The Bookkeeper's Skull (Novel)

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The Bookkeeper's Skull
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Author	Justin D. Hill[1]
Publisher	Black Library
Series	Warhammer Horror
Released	January 2022
Pages	208[2]
Collected in	Unholy: Tales of Horror and Woe from the Imperium

The Bookkeeper's Skull is a novel by Justin D. Hill published by Black Library in January 2022 as part of the Warhammer Horror imprint.

Cover description

On the capital world of Potence, young enforcer cadet Rudgard Howe is caught up in a bitter internecine feud to inherit his father's position of Chief Enforcer. As the tithe fleets approach, he is sent on his first mission to ensure that the planet's distant agri-facilities fulfil their quotas to the God-Emperor. Farmed with serfs and managed by ex-Militarum soldiers, the agri-facilities are places of shocking brutality and hopelessness. But when he is sent to the outlying farmstead of Thorsarbour, Rudgard discovers a community where the crops are left to rot as the inhabitants indulge in the bloody ecstasy of a sanguinary cult. As Rudgard imposes the strict Lex Imperialis upon the farmstead, he begins to uncover a place where sanity is rapidly slipping. Just a single step into his nightmarish mission though, a series of cruel deaths threatens to dismantle everything he has ever known about the Imperium, his faith in the Emperor, and the strength of his very soul.^[1]

Trivia

The following information is not to be regarded as officially sanctioned and/ or is not written from an in-universe point of view. A detailed explanation of the term "Trivia" as used in the Lexicanum can be found here.

• Part of the story description on the Black Library website is misspelled ("On the captital world of Potence...")

See also

• List of Novels

Sources

• 1: Black Library: The Bookkeeper's Skull (Last accessed 28 Nov 2024. Archived from the original on 15 Dec 2023)
• 2: Goodreads