Peter Fehervari’s Dark Coil

[System Sound]

Looks like the cult of fehervari is finally getting it's bible(s). Gonna have to get both so I can put them around the box set.

[theSpirea]

I hate omnibus editions but I'm tempted to get it, split it per novel and have it rebinded as individual hardbacks.

[System Sound]

17 hours ago, theSpirea said:

I hate omnibus editions but I'm tempted to get it, split it per novel and have it rebinded as individual hardbacks.

That sounds like a very fine idea!

[DarkChaplain]

Too bad it doesn't change the font size or paper quality, though.

[The Scorpion]

I just read "Blindsight", the newest Fehervari Kino in White Dwarf 505 and I gotta say: it's still Peak.

It is strange.
It is unclear.
It is thoughtful.
Sometimes it makes perfect sense.
Sometimes it makes no sense.
It is closely tied to my favorite Dark Coil story "The Thirteenth Psalm" as well as my second favourite "Fire and Ice".

All in all, a work truly blessed by the mark of Chaos.

[Malkydel]

Nightshift Nineteen was a wonderfully constructed little story. Definitely presaging something else coming down the pipeline is the feeling it gives me.

 

Wonderfully bleak, beautifully macabre. Just perfectly constructed from mundanity and horror.

 

 

[Master Ciaphas]

Really looking forward to reading this. I am, alas, still behind on The Thirteenth Psalm, Aria Arcana, Sins of my Brothers and now this piece as well!

 

Peter Fehervari is one of, if not THE best, writer Black Library have in their stables...

[System Sound]

On 11/11/2024 at 10:55 PM, The Scorpion said:

I just read "Blindsight", the newest Fehervari Kino in White Dwarf 505 and I gotta say: it's still Peak.

It is strange.
It is unclear.
It is thoughtful.
Sometimes it makes perfect sense.
Sometimes it makes no sense.
It is closely tied to my favorite Dark Coil story "The Thirteenth Psalm" as well as my second favourite "Fire and Ice".

All in all, a work truly blessed by the mark of Chaos.

Finally got my White Dwarf issue for October and read Blindsight. And yeah, I'll echo the above. Maybe I'm just seeing things, but it kinda pararels our journeys through these mysteries?

 

But also this oddly works as a starting point for a first time venture into the Coil. I guess that's why it was included in the magazine and with the omnibuses coming too.

 

Now onto "Nightshift Nineteen".

[System Sound]

On 12/2/2024 at 8:43 PM, Malkydel said:

Nightshift Nineteen was a wonderfully constructed little story. Definitely presaging something else coming down the pipeline is the feeling it gives me.

 

Wonderfully bleak, beautifully macabre. Just perfectly constructed from mundanity and horror.

 

 

Finished this last night. And yeah it's great! Recently I saw a comment somewhere saying that David Lynch's Twin Peaks at certain points portrays how a nightmare looks like. I think it's the same with Fehervari. His prose at least from more recent works, has that nightmare like feel to then. And this story is very much a nightmare in written form.

 

Fun fact I guess, if I'm not mistaken that is, this is the 19th story that he wrote for BL. I guess that's why the number is quite prevelant through out the short.

[Malkydel]

12 hours ago, System Sound said:

Finished this last night. And yeah it's great! Recently I saw a comment somewhere saying that David Lynch's Twin Peaks at certain points portrays how a nightmare looks like. I think it's the same with Fehervari. His prose at least from more recent works, has that nightmare like feel to then. And this story is very much a nightmare in written form.

 

Fun fact I guess, if I'm not mistaken that is, this is the 19th story that he wrote for BL. I guess that's why the number is quite prevelant through out the short.

It reminded me of the bits of Dead Space 2 where you're up in the Solar Arrays. Just that creeping sense of rot and madness. Crumbling infrastructure, horrible things looming.

 

A written nightmare is definitely how it feels with how he works the sense of unreality.

[DarkChaplain]

I really need to pick up a copy of that WD. Somehow I shamefully forgot when I last ordered from my prefered retailer.

 

Figured I'd read Nightshift Nineteen in bed two nights ago, and quickly realized that I would get zero sleep if I continued. It's right back into the thick of things. Sarastus, the dome. Ritualistic self-flaggelation. Self-imposed laws/compulsions. Chaotic numerology, "Hour's" Heresy, SO MUCH STUFF in only the first few pages.

 

Fehervari, as ever, is the gift that keeps on giving. The more you put into his works, the more you'll also get out of them - exponentially so!

[System Sound]

On 12/21/2024 at 1:07 AM, DarkChaplain said:

I really need to pick up a copy of that WD. Somehow I shamefully forgot when I last ordered from my prefered retailer.

