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You never know what’s on the other side of that door. Today, we open up and bleed with “His Blood,” by Laura Shell: www.culdesacofblood.com/laura-shell-1
In the Shining, Shelley Duvall holds a knife up while looking terrified
November 17, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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If you gaze for long into a polyethylene bag, the polyethylene bag gazes also into you.Today, we feature uncanny digital manipulations from Philly’s own Brandon Tanczak. Happy nightmare, baby: www.culdesacofblood.com/brandon-tanc...
An abstract photograph that has been digitally manipulated using a plastic bag and bright purple and pink lighting
November 10, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Here at CDSOB, we’ll take it any way we can get it. Today Casey Holmes takes us to school in our Friday Feature, Massacre at Central High: www.culdesacofblood.com/friday-feature
Movie poster for Massacre at Central High, which features the tagline "You better get those kids the hell out of there!"
November 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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It me! Belated scares form my b-movie past!
culdesacofblood.bsky.social Cul-de-sac of Blood @culdesacofblood.bsky.social · 21d
This week, a scary season treat from one of our favorite essay writers, Stefanie Kalem, who somehow never told us she was in a straight to video horror B-movie epic a couple decades ago. We made her watch it & write about the experience🖤

www.culdesacofblood.com/stefanie-kalem
Screenshot from the movie Brain Robbers from Outer Space, which shows a woman in a head scarf and overcoat outside at night. There is blood trickling from the corner of her lip.
November 5, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Robot cows, whales in the walls, a wooden bible, spuds from the darklands. Marcus Silcock serves folk horror with “Potatoes of Promise.”

Read the poem: www.culdesacofblood.com/marcus-silcock
In the foreground with his back to the camera, a man in a black suit stands holding a pitchfork in an overgrown cemetery. In the distance, Alison emerges from a green, leafy path into the cemetery in the movie Alison's Birthday.
November 3, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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We love Pam because she knows it’s her fault (it’s also Henry’s fault, but he doesn’t know it). In today’s Friday Feature, we revisit the tragedy of Pamela Fitzgerald in Ginger Snaps.

Read about Pam’s Halloween night: www.culdesacofblood.com/friday-feature

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Pam sits at the dinner table and looks at her daughter Ginger with an expression of concern in Ginger Snaps
October 31, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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This week, a scary season treat from one of our favorite essay writers, Stefanie Kalem, who somehow never told us she was in a straight to video horror B-movie epic a couple decades ago. We made her watch it & write about the experience🖤

www.culdesacofblood.com/stefanie-kalem
Screenshot from the movie Brain Robbers from Outer Space, which shows a woman in a head scarf and overcoat outside at night. There is blood trickling from the corner of her lip.
October 28, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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This week on @tendersubject.bsky.social, Kayte and @eversonpoe.bsky.social are joined by JJ from @culdesacofblood.bsky.social to sink our teeth into @scumbelievable.bsky.social’s novel Cuckoo. We talk unknowable monsters, family horror and ecological colonialism. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
October 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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In today’s Friday Feature, all the world’s a red room on the internet:

www.culdesacofblood.com/friday-feature

by @raygonne.bsky.social
Poster for the movie Red Rooms, which features a black and white image of a woman with colorful digital glitches interfering with the image.
October 24, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Call in sick today, watch horror movies in bed, & read Maris Tiller’s gross-out gem, “No Fever”:

www.culdesacofblood.com/maris-cather...

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A ghoulie emerges from a toilet
October 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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This week on @tendersubject.bsky.social, Kayte and @eversonpoe.bsky.social are joined by JJ from @culdesacofblood.bsky.social to sink our teeth into @scumbelievable.bsky.social’s novel Cuckoo. We talk unknowable monsters, family horror and ecological colonialism. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
October 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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For today’s Friday Feature, @raygonne.bsky.social pops a strange, unlabeled tape in the VCR for kicks

www.culdesacofblood.com/friday-feature
A black and white image of a close up of an eyeball peeking out between long black hair that covered the rest of the face. Red text reads, "Ring."
October 17, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Poetry is spellcraft, and Kia Alice Groom knows how to do things with words. Behold!

Read the poems: www.culdesacofblood.com/kia-alice-gr...
An image from the movie The Love Witch, featuring Elaine sitting on a circular rug that has a pentagram and astrology symbols on it. She drinks from a goblet while being surrounded by candles.
October 14, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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In today’s Friday Feature by @cmcrockford.bsky.social, we make a wonderful contribution to society.

