A NEW Review by Casey Kiser of the Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, PEDIOPHOBIA by Daniel G. Snethen!

"A collection this gracefully twisted can only come from Blood Pudding Press. If you don't have doll paranoia now, you must read this to see what you're missing! I promise the poems in Snethen's book will give you the creeps but mostly, you will be more disturbed by how much you enjoy it. This is an absolute must-have for any chapbook collector."

From a new review by Casey Kiser of the latest Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, PEDIOPHOBIA by Daniel G. Snethen​!

Read more here - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3091695952?book_show_action=false#_=_

Also, a copy of this chapbook went out in the mail today to the University of Arizona Poetry Center Library - and soon one will be heading to the upcoming Poet's House Showcase!

You can acquire your very own hand-designed copy of PEDIOPHOBIA from the Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/762122669/new-pediophobia-by-daniel-g-snethen-2019?ref=shop_home_feat_1

HELLO My name is DOLL

More creepy little bunches of the newest Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, PEDIOPHOBIA by Daniel G. Snethen (including cover art by Josh Birrittieri), have been prepared to circulate their way into the world.

You can acquire a copy for yourself here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/762123585/new-pediophobia-by-daniel-g-snethen-2019?ref=shop_home_feat_4

Or acquire one for a friend, as a creepy, slightly belated Valentine (or anti-Valentine) gift filled with evil little dolls. We don't all like cheesy cards, romantic chocolates, and cliched jewelry, after all. Some of us like strange poetry and art. 

The new Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, PEDIOPHOBIA by Daniel G. Snethen is included in Eileen Murphy's recent book recommendations! AND Daniel G. Snethen has a poetry reading coming up that showcases PEDIOPHOBIA!

Below is a photo posted by Eileen Murphy this past weekend in one of her book recommendation posts, that includes the new Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, PEDIOPHOBIA by Daniel G. Snethen! 🖤

Here's what Eileen Murphy had to say - and for those who might want to acquire their very own copy of PEDIOPHOBIA for the New Year, you may do so HERE -  https://www.etsy.com/listing/762123585/new-pediophobia-by-daniel-g-snethen-2019?ref=shop_home_feat_4💜

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"Eileen Recommends: (selected from my incoming mail)

LEFT: Pediophobia is a new poetry chapbook by Daniel Snethen from Blood Pudding Press: the title means "fear of DOLLS." Handcrafted, the chapbook is gorgeous, and includes some real doll's curls incorporated into the book's cover art. The poems will knock your socks off, too.

MIDDLE: Writing in Wet Cement by Jayne Lisbeth explores one woman's experiences with psychological abuse and her successful escape into joy and safety. It's a suspenseful as well as thought-provoking read. Five stars.

RIGHT: Trinity Sight by Jenn Givhan is a debut novel---a powerful, engaging story set in the post-apocalyptic future, with a few major twists. Jenn Givhan is already an award-winning, established poet. This book successfully combines the poetic magic she's known for with a story that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

photo by Eileen Murphy

Why not read all three? I guarantee you'll find lots to like."
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Also, here is a bit of information from Daniel Snethen about a poetry reading on Saturday January 4, that will showcase his work from PEDIOPHOBIA. If you live near here, consider going to see him read some poems from his new Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook and other books too.

If you don't live near here and still want to partake of PEDIOPHOBIA's poetry innards, you can acquire a copy from the Blood Pudding Press shop HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/762123585/new-pediophobia-by-daniel-g-snethen-2019?ref=shop_home_feat_4

On Saturday January 4th, starting at 6 PM, at Lucky Eagle Tattoo located at 408 Main Ave,  Brookings, South Dakota, 57006!

From Daniel Snethen - "Come visit Lucky Eagle Tattoo in Brookings, SD Saturday January 4th. I will be showcasing my newest chapbook Pediophobia hand published by Blood Pudding Press with cover art by Josh Birrittieri. I will be doing readings from Pediophobia, Anne I Weep for Thee, Bird and perhaps a few other poems. I will have several poetry items for sale including several editions of DARKLING and will be signing books. Start time is 6 pm. Everyone is welcome especially other poets."

photo by Daniel Snethen

PEDIOPHOBIA has found a new home (and it could haunt your home too)...

John Burroughs has received his copy of the new Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, PEDIOPHOBIA, by Daniel G. Snethen! 💜

You can find out more about this chapbook and/or acquire your own copy in the Blood Pudding Press shop, HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/762123585/new-pediophobia-by-daniel-g-snethen-2019?ref=shop_home_feat_4

Thank you very much to John Burroughs for taking this photo of PEDIOPHOBIA by Daniel Snethen, in the middle of two books by Tim Heerdink. 🙃

Dead Dolls are Coming Back to Life in PEDIOPHOBIA (new from BLOOD PUDDING PRESS)

"Seventy times seven solstices later,
myriad discarded broken dolls
rose up from the city trash-piles,
the ash-heaps and the long
forgotten hallowed doll graves"

in the poem "The Second Coming"

within a NEW chapbook from Blood Pudding Press, as of December 2019!

