Newly Revised Edition, including extensive maps of the Border Region and the route of the Glanton Gang

This is the first dedicated guide to Blood Meridian in book form since John Sepich’s out of print and hard to find Notes on Blood Meridian was published in 1993. Schimpf builds on Sepich’s research and adds a series of essays on key characters, themes and ideas in the novel, plus an extended set of chapter-by-chapter detailed reference notes that will be invaluable for the serious reader of McCarthy’s masterpiece.

"A Reader's Guide to Blood Meridian is just what the title proclaims, providing a comprehensive glossary for all of the difficult terms, translations of the novel's many foreign words and phrases, and much of the lore behind the novel's historical characters and places.” -—Amazon.com review