Books like Outer Dark
In the Appalachian South, a brother and sister wander apart through a nightmarish landscape, she looking for the baby he left in the woods, while three murderous drifters move across the land.
Explore books like this on the map12 books for readers of Outer Dark
Child of God
A necrophiliac cave-dweller in rural Tennessee commits unspeakable acts, and McCarthy refuses to look away or moralise.
Sanctuary
A young woman in Depression-era Mississippi is violated by a bootlegger, and the justice system that responds reveals more about the corruption of power than the crime itself.
Light in August
A pregnant woman, a disgraced minister, and an outsider collide in a Mississippi town, and Faulkner uses their intersecting stories to expose the violence of Southern racial and religious codes.
The Devil All the Time
Between the end of World War II and the 1960s, in the hollows of southern Ohio and West Virginia, a grieving veteran's son crosses paths with a pair of roadside killers and a preacher who handles spiders.
The Violent Bear It Away
A fourteen-year-old boy raised by a prophetic great-uncle in rural Tennessee is torn between his destiny to baptise a cousin and his atheist uncle's rationalism.
The Orchard Keeper
A young man in 1930s east Tennessee discovers a dead man's belongings in a decaying orchard, and the mystery draws him into a world of moonshiners and outlaws.
A Feast of Snakes
In Mystic, Georgia, during the annual rattlesnake roundup, a former high school football star stuck with a liquor-store job and a broken marriage feels the weekend's frenzy pushing him towards violence.
Wise Blood
A young man in the rural American South is consumed by a grotesque religious vision, and the novel's dark comedy conceals a genuine theological horror.
Serena
In 1929 a timber baron brings his new wife Serena to the North Carolina mountains, and her ruthlessness, matched with his own, makes them a terror to the loggers and to anyone who stands in their way.
The Four Books
In a re-education camp for intellectuals during the Great Leap Forward, the Child who runs it rewards production with paper stars, and then the famine comes.
Reflections in a Golden Eye
On an army post in the South in peacetime, a repressed officer, his careless wife, her lover and a silent young private circle one another in a short novel of watching and obsession.
Other Voices, Other Rooms
Thirteen-year-old Joel Knox is sent to a decaying house in the Deep South to meet the father he has never seen, and is met by a nervous stepmother and a languid cousin who will not say where his father is.