Gotta 2nd every point made.
The narration was top-notch, maybe one of my favorite of the whole summer, if not, the year.
This story gripped me because of all the petty reasons for the men to be fighting: political, social, geographical, cultural and religious disagreements. The Church was mentioned alongside the Free Masons, and nobody got along nor believed each other.
"Who puts dandelions over graves? Children, maybe?" Just as the protagonist would personify and quote the vampires as stereotypes, he'd do the same to other people, even the Western man he was hired on to help hunt. Even as you waited eagerly to glean more about the vampire itself, you learned so much more about the tense political situations surrounding the one hunt detailed in the story.
Amazing that, even when faced with the supernaturally destructive, humans will still be their own biggest threat.