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Die Bluttergraffen By Tamas Szaregy

“The Trouble with the Pears comes from a dark place, in the minds of those who are mad. A madness that only we can comprehend, for it is only we who can feel the touch of Eris’ lips.” -Gia Bathory. The story happens every day, a woman who is a shut-in, goes mad. No catalyst, cause or reason…just simply goes mad. Erzsebet Bathory-Nadasdy…how that name rings with infamy. Daughter of the greatest Noble house in Hungary, heiress to the insurmountable Bathory fortune, goes mad and begins to murder the serving girls in her household. We have all heard this story before, but why…why did she go mad? What deep-seeded evil had laid hold of her so firmly, that even on her last night, she wrote that she “Regretted nothing…and would do it over if placed in the same situation once more.” “I believe it was the ever-barbaric hand of Holy Mother Church who eventually crushed Erzsebet…” says author Gia Bathory, who’s soft voice echoed over the phone. “ for the past fifteen hundred years they have covered up massive lies about religion, the origins of Ieshuae Ben Iosef (who the Greeks call "Jesus”), Mary Magdalene, etc. They saw a woman that, without a man, could run a vast empire, host lavish galas and parties for the Crown, negotiate foreign trade with her neighbors and speak five languages fluently, when the Emperor could barely write his own name..”	She Believes that Erzsebet has a message for us all to hear, “I wanted the story to convey the atrocity of course, but more importantly, I wanted my readers to feel the lonliness, suffering and utter solitude that her (Erzsebet’s) life became.  I also wanted to deliver the humanity of her story, yes…she murdered over seven hundred women in her employ during the last twenty years of her life.  However, she was a creature left to the cruel hands of insanity to grow and metastasize into an all consuming madness.”, says Bathory. Whatever the case, it has become one of the most provocative, enduring and morbidly fascinating stories of the past six hundred years. Books, Films, Comic books and even Hollywood have heard Erzsebet’s call. Like all other atrocities shrouded in mystery, Erzsebet’s story will live on, through the blood of the Hungarian people, Erzsebet’s fans and admirers who refuse to let her fade into oblivion and now, through this work of literary art, it will invade the psyche of millions of people and make them all question the line between reality…and madness. The Trouble with the Pears is noted for release in the winter of 2005-06, for more information about Erzsebet or Gia, vist the Official Gia Bathory Fan Site at: www.GiaBathory.biz.ly

Tamas Szaregy Pest and Pressed Magazine Budapest, Hungary 11/09/05