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Episode 4.5: The Bad Death and Resurrection of Annie Messer

Old Gods of Appalachia

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First You Rise, Then You Clean

Cletus saw tracks in the schoolyard. His heart jumped, thinking he was looking at six legged tracks with unnatural claw marks. But he looked closer, he counted only four. If those things were their dogs, what was he? Was he anything better or more than a monster leading innocent men and women and good lord, now children, to death and damnation? What had he become? He was done. An hour later, annie messer rose. She'd heard the instructions given her before the messenger had left, taking the voices with him. She led herself by sound and sight now for blessed darkness be her eyes now praise. And she found the bucket of

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