<strong>Outer Dark</strong> is a novel at once fabular and starkly evocative set is anunspecified place in Appalachia sometime around the turn of the century. A... » 

Outer Dark is a novel at once fabular and starkly evocative set is anunspecified place in Appalachia sometime around the turn of the century. Awoman bears her brothers child a boy he leaves the baby in the woods andtells her he died of natural causes. Discovering her brothers lie she setsforth alone to find her son. Both brother and sister wander separately througha countryside being scourged by three terrifying and elusive strangersheadlong toward an eerie apocalyptic resolution. «