land’ and thought what are they and what is going on? Well here are some answers.
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Gather Ideas
17/01/2023Ideas don’t arrive by lightning strike. They come from paying attention to the world and gathering what you find curious.
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Agent of Weird Interview
23/03/2023I talk writer-to-writer with Alec Worley about craft, getting published and staying focused, as well as revealing my new creator-owned fantasy project ‘Letters from an Unknown Land’.
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Story: Hollow
28/02/2023Kalik ventures into the hollow land beneath the Oracles, and things take a turn…
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Story: Oracles
07/12/2022Kalik visits the remains of a dead civilisation set close to the roof of the world and over a hollow wound that waits beneath.
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Take Notes
10/10/2022You should take notes. It captures ideas and observations in a way that lasts, and lets you look at an idea with fresh eyes when you come back to the note. Taking notes makes you observe the world. It makes you better.
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I create characters, evoke worlds, and tell stories. Bellow you can find some of my work, along with links for purchasing them online.
Age of Darkness
New York Times Bestselling anthology in the Horus Heresy series
Ahriman: The Sorcerer
Book Three in the Ahriman Series
Ashes and Oaths
Part Three in the Award Winning Agent of the Throne audio drama series
Blood and Lies
Part One in the Award Winning Agent of the Throne audio drama series
Further Associates of Sherlock Holmes
A Sherlock Holmes anthology edited by George Mann
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Grey Angel
Audio Drama set in the The Horus Heresy
Incarnation
Second Book in The Horusian Wars Series
Mortis
Book 5 in the global bestselling series “The Horus Heresy: Siege of Terra”
Resurrection
Book One in the The Horusian Wars Series
Sigismund
Character novel in The Horus Heresy series
Truth and Dreams
Part Two in the Award Winning Agent of the Throne audio drama series