A person is shrouded in a sheer black veil, with smoke or dark mist obscuring their head, and their hand is raised with fingers extended against a gray background.

Dark discourse for the literate and unwell.

Dispatches from the margins. Essays, fragments, and ghosts worth following. For mothers and monsters. For lovers of the strange.

About Cradle & Crypt

Cradle & Crypt is the creative identity of Leslie Patton—writer, archivist of the uncanny, and mother of monsters.

It’s a haven for those who write in the margins of their lives. For anyone fascinated by the abject, the sacred, the strange—after the baby’s asleep or the boss stops watching.