Eddie Falvey @eddiefalvey.bsky.social Dr of Film Studies | Director of Chasm Films | Author of Re-Animator (LUP, 2021) | Editor of The Cinema of Yorgos Lanthimos (Bloomsbury, 2022) | He/him
Daniel Ambord, PhD @daniel-ambord-phd.bsky.social Independent scholar of philosophy, religion, and culture.
Daniel-Ambord.owlstown.net
Clare M Coombe @claremcoombe.bsky.social she/they • tofu-eating wokerata • writer, artist, podcaster, educator • literature PhD • ME/CFS • 🏳️🌈♿ • writing on zombies and crip theory 🧟
Katherine Lucia Prentice @katherineprentice.bsky.social Glasgow based horror nerd👻
Researching disability, witchcraft, decoloniality, & ecofeminism in LatAm and Celtic folk horror @ northumbria uni🧿
D(oc) Oc(k) @frittersandclam.bsky.social teaching professor in film; movies, tv, hockey, books, cats, horror, television, irish media. often retweets Hausu and Elsa Lanchester
Charlotte Bank @charlottebank.bsky.social Art historian and curator. Acting professor of Islamic Art at LMU Munich. Current research project: Queering Islamic Art: Expressions of Gender Diversity and Critique of Sexual Normativity in Contemporary Art.
Co-director Art-Lab Berlin
Lucinda Menaul @lhmenaul.bsky.social Classics and English Lit PhD student funded by the AHRC, Kings College London. Interested in Victorian classical and medieval reception + literary representation of horses
I shoot on pretentious retro cameras…
PCAS / ACAS @pcas-acas.bsky.social The Popular Culture / American Culture in the South
2026 Conference: Oct 15-17, New Orleans, LA
Pcasacasconference.org
Dr Gheorghe Williams @gheorghewilliams.bsky.social ECR, contemp. Gothic drama, ecodramaturgy, queer theatre 🎭 Reviews Editor at Revenant (revenantjournal.com) 📖 @Gheorghe_L_W
Luke @lukemoy.bsky.social Short bi-ro ace person trying to be positive. Doctoral student in communications studies, researching action figures, critical disability, fandom, media.
LLM-flavored A.I. is not welcome.
Using this platform for networking.
https://lukemoy.com
Southern Gothic Area at PCAS/ACAS @southerngothicpcas.bsky.social The Southern Gothic Area of the Popular Culture / American Culture Association in the South
OCTOBER 15-17, 2026, NEW ORLEANS, LA
#SouthernGothic #Gothic #PCASACAS
Korra Saqqara (Christa Angelios) @metamythica.bsky.social 💀 Studying the Gothic at MMU
📖 Literary Coach & Freelance Editor, MetaMythica Literary
🐧 Former Random Penguin; Columbia Publishing Course alum
Member: EFA, ACES, PEN
She/Her
#SWANAinPublishing #AmWriting #AmEditing #Folklore #Horror #SFF 👻
Opinions my own
Xavier Aldana Reyes @xaldanareyes.bsky.social Reader in English Literature and Film •
International Gothic Association co-president (2022-2026) • Manchester #Gothic Centre founding member • #Horror Studies book series editor • Profile: https://tinyurl.com/2czvabnz
nina @nintrixa.bsky.social film academic
Heather Milligan @hrmilligan.bsky.social Research Fellow at Loughborough University // contemporary lit, ecocriticism, and American culture // writing a book called Ecogothic America and the Twenty-First-Century Novel (forthcoming Edinburgh University Press) // she/her
GG Dascal @gg-dascal.bsky.social 📚 Film studies • Cultural studies • Literature
🎓 PhD from the University of Manitoba
🏳️⚧️ Non-binary (they/them)
JoCoghlan @jojopopcrn.bsky.social Associate Professor, Popular Culture Research Network Australia, University of New England
andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social Author of Audiofuturism, Speculative Blackness, and editor, The Black Fantastic
https://fordhampress.com/audiofuturism-hb-9781531513320.html
insta: audio.futurism
Whitby Gothic @whitbygothic.bsky.social #Whitby #Goth #Gothic #GothicRock #Gothcore #GothicHorror #PostPunk #industrial #SynthPop #EBM #darkrock #darkwave #HammerHorror #Dracula V''''V #BramStoker #Folklore #Krampus #FolkHorror #Steampunk #Frankenstein #altrock #newwave : ste@8b-all.com
Kevin Corstorphine @drkevcorstorphine.bsky.social Lecturer in English. Gothic, horror, weird.
