The Little Demon
by Fyodor Sologub
403 pages~7 hrs
“Evil isn't always a monster; sometimes it’s just a very small, very petty man.”
In this haunting masterpiece of Russian Symbolism, a provincial schoolteacher’s petty spite curdles into a terrifying descent into madness and paranoia. As the boundaries of reality dissolve, the little demon of his own making begins to consume everything in its wake.
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