title: Dark King and The Lightning Tower (Warhammer 40,000 Novels: Horus Heresy)
author:  Dan Abnett 
description: Dan Abnett is a multiple New York Times bestselling author and an award-winning comic book writer. He has written over forty novels, including the acclaimed Gaunts Ghosts series and the Eisenhorn and Ravenor trilogies. His Horus Heresy novel <i>Prospero Burns</i> topped the SF charts in the UK and the US. In addition to writing for Black Library, Dan scripts audio dramas, movies, games, comics and bestselling novels for major publishers in Britain and America. He lives and works in Maidstone, Kent.
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  ##  The Dark King and The Lightning Tower
  
  
    
  
  
  ### Dan Abnett
  
  
  ### Graham Mvneill
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Horus Heresy stories
  
  
  ## THE DARK KING
  
  
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  _by Graham McNeill_
  
  
  
  
  
  ## THE LIGHTNING TOWER
  
  
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  _by Dan Abnett_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  ### THE LIGHTNING TOWER
  
  
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  _by Dan Abnett_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _What are you afraid of? What are you really afraid of?_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  There was once a fine palace, and it sat like a crown of light upon the top of
  the world. This was in the latter days, when mankind left his birth rock for
  the second time, to chase a destiny denied him in a previous epoch.
  
  
  The artisan masters of the many rival Masonic guilds had raised the palace up,
  block by gilded block, to be a statement of unity, regal and unequivocal.
  After a dreary, lightless Age of Strife, the warring tribes and creeds of
  Terra had been alloyed under one rule, and the palace was intended to
  symbol