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Old Gods of Appalachia

In the mountains of central Appalachia, blood runs as deep as these hollers and just as dark. Since before our kind knew these hills, hearts of unknowable hunger and madness have slumbered beneath them. These are the darkest mountains in the world. How dare we think we can break the skin of a god and dig out its heart without bringing forth blood and darkness? Old Gods of Appalachia is a horror-anthology podcast set in the shadows of an Alternate Appalachia, a place where digging too deep into the

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Episode 29: A Friend of the Family

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2021/07/01

A light walks before darkness falls.CW: Gore, murder, mutilation, frank discussion of historical racism, assault, references to lynching, references to death of a spouse, hornets, description of anyphylactic shock/death, descriptions of the desecration of dead bodies and cult activities.Written by Cam Collins & Steve ShellNarrated by Steve ShellSound design by Steve ShellDirected by Steve ShellProduced by Cam Collins and Steve ShellAdditional character voices by Stephanie Hickling Beckman, Shasparay

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Episode 28: Paradise Lost

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2021/06/17

Miss Virginia heads west while young Tommy stays behind as Jack’s right hand man and discovers that things are almost never what they seem.CW: Animal carcass eaten by a monster, geese.Written by Cam CollinsNarrated by Steve ShellSound design by Steve ShellProduced by Cam Collins and Steve ShellIntro Music: “The Land Unknown (The Hollow Heart Verses)” written and performed by Landon BloodOutro Music: “I Cannot Escape The Darkness” by Those Poor BastardsToday's featured sponsor is Above the Tie —

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Episode 27: Strangers in Paradise

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2021/06/03

In which two ambitious young folks from Esau County come to the city of Paradise, and meet with both misfortune and opportunity.CW: Assault and robbery.Written by Cam CollinsNarrated by Steve ShellSound design by Steve ShellProduced by Cam Collins and Steve ShellIntro Music: “The Land Unknown (The Hollow Heart Verses)” written and performed by Landon BloodOutro Music: “I Cannot Escape The Darkness” by Those Poor BastardsTo learn more about Old Gods of Appalachia, visit our website at

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Episode 26: Welcome to Paradise

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2021/05/20

He had always wanted to come here, to this diamond in the rough wedged in-between kissin’ cousins of a state line:Paradise — a city split down the middle between the Commonwealth of Virginia and the State of Tennessee — was a bustling town in the early winter of 1928.CW: Discussion of historical slavery and military desertion, human trafficking, assault and robbery.Written by Cam Collins and Steve ShellNarrated by Steve ShellSound design by Steve ShellProduced by Cam Collins and Steve ShellIntro

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Episode 25: The Siege of Pleasant Evenings

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2021/05/06

The light dies and the darkness comes to the big parlor house out in the gap. There will be blood. There will be death. The conclusion of the The Railroad Man and the Local Magistrate storyline.CW: Discussion of agency and consent, gunfire, body horror, decay, aging, death by magic, death of human appearing monsters, familial stress and conflict.Written by Steve Shell and Cam Collins Narrated by Steve Shell Sound design by Steve Shell Produced by Cam Collins and Steve Shell The voice of The Railroad

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Episode 24: Charcoal Suit and All

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2021/04/22

The Railroad man and his new friends follow Vera Blevins to Baker's Gap in 1913, and things will never be the same.CW: Mention of death of a family member by illness, family strife, mention of consentual sex work, verbal threats, discussion of religious issues.Written by Steve Shell and Cam CollinsNarrated by Steve ShellSound design by Steve ShellProduced by Cam Collins and Steve ShellThe voice of The Railroad Man: Yuri LowenthalThe voice of Jerry Brotherton: Corey Ryan ForresterIntro Music: "The

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Episode 23: A Bad Night for Hollow Men

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2021/04/08

In 1913, a girl escaped the company-owned parlor house where she'd been kept against her will in possession of company property. She headed south via rail to her family's home in Baker's Gap, TN. She was followed.CW: References to historical racism; references to consensual sex work; descriptions of human trafficking; mention of excrement; non-specific mention of the deaths of children; descriptions of sex work-related (but non-sexual) violence, injuries and death; description of monster-inflicted

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Episode 22: Paper, Ink and Sorrow

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2021/03/24

We journey back in time to the end of the 19th Century in Combe County, North Carolina so that we can gain proper perspective on where that incident with the local magistrate and the Railroad Man sprung from.CW: Institutional Racism/Brutality. Violent work related death.Written by Steve ShellNarrated by Steve ShellSound design by Steve ShellProduced by Cam Collins and Steve ShellThe voice of Jerry Brotherton: Cory Ryan ForresterThe voice of The Railroad Man: Yuri LowenthalIntro Music: “The Land

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Episode 21: A Worthy Grave

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2021/03/04

The truth comes out about the hard death of Frank Tilley and Sheriff Andy Hodge has a tough choice to make.CW: Descriptions and depictions of physical and emotional domestic violence, monster violence, gore, disfigurement, dismemberment, religious trauma.Written by Cam CollinsNarrated by Steve ShellSound design by Steve ShellProduced by Cam Collins and Steve ShellIntro music: "The Land Unknown," written and performed by Landon BloodOutro music: "In the Pines" performed by Steve Shell and Matt

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Episode 20: And Am I Born to Die?

