“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...

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

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...

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

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

“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

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

“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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

Grab a bloody juice box & join us for a good time with a bad-time vampire date in this welcome addition to toothy horror comedy. We promise not to call it a rom-com. www.culdesacofblood.com/humanist-vam... @ginabird.bsky.social

“There’s a reason there’s a skull in the baby stroller out front / OK but that motherfucker ain’t no harbinger.” Let’s go to the sometimes room & respect the locals. Part Beckett play, part Night of the Living Dead, part paranoid Carpenter loop, all poem: www.culdesacofblood.com/michael-sikk...

Are you a Fairy or a Pirate is the wrong question, though we can’t help asking: Where were you when shit got real at FantasticLand? Today @raygonne.bsky.social discusses Mike Bockoven’s novel FantasticLand (2016): www.culdesacofblood.com/fantasticland

It’s after the end of the world. Don’t you know that yet? Today we tune into DJ Livy Onalee‘s WHPK Chicago radio show & get our cosmic death metal fix. www.culdesacofblood.com/the-tar-pit

Behold CDSOB’s new metal logos, courtesy of artist Chris ONeal. We love these designs and can’t stop looking at them. Here’s hoping our readers enjoy them as much as we do. Today we also present a selected gallery of Chris’ other illustration work: www.culdesacofblood.com/chris-oneal

“You can hear a calliope in the distance somewhere but you know there’s no circus in town.” Today, we present two confessions & a bitter ending, all in the strange light of sometime past midnight & before a reasonable hour: three prose poems by Rich Boucher. www.culdesacofblood.com/rich-boucher

Spoiler: She’s a robot, and she’s tired of Josh’s shit. Sit back with us and enjoy how uncomfortable this film makes the worst dudes in the world feel. www.culdesacofblood.com/friday-feature @ginabird.bsky.social

A pet cemetery, a cursed object, and a strange substance with a mind of its own. Laura Shell’s “Goo” has it all. Won’t you join us for a walk through the boneyard in today’s feature story? www.culdesacofblood.com/laura-shell

If you like your slashers iced, Nate Logan has a killer winter flick to redden your snow. And if you’ve never heard of this horror on the slopes from 1988, you’re in good company! Let’s queue up for this week’s Friday Feature, Iced! www.culdesacofblood.com/friday-feature @airbudhockey.bsky.social

Today Shira Dentz opens an iris on “Vampires” in our feature poem: www.culdesacofblood.com/shira-dentz @shirad.bsky.social

All hail The New Flesh! Whether you like it or not. Today we consider Elric Kane’s provocative tale of an eerie dating app hookup, The Dead Thing. www.culdesacofblood.com/friday-feature @raygonne.bsky.social @elrickane.bsky.social

“I am risen, new form pieced and sewn.” Ann DeVilbiss uses gothic body horror to become both monster & maker in her poem, “Shelley’s Monster Nears the End of Treatment.” www.culdesacofblood.com/ann-devilbiss

In today’s Friday Feature self-experimentation goes awry. Gina Myers takes a knife to the 2025 body horror flick Grafted. www.culdesacofblood.com/friday-feature

JJ wrote about making monsters, zines, & CDSOB over here. Thanks to rob for reaching out & reading🖤🔪🎃

Glass globe horror dioramas in water, snow & sand. Natasha N. Deonarain hands us 3 concise, meticulously detailed prose poem nightmares that defy us to look away. www.culdesacofblood.com/natasha-deon...

In this week’s Friday Feature, we join Wolf Dad in the toxic forest cabin of his youth. Lycanthrophiles who don’t mind being tense as a werewolf at dusk when dusk lasts 103 minutes will find themselves howling for the latest appearance of Wolf Man.

Bounce through a portal with us. What could go wrong? Today, we feature Matt Shadbolt’s “They Only Play Minor Chords in Hell.” www.culdesacofblood.com/matt-shadbol...

They’re still not sure it *is* a baby! Today we honor David Lynch with a Friday Feature on the most quotable experimental soundtrack you will ever hear. www.culdesacofblood.com/friday-feature

It’s always spooky season at the haunted boardwalk we call life. As we disentangle ourselves from ugly platforms, here’s hoping this one stays queer🖤