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/
man in the woods @maninthewoods.co.uk • Walking artist doing everything the slow way
• I make drawings and artefacts in reaction to the landscape and folk culture of southern Britain as I get to know it on my Friday Walk
• www.maninthewoods.co.uk
The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social We explore the history of the English countryside and its people. Chaotic Good.
https://merl.reading.ac.uk/
Gruff Rhys @gruffrhys.bsky.social Secular choral / Canu Gwlad
Julianne Regan @julianneregan.bsky.social Songs, book chapters, and journalistic pieces. Nature, 2nd-generation Irishness, melancholy & joy! Survived the great All About Eve miming disaster.
Kate Ashbrook @campaignerkate.bsky.social Campaigner, loves walking, landscapes, birds, archaeology, wild country. Own views. General secretary Open Spaces Society, vice-president Ramblers, vice-chair Campaign for National Parks & Dartmoor Preservation Association, patron Walkers are Welcome towns
storms over oceans @stormsoveroceans.bsky.social Ambient, experimental electronica, neo-classical. http://stormsoveroceans.com
Jarvis Cocker @jarviscocker.bsky.social pulp fan 💅
suede, pulp, the cure, gary numan 🤓
Tidelines @tidelines.bsky.social A creative interdisciplinary project in the Exe Estuary bringing people together to celebrate the place we live in and learn about and restore the changing estuary & coastline at a time of climate and nature crisis.
www.tidelines.uk
Ken Worpole @kgeorgew.bsky.social 
Folk Horror Magpie 🌬️ @folkhorrormagpie.bsky.social 🌾Collecting trinkets & curios of the folk horror genre.
Folklore, oral tradition, rituals & festivals, psychogeography, forteana, revivalism & the occult🌾
Alias Hollie Starling
https://smarturl.it/TheBleedingTree
Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social Wading around at the confluence of arts / nature / culture since 2007
Regular posts at caughtbytheriver.net 🐟 Irregular printed matter, record releases & events via rivertones.bandcamp.com and our Friday newsletter
Simon Tomes @simontomes.com Music Explorer | 💿 HiRes Digital Album Lover | Drummer | 🥁 #DrumsForWellbeing | Community Professional | Writing about Community Confidence simontomes.com | Bluesky User #383 since Feb 23 | he/him | Not active here for testing stuff, I use LinkedIn.
The Orb @theorblive.bsky.social NEW ALBUM - Buddhist Hipsters - Out now!
Available on limited edition vinyl, CD & streaming.
https://orb.lnk.to/BuddhistHNe/officialstore
@arconicsound.bsky.social @arconicsound.bsky.social Sound explorer, musical adventurer, fundraiser
arconicsound.com
Gareth E. Rees @garetherees.bsky.social Guitar in psych-noise band, Black Arches. Author of Unofficial Britain, Car Park Life, Sunken Lands, Marshland & more. Psychogeography. Mythology. Ecology. Hastings.
https://www.instagram.com/black_arches_hastings
Kieran Wyatt @kieranstories.bsky.social Best British Short Stories, The London Magazine, Free Flash Fiction, Eunoia Review, Blood+Honey. I also post a new story on my blog every month. Fylde Coast. https://kieranstorieswriter.wordpress.com/about/
Jeremy Crews @liveevilpublishing.bsky.social 
WEIRD WALK @weirdwalk.bsky.social Publishing zines and books, curating events, walking in circles…
https://shop.weirdwalk.co.uk
The Wire Magazine @thewiremagazine.bsky.social “The most essential music magazine of the contemporary era.” (Forced Exposure)
thewire.co.uk
Robin Turner @robinturner.bsky.social Wrote books about The Chemical Brothers and Heavenly Recordings, does PR for some of rock and / or roll's finest, part owns The Social. Now writing weekly newsletters about life with and after a brain tumour: https://acloudablossom.substack.com/
THE LINE of BEST FIT @thelineofbestfit.com The UK's biggest new music discovery website | Follow our playlist for the best new music - bestf.it/discovery - and say hello AT thelineofbestfit.com
Stick in the Wheel @stickinthewheel.bsky.social Experiments in London roots music.
Working class artists.
@noodsradio residents
Fire Draw Near @firedrawnear.bsky.social Music podcast and radio show which investigates Irish traditional music and song in all of its myriad forms. 
