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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
November 17, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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...
November 10, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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
November 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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It me! Belated scares form my b-movie past!
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
November 5, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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
November 3, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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

@raygonne.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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
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
In today’s Friday Feature, all the world’s a red room on the internet:

www.culdesacofblood.com/friday-feature

by @raygonne.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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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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
For today’s Friday Feature, @raygonne.bsky.social pops a strange, unlabeled tape in the VCR for kicks

www.culdesacofblood.com/friday-feature
October 17, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Poetry is spellcraft, and Kia Alice Groom knows how to do things with words. Behold!

Read the poems: www.culdesacofblood.com/kia-alice-gr...
October 14, 2025 at 12:58 PM
In today’s Friday Feature by @cmcrockford.bsky.social, we make a wonderful contribution to society.

Check it out: www.culdesacofblood.com/friday-feature
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!
“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...
October 6, 2025 at 5:11 PM
“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...
October 6, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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
October 3, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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...
October 1, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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
July 11, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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 🖤🦇🕸️🔪🎃

www.culdesacofblood.com/friday-feature
May 23, 2025 at 1:44 PM
“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
May 12, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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

@ginabird.bsky.social
May 9, 2025 at 1:16 PM
“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
May 5, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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.

www.culdesacofblood.com/friday-feature
@raygonne.bsky.social
May 2, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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🤘🏼🖤💀

www.culdesacofblood.com/metal-and-be...
April 30, 2025 at 5:29 PM