Jack Yeovil's Work
Comeback Tour
Krokodil Tears
Route 666
The Vampire Genevieve
Demon Download
Silver Nails
Beasts in Velvet
Genevieve Undead
Drachenfels
Route 666
Beasts in Velvet: 1st Ed.
Genevieve Undead: 1st Ed.
Comeback Tour: 1st Ed.
Krokodil Tears: 1st Ed.
Demon Download: 1st Ed.
Drachenfels: 1st Ed.
Route 666
Orgy of the Blood Parasites
Most of these books were written specifically for the tailored worlds of Games Workshop (GW is a role-playing company). The rumour-mill has it that each book was written within weeks (some say days), however, their entertainment is still great. Some of his creations within these novels crop up in later Kim Newman works. For example, the vampire Geneviève who first appears in Drachenfels turns up later, slightly changed, in Anno Dracula
Probably the most frequent request I get in relation to these pages is information on how to obtain the Dark Future books. Outside of Europe it is almost impossible to obtain the first editions, which are out of print. You can pick them up if you hunt carefully in second-hand bookshops (in the UK & Ireland). You can sometimes put in special orders with either Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk for out of print books. Or else, try Bookfinder a very useful on-line service which specialises in finding those special tomes.
The Black Library, Games Workshop's publishing arm, has re-released the fantasy Jack Yoevil novels (as you can see on your right).
As of September 2005, its sister imprint, Black Flame, will re-print all of Yeovil's Dark Future novels, starting with Demon Download.
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Comeback TourUK: Black Flame, 2007; PB. ISBN: 1844164101. |
Quote:He opened the door of his apartment, and stepped into the tiny hall. The first thing he saw was the only picture he had from the wild years before the army, a small framed photograph of him on stage, swivelling his hips, trying to keep hold a a guitar and a microphone at the same time. Behind him, you could see Bill Black twanging his bass. That had been when he and Bill and Scotty Moore were the Blue Moon Boys, doing the Louisiana Hayride show. Before it all got crazy, and the Original Colonel stepped in, and the music went weird... Some said that Elvis Presley had gone to the Devil. Now the Op wasn't so sure they hadn't been right. from |
The King is still alive. Elvis Presley might not be a Colonel in the US Army anymore, but he's got a reputation as being one of the toughest independent Sanctioned Ops in the South. Yet, can he prevent the world being destroyed (further) while fighting off the KKK, swamp mutants and voodoo priests? This is a re-print of the 1991 edition, published by Games Workshop Books. |
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Krokodil TearsUK: Black Flame, 2006; PB. ISBN: 1844163792. |
Quote:Once she got her bearings, she could head for Dead Rat and get Doc Threadneedle to sort out her skullplates. Maybe she should invest in a few more elaborate bio-amendments. Her credit should be good. Her wilderness years were over. She wasn't hallucinating any more, she knew. The voices were under control. She wouldn't be seeing any dead women getting out of their rocking chairs. Things were clear again. She smiled, and her heart beat away the seconds, tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock. from |
Krokodil is an ex-juvenile delinquent turned-cyborg killer, who's also the host of an extra-dimensional entity. Many people want her dead, so they're sending three assassins: a Californian Op, a psychopathic killer, and Jibbenainosay, a creature from the Outer Darkness. What's a gal to do? This is a re-print of the 1990 edition, published by Games Workshop Books. |
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Route 666UK: Black Flame, 2006; PB. ISBN: 184416327X. |
Quote:Fish would sprout from trees and the sun would burn black. But first the blood ritual would be complete, the Dark Ones would walk the face of the Earth, the common mass of humanity would be cast down, the raging chaos would soak the red-soaked land. The battles would be joined, and the fires of ice would burn. The Age of Pettiness would be at an end, and the Great Days, the Last Days, would be upon them. It would be a glorious sunset, and an eternal night. And the Summoner would have his reward. from |
The meteoric rise of evangelist Elder Nguyen Seth may seem like a ray of hope in the darkness of the poisoned wastelands of the USA. To US Cavalry trooper Leona Tyree, shepherding Seth and his Josephite followers to the 'promised land', the truth is a lot darker. The book is a apocalyptic road movie, dark satire, and occult horror rolled into one. This is a re-print of the 1994 edition, published by Games Workshop Books. |
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The Vampire GenevieveUK: Black Library, 2005; PB. ISBN: 1844162443. |
Quote:The bloodsucker told him her name. All of it. Genevieve Sandrine du Pointe du Lac Dieudonné. "Yes,"she said at his involuntary start of recognition, "that one." "The vampire in the songs of Brave Oswald?" She nodded in irritated confirmation. "You killed Drachenfels." "No, I was there, though. Unconscious. I missed the big battle." from |
Meet Genevieve Dieudonne. She's beautiful, powerful, resourceful and courageous - and over four hundred years old. In the dark forests and cities of the Warhammer world, she and her unlikely companions battle the forces of evil and insanity. However, the vampire blood running through Genevieve's veins means she must constantly fight the urge to surrender to the evil within her. The Vampire Genevieve collects together all the tales of Genevieve and her unlikely companions into one volume. It contains the three novels Drachenfels, Genevieve Undead, Beasts in Velvet, and the short story collection Silver Nails. |