Benjamin Myers @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social Extremely humble legend. Writer of JESUS CHRIST KINSKI, RARE SINGLES, CUDDY, THE OFFING, THE GALLOWS POLE (BBC/Shane Meadows), THE PERFECT GOLDEN CIRCLE etc. Books: https://bio.site/benjaminmyers
Alison Cotton @alisoncotton.bsky.social https://alison-cotton.com
Booking -
UK - fliss@voidartists.com
EUROPE - misha@charmworks.net
https://linktr.ee/alison__cotton
https://alisoncotton-uk.bandcamp.com/album/the-gods-laugh
Patrick Clarke @paddyclarke.bsky.social Deputy Editor and folk music columnist at The Quietus // my book Bedsit Land: The Strange Worlds Of Soft Cell is out now // Jacques Cousteau could never get this low
Bandcamp @bandcamp.com Bandcamp is an online record store and music community where passionate fans connect with and directly support the artists they love.
The Slow Music Movement @theslowmusicmovement.org Disorderly digging in an algorithmic world. Lesser known independent artists & alternative music. Generally lazy & hazy vibes. Check the Substack newsletter, blog, podcast & playlists:
https://www.submithub.com/link/the-slow-music-movement
Beach Sloth @beachsloth.bsky.social Support Each Other
Music Blogger
Writer
Poet
https://beachsloth.substack.com/
Luke Haines @lukehaines.bsky.social Currently - Luke Haines and Peter Buck. Black Box Recorder. Minus 5 (when called into service) Swell Maps (occasionally)
Formerley - The Auteurs,
Writes a bit, paints a bit. Strums guitar.
Stuart Maconie @stuartmaconie.bsky.social Aluminium Cladding. Attentive. Courteous. Reliable. Also will take on writing/broadcasting
Mark Radcliffe @markradcliffe.bsky.social Man City fan, half of @weareune and on the radio! All opinions are my own though!
Andrew Wasylyk @andrewwasylyk.bsky.social ‘House With A Curse’ Live Soundtrack Oct/Nov. Tour 🎟️: www.bit.ly/phantom-tour
Old Weird Britain @oldweirdbritain.bsky.social Morsels of #folklore from our Ancient Isles curated with love from real books (mostly aged and odiferous) by Elizabeth-Jane Baldry, harpist, composer, woodland keeper.
#nemophilist #pigwiggenwood #dartmoor #reenchantment
Sean | Drowned in Sound @drownedinsound.bsky.social Founder of Drowned in Sound (est. 2000).
Get music recommendations and ponderings in your inbox 📨 drownedinsound.org 🦋 follow @drownedinsound.org
Bob Fischer @bobfischer.bsky.social Writer and mumbler. Haunted Generation, Fortean Times, Electronic Sound, Doctor Who Magazine, Shindig, Mulgrave Audio, Wiffle Lever To Full, Scarred For Life and Summer Winos. Summat to do innit
Suns of Arqa @sunsofarqa.bsky.social Pioneers of World Beat, Ambient, Electro-Dub, inspired by indigenous, tribal & classical folk music traditions since 1979 • Contact/Links: https://linktr.ee/sunsofarqa
Colin Dickey @colindickey.com Writer of books, most recently Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy. Also Ghostland, The Unidentified, Afterlives of the Saints, Cranioklepty. Opinions mine, not my employer’s. He/him.
Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social Creator of @scarfolk.bsky.social. "This guy, who apparently saw the future" - Edward Snowden. Running an ASD/ADHD operating system.
https://www.richardlittler.com
@hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social Phoenix Guide to Strange England: #Hookland. Run by David Southwell
#Hauntology Re-wilding #Folklore #FolkHorror #Psychogeography #LandscapePunk Re-enchantment Is Resistance https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1068598123
Scarfolk @scarfolk.bsky.social Scarfolk is a town called Scarfolk. For more information please re-read.
NearlyKnowledgeable @g0blinegg.bsky.social Amy
𖦹 Folklorist & Writer 𖦹
Ghostlore ● Witchcraft ● Devil Folklore
Rooted in Shropshire History & Lore 💀
Writer of 'The Best Of Men' -A Shropshire folk horror 🦇
Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social He/him. Bristol. Writer, content designer. No alt text = no repost. Not here for politics. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/raynewman Header: Thin Places in Hard Concrete https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DC5PL7T4 Agent: https://blakefriedmann.co.uk/ray-newman
Anna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social Books, corvids and the shakily cheerful evasion of despair. PHENGARIS
@nefariousbatpress.bsky.social PARCH MARKS out with @GoldSF.bsky.social in Sept 26.
