The Summoning of Bloody Bones

A Southern Gothic Horror Story

In 1848, Boone Court House, West Virginia, was nothing but a logging town and a collection of farms. It would later be named Madison in 1906, but right now, that was a far-off dream. The sparsely populated backwoods had fewer than thirty-five hundred people living within its newly appointed boundaries, and one family had just recently settled there. Elizabeth McComas and her family, a group of second-generation Scotch-Irish immigrants searching for a new life and hideaway, moved down this way from the northern part of the undivided state of Virginia. You see, she didn’t come from a lineage of ordinary immigrants. No, they were what some would call ‘mountain witches.’ Their ways and knowledge had been passed down for untold generations, and Elizabeth was only the most recent to learn their teachings.