Darksiders Set To Invade The Literary World

One of the perks about being the embodiment of death or war is that time doesn't have the same meaning for you as it does for lowly mortals. While novelizations based on other IP may dabble with the events just before the games start, Del Rey's upcoming book Darksiders: The Abomination Vault, is going back a bit farther. We're talking thousands of years back, in fact.

Random House and THQ revealed the book today, which follows Death and War on the hunt for ancient weapons and the mysterious forces who would use them to start a massive conflict. It's being written by Ari Marmell, and it's due out this May.

Prediction: The book will contain more synonyms for "giant hammer" and "scythe" than you thought were possible.