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Episode 452 - The Desrick on Yandro (Patreon)

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2019-05-19 04:12:35
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2021-07

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Silver John is back in The Desrick on Yandro by Manly Wade Wellman!

Next up: Skule Skerry by John Buchan

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Anonymous

Wow, I had my headphones in with "Roundabout" playing at full blast, then I look down to find the new HPPodcraft is out. Tonight is a good night!

John Fiala

Oooh, I love me some Manly Wade Wellman.

Anonymous
>>22857923

Along the drifting cloud, the Ugly Bird searching down on the land...

Anonymous

There needs to be a full reading with musical accompaniment all by Chad.

Anonymous

That song is awesome! Great reading by Chad too. If only there were jaguars in the text, or at least a squirrel ;) As a student I hitched lifts through Somerset and one couple who picked me up (both dressed entirely in denim) were chugging bottles of Thunderbird. They strongly encouraged me to share their booze so I did, reckoning that the more I drank the less drunk they would get and the safer my journey would be. By the time I persuaded them to let me out I could barely walk straight. To this day it's the only time I hitched a lift and felt genuine fear. Every other time people were wonderful.

The Screaming Moist

For anyone who’s interested, there’s an affordable Wellman collection on Amazon right now. Doesn’t have the Silver John stuff in it, but the other stories were selected by Wellman himself (it’s a reprint of a collection from the 70s). Totally worth the $20.

Anonymous
>>22865259

Do you mean Worse Things Waiting? Also, it's worth checking out John the Balladeer, which I believe has all the Silver John tales.

Robert Daniel Pickard

Mountain dew was a name for homemade whiskey same as the better known moonshine. White lighting is another. Thanks for the shout out. My father’s family were moonshiners in Appalachia and there’s a street named after our family in Chapel Hill. But I’d never come across Manly Wade Wellman. Thanks for bringing another great author into my life.

Anonymous

Great show guys, but this stuff is really weird. It’s like peaking into and alternate reality where H.P. Lovecraft was raised by the Clampett family from Beverly Hillbillies.

Anonymous

This was one of my favorite stories as a kid. The monsters were great, if course. But I loved the idea of the American backwoods as an infinite mysterious wilderness. The other Silver John stories are like that too. Once you get off the roads you could have awesome adventures for years.

Anonymous

Also the song was perfect.

Richard Horsman

This was a total delight. Hope you return to these stories soon. I have not seen The Legend of Hillbilly John, but funnily enough its director came up just this afternoon. My wife is on a 1970s TV movie kick (we watched the notorious and icky Bad Ronald today), and the next one she has for us to see is Don't Be Afraid of the Dark. I was looking it up on IMDB, and there was the Silver John movie under John Newland's "also known for" credits. It'd be a funny old coincidence if this story wasn't about revenge charms traveling under the guise of funny old coincidences. I'm gonna go hide under yonder blanket. Least ways, I hope that's a blanket.

Anonymous

This story was a delight to read. Some stories (coughhouseofsoundscough) are a bit of a drag and some gems like this are just a joy. More Manlyness!

Anonymous

Chad was excellent reading this! He captured that high pitched country voice to perfection.

Anonymous
>>22882191

A bit of a drag? Too much praise Elisheba. I was hoping on every page for a ball bearing avalanche to just put the narrator and us out of our misery. Oh and absolutely right about Chad’s reading. I just got The Old Gods Waken on audible read by Stefan Rudnicki who’s got a Wayne June kind of deep gravely voice which is nice and all, but I prefer Chad’s performance, just somewhere between yodeling and taking a spit kind of pitch. With family from Texarkana up through the Appalachians I can attest to the veracity of his performance. But mostly, I’m hoping for more musical inserts.

Anonymous

Now I'm going to have to make a D&D or Savage Worlds "Appalachian Adventures" campaign.

Anonymous
>>22891609

With the travelling bard and occult investigator "Desrick O. Yandro?"

Anonymous

I would most certainly buy an album of Chad singing songs like the intro. Very much reminded me of James Best (dukes of hazard) but from his earlier acting on the twilight zone episodes he did. He has that same high pitched souther drawl. I especially want to hear the ballad of the nut puncher.

Anonymous

The moonshine sold in stores is whiskey that hasn’t been aged.

Anonymous

Wellman also wrote stories about occult investigator John Thunstone.

Jeff C. Carter

Sadly the Behinder went extinct with the advent of selfies

Anonymous

You know, I just have to say that you spoiled the whole “Chad is a ghost” reveal long ago. I mean, Chad’s twitter bio clearly states that he’s the ghost of a werewolf!

Anonymous

In American folklore there are a ton of fantastic mountain creatures like the ones mentioned in this story. There's one called the Hidebehind that stalked humans in the woods and was often said to be the cause when loggers went missing. It was so fast and good at hiding that when a person tried to look directly at it, it would hide behind trees or rocks before it could be seen. Other ones I remember are the Sidehill Gouger (an animal with legs on one side of its body shorter than those on the other side, meant for walking on mountain slopes), the Axehandle Hound (an animal that ate the handles of axes left unattended), the Ball-tailed Cat (like a mountain lion, but with a ball-like tail for bludgeoning its prey) and the Slide Rock Bolter, which slid down mountainsides with its mouth open, eating everything on the way down. I don’t know if Wellman made his monsters up entirely or if he based them on creatures like those ones, but the cryptids he came up with for this story were great. I have to say I felt kind of bad for the witch who waited 75 years for revenge. That's a long time to waste thinking about her ex when she could have moved on, met someone better and had an awesome life. As the saying goes, living well is the best revenge.

