Antifascist Black Metal Network @antifascistbmntwrk.bsky.social Extreme musical vessel standing against racism, sexism, LGBTQIA+phobia, ableism or any oppression.
Submissions: antifascistbmnetwork@gmail.com
https://linktr.ee/AntifascistBMNetwork
https://abmn.noblogs.org/
ASHENSPIRE @ashenspire-brut.bsky.social Always three months to the gutter.
Terzij de Horde - the only black metal on bluesky @terzijdehorde.bsky.social Hardcore Black Metal from Utrecht, Netherlands. Fuck Nazis. 'Our Breath Is Not Ours Alone' out now. Shows and more: https://cutt.ly/DMw1Y1w
Middle West Press @middlewestpress.bsky.social Middle West Press is an Iowa-based editor and publisher of non-fiction, fiction, journalism, and poetry books. Our projects are often inspired by the people, places, and history of the American Midwest. Also #veterans. Visit: http://www.middlewestpress.com
Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social Weaving ways through poetry. Second full collection, ‘Whatever You Do, Just Don’t’, a Poetry Society Book of the Year 2023, available from HappenStance Press.
Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social “Hilarious.” - Stephen Fry. “Made me laugh out loud.” - David Sedaris. “Very funny.” - Kate Atkinson. "Psychedelic." - The Guardian. “Not humerus at all.” - Amazon reviewer. https://www.tom-cox.com/
House of Leaves Publishing @holpublishing.bsky.social 👻 Non-fiction boo-tique books dissecting the horror genre
📖 Resource for readers + writers
✨ Pre-order Weird Sisters: Covenant: http://kck.st/4ni8q56
💀 Join our #PrintIsUndead Community: linktr.ee/holpublishing
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Endless Bookshelf @endlessbookshelf.bsky.social Buddhist vegetarian polyglot reader, author of Another green world, The Private Life of Books, and A Conversation larger than the Universe
/ ‘the reader is the artist’ | Tom Phillips
https://endlessbookshelf.net
https://temporary-culture.com
Tristan Elwell @tristanelwell.bsky.social Artist/Illustrator/Educator
Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize Winner, Hugo Loser
I make pictures of spooky girls and cute cats
https://linktr.ee/Tristan.Elwell
Waasken @waasken.bsky.social Concept artist 🎨
Auteur-illustrateur du jeu de rôle OuterCall : ulule.com/outercall 🖤
he/him
Commissions are open!
Contact : waasken.pro@gmail.com
linktr.ee/waasken.pro
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social former 2x pie-eating champion of St Olaf College
Alex Shevrin Venet @asv.bsky.social Educator & author. Books: Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education & Becoming an Everyday Changemaker. Vermont explorer in the #251club. Querying a memoir on grief, healthcare system fuckery, and a spine injury
dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social Author of THE VIRAL UNDERCLASS & THE OVERSEER CLASS. Once won the Cambridge Union Debate Society. Twice sold out The Strand & programmed film series at BAM. Pulitzer Center Global Reporting Fellow. LitHub essayist, Intercept reporter.
Sacred Parasite @sacredparasite.bsky.social Publisher
Books Made in Berlin since 2023
www.sacredparasite.com
Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com A collaborative of 60 writers and artists publishing a newsletter for you each weekday. Culture, opinions, criticism, news, comics, mayhem.
$3/month
https://flaminghydra.com
Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social he/him. Writer and game designer. Silverworld, V:TM—Night Road, Pon Para. Werewolf: The Apocalypse — The Book of Hungry Names is out now! https://www.choiceofgames.com/werewolf-the-apocalypse/book-of-hungry-names/
Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social I explore my adopted home of Japan, looking for fun and weird mascots (and other costumed characters).
Darker Times @darkertimes.bsky.social A worker-owned horror culture magazine.
www.darkertimes.com
Holly Ranger @themauvedesert.bsky.social 📚 Open research / research data / libraries / research culture //
✍️ Critical ancient world studies / feminisms and classical reception / Sylvia Plath //
Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social Director of Research, @dairinstitute.bsky.social
Roller derby athlete
https://alex-hanna.com
Book: thecon.ai
Pod+newsletter: https://dair-institute.org/maiht3k
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🏳️⚧️ she/هي
📸 @willtoft.bsky.social
Rep📘 @ianbonaparte.bsky.social
The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social AI is not inevitable. We DAIR to imagine, build & use AI deliberately.
