Melissa V. Hofelich @melissavh.bsky.social Reader, gamer, lurker. Copy Editor, Nightmare Magazine.
Laurel Hightower @laurelhightower.bsky.social Horror loving mom. Author of that mothman book, BELOW. Also WHISPERS IN THE DARK, CROSSROADS, EVERY WOMAN KNOWS THIS, SILENT KEY, SPIRIT COVEN, and THE DAY OF THE DOOR
Semper Anticus Press @semperanticuspress.bsky.social Indie publisher launching soon!
Main site: www.book-shelfie.com/submissions
semperanticuspress@gmail.com
Angry Gable Press @angrygablepress.bsky.social a publisher of niche speculative fiction and poetry
angrygablepress.com
This Exquisite Topology available now!
https://a.co/d/4b4OElO
Katabatic Circus
@katabaticcircus.bsky.social
Tatiana Schlote-Bonne @thebuffwriter.bsky.social WHAT FEEDS BELOW (Oct 2026)
THE MEAN ONES
SUCH LOVELY SKIN
Last name pronounced: shh-low-tee Bo-nay
Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social Sasha Brown is a Stoker-nominated writer whose stories have been called “Creative! But in a bad way.” He’s in lit mags like Passages North and Wigleaf, and in genre pubs like Bourbon Penn and Weird Horror. He’s online at sashabrownwriter.com.
David Perlmutter @davidperlmutter.bsky.social Canadian white male autistic writer. Author of America 'Toons In: A History of Television Animation and The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Also author of speculative fiction, superhero fiction and anthropomorphic ("furry") fiction.
Pierce King @pierceking.bsky.social Weird fiction writer and fan. If you love the Weird too visit my site and read my stuff! Pierceking.com
Lady Strangely @ladystrangely.bsky.social I acknowledge that my inner bitch is also my outer bitch.
Infamous raccoon.
I am the powerhouse of the mitochondria.
Marissa van Uden @marissavu.bsky.social Freelance Editor | EiC Violet Lichen (Apex Books) | Editor "ECO: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction" | woods mädchen | friend to animals | biodiversity stan | stories in Vastarien, Dark Matter, Los Suelos | ACES & EFA member
Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social All Kinds of Weird 👽 literary magazine and book company publishing strange, surreal, shocking, beautiful sff & horror. 100% organic, no AI 🚫
🛸 https://www.apexbookcompany.com/
🍄 https://violetlichen.com/
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.
Darkenryde Publishing @darkenryde.bsky.social uoıʇɔıℲ ʞɹɐᗡ
Projects from @calvindemmer.bsky.social
Horror-Reads @horrorreads.bsky.social I like to review horror books on my YouTube channel. I'm also the author of several horror books. http://www.youtube.com/@HorrorReads
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
Nina Miller @ninamiller.bsky.social Physician, Fencer and Creative
Wigleaf top 50
https://ninamillerwrites.com/
Hybrids/Photos @ Cutbow Quarterly and Raw Lit
Prose/Poetry @ Sci-Fi Shorts, Bright Flash, Five South, Roi Fainéant, Five Minutes and more.
Ryan Marie Ketterer @ryanmarie47.bsky.social I write weird.
https://linktr.ee/ryanmarie47
Flex Fish Games @flexfishgames.bsky.social Artist Matthew king and programmer Rami Bukhari, teaming up to develop nostalgic hand-drawn 2D games.
Celina Thompson @authorcthompson.bsky.social Disabled dark romance author & public speaker who shares lessons she’s learned from medical trauma in her books/workshops/speeches—La MAMÁCITA MAFIOSA OUT NOW!
BurkittsvilleMike @burkittsvillemike.bsky.social NOT the Mike in the movie.
Mayor, Burkittsville, MD (2022- present)
Lynne Danley @danleylynne.bsky.social I'm a writer, suspense thriller novelist and blogger of Write Right! and Oregon Author. I love reading, cooking, gardening, sports. Proud Democrat. No DMs, porn, fundraising, empty profiles.
