Mags Campbell @magscampbell.bsky.social Lover, and writer, of myths, folklore, legends, fables, fairy tales, sci-fi, horror and fantasy.
Scribbling spin-offs of novels I haven't written yet.
Dr Ioannis Valasakis @wizofe.uk PhD Neuroscience, King’s College London ⊹ Senior RSE, University of Glasgow ⟁ ECG clinical interpretation algorithms × explainable deep learning · AF · arrhythmias · signal quality ∿ lavta · mandolin · Greek sun / Glasgow rain
Grant Wastle @grant-wastle.bsky.social 50's Scottish Biker.
Getting increasingly political due to current circumstances.
Beth @bracey.bsky.social Huge nerd. Voracious consumer of information. My interests: history (esp. weird history), art, pop culture, true crime, and cute animals. she/her
Midnight Society @midnightsociety.bsky.social 🌙 Horror Game Stream Team #WholesomeHorror
Eva Molina Flores @evamolinaflores.bsky.social Writing about science + culture. Editorial Fellow @ American Philosophical Society. PhD Candidate in the history of science @ Princeton. otherannapurnas.substack.com
madeline odent @oldenoughtosay.com chaos feed. heritage, history, old buildings, social justice. 🏴🇺🇸🏳️🌈. sea witch, professional gargoyle, teller of tales. (she/her)(Oxford, England)
@ruthburns.bsky.social @ruthburns.bsky.social Library person, bibliovore, retro gamer, goth, sporadic crafter
Jenny @j3nhunt.bsky.social 
Kitty @kittyfisher.bsky.social liking stuff since 1741. arctic expeditions, medical history, marine life, flouncy mantuas, the sea, perfume. Edward Forbes fan account.
🦪 https://edwardforbes.net
Sarah @sarahalba.bsky.social Book reader. Collects random facts and scraps of knowledge. Lifts heavy things for fun. She/her
Ezra Arndt @arndtezra.bsky.social They/them/theirs.
Author of queer, erotic dark and Gothic fiction.
More info and links to my work here: www.theyreahorrorshow.com
Evan Hayles Gledhill @gothicbodies.bsky.social Professional nerd researching Gothic Fangirls and Families.
Disabled, Queer, Socialist. They/them
Liz Blanks @lizblanks.bsky.social Curator, UCL Science & Pathology Collections.
History of science, medical museums, osteoarchaeology.
She/her. Views are my own.
Michel Mohr @michelmohr.bsky.social 🇧🇪 Artist, programmer, game preserver, mousedad
✅ Code for Shock Troops on Meta Quest.
▶️ gamebox.museum site & VR app
⏭️ Probably a VR dungeon crawler / thief-like.
Discord: michelmohr
📧 michel@michelmohr.me
Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social Poet & academic. Author of ‘A Spell in the Wild'& 'Modern Craft'. Queer as a bent penny, likes the sea, silk stockings, an excess of green. 🏳️🌈 she/they. Crepuscular/ Chaucerian/ enamoured of rot.
The Folklore Podcast @folklorepod.bsky.social Official account of The Folklore Podcast. 2 million downloads worldwide. Created by folklorist and author Mark Norman. Find us online at http://www.thefolklorepodcast.com
Film/TV rep: Past Preservers Author for various publishers
Carole Solazzo @carolewriter.bsky.social Writer.
Addicted to the written word. Reads everything from Shakespeare to sauce bottles.
Eddie Jenkins 🦤 @eddiejenks510.bsky.social Polar exploration and natural history
Croker Mountains truther
Michael A Cox @shin-mc.bsky.social Reading & writing about weird fiction, forteana, spooky shit • blogs about William Hope Hodgson at @hodgsoniana.bsky.social • guit & vox in @pkbats.neocities.org • used to run an arcade
Paul Moody @swordofreason.bsky.social Music. Horror films. Celtic. Podcaster formerly of In the Lap of the Pods and now Weirdies, check my shit
https://open.spotify.com/show/6JJQKQuRnDKgFZgVpJFZZC
European Medical Journal @emjreviews.com #1 open access destination for healthcare professionals globally.