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Demon DownloadUK: Black Flame, 2005; PB. ISBN: 1844162362. |
Quote:She got out, and walked over to the Preachermobile. It was quiet. The lases and opened it up like a tin-can, and the jerrybuilt robo-innards were spilling out. It was constructed like a centaur, with a robotic torso and head protruding from a conning tower. Its arms were still waving. The head was a sculptured, stylised representation of a handsome Nazi, with bue eyes and a blonde helmet of hair. She didn't recognise it. The face was cracked, and biofluid was dribbling from one cheek. from |
A demonic computer virus is attempting to overrun the information networks of the world. Trooper Nathan Stack is a little out of his league, but Chantal Juillerat, computer hacker, martial arts expert, and nun, is there to even up the odds. A new print of the book that was originally published in 1990, by Games Workshop Books. |
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Silver NailsUK: Black Library, 2002; PB. ISBN: 0743443209. |
Quote:A huge poster outside the Temple of Morr showed fearless vampire-slayer Antiochus Bland holding up an annoyed-looking, enormously-fanged and red-eyed severed head in triumph. A banner-line read 'Death to the Dead!' and an engraving which was supposed to look like spontaneous graffiti declared 'ashes or under the ground!' A stuffed black bat plaything with big red eyes and comical teeth was impaled against a board with a wooden spike, red paint splashed around the heart-wound, with dribbles artfully swirled to spell out 'rule one: no leeches!' from |
A short story collection, featuring "The Ignorant Armies" (from The Ignorant Armies), "Red Thirst" (from Red Thirst), "No Gold in the Grey Mountains" (from Wolf Riders), "Warhawk" (written at the time but not published; newly revised by Kim), and "The Ibby the Fish Factor" (an all-new Genevieve story that sees the return of many favourite characters from the previous three books). |
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Beasts in VelvetUK: Black Library, 2002; PB. ISBN: 1841542350. |
Quote:In his years of wandering, Johann had come across a great many dead bodies in a great many states of abuse and decay. But this was the worst he had ever seen. "Was it a woman?" He couldn't relate the remains to anything human, much less distinguish their sex. from |
Altdorf, the capital city of the Empire, is being stalked by a Beast. Rich and poor alike are beseiged. It's up to investigator "Filthy" Harald Kleindeinst, and the seer Rosanna Ophuls to discover who is the Beast, and to stop it. A new print of the book that was originally published in 1994, by Games Workshop Books. |
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Genevieve UndeadLondon: 2002, Black Library; PB. ISBN: 0743411773 |
Quote:"Always, she had kept herself apart from the Truly dead, those vampires who preyed on the living for pleasure. She had listened to them enthuse about their sport and felt superior to the grave-grown things with their foul breath and red eyes, faces set in beat's snarls, clinging to their coffins and catacombs by day, gliding on the winds by night in search of juicy necks, relishing the fear they cast about them like a shroud." from |
The popular Genevieve Dieudonné, who first appeared in Drachenfels, gets the spotlight in these three linked novellas. This is set in Games Workshop's role-playing world of Warhammer, and sees Genevieve journeying from Altdorf, to a cursed mansion, and finally on a Unicorn hunt. A new print of the book that was originally published in 1993, by Games Workshop Books. |
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DrachenfelsLondon: 2001, Black Library; PB. ISBN: 1841541524 |
Quote:"An Adventure! That is what it had seemed when Oswald von Konigswald, eyes ablaze, had recruited her in the Crescent Moon. She had been working in the tavern at Altdorf, trading one drink for another, for a hundred years or so. Longevity brings a heavy burden of tedium. Genevieve, suspended eternally between life and death since the Dark Kiss, had been willing to do almost anything to relieve her boredom." from |
Detlef Sierck, the greatest playwright in the Warhammer World, hopes to recreate the death of Drachenfels, the Great Enchanter on the stage, with the help of the vampire Genevieve. Unfortunately, the Dead have a habit of returning at inconvenient moments. A new print of the book that was originally published in 1989, by Games Workshop Books. |
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Route 666London: Boxtree Ltd., 1994; PB. ISBN: 1852833688 |
Quote:"Yorke had been captured by the Bible Belt three patrols back, and sentenced to die by the sword for having an ungodly Richard Clayderman chip in the walkman shades. He still owed the Quince for pulling him alive out of Gomorrah, Ariz. And he still owed the Bible Belt for the three plastik and steelspring fingers he was toting on his left hand." from |
The last published novel in the Dark Future series, this book's backdrop is an America where the apocalypse has occurred, and the land is in economic and political turmoil. Elder Seth, an Evangelist, wants to trek across the wastelands, with only a small unit of United States Cavalry to hold off the mutants, outlaws, and cyborg cyke gangs. |
