num_pages: 242
description: Sometime around the turn of the last century, a woman in Appalachia bears her brother’s child, a boy. The brother leaves the baby in the woods and tells his sister the child died of natural causes. Discovering her brother’s lie, she sets forth alone to find her son. Both brother and sister wander separately through a countryside being scourged by three terrifying and elusive strangers, headlong toward an eerie apocalyptic resolution.
language: English
title: Outer Dark
titlecomplete: Outer Dark
characters: Rinthy Holme, Culla Holme
genres: Literature, American, Classics, Literary Fiction, Novels, Southern Gothic, Gothic, Southern, Horror, Fiction
ratings_count: 19621
publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group