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alina pleskova @alinapleskova.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

a ghost poem for you!!

Cul-de-sac of Blood @culdesacofblood.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

One cites some spooky shit. Today we feature a haunting poem by @alinapleskova.bsky.social, “Ghost Allegations.” www.culdesacofblood.com/alina-pleskova

In Witchboard, Zarabeth conducts a seance

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Cul-de-sac of Blood @culdesacofblood.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Last week we invited Uncle Freddy to kick off Cycle 7, where we asked the question that keeps us up at night: What Is Horror Poetics? And is a monster still scary if you have the plushie? Read the essay by @raygonne.bsky.social www.culdesacofblood.com/what-is-horr...

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Cul-de-sac of Blood @culdesacofblood.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Today your Crypt Keepers present a tale of lovers on the last day of their acquaintance. Savor the sweet bite of Taylor Grieshober’s “Peaches.” www.culdesacofblood.com/taylor-gries...

a still from the 1987 film Near Dark in which Adrian Pasdar as Caleb Colton gives Jenny Wright as Mae the eye. he is terrible but does not know it. she is a vampire. he is about to find out.

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Journalists, please remember that repeating obviously false statements is not balance or fairness. It is actively participating in deception.

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Cul-de-sac of Blood @culdesacofblood.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

This week we went through it with Blanche & Baby Jane, & we’re telling you all this time we could have been friends. Touch up your heart-shaped beauty mark, top off your drink, & toss that help-me note out the window: www.culdesacofblood.com/friday-feature @ginabird.bsky.social

Poster for the 60th Anniversary TCM Big Screens Classics release of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? featuring an image of a broken doll head and pictures of Bette Davis and Joan Crawford

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Cul-de-sac of Blood @culdesacofblood.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

You break it, you buy it. You kill it, you eat it. Today, Payton McCarty-Simas spins a tale of love, loss, & what comes around after what goes around, in “Roadkill”: www.culdesacofblood.com/payton-mccar... Photo by @raygonne.bsky.social

A taxidermied wolf is displayed on a wall at a bar. A man sits at the bar counter beneath it.

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Cul-de-sac of Blood @culdesacofblood.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

The end of the world is such a drag! Axe wounds, rat attacks, zombie influencers. In today’s Friday Feature, we hole up at the club & try to keep each other alive: www.culdesacofblood.com/friday-feature @raygonne.bsky.social

A zombie-fied hand featuring long nails, rings, and a sequined sleeve breaks through a floor in the movie poster for Tina Romero's Queens of the Dead

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Nate of the Living Dead @airbudhockey.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Grateful to have a few poems in CDSOB!

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Cul-de-sac of Blood @culdesacofblood.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

This week, CDSOB regular @airbudhockey.bsky.social love bombs us with derivative flicks, jump-scare cats, cul-de-sacs, CGI monsters, grainy footage & more in 3 short poems. How could we resist? Read the poems: www.culdesacofblood.com/nate-logan-3

Freddy Krueger appears as a shadow in a dark and foggy alley, his gloved hand extended to his right.

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Cul-de-sac of Blood @culdesacofblood.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

When is a boombox not like a spirit board? What comes after track 13 for any self-respecting satanic metal band? And what if we pressed on to track 66? Only one way to find out. Read @trigonis.bsky.social's short story, "Until You Call on the Dark”: www.culdesacofblood.com/jt-trigonis

In the movie TerrorVision, metalheads Suzy and O.D. look on excitedly at the alien, who is offscreen

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Trigonis @trigonis.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

My short tale of terror “Until You Call on the Dark” just dropped over @culdesacofblood.bsky.social! Read on about a boombox that’s akin to a spirit board and discover what awaits at track 66! >> url-shortener.me/4QDG #horror #horrorlit #heavymetal #writing

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Cul-de-sac of Blood @culdesacofblood.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

In today’s Friday Feature we’re taking the World’s Fair Challenge. Don’t at us. www.culdesacofblood.com/friday-feature @raygonne.bsky.social

Movie poster for 2021's We're All Going to the World's Fair

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Cul-de-sac of Blood @culdesacofblood.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

What fills our doll heads? Evil fossil or whipped cream? Stolen spoons or half empty filing cabinet? Today we feature a poem by CDSOB regular Juliet Cook, “Another Pie in the Face”: www.culdesacofblood.com/juliet-cook-5

A doll head in the snow from the movie Curtains

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Cul-de-sac of Blood @culdesacofblood.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Like most weird experiences, “It began in the frozen food section at CVS during her lunch hour.” Sometimes there’s nowhere to go but around. Today we feature Gale Huxley’s short story, “Something in the Way”: www.culdesacofblood.com/gale-huxley

In the movie It Follows, Jay stands in her school hallway with her back to the camera. In the distance is an old woman in a hospital gown walking toward her.

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Cul-de-sac of Blood @culdesacofblood.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Who on the Cul-de-sac of Blood has not had a scarecrow at the table? This one’s for all of you plucking straw from the rug: John Sara’s “Field of Screams”: www.culdesacofblood.com/john-sara-1

A close-up image of two hands: The gloved hand of a scarecrow hands off a white flower to the small hand of a child.

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Cul-de-sac of Blood @culdesacofblood.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Finally, an interview with a vampire we would invite into our home for the holidays. We’re a sucker for a vamp who can sing for their supper. Today, a poem by CDSOB neighbor Heather Bowlan: www.culdesacofblood.com/heather-bowl...

