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Cycle 7 is coming soon!
Your weird neighbors are back at the window again, peeking through the curtains & biding their time until the launch of Cycle 7. We invite everyone with a wicked streak & a queer horror sensibility to send us your poems, stories, visual art, uncategorizable creations, Friday Features on cultural artifacts (movies, books, anything that spooks you). If any of this is puzzling, visit our Submit page to read our statement, or explore JJ’s What Is Horror Poetics? serial in our Essay section. -
Thanks for visiting us during the Philly Book Crawl!
Thanks to everyone who came out, said hi, asked about our weird world of horror poetics, or purchased copies of our chapbooks during the Philadelphia Book Crawl. And a huge thanks to Molly’s Books & Records for hosting us. It was a fun day hanging out with fellow presses and local authors—including several CDSOB contributors! -
Friday Feature
Mini-reviews of horror movies, books, albums, and other cultural artifacts dropping every Friday.
Recent Work
MS. DEAD SECRETARY
by Egan Walker
For those of us who tend to sympathize with the monster, and those of us who identify as a monster, Egan Walker takes us out past the edge of town where no holds are barred.
Published April 6, 2026
choke the Almighty unto a new waking
by Terry Trowbridge
What horror dork can resist a cryptic, pessimistic, tight little faith damaged paean to high drama fantasies of self destruction? 5 lines plus a title with an asterisk nailed to it, courtesy of Terry Trowbridge. Holy crucifixation! Happy Beaster, Cul-de-suckers!
Published March 30, 2026
Weird Gourd in the Pumpkinhead Patch
by Eric Rivera
Have you seen the second one? Every horror fan has had this conversation, and sometimes they lead us to twisted places we never come all the way back from. Today Eric Rivera reaches deep into the weird gourd of 1994’s Pumpkinhead II. You don’t need to have seen the film to enjoy this excursion, and Eric is an amiable guide
Published March 23, 2026
Two Poems
by Nick Rattner
Part of what scares us when we watch horror films is the way we pass through the screen, and the way the film returns with us to the so-called world. Nick Rattner’s poems (and his horror poetics) lineate this experience of crossover sensation. Today we are pleased to present “Confession: Exorcist (1973)” and “Guilt: Alien (1979).”
Published March 9, 2026
Peaches
by Taylor Grieshober
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.”
Published February 9, 2026
Three Collages
by Bill Wolak
This week we feature new collage works from Bill Wolak. Three material approaches that look forward & back from different moments in art history: traditional collage with Victorian flair, nods to cubism and surrealism, steampunk visions plucked from an inventor’s cabinet.
Published January 20, 2026
Roadkill
by Payton McCarty-Simas
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.”
Published January 12, 2026
Three Poems
by Nate Logan
This week, CDSOB regular Nate Logan 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?
Published January 5, 2026