Check it out: www.culdesacofblood.com/friday-feature
Movie poster for Society (1989) featuring a woman in a fancy dress and white gloves removing her face like a mask while a man in a tuxedo looks on. The tagline reads, "If you don't belong, they'll eat you alive. You are what they eat."
October 10, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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I have a new story out at a magazine with an incredible name! It’s about the Pacific Garbage Patch, if it were made of ghosts!
culdesacofblood.bsky.social Cul-de-sac of Blood @culdesacofblood.bsky.social · Oct 6
“Millicent Pawlowski, the Happy Medium, stands between the crowd and the police and opens her mind to the glowing cyclone which fills nearly half of the sky above her.”

Buckle up: today we feature @lilliekoi.bsky.social's “Under the Gyre”🌪: www.culdesacofblood.com/lillie-e-fra...
A vortex swirls in the sky above a decaying building, power lines, and trees in Twin Peaks: The Return
October 6, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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“Millicent Pawlowski, the Happy Medium, stands between the crowd and the police and opens her mind to the glowing cyclone which fills nearly half of the sky above her.”

Buckle up: today we feature @lilliekoi.bsky.social's “Under the Gyre”🌪: www.culdesacofblood.com/lillie-e-fra...
A vortex swirls in the sky above a decaying building, power lines, and trees in Twin Peaks: The Return
October 6, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Speaking of haunted media, we kick off Cycle 666 Friday Features with another take on M3GAN 2.0, this time by Hugo Plugis, who turns 11 this October and is not afraid to call a dingus a dingus.

www.culdesacofblood.com/friday-feature
Poster for the movie M3GAN 2.0 (2025). A bright purple light is eminating behind a silhouette of M3GAN from the waist down, who is walking toward the viewer with a blade held in her right hand. The tag line reads, "Miss Me?"
October 3, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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The window in that old house at the end of the block is glowing again. CDSOB returns with Cycle 666 & the latest installment of @raygonne.bsky.social's “What Is Horror Poetics?” where we fuck around with haunted media & find out:
www.culdesacofblood.com/what-is-horr...
An image from the movie Lake Mungo of the lake at night surrounded by darkness other than a light shining on the trees that line the shore
October 1, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Here's a postcard from summ3r staycay, where we dodged a tornado, weathered acid rain, admired the citywide activist art installation Parker Piles in solidarity with Philly’s DC33, & sought shelter from the storm with everybody’s favorite murder/herobot

www.culdesacofblood.com/friday-feature
Poster for the movie M3GAN 2.0, which shows various images of the killer doll
July 11, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Boil a baby, fly a broom, cavort in the moonlight, kiss the devil’s butt: witches just wanna have fun. Mina Beach soundtracks an old family favorite, 1922’s Häxan, in the final Friday Feature of cycle 5 🖤🦇🕸️🔪🎃

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a poster for the 1922 film Häxan, in which a person passes under a tree where a devil is perched
May 23, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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“It is uncanny how I manage to always craft a pile of bones into something that is haunted by a face.” So says Bill Wolak, whose series of dense skeletal collage we feature this week.

www.culdesacofblood.com/bill-wolak
A symmetrical collage formed from images of animal bones
May 12, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Catherine E. Coulson was so much more than the Log Lady & she was also always the one to flick the light switch & call us to attention. Gina Myers listens to what Catherine’s log has to say in this week’s Friday Feature.

www.culdesacofblood.com/friday-feature

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Poster for I Know Catherine, the Log Lady, which features an illustration of a dark silhouette of the Log Lady, with bright red glasses and the movie title in bright red
May 9, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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“We make bets on who can stay awake longest / … / Teach me to control my dreams.” John Sara is cooking & we’re eating it up. Today we feature his poem, “Dream Warriors.”

www.culdesacofblood.com/john-sara
A promo photo for A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors that features three of the kids sitting on the ground with Nancy laying across their lap. Freddy Krueger is crouched behind them, his gloved hand propped on is shoulder.
May 5, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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We love when good horror fills the theater & we go there together. But will we make it through the night? Today’s Friday Feature is Sinners.

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Poster for the movie Sinners, featuring Michael B. Jordan. It has a collage of a group of people formed to fit the body of a guitar. They appear above a burning building, where people have gathered around outside to watch. In the background, above the collage of people is a face with glowing red lines. The poster includes the tagline, "Dance with the Devil," and says, "Only in theaters April 18. Shot with IMAX film cameras."
May 2, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Get a whiff of that oud! It’s Part III of JJ’s @decibelmagazine.bsky.social Philly Metal & Beer Fest 2025 Notes, featuring 4 shitty concert photos, 3 novels, 2 outbursts & a metal nap🤘🏼🖤💀

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The band Vicious Blood perform onstage at Decibel Magazine’s Philly Metal & Beer Fest, April 5, 2025 a dripping foliage metal logo for Cul-de-sac of Blood, designed by Chris O’Neal
April 30, 2025 at 5:29 PM