#writers
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VOIDCON @voidcon.bsky.social VOIDCON is a dark covenant, a consortium of shadowy artists and creators across all media. Watch this space.
www.voidcon.wordpress.com
Justin Lutz @justinlutz.bsky.social Splatterpunk award nominated author / screen printer / punk in disguise.
Embrace the Void.
SLUGGER @sluggerfiction.bsky.social sluggerfiction.com
https://ko-fi.com/sluggerfiction/shop
Bri @thewhyofbri.bsky.social NYC. Figuring myself out. Published writer/gamedev. He/him. Autistic/ADHD. Loves games, movies, anime, horror, JRPGs, Zelda, Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts, Ys, Simpsons, Star Wars/Trek, and you. Avi by @heyitschloespencer.bsky.social
Kyler Fey vs Destoroyah @kylerfey.bsky.social Writer of queer sci-fi and horror, literary pornographer, aesthetic terrorist, lube expert, gay cis male(he/him), friend of all cats. I have books on Amazon. TRANS RIGHTS ALWAYS, ABORTION ON DEMAND, BLACK LIVES MATTER. Horny fagsexually active slut.
N.J. Gallegos is Dr. Spooky (she/her) @drspookyer.bsky.social I like big cats. ER doc. Horror author. Artist. Cohost of The Scream Kings Podcast. Member of HWA. Pro-choice. BLM. I voted for her. Star Wars & BravoTV fanatic. She/her. 🌊🏳️🌈
Personal site: https://njgallegos.com
Podcast: https://www.screamkingspodcast.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
Trooper @trooper1881.bsky.social I write and I read, then I play Minecraft.
18+
https://ko-fi.com/trooper1881
author of The Ranch Motel a erotic web series over 328,931 views!
https://www.scribblehub.com/series/1327350/the-ranch/
https://archiveofourown.org/works/61447012/chapters/15707
Dark Forest Press LLC @darkforestpressllc.bsky.social Dark Forest Press LLC is an indie press in the Pacific Northwest cooked up by @jwdonley.
DFP focuses on the darker side of things: horror, weird, bizarro, dark lit, and even non fiction of varied interest.
http://darkforestpress.com
Tab Creations @tabcreations.com Developer and publisher of roleplaying games and card games, including Shadows Over Sol, Age of Ambition, Against the Dark Yogi and more!
Website: https://tabcreations.com
Kickstarter: https://buff.ly/4dYdgi2
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Jim Horlock @horlockwarlock.bsky.social Writer, gamer, Dungeon Master, collector of ghosts and cryptid enthusiast. Stories with Apex Magazine, Cosmic Horror Monthly and many more. Pushcart Prize Nominated.
https://ko-fi.com/jimhorlock
Let the Ryan One In @ryanb4890.bsky.social Horror writer, guitarist, podcaster. He/him. Young-ish man yelling at cloud. Saint's Blood '22. Bad Connections: Horror Stories and Dumb Bullshit for Brilliant Idiots '24. Say Uncle '25. Horror Hangover with Cass Clarke.
https://linktr.ee/ryancbradley
C.J. Subko @cjsubko.bsky.social Writer of SFFH. Snarkwitch. Psych PhD. Approachable goth. Artomancer. Baseball nerd.
Words in Small Wonders, Penumbric, The Deadlands
Member of HWA, SFWA, Codex
www.cjsubko.com
https://cjsubko.beehiiv.com
Íde “of March” Hennessy @ideofmarch.bsky.social 📝Sci-fi/Horror Author. 🔮Opossummoner. 🎹Lyricist, Keys & Vocals in Control Voltage, as Vibra Steel. 💊Chronically illin’ in Humboldt County.🌲 🐈⬛Cat worshipper. 🚫Anti-genocide. 🚫Anti-AI. She/They.
