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Old Gods of Appalachia

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

4.9 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Stuck covering the night shift, Ada Spivey was having a hard time finding her Halloween spirit. It found her instead. A standalone tale set in the world of Old Gods of Appalachia.

CW: Horticultural horror. Brief mention of DUI accidents and other holiday injuries. Pet endangerment (he's fine; he lived to a ripe old age and passed peacefully in his sleep).

Written by Cam Collins

Narrated by Steve Shell

Sound design by Steve Shell

Produced by Cam Collins and Steve Shell

Instrumental intro music by Landon Blood

Outro Music: “If the Beast Should Hunt Us” by Lonesome Wyatt and Rachel Brooke

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0:00.0	Rusty Quill presents
0:07.0	Old Gods of Appalachia is a horror anthology podcast, and therefore may contain material
0:15.0	not suitable for all audiences.
0:18.0	So listen to discretion.
0:20.0	Is advised.
0:28.0	Bumper crop.
0:30.0	A tale for the season.
0:38.0	Mavisdale, Virginia, 1975.
0:54.0	The first of the pumpkins appeared in Ada Spavis yard seven days before Halloween.
1:02.0	Her shift at the hospital had ended at five and she just pulled into the driveway in her new
1:07.0	Volkswagen rabbit when she spotted it, almost glowing in the waning October sunlight.
1:15.0	A ripe fat pumpkin, sitting right in the middle of her yard which was strange,
1:21.0	because she had not planted any pumpkin vines.
1:25.0	Ada was a gardener, not some farmers scraping by on handouts from the church,
1:30.0	and what she could coax out of the dirt like her mama was, she had applied herself in school.
1:36.0	As principal Vance at Mavisdale, high used to say and earned a scholarship to what was at the time
1:41.0	the newly opened college over in Gleimorgan, where she'd earned her nursing degree.
1:46.0	The work was hard and the hours were long and in point of fact Ada didn't really like it much,
1:51.0	but the money was good and she never had to depend on anybody for anything.
1:57.0	When Ada had returned to Mavisdale to look after mama in her final years,
2:01.0	she'd bought a tall, narrow Victorian style house on the edge of town bordering the woods
2:06.0	and filled her yard with flowers.
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