Written in 1856 - over 40 years before Bram Stoker's Dracula - The Vampire Countess is one of three classic vampire stories penned by Paul Féval.
The particular gift of Countess Addhema, a Hungarian Countess, was to be reborn beautiful and young every time she could apply to the hideous bareness of her skull a living head of hair, a scalp, torn from the head of a living victim. This was why her tomb was full of the skulls of young women.
Addhema takes up lodgings in Paris in the company of a secret society of operatives who appear to be scheming to perpetrate large scale crimes or to foment political unrest.
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