Gaunt's Ghosts

Dan Abnett's novel series about the Tanith First and Only.

Gaunt's Ghosts is a series of military science fiction novels by Dan Abnett set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, inspired by Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe books. As of 2019 it ran to 16 novels.

Quick Facts

Author: Dan Abnett
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Genre: Science fiction
Publisher: Games Workshop
Published: 1999 – December 2022
Format: Print
Books: 16

Lore & Background

The books follow the Tanith First, a skilled but undervalued light infantry regiment of the Imperial Guard, during the Sabbat Worlds Crusade. Their leader is Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt, one of the few political commissars ever officially given command of a regiment. The viewpoint moves around, usually on the Imperial side but sometimes with the enemy. The series began as short stories in the Black Library magazine Inferno!, and elements of it reappear in Abnett's Eisenhorn and Ravenor trilogies and in the spin-offs Double Eagle and Titanicus.