Outer Dark
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Outer Dark is U.S. novelist Cormac McCarthy's second novel, published in 1968. The time and setting are nebulous, but can be assumed to be somewhere in Appalachia, sometime around the turn of the twentieth century. The novel tells of a woman (Rinthy) who bears her brother's baby. The brother, Culla, leaves the nameless infant in the woods to die, but he tells his sister that the newborn died of natural causes and had to be buried. Rinthy discovers this lie, and decides to set out and find the baby for herself.
Meanwhile, the baby has been discovered in the woods and taken by a nameless Tinker.
Culla soon follows Rinthy, intending to return her to their home. Over the remainder of the novel the two characters follow separate paths. Rinthy encounters often generous people who offer their help in different ways. Culla, however, finds difficulty in his attempts to locate his sister and is constantly pursued by three violent and frightening strangers who murder many of the people he comes in contact with.
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