...I'm no match for Elizabeth of Bathory. Who was she? Just a woman who liked to kill virgins and bathe in their blood. Seriously. She was a consummate sadist and serial murderer.
According to News for Medievalists, two new movies about Bathory are in the works.
Bathory is accused of indulging in year-round atrocities - in winter, punishing servant girls by dousing them with cold water in the courtyard until they froze to death; in summer, stripping and smearing them with honey to be attacked by insects, and often searing the breasts and genitals of staff with red hot pokers.
Nice.
For those of you who haven't indulged in THE DIARIES OF THE FAMILY DRACUL trilogy, Elisabeth of Bathory is featured as a main character in the second and third novels. For some reason, I felt she and Vlad the Impaler would have gotten on well...
Comments (7)
I would love to ask you a question about Diaries of the Family Dracul. I read this trilogy years ago and have turned many readers on to your work. I have a very pointed question about this trilogy. Please let me know how I can get ahold of you, e-mail preferably as it is tough for me to reach people any other way due to my hatred of phones. Thank you so much.
Posted by Kevin Bortel | November 13, 2007 3:12 PM
Posted on November 13, 2007 15:12
Kevin,
Ask your pointed question here.
Posted by Jeanne Kalogridis | November 14, 2007 6:17 AM
Posted on November 14, 2007 06:17
i love the story of Elizabeth Bathory, yes she was scary but she was very fascinating no? i was so shocked when i found out that she was in Lord of the Vampires. love your work my dear :D
Posted by laura | November 28, 2007 3:16 AM
Posted on November 28, 2007 03:16
Laura,
If you're interested in Bathory, there's a novel about her (which I haven't read yet, oops). I think the title is BLOOD COUNTESS. It came out about the same time as LORD.
Posted by Jeanne Kalogridis | November 28, 2007 6:32 AM
Posted on November 28, 2007 06:32
thanks so much Jeanne! i'll look it up. so tell me, i know you first got interested in Dracula years ago, same as myself but what got you into that vampiric world? i've always loved the concept of vampires and the whole romanticism of of it lol
Posted by Laura | December 3, 2007 7:18 AM
Posted on December 3, 2007 07:18
I fell in love with vampires -- and DRACULA -- the summer I was twelve, when my stepbrother loaned me a copy of Bram Stoker's novel. It had a beautifully eerie painting of Stoker's monster on the front cover. I loved the book so much that I wound up reading it several times.
I got my start writing in science fiction, but I always loved vampire fiction. After I was published -- and thinking about trying my hand at horror -- I came upon a wonderful biography, DRACULA: PRINCE OF MANY FACES by Raymond McNally and Radu Florescu. It got my mind cogitating about how the historical prince, who died in 1476, evolved into the Dracula of Stoker's tale. And there you are...
Posted by Jeanne Kalogridis | December 3, 2007 4:13 PM
Posted on December 3, 2007 16:13
hey! i hope you had a great christmas :D i just recently moved house and haven't been able to get onto the internet.
have just re read the Diaries of the Family Dracul. i have just been through so much these passed few months so i needed something to take my mind off them
Posted by laura | February 10, 2008 2:08 PM
Posted on February 10, 2008 14:08