English | Horror Stories | Christmas Eve on a Haunted Hulk by Frank Cowper | Học tiếng Anh

1) Christmas Eve by Nikolai Gogol 00:00:08 “Christmas Eve“ (Russian: Ночь пе́ред Рождество́м, Noch pered Rozhdestvom, which literally translates as “The Night Before Christmas“) is the first story in the second volume of the collection Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka by Nikolai Gogol. The story opens with a description of the winter scenery of Dikanka, Ukraine, a witch flying across the night sky and the devil stealing the moon and hiding it in his pocket, first playing with it in the sky, which no one in the village notices. Since it is the night before Christmas, the devil is free to roam around and torment people as he pleases, so he decides to find a way to get back at the village blacksmith, Vakula, because he paints religious art in the church. In the village lives a Cossack named Choub, whose daughter Oksana, an exceptionally beautiful village girl loved by all the young boys, is the object of the blacksmith Vakula’s affection. Choub goes out in the night with