L.P. Hernandez @lphernandez.bsky.social Horror author. MBA. Air Force officer. Publisher. Co-owner of Sobelo Books. Metalhead. Robust. Enchanting. Read me in Cemetery Gates, Dark Matter, a truck stop between Lubbock and Amarillo. Client of Becky LeJeune. Punch Nazis. I love you.
D.J. Tuskmor @tuskmor.com Horror Writer | Narrative Designer | Chief Cyber Exorcist
Website: Tuskmor.com
Dead Languages Podcast @deadlanguagespod.bsky.social Authors Carson Winter and P.L. McMillan languish in the woes and joys of being horror writers. Come join us as we chat craft, movies, books, and more!
😤 Deadlanguagespodcast.com
🥵 patreon.com/DeadLanguagesPodcast
@chmmagazine.bsky.social @chmmagazine.bsky.social 
Christa Carmen🌘🦉🔮 @christaqua.bsky.social Bram Stoker Award-winning & 2x Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author. She/her.
Pre-Order How to Fake a Haunting:
https://www.christacarmen.com/books-how-to-fake-a-haunting.aspx
Substack: Horror Homesteading:
https://christacarmen.substack.com/
JL George @jlgeorge.bsky.social Author of THE WORD and various other things. She/they | hi/nhw. http://www.jl-george.com
http://www.parthianbooks.com/products/the-word
Filthy Loot @filthyloot.bsky.social Misfit Fictions
Ames, IA, EST. 2018
Ira Rat, Curator
filthyloot.com
Tatzle @tatzlewyrm.bsky.social 
Jacy Morris @jacymorris.bsky.social Indigenous Author and screenwriter, member of HWA, creator of This Rotten World and One Night Stand at the End of the World. Ask me about my writing coaching gig.
Salt Heart Press @saltheartpress.bsky.social An independent publisher of dark speculative fiction.
Saltheartpress.com
Catherine Cavendish @catcavendish.bsky.social Author of Supernatural, Ghostly, Haunted House and Gothic Horror Fiction. Member of Horror Writers' Association, and British Fantasy Society
Cindy O’Quinn @cindyoquinn.bsky.social All things horror💀HWA Bram Stoker Award winning author. Elgin, Rhysling, & Dwarf Star nominated poet. Living haunted.🔥
Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social Writer. White-knuckle knitter. Bunny mom. Superannuated Pre-Raphaelite stunner. Punk- and Goth-adjacent. My novel, Damned Pretty Things, and my related novella, The Circus, the Garden (and Mario Lanza), are out from Aqueduct Press. I like perfume.
Brian Carney @briancarneywrites.bsky.social Horror, Dark Fiction, & Mystery Writer (Adult and YA) | HWA member | Authors Guild member | Lover of all things spooky, autumnal, and Gothic | Halloween is life | Vegan | Coffee Enthusiast http://www.briananthonycarney.com/
Douglas Gwilym (author, editor) @douglasgwilym.bsky.social Bram Stoker Award nominated short-story author. Co-editor of The Midnight Zone: NOVUS MONSTRUM.
My story "Year Six" was recommended by Ellen Datlow for Best Horror 14. Songwriter, bassist, & YouTuber of weird old tales.
Emory 🩶 @emory-f8.bsky.social I write dark Victorian fiction and specialize in the long 19th century.
She/Her 🏳️🌈🇪🇸✡️ (I'm always kind)
#writer #historian #Lesbian #sapphic #wlw #Hispanic #feminist #goth #vampires #jpop #bibliophile
NO DMs | Terfs & Narcissists DNI
Frances Meredith @francesmeredith.bsky.social I'm just a person who likes to read and write horror.
Jordana Greene - Writer (Pen name) @jordanagreene.bsky.social Tree-hugging, happily wed #cat lover #dystopian #poetry #romance #scifi #fantasy #climatechange #BLM #writingcommunity
POETRY book coming. 1st Indie dystopian novel available on KU. Trad pub under 2 other names.
