by Javier García Sánchez · Editorial Planeta · tapa dura · ISBN 9788408054801
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«Ella, Drácula» is the historical novel by Javier García Sánchez, published by Editorial Planeta in hardcover (391 pages, in Spanish).
A fictional recreation of the life of Erzsébet Báthory, a 17th-century Hungarian aristocrat nicknamed the Bloody Countess, to whom the kidnapping, torture and murder of hundreds of young women is attributed. Based on her true story, the work explores the origin of evil and argues that Báthory, not Vlad Tepes, was the historical model for Dracula.
The work belongs to the Autores Españoles e Iberoamericanos collection of Editorial Planeta and was published on February 8, 2005.
A work for fans of historical fiction, fictionalized biographies and true crime.
Javier García Sánchez is a Spanish writer. Born in Barcelona in 1955, he studied at the Complutense University in Madrid. He edited the magazine Quimera for two years, and wrote in the culture pages of La Voz de Euskadi. He achieved literary success with his second novel La dama del viento sur, which won the Premio Pío Baroja and was translated into English by Michael Bradburn Ruster and Myrna R. Villa. He won the Premio Herralde with a later novel La historia más triste. His book on the champion road cyclist Miguel Indurain has been translated into English.
