The Old Gods Waken by Manly Wade Wellman is the first of the five novels in the Silver John series. The book follows John, a wandering folk singer and guitar player with silver strings, as he visits Luke Forshay and gets involved in a mysterious situation with new neighbors, the Voths, who are trying to claim land that doesn't belong to them. The story is a mix of fantasy and horror, filled with mountain dialect, folklore, and mystical elements. John, along with his friend Holly Christopher and Cherokee medicine man Chief Reuben Manco, must use their powers to overcome the evil plans of the Old World druids, the Voths, who seek to awaken pre-Indian spirits on Wolter Mountain.
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[Read by Stefan Rudnicki]
The first Silver John novel.
In the wilds of Southern Appalachia lies Wolter Mountain - a sacred place for the Indians and their predecessors. But the land atop the mountain, taken over by two Englishmen, Brummitt and Hooper Voth, is undergoing frightening changes.
Strange evil things are terrorizing Luke and Creed Forshay who live at the foot of Wolter Mountain in the southern Appalachians, a sacred place for Indians and their predecessors. Two old-world Druids, disguised as Englishmen, are attempting to awaken pre-Indian spirits of the ancient mountain. Silver John and an Indian medicine man must collaborate to prevent certain death at the hands of blood-sacrificing priests.
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