Episode 78: The Horror of Babylon

Old Gods of Appalachia

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

4.9 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

On a mission, Polly Barrow finds an unexpected ally in the dead streets of Tourniquet.

CW: Family strife, discussion of monster based kinks and the unnatural conception of a child, risk of harm by weather related motor accident.

Written by Steve Shell and Cam Collins

Narrated by Steve Shell

Sound design by Steve Shell

Produced and edited by Cam Collins and Steve Shell

The voice of Polly Barrow: Tracey Johnston Crum

The voice of Brother Bartholomew: Dr. Ray Christian

The voice of Conrad Barrow: Cecil Baldwin

The voice of Benual Barrow: Brandon Bentley

Intro music: “The Land Unknown (The Home is Nowhere Verses-Traditional)” written and performed by Landon Blood

Outro music: “God's Dark Heaven” by Those Poor Bastards

Special equipment consideration provided by Lauten Audio.

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0:00.0	Well, hey there, family, Steve Scheld from Old Gods of Appalachia here. If you're listening to one of
0:06.3	the earlier episodes of our show, those before the beginning of season five, you may hear us talk
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0:40.3	today. You can find that link in the show notes of every episode.
0:59.3	Old Gods of Appalachia is a horror anthology podcast and therefore may contain material not suitable for all audiences.
1:07.6	So listener discretion is advised.
1:19.6	Polly Barrow and the two hollow men who were her closest associates,
1:30.2	Enracus Crane and Johann Churchman,
1:34.1	had driven deep into the wintry backwoods of Prince County.
1:37.5	Stop it in Kingston to trade their fine limousine for a brand-new fort half-ton pickup with tires wrapped in heavy chains
1:41.7	that would allow them to navigate the snow-packed rural backroads
1:45.9	of West Virginia.
1:48.2	They were headed toward a mass grave of depleted mines and co-fields that once promised
1:53.6	baro-mineral resources riches beyond imagination.
1:58.1	After a year of digging strange, incombustible lumps of inert coal from one field and pumping
2:04.9	naturally occurring asphalt that would explode at so much as a heated word from another,
	...

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