A Terrible Vengeance

""For there is no worse punishment to Man, then to want to avenge and not being able to.""

- Closing Narration

A very, very scary short story by Nikolai Gogol.

This work contains examles of:

 * A Fate Worse Than Death: Several:
 * The Warlock
 * His ancestors
 * Petro
 * And, last but not least, Ivan
 * Black Magic
 * Eats Babies:
 * Evil Sorcerer
 * Evil Makes You Ugly: In case of Glamour Failure, that is.
 * Just-So Story: And that's why we have earthquakes.
 * Our Zombies Are Different: The revenants.
 * Rule of Scary: The reason a  isn't ridiculous.
 * Serial Escalation: Ok, there's no way it can get more vile/scary...Wait, it just did.