Episode 15: A Funeral in Pine

Old Gods of Appalachia

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

4.9 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

The county had taken a narrow little valley and dug themselves a reservoir to provide drinking water for the whole town and then some. As pretty as the lake and the surrounding woods were, it was still something wedged into nature by the hands of men — water stolen from rivers and collected here like a dragon’s hoard, grounds that had lain untouched for centuries carved up and reshaped to serve human desires, seals broken and reset — all to meet the needs of the encroaching horde of townsfolk and hillfolk alike. Acts such as these have consequences, family.

Trust that they do.

CW: References to church services, death of a child, dog barking, monster sounds.

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	Rusty Quill presents
0:07.0	Old Gods of Appalachia is a horror anthology podcast and therefore may contain material not suitable for all audiences.
0:18.0	Also, this is part two of a three-part story. So if you ain't listening to part one, go back and do that.
0:26.0	We'll meet you right here. Oh, and listener discretion is advised.
0:42.0	Before we begin our journey today, family, a word on Death Island.
0:49.0	As Floyd Absher already explained, Death Island is in fact not an island.
0:55.0	Most of the year you'd be hard pressed to call it anything more than a grove of old pine trees on the edge of a reservoir.
1:02.0	Fancy word like peninsula wouldn't even come into play.
1:06.0	But once the summer rains come and the lake was up, the water did indeed rise like conqueror and armies around three sides of that shattered glean.
1:17.0	The perpetual carpet of pine needles seemed to taint everything on the ground with a rust of blood stains.
1:24.0	And the shadows spun from overhead, painted the ground like prophecies, each one showing the precise placement of the next layer to be added to the sound-stealing cushion of evergreen that was everware.
1:39.0	Countless packs of boys had deemed it hide out in fortress, clubhouse and sanctum sanctorum.
1:47.0	It was a quiet place perfect for sword-fighting with sticks and the swearing of blood oaths.
1:55.0	It was a place you could tell your deepest and darkest because what happened and what was said there stayed there.
2:05.0	It was a place for the young to be young away from the prime eyes of the grown folk, at least in the daylight.
2:18.0	The island had a way of letting you know when your time there was up.
2:21.0	The wind would kick up off the reservoir and it'd suddenly be too cold to enjoy whatever it was you'd been enjoying.
2:29.0	The shadows would loom long and deep and any illusion of safety you might have been entertaining was quickly swept away.
2:39.0	There was always the rumor amongst the younger boys about the roving bunches of older boys who would come to places like the island to drink and fight and carry on in the darkness.
2:50.0	Tales of young lovers come here to do the devil's business as well.
2:55.0	And there'd been times as their boys were leaving and the woods were darkening and they'd hear laughter and the crashing of branches in the distance and they'd hustle even faster along the scant trail thinking they were just missing the cook or corner boys or any of the other rougher-necked older kids who could make their lives much harder at the drop of a hat.
3:16.0	They had no idea how wrong they were.
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