Anonymous

I'll pay extra per month if we get some Silver John songs added to the Fifer Bandcamp.

Anonymous

I wish there were Kindle editions of the Silver John novels. I've got the Who Fears the Devil collection of the short stories which is great.

Anonymous

I love the critters and I'm a fan of the traveling silver-string-strumming, velvet-throated adventurer. But I always get turned off by revenge taken on descendants. Just . . . just bad.

Anonymous

Last year my family vacationed at Lake Lure, about 20 miles from Hendersonville. Unfortunately we arrived in the area after dark, and it was legitimately scary trying to navigate the mountain roads in the gloom. Even these days, there are sparsely populated areas without the light pollution I'm used to, and the roads are winding, narrow, and steep! Though at least Yandro didn't suffer the additional terror of relying on Google maps with spotty cell service.

Anonymous

Loved Chad's reading and singing on this. And I guess I'm a Wellman fan. Going to have to check Abe Books for a collection.

Anonymous

Reminded me of one of my favorite Hellboy stories, The Crooked Man. I've always appreciated Mike Mignola's dedication to folklore. In The Crooked Man he really nails what makes folk horror creepy.

Anonymous

Check out the latest episode of Pseudopod (http://pseudopod.org/2019/05/24/pseudopod-649-whatever-comes-after-calcutta/). I think Manly would appreciate and approve.

Anonymous

I thoroughly enjoyed this episode, however, I think the mark may have been missed regarding Silver John’s song. Appalachian folk music (bluegrass) has a strong tendency towards melancholy. It can be quite haunting, and has been famously described as having a “high, lonesome sound.” A good example is the song “O Death” (brought back into popular consciousness by the movie “Oh Brother Where Art Thou”). A quick search for the recordings of Ralph Stanley will yield lots of authentic and period appropriate Bluegrass music. None of this is to say I didn’t like Chad’s rendition. I absolutely did, very much so, but it made me wonder how much different the story might feel if the song was less jovial sounding.

Anonymous

You can get The Selected Stories of Manly Wade Wellman at Audible. "Volume 5: Owls Hoot in the Daytime and Other Omens" has all the John the Balladeer stories.

Anonymous

Un-asked-for speculation: As I was listening, it struck me that Miss Tully’s “Big Albert” book that has to be buried with a prayer must be something by Albertus Magnus. Looking into this matter rather than doing any of the actual academic work on my to-do list, I found that the other two books mentioned in the story, both real, have a connection with him already: “Egyptian Secrets” is supposed to be one of his, and “Long Lost Friend” is an 1820 book of white-magic spells from Pennsylvania Dutch country that apparently cites Albert a lot. Having once worked at a college with a building named after Albert, who was a medieval philosopher and theologian who has since been made a Catholic saint, I’d been wondering why he’s on so many weird-tale bookshelves, but apparently his name was appropriated by later alchemists and occultists in a vaguely Derlethian sort of way. Wikipedia is fun here on the Albertus Magnus page: “According to legend, Albert is said to have discovered the philosopher's stone and passed it on to his pupil Thomas Aquinas, shortly before his death. … Given that Thomas Aquinas died six years before Albert's death, this legend as stated is unlikely.” My admittedly cursory investigation doesn’t show whether there’s a specific “Big Albert” book that needs to be ritually buried, or whether, as one suspects, there’s a further connection to “FAT Albert.”

Anonymous

Late to the party, but thank you for doing more Silver John. I read "Oh, Ugly Bird" when I was a teenager in an anthology, I never knew there were more of these great stories. I live in South Carolina just across the border from Hendersonville which, along with Asheville, is a frequent weekend destination. Imagine my excitement to learn that in and amongst the apple orchards there are behinders lurking in the corn mazes.

Anonymous

Anyone else picture the mammoth in a Ray Romano voice, “Ayyy....down with the guitar, buddy.”

Anonymous

Loved the episode and really enjoyed the setting and style of the story - it is a nice change of scenery as you said! Can anyone recommend a good collection of Manly Wade Wellman stories that's easy to get ahold of??

Anonymous
>>23278296

Paulo Publishing’s Planet Stories imprint collected all the Silver John stories in a collection called “Who Fears the Devil.” Out of print but available for $10-12 used: https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?cm_sp=plpafe-_-all-_-soft&an=manly+wade&bi=s&ds=5&n=&sortby=17&tn=who+fears+devil

Anonymous

After listening to this episode and getting Chad's rendition of the song stuck in my head, I googled around a bit and it seems that the Yandro song is a real song. The title of the song is "He's Gone Away" and in modern times its mostly performed as a choral piece. The stanza quoted by Manly Wade Wellman in the story is the last stanza in the song and apparently it isn't always performed. From what I gathered on various internet sites, it is thought to be a very old "North Carolina ballad" which some suggest is from the Civil War era and some claim is considerably older. It seems that the original melody has been lost to time but multiple attempts have been made to set the words to appropriate-sounding music, including one version by 20th century American poet Carl Sandburg. I really appreciate how Manly Wade Wellman integrated real cultural artifacts into his fiction, so that someone might read his story and think "Hey, didn't Grandma sing me that song?!" The flip side of that I'm now concerned that I might run into the Behinder when I'm camping sometime. Or Count Nut Punch. The best version I could find (other than Chad's) is at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=98&v=Us67UHQSTgk The full lyrics can be found on the following link: https://genius.com/Charlie-haden-hes-gone-away-lyrics More information on the song along with links to many other versions of the song from YouTube can be found on the following link: http://compvid101.blogspot.com/2012/03/look-away-over-yandro-hes-gone-away.html

Anonymous

I knew Chad could sing but I didn't know he could *sing*