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...

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

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

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

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

Grateful to have a few poems in CDSOB!

Cul-de-sac of Blood@culdesacofblood.bsky.social · 9mo ago

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

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

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!

Cul-de-sac of Blood@culdesacofblood.bsky.social · 11mo ago

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

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!

Cul-de-sac of Blood@culdesacofblood.bsky.social · 12mo ago

“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...