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Beasts in VelvetLondon: Games Workshop Books, 1991; Trade PB. ISBN: 1872372384 |
Quote:...after an eternity of pain, she died. The dream shut off, and Rosanna was herself again, the other girl gone from her mind as if she had never been there. Rosanna did not believe in any of the gods, Not even Sigmar. No gods could allow such things. from |
Altdorf, the capital city of the Empire, is being stalked by a Beast. Rich and poor alike are beseiged. It's up to investigator "Filthy" Harald Kleindeinst, and the seer Rosanna Ophuls to discover who is the Beast, and to stop it. |
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Genevieve UndeadLondon: Boxtree Ltd., 1993; PB. ISBN: 1852838191 |
Quote:It had been left in the ruins when Drachenfels departed the world for one reason. Revenge. Genevieve Dieudonné. Detlef Sierck. The vampire and the play-actor. The thwarters of the great design. They had destroyed Drachenfels, and now they must themselves be destroyed. from |
The popular Genevieve Dieudonné, who first appeared in Drachenfels, gets the spotlight in these three linked novellas. This is set in Games Workshop's role-playing world of Warhammer, and sees Genevieve journeying from Altdorf, to a cursed mansion, and finally on a Unicorn hunt. |
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Comeback TourLondon: Games Workshop Books, 1991; Trade PB. ISBN:1872372198 |
Quote:"The Op was as good a driver as she had heard. The long car slalomed between explosions, sustaining barely a graze. Panels slid open on the car's flanks, and the weapons arms poked out. "Rock," Elvis said, "and roll..." " from |
The King is still alive. Elvis Presley might not be a Colonel in the US Army anymore, but he's got a reputation as being one of the toughest independent Sanctioned Ops in the South. Yet, can he prevent the world being destroyed (further) while fighting off the KKK, swamp mutants and voodoo priests? |
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Krokodil TearsLondon: Games Workshop Books, 1990; Trade PB. ISBN:187237218x |
Quote:She came to the smartgun mounting, and ripped the multi-barrelled weapon out at the roots. It came away as easily as a dead treebranch. Metal tore. Wires shorted out. The screamers started again, and she let the durium shields up inside her ears. There was a battened hatch on top of the ve-hickle. This was going to be like opening a can. from |
Krokodil is an ex-juvenile delinquent turned-cyborg killer, who's also the host of an extra-dimensional entity. Many people want her dead, so they're sending three assassins: a Californian Op, a psychopathic killer, and Jibbenainosay, a creature from the Outer Darkness. What's a gal to do? |
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Demon DownloadLondon: Games Workshop, 1990; Trade PB. ISBN: 1872372066 |
Quote:Farther O'Shaughnessy tapped her shoulder approvingly. She came across a cadre of lightly guarded PAGAN programs, defused the booby taps, and interfaced with them. It was a matter of dexterity. The APOSTLE latched onto each of the PAGANs in succession, scrambling their directives. It left CONVERTS in its wake. She was nearly through the test. No faults. from |
There's a demonic computer virus attempting to overrun the information networks of the world. Trooper Nathan Stack is a little out of his league, but Chantal Juillerat, computer hacker, martial arts expert, and nun, is there to even up the odds. |
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DrachenfelsLondon: Games Workshop, 1989; Trade PB. ISBN: 1855150018 |
Quote:Above them all, the Fortress of Drachenfels stood against the crimson sky, its seven turrets thrust skywards like the taloned fingers of a deformed hand. The clifftop gates were, as ever, open, a maw in the side of the stone. Genevieve saw the eyes in the darkness beyond the gates, half-imaged unwelcoming shapes flitting past innumerable windows themselves shaped like eyes. from |
Detlef Sierck, the greatest playwright in the Warhammer World, hopes to recreate the death of Drachenfels, the Great Enchanter on the stage, with the help of the vampire Genevieve. Unfortunately, the Dead have a habit of returning at inconvenient moments. |
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Route 666London: Games Workshop, 1990; PB. ISBN: 187237203 |
Quote:"He had recognised the colours of his attackers. They were The Psychopomps, one of the mid-sized Western gangcults. Mostly girls. They favoured spiked heels, fishnet body-stockings, basques, glam make-up, stormcloud hairdos, painted fingernail implants, Russian pop music, Kray-Zee pills, random violence, facial mutilations and Kar-Tel Kustom Kars. Compared with the Maniax, the Clean or The Bible Belt, they were easy-goers. After all, they had only killed three of the resettlers." from |
A collection of short stories, edited by David Pringle, and featuring the short story, "Route 666", the genesis of the later book of the same name. Other contributors: Myles Burnham, Brian Craig, William King, Neil Jones and Neil McIntosh. |
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Orgy of the Blood ParasitesLondon: Pocket Books, 1994; PB. ISBN 0671851098 |
Quote:'Fucking government,' said Nick. 'First they cut our grants, now they cut our throats.' from |
A university campus is affected when animal rights terrorists raid an experimental lab and release an intelligent virus that causes hideous mutations. The evil corporation sponsoring the research sends in a psychopathic SWAT team to deal with the situation. Lots of sex and violence ensue. |
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