Geraldine Seymour @geraldineseymour.bsky.social PhD Candidate | Luddite | Artificial Intelligence in Science Fiction | Space | Gothic | Cats |Writing | Bad Drawings in Ink
Meghan Hewitt @floodme.bsky.social Researching all things horror lit, film, and gaming focusing on identity, monsters, and storytelling.
B.A TCD - M.A UCL
https://linktr.ee/thefloodflow
she/her
Mike Stack @docmickstack.bsky.social Escaped from X - way too toxic and corrupting democracy. Hubbie, dog dad, plant-based. Written some academic stuff and ad hoc teaching. Occasional fiction writer under pseudonym.
Aqsa @aqsa-eram.bsky.social Researcher, Gothic
Charlotte Stevens @charstevens.bsky.social Senior Lecturer @ Birmingham City University (film/tv, fandom, games), she/her
Melissa Marsden @melissamarsdenphd.bsky.social Freelance Journalist http://www.framingthenarrative.com/
PhD Candidate in Media Flinders University
Political Junkie 👩🦯🏳️🌈
Abby Kirby @abbykirby.bsky.social Middle school ELA// MA in Media Studies// Fandom Researcher// Gravity Falls & Psych Fan// Fanfic Enthusiast
Dr. Jennessa Hester 🍒 @cherrypoppunk.bsky.social lambda poetry fellow 👸 disney and nintendo studies 🏰 perpetually sleepy 💤 she/her 🏳️⚧️
jennessahester.com
Dr. Vaughn Joy @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social UCL PhD in Christmas Film History • MA in Comic Books • MPhil in Demons • Creator of https://blackwhiteandread.com/ • Author of Selling Out Santa: Hollywood Christmas Films in the Age of McCarthy (2025) • Wife of My Favorite Person • she/her
Rebecca Merkelbach @beccamerkelbach.bsky.social Doctor of trollology. Saga fangirl. Assistant Prof of Old Norse at Uni Tü. Lefty nerd💚 Powerlifting yoga teaching harpist. She/sie🏳️🌈 #SkandiRetten
Dagmar Fraser @dagmarfraser.bsky.social Doctoral Researcher with the Social Cognition Collective (jencooklab.com), Senior Centre Technician @thechbh.bsky.social, MATLAB Special Interest Group Chair & Ambassador
https://linktr.ee/dagmarfraser
Marius @mariusbax.bsky.social Norwegian film and cultural industries researcher who cares more about distribution than most people. Looking for work.
Rides bikes, plays hockey and tabletoprpgs.
Non-academic toots in Norwegian.
Paula García-Rodríguez @pgarrod.bsky.social PhD student at University of Málaga 👩🏼💻📖
Horror and the Gothic! 🧛🏻♀️🦇
Gender, Feminism, Queer, and Embodiment
Member of @trans-use.bsky.social
Associate Editor of @jaclrinfo.bsky.social
Steven Sheil @scsheil.bsky.social Screenwriter and director: 'Mum & Dad', 'Dead Mine'. Writer of dark fiction. Co-Director of Mayhem Film Festival @mayhemfilmfestival.bsky.social. Nottingham, UK. https://linktr.ee/StevenSheil
Creator of @adrianchills.bsky.social
Rspinelli @librarianchef.bsky.social Independent researcher, archivist and librarian researching in the fields of conspiracy theories and death studies. Always open to discussing new projects and collaborations.
