Warhammer game designers Rick Priestley and Andy Jones worked with Fighting Fantasy and fiction author Marc Gascoigne to develop an idea through the new Black Library division of Games Workshop to publish a book of short stories and comics in a format similar to an Annual publication; this was developed into the magazine Inferno!, and a previewed was published in White Dwarf #210 (June 1997) while the first issue was published the following month in July 1997.[1]