Meet Our Cousins: Afflicted

Old Gods of Appalachia

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

4.9 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2022

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Afflicted is a horror thriller audio drama best described as Lovecraft Country meets True Blood, told in an anthology format like American Horror Story.

All seasons will feature characters who use the hoodoo belief system, and a demonic book bound in human flesh that wreaks havoc wherever it goes. Season 1 focuses on a small, East Texas town that suffers impossible natural disasters, and only the town's shunned hoodoo queen can save the town and its citizens, but will the fearful, overly religious citizens ensure their own demise?

Afflicted's creators plan to premiere on Halloween 2022, but only if they can pay everyone a fair wage.

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0:00.0	Well, hey there, family. Steve Schell from Old Gods, Vapalatcha,
0:08.3	stop it by here. To let y'all in on a project that's out there, you need to be
0:13.7	supporting. The folks behind the Nightlight podcast, which features the absolute
0:18.7	best in Black Horror, Tonyer Ransom and Jen Zink, are raising funds to produce a
0:23.8	show called Afflicted. It's a horror thriller audio drama. It's been described as
0:28.3	Lovecraft Country meets True Blood. Features who do as a magic system, a demonic
0:33.1	book bound in human flesh. The first season features a small East Texas town
0:37.4	that suffers earthquakes with there are no active fault lines, tornadoes
0:41.3	spawning from a cloudless sky. You know how we love unnatural disasters around
0:45.9	here. Now an early draft of the pilot for Afflicted, one semifinalist at the
0:50.5	Austin Film Festival in 2019. And it's going to be told in the style of American
0:55.8	Horror Story each season is its own arc. They're trying to raise 17 grand for
1:01.0	the first season to pay everybody on it a live and wage and to prove that other
1:05.6	creators can do it too. So down in the show notes of this episode, this little
1:10.2	special announcement we dropped here for you, you can find a link to their Indie
1:13.8	Go Go. All right, and also check out Nightlight, the Black Horror podcast. It's
1:17.8	absolutely fantastic. All right. I'm going to leave you now with the trailer for
1:23.9	Afflicted. Talk to you soon, family. Talk to you real soon. From the team behind
1:32.0	the award-winning best fiction horror podcast Nightlights, a new audio drama
1:37.7	that brings the Southern folklore of True Blood and the cosmic horror of Love
1:41.3	Craft Country to your ears. You don't hear that. Do we? Who? Afflicted is a tale
1:49.2	of who do a demonic book bound in human flesh and natural disasters that are
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