Old Gods of Appalachia

Pleasant Evenings began its life as a thriving parlor house in the early 1900s in the hills of east Tennessee. The Walker family took great pride in creating the best brothel east of the Mississippi, until that business with the The Railroad Man and the local magistrate. This lovely design features the cat of said cathouse, one Vespertillio, companion and friend to Ellie Walker.

"Geese, as anybody with a lick of sense knows, are ill-tempered and violent creatures at the best of times." — Episode 28: Paradise Lost, written and designed by Cam Collins

He had always wanted to come here, to this diamond in the rough wedged in-between kissin’ cousins of a state line: Paradise — a city split down the middle between the Commonwealth of Virginia and the State of Tennessee. Designed by Cam Collins.

He had always wanted to come here, to this diamond in the rough wedged in-between kissin’ cousins of a state line: Paradise — a city split down the middle between the Commonwealth of Virginia and the State of Tennessee. Designed by Cam Collins.

Support the works of Good Mother Ministries with this print inspired by the pamphlet that Georgie gave to Cora Lee. Original Art by Steve Shell

If you are lost in the world with no where else to turn, then welcome home. If all circumstances have turned against you and there is no comfort, no safe harbor, then welcome home. Just follow the handsome tuxy boy and you'll be fine. Welcome to The Walker House. Like I said, Welcome Home. Original art by Jay Gray (@sinereous on Twitter)

The Man From the Railroad, The Fiend in Bespoke Finery, Daddy Charcoal--he has many names. If you meet him or any of his compatriots down by the tracks, be wary, and make no deals. Art by our very own Railroad Stan: Andarany Watts.

Our valentine to you, because we love you from the bottom of our little black hearts, family.

Fear no Thing or Haint. See only the ones you love and the danger that stands betwixt you and them. Be fearless and good. Like Sam. Artwork by: Jay Labelle

What better way to process the events of Episode 15 than to embrace the Wolf of Death Island fully?

Show your love for the Best Boy of Baker's Gap, TN or any part of the blessed mountains. Artwork by: Jay Labelle

Give a group of boys from anywhere a backyard, a stretch of woods, hell, a vacant lot even--and you can watch it rise to a place of hallowed glory.

"Up close she was a horror. Her clothes were old and rotted as if she’d been buried in them. Her white face practically glowed, the bones pushed against her skin like dull knives through cheesecloth. She was all angles and bent joints and the smell of her was of fever and sweat soaked bandages. She breathed heavily but did not speak." -Season 2: Episode 2: The Dead Queen Original art by Darcy Rose Morgan @DarcLaFarse on Twitter

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.

Original art by Aleks7 Illustration (@aleks7even), inspired by Eldritch horror podcast Old Gods of Appalachia and licensed by Old Gods of Appalachia.

Original art by Aleks7 Illustration (@aleks7even), inspired by Eldritch horror podcast Old Gods of Appalachia and licensed by Old Gods of Appalachia.

My girl, my girl, don't lie to me...

Come shiver the whole night through with us, Family.

"Scandal had erupted on the Virginia coast when the two pretty dark-haired sisters successfully delivered twins to a local official's wife, who had lost three children in childbirth under the watch of the well-known and respectable local doctor. The doctor, in the time-honoured tradition of men who had been exposed as incompetent, had promptly called them both witches and called for their blood, and thus Edyth and Catherine Dooley had taken their daughter and set out to find a quieter life in the mountains far from the good folks of Williamsburg." Season 1: Episode 1/2: The Witch Queen