Website: http://dair-institute.org
Mastodon: @DAIR@dair-community.social
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dair-institute/
Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social Labor and environmental historian. Writer of books, teacher of American horrors, talker on labor movement. Beer, country music, and football are not just for the right wingers. Cats. The West. Music. Graves. Writes at https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/
jonny @misterbloat.bsky.social I read a bunch and edit Seize The Press Magazine.
Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social It's Briar! Hi! I'm an American werewolf and writer living in London.
Website: briarripleypage.xyz
Self-pubbed stuff on flameswallower.itch.io
JUCIFER🗑 @jucifer.blacksky.app amplification aggregator, voracious info eater, angry at injustice. bibliophile, linguaphile, semipolyglot.
typer is she/her/they/them
microdosing this thing
if i blocked? u post bigotry (some in every clique alas🫠)
throwing rocks at the Overton window
Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social Historian of scientific, economic and colonial projects in early modern Britain, Ireland, and the Atlantic; books http://bit.ly/3HYwNiA & http://bit.ly/3rKdAvt; http://memoriousblog.com; views mine; he/him. Montrealer in Philly, except when I’m in Montreal
Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com I read, I write, & I pet cats. Column, news, & book reviews at @reactorsff.bsky.social; publicity, prize, & more for @ursulakleguin.com. Once a bookseller, always a bookseller. PDX.
https://reactormag.com/author/molly-templeton/
nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social Editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of Decoder, cohost of The Vergecast. I am in love with spectacle.
Kamala Harris @kamalaharris.com Always fighting for the people.
Wife, Momala, Auntie. She/her.
107 Days, my behind-the-scenes account of the shortest campaign in history, is available now at https://kamalaharris.link/107Days.
Moon Palace Books @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social more books than before
Ross Radke RCCC I-18 @rossradke.bsky.social Comic Book Writer & Artist, creator of the kaiju series Stomped, superhero universe SpandEx and anthropomorphic adventure series Bill the Platypus. Currently residing in Portland.
https://zoop.gg/c/stompedanthology
www.rossradkeart.com
Kij Johnson @kijjohnson.bsky.social Some books, some awards, one cat. Licensed to sell weasels and jade earrings.
Novel-writing workshops: https://kijjohnson.com/teacher/
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/kijjohnson
Latest feat: RiverBank RPG! https://riverbankrpg.com
Maria Dahvana Headley @mariadahvana.bsky.social NYT-bestselling, Hugo Award winning monster and myth maker. Most recently, VERGIL! A Mythological Musical (Audible) , Beowulf: A New Translation, The Mere Wife, & many other items in the wondertale category & beyond. https://linktr.ee/mariadahvanaheadley
Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social New York Times opinion columnist; MSNOW contributor; author.
Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org Non-profit: restoring humanity to education. Promoting progressive ed. https://linktr.ee/humrespro
tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social 
Jennifer Berkshire @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social Podcasting about education policy and politics at haveyouheardpodcast.com | Latest book: The Education Wars: A Citizen's Guide and Defense Manual www.educationwarsbook.com. Follow my work at: http://educationwars.substack.com
Ashwini Singh @ashwinisingh.org Academic & Author | ashwinisingh.org | Opinions are my own. Follows are for diversity of views, not endorsement.
Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog Pulp scholar specializing in H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard. Author of SEX AND THE CTHULHU MYTHOS and WEIRD TALERS. Reader of dead people's letters. He/him. Blue checks happen to other people.
https://deepcuts.blog
Dark Talk @dark-talk.uk The official BlueSky account for the Dark Talk podcast.
• https://dark-talk.uk
• https://patreon.com/DarkTalkPod
Ross Trevelyan 🗻🌲🦪🦀🚵♂️ @jumpintraxjack.bsky.social Freelance Editor. Author. Realpolitiker. Diplomat.
2026-27 WIPs:
◆ Black as the Sea at Night, 1816 Irish picaresque
◆ Lakeshore Heights, psych noir thriller
Excerpts on #WIPSnips.
