This is part of a series on unpublished Warhammer supplements. The first post in the series can be read here.

Also coming from the Workshop, Tower of Screaming Death – a solo Warhammer supplement. – White Dwarf 78

Tower of Screaming Death is a quiet, thoughtful solo scenario for Warhammer, with floorplans and stats for other systems. – White Dwarf 79

These quotations date to June and July 1986 and are, as far as I know, the only mentions of this supplement in a Games Workshop publication.

The only other official trace of it is the Josh Kirby painting that GW commissioned for it. The picture was never used for its intended purpose, but was subsequently re-used as an interior illustration in WFB third edition and the covers of Warhammer Companion and Apocrypha Now.

Graeme Davis has shed some light on the story in a blog post that is well worth reading. There remains one further mystery, though. As I have pointed out elsewhere, Josh Kirby’s illustration of the Tower of Screaming Death is almost exactly the same as John Blanche’s of Hrothyogg‘s Tower in the WFRP1 rulebook.

You can see the resemblance more closely in the following blown-up images.

I have found nothing to suggest that the two towers were intended to be the same location in the Warhammer world. It seems most probable that Blanche simply copied Kirby’s design. But it does raise the intriguing idea that there was some connection envisaged between them in the nascent Warhammer background.

The next post in this series can be read here.

Title art by John Blanche. Used without permission. No challenge intended to the rights holders.