https://www.robert-spinelli.com
Dr Sandra Aline Wagner @drsandrawagner.bsky.social 🌍International Relations Executive
📚PhD in Horror Studies
🐙Lovecraft 🧟Mash-up Novels
Dr Cat Smith @moderngothicbooks.bsky.social Independent Scholar reading contemporary literary theory & C21 Gothic 🖊📚💀👻
Dr Lauren B @gothicbookworm.bsky.social 🦇Haunts museums, bookshops, and the Gothic
🎨 ‘Mummy Brown’ Paint Project/research
🪲PhD on Travel & the Body, perception & treatment of mummified remains in 19t C
📖Mummified Narratives & Egyptomania
📝 Rider Haggard
Juan Meneses @dissentum.bsky.social Global + postcolonial + comp lit, theory; translator. Assoc. prof. Views/prons: his. Books (@uminnpress.bsky.social): Resisting Dialogue: Modern Fiction and the Future of Dissent / Ed. Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination
Leo Otherland @leootherland.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️ Queer author, SFWA member, literal goblin, weaver of delightfully soul-shattering speculative fiction, introverted ball of anxiety.
g.j.hilton @hltn.bsky.social historian of scenography
interests: the material, manufacture & manufacturers of spectacle (intermezzi, machines, festivals, feasts, fireworks); history of magnificence from below
before I was ill: choreographer, production designer, theatrical engineer
International Gothic Association @igagoths.bsky.social The International Gothic Association is a large family of academic researchers, students, artists and writers with a shared interest in all things Gothic. www.globalgoth.org
Kev Bickerdike @kevbickerdike.bsky.social Space, place and horror film.
https://spaceandbritishhorrorcinema.wordpress.com/
꩜ julia drewnowicz ꩜ @motherstrange.bsky.social phd at bristol; the female reproductive body in gothic+horror lit. blue hums. med hums. gothic studies.
a strange little creature🐌
Joana Jacob Ramalho @jori-saudade.bsky.social Lecturer (Teaching) at University College London | PhD in Film Studies | Aznavour fan with a love for classical musicals and all things dark and Gothicky.
Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social Educator
Passionate about Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI)
Anywhere near Books, Music and Films
#SurfaceStudies
#Soil_Imaginaries
Adores Snails 🐌
My personal views - not my employer's
Reposts &c not endorsements
Nathan Probably @nathanprobably.bsky.social Curator, Historian of Science, Mycologist.
Wrote about Wetherspoons once: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160932723000467
Morgan Daimler @morgandaimler.bsky.social Independent folklorist, author of nonfiction about irish myth & fairies and fiction (UF & HF), amateur translator of old/middle Irish, general trouble maker
Irene Bulla @irenebulla.bsky.social Instructor @ Italian Cultural Institute, Lisbon. PhD @ Columbia. #Fantastic and #weird fiction and all things #monstrous
@jamesmrose.bsky.social @jamesmrose.bsky.social 
Dr Liam J. L. Knight @dystopiajunkie.bsky.social Doctor of dystopian fiction, post-truth, and "endotexts" working behind the scenes in HE.
Co-host of @utopiaanddystopia.bsky.social with @matthewleggatt.bsky.social.
Former teacher - GCSE revision materials available at https://youtube.com/@dystopiajunkie
Abel F. @chantyhouse.bsky.social Scribbler of things, snapper of shorts, organiser of 1950s conference with @popcrn!
Ashe Sass-Woodward @sassorcista.bsky.social Writer & broadcaster exploring horror as survival literature. Host/Author of Horror Helpline & Spooky Scholars Podcast. Rhymes with 'geisha'. #womeninhorror #horrorstudies
Tara Baldrick-Morrone @tbmorrone.bsky.social research on the misuses of history in repro law | organizing and labor solidarity forever | PVD (for now)
carolyn @papersquared.bsky.social academic library director
summer scares social media goblin
🇲🇽
🏳️🌈
📍az > chicago
she/her
absolutely not a professional account
Anthrozooogy as International Practice (AIP) @azconference.bsky.social Online, annual, free conference for students interested in interspecies interactions. Tag us for re-sharing of #Anthrozoology #HumanAnimalStudies content.
https://anthrozoologyconference.com/
♈️ Jason Behan ♉️ @jasonbehan.bsky.social Enjoying the North York Moors with my time allowed. 🖤
Dipyaman Bhowmick @dipyamanbhowmick.bsky.social MA in English student, Jadavpur University (2025-2027).
Interested in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature, Gothic studies, and environmental humanities.