In the movie Humanist Vampire Seeks Consenting Suicidal Person, the vampire Sasha looks up over her book while sipping on a blood IV juicebox

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Cul-de-sac of Blood @culdesacofblood.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

It turns out Frankenstein was the monster all along. In today’s Friday Feature, @raygonne.bsky.social considers Guillermo del Toro’s endless love quadrangle: www.culdesacofblood.com/friday-feature

Movie poster for 2025's Frankenstein. A dark mysterious figure dressed in rags stands against a snowy backdrop. In the background, a ship is stuck in ice.

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Cul-de-sac of Blood @culdesacofblood.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

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

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Cul-de-sac of Blood @culdesacofblood.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

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

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Cul-de-sac of Blood @culdesacofblood.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

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!"

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Stefanie Kalem Bae @skalembae.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

It me! Belated scares form my b-movie past!

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Cul-de-sac of Blood @culdesacofblood.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

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.

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Cul-de-sac of Blood @culdesacofblood.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

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

Pam sits at the dinner table and looks at her daughter Ginger with an expression of concern in Ginger Snaps

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Cul-de-sac of Blood @culdesacofblood.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

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.

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wormbuxx @wormbuxx.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

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...

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Cul-de-sac of Blood @culdesacofblood.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

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.

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Cul-de-sac of Blood @culdesacofblood.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Call in sick today, watch horror movies in bed, & read Maris Tiller’s gross-out gem, “No Fever”: www.culdesacofblood.com/maris-cather... #garfieldmondays

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wormbuxx @wormbuxx.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

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Cul-de-sac of Blood @culdesacofblood.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

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."

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Cul-de-sac of Blood @culdesacofblood.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

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.

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Cul-de-sac of Blood @culdesacofblood.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

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."

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Lillie E. Franks @lilliekoi.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

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!

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Cul-de-sac of Blood @culdesacofblood.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

“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

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Cul-de-sac of Blood @culdesacofblood.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

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?"

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Cul-de-sac of Blood @culdesacofblood.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

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

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Cul-de-sac of Blood @culdesacofblood.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

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

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Cul-de-sac of Blood @culdesacofblood.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

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

a poster for the 1922 film Häxan, in which a person passes under a tree where a devil is perched

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Cul-de-sac of Blood @culdesacofblood.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

“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

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Cul-de-sac of Blood @culdesacofblood.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

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

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

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Cul-de-sac of Blood @culdesacofblood.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

“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.

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Cul-de-sac of Blood @culdesacofblood.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

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

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."

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Cul-de-sac of Blood @culdesacofblood.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

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...

The band Vicious Blood perform onstage at Decibel Magazine’s Philly Metal & Beer Fest, April 5, 2025

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Cul-de-sac of Blood @culdesacofblood.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

There’s fear in getting older, but there’s power as well. Isn’t that how horror works? If we can face it, we can be the monster, maybe even survive the ordeal. CDSOB regular Juliet Cook holds up a mirror and lets us see the cracks in two poems. www.culdesacofblood.com/juliet-cook-4

An image from the movie Curtains, where someone in a "hag" mask skates across the ice while holding up a sickle

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Cul-de-sac of Blood @culdesacofblood.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Show us your spirit balls, it’s Part II of JJ’s @decibelmagazine.bsky.social Philly Metal & Beer Fest 2025 Notes🤘🏼🖤🔮🍺 www.culdesacofblood.com/metal-and-be...

Darkest Hour performing at Decibel Magazine’s Metal & Beer Fest, Philadelphia, April 4, 2025

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Cul-de-sac of Blood @culdesacofblood.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Be careful what you take home from the black tent at the farmers’ market. Wait a second... We haven’t seen that tent before! Today, we present Julia Rajagopalan’s story, “The Cat’s Paw.” www.culdesacofblood.com/julia-rajago...

An image from the Twilight Zone episode "The Man in the Bottle." In the foreground of the image, Rod Sterling stands facing the camera. In the background, Mr. and Mrs. Castle hold onto each other in their antique shop as they look worried.

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Cul-de-sac of Blood @culdesacofblood.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Horns up🤘🏼 JJ crushes & gets crushed at Philly’s own @decibelmagazine.bsky.social Metal & Beer Fest. This week, we feature Part I of their festival notes: Pre-Fest Thursday💀🍺 www.culdesacofblood.com/metal-and-be...

flyer for Decibel Magazine’s Metal & Beer Pre-Fest at The Foundry in Philly April 3, 2025

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Steven Karl @stevenrkarl.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Still doing a poem-a-day over @bloofbooks.bsky.social This one is for Gina Myers @culdesacofblood.bsky.social #napowrimo #poetry #ginamyers #work

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Cul-de-sac of Blood @culdesacofblood.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Find yourself a cup of tea or a glass of something & fall into the dizzy spell of this story from CDSOB regular Daniel Beauregard. You will come through it changed. Today, we are pleased to present “After Eden”: www.culdesacofblood.com/daniel-beaur...

From the movie Don't Look Now, there is a photograph of a church dais with a large stained glass window. A mysterious red blotch is stretching across the image.

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Cul-de-sac of Blood @culdesacofblood.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

The truth is out there in Daniel C. Remein’s dual ekphrastic notation: “it must have been loud when the screen was eaten” might take us to “the cause of symptoms is a sharp thing” or it might well lead us somewhere else. Read the poem: www.culdesacofblood.com/daniel-remein

In the X-Files, Mulder sits at his desk and talks to Scully. Behind them is a poster with a UFO and text that reads, " I want to believe."

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