Episode 12: The Other Queen

These yarns were spun to teach you to stay safe and mind common sense, and most importantly, your mama. The stories that get lost though - the ones hardly nobody ever lived to tell - were often just blunt and simple warnings. There is darkness here: fear it. Trust those who can see through it and you might live to see the dawn. Or then again... maybe not.
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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[@dannymaurice5543]

That 'just not right now...' is simultaneously the most frustrating and satisfying thing because it means we are once again left thirsting for a conclusion and continuation, but also because it preludes the most vivifying thing you've heard yet.
All in all, amounting to an ouroborous of storytelling; tangent begetting threads until a tapestry of bloody horror and black awe has been woven right before your minds eye.
Old Gods be damned I love this series!

[@SpiderkillersInc]

What a blessed day, family...

[@chadallen8410]

Scariest part about this episode is my 6 year old tells me the lady that comes out of the woods beside my house tells him bad things. Thats happened probably 5 times in the last year.

[@lisasage3164]

The writing. The reading. So beautiful!!

[@Shordanna]

Cryptic greeting to y'all, Family from Kelowna BC :) love listening to this while I work dark, all-encompassing nights as a Designated Driver 😊💖

[@ericdeubanks]

"... like a chunk of the moon in the shape of a dead woman, standing vigil by the hawthorn tree ..."
I've said this before, but these are so beautifully written! There's such music in the words themselves.
So glad to be hearing this on a chilly, rainy night in southeast TN.

[@Ikea900]

I thought the same thing about "summer stretching her bones to make way for fall" this WRITING

[@FirstnameLastname-bh9qs]

It feels great to hear the Landon Blood and Those Poor Bastards again

[@theearthboundsatyr]

I'm from Texas, where the swamp meets the low scrub prairie, with oil in place of coal, and all the same stories of the railmen. A lot of the things in this story are familiar to my childhood landscape. The stories of deep woods - the kudzu, cryptids, witches, old ghosts - stories to keep the children scared enough to be safe from the things in the dark. It's comforting to realize how similar it can be (even with the noted differences) between cultures hundreds of miles apart.

[@robstewartstewart98]

Discovered this podcast yesterday and been loving marathoning this!

[@jendubay3782]

I'm on my third listen through over the years

[@Ikea900]

Hey family! This is honestly the best horror podcast I've ever found. I've been flying through these episodes. The writing and voice acting is outstanding.

[@justincroteau1458]

I totally agree! I found this only recently, but I listen to many of these types, but this one stands above them in my opinion

[@finn9707]

Hey there family, hope ya'll are doing alright out there

[@OldGodsofAppalachia]

Thank you,, Family, and you as well.

[@artbutbarely7536]

You really can't find Craw Tennessee on any map, but I'd be so curious about seeing this town. I live so close.

[@CrowSkeleton]

[skitters in late, knocking over a chair] Hey Family, sorry I'm late: I've got to have work in my hands to listen and it's been a while since I had space for my own mending and such...this podcast is so good I can't take it in a rush nor half-attentive, though. Aside from maybe Emily Carroll's comics you're the best living writers in horror I have encountered and I love these compost dogs and poor Dead Queen.

[@RambleRandi]

This is one of the blessings of today.

[@imchoosingnottoexist6894]

Hey family! Been a while, but I'm back. Starting season 2 from the beginning again

[@kaelmolo1432]

YESSSS

[@lucybella6653]

So terrifying good job guys

[@robertcaughell2658]

What is a haint? (Haynt?) Ive never heard the word before

[@OldGodsofAppalachia]

Google is your friend.

[@lucybella6653]

Moonlight & Mud...

[@ludo6643]

Please can you put some subtitles ? I love your podcast but i can' t undurstand everything

[@OldGodsofAppalachia]

Transcripts for the show are available in the episodes section at www.oldgodsofappalachia.com.

[@thefisherking78]

OMG what