The Guinness Book of Records calls Elizabeth Bathory one of the most prolific serial killers. According to her diaries, the number of her victims is 650. According to one version, she was the owner of a one-of-a-kind “Iron Maiden” torture device, which allowed her to pump out every last drop of blood from her victims, which she used for “baths” being obsessed with the idea of preserving her youth and devilish attractiveness forever. She was a well-educated, incredibly beautiful, fabulously wealthy heiress of an ancient and powerful family. She surrounded herself with the best people of that era - scientists and alchemists, writers and poets, artists and musicians, and the holidays and feasts that she organized in honor of her guests lasted for several months. She was sung in poetry and depicted in paintings. She was idolized, admired, and legends were made about her. She was condemned and doomed to a long and painful death, imprisoned in the basements of her own castle, but did she die?..Who was she really? Sadistic? Crazy? Obsessed? Satanist? What made her kill? Was it an insidious and cunning plan or attacks of black madness, an obsession with death?.. Or maybe there were no deaths? Maybe all these are just rumors, scraps of legend, and from the darkness of centuries only echoes of something else have reached us?.. Something that is still hidden behind seven seals and what is not customary to talk about out loud?.. The solution to these terrible secrets in Gabriel Gautier's gripping new novel. He undertook his own investigation. What he managed to find out is amazing to the core. The famous Countess will appear before you as no one has ever known her before. We warn you right away: this book is not for the faint of heart.