Слава Украïнi!
🚫AI, DM
#editors
https://www.trevelyanwrites.com
Wes Flinn (now with new trombones!) @wesflinn.bsky.social Composer. Music theorist. Lowbrassman. Director of the School of Music at Louisiana Tech. In an alternate universe, the second-most popular optometrist in Bedford, Indiana. Son of Pinhook, citizen of the world. Views my own.
Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social New old speculative fiction magazine, relaunched June 2k20! Looking for work on the ever-moving edge of its kind--fiction, art, graphic narrative, animation. www.penumbric.com. For submissions info, see www.penumbric.com/subs.html
Joe R. Lansdale @joerlansdale.bsky.social Sugar on the Bones, a Hap & Leonard novel
Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social Policy Professor, Ford School, University of Michigan.
Irish immigrant. Administrative burdens guy.
Free newsletter, Can We Still Govern?: https://donmoynihan.substack.com
Kyle Winkler @bleakhousing.bsky.social Predominant necromancer. Sad books.
The Substitute Teacher (Avon A/HarperCollins Fall 2027)
The Ship of Death (Avon A/HarperCollins, Fall 2026)
Enter the Peerless
Grasshands
Tone-Bone
The Nothing That Is
Rep: Naomi Eisenbeiss (InkWell)
Andrea LaFlamme @andrealaflamme.bsky.social She/her. Feminist. Repro Health Advocate. Public health professor. Union Leader. Former candidate for U.S. Senate in ME
andreaformaine.com
PFP: Andrea wearing an orange and blue plaid shirt and smiling
Header: “Together we lead” + chickadee logo
Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social New York Times Opinion Columnist. The world, especially the global south, migration, inequality, the human future, queer stuff. Reachable via email or on Signal @lpolgreen.39
Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social books, beauty, history, folklore. fan of Dickens & @littleseamstress. gets dressed up like a pillow so she's always in bed. patreon.com/sketchesbyboze, https://linktr.ee/sketchesbyboze
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social Former congressional candidate and journalist trying to change politics for good :) | www.kapow.works/
Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social senior reporter at the guardian us / julia.wong@theguardian.com / juliacarriewong.11 on Signal
Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social Horror writer startled by most sounds. The Barre Incidents and Kill Radio (both genre-bendy Horror) available thru Malarkey Books.
My website: https://www.laurenbolger.com/
Jewish / Free Palestine
Backgrd image quote: “Helloooo? My water dish is empty!”
Χριστίνα @drchristinah.bsky.social “A twat” — Andrew Mastrandonas @andrewmceo, founder of Pillar Health
Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com Author of novels fantastical & historical, avid gardener, co-founder of SFWA's pub industry watchdog Writer Beware. Casting a small light in a wilderness of writing scams (plus an occasional cat pic)
https://writerbeware.blog
https://victoriastrauss.com
Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness @tangledwilderness.bsky.social Producers of radical culture
Podcasts:
Live Like the World is Dying, Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness, The Spectacle
https://www.tangledwilderness.org/
https://www.patreon.com/c/strangersinatangledwilderness/
Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social *THE* Naijamerican PhD-holding, World Fantasy, multi-Hugo, Nebula, Eisner Award-winning, New York Times bestselling rudimentary cyborg writer, nnedi.com
@chmmagazine.bsky.social @chmmagazine.bsky.social 
Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social Newsletter: Welcome to Hell World www.welcometohellworld.com
Books:
We Had It Coming (2025) https://orbooks.com/catalog/we-had-it-coming/
A Creature Wanting Form (2023) www.orbooks.com/catalog/a-creature-wanting-form
Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social Ex- lots of things.
Podcast is Mass for Shut-ins. Subscribe for good stuff on Patreon.com/ginandtacos.
