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In Chicago, there's a great genre bookstore called Bucket O'Blood. A couple of my favorite books are from there, including a 1985 trade paperback copy of Stephen King's The Bachman Books that still has the controversial school shooter novella Rage.
I wanted to see if the bookstore is still there, and my search engine Kagi also turned up a sordid Chicago bar operating in the 1910s, often called the Bucket of Blood because of its reputation for violence.
I like that this one phrase can work as horror and violence vibes as well as kind of a Dungeons & Dragons medieval sounding thing.