🔗 emjreviews.com
Women's History Scotland @womenshistscot.bsky.social Women's History Scotland exists to promote study and research in women's and gender history, particularly for those working in Scotland or on Scottish themes.
https://womenshistoryscotland.org/
Secret Edinburgh @secretedinburgh.bsky.social Underemployed flâneuse sharing info about #Edinburgh beyond the castle ie overlooked, neglected, underappreciated, everyday & mundane treasures inc
- Graveyards
- Guerrilla Gardens
- Street Art
- Indie Retail
- Hidden Gems
she/her
Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social I make movies. I watch movies. I love movies.
Derek Johnston @drdjohnston.bsky.social Media lecturer: UK TV history, telefantasy, historical dramas. At Queen’s University Belfast.
Molly Conisbee @mollyconisbee.bsky.social I research social histories of dying and death. I like dogs and books and wine. No Ordinary Deaths: A People's History of Mortality (Profile/Wellcome) out in spring 2025.
Emma @emmaunlalala.bsky.social I live mostly on-shore.
To be found happily loitering around a cloister or an ancient ruin.
Alex Bamji @alexbamji.bsky.social Leeds-based Venetianist. Works on religion, disease and death. Director of @lahri.bsky.social
schwarzlicht @schwarzlicht.bsky.social Museum Curator | #histmed | Social History | Football culture, Craft Beer & Black Metal | #Altona | #Hamburg | #Oldenburg
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Dr Róisín Donohoe @roisindonohoe.bsky.social medievalist & leisure witch / special collections & archives / medicine & ritual & devotion / she.her.sí.í
Eric Gross Lab @grosslab.bsky.social @ericgross.bsky.social
Stanford research lab studying how aldehydes (alcohol flushing) impact anesthesiology (organ injury, pain, & anesthetics), and public health.
Em Splem @emsplem.bsky.social I like some stuff (art, poetry, history, philosophy, dogs, rhinos)
I dislike some stuff (fascists and their enablers, mosquitoes, slugs)
I do some things (gardening, walking, cycling, nursing)
I don’t do others (drive, eat meat, walk my reactive dog much)
Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social Lecturer in c19th and c20th Literature. #Gothic #DeathStudies #Childhood
Assoc Editor @ Gothic Studies
J. Gibson @planarlost.bsky.social Dabbler in dark fantasy fiction (Planar Lost).
Book award winner.
Newsletter:
https://bit.ly/PlanarLostNews
Author site:
jgibsonwrites.com
#Author #WritingCommunity #BookSky
Dr Evelyn Koch @evelynkoch.bsky.social Early modern/19th-cent. English literature, science and literature, landscape in literature, fantasy, horror and weird fiction.
Ruth Heholt @ruthheholt.bsky.social Prof of literature and culture. Gothic, crime, masculinity, ghosts. Lead of the Dark Economies Scholarly Association (dESA). Editor Rvenantjournal.com
Lisa D : Naturally Different @leeceedee.eurosky.social Freaky Deaky Arty Speaky : http://ayeaye.uk
Arts PhD researcher at LJMU. 'The Uncertain Human : Agency and the Technological Gaze'.
Side Hustle: Antiquarian Book Seller on ebay
Chris Brookmyre @brookmyre.bsky.social Author. One half of Ambrose Parry. One sixth of Fun Lovin' Crime Writers.
🟢 FFCR - Fédération Française des Conservateurs-Restaurateurs @asso-ffcr.bsky.social La FFCR a pour vocation de promouvoir, de défendre, et de valoriser la profession de conservateur-restaurateur. Elle à également à cœur de la défense du patrimoine culturel et de ses principes de conservation. 🟢
Steve Toase @stevetoase.bsky.social Writer based in Franconian Forest, Germany
Fortean Times comics reviewer
published at Tor.com Shimmer 3LBE, Lackington's, Lead writer on Haunt www.stevetoase.co.uk
To Drown in Dark Water from Undertow Publications
Dirt Upon My Skin from Black Shuck Books
Ally Wilkes / AV Wilkes @unheimlichmanvr.bsky.social Stoker Award-nominated horror author.
rep: Oli Munson
she/they, bi, polyam, vegan, a bit witchy, very crafty
Trans rights are human rights
End the genocide in Gaza 🍉
Posting from Greenwich, London
www.allywilkes.com
Jon Dear @accordingtojond.bsky.social Writer on archive TV and film. Currently working on a book about the BBC’s A Ghost Story for Christmas. Produced The Quatermass Experiment (2023) and Children of The Stone Tape (2024). Podcasts on Nigel Kneale and Giallo.