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2021/02/18

Three months before Frank Tilley met a hard death on the tracks outside Baker's Gap, Esther Campbell moved to Baker's Gap in search of a new life and a new way of worship.CW: Discussion of Domestic Violence, Fundamentalist Religious ThemesWritten by: Steve ShellNarrated by: Steve ShellIntro music: "The Land Unknown," written and performed by Landon BloodIn story song: “Am I Born To Die? (Traditional) performed by Landon BloodOutro music: “I Cannot Escape The Darkness,” written and performed by Those

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The Holiest Days of Bone and Shadow, Chapter Three:...

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2021/02/14

Our holiday trilogy comes to a close as we witness two different joinings of souls for all eternity. Headphones recommended.You are not prepared, Family.CW: Gore, Monster Violence, DesecrationWritten by Cam Collins and Steve Shell Sound design by Steve Shell Narrated by Steve Shell Music: "The Bride" by Landon BloodTo learn more about Old Gods of Appalachia, visit our website at www.oldgodsofappalachia.com, and be sure to complete your social media ritual and follow us on Facebook and Instagram

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Episode 19: Where the Sun Never Shines

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2021/02/04

When the shadows of gods and monsters fall across Baker's Gap, we look across the mountain for help. We look to Family.CW: Descriptions of injuries resulting from domestic violence, discussion of emotional abuse and divorce.Written by Cam CollinsNarrated by Steve ShellSound design by Steve ShellProduced by Cam Collins and Steve ShellIntro music: "The Land Unknown," written and performed by Landon BloodOutro music: "I Cannot Escape the Darkness," written and performed by Those Poor BastardsTo learn

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Episode 18: Where the Cold Wind Blows

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2021/01/21

Frank Tilley was not a nice man, nor one beloved by his community. He may even have been a pain in Sheriff Andy Hodge's buttocks. But no man deserved to die like that.Tonight, the dark earth comes for one of its own.CW: Discussion of domestic violence.Written and directed by Cam CollinsNarrated by Steve ShellSound design by Steve ShellProduced by Cam Collins and Steve ShellIntro music: "The Land Unknown," written and performed by Landon BloodOutro music: "In the Pines" (traditional), performed by

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An Interlude: The Scenic Route

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2021/01/08

CW: Frank and intimate out of character discussion about the pandemic, death and suicide. In character mentions of child labor, child and parental death and disfigurement.There is a darkness that can only truly fall in the deep woods. An enveloping shadow of some great beast that is at the same time soothing and terrifying and can only exist in the absence of electric light and full moons.The hours that pass beneath this hallowed veil are usually best spent sleeping so that you do not witness the

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The Holiest Days of Bone and Shadow, Chapter Two: The...

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2020/12/25

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 CollinsSound design by Steve

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Episode 17: The Boy Who Could Not Die

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2020/12/03

The ties that bind us to this world are usually fragile things, gossamer strands spun on the looms of great, great grandmamas that we will never meet until our thread is snipped clean. Cowboy held no such ties. These were no mere threads binding this precious boy together, but heavy chains forged from the stygian soil of death itself and tempered in the cold river of eternity.CW: Occult ritual, prophecies of death.Written by Cam Collins and Steve ShellSound design by Steve ShellNarrated by Steve

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Episode 16: Between the Unburied and Miss Belle

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2020/11/19

She recognized the naked fear and rawness in their respective gazes. Something had happened to these boys. She could see their hearts and minds were pink and pricking red at the edges where their innocence had been torn away with such force they'd not even had a chance to bleed yet.CW: Rain sounds, references to supernatural prophecy by a child, bullying, references to death by firing squad.Written by Steve ShellSound design by Steve ShellNarrated by Steve ShellIntro music: "The Land Unknown,"

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Episode 15: A Funeral in Pine

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2020/11/05

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

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The Holiest Days of Bone and Shadow, Chapter One:...

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2020/10/31

Set in the years between Season One and Season Two, Blood is Blood is the first chapter of a new trilogy to be released on the hallowed days of the year. Nadine Rigg was born to a life of privilege and comfort. What happens though, when an inheritance brings its own dark gifts to your door?CW: Death of parents, death by train, verbal assault, relational violence, train sounds, apparent murder by knife, gore.Written by Steve Shell and Cam CollinsSound design by Steve ShellNarrated by Steve ShellOutro

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Episode 14: On Death Island

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2020/10/22

Give a group of boys from anywhere a backyard, a stretch of woods, hell, a vacant lot even — and you can watch it rise to a place of hallowed glory. A patch of trees in between houses becomes an ancient battlefield where two sides of some long-remembered, or forgotten, conflict plays out again and again after school hours. An empty, fallow field becomes an arena or tournament ground where rasslin, foot racin and some form of ball-related sport are contested and pushed to the highest form of the

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