Death Sentence @deathsentencepod.bsky.social A podcast about books for people who don't like books or capitalism but who do like death metal, featuring @tallesteden.bsky.social, @garethwatkins.bsky.social and @pyramidmaster.bsky.social.
https://soundcloud.com/death-sentence-pod
Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social Facebook Beef
Emily Hare @emilyhare.com ✨ Folklore, fantasy & fairytales with a light dusting of peril
🎨 Watercolour & sculpture
🔔 Click the bell to follow my posts
✉️ Whimsy in your inbox! tinyurl.com/sky-haremail
🚫 NO AI/NFTs
🕸️ emilyhare.com
‘76
#fantasyart #watercolour #fairytale
Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social Dad. Iowan. Former HS social studies teacher. (PFP illustrated by Farimah Khavari)
Keith Rosson @keithrosson.bsky.social Writer, arteest, blindish, kinda punk. Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award. FEVER HOUSE, THE DEVIL BY NAME, COFFIN MOON, more. CRONE coming 9/26. Repped by Chad Luibl, Janklow & Nesbit. CLOSED FOR BLURBS, SORRY.
Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social Nonfiction about weird fiction at Seize the Press, Strange Horizons, Interzone, Los Angeles Review of Books, Nightmare, and Ancillary Review of Books, where I am also an editor. Also jazz, metal, leftism. he/him
https://doomsdayer.wordpress.com/writings/
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no a… @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy 🌉 bridged from 🌐 https://pluralistic.net/: https://fed.brid.gy/web/pluralistic.net
Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social Your favorite medievalist's favorite medievalist. Middle English literature and/in early modern books, with a side of textual editing. In progress: Dirtbag Medievalism, Chaucer's Readers: 1400-2000, Lydgate's Shorter Works
Minilla Jovovich 🍉 read Merynthia's Master ⚔️🪱🐦 @minillajovovich.bsky.social Sword & Sorcery Scribbler; overview of publications at https://luanawrites.carrd.co/
Kaiju Konnassoor, co-host of Defend Your Trash Movie; podcast at https://rss.com/podcasts/trashmoviepod/
Buy my books at https://luana420.itch.io/
Justin McElroy @thoughtographic.bsky.social I draw weird little guys
Email: thoughtographic@gmail.com
David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social Journalist & historian. Pub musician. Dad. Husband. Fishing obsessed. I also do dishes. Order: #ThePublicScholar - https://tinyurl.com/thepublicscholar.
Them Curry @tylerhendrix.blog storyboard artist, gag comics, writing, dumbass
🟨⬜️🟪⬛️(THEY/THEM)⬛️🟪⬜️🟨
MS➡️CA➡️mental hospital➡️assisted living
(see pinned post)
📧: tyler@tylerhendrix.blog
💻: https://tylerhendrix.blog
comics: https://tylerhendrix.blog/comics
Grace Daly @gracedalyauthor.bsky.social (she/her) • Bram Stoker-Nominated Author of The Scald-Crow • Disabled, chronic invisible illness • Easily frightened but writes horror (HWA member) • Also writes fantasy and sci fi • Rep: Lane Heymont at The Tobias Literary Agency
Up On Goblin Hill @upongoblinhill.bsky.social He/Him - 35 - Illustrator - Gargoyle - Museum Worker-
💼 https://www.upongoblinhill.com/
🖼️ patreon.com/upongoblinhill
🎨 upongoblinhill@gmail.com
🏷️ https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/upongoblinhill/
🪙 https://ko-fi.com/upongoblinhill
Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social Writer, teacher. Up next: PENITENT, a novel (2028, Doubleday); TYPO, nonfiction (2027, Bloomsbury). Out now: APPLESEED (2021, Mariner). REFUSE TO BE DONE (2022, Soho Press).
Jonathan Raab @spookhouse.bsky.social Hack Horror Writer | Gothic Upstate New York
DARKVOID DEATHSHIP | VAMPYRVANIA RPG | THE MAUSOLEUM OF GORE | EUROSCHLOCK NIGHTMARES
newsletter sign up at muzzlelandpress.com
Mr. Legendarium @legendarium.bsky.social 27 | Metal musician | Legendarium, Lymbolic Scythe, Streetlights, and more
🔥⚔️NEW ALBUM COMING NOVEMBER 6TH!⚔️🔥
https://legendarium.bandcamp.com/
Emmett Nahil @emnays.bsky.social Narrative Director/Cofounder @ Perfect Garbage 🔪 making Grave Seasons
✦ FROM THE BELLY ✦ LET ME OUT
Lit Rep: Tamara Kawar ✦ Film/TV: Sean Berard, Grandview
www.emmettnahil.com
Cynthia Pelayo @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social Bram Stoker Award–winning author | MFA, PhD English(c) | SOMETHING FOLLOWED US HOME, Sept 29 | Rep-Lane Heymont | cynthiapelayo.com
Necrosferatul @necrosferatul.bsky.social Raw vampyric black metal. Regicidal Rococo necrosurf. Anti-fascist punkened black 'n' roll with hints of 60s psychedelia and classic 80s speed metal.
