Episode 1: Old Number Seven: Barlo, Kentucky 1917: Part One

Old Gods of Appalachia

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

4.9 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2019

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Darkness comes to the tiny town of Barlo in the form of the worst mining disaster in Kentucky history. Young Sarah Avery runs.

CW: Frank discussion of historical racism, explicit gore including facial and eye mutilation, death by industrial disaster, desecration of dead bodies, reanimated dead, discovery of a body dead by hanging, endangerment of a child by monsters.

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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0:00.0	Rusty Quill presents
0:07.0	Old Gods of Appalachia is a horror anthology podcast and therefore may contain
0:14.4	material not suitable for all audiences. So, listen to discretion is advised.
0:30.0	I walk these hills with these dark valleys where I can't stay down the lands of
0:48.7	Oreo,
1:11.7	Chapter 1, Barlow, Kentucky, 1917.
1:23.5	It used to be a schoolhouse.
1:26.1	On this day it was a place of windows and sunlight, right with the small winged things
1:30.9	of spring, singing through them like tiny comets.
1:34.9	These days, the front steps sag like a bespoke altar.
1:39.1	Loading warped by seasons because we have those here.
1:43.3	Fall rich with rot and the sudden burn of flame kiss leaves, twilight of mist and rain
1:49.5	and fair nights that leave everything soft.
1:53.3	Winters that will reach into your joints and teach all of us what getting old is about.
1:58.9	Spring and eventually summer, months of stinging flies and nights of open window dreaming.
2:05.3	The only condition of the air is it being blanket like.
2:09.1	Now all of these conspired to dissolve the only schoolhouse in Barlow, Kentucky, like
2:14.4	a cherry sucker you'd get at the bank.
2:17.1	A long and slow process with a temptation to bite is almost too much to bear.
2:24.5	The air here is heavy.
2:27.2	If you breathe that too long your lungs would feel with a fetid floral sweetness and it
2:32.4	would probably be sick.
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