Author website: https://annaorridge.com/ (thanks to @sonorataylor.bsky.social)
she/her
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
Stephanie Ellis @stephellis.bsky.social Author, Elgin & Rhysling award-nominated poet, and reader.
Member BFS
https://stephanieellis.org/
Dr Icy Sedgwick @icysedgwick.bsky.social Host of the Fabulous Folklore podcast/blog. Researcher & writer for hire. Gothic author. Crafter. PhD in haunted house films.
Paul Kane @paulkane.bsky.social Award-winning, #1 bestselling author/editor of over 170 books, inc the sellout Hooded Man, Lunar, Sherlock Holmes and the Servants of Hell, Cursed and Her Last Secret, Her Husband’s Grave and The Family Lie as PL Kane.
http://www.shadow-writer.co.uk
weird menace and excessive bloodletting @gemmafiles.bsky.social a preliminary sketch of a crone. Aspergerian mom of an autistic son. I wrote Experimental Film and literally 100+ short stories. Out now: Little Horn, a collection, from Shortwave Publishing. I sing, make jewelry and doodle pretty monsters.
Michael Wehunt @michaelwehunt.bsky.social A creature assembled from found footage. Bram Stoker Award Winner, Georgia Author of the Year Award winner, Crawford Award + Shirley Jackson Award Nominee. Author of the novels NIGHTJARS (9/29/26) & THE OCTOBER FILM HAUNT.
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
Katy Soar @kjsoar.bsky.social PhD. Senior lecturer in Archaeology @uniwinchester.bsky.social.
Writer for Hellebore. Editor 'Strange Relics' with Dr. Amara Thornton (Handheld Press), 'Circles of Stone' & 'Return of the Ancients' (BL Tales of the Weird). She/her.
I have a dog.
Lucie McKnight Hardy @lmcknighthardy.bsky.social Author of NIGHT BABIES (2026) @johnmurrays.bsky.social
and DEAD RELATIVES (2021) & WATER SHALL REFUSE THEM (2019) @deadinkbooks.bsky.social
She/her
lmcknighthardy.com
Agent: @donaldwin.bsky.social @watsonlittle.bsky.social
Coy Hall @coyhall.bsky.social Author of horror, crime, & sci-fi. Professor of History. Great Pyrenees obsessed. Italian movie completist. Anti-A.I.
My books: https://linktr.ee/CoyHallBooks
Paul Robichaud 🪨🐐 @pjrobichaud.bsky.social Literature, myth, folklore • Stories of the Stones: Imagining Prehistory in Britain, Ireland, & Brittany • Pan: the Great God’s Modern Return • Hellebore contributor • poems in NewPoetry.ca, Ekphrastic Review, South Shore Review • 🇨🇦 in Connecticut • /|\
Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ @lhardingwrites.bsky.social Mum friend transitioning to mum. Recovering medievalist. Pen name of a dark fantasy/horror writer. Displaced northener. Culinary Cenobite. Möther to Vesper & Pippa. Synth/BM gremlin. Writing at patreon.com/lhardingwrites & https://ko-fi.com/lawrenceharding
Black Shuck Books @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social World Fantasy Award-winning publisher
www.blackshuckbooks.co.uk
Folklore Centre Todmorden @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social Arts, Film, Talks, Crafts, Library, Archive, Museum, Research, Education, Workshops, Exhibitions, Storytelling, Conferences, Local Folk History.
Currently hibernating except for events.
Folk Horror Revival 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social "Speak now, come now, rise now from the forest, from the furrows, from the field and live"
https://folkhorrorrevival.com/
#FolkloreAgainstFascism
No AI 🚫🤖
Posts by Richard Hing, views my own
Ben Tufnell @bentufnell.bsky.social Writer. Curator. Owl. Art stuff mostly over on Instagram. Stories in BBSS2024, Conjunctions, Interzone, Los Angeles Review etc. Novels: THE NORTH SHORE (Fleet, 2023), PARADISE (Influx Press, 2026).
www.bentufnell.com
www.knappedflint.com
J. M. Faulkner @jmfaulkner.bsky.social Author & Codex member ✍️
Her Being Toward Death 📕
Brit ducking behind the Brexit curtain in the Czech Republic 🇬🇧🇨🇿
Jeremy C. Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson Award nominated author of THE MERRY DREDGERS and BEDFELLOW and THE ATROCITIES. FAMILIAR out now! Fabric artist. Butler for cats. They/them
https://jeremycreature.bigcartel.com/
https://www.patreon.com/jeremycreature
Catherine McCarthy @catherinemccarthy.bsky.social Welsh author of dark fiction and roamer of ancient paths.
