By Linda Lafferty
"In the early 1600s, Elizabeth Báthory, the notorious Blood Countess, governed Čachtice fortress within the hinterlands of Slovakia. in the course of weird and wonderful nightly rites, she tortured and killed the younger women she had taken on as servants. A satan, a demon, the phobia of Royal Hungary—she bathed of their blood to maintain her personal adolescence.
400 years later, echoes of the Countess’s mythical brutality achieve Aspen, Colorado. Betsy direction, a psychoanalyst of unusual instinct, has a leap forward with sullen youngster Daisy Hart. jointly, they're haunted by way of the prior, as they fight to appreciate its imprint upon the current. Betsy and her bothered yet perceptive sufferer study the reality: the curse of the home of Bathory lives nonetheless and has the facility to do evil even now.
The tale, brimming with palace intrigue, memorable characters in detail learned, and a wealth of evocative element, travels backward and forward among the known, glossy international and a seventeenth-century jap Europe introduced startlingly to lifestyles.
Inspired by way of the particular crimes of Elizabeth Báthory, *The residence of Bathory* is one other exciting historic fiction from Linda Lafferty (*The Bloodletter’s Daughter* and *The Drowning Guard*). the unconventional contains readers in addition to suspense and the sweep of old occasions either repellent and fascinating.
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We're all going to do it. " "Well said, Ann," Kezzy approved. " the skeleton cackled. " I patted her on the shoulder. Then she walked over, got down on her knees, and got to it. Hannah was already going a mile a minute, and her guy was making noises like a cowboy at a rodeo. Mole Face grinned and flexed his boner for me. Fuck. I just leaned over and started sucking. It was awful, pathetic, and ridiculous: three 19-year-old girls blowing really old men. Of course, my guy's crotch stunk, but by then I was cauterized to it.
But, you know, that's another thing you constantly notice when you're fat. The slim, beautiful people can stuff their faces all they want and never gain an ounce, but me? If I eat, like, one candy bar, I put on five fuckin' pounds before I'm even done eating the motherfucker. Anyway, here's how the deal went for the next four days. " The Old Manning on that second night was nothing compared to what Kezzy had in store for us, and she wasn't kidding when she said the rest would be "exponentially worse" than blowing those old turds at the American Legion.
I got the Great Dane. Mercy and Hannah kind of went into shock just looking at these dogs, but I set an example, I guess. It's a state of mind, I told myself. I just had to get into that state, and then I could do anything. No way in a million years would I have even thought about doing something like this a week ago. But now? The carrot Kezzy was dangling in front of me was my fuckin' inheritance. I was not going to throw in the towel now. doing it to the Great Dane. His name was George, by the way, and he was a big ass dog.