Dr Harriet Fletcher @harrietfletcher.bsky.social Writer & academic | Senior Lecturer in Media & Communication @ ARU | 💀⭐ #GothicCelebrity (Bloomsbury) | pop culture | horror | feminism | bimbo-ologist 💅 | she/her | https://linktr.ee/harrietfletcher
@brenked60.bsky.social @brenked60.bsky.social Cinephile and music nerd. Retired film lecturer. Seeking shelter from the Storm. What's So Funny 'Bout Peace, Love and Understanding?
Not unless you mail them from Desolation Row. Rejoin the EU NOW!
COYS
Nancy McGuire Roche @nancymcguireroche.bsky.social Professor of Cinema & Television at Belmont University.
Julia Friedman @juliafriedman.bsky.social She/her. Archivist and historian. Fields of study include Jewish feminist history, LGBTQ+ history, and media and pop culture history. Talk to me about film, tv, and horror 🖤
Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social Author, teacher, anti-authoritarian, media studies prof @ Utrecht Univ. New book – FAST AND FURIOUS FRANCHISING: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517921088/fast-and-furious-franchising/
Erik Steinskog @eriksteinskog.bsky.social Associate professor of musicology at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen. Former saxophone player, always philosophy reader, currently popular music fan (and more). 
Sam Tabet @drsamtabet.bsky.social Queer horror scholar
Peabody winning Producer of Southwest of Salem
Forthcoming book Beyond the Lesbian Vampire: Reclaiming the Violent Lesbian in Contemporary Queer Horror August (UK) October (US) instagram @beyondthelesbianvampire
Dr Adam J Barker @adamjb.bsky.social Sometime academic, hopeful anarchist, bad settler. Dogs are my friends. Land back and decolonisation are my goals. He/him.
Consulting and training via www.stillinmotion.org
Amy @amyinvernizzi.bsky.social Senior Editor-Philosophy books, Palgrave Macmillan
Get in touch: amy.invernizzi@palgrave-usa.com
Opinions my own (but mostly correct)
Ⓥ | 📚| NYC
Creepy. Crafty. Cruelty Free.
(She/Her)
Sara Zadrozny @drsarazadrozny.bsky.social Victorian fiction, female ageing, medicine and culture. Departmental Tutor at the University of Oxford, Oxford Lifelong Learning,
Jon Hughes @riderjon.bsky.social Academic in German + Cultural Studies, Royal Holloway Uni. of London, researching film, lit, history, sport. Books on Joseph Roth, Max Schmeling. Latest book: PEOPLE ON SUNDAY, out now with Bloomsbury/BFI Film Classics. Cyclist, cat person, European.
Ailish Brassil @ailishb.bsky.social PhD candidate in English @ UCC 👩🏻💻📖
DCU Alumna. 👩🏻🎓
Postgrad Officer - Irish Society for the Study of Children’s Literature.
Reviewer/book admin for Children’s Books Ireland. 📚
Saskatchewan History & Folklore Society @skhistoryfolklore.bsky.social We focus on storytelling and the history and folklore of daily life, engaging with our relationships and responsibilities to past, present, and future generations. We publish Folklore Magazine!
Learn more: https://linktr.ee/shfs
www.skhistory.ca
📚Fedorak Indexing @indexosaurus.bsky.social academic book indexer: interested in how we make sense of the world through the humanities specializing in the arts, esp fine arts, social justice and material culture.
Curler, settler 🇨🇦, she/her, & klutz extraordinaire 🏳️🌈
www.fedorakindexing.com
Nat 🥀 @ephemeralnat.bsky.social They/them | Horror, manga, film & tv
Thea Sabin @theasabin.bsky.social Author, Wicca for Beginners. I write about birds, bats, folklore, history, art, archaeology, things spooky and spiritual, monsters, and VERY bad movies. Ideal day is a hike with my sassy parrot to a Neolithic stone circle for a picnic that includes cheese.
Dr Frazer Lee @frazerlee.bsky.social Reader in Creative Writing, PhD, FHEA. Edgar Allan Poe Gothic Filmmaker Award Winner (The Stay), Bram Stoker Award Finalist ‘Best 1st Novel’ (The Lamplighters). #thecure obsessive, 47 gigs so far. Repped: Betty-Anne Crawford NY USA.
