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John French
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Award winning script writer, novelist, and games designer.
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Love fantasy, horror and building worlds.
This cover, frex, was like a flair in the sky in the early 90’s
November 22, 2025 at 1:16 PM
I think it’s time to read this again. A difficult book in many ways but its fantasy that does so much to defy that label and subvert the expectations of what the genre should be.
#fantasy #books
November 18, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Yes, that’s me on Scribes and Sciveners talking about writing, The Horus Heresy and how a flooded Blood Bowl pitch got me into Warhammer. You can watch it this week over on Warhammer+
Go here for more:

www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articl...

#warhammer #horusheresy
November 16, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Working on some ruined zone mortalis tiles for Necromunda. Trying to put some of the original Badzone Delta layouts into 3d.
#warhammer #warhammer40k #necromunda
November 12, 2025 at 4:14 PM
One for the creators and writers:

How do you build immersive worlds in stories? My series on world building goes into all the details:

open.substack.com/pub/johnfren...
November 10, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Today’s haul from Page 45 in Nottingham.
Honestly I could have walked out with half the shop.
#comics #comicshop #books
November 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Cado Ezechiar, The Hollow King.
#warhammer #warhammerageofsigmar #vampire
October 29, 2025 at 9:04 PM
If you like your stories in the finest audio format, Dropsite Massacre is out now read by the amazing Jonathan Keebler.
Go get it, go listen.
www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0FX5WQY1...

#horusheresy #warhammer #warhammer40000
October 27, 2025 at 11:59 AM
‘She wears no mask…’
Spire noble with sanguinary-siphon WIP.
#necromunda #warhammer40k #inq28
October 19, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Mundane, but fascinating electrical component, or thing-from-your-nightmares? You decide.
#horror #weird #scifi
October 17, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I am not going to lie. I prefer Ian Culbard’s comic adaptations of Lovecraft’s stories to the originals. Stuff that does not hit in the prose (I have opinions on the prose) really works in these graphic novels. Go find them, go read them, and tell me I am wrong.
#cthulhu #horror #comics
October 15, 2025 at 4:52 PM
It getting dark outside just after the sun has come up means it's time to start reading more ghost stories, right?
October 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
‘Come and see! You must come and see!’

The Menagerie from Disciples of the Dark Gods from the #darkheresy rpg, as bodged together in miniature by me 20ish years ago.
#warhammer
October 9, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Dropsite Massacre is going on preorder this week!
Head over to Warhammer Community for more:
www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articl...
#warhammer #horusheresy #books
October 7, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Prompted by some questions on Dark Heresy of old, it’s into the archives of the Tarantine Cabal I go. It’s been a long time since these words were set down. Such good times. So much craziness.
#warhammer #warhammer #darkheresy #rpg
October 3, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Library time - the best time.
September 23, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Exibit A (ok, it’s tea in this case not coffee but it still counts)
September 16, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I love the Time Travelers series by Ian Mortimer. They perfectly hit that part of history that a writer really wants to know - not what happened, but what it was like to be live then. Highly recommended.
September 6, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Time to put the gang together.
#warhammer #warhammerageofsigmar #vampires
September 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Quote this with a book you read way too young that explains why you are the way you are.
August 12, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Book arrivals
I’ve already listened to the groundedness book, which was excellent, but I wanted a physical copy to reference.
The Craft of Fiction is referenced a lot in the evolution of ‘Show, Don’t Tell’, which I’m writing a Substack about at the moment. At a glance it’s certainly of its time…
August 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Decided to paint this sanctifier up as a Black Priest based on this classic piece of John Blanche art.
#warhammer #warhammer40k #inq28
July 26, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Another amazing book arrived this week. Pure - slightly disturbing - joy.
#inq28 #miniatures #fantasy
July 20, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Mythic Bastionland is a beautiful, beautiful book!
#ttrpg #fantasy @bastionland.bsky.social
July 11, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Loving the look of and feel of Shadow Dark. Also a fan of super compact monster entries.
#ttrpg #dungeonsanddragons #fantasy
July 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM