Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol 54 min read

A Cossack village tale of witchcraft and the walking dead, from the master of Russian gothic, here in Finnish.

This Finnish translation presents a supernatural tale by Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852), whose Ukrainian and Petersburg stories fused folklore, comedy, and horror. Vivid, eerie, foundational Russian weird fiction. Read it for the demonic folklore and dark imagination of one of literature's great originals.

In its time

Published in 1835, during the 1830s, poe and the german romantics.

Reading it

54 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).