• Konrad Curze: The Night Haunter

  • Primarchs: The Horus Heresy, Book 12
  • By: Guy Haley
  • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
  • Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (1,335 ratings)

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Konrad Curze: The Night Haunter

By: Guy Haley
Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
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A Horus Heresy: Primarchs novel

Few among the legendary primarchs are as feared as Konrad Curze, the Night Haunter. Even before his fall to darkness, he was a sinister legend, a remorseless killer. This is his story.

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The Night Haunter is a fascinating character, a man who could have been a hero, but for the daemons that plague him, the result of his nightmarish visions of a future he helps to create. Guy Haley delves into this lord of the night, in a story you'll never forget…

The story:

Of all the Emperor’s immortal sons, the primarchs, it is Konrad Curze whose legend is the darkest. Born in the shadows of Nostramo, a world of murderers, thieves and worse, is it any surprise that he became the figure of dread known only as the Night Haunter? Heed now the tragic story of the creature Konrad Curze, master of the Night Lords Legion, of how he became a monster and a weapon of terror. He who once served the Imperium saw the truth in a maddening universe and the hypocrisy of a loveless father, and embraced the only thing that made any sense - darkness. From the blood-soaked gutters of his hiveworld upbringing, to the last days of his ill-fated existence, Curze is a primarch like no other and his tale is one to chill the very bone....

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Disappointment

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Jonathan Keeble himself is great, but he was the wrong choice for this book. I also thought his take on Konrad Curze was all wrong. He voiced Curze as though he were an alternately sniveling or whimsical fancy-lad, and not the “Velociraptor reading poetry in Romanian” that he should be. That may be due to the way this Primarch was written by this specific author.

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Guy Hailey took the flawless story bones of a god and carelessly covered it with the spoiled meat of a biased author. The following may contain slight *spoilers*. I have to in order to convey my point.

The facts of Night Haunter are solid canon, and remained mostly un-warped by the biased liberties the author carelessly took filling out the flesh of the story.

Why would you have someone author such an important character that doesn’t really care for the protagonist?

It is clear that Guy Hailey loves Corax and that is a Primarch book he was born to write. I am sure Corax/ Raven Guard fans could not be more happy with what they got. But Hailey couldn’t contain his fawning favoritism as he portrayed Curze’s thoughts of Corax. This point is made clear by how much near erotica praise he crammed into the scene featuring the Raven Guard and Corax. A hard contrast to his portrayal of Curze.

This book should have been written by Aaron Dembski-Bowden and read by Andrew Wincott. They “get it”.

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A chilling performance!

This book is about one of the most sinister characters, and in that regard, Jonathan Keeble gives a truly chilling performance!
One of the best 40K books you can listen to!

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Everything I wanted it to be...

I stood and clapped at the end. I reserve that for really great writing and equally impressive voice acting. I'm giving it a second listen tomorrow. Well worth the meager fee or credit as this is sincerely a few hours of quality mind vacation.

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Words fail me

I cannot begin to describe how much I enjoyed this book. This adds so much depth to one of the most complex and truly interesting characters of 40K lore. Konrad is by far one of the best characters.

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keeble's best choice acting

he perfectly portrays the madness with curze so well and truly takes this book to a point that it feels like you're going down the rabbit hole along side the night haunter yourself

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Poor characterization and mostly meaningless

I can understand that doing a book on Konrad Curze is no easy task. Still: While Keeble does a great job as always to give voice to the characters, the story is mostly pointless. Barring a somewhat interesting "realization" of sorts towards the end. There's nothing worth knowing in this book that isn't already told in the Night Lords trilogy or The Lord of the Night. Guy Haley never did a good job to portray the Night Lords as anything other than pathetic cartoon villains and this was no exception. You can skip this one and not miss anything really.

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Average book for Heresy, not crazy about the audi

Lacked the how and why Haunter became evil. was a little shallow in his origins/raising, and the finality. Good coverage of the VIII Legion amd I enjoyed the space ship part. Didnt care for the accents chosen to portray the VIII legion. Thanks. Given all, i wouldnt declare this a recommended read for the Heresy books, there are too many others. However, worthwhile if you're trailblazing a few 40k books every month. thanks.

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Torn pieces of story sewn into one

I read this book as it was the top suggestion to learn more about this sick Legion.

Despite being a background story, it didn’t portray neither the fall of Legion to crime nor how Curze was found.

Story itself is sewn from smaller short stories torn apart in time significantly instead of being a single storyline which is the case for all HH background books.

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there are better representations of Kurze

The narrative is hard to follow. This story presented Konrad Kurze as a one-dimensional loser

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Excellent!

As usual, Keeble was phenomenal. As usual, Haley conducted a well connected and epic story. Very much enjoyed.

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