NO CHAT MSGS
JC Cooksey @jccooksey.bsky.social Artist, writer, co-owner of Horrorgasm LLC and creator of The Creep in the Corner picture book series. https://linktr.ee/JCCooksey
Ryan LaMantia (Author) @ryan-lamantia.bsky.social I am an indie author from Denver, Colorado. I have written Road Trip, Unintended Consequences, The E.T. Fort, and To Serve and Protect (2025).
Corey Farrenkopf @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social Writer / Librarian
Work in Electric Literature, the Deadlands, Strange Horizons, Nightmare, etc
Repped by Marie Lamba of Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency.
Novel: Living in Cemeteries
Collection: Haunted Ecologies
CoreyFarrenkopf.com
Cyan LeBlanc @cyanleblanc.bsky.social Sapphic Extreme Horror and Dark Romance author and publisher at Undertaker Books. 🏳️⚧️ Non-Binary lesbian (They/Them/He/Him). cyanleblanc.substack.com
David Worn @worncassettes.bsky.social Horror writer. Tape hiss, TV static, and modem handshake sounds are my jam.
worncassettes.com
@undertakerbooks.bsky.social @undertakerbooks.bsky.social Undertaker Books publishes dark fiction and horror. Established in April of 2024, our core values are integrity, professionalism, honesty, and transparency. Run by D.L. Winchester, Cyan LeBlanc, and Rebecca Cuthbert. More at undertakerbooks.com. 
Katherine "Kat" Silva @katsilvaauthor.bsky.social Grief horror author. 🏳️🌈 The Deadlands 2024 | Where The Soul Goes w/ Truborn Press. DICHOTOMY, coming March 2027 | EIC @strangewildspress.bsky.social. she/her
https://www.katherinesilvaauthor.com/links
Antony F. @antonyfrost.bsky.social Antony F{rost, ox-Bramwell}
He/they
Horror nerd, tech enthusiast, blogging and writing scary stories for fun in the East of England.
Blogging at https://antonyfb.com
Stories at https://ferenbrooke.com
Emma E. Murray @emmaemurray.bsky.social Award-winning horror writer. She/her. 🩷💜💙
Rep: literaryclara.bsky.social
🌊Seafoam Shallows (2028 Shortwave)
🐌Crushing Snails
😈When the Devil
💧The Drowning Machine and Other Obsessions
🩸Shoot Me in the Face on a Beautiful Day
Website: EmmaEMurray.com
Story Hour @storyhour.bsky.social Every Wednesday at 7:00 PT, gather round the virtual campfire and listen to SFFH short stories read by their authors. Follow the links on our site to Zoom or Facebook. Updates by @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social.
https://www.storyhour2020.com/
Daniel Mowery @dmowerywrites.bsky.social Writer of things dark, odd, beautiful, etc. What’s fear without an occasional laugh? Horror, literary, fantasy, and thriller lover. Father, husband, dog dad, musician, and constructioneer by day.
danielmowerywrites.com
A Coup of Owls Press | Summer Nights OUT NOW! @acoupofowls.bsky.social Free to read and download quarterly online issues https://acoupofowls.com/
Print anthologies, collections and novellas http://acoupofowls.square.site
Publishing only marginalised/under-represented creators, 18+.
Est. 2021 and going strong
Warren Benedetto @warrenbenedetto.bsky.social Award winning horror/sci-fi author. Full SFWA. Stories in Fantasy, Dark Matter Mag, The Dread Machine, Apex, The NoSleep Podcast, Tales to Terrify, and more. Free stories and podcasts at https://warrenbenedetto.com
Jordan Shiveley (Dread Singles) @jordanshiveley.bsky.social Jordan Shiveley • writes fictions/games • words in Uncanny, Nightmare Magazine, Neon Hemlock, Best Horror of the Year vol. 15 • Unbound survivor • designs • Voidmerch owner• He/They • Queer • MPLS
www.voidmerch.net
www.jordanshiveley.com
Dark Moon Books @darkmoonbooks.bsky.social A publisher of unusual and invigorating dark fiction. Helmed by Eric J. Guignard @ericjguignard.bsky.social, the Dark Moon rises!
