The blood countess

Andrei Codrescu

Original title: The Blood Countess

first published 1995 Dell Pub., 1996 453 pages

Countess Elizabeth Bathory of Hungary (1560-1613) was beautiful, well educated in the best traditions of the Renaissance, and wealthy beyond measure. Upon assuming her seat of power at the age of sixteen, the Countess set out upon a course of revelry and debauchery, aided by her spiritual adviser, Darvulia, and by her faithful bevy of overwrought maids. Eventually, time and an excess of increasingly bizarre pleasure...

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The Blood Countess paperback · 1996 · Quartet Books · 352 pages · 9780704380110
The blood countess edition · 1996 · Dell Pub. · 453 pages
The blood countess edition · 1995 · Simon & Schuster · 347 pages

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