Words in Haven Spec, Dark Matter, Gamut Mag and other strange places.
Find me @ https://cmccarthywriter.substack.com/
Eden Royce @edenroyce.bsky.social Writer of Southern Gothic for kids & adults. ROOT MAGIC | CONJURE ISLAND | THE CREEPENING OF DOGWOOD HOUSE | HOLLOW TONGUE | PSYCHOPOMP & CIRCUMSTANCE
she/her
edenroyce.com
curious ordinary @curiousordinary.bsky.social ▪️Folklore▪️Myth▪️Magic▪️Art▪️
Sharing Japanese and supernatural folklore, mythology, yokai, culture and art. Also love books, cats, crows and trees.
http://linktr.ee/curiousordinary
Shane Hawk @shanehawk.com C&A 🪶
Writer. Editor. Anthologist. Girl Dad. San Diego-based. Repped by Rachel Letofsky (lit) at TLA and Joe Veltre (film/tv) at Gersh.
ShaneHawk.com
NativeHorrorIndex.com
NWAN2.com
Willerby @welcometowillerby.bsky.social Welcome to Willerby, a village where the supernatural is as everyday as the weather. Free short stories about the weird things that happen in our village on our website and substack.
https://willerby.substack.com
www.welcometowillerby.co.uk
Skulls and Sheets @skullsandsheets.bsky.social I am the flogger of undead horses. Specifically Welsh, undead, yuletide ones that eat cake, toast and cider. Otherwise known as the mari lwyd! Everyone is welcome here!
C.W. Reeve @cwreeve.bsky.social Pushcart-nominated author of weird tales & folk horror, co-host of #WyrdWednesday (He/Him) 👻
cwreeve.com
Andrew Screen @andrewscreenbskys.bsky.social Author of The Book of Beasts: Folklore, Popular Culture & Nigel Kneale's ATV Horror Series (Headpress 2023). SEN work by day. Words for Fortean Times, We Are Cult among others.
E.Saxey @esaxey.bsky.social Tallish, bookish Londoner.
Gothic/folk horror novel, set in Victorian London, "Unquiet" https://titanbooks.com/71432-unquiet/
Weird queer short fiction, "Lost in the Archives"
https://tinyurl.com/saxeyshorts
They/them
Die Booth @diebooth.bsky.social 🦇Goth 📖 Author of the beautiful macabre 📖 Zines 🏳️🌈 #LGBTQIA+ he/him 🎶DJ #LastRitesChester 🖤 BE NICE TO EACH OTHER 🖤 #endgenocide #antigenerativeAI
Website: https://diebooth.wordpress.com Shop: https://ko-fi.com/diebooth (SHOP REOPENS 14th Sept)
Dexter McLeod @dextermcleod.bsky.social Author of horror & science fiction. Stories at Air & Nothingness Press, Dark Moon Books, Eerie River Publishing, Hawk & Cleaver, Hollow Stone Press, The Horror Tree, KJK Publishing, Sci Phi Journal, & TDotSpec. (He/Him)
https://linktr.ee/dextermcleod
Dr Jamie Stephenson @audioontology.bsky.social ambient metaphysics | music aesthetics |
sontology | poetics of resonance | drone monism | aural hermeneutics |postphenomenology | auditioning
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-8211-6586
👹Blackened grindgaze as HERMETIC ABYSS:
hermeticabyss.bandcamp.com
Taylor @monkeytailor.bsky.social Movies, (Folk Horror, J-Horror, Hammer Horror, etc.) music (Folk Yeah!) and books. Amateur baker. He/Him.
My profile on Letterboxd https://boxd.it/pB3
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
Brian Keiper @brianwaves42.bsky.social I like to watch and write about movies. Regular contributor at Bloody Disgusting and Manor Vellum. Classic Horror column Gods and Monsters at BD. Faces of Frankenstein on MV. Bylines on Dread Central, Certified Forgotten, FThisMovie
Dorian J. Sinnott @doriansinnott.com ⋆✧˖ Award-winning author of: ⋆✧˖
📚 IT CAME UPON A MIDNIGHT CLEAR
📚ALONG ABOUT MIDNIGHT
HWA 🦇• Cat Dad 🐈⬛ • Horror 💀• He/Him
📍 New York 🗽
⋆‧☾‧⋆
★ Find my books and upcoming events here:
ˎˊ˗╰┈➤ www.doriansinnott.com
Laura E. Hall @lauraehall.bsky.social Mysteries, puzzles, adventures. I make games, write books & preserve immersive history. PDX. They/she
Immersipedia coming soon 📖
PLANNING YOUR ESCAPE (Simon & Schuster), KATAMARI DAMACY (Boss Fight Books)
✨ lauraehall.com
🔎 cfia.org
🎙️ secretlives.games
Jennifer Schell @jenniferschell16.bsky.social English Professor, Cetacean Enthusiast, Canine Therapy Human. I write about anthropogenic species extinction, Arctic ecosystems, more-than-human organisms, and blue humanities. Ocean obsessed! Fairbanks, AK. Views my own.