http://www.darkmoonbooks.com/
Davis Walden @daviswaldeniv.bsky.social Demonic Ryan Gosling | PDX 🏔️| VFX Coord | SD: Nightlight, Victoria’s Lift | Writer: NoSleep Podcast, Wicked Library, ‘Sand Salt Blood,’ ‘Book of Queer Saints Vol. 2’
Verax 🇨🇦 @marcusverax.bsky.social “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom”
- Viktor Frankl
John Chambers @jcbizarro.bsky.social Bizarro and horror author. Daytime tech person.
https://linktr.ee/jcbizarro
Sauda Namir @saudanamir.bsky.social Multifaceted artist with a penchant for titillation. Bizarro Babe, pin-up model, thriller actress, & burlesque performer.
https://linktr.ee/saudanamir
P.A. Cornell (She/Her) @cornellwriter.bsky.social 2x Nebula finalist. Aurora, and World Fantasy-finalist. Chilean-Canadian writer. Winner Short Works Prize. SFWA, CSFFA, ALCiFF Chile. Odyssey ’02. Codex. Stories in Apex, Fantasy, Lightspeed, and others. Linktree: http://linktr.ee/pacornell
Mark Morrison @markmwrites.bsky.social He/Him. Mediocre Old One: Call of Cthulhu RPG & videogame writer, Chaosium Community Ambassador, Pendragon squire, rampant herbivore. My dogs say hi.
L.T. Williams @ltwilliams.bsky.social Writer. Associate editor at @havenspec.bsky.social. Words in-or forthcoming in-Chthonic Matter Quarterly, @talestoterrify.bsky.social, and @shotgunhoney.com, among others.
Looking for information on the whereabouts of the Mothman.
LTWilliamsWriter.com
Steven Patchett @stevenpatchett.bsky.social He/Him. Engineer, Husband, Father. Writer in the Northeast of England. Anti-AI. Kindness matters.
I don't reply to random DMs.
Reader for the Small Spec Book Awards.
Published here and there.
Linktr.ee/stevenpatchett
J. Loren Underwood @jlunderwood.bsky.social Reader. Writer. Mom. Sometime pirate. Sometime swamp hag.
she/her
David-Jack Fletcher - Author @fletcherhorror.bsky.social Author, editor, and publisher. Owner of queer horror publisher Slashic Horror Press. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🐻🐻❄️🧸
🐦⬛ Raven’s Creek
🧛 The Count
🐔 The Haunting of Harry Peck
🔥 Hell is Other People
🦷 Indentured
✈️ He Will Have the World
👶 Umbilical (2026)
www.fletcherhorror.com
Paul Preston @pbanditp.bsky.social Indie horror book reviewer and enthusiast. Ally. Safe.
Angela WEARS A MASK AND LIKES DEMOCRACY @angelathedancer.bsky.social I retweet more than I talk. Used to dance a lot. She/her. #Dogs #HorrorNovels #ChronicIllness #Fibromyalgia #Gay 🌈🐶 #Democrat #LGBTRights
Kathy Palm @kathleenpalm.bsky.social MG horror writer. General weirdo. Find me running in the haunted cornfields. Author of The Nowhere Series from Undertaker Books (Middle Grade horror) HWA Chicago.
Creepy is fun.
Scott Drebit @sdrebit.bsky.social My book A CUT BELOW: A CELEBRATION OF B HORROR MOVIES, 1950s to 1970s, is available everywhere from McFarland Publishing. Also: Daily Dead and Corpse Club podcast.
