While literature often follows certain patterns and can be predictable, it is often evolving and can change in an instant depending on the author. In most gothic literature, derived from romance, there is a gothic space in the work – a limited space where anything can happen in contrast to the normal world in the work. Furthermore, normally, order is re-established at the end of Gothic literature: the good is rewarded and the bad is punished. In his Gothic tale, The Terrible Vengeance (1981), Nicolai Gogol decided to expand the "normal" idea of ​​Gothic literature by transforming, in the work, the traditional Gothic space to encompass anything; in addition to the use of space, through the ending in which these are not rewards, Gogol conveyed the idea that evil prevails everywhere and in In truth, the river is the border between the Gothic space, the Other, and the space normal in the story. For example, at the beginning of the story, while Danillo and Katherine were returning home to the Dnieper, they witnessed an uprising on the side of the Other. “A withered corpse slowly rose from it [from one of the graves in a cemetery]… one could see that it was suffering terrible agonies” as it begged for air (Gogol 18). Things that shouldn't happen, that shouldn't be possible, happen on the other side of the Dneiper because that is Gothic space. It is also in the same space across the river that an old castle may reside, which can be seen from Danillo's house: this is the castle where the Sorcerer lives. As illustrated in the quote, the space transforms several times during the novel - in some moments of the story, as in the case of the quote, in a very obvious way and, in other moments, more