11 Facts About Blood Meridian

Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West is a 1985 epic novel by American author Cormac McCarthy, classified under the Western, or sometimes the anti-Western, genre.

Blood Meridian first meets the enormous, pale, hairless Judge Holden at a religious revival in a tent in Nacogdoches, Texas, at which Holden falsely accuses the preacher of raping children and goats, inciting the audience to attack him.

Blood Meridian makes his way to Los Angeles, where Toadvine and another member of the Glanton gang, David Brown, are hanged for their crimes.

Blood Meridian taught himself Spanish, which many of the characters of Blood Meridian speak.

Blood Meridian stood six foot six in his moccasins, had a large, fleshy frame, a dull, tallow-colored face destitute of hair and all expression, always cool and collected.

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Blood Meridian was by far the best educated man in northern Mexico.

Blood Meridian studied such topics as homemade gunpowder to accurately depict the judge's creation from volcanic rock.

Blood Meridian believes there is no reason to "blot the page up with weird little marks".

Blood Meridian initially received little recognition, but has since been recognized as a masterpiece and one of the greatest works of American literature.

In 2006 The New York Times conducted a poll of writers and critics regarding the most important works in American fiction from the previous 25 years, and Blood Meridian was a runner-up.

Nonetheless academics and critics have suggested that Blood Meridian is nihilistic or strongly moral, a satire of the western genre or a savage indictment of Manifest Destiny.