The Way Out: Part 1

Digital Horror Week 2019 #4

by Rachel Harrison, Grace Andrews (Narrator), Steve Conlin (Narrator)

Warhammer Horror Week: Day Four

A ship becalmed in space needs repairs. Fortunately, a nearby watch station offers refuge.... Surely nothing can go wrong for the crew of the Fortune's Favour?

Listen to it because:

Atmospheric, tense, terrifying...it's an audio experience tailor made to chill you, and this chapter sets up the horrors to come and will leave you on the edge of your seat wanting more.

The story:

When the Fortune's Favour drops from the warp with no warning, its captain, Karina Arq, wants to know why. Devoid of answers, and unable to return to the immaterium, she and her crew seek a port at which to make repairs - so the aptly named watch station Refuge seems sent by the Emperor Himself...but things are never so simple....

Part one of three.

Genres: Horror, Science Fiction

1 pages, Audible Audio

First published May 9, 2019

About the author

Rachel Harrison writes Warhammer 40k stories for Black Library. She also publishes under the name Ray Harrison.

Librarian note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

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Reviews

[Michael Dodd · Rating 4 out of 5]

Review of the full 3-part audio drama.

A multi-part audio drama told over three 20-plus minute instalments as part of Black Library’s Digital Horror Week 2019, this is a creepy little 40k story of the cracks that let the darkness in. For Captain Karina Arq and her crew, watch station Refuge offers a glimmer of hope when their ship, the Fortune’s Favour, is forced to suddenly drop out of the Warp. It’s not until Arq and her companions board the station, however, that they start to realise that what they thought was salvation may in fact be something entirely different…and much worse.

t’s a suitably sinister premise for a Warhammer Horror story – becalmed in the void, trapped with nowhere to go and no way out only for the slim hope of salvation to turn into fear, desperation and recrimination. Essentially a 40k variation on the haunted house trope, this is perfect for both 40k as a whole and the audio medium in particular, offering copious opportunities to make use of music and SFX to build tension and add further impact to a story seeped in the darkness of the 41st millennium.

Read the full review at https://www.trackofwords.com/2019/05/...

[Victor Ward · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read the whole three part series in one sitting. On the plus side, the horror is well done, the plot twists are pretty good, and the story definitely lives up the term 'grimdark'. The characters are also pretty deep despite the shortness of content. On the other hand, the setup is three damned souls with awful pasts being killed by the consequences of their sins. This has quickly become the setup of most warhammer horror fiction and I'm not certain why it keeps getting reused.

[nooker · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was too cool!

[Veronica Anrathi · Rating 4 out of 5]

All three parts - well written, well performed. Enjoyable.
It makes sense for this story to be part of the Horror category.
Not mindblowing, but very decent.