PEDIOPHOBIA with poetry by Daniel G. Snethen, cover art by Josh Birrittieri, and bound with yarn and doll hair.

Read more about it and acquire a copy HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/762122669/new-pediophobia-by-daniel-g-snethen-2019?ref=shop_home_feat_1

NEW from Blood Pudding Press! PEDIOPHOBIA by Daniel G. Snethen!

Tonight, within the final dark hours of Friday the 13th of December 2019, one night after the last full moon of the year, is the perfect night to introduce the creepy, crawly, scary, strangely rotating table of doll heads within a NEW Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook! PEDIOPHOBIA by Daniel G. Snethen!

PEDIOPHOBIA's amalgamation of horrific dolls is Blood Pudding Press's style! Quirky, dark, darkly comedic, oddly disturbing, and twisted. Screaming eyed dolls and broken doll bodies. Dolls as killers, dolls as evil, dolls as gods, dolls as horror movie scenes, dolls as bloody apples, dolls as distorted bible verse.

PEDIOPHOBIA offers you sixteen peculiar poems by Daniel G. Snethen!

PEDIOPHOBIA artwork was created especially for this collection by Josh Birrittieri - an outside front cover, an inside front cover, and an outside back cover!

PEDIOPHOBIA has been printed and designed by Blood Pudding Press creature Juliet Cook, bound with yarn AND scraggly doll hair, but don't blame me if the doll hair bites you! 

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According to Daniel G. Snethen himself:

"My newest chapbook Pediophobia (Fear of Dolls) will soon be ready. It will be bound together by hand. Juliet Cook is the publisher and owner of Blood Pudding Press. Every copy will be handmade by her. Juliet is also an extraordinary poet herself. Josh Birrittieri did all the graphics for this chapbook and they are absolutely amazing. And I may be bragging a bit here, but I doubt you will find a better more complete collection of doll poetry anywhere. Many of the poems are creepy some are funny and a few are sad. One is a continuation of a famous episode from the Twilight Zone. One or two might even be considered demented. And several of them are peopled with personages I personally know. If you dare to read these and you know me, don't be too surprised if you recognize some of the characters and settings. If you hate dolls and find them creepy and disturbing, this slim volume of poetry is definitely for you. It will cure you of narcolepsy and will give you reason to run the light meter all eventide long. So please spend a few dollars and indulge yourself... your insanity is worth it."

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"Green glassy eyed heads
Unblinking verdant eyed stares
Headless dolls of Hell"

(within the poem "Nightmare of Dolls")

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"Dark human corpses piled
high on doll infested hills.
Unblinking dolls smiling,
keeping tally with their quills,
as people topple"

(within the poem "Doll Food")

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"Fearfully, I turn and flee from the cottonwoods of doll heads but
not before hearing Mother weeping and crying out in her aged voice,
“My son, my son, why hast thou forsaken me!”"

(within the poem "Doll Heads")

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Get your very own copy of PEDIOPHOBIA here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/762123585/new-pediophobia-by-daniel-g-snethen-2019?ref=shop_home_feat_4

Introducing the final Thirteen Myna Birds flock of 2019!

Introducing the final Thirteen Myna Birds flock of 2019!

Happy Holidays, whatever that means to you! Hopefully it involves oodles of poetry! 🖤

This flock is like a strange and scary and oddly misshapen stocking stuffed with mutant wings of poetry by Holly Day, Howie Good, Kristin Garth, Davide Nixon, Thomas E. Simmons, and Gary Beck!

Then at the bottom of the flock are three creepy doll poems by Daniel Snethen, from his PEDIOPHOBIA poetry chapbook, coming very soon from Blood Pudding Press!

"The morning sun is the beginning of my offensive day - The town, the river, the woods just kept on screaming - The whole downtown was sinking an inch a year even as downtown properties continued to rise in value - just like the perfect baby that somehow came out of me - I need more holes always surrounding me - spitting expired spirits, and old smoke in young lungs - open throated barely legal ghosts - software insertion - little bouquets of truth are buried - watching nothing, dreaming of nothing - When robots develop a sense of the macabre They’ll have approached human equivalency - Thunderstorms are people - broken contortions - with breathing machines hooked up - Something rising unbidden out of the dark - You’re moving away rather than moving toward something. I can't be sure if you’ll ever come back."

Partake HERE - https://13myna.blogspot.com/