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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Europe's benchmark bloodsucker is generally considered to be Vlad the Impaler, an inspiration for Dracula. Andrei Codrescu's novel The Blood Countess (Simon & Schuster; 347 pages; $23) offers an equally unattractive alternative: Elizabeth Bathory, a 16th century Hungarian tyrant alleged to have killed 650 girls in the belief that bathing in their blood would preserve her youth and beauty. Though never tried for mass murder, Bathory is said to have been confined to a room of her castle, where after five years she died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: GOTHIC WHOOPEE | 8/14/1995 | See Source »

Codrescu pours on the kinks and Gothic whoopee. If he keeps it up, he could become as rich as Anne Rice. The only thing that may hold him back is his attempt to thicken his plot with serious themes. Pleating the 16th century with the 20th, Codrescu is nervously alert for recurrent patterns of evil and its handmaiden, absolute authority. At the extreme is the countess: "She would ask them to bring her the mirror on the surface of a lake. She would ask them to open their chests and give her their hearts. She would ask them to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: GOTHIC WHOOPEE | 8/14/1995 | See Source »

...kinks and Gothic whoopee of his new book (Simon & Schuster; 347 pages; $23), he could become as rich as Anne Rice. The only thing that may hold him back is his attempt to thicken his plot with serious themes. The story centers on Elizabeth Bathory, a real life 16th century Hungarian tyrant alleged to have killed 650 girls in the belief that bathing in their blood would preserve her youth and beauty. Codrescu pleats the 16th and 20th centuries together address his real concerns, the recurrent patterns of evil and its handmaiden, absolute authority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS . . . THE BLOOD COUNTESS | 8/4/1995 | See Source »

...weeks ago, when the double-murder trial began, there was no dispute as to what happened that night at the lake. But the jury was given two very different portrayals of Smith. The prosecution, led by 16th Circuit solicitor Thomas Pope, 32, painted Smith as a calculating, cold-hearted woman who drowned her children to win the affections of Tom Findlay, the son of the owner of the textile plant where she worked as a secretary. In his opening statement, assistant solicitor Keith Giese said, "For nine days in the fall of 1994, Susan Smith looked this country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ELEGY FOR LOST BOYS | 7/31/1995 | See Source »

...Soon after the murders, it came to light that Bev, as he is known, had been accused of molesting Susan when she was in high school. But it was only last season that the full, shocking extent of their sexual contact became known. In 1987, shortly before Susan's 16th birthday, sheriff's records show that Smith told her mother and a high school guidance counselor that her stepfather had fondled her breasts and put her hand on his genitals after she had crawled into his lap to go to sleep one evening. Linda Russell told the authorities that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEX, BETRAYAL AND MURDER | 7/17/1995 | See Source »

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