The legion of the damned is a crazy fucking group of angels. They exist in the afterlife, unaging in their own little pocket keeping out chaos with only the power of their anger and hatred for the enemies of humanity. They stay there waiting and watching before they spring into realspace in the blink of an eye, annihilate the enemies of humanity threatening to overwhelm their brethren and disappear just as fast as they showed up, back in the timeless void of the warp.
the legion itself isnt really horror based on the large scale. On the small scale they do have a warp disease in their genetics that causes them to slowly go mad ending with an extreme berzerker rage triggered in combat that only ends when they die. Otherwise they are far more "mysterious hero figure" than horror story starting point.
There also isnt really much room in how they work to put a horror story in. They only exist to do combat and dissappear back into the warpspace where nothing can reach them. your only real option for horror with them would be a first person piece thats like, existentialist horror at a known unavoidable death at likely the hands of his comrades putting him down after he runs out of enemies to berzerk on. An traditional horror wouldnt really fit into how they operate without making someone mad about it lel.
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You could make a horror story from the point of view of their enemies. Picture it: you're kicking Imperial ass, taking Imperial names and then BOOM, they appear. Fire-wreathed phantoms with fire-belching Bolters that never stop firing, just slowly plodding along towards your position. No matter what you do, no matter how many times you shoot them, they refuse to go down and they keep coming. They never stop coming until you and all your friends and allies are popped like balloons. Maybe you make it out by hiding your friends' corpses, only to see them disappear before your very eyes back to whatever hellish place they came from (the Warp, the future, who knows?). This would probably only work if the attackers were renegade humans or Tau though.
It's horror based. This seems like a good central point
There also isnt really much room in how they work to put a horror story in. They only exist to do combat and dissappear back into the warpspace where nothing can reach them. your only real option for horror with them would be a first person piece thats like, existentialist horror at a known unavoidable death at likely the hands of his comrades putting him down after he runs out of enemies to berzerk on. An traditional horror wouldnt really fit into how they operate without making someone mad about it lel.