Dan Abnett has written over fifty novels, including Anarch, the latest instalment in the acclaimed Gaunt’s Ghosts series. He has also written the Ravenor and Eisenhorn books, the most recent of which is The Magos.

For the Horus Heresy, he is the author of Horus Rising, Legion, The Unremembered Empire, Know No Fear and Prospero Burns, the last two of which were both New York Times bestsellers.

He also script ed Macragge’s Honour, the first Horus Heresy graphic novel, as well as numerous audio dramas and short stories set in the Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer universes. He lives and works in Maidstone, Kent.

Born in 1956, Tom Mandrake is a graduate of the legendary Kubert School. Tom Mandrake is an American comic book artist, perhaps best known for his collaborations on Grimjack, Firestorm, The Spectre, Martian Manhunter, and Sgt. Rock for DC Comics.

For Marvel Comics, Mandrake has worked on the New Mutants. He recently completed his epic American Civil War vampire epic Kros. Mandrake also drew Batman for DC, and was one of the contributors to the DC Challenge limited series in 1986. In 1992, Mandrake and writer John Ostrander launched The Spectre series at DC Comics. Following the end of this series, they moved onto a Martian Manhunter series.

In 2001, he worked on the short lived series Creeps and in 2006 on the children's book The Forest King: Woodlark's Shadow. In 2007, Mandrake returned to Batman, and he also drew an X-Files/30 Days of Night crossover in 2010 which was co-written Adam Jones, the guitarist for the band Tool. Mandrake drew the DC Retroactive: Batman -The '70s, Marv Wolfman's Night Force series and he collaborated with J. Michael Straczynski on the Sidekick series in 2013-2014.