The Fissure (Anthology Short Story)

The Fissure is a short story published in the Gaunt's Ghosts series that was originally part of an anthology. The Fissure was published as part of the Sabbat Worlds anthology in November 2014, and later released as a stand-alone e-book. The Fissure is a part of the Gaunt's Ghosts spin-off series focusing on the Iron Snakes Chapter of the Adeptus Astartes.

Synopsis
In the depths of an Imperial Hive City an evil is unwittingly unearthed, a fissure that bleeds the un-light of the Warp and provokes only madness and death. When ignorant hive workers seal up the rift behind a wall of rockcrete, it appears the darkness has been stymied... But Chaos is not so easily undone and as the fissure's insidious influence spreads it falls to the Iron Snakes of Ithaca to end a threat most foul.