Episode 49: Sackcloth and Ashes

Old Gods of Appalachia

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

4.9 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Jonah Hellbender and friends set out to find someone who can help him learn the truth about his origins.

CW: Gunshot sound effect, gun violence, death of a caretaker / parent, grief, family-related trauma, discussion of abandonment and betrayal by a loved one, monster violence, kidnapping.

Written by Cam Collins

Narrated by Steve Shell

Sound design by Steve Shell

Produced and edited by Cam Collins and Steve Shell

The voice of Rachel: Sara Doreen MacPhee

The voice of Polly Barrow: Tracey Johnston-Crum

The voice of Ruth Barber: Betsy Puckett

Intro music: “The Land Unknown (The Pound of Flesh Verses)” written and performed by Landon Blood

Outro music: “Panthers on The Mountainside” written and performed by Jon Charles Dwyer

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0:00.0	Rosti Quill presents
0:07.0	Old Gods of Appalachia is a horror anthology podcast, and therefore may contain material
0:16.0	not suitable for all audiences.
0:20.0	So listen to discretion.
0:22.0	In Rikus Crane, had never expected to find himself working in the grand edifice of the
0:42.3	Barrow Family Home Office again.
0:45.8	He had not to put too fine a point on it.
0:49.4	Fucked up, they had fucked up.
0:53.9	He and his associate Johan Churchman had failed their mistress.
0:58.3	They had failed in their duty to reclaim a certain asset from its last assignment.
1:02.8	They had failed to protect Polly Barrow from the filthy rabble who had stolen that asset
1:07.4	from under their noses.
1:10.3	Worst of all, they had failed to divert the blame for the whole fiasco and bower county
1:14.2	from his Barrow herself and had stood by and watched as she was dragged into the deeps beneath
1:19.5	Barrow House for.
1:22.2	Re-education, as Mr. Conrad liked to call it.
1:28.4	To use the term punishment would still be a lie by omission, torture was a more accurate
1:34.3	word.
1:36.6	In Rikus and Johan had spent their own time in the dark beneath Barrow House but they
1:40.7	were released within a month or so.
1:44.9	Rather than serving at the right hand of a family member, they returned to the rank
1:52.2	and file.
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