Meet Our Cousins: Afflicted
Afflicted is a horror thriller audio drama best described as Lovecraft Country meets True Blood, told in an anthology format like American Horror Story.
All seasons will feature characters who use the hoodoo belief system, and a demonic book bound in human flesh that wreaks havoc wherever it goes. Season 1 focuses on a small, East Texas town that suffers impossible natural disasters, and only the town's shunned hoodoo queen can save the town and its citizens, but will the fearful, overly religious citizens ensure their own demise?
Afflicted's creators plan to premiere on Halloween 2022, but only if they can pay everyone a fair wage.
So please support the show! Check them out on Indiegogo at www.indiegogo.com/projects/afflicted-a-horror-thriller-audio-drama and pledge to help make the next great audio drama a reality.
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Well, hey there, family.
Steve Schell from Old Gods of Appalachia stopping by here to let y'all in on a project that's out there you need to be supporting.
The folks behind the Nightlight podcast, which features the absolute best in black horror, Tonya Ransom and Jen Zink, are raising funds to produce a show called Afflicted.
It's a horror thriller audio drama.
It's been described as Lovecraft Country Meets True Blood.
Features Hoodoo as a magic system, a demonic book bound in human flesh.
The first season features a small East Texas town that suffers earthquakes where there are no active fault lines, tornadoes spawning from a cloudless sky.
You know how we love unnatural disasters around here.
Now, an early draft of the pilot for afflicted won semifinalist at the Austin Film Festival in 2019.
And it's going to be told in the style of American horror story.
Each season is its own arc.
They're trying to raise 17 grand for the first season to pay everybody on it a living wage and to prove that other creators can do it too.
So, down in the show notes of this episode, this little special announcement we dropped here for you, you can find a link to their Indiegogo.
All right.
And also, check out Nightlight, the black horror podcast.
It's absolutely fantastic.
All right.
I'm going to leave you now with the trailer for Afflicted.
Talk to you soon, family.
Talk to you real soon.
From the team behind the award-winning best fiction horror podcast, Nightlight,
a new audio drama that brings the southern folklore of True Blood and the cosmic horror of Lovecraft Country to your ears.
You don't hear that, do you?
Afflicted is a tale of hoodoo, a demonic book bound in human flesh, and natural disasters that are anything but natural.
Which grave did you get the dirt from?
Which grave?
Afflicted, a horror thriller audio drama coming Halloween 2022, but only if we raise enough money to pay everyone a living wage.
Support Afflicted at bit.ly slash support afflicted to hear the full series this fall.
It's the day.
