@Susan Quinland 2021
The Bathory Journals
The Countess Erzsebet Bathory was one of the most prolific serial killers of all time. Of course, she never thought of herself as a killer. She only punished the indolent, lazy idiots and miscreants who deserved it. And just because she’s been dead for four hundred years, she sees no reason why she shouldn’t keep on punishing.
BLOOD BATH: Book One of The Bathory Journals
This evil will not die.
Four hundred years ago, the Countess Erzsébet Báthory of Hungary had everything she could ever want: vast wealth, royal family connections, unlimited power, and freedom to do anything she wanted. Sex, torture, murder; it was all the same to her.
Why should it be any different now simply because she’s dead?
Madison traveled halfway around the world to get away from her rotten, no good, cheating soon-to-be-ex-husband. While visiting the castle of the notorious Erzsébet Báthory, she met Alex, an interesting and gorgeous professor. It looked like the beginning of an exciting new life.
But being possessed by an evil spirit with a taste for blood wasn’t part of the plan.
Rated R for Violence and Sexuality,
BLOOD TIES: Book Two of The Bathory Journals
Twenty years after BLOOD BATH.
Nightmares brutalized nineteen year old Rayna’s nights, visions of blood and torture so real she could feel the stickiness of blood on her hands and hear agonized screams even as she woke.
Barely holding on to her sanity, Rayna was drawn to a peculiar red book in a crowded bookstore in California. Describing every detail of her nightmares, the book told the tale of Countess Erzsébet Báthory, a serial killer who died more than four hundred years ago but still haunted her castle in Slovakia. Through some ancient dark magic, this spirit could possess the body of a woman every ten years. Within her Host, Erzsébet continued a life filled with murder, sex, and blood.
With horror, Rayna realized the Host described in the book from twenty years ago had been her mother.
Her nightmares were real.
Rayna will do anything to stop them.
Erzsébet promises to make them come true.
Rated R for Violence and Sexuality.
COMING IN 2023:
BLOOD RITES: Book Three of The Bathory Journals
The Bathory Seal
How I came to write this series:
Several years ago I ran across an article about the Countess Erzsebet Bathory, arguably one of the worst series Killers of all time, and wondered why the heck I hadn’t heard of her. And while scholars are in disagreement about just how many people she killed (650? 80? 30?), the fact remains that her legacy was one of blood, pride, entitlement, vanity, and probably more than a touch of madness.
I researched, sifting through obvious myth, illogical assumptions, and horrific lore and found a fascinating aristocrat who had been nearly erased from History, so much of her life has ben reduced to conjecture. It may be that she was not -quite- the monster that folklore paints her, but that she was a product of her time, a Countess with nearly unlimited power and prestige, who was richer than the King, and became the target of political intrigue. She believed she was untouchable, and for many years she was.
Even though she seemed to have an unquenchable thirst for blood.
— Susan Quinland
