THQ and Random House Publishing announced that an original novel set in the Darksiders universe will be published by Random House's Del Rey imprint in May. Darksiders: The Abomination Vault, written by author Ari Marmell, will take place millennia before the events of the first game of the Darksiders series. Random House Worlds, the Random House Publishing Group's intellectual property creation and development group, will also develop the IP bible for the Darksiders universe.

In the novel, the Horsemen of the Apocalypse (beings charged with maintaining the Balance between the forces of Heaven and Hell) have uncovered a plot to resurrect ancient weapons of unimaginable power. Death, with the help of his compatriot War, must track down and neutralize the mysterious individuals behind the scheme before the entire universe is plunged into a devastating conflict.

Ari Marmell is the author of The Conqueror's Shadow, The Warlord's Legacy, The Goblin Corps, Agents of Artifice, a Magic: the Gathering novel, and his young adult books Thief's Covenant and False Covenant. Marmell lives with his wife in Austin, Texas.