Interest in Countess Elisabeth Bathory (the 16th century ‘Countess Dracula’, ‘the Blood Countess’) hasn’t waned  (see previous post). VICE Australia editor, photographer and film-maker Julian Morgans returned from an expedition to her castle in Slovakia and we talked about this enduring icon…

http://www.vice.com/en_au/read/inside-the-ruined-castle-of-medieval-serial-killer-elizabeth-bathory

Five years – and several foreign-language podcasts and broadcasts later – I was interviewed in August 2021 by the US-based comedy broadcaster Rebecca Delgado Smith for The Alarmist Podcast. Rebecca had already hosted a lively discussion of the Countess’s crimes…

I was then interviewed in the role of the expert witness, providing corroboration or correction…