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Lillie E. Franks @lilliekoi.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 2d

“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 · 2d

“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...

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Cul-de-sac of Blood @culdesacofblood.bsky.social · 5d

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 · 6d

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 · Jul 11

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 · May 23

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 · May 12

“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

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

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 · May 5

“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.

Cul-de-sac of Blood @culdesacofblood.bsky.social · May 2

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 · Apr 30

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 · Apr 28

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 · Apr 23

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 · Apr 21

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 · Apr 18

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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Cul-de-sac of Blood @culdesacofblood.bsky.social · Apr 16

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Steven Karl @stevenrkarl.bsky.social · Apr 13

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 · Apr 14

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 · Apr 7

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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Cul-de-sac of Blood @culdesacofblood.bsky.social · Apr 4

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

Poster for the movie Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person. On the left side of the poster, it features one half of the face of the lead in the movie, Sasha, a young woman with blunt black bangs and long black hair. Blood drips from the corner of her mouth. The movie title is on the right side in red capital letters.

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Cul-de-sac of Blood @culdesacofblood.bsky.social · Mar 31

“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...

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Cul-de-sac of Blood @culdesacofblood.bsky.social · Mar 27

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

The book cover for Mike Bockoven's FantasticLand, which features a grainy black and white image of a ferris wheel

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Cul-de-sac of Blood @culdesacofblood.bsky.social · Mar 21

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

In the movie Deathgasm, Brodie sits on a bench dressed in full death metal gear and corpse paint. Next to him is a traditionally pretty/normal looking girl eating ice cream and gazing at him lovingly

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Cul-de-sac of Blood @culdesacofblood.bsky.social · Mar 17

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

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

“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

An empty room with stacked wooden chairs and two full length paned windows covered by sheer curtains backlit by a vibrant red light. The rest of the room is cast in a purple light.

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