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  • Location: Hungary, Slovakia

The House of Hunger

The House of Hunger

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2022: Bloodmaids are there to serve their masters…

  • ISBN: B08NDC94WV
  • Genre: Fiction, Folklore, Gothic, Historical, Horror, Inspired by true events

What you need to know before your trail

Marion Shaw has been raised in the slums, where want and deprivation are all she knows. Despite longing to leave the city and its miseries, she has no real hope of escape until the day she spots a strange advertisement in the newspaper, seeking a ‘bloodmaid’.

Though she knows little about the far north – where wealthy nobles live in luxury and drink the blood of those in their service – Marion applies to the position. In a matter of days, she finds herself at the notorious House of Hunger. There, Marion is swept into a world of dark debauchery – and there, at the centre of it all is her.

Her name is Countess Lisavet. Loved and feared in equal measure, she presides over this hedonistic court. And she takes a special interest in Marion. Lisavet is magnetic, charismatic, seductive – and Marion is eager to please her new mistress. But when her fellow bloodmaids begin to go missing in the night, Marion is thrust into a vicious game of cat and mouse. She’ll need to learn the rules of her new home – and fast – or its halls will soon become her grave.

Travel Guide

The Blood Countess of Hungary

Countess Elizabeth Báthory de Ecsed was a Hungarian noblewoman and alleged serial killer from the family of Báthory, who owned land in the Kingdom of Hungary (now Slovakia).

Báthory and four of her servants were accused of torturing and killing hundreds of girls and women between 1590 and 1610. Her servants were put on trial and convicted, but Báthory was merely confined to her home. She was imprisoned within Castle of Csejte in present day Slovakia.

BookTrail Boarding Pass: The House of Hunger

Destination:Hungary, Slovakia Author/guide: Alexis Henderson Time: 1550s

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