The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol: Strange Russian stories of demons, witches, and vampires, cossaks and crazy clerks.Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (1809-1852) is by far the most enigmatic, unexpected, contradictory, and mystical writer representing classic Russian literature.His stories are unforgettably colored with Ukrainian romance and include uncanny dissections of the realities of St. Petersb...