Summary: In Mario Bava's gothic horror masterpiece steeped in rich atmosphere, condemned witch Princess Asa returns from the dead two centuries after her execution and wreaks vengeance on her killers' family. Possessing the body of a descendant who happens to look just like her, Asa pulls out all the stops to exact her revenge. This is Bava's credited directorial debut, and it catapulted Steele and him...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Classics 2012

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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR BLA

Summary: Based on the short story "Viĭ" by Nikolai Gogol.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VIY

Saunders, George

Summary: "In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, George Saunders guides the reader through seven classic Russian short stories he's been teaching for twenty years as a professor in the prestigious Syracuse University graduate MFA creative writing program. Paired with stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, these essays are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it's more...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 891.7 SAU

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 891.708 SAU

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 891.708 SAU

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Saunders

Summary: A Saint Petersburg official wakes up one morning to find that his nose has disappeared from his face and has assumed a life of its own, pretending to be human.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: VAI 2010

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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA NOS

Summary: A corrupt mid-nineteenth century Russian village wrongly suspects the assistant of a medicine-show operator of being Napoleon's omnipotent Inspector General in disguise.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Alpha Video Distributors 2003

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY INS