Viy

This early work by Nikolai Gogol was originally published in 1835 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. ''The Viy'' is a short story in which a philosophy student is terrorised by a witch as he holds a vigil over the the dead body of a beautiful girl. Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol was born in Sorochintsi, Ukraine in 1809. In 1831, Gogol brought out the first volume of...