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Oh shit. So, every single short story is interconnected and has been leading up to this last one. Brilliant!

"In an ever-changing world, some delights were eternal - like a warm bath after a dirty spell."

That one hits hard. I read this series for spoopy month every year.
The first two years I did so often during baths, sometimes by candlelight, as the days grew darker and colder as one of the few ways to truly relax and shut out the world.
I no longer have access to a bath, and the world grows ever-more darker and colder.

A Warhammer Batman story is such bizarre idea, but it works so well.

The Ingorant Armier was fantastic.
Dark, bizarre, violent. Full of mystical symbolism.
While it perfectly stands on its own, it is a direct prequel to Beasts in Velvet.

"Settling Tsarina down, he saw the frozen blood around her hooves."
What an absolutely wild first sentence.

No Gold in the Grey Mountains was fantastic. Masterful use of the short form and a true vampire story. Super cool to return to Castle Drachenfells!
Listened to Mercyful Fate's Melissa during the day.

Red Thirst is interesting so far. Modern Warhammer pretty much shuns sex and the erotic side of its storytelling be that in a more romantic form or the darker side, which is such a key element of many cults.
Either way, there being a Morality Police crusade going on and one of our two POV characters being hypocritical, judgmental pos there are certainly some themes in here that ring true in the fandom today.