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Post by dem bones on Jan 28, 2009 22:46:24 GMT
Raymond T. McNally - Dracula Was A Woman (Hamlyn, 1985: originally Robert Hale, 1984) In Search Of The Blood Countess Of TransylvaniaBack cover blurb: Vampires .... werewolves .... ghouls ....
From a dark castle in a lonely forest echoed the screams of tortured servant-girls ... and even in an era when cruelty was rife, the hardened populace of Hungary shuddered. Such is the stuff of legend.
In 1611 the wealthy Countess Elizabeth Bathory went on trial for atrocities committed by herself and her trusted retainers. It was rumoured that up to 700 young girls had been murdered to slake the Countess's bloodlust - and so a vampire legend was born.
This enthralling account follows a quest through the forests of Transylvania in search of the real Elizabeth Bathory — finally uncovering a truth more horrifying than myth. And including a fascinating study of the whole vampire/werewolf tradition.'Non-fiction' in as much as these things can be, but you can see the appeal to Hamlyn as the life and crimes of Elizabeth Bathory read like something from one of their beloved 'nasties'. McNally, who had previous in the field having published In Search Of Dracula (NEL, 1975) with long-term collaborator Radu Florescu and the A Clutch Of Vampires anthology, loving chronicles all the instances of the blood Countess's tortures versus young women - the Hammer Countess Dracula is Bathory-lite in comparison. There's a lengthy bibliography/ filmography at the end which, I seem to recall, owes much to Martin V. Riccardo's Vampires Unearthed (Garland, 1983) ..... Many .... nonfiction writers spurred my interest, including Radu Florescu and Raymond T. McNally. When Vampires Unearthed came out, I sent a notice about it (as a courtesy) to various writers, including McNally. To my surprise, when McNally's book Dracula was a Woman came out, I discovered that the bulk of the bibliography in the back was lifted directly from Vampires Unearthed, right down to the arbitrary categories I divided the works in, and the style of listing movies and their actors. Other material from Vampires Unearthed is incorporated in his book. If he had given any acknowledgement to Vampires Unearthed (which was a long and arduous effort to put together), I wouldn't have minded. My work is nowhere mentioned in his book. Since both books came out in 1983, the average person would have no way of knowing who stole from whom. Let us hope there is more honor among vampires.Martin V. Riccardo, interviewed by Eric Held, Vampire Information Exchange Newsletter #53 (April, 1991) Reveille, 14 March 1975. Reproduced in Peter Haining's delicious The Dracula Scrapbook (Nel, 1976)
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Post by dem bones on May 21, 2022 15:27:36 GMT
Attempted Countess Bathory bibliography (please feel free to flesh out). Valentine Penrose - Erzsébet Bathory La Comtesse Sanglante, 1957. (Eng trans, The Bloody Countess, 1970) Ray Russell - Sanguinarius (url=https://vaultofevil.proboards.com/thread/269]Unholy Trinity[/url], 1967). Alejandra Pizarnik - The Bloody Countess (1968; Chris Baldick (ed), The Oxford Book Of Gothic Tales, 1992. Michel Parry - Countess Dracula, 1971. Raymond Rudorff - The Dracula Archives, 1973. John Blackburn - Our Lady of Pain, 1974. Robert Lory The Witching of Dracula, 1974 Raymond T. McNally - Dracula Was A Woman, 1984. C. Dean Anderson - Raw Pain Max, 1988 John Tigges - Vessel, 1988. Roger Johnson - Madelein [Love, Death and the Maiden] (Richard Dalby, [ed], The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories 2, 1991) Frances Gordon - Blood Ritual, 1994 Guy Adams - Countess Dracula, 2013). Carroll Borland - Countess Dracula (2015)
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