The Blood Countess by Andrei Codrescu (FIRST EDITION)

FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING [1995]

Book and dust jacket are both excellent.  Light wear.

Codrescu expertly weaves together two stories in this neo-gothic work: that of the 16th-century Hungarian Countess Elizabeth Bathory, a beautiful and terrifying woman who bathes in the blood of virgin girls; and of her distant descendent, a contemporary journalist who must return to his native Hungary and come to terms with his bloody and disturbing past.