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1
Bathory Palace,
c/o Lara A. Haynes, 1618 SW 3rd, Topeka Ks. 66606â1215, USA.
2
The case was reported in the London
Daily Mail
on Thursday 9 February 1995.
1
See Susan Bassnett, âBlood and Mirrors: Imagery of Violence in the Writings of Alejandra Pizarnik', in
Essays on Latin American Women,
OUP, Oxford 1996.
2
Alejandra Pizarnik, âThe Bloody Countess', in A. Manguel (ed.),
Other Fires,
Picador, London, 1986.
3
Valentine Penrose,
La Comtesse Sanglante,
Mercure de France, Paris, 1957.
4
John Paget, Esq.,
Hungary and Transylvania,
John Murray, London, 1839.
5
Ibid.
6
Contes Immoraux,
directed by Walerian Borowczyk, Argos films, France, 1974.
7
Countess Dracula,
directed by Peter Sasdy, Hammer Films, GB, 1970.
8
Gabriel Ronay,
The Truth about Dracula,
Victor Gollancz, London, 1972.
9
J. Sheridan le Fanu, âCarmilla', in
Dark Blue
magazine, London, 1871.
10
Now generally spelled Szápolyai in Hungarian sources.
11
For snow-white steed thou gav'st the land
For golden bit, the grass
For the rich saddle, Duna's stream
Now bring the deed to pass.
          Bowring,
Poetry of the Magyars
12
âR. C. Gentleman' in the preface to his translation of Martin Fumée's
A True Historie of the Troubles of Hungarie,
London, 1600.
13
William Lithgow,
Travels and Voyages through Europe, Asia and Africa for Nineteen Years,
12th edn, Leith, 1814. William Lithgow was one of the earliest English-speaking gentleman-explorers, recording the opinions of a forthright Presbyterian islander as he travelled through Hungary and into Transylvania and Wallachia in 1616, descending the Danube from Vienna in the company of the Turkish ambassador.
14
Charles Boner,
Transylvania: Its Products and its People,
Longman, London, 1865.
15
Lithgow,
Travels.
16
âMagyarfaló vasgárdista? Cioran és a magyarok' (âHungarophagous Iron Guardist? Cioran and the Hungarians'),
Magyar Napló,
no. 24, Budapest, November 1993.
17
Jozo Niž
Å
anský,
Ä
achtická Pani,
Prague, 1932.
18
Andrei Codrescu,
The Blood Countess,
Simon & Schuster, New York, 1995.
19
Frances Gordon,
Blood Ritual,
Headline, London, 1994.
20
Margaret Nicholas,
The World's Wickedest Women,
Octopus Books, London 1984.
1
Béla Hamvas,
Az Ãt Geniusz,
Szombathely, 1989.
2
John Paget, Esq.,
Hungary and Transylvania,
John Murray, London, 1839.
3
Ibid.
4
Ibid.
5
The very few artefacts preserved from the old manor-house are displayed in the
Ä
achtice museum, which is located in a wing of the newer mansion there.
6
Von Elsberg reproduces a photograph of the house in question in his work
Die Blutgräfin. Elisabeth Báthory,
Breslau, 1894, as does Revicky in his
Báthory Erzsebet,
Pieštány, 1903.