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Showing posts with label Erzebet (Elizabeth) Bathory. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Erzebet (Elizabeth) Bathory. Show all posts

Was a Hungarian "vampire" countess the world's most prolific serial killer?

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When it comes to naming the world's most prolific serial killer, some boundaries must be established. As Soviet dictator from 1924 to 19...

Werewolf and Vampire!

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FRIGHTENING! If you haven’t been clawed, drained, ripped, bitten or sucked yet, don’t go off guard. I interviewed vampire buffs, visited g...

Vampires, Vindication and Vendetta

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Scherz stated ( Investigator #29) that Countess Bathory bathed in the blood of her victims presumably to keep herself young. Not only is th...

Vampire Killers and the First Vampire

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The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines the word vampire as "the reanimated body of a dead person believed to come from the grave at nig...

Lady of Blood: Countess Bathory

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Clandestine Entry During the Christmas season in 1609 (or 1610), King Mathias II of Hungary sent a party of men to the massive Castle Csej...

Vampires: Eternal Bloodlust

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Everybody knows vampires, those immortal creatures that drink the blood of their victims. Hollywood is especially fond of them -- there are ...

Who Is Elizabeth Bathory?

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Some call her the queen of blood. Others call her the first true vampire. Whatever her label, Elizabeth Bathory has gone down into the histo...

Vampires Never Die: No one's been able to drive a stake through the heart of vampire legend, professor says

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If Jonathan Harker, the character in Bram Stoker’s famous novel “Dracula,” had set out for Castle Dracula in the late 1980s, his journey mig...

A Freudian interpretation of the vampire myth

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by Laura Collopy The vampire is a monster that has both thrilled and terrified people for hundreds of years, from sophisticated Parisian t...

Most Famous Vampires

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Vlad Tepes the Impaler (Dracula) The name Dracula conjures up a myriad of dark images in our mind; late night horror movies of vampires an...

Bloodlines: A Brief on the life and death of Hungary's infamous Blood Countess, Elizabeth Bathory-Nadasdy

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by Mathew Amaral The infamous "Blood Countess" of Transylvania, who was purported to be a witch, vampire, werewolf, and supposed...

Bram Stoker, Elizabeth Bathory and Dracula

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by Elizabeth Miller [The following is a revised excerpt from Elizabeth Miller, Dracula: Sense & Nonsense (2000). Further details abo...

Biographical Notes for the Life of Elizabeth Bathory

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Excerpted with the Author's Permission from The Dracula Book by Donald F. Glut, The Scarecrow Press, Inc. Metuchen, N.J. 1975 publish...

The History of Vampires

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I. It Started With Blood The Vampire persona has evolved from many true and untrue facts, legends and myths. At various times vampires, re...

Vampires: Origins of the Myth

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The Blood is the Life "My Friend -- Welcome to the Carpathians. I am anxiously expecting you. Sleep well tonight. At three tomorrow ...