Episode 14: On Death Island

Old Gods of Appalachia

Horror, Folk Horror, Anthology, Science Fiction, Fiction, Appalachia, Eldritch

4.9 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Give a group of boys from anywhere a backyard, a stretch of woods, hell, a vacant lot even — and you can watch it rise to a place of hallowed glory. A patch of trees in between houses becomes an ancient battlefield where two sides of some long-remembered, or forgotten, conflict plays out again and again after school hours. An empty, fallow field becomes an arena or tournament ground where rasslin, foot racin and some form of ball-related sport are contested and pushed to the highest form of the game. Friendships and rivalries will rise, fall and be remembered in legend forever and ever. You give a group of boys not yet concerned with matters of what's in their britches just yet a place of their own, and it will outshine Rome in the eyes of its citizens.

CW: Child abandonment, adoption, death of a parent.

Written by Steve Shell

Sound design by Steve Shell

Narrated by Steve Shell

Intro music: "The Land Unknown," written and performed by Landon Blood

Outro music: "I Cannot Escape the Darkness," written and performed by Those Poor Bastards

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0:00.0	Rosti Quill presents
0:07.0	Old Gods of Appalachia is a horror and apology podcast, and therefore may contain material
0:16.0	not suitable for all audiences.
0:19.0	So, listener discretion is advised.
0:30.0	Come with us in so loud love, no time for any of these weary balls, but hear yourself in my heart
0:57.0	of love, there's not a world these poor the Lord, there's take to the roads,
1:07.0	the cow, the shadow, there's get old one, there's got even ghosts to run.
1:38.0	In this world, there are kingdoms and principalities, nations and dominions, lands ruled by monarchs and presidents, kings and long dead emperors.
1:54.0	Their lands were the possibility of glory, conquest and thriving prosperity lie just beneath the top soil, waiting to be found by the hands of those willing to turn
2:06.0	a well-worn spade.
2:10.0	There's sprawling expanses of mineral-rich land cut by rivers that run with the heartbeat of thunderstorms,
2:17.0	topped by woods that offer up timber and game as if the Almighty had laid out a Sunday spread and called to the yard and said,
2:25.0	Y'all come eat now.
2:30.0	None of these places, however, no matter how glorious, match the splendor and treasure of the domain claimed by an 11-year-old boy.
2:42.0	Or in this case a whole mess of them.
2:45.0	We give a group of boys from anywhere, a backyard, a stretch of woods, hell of vacant lot even.
2:51.0	And you can watch it rise to a place of hall of glory.
2:55.0	A patch of trees between houses can become an ancient battlefield, where two sides of some long were remembered or forgotten conflict plays out again and again after school hours.
3:08.0	An empty fallafield becomes an arena, a tournament ground where rasslin, foot racing and some sort of ball-related sport are contested and pushed to the highest form of the game.
3:21.0	Friendships and rivalries will rise, fall and be remembered and legend forever and ever.
3:29.0	You give a group of boys not yet concerned with matters of what's in their bridges, just yet a place of their own.
3:36.0	And I promise you, it will outshine Rome in the eyes of its citizens.
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