 

Figured I'd read Nightshift Nineteen in bed two nights ago, and quickly realized that I would get zero sleep if I continued. It's right back into the thick of things. Sarastus, the dome. Ritualistic self-flaggelation. Self-imposed laws/compulsions. Chaotic numerology, "Hour's" Heresy, SO MUCH STUFF in only the first few pages.

 

Fehervari, as ever, is the gift that keeps on giving. The more you put into his works, the more you'll also get out of them - exponentially so!

The omnibuses can't come soon enough. I need to reread everything, but going through multiple collections and shorts is putting me off, even though most of my collection is digital...

 

And I think I'll start taking physical notes this time. Might as well get truly mad and spiral down the rabbit hole.

Edited December 22, 2024 by System Sound

[Malkydel]

4 hours ago, System Sound said:

The omnibuses can't come soon enough. I need to reread everything, but going through multiple collections and shorts is putting me off, even though most of my collection is digital...

 

And I think I'll start taking physical notes this time. Might as well get truly mad and spiral down the rabbit hole.

Need to get yourself a board and red string, maybe a worn down black crayon.

 

Buying them as much to support Peter as much as to collate everything.

[The Scorpion]

Finally read Nightshift Nineteen. Reads like a spiritual sequel to Nightbleed.

 

More than anything else it expands on the world of Sarastus, and its themes of the corrupted nutrient grub (we now have an idea of what the off-screen monster from Requiem Infernal's first scene might be), the ever encroaching dark, and the stifling superstition of the Imperium.

 

The best part for me what how Fehervari took the time to juxtapose the notion of characters being extremely knowledgeable and extremely ignorant at the same time. Izaq's mother knowledge of "the inside" (or the Warp) is almost on par with a White Scars Stormseer, yet at the same her understanding of "the outside" is as brutish as any other identured menial of the Imperium.

 

It also really delves on how the traumas and little sins of people are the cracks from where darkness really seeps trough.

 

Cool read, even if I personally found Blindsight more intriguing plot-wise.

 

 

[Master Ciaphas]

I got to read Blindsight yesterday, having borrowed the particular White Dwarf issue in the library.

 

It was an all too short experience - but well worth it! It has been a long while since I read Thirteenth Psalm, so I will have to give that a re-read now. 

Blindsight is highly recommended!

[The Scorpion]

1 hour ago, Master Ciaphas said:

I got to read Blindsight yesterday, having borrowed the particular White Dwarf issue in the library.

 

It was an all too short experience - but well worth it! It has been a long while since I read Thirteenth Psalm, so I will have to give that a re-read now. 

Blindsight is highly recommended!

Thirteenth Psalm may be the best warhammer short story in all of BL's catalog.

 

It's the one I've enjoyed re-reading the most, you gain new insight on it not only from "Blindsight" and "Fire & Ice", but also from "Reverie" and "Sins of my Brothers".

 

As it currently stands, it is the center of the twisting spiral that is the Dark Coil.

[DarkChaplain]

The Requiem Infernal audiobook is being narrated by Emma Gregory and Shogo Miyakita. Considering that they actually decided on two narrators, Emma was a given for the Sisters, I'd argue, but the decision itself is a pleasant surprise!

[System Sound]

5 hours ago, DarkChaplain said:

The Requiem Infernal audiobook is being narrated by Emma Gregory and Shogo Miyakita. Considering that they actually decided on two narrators, Emma was a given for the Sisters, I'd argue, but the decision itself is a pleasant surprise!

It's indeed a nice surprise! Great to see to see all the recent (long overdue) attention that the Coil is getting from BL.

 

Also I'm not very with BL's audiobooks, but have these narrators done anything before?

[DarkChaplain]

Miyakita has been doing the White Scars stuff on their re-recordings (Brotherhood of the Storm, Scars, Damocles) as well as Hunt for Voldorius and the McNiven Carcharodons audios.

 

Emma Gregory is all over. She was one of the most common choices for female protagonist novels, particularly Sisters of Battle - or even Sisters of Silence. She also had a bunch of appearances in Ciaphas Cain (Jenit Sulla's overly florid biography, iirc), and was a mainstay when BL still did audio dramas.

 

She's got that stern sister vibe down entirely, so having Asenath be handled by her is fantastic news, imo.

[System Sound]

The Dark Coil: Damnation, the first of two omnibuses is up for pre order next week. Included are two novels, Fire Caste and Cult of the Spiral Dawn with some shorts. Highly, highly recommend picking this up.

[grailkeeper]

I don't want to be that guy, but every time I read  the phrase "Dark Coil" it gives me a scatalogical mental image.

