Hungarian Countess Elizabeth Báthory — Báthory Erzsébet in Hungarian — has been called “The Blood Queen” and “Countess Dracula,” though her guilt has been debated. She and her collaborators were ...
More than 400 years after her death, the truth about "the Blood Countess," a Hungarian noblewoman alleged to have been the most prolific female serial killer of all time, remains elusive. From her ...
ČACHTICE, Slovakia — More than 400 years after her death, the truth about “the Blood Countess,” a Hungarian noblewoman alleged to have been the most prolific female serial killer of all time, remains ...
Some legends are so chilling that they cling to the imagination long after the stories end. One of these legends surrounds ...
On this day, Dec. 26, in 1610, the bloodthirsty crimes of Hungarian Countess Elizabeth Bathory were uncovered. Bathory, who was born in Transylvania, is possibly the most prolific serial killer in ...
The author argues in The Blood Countess that notorious 17th-century Hungarian noblewoman Elizabeth Bathory was wrongly accused of killing 650 women and girls. What inspired you to seek the real story ...