Endnote 296: the F/X blood recipe
Mixes 5/1 with ferric chloride to produce ‘A + B Blood,’ an F/X staple of low-budget splatter-films.
Context
The entire endnote: the chemistry behind 140's F/X-blood leg. The main text hangs this ref on "potassium thiocyanate" in the Blood Sister finale's gore inventory (140, whose finale entry carries the scene side); the note supplies the mix ratio and the trade name, genre violence documented at the level of supplier's recipe. That the narration of a cartridge-within-the-novel comes footnoted with working splatter-F/X chemistry is the joke: the apparatus knows exactly how this kind of film is made. The trade name reads "'A + B Blood'."