Old Gods of Appalachia (2025)

Episode 21: A Worthy Grave

Released on 03/04/2021

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 Collins

Narrated by Steve Shell

Sound design by Steve Shell

Produced by Cam Collins and Steve Shell

Intro music: "The Land Unknown," written and performed by Landon Blood

Outro music: "In the Pines" performed by Steve Shell and Matt Evans

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Episode 20: And Am I Born to Die?

Released on 02/18/2021

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 Themes

Written by: Steve Shell

Narrated by: Steve Shell

Intro music: "The Land Unknown," written and performed by Landon Blood

In story song: “Am I Born To Die? (Traditional) performed by Landon Blood

Outro music: “I Cannot Escape The Darkness,” written and performed by Those Poor Bastards

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The Holiest Days of Bone and Shadow, Chapter Three: Something Old, Something New

Released on 02/14/2021

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, Desecration

Written by Cam Collins and Steve Shell

Sound design by Steve Shell

Narrated by Steve Shell

Music: "The Bride" by Landon Blood

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Episode 19: Where the Sun Never Shines

Released on 02/04/2021

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 Collins

Narrated by Steve Shell

Sound design by Steve Shell

Produced by Cam Collins and Steve Shell

Intro music: "The Land Unknown," written and performed by Landon Blood

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Episode 18: Where the Cold Wind Blows

Released on 01/21/2021

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 Collins

Narrated by Steve Shell

Sound design by Steve Shell

Produced by Cam Collins and Steve Shell

Intro music: "The Land Unknown," written and performed by Landon Blood

Outro music: "In the Pines" (traditional), performed by Keena Graham

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An Interlude: The Scenic Route

Released on 01/08/2021

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 world that only thrives while the living aren’t in it, unless they are spent by the watchful vigil-keepers who keep that world at bay. Join us for a late night encounter in the deep woods around the Virginia state line.

This is a special alternate episode offered in memorial to Rhonda Kay Dooley and Grey.

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.

National Sucide Prevention Hotline: 800-273-8255

https://www.crisistextline.org

https://hotline.rainn.org/online

https://translifeline.org

Written by Steve Shell

Sound design by Steve Shell

Narrated by Steve Shell

Intro music: "The Land Unknown," written and performed by Landon Blood

Outro music: "I Cannot Escape the Darkness," written and performed by Those Poor Bastards

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

Released on 12/25/2020

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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Episode 17: The Boy Who Could Not Die

Released on 12/03/2020

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 Shell

Sound design by Steve Shell

Narrated by Steve Shell

ntro music: "The Land Unknown," written and performed by Landon Blood

Outro music: "In the Pines" (traditional), performed by Keena Graham

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Episode 16: Between the Unburied and Miss Belle

Released on 11/19/2020

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 Shell

Sound design by Steve Shell

Narrated by Steve Shell

Intro music: "The Land Unknown," written and performed by Landon Blood

Outro music: "I Cannot Escape the Darkness," written and performed by Those Poor Bastards

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Episode 15: A Funeral in Pine

Released on 11/05/2020

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 hillfolk alike. Acts such as these have consequences, family.

Trust that they do.

CW: References to church services, death of a child, dog barking, monster sounds.

Written by Steve Shell

Sound design by Steve Shell

Narrated by Steve Shell

Intro music: "The Land Unknown," written and performed by Landon Blood

Outro music: "I Cannot Escape the Darkness," written and performed by Those Poor Bastards

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