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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

In today’s Friday Feature, all the world’s a red room on the internet: www.culdesacofblood.com/friday-feature by @raygonne.bsky.social

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

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...

For today’s Friday Feature, @raygonne.bsky.social pops a strange, unlabeled tape in the VCR for kicks www.culdesacofblood.com/friday-feature

Poetry is spellcraft, and Kia Alice Groom knows how to do things with words. Behold! Read the poems: www.culdesacofblood.com/kia-alice-gr...

In today’s Friday Feature by @cmcrockford.bsky.social, we make a wonderful contribution to society. Check it out: www.culdesacofblood.com/friday-feature

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...

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