Although literature often follows a certain pattern and can be predictable, it often evolves and can change in an instant depending on the author. In most Gothic literature, derived from Romanticism, there is a Gothic space within the work – a limited space in which anything can happen unlike the normal world of the work. Additionally, normally order is restored at the end of Gothic literature – good is rewarded and evil is punished. In his Gothic short story, 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 and everything ; in addition to the use of space, through the ending in which there is no reward, Gogol conveyed the idea that evil is widespread everywhere and in the short story. In truth, the river is the border between Gothic space, the Other and normal space in the short story. . For example, early in the story, as Danillo and Katherine were returning home across the Dnieper, they witnessed a rise in the Other's side. “A withered corpse slowly emerged [from one of the graves in a cemetery]… one could see that it was suffering terrible suffering” as it cried out for air (Gogol 18). Things that shouldn't happen, that shouldn't be possible, happen on the other side of the Dnieper because that's Gothic space. It is also in the same space, on the other side of the river, that there is an old castle, visible from Danillo's house: it is the castle where the Sorcerer lives. As the quote shows, space is transformed several times throughout the novel - at some points in the short story, like the example in the quote, very obviously and, at other times, more obviously.