somuchrain

On Halloween
i give you this:

"The mummied dead everywhere. The flesh cloven along the bones, the
ligaments dried to tug and taut as wires. Shriveled and drawn like
latterday bogfolk, their faces of boiled sheeting, the yellowed palings of
their teeth. They were discarded to a man like pilgrims of some common
order for all their shoes were long stolen."

-- Cormac McCarthy, "The Road"

Without doubt the most terrifying book I've read since "The Body Artist",
and utterly, horrifically, jawdroppingly gorgeous.