Inferno!

Inferno! (originally Carnage) was a bi-monthly magazine published from 1997 to 2004 by Games Workshop's publishing division, Black Library, which was initially just the name of the team brought together to work on Inferno!.

It presented fiction, artwork, and comics set in the fictional universe's of Games Workshop's fantasy and science fiction games. These initially included Warhammer Fantasy Battle, Warhammer 40,000, and Necromunda, and later added the Mordheim and Gorkamorka settings.

Publication

Under Warhammer experts Rick Priestly and Andy Jones and author Marc Gascoigne, the idea for the Black Library slowly evolved and produced the magazine Inferno! as a result beginning in July 1997.

Inferno! was launched with a trial "issue zero" as a section in the Games Workshop house magazine White Dwarf (issue 210).

Issue 1 of the actual magazine was launched shortly afterwards under the editorship of Games Workshop staffer Andy Jones. The magazine settled into a standard format of two fantasy and two science fiction stories per issue, with ancillary features such as standalone artwork, comics, cutaway diagrams of fictional machines from the stories, maps of fictional battles, and mocked-up books, dossiers, or correspondence by characters in the settings. With the exception of one early comic series, Inferno! published individual, complete stories, not serials.

Inferno

Inferno may refer to:

  • Hell
  • Conflagration, a large uncontrolled fire
  • Literature

  • Inferno (Dante), the first part of Dante's Divine Comedy
  • Inferno (Strindberg novel), an 1897 novel by August Strindberg
  • Inferno, a concept of infernality of Nature in The Bull's Hour, a 1968 novel by Ivan Yefremov
  • Inferno (Niven and Pournelle novel), a 1976 novel by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
  • Isaac Asimov's Inferno, a 1994 novel by Roger MacBride Allen
  • Inferno (Batman novel), a 2006 novel by Alex Irvine
  • Inferno, a 2006 novel in the Bionicle Legends series, by Greg Farshtey
  • Inferno (Star Wars novel), a 2007 novel by Troy Denning
  • Inferno (Brown novel), a 2013 novel by Dan Brown
  • Music

  • Infernö, a Norwegian thrash metal-band
  • Inferno Metal Festival, annual music festival in Oslo, Norway
  • Zbigniew Robert Promiński or Inferno, drummer with the band Behemoth
  • Inferno, guitarist with Cirith Gorgor
  • Albums

  • Inferno (Metamorfosi album)
  • Inferno (Motörhead album)
  • Inferno (Entombed album)
  • Inferno (soundtrack), a soundtrack album by Keith Emerson, from the 1980 film (see below)
  • Inferno (horse)

    Inferno (1902–1919) was a Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse. He has been called "Canada's first great racehorse" by the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame.

    Background

    He was owned and bred by distilling magnate Joseph E. Seagram, who in 1906 was voted president of the Ontario Jockey Club.

    Inferno was out of the mare Bon Ino, who was owned and raced by Seagram and had won the 1898 Queen's Plate. Inferno's sire was Havoc, a stallion who ended his career as the sire of four King's Plate winners. Havoc was a son of Himyar, the Champion Sire in North America in 1893 who notably also produced U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee Domino. Inferno was a very raucous horse and was a danger to his handlers.

    Racing career

    He was conditioned for racing by New Jersey-born trainer Barry Littlefield. In 1905, the three-year-old Inferno won Canada's most prestigious race, the King's Plate. That year, he also finished second in both the Toronto Autumn Cup and the King Edward Gold Cup. In 1906, he was again second in the Toronto Autumn Cup but won the Durham Cup Handicap and the first of three consecutive King Edward Gold Cups. The following year, Inferno won his second King Edward Cup plus the Toronto Autumn Cup, and in 1908 he won his second Durham Cup and made it three wins in a row in the King Edward Gold Cup. In addition, his owner joined the Whitney family and other wealthy American elite in bringing horses to compete during the fashionable summer racing season at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York. Inferno raced until age six and was part of Joseph Seagram's stable to race at Saratoga, where he won two important handicaps.

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