V.Castro @vlatinalondon.bsky.social 2x Bram Stoker Award nominated author
Chicana
Aliens:Vasquez
Rebel Moon (Netflix)
The Haunting of Alejandra
Immortal Pleasures
Goddess of Filth
The Queen of The Cicadas
Rep Jessica Berg
vcastrostories.com
Shantell Powell @shanmonster.bsky.social Author, artist, poet, & Indigiqueer swamp hag. Grew up on the land & off the grid. Writing in The Deadlands, Augur, Nightmare, Malahat Review, Fiddlehead, etc. Aurora finalist, optimistic nihilist & possible witch. No GenAI
shanmonster.dreamwidth.org
Claire McDade @clairemcdde.bsky.social Heritage, social justice, music, culture, and, increasingly, gardens and cute animals.
Heritage Lead for Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow https://heritage.rcpsg.ac.uk/
Marc Hartzman @marchartzman.bsky.social Author of We Are Not Alone, Chasing Ghosts, The Big Book of Mars, American Sideshow, and other books. MarcHartzmanBooks.com
James Kennaway @jgkennaway.bsky.social Historian of medicine etc. at the University of Groningen.
@historiansteph.bsky.social @historiansteph.bsky.social Medical historian and early modernist, specialising in material culture and skin. Collections and content assistant @thackraymuseum.bsky.social, museums liaison officer @araarchmus.bsky.social.
Jack Gann @jackgann.bsky.social Historian and curator. Museums, Victorians, and medicine.
Currently curator at Thackray Museum of Medicine, Leeds
Institute of Anatomical Sciences @iasanatomy.bsky.social The IAS, professional society is dedicated to sharing knowledge, techniques and practice to ensure informed intellectual and technical expertise in the Anatomical Sciences.
www.anatomical-sciences.org.uk
Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com PhD Researcher in Transgender Archaeology at the Uni of York. Former Mayor of Bangor, Author, Activist, Board Gamer, Welsh, Queer, Non-Binary (they/nhw)
Olwen Goodall @wheresmybook.bsky.social Retired university lecturer (children, education, psychology). 2 amazing adult sons. Settled in Devon & loves gardening. Just built a sustainable house. No DMs or I’ll have to block you.
paul fraser webb @paulfraserwebb.bsky.social Brummie from Daventry. Now in Clitheroe via many stops in the UK.
Lauren (LJ) McMenemy @laurenwrites.bsky.social 👻Writes the dark stuff
📣Online content ed @ British Fantasy Society
🤘Founder/mentor/coach/author promo, Society of Ink Slingers
🔮Events curator, Writing the Occult
🔪Former editor, TWF @ HorrorTree.com
👩💻Day job: Content & community
🇦🇺in🇬🇧
🤓Curious/exhausted
Jon Bang Ploug @jonploug.bsky.social Historian. Studying historical epidemics & pathology collections
at Roskilde University and PandemiX (Center of Excellence) in Denmark.
Catherine Gogerty @catherinegogerty.bsky.social Artist and Illustrator, Folklore explorer, lover of History and the Macabre
Johnny Mains @johnnymains.co.uk Horror anthologist.
AuDHD.
Buy Me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/johnnymains
Mark Cousins @markcousinsfilm.bsky.social Filmmaker/writer. The Story of Film/Dear Orson Welles/A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things/Women Make Film/I am Belfast/My Name is Alfred Hitchcock/The Story of Looking/Atomic/Stockholm My Love/Life May Be/
Best info about me: https://markcousins.cargo.site/
The Midnight Library Podcast @themidnightlibrary.bsky.social Not just a show, but a place you can go. For dark hearts, black sheep, & lovers of Halloween. We 💜 you! Join us!👻(Please stay within the cordoned-off areas of the library ... for your safety💀)Managed by Irma the Elf (totally not a demon) no politics
Ric. @tebone.bsky.social Music keeps me going.
Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social Professor of Criminology. Primarily interested in historical criminology and crime history. Current book project is The Mummy in the Cupboard Murder: Forensic Science, Magic and the Gothic Imagination. Views my own
Ambrose Parry @ambroseparry.bsky.social Wife and husband writing team of Dr Marisa Haetzman and
@brookmyre.bsky.social. Authors of The Way of All Flesh, The Art of Dying, A Corruption of Blood and Voices of the Dead. It's probably Marisa posting.
@hierophanyandhedge.bsky.social @hierophanyandhedge.bsky.social 
Wavelength Marketing Communications @wavelengthcomms.bsky.social UK's leading and award-winning #surgery and healthcare Public Relations agency, aka Scalpel Central. Your #journorequest is covered. Specialising in #CrisisComms and medical devices. Our Fearless Leader is @tingys.bsky.social www.wavelengthgroup.com
Hunterian Museum London @hunterianmuseum.bsky.social At the Royal College of Surgeons of England
Discover the art and science of surgery from ancient times to the present day.
https://hunterianmuseum.org/
Banner Image - Concourse (2) by Barbara Hepworth, 1948, Barbara Hepworth © Bowness
Fox Lane Books 🦊 @foxlanebooks.bsky.social 🦊Indie bookseller with an online shop📚Lots of signed books & special editions 🦊 Sale sections all year round with book bargains📚Gift packages, book subscriptions & E-gift cards available🦊Bookish gifts📚 FoxLaneBooks.co.uk 🦊
Matt Stanhope @mattstanhope7.bsky.social Guitarist. Coffee wraith. #Hookland resident. #Fortean. He/Him. ADHD. Yorkshire by marriage. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Ally.
The Human Remains Project (UKRI FLF) @thehumanremains.bsky.social UKRI FLF project researching historic exhumations & burial management in Christian contexts (7th-19thC) in Britain, to shape modern policy & planning. https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/archaeology-classics-and-egyptology/research/projects/human-remains/
Thanatography @thanatography.bsky.social "A Treatise on Death, its Symptoms, or the Changes it brings" by @evinumen.bsky.social
#deathpositive #deathsky #mementomori #mourningart
www.thanatography.com
Dr. Kelsey J. Utne @kelseyutne.bsky.social Assistant Prof of History | Prison Educator | South Asia, Death, Digital Humanities, Heritage, Maps, Medicine | she/her 
Cifa Osteoarchaeology Group @cifaosteoarch.bsky.social This is the account for the Cifa Osteoarchaeology Group 🦷 🦴
Follow us for updates on events and general osteoarchaeology news 🤩
The International Society for the Study of Egyptomania @issegyptomania.bsky.social The International Society for the Study of #Egyptomania. ISSE is dedicated to the ethical study and research of the historic & modern day fascination with Egypt
Issegyptomania.com
The hypocrisy is unbearable @goldfincher.bsky.social The question is not whether we will be extremist, but what kind of extremists we will be. Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice, or will we be extremists for the cause of justice? (MLK)
Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social Sometimes I do graphic design stuff for telly and film. Other times I make spooky lino prints and things you can buy if you want...
📍Black Country (middle of the UK)
https://linktr.ee/SlipperyJack
Megan Rosenbloom @libraryatnight.bsky.social Librarian & Author of DARK ARCHIVES: A LIBRARIAN’S INVESTIGATION INTO THE SCIENCE & HISTORY OF BOOKS BOUND IN HUMAN SKIN Picador / FSG, literary rep Neon
David Demchuk 👻 (he/him) 📚 @daviddemchuk.com Nightmares for sale. 🏳️🌈🇨🇦 Sunburst winner; Giller Prize, Amazon, Aurora & Shirley Jackson nominee. The Stone Garden. The Butcher’s Daughter. RED X. The Bone Mother. Gay/Queer. Cis. Old. No AI. https://daviddemchuk.com
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh @rcpedin.bsky.social Standard-setting & professional membership organisation representing over 14,500 Fellows & Members
Medical Artists' Association of Great Britain @maaofgb.bsky.social The professional organisation for medical artists in the United Kingdom. http://www.maa.org.uk Find a Medical Artist https://maa.org.uk/artists/
Dr Hannah Farrimond @hannahfarrimond.bsky.social Stigma and stigma theory; drugs and pharmaceutical cultures; addiction; tobacco, vaping, alcohol, cannabis, psychedelics; sociology of health/biomed; social impacts of brain injury; Associate Professor,
University of Exeter, UK
Museum of Natural History, University of Oxford @morethanadodo.bsky.social A stunning Victorian building home to 7 million objects. Free entry, open 10-5 every day.
