Viy

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What Wikipedia says

"Viy" (Russian: Вий, IPA: [ˈvʲij]; pronounced in English), also translated as "The Viy", is a horror novella by the writer Nikolai Gogol, first published in volume 2 of his collection of tales entitled Mirgorod (1835).

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Image: Nikolai Gogol, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.