By the author of the critically acclaimed "Border Trilogy", "Outer Dark" is a novel at once mythic and starkly evocative, set in an unspecified place in Appalachia sometime around the turn of the century. A woman bears her brother`s child, a boy; the brother leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he 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. `McCarthy is a master stylist, perhaps without equal in American his hands, everything is done with consummate skill` - "Village Voice". `McCarthy has made the fabulous real, the ordinary mysterious` - "New York Times". `A profound parable that ultimately speaks to any society in any time` - "Time".