Outer Dark

Cormac McCarthy · 1968 CE · Novel · Modern / American · Contemporary

A brother leaves his sister's newborn in the woods and tells her it died at birth; she rises from her bed to look for the child, and he sets out after her. Their separate roads through a nameless backcountry keep crossing the track of three men who kill without stated reason. A parable told with the moral withheld.

Open Outer Dark in the archive — filters, lineage graph and full facet browsing.

Attributes

Closest analogues

• A Worn Path
  Eudora Welty · 1941 CE · Short Story

  58% · 13 shared
  AllegorySuffering & EnduranceJourney & QuestContemporaryWandererThe QuestEpisodicThe ForestThe Journeyvs Selfvs SocietyMythicModern / American
• Twice-Told Tales
  Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1837 CE · Short Story

  49% · 11 shared
  GothicAllegoryGuilt & ConscienceWandererScapegoatEpisodicThe Forestvs Selfvs SocietyGothicModern / American
• The Forest of a Thousand Daemons
  D. O. Fagunwa · 1938 CE · Novel

  49% · 10 shared
  NovelAllegoryGood vs EvilJourney & QuestWandererThe QuestEpisodicThe ForestThe JourneyMythic
• Soul Mountain
  Gao Xingjian · 1990 CE · Novel

  45% · 11 shared
  NovelAllegoryJourney & QuestContemporaryWandererThe QuestEpisodicThe ForestThe Journeyvs SelfMythic
• Come and See
  Elem Klimov · 1985 CE · Film

  45% · 10 shared
  Good vs EvilSuffering & EnduranceContemporaryShadowEpisodicThe ForestBloodvs SelfGothicTragic
• Platoon
  Oliver Stone · 1986 CE · Film

  45% · 10 shared
  Guilt & ConscienceGood vs EvilContemporaryShadowEpisodicThe ForestBloodvs SelfTragicModern / American