Dr Evelyn Koch @evelynkoch.bsky.social Early modern/19th-cent. English literature, science and literature, landscape in literature, fantasy, horror and weird fiction.
Codex O'Healey Melcher @codexohm.com Writer, Folklorist, Insufferable Historical Gossip.
"ridiculously zesty" says the Chicago Tribune
linktr.ee/codexohm ✥ they ✥ Denver ⚧♿
👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻 @pauljessup.com Award winning writer of creepy stuff. Glass House, Skinless Man Counts to Five, Daughter of the Wormwood Star, Suicide Music, & Cancer Eats the Heart out now. Rustbelt Gothic coming Oct 2026. Creator of the game Bad Writer
website: https://pauljessup.com
Austin Friars @austinfriars.bsky.social Medieval focused Writer and Artist. Adult (🔞) Historical Queer Fiction/Romance/Fantasy. Dark Romance/Religious Themes. CEO of medieval gay catholic priests and their protestant or demon husbands. 28
Dr Diane A Rodgers @dianearodgers.bsky.social Doctor of Folk Horror & Wyrd TV | tinyurl.com/WyrdTV | Centre for Contemporary Legend | President of ISCLR | National Folklore Survey | Derby Dracula | The CK5 band | All views my own (she/her) https://linktr.ee/dr.diane.rodgers
Madeleine D'Este @madeleinedeste.bsky.social Dark Mysteries are my thing.
The House on Rookery Rock. Black Soil White Bread. Radcliffe.
Aurealis Award & Shadow Awards nom'd.
No DMs.
https://madeleinedeste.com/
Britt Reinholz-Hobson @brittsbyhobnob.bsky.social Co-Host of 1001 by 1.
folklore obssessed, horror lover, novice miniature painting, part-time burlesque performer, board game enthusiast, romantasy fangirl
she/her
Tananarive Due - The Reformatory @tananarivedue.bsky.social Lifewriting Podcast - Exec Producer #HorrorNoire: A History of Black Horror, Writer: Twilight Zone. UCLA Lecturer. Vanity Fair. Author: American Book Award #BLM #blacksky She/Her - https://linktr.ee/tananarivedue
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
Folk Around And Find Out @folkaround.bsky.social Folklore & History Enthusiast
Curator of Hidden West Yorkshire for the BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p0hzw9dt?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
Folk&Horror Phenomena @folkphenomena.bsky.social Philosophy, SW and Education guy. Reviews of gigs, albums and theatre in the folk world. Considers all horror media. Writes with an emphasis on experiential feel and wonder. Sheffield based, also on Youtube and 1/3 of "3 Men and a Whisky".
SF Layzell @sflayzell.bsky.social I write queer stories & edit books sometimes https://sflayzell.com/
Buy Cottonopolis, a MG set in 1840s Manchester, shortlisted for Little Rebels https://sflayzell.com/cottonopolis/
Views mine, contact via website
Tales of Wihtlore @wihtlore.uk Welcome new followers, thank you for joining me. I tell tales, I speak lies, this is like breathing for me.
Don’t come to me for truth today, for it maybe a lie tomorrow. #NoAI #Folklore #FolkloreAgainstFascism
Deborah Hyde @deborahhyde.bsky.social Dark folklore.
Former Ed. @TheSkepticMag. Regular #Uncanny expert. Fellow: Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. Patron: Humanists UK.
Albyon Absey’s Geographical Almanac @albyonabsey.bsky.social FREE A-Z of Strange & Fantastical Locations for your Fantasy TTRPGs • ENNIE'23 Nominated • Wondrously Aberrant Folklore & Fables • www.albyonabsey.com
Kat the Lore Mistress @loremistress93.bsky.social she/they | queer 🏳️🌈 UK based writer & TTRPG designer ✍️ | Creative Lead at Hatchlings Games ✨ | folklore & horror nerd 🧚🏻♀️💀 | wearer of many AP hats 📹
https://linktr.ee/loremistress93
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