Beasts in Velvet

Warhammer Horror

By: Kim Newman

Narrated by: Antonia Beamish

A Warhammer Horror novel

On the mean streets of Altdorf, Guard Captain 'Filthy Harald' Kleindeist investigates a series of gruesome murders that take him into the upper echelons of Imperial society and expose horrors beyond imagining.

Listen to it because

It's a classic Warhammer murder mystery that delves into the darkness behind the Imperial aristocracy as well as the horrors to be found in the poorest districts of Altdorf.

The story

In the Imperial capital of Altdorf, a killer stalks the streets. Nicknamed 'The Beast' by those who have seen the remains of his victims, all evidence points to the haughty members of the Imperial court, the wealthy and privileged who are a law unto themselves.

Written by Kim Newman. Narrated by Antonia Beamish.

©2020 Games Workshop Limited (P)2020 Games Workshop Limited

awesome mystery

30 years on and this book still holds up, great characters , the story really keeps you guessing to the very end

Fun book easy to listen along

I liked this one a lot. Didn’t listen to it with all my attention but it was really atmospheric and I could follow along easy enough. Not sure someone would be able to even write this story with everything being under the political magnifier these days.

WH Old World fun

A fun expansion to the Geniveve set of stories. This one focuses on more side characters and would probably be better listened to before some stories in Silver Nails (there are chronological reading lists online you can find), but having listened to it afterwards, there is nothing fully lost by doing so. Detailing the hunt for "The Beast" by Filthy Harold and Baron Von Mecklenburg, you will only be left wishing there was more of these characters, but alas, these stories are decades old and no more will likely be forthcoming.

Good detective plot. No vampire plot.

intriguing warhammer detective story. no vamp plot. Think the production would benefit from bigger time gaps between paragraphs that switch narrative perspective: author likes to shift characters without warning and audibly its hard to tell sometimes if there was a switch until a few lines of txt later.

Oh wow.

It was a fun Gothic horror/mystery murder story. Though I came here expecting another Genevieve story, instead I had gotten these unfamiliar characters. With Genevieve essentially having a small cameo. By the end I ended up liking the characters and the story