OUR LADY OF PAIN

by John Blackburn

$350 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

London: Jonathan Cape, 1974 . Octavo, boards. First edition. The novel focuses on an upcoming play based on Hungarian Countess Elizabeth Báthory the supposed notorious serial murderer in the late 16th - early 17th centuries with hundreds of alleged victims. ... probably Blackburn's most tightly structured, exciting book. - Barron ed , Horror Literature 4-41. ... a tour de force version of the legend of the evil

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