About

Award winning Script Writer, Novelist, and Games Designer

John French is an award winning script writer, novelist, and games designer, known for his for his intricate world building, cerebral plots, and psychologically deep characters. He has written over twenty books over a decades-long career, notably the Ahriman series set in the dystopian far future of Warhammer 40,000, and seven novels in the New York Times Bestselling The Horus Heresy series, most recently The Solar War, Mortis and Dropsite Massacre. His other work includes cosmic horror in the Lord of Nightmares Trilogy from Fantasy Flight Publishing, and detective fiction in The Last Visitor in Further Associates of Sherlock Holmes from Titan Books (writing as Stephen Henry). He has been a series writer for three animated TV shows and written the scripts for over thirty produced episodes. In the realm of video games, he has worked as a story designer and writer on multiple titles, including Darktide and the forthcoming Dawn of War IV. In 2018 he won a Scribe Award for Best Audio with his script for the drama Agent of the Throne: Blood and Lies.