FUCK A.I. Rep: Darlene Chan of the Linda Chester Agency
Email: drebitscott@gmail.com
Laura Keating @lorekeating.bsky.social Writer of Fiction; Bae of Fundy
Irish-Canadian
Website https://www.lorekeating.com/
Novella AGONY'S LODESTONE https://store.tenebrouspress.com/products/agonys-lodestone-print
Collection THE TRUEST SENSE https://a.co/d/090sQN3I
She/Her
HWA Ontario @hwaontario.bsky.social Horror Writers Association
Ontario Chapter
#horrorwriters #HWAOntario
Elou Carroll 🍂 is querying 🍂 @keychild.bsky.social (she/her)
I design things. I write things. I photograph things. I panic about things. Mostly that last one.
edits: @crowkeys.bsky.social
http://eloucarroll.com • http://crowcrosskeys.com
Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social Award-Winning Publisher of New Weird Horror + More, via Portland, OR & Transilvania, Romania.
@AlexWoodroe.com, Editor in Chief.
@MattBlairstone.bsky.social, Publisher.
SUPPORT INDIE. Hail the Tenebrous Cult🖤☠️
https://linktr.ee/TenebrousPress
RachelChurcherWriting @rachelchurcher.bsky.social Award-winning YA author. Indie editor, YA reviewer, co-founder of www.forewordfestival.uk
LGBTQ+ novel 'Angels' available now from bookshops, plus Amazon, Waterstones, B&N, Kobo, Apple, Smashwords, Allstora.
www.tallerbooks.com
freebook.tallerbooks.com
Timber Ghost Press @timberghostpress.bsky.social Timber Ghost is a small press that specializes in publishing #creepy, #weird, and #disturbing fiction.
https://www.timberghostpress.com/#/
Micah Castle 🎃 @micahcastle.com 🐺New book The Companions We Lose🐺 mybook.to/companion | Horror and weird fiction author. | Editor. | Drifting in the Void.
www.linktr.ee/micahcastle
Author Katherine Rawson @katherinerawson.bsky.social Romance❤️ | Suspense😱 | Mystery🕵️♀️ | Supernatural👀
Author of "Spirits of the Crescent" - Available for preorder
https://linktr.ee/katherinerawson
Jane Davis Author @janedavisauthor.bsky.social ✍️ Writes books 📜🖋️ Publishes books 📖 Reads books 📕Breathes books 📚
🏆 Winner of the Daily Mail First Novel Award
🗞️📰 Join my Readers' Club at www.jane-davis.co.uk and receive a FREE ebook
Hungry Shadow Press @hungryshadow.bsky.social Micro-press specializing in anthologies of short horror fiction. hungryshadowpress.com
Plot Your Novel @kerrymurphyeditor.bsky.social Currently writing a sci-fi horror romance with elements of Frankenstein and the tempest - yep.
https://plotyournovel.com/
Arasibo Campeche @arasiboc.bsky.social Biochemist and Author. Short story collection, Strained Sigma Bonds out now by Water Dragon publishing.
Link tree: https://linktr.ee/arasibo_campeche
Medium: https://medium.com/@arasibo
𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 | The Tower, The Moon, The Gun 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸 @horrorculturist.bsky.social Gothic gardening, goblincore, dark art, horror, weird music. 🌿🍁🍂🎃
Agnostic atheist. Nyctophile. AuDHD. Demi-Pan. They/them. | Contrary to internet lore, I am not lost, sorrowful, despairing, trapped, drowning, falling, or stuck in a maze. (You OK?)
Addison Smith (Addi) @addi.social Ace author of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror.
Would rather be a fish. 🐠
https://addi.studio
🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social Make horror gay AF, Stoker Award winner
out now: NO GODS FOR DROWNING
Sept 15: THIS MOVIE DOESN'T END THE WAY WE WANT
she/her; rep: Lane Heymont
haileypiper.com
Syn @thesimplysyn.bsky.social Booktuber, weirdo, video game nerd, plant eater, gardener, and lover of the strange. (she/her)
https://linktr.ee/simplysyn