St. John's Eve: Classic Horror Stories

St. John’s Eve by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

CLASSIC HORROR

This story, taken from Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka, a series of sketches of the life of the Ukrainian peasants, offers a good illustration of the author’s art, which was a combination of the romantic and realistic elements. In these pages Gogol wished to record the myths and legends still current among the plain folk of his beloved Ukrainia. The devil naturally enough peeps out here and there through the pages of this book. Gogol’s...