Blood Meridian (1945)

Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West is a 1985 epic historical novel by American author Cormac McCarthy, classified as an anti-Western and Gothic Western. McCarthy's fifth book, it was published by Random House

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Ben Tobin, "the priest", or "the ex-priest"

(A member of the gang and formerly a novice of the Society of Jesus)

Thomas Mitchell

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Judge Holden, or "the judge"

(He is a polyglot and polymath d)

Sydney Greenstreet

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Bathcat, or "the Vandiemenlander"

(Born in Wales, Bathcat went to Van Diemen's Land to hunt Aborigines)

Ray Milland

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Captain White, or "the captain"

(An American veteran soldier and filibuster)

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John Joel Glanton, or simply "Glanton"

(The American leader, or "captain", of a gang of scalphunters)

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Louis Toadvine, or simply "Toadvine"

(A seasoned outlaw with whom the kid brawls with)

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David Brown, or simply "Davy" or "Brown"

(A member of the Glanton gang who wears a necklace of human ears)

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The Kid

(The novel's anti-heroic protagonist or pseudo-protagonist)

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James Robert Bell, or "the imbecile," "the idiot"

(A mentally-disabled man who becomes affiliated with the Glanton gang)

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