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🎃🔪A horror poetics journal 🔪🎃
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a ghost poem for you!!
culdesacofblood.bsky.social Cul-de-sac of Blood @culdesacofblood.bsky.social · 16d
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
September 21, 2026 at 7:22 PM
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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
September 21, 2026 at 5:14 PM
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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

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TV ad for the Freddy Krueger hotline
September 21, 2026 at 1:22 PM
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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.”

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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.
February 9, 2026 at 3:36 PM
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kylec.bsky.social
Journalists, please remember that repeating obviously false statements is not balance or fairness. It is actively participating in deception.
January 25, 2026 at 12:46 AM
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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

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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
January 16, 2026 at 5:54 PM
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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.
January 12, 2026 at 1:41 PM
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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
January 9, 2026 at 2:20 PM
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Grateful to have a few poems in CDSOB!
culdesacofblood.bsky.social Cul-de-sac of Blood @culdesacofblood.bsky.social · Jan 5
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.
January 6, 2026 at 5:15 PM
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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.
January 5, 2026 at 12:10 PM
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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
December 22, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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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
December 22, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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In today’s Friday Feature we’re taking the World’s Fair Challenge. Don’t at us.

www.culdesacofblood.com/friday-feature
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Movie poster for 2021's We're All Going to the World's Fair
December 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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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
December 18, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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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.
December 8, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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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.
December 2, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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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
November 24, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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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.
November 21, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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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 · Oct 28
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

@raygonne.bsky.social
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
culdesacofblood.bsky.social
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