Francesco Levato @levato.bsky.social Poet, professor, literary translator, new media artist, and writer of speculative fiction. M.F.A., Ph.D., HWA, SFWA #horror #scifi #fantasy #booksky
Web: https://francescolevato.com/
Dominic Dean @drdominicdean.bsky.social Researcher, teacher and author (Killing Children in British Fiction - SUNY Press, 2024).
I work on contemporary British fiction and film, children, Kazuo Ishiguro, migration, intergenerational conflict. All views my own.
Mathieu Bokestael @mathieubokestael.bsky.social ECR (Literature, Philosophies of Biology and Immunity, Care, Critical Medical Humanities). PhD from UCD. Previously funded by @researchireland.ie
https://www.ucd.ie/humanities/people/residentscholars/mathieubokestael/
Little Miss Contrary @eimanmunro.bsky.social Writer ~ Researcher ~ Autism Expert by Experience for CAMHS NHS professionals.
SCBWI member, Megaphone community member, Writementor Hub community member, #UV2024 winner🤩
Mark Bould @markbould.bsky.social Professor of Film, Literature and Poor Life Choices. Full-time duck chaperone. Part-time author of things about films and books.
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock @cypheractive.bsky.social I am professor of English at Central Michigan University, president of the Society for the Study of the American Gothic, and editor of American Gothic Studies. I am also the host of DJ cypher's Dark Nation Radio and the Psychobilly Family Power Hour.
Julia @chiaroscuro1897.bsky.social Poet | Writer | Freelance Art Historian
UK https://juliabiggs1.wixsite.com/juliabiggs
Pamphlet available from Salò Press: https://www.salopress.com/store/nasty-objects-julia-biggs/
Dr. John P. Irish @jpirish.bsky.social Sapere aude!
2+2=4
Educator, researcher, philosopher, and SMU Mustang! Everything Fitz-James O'Brien, the Irish "Poe" #gothic, #horror, #fantasy, #scifi, #19C, #americanlit
🐴⬆️✌️💙❤️
Pippin Lenoir 🦇✍🏻 @pippinlenoir.bsky.social An aspiring author inspired by 18th-century Gothic literature, magical realism, and high fantasy. Horror cinephile. I like to go to abandoned places & ruins just to vibe. She/Her. 🏴
@taliesin-ttlg.bsky.social @taliesin-ttlg.bsky.social 
Dr. Shauna Louise Caffrey @witchstorian.bsky.social Cultural Historian & Musicologist |
PhD in Witchcraft, Music & Magic |
Bog Thing & Forest Wanderer | Gothic & Horror Enthusiast
🇮🇪🇵🇸🏳️🌈
Sam Parker @spark202.bsky.social Writer, humanities teacher, pottery enthusiast, knitter/crocheter. Working on my EdD. You can find me wandering Lake Michigan beaches on gloomy days.
Erin Keating @drerinnerung.bsky.social Associate professor (Restoration secret history, celebrity, fantasy fiction, and fan cultures), haphazard gardener, dog and cat parent, AuDHD, she/her 🖤🩶🤍💜
Dr Susie Beckham @susiebeckham.bsky.social Temporality in Pre-Raphaelite art and visual culture + studying the evolution of the term “Pre-Raphaelite” from 1848 to today + Pre-Raphaelite fandom and semiotics. Amy P. Goldman Fellowship in Pre-Raphaelite Studies 2025.
Dr Franziska Kohlt @frankendodo.bsky.social Historian& Sociologist of Science at KCL | Historical Climatology & Glaciology | Former Inaugural USC Carrollian Fellow | Tutor Oxford ContEd | Keynote Speaker, Alice in Wonderland Expert & Polymath | Erdős–Bacon No 8 | https://linktr.ee/frankendodo
Matthew Gibson @matthewgibsonmacau.bsky.social Scholar of W B Yeats, Bram Stoker and others. Works at University of Macau. Author of several books, including novel, Mr Stoker and the Vampires of the Lyceum.
Dr Hayley Louise @hazzachaz.bsky.social Doctorate in bisexuality in gothic TV. Karaoke host and NHS admin. Horror and Neighbours fan. she/they
Horror Homeroom @horrorhomeroom.bsky.social 👻 We take horror seriously so you don't have to! 🔪
Visit us at www.horrorhomeroom.com