necrosferatul.bandcamp.com
necrosferatul.ampwall.com
frithuswith.bandcamp.com
frithuswith.ampwall.com
Greet @greetlds.bsky.social 🌞 Harmonium Driven Dark Folk 🌞
‘I Know How To Die’ out on 17th October via @dry_cough_records & @fiadhproductions
greet.bandcamp.com
Contact: greet.leeds@gmail.com
Kendrick Lemke @kendricklemke.bsky.social 🎸 athousandangelsandseven, Fatalist, Pedestal for Leviathan, Disgustingest
💍 Chelby 📍 Denver, CO
https://linktr.ee/kendricklemke
Fern of Demon Sluice @oopaldoopal.bsky.social Primitive black metal. They/Them. 
Tyler Mathai @tylermathai.bsky.social Traditional Illustrator | Baltimore, MD
Inspired by weird fantasy, horror, & the art of old school TTRPGs. Currently developing Wings of Woe, a grim faerie skirmish game.
Shop Prints: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/tsmathai/
📷 Instagram: @tyler.mathai
Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social Issue 2: The Devil Has the Best Tunes is due out in October. Online shop reopens late September.
Edited by @scaryasfolk.bsky.social and @theharvestmaid.bsky.social.
Echo On Publications @echohorror.com The world's leading publisher of retro genre novelizations
unraveled @unraveledpress.com Independent, reader-supported investigative reporting from Chicago on policing and state violence.
Support us: unraveledpress.com/support-unraveled/
📧 info@unraveledpress.com
📱 Signal: unraveled.66
Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social Lead developer of Nightwell Games. Currently surviving the aftermath of the Eaton Fire. All-ages deduction game DEDUCTOPIA coming soon: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4429720/Deductopia/
Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social That one medieval historian you've heard of. Co-host We're Not So Different and Gone Medieval podcasts. Author of The Once and Future Sex. (Out now!) George Michael stan. Cutie.
https://eleanorjanega.com/
Jack Wright @jackwrightauthor.com Horror author from the North of England. Reyt Spooky.
Stories of grief, folklore, and the things that move when they shouldn’t.
Duskfield Pines — ???
Anna’s Veil — ???
https://ko-fi.com/jackwrightauthor
https://buymeacoffee.com/jackwright
D. Matthew Urban @breathinghead.bsky.social weird fiction person • TX → NY • stories here and there • SHAKY PICTURES OF VANISHED FACES out now from Cursed Morsels Press! • he/him • https://dmatthewurban.com
Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com Shirley Jackson Award-nominated EIC of @tenebrouspress.bsky.social. Dark specfic writer, Romanian folklore nerd, optimistic nihilist.
she/her
WHISPERWOOD out now
THE NIGHT SHIP out now
TATRATEA coming Oct 2026
https://linktr.ee/AlexWoodroe
Michael Bettendorf @beardedbetts.bsky.social Writer. Eater of Books. Lover of Comics. Library Tech. Drummer. Burrito enthusiast. He/Him husband.
Author of TRVE CVLT, Midwestern Chrome (2026), Help! I Can't Stop Shitting Snakes (2027).
www.michaelbettendorfwrites.com.
Senplus @senplus.bsky.social Co-host of the Podcast www.monsterdear.monster
He/Him
Filthy Loot @filthyloot.bsky.social Misfit Fictions
Ames, IA, EST. 2018
Ira Rat, Curator
filthyloot.com
Aftermath @aftermath.site Aftermath is an independent, worker-owned website about video games and internet culture.
www.aftermath.site
John Tedrick @tedrick-art.bsky.social Illustrator and concept artist at Wizards of the Coast
Fantasy and horror artist
WARNING: some artwork may be graphic in nature or contain mature content.