[DarkChaplain]

38 minutes ago, System Sound said:

The Dark Coil: Damnation, the first of two omnibuses is up for pre order next week. Included are two novels, Fire Caste and Cult of the Spiral Dawn with some shorts. Highly, highly recommend picking this up.

 

It's also available via general retail. I've got an Amazon preorder already, though typically, they're gonna have it a bit later than GW.

[byrd9999]

My Google skills aren't sufficient to find out which short stories are in this collection.

 

Does anyone else have any better luck?

[DarkChaplain]

Haven't figured it out yet, either. I think we'll have to wait for Saturday, when the BL page goes up with the extract. Typically, the "Black Library Publication" page lists the included stories with their original publishing dates.

 

Considering there are 7 short stories, and the novels are Fire Caste and Cult of the Spiral Dawn, we can assume these will be in there, though:

 

* Out Caste

* A Sanctuary of Wyrms

* Vanguard

* Cast a Hungry Shadow

 

I'd also wager on

* The Greater Evil

* Altar of Maws

 

We know Omnibus 2 will have:

 

* The Crown of Thorns

* The Sins of My Brothers

* The Thirteenth Psalm

* Nightbleed

* Nightshift Nineteen

* Aria Arcana

* The Walker in Fire

* Nightfall

 

Since Fire and Ice is nowhere to be seen, I'd guess that's going to bulk out Damnation - It's a novella, but they stopped caring about the distinction between novella and short story ages ago. With Cult of the Spiral Dawn also being a little shorter than Fire Caste, Requiem Infernal or The Reverie iirc, it'd make sense to have it in Damnation.

 

Bottom line, Damnation will have all the Phaedra, Tau & Tyranids/Genestealer stories included while Dark Coil: Ascension will be about Sarastus and the Angels Resplendent/Penitent - although obviously, the lines in the Coil are blurred, and The Crown of Thorns, for instance, ties something up from Fire Caste, while Spiral Dawn ties directly in with the later released Requiem Infernal, and so forth. I'd assume we're all picking up both omnibuses anyway, but this is about as thematically clean as we can split them, I think.

 

Sadly, this also would indicate that Blindside will remain exclusive to White Dwarf for the foreseeable future. Those WD stories sometimes drop into anthologies much later (like the Warhammer Crime & Horror shorts they had), but I can still think of a bunch that haven't been republished even after many years. It's bollocks, and they definitely should've included it in one of the omnibuses, but I don't think it's gonna happen, counting the open slots.

Edited January 12 by DarkChaplain

[Taliesin]

12 hours ago, DarkChaplain said:

Haven't figured it out yet, either. I think we'll have to wait for Saturday, when the BL page goes up with the extract. Typically, the "Black Library Publication" page lists the included stories with their original publishing dates.

 

Considering there are 7 short stories, and the novels are Fire Caste and Cult of the Spiral Dawn, we can assume these will be in there, though:

 

* Out Caste

* A Sanctuary of Wyrms

* Vanguard

* Cast a Hungry Shadow

 

I'd also wager on

* The Greater Evil

* Altar of Maws

 

We know Omnibus 2 will have:

 

* The Crown of Thorns

* The Sins of My Brothers

* The Thirteenth Psalm

* Nightbleed

* Nightshift Nineteen

* Aria Arcana

* The Walker in Fire

* Nightfall

 

Since Fire and Ice is nowhere to be seen, I'd guess that's going to bulk out Damnation - It's a novella, but they stopped caring about the distinction between novella and short story ages ago. With Cult of the Spiral Dawn also being a little shorter than Fire Caste, Requiem Infernal or The Reverie iirc, it'd make sense to have it in Damnation.

 

Bottom line, Damnation will have all the Phaedra, Tau & Tyranids/Genestealer stories included while Dark Coil: Ascension will be about Sarastus and the Angels Resplendent/Penitent - although obviously, the lines in the Coil are blurred, and The Crown of Thorns, for instance, ties something up from Fire Caste, while Spiral Dawn ties directly in with the later released Requiem Infernal, and so forth. I'd assume we're all picking up both omnibuses anyway, but this is about as thematically clean as we can split them, I think.

 

Sadly, this also would indicate that Blindside will remain exclusive to White Dwarf for the foreseeable future. Those WD stories sometimes drop into anthologies much later (like the Warhammer Crime & Horror shorts they had), but I can still think of a bunch that haven't been republished even after many years. It's bollocks, and they definitely should've included it in one of the omnibuses, but I don't think it's gonna happen, counting the open slots.

 

The Damnation omnibus definitely looks like a must have considering all that it will contain.