The Holiest Days of Bone and Shadow, Chapter Two: The Gift of the Lesser Magi

Old Gods of Appalachia

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

4.9 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Set in the year before a certain stock market crash would change American life forever, The Gift of the Lesser Magi is the second chapter of a new trilogy to be released on the hallowed days of the year. Christmas is a time when family can come together, forgive past grievances, and heal old wounds. In Esau County, Virginia, estranged family come looking to make amends with Miss Delia Hubbard, the young midwife and healer who lives in Boggs Holler.

Written by Cam Collins

Sound design by Steve Shell

Narrated by Steve Shell

Outro music: "God's Dark Heaven," written and performed by Those Poor Bastards

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0:00.0	Rosti Quill presents
0:31.0	The holiest days of bone and shadow
0:35.0	a special three-part mini-series
0:39.0	Chapter 2
0:42.0	The gift of the lesser magi
0:46.0	Esau County, Virginia, 1928
0:53.0	Christmas Day
0:58.0	Christmas Day had dawned bright and cold in Esau County.
1:04.0	With temperatures hovering just below 20 degrees in the town of Gleimorgan
1:08.0	and dipping well into the teens in the surrounding hollars.
1:13.0	Like most of her neighbors, Delia Hubbard was up with the sun.
1:18.0	Ruined up a pot of coffee and fixing a simple breakfast of eggs and toast to share with her cousin Indiana.
1:25.0	Indy was already up by then of course.
1:28.0	He brought in fresh eggs from the chicken coop first thing and was now out in the barn
1:33.0	tinned into the other livestock.
1:36.0	Feeding the horses, turning the hogs out into the pin, filling up the trough,
1:41.0	letting the old milk cow out into the backfield.
1:46.0	For a young man accustomed to wealth and comfort,
1:50.0	Indiana had adapted admirably to farm life
1:53.0	when he and Delia inherited their Memal Glorians property in Bogg-Sahler.
1:59.0	At heart, Indiana was a simple man.
2:03.0	He found satisfaction in a hard day's labor
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