Paul W @walstafa.bsky.social Boring Middle-Aged White Geek, SQL Dev and Cat Dad. Wargamer and Roleplayer. He/Him pronouns.
Lucy Crouch @lucyicm.bsky.social 🦠Scientist 🧪loves gut microbes and CAZymes.
Sir Henry Dale fellow at the IMI, University of Birmingham. 
99-vLj @mstoodley.bsky.social beauty, friendship, novels, kitchen and garden. A no-politics zone. We're blue dots.🕊️✌️☮️🎶
Alberto RetroTinkerer @black92rs74.bsky.social Used to post Retro PC stuff at my old twitter account @albpro then in @Black92RS74 also at Youtube as RetroTinkerer (I'm deleting all my content from both accounts in Twitter)
Whitney K, MPH, PhD @factcontagion.bsky.social Fact Contagion | Epidemiologist | Public Health | Infectious Diseases | Zoonotic flu | SciComm (All opinions are my own)
Redo @dreamredo.bsky.social 35|m|from Poland| Humanities and anime
|linktr.ee/dreamredo
Julia Cowley @jcow1969.bsky.social Retired FBI agent and profiler. Host of the true crime podcast The Consult. I think best when I’m running. 
BJ Magnani PhD, MD, FCAP @bjmagnani.bsky.social Author, Speaker, Toxicologist, Pathologist
www.bjmagnani.com Queen of All Poisons
Professor, Path & Lab Med Emerita
Love natural toxins, science, & telling stories.
Part of my novels’ proceeds help support free cervical & breast cancer screening
Jackie Malton @central884.bsky.social Memoir ‘The Real Prime Suspect’
Dr. Christine Sarteschi, LCSW @drsarteschi.bsky.social Full Professor of SW & Criminology | Extreme violence researcher. Books about #Sovereigncitizens | Support my work: https://ko-fi.com/drsarteschi | Opinions own & RPs not endorsements
Rachel Walens @rwalens.bsky.social Film & TV Development Executive/Producer. Gamer, armchair detective, lover of all things 1980s. She/her. Opinions my own.
Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com Optimist, writer, swearer. common person. Co-founder Big Book Weekend with @MollyFlatt. Proud Primadonna. Professor, University of Leicester. FRSL. Photo by Paul Chambers. No DMs please. To email use contact@kitdewaal.com
Sam Missingham @samatlounge.bsky.social Publishing commentator. Founder of Meet The Booktokers, As Seen On Booktok, and The Empowered Author. Trying to disrupt book publishing for 15+ years. Not easy. 
Val McDermid @valmcdermid.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, civil(sometimes) partner, mother, lesbian feminist, lover of libraries, vocalist with the Fun Lovin’ Crime Writers. Once described as the ‘gobby shop steward of crime fiction’. Www.valmcdermid.com @quineofcrime on Insta
Javaria Farooqui @javariafarooqui.bsky.social Research areas: popular romance, book history, postcolonialism, media/cinema, gender, and fandom. Shameless posting of published research across all socials.
Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social Sen Lecturer, Eng Lit, Bristol Uni & Dir. of MA in Eng Lit. I research alcohol in 19th Century. Co-Dir. Drinking Studies Network (https://drinkingstudies.wordpress.com/).
https://shop.bl.uk/products/dead-drunk-tales-of-intoxication-and-demon-drinks
Smart Bitches @smartbitches.bsky.social I'm Sarah from Smart Bitches, and I like Trashy Books | Daily SBTB email: http://bit.ly/SBTB-feed | Reviews, Cover Snark, & Recs: http://sb-tb.com |
Laura Vivanco @lauravivanco.bsky.social Independent scholar of popular romance fiction https://www.vivanco.me.uk/ On the Editorial Board of the Journal of Popular Romance Studies https://www.jprstudies.org/
My database of scholarship about romances: https://rsdb.vivanco.me.uk
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