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Viy

Author
Nikolai Gogol
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
1 hour 20 minutes
ISBN
9781802566055
Published
11 May 2025
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Gogol
  • horror
  • Kiev
  • Ukraine
  • ghost
  • witch
  • goblin
  • thriller
  • epic
  • paranormal

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Description

Seminary student Khoma Brut keeps a three-night vigil in a lonely church over the pannochka, whose corpse rises with witchery until Viy and summoned creatures close in. Gogol?s folk-horror of fear and the dead that will not stay still. Spoken as when the last night of prayer is the one that opens every eye in the dark around the coffin.

Author

Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852) was the master of a satire so quiet it can seem harmless — until the ground shifts beneath it. In Dead Souls he mapped the hollow soul of imperial Russia with comic precision; in The Overcoat and The Nose he turned ordinary clerks and missing body parts into fables of humiliation, obsession, and bureaucratic nightmare.

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