Episode 4: The Sacrifice: Barlo, Kentucky 1917: Part Four

Old Gods of Appalachia

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

4.9 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

In the wake of the Old Number Seven Disaster, the Tabernacle of the Elder Covenant does what it can to save their own. Choices are made that cannot be unmade.

CW: Frank discussion of religious fundamentalism and depiction of an altered worship service, church related horror/cult activity, non-pet animal deaths (a family dog is mentioned in this context but is not harmed), blood, parental reaction to the death of an adult child.

Written by Cam Collins

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	Rostee Quill presents
0:09.5	Old Gods of Appalachia is a horror and theology podcast, and therefore may contain material
0:16.4	not suitable for all audiences. Also, this is part two of a three-part story, so if
0:22.8	you hadn't heard the verse part, go back and listen to that. We'll wait here for you.
0:28.4	And be in said, listen to discretion, is advised.
0:47.2	Are your garments spotless? Are they white? As snow, are you washed enough?
0:58.4	The blood of the Lamb. And behold, revelations 12.
1:07.3	The aside the garments that are stained with sin and be washed in the blood of the Lamb.
1:14.3	And they appeared a great wonder in heaven, a woman who was secretly a mountain, clothed
1:29.6	with the sun and legions of men inside her, and upon her head a crown of black loans.
1:36.6	And she, being a child cry, travail in birth and pain to be delivered so they bound
1:43.6	her. Bat bone kept straight by centuries of settlement and privileged at seeing silent
1:49.6	hymns through a sandstone jawbone. Two decades from crumbling to dust under the weight
1:56.2	of a bad bite. Got it and rotting in the mouth of a beast that cannot afford seven crowns
2:03.7	to cover the holes in its seven heads. Ten-hole and sound the end of the workday. And one
2:10.3	third of the stars in heaven, retelling from the inner dark just in time for supper and
2:17.0	winced in our prayer-meeting. An autopsy of faith. A congregation of corpses. A murder
2:26.4	of faithful crows gathered in the humble rides of cadaverous sanctity, claiming nothing
2:33.4	more than the air they rattled through the desiccated woodsheds of their bodies, singing
2:39.2	softly that this is not our home. Are you garment spotless? Are they white as snow?
2:52.6	Are you washed in the blood of the land?
3:09.2	I won't be easy, leave these dark valleys, or I can't stay down the lands I know.
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