Episode 50: The Horns of the Altar
Old Gods of Appalachia
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The Dark Side of Jonah Hellbender
Jonah Hellbender felt his shoulders connect with the edge of the porch. There was nowhere left to run. Polly's lovely face twisted into a grin of triumph as she reached for the boy with one bony claw, and Jonah was suddenly filled with rage. The things screeched as it tried to pull her lovely face into that gaping nightmare of a mouth,. Her skin burning where its foul tentacles reached at her flesh. And suddenly Polly realized she knew this thing. Nearly a dozen families have been fed to the beast over a decade ago. Well-meaning union organizers and their sympathizers had taken in a fouling baby left in their path, only to have that kindness repaid with this abomin
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