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Car Free Keith @carfreekeith.bsky.social Nothing makes me happier than places that have less cars. I make videos about that 👇
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📍Chicago via NW IL, w/ a few years in New Orleans too
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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.
David Powe @davidpowe.bsky.social Transportation planner working on making biking, walking, rolling & riding safer & easier | Care deeply about transparency | Posts are my own ofc
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Jason Thorne @jasonthorne.bsky.social Canadian Urbanist and Chief Planner for the City of Toronto 🇨🇦
Coalition Against the Trump Agenda @chicago-cata.bsky.social A coalition of 80+ orgs building a strong united front to fight the racist and reactionary agenda of the Trump administration.
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AURA: An Austin for Everyone @aura-atx.org Austinites advocating for abundant homes, reliable public transit, walkability, & safe streets for all!
Marc Ruvolo @marcruvolo.bsky.social Writer of weird horror living in Portland, OR. Maximum Queercore. Founded Chicago's Bucket O' Blood Books. NOVELLAS: SLOE (Unnerving Books), PIETIES (Slashic Horror Press). WASTE GROUND (Slashic Horror Press). He/him. AI=BLOCK.
Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social World’s greatest author
Candy and Corpses @corpsecandy.bsky.social Head trash rat of https://www.tomboftreasure.com
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Horror, VHS, physical media, spookytime. 
Ruth Anna Evans @ruthannaevans.bsky.social Horror writer, anthologist, and cover designer. See my work at https://sites.google.com/view/ruthannaevans. she/her. Happiest when I’m creating.
Richard @ R. Rook 🔜 Sleep @rrookstudio.bsky.social ENnie winner / SFWA member / gay / he/him
Moonlight on Roseville Beach, Sherwood, Silver Age
Supports swearing, trans agenda, #TTRPGS, climate cult & Antifa
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Darrin @darrinandstuff.bsky.social He/Him | Queer | Writer | Dawn Summers appreciator
Bobby Alonzo @bobbyalonzo.bsky.social Indie filmmaker 🎥 Horror screenwriter 🔪 Music aficionado 🎧 he/him 🏳️🌈
Taylor Grothe @taylorlgrothe.bsky.social Horror(omantasy) author 👻 HOLLOW (Peachtree Teen, Sept 30, 2025), THESE DREAMING SPIRES (Titan, Sept 2, 2025), LETHAL KISS (TOR Nightfire, Fall ‘26), MBT (Peachtree Teen, Spring '27) | MFA ‘24 | BLM | 🍉 | Rep: Victoria Marini
Jenny Kiefer @jennykiefer.com Horror writer and owner of Butcher Cabin Books in Louisville, Kentucky. Author of THIS WRETCHED VALLEY & CRAFTING FOR SINNERS (Oct 25). Bram Stoker Nominee.
Fuck fascists & AI
K. A. Roy @kayleigharoy.bsky.social K. A. Roy.
Chicago writer. 3 kids, 3 cats = forever chaotic.
Stories in: From Beyond Press, CreepyPod, Malarkey Books, Shotgun Honey, Mystic Owl Press, Spindle House Press, Black Hare Press
Repped by: Eric Smith
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Jonah Barnett @jonahcake.bsky.social Author. Ex-filmmaker. Art admin. Queer. Weird monsters. Dinosaurs. They/them.
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Benji @chance47.bsky.social Chicago
Recovering writer perpetually on the brink of a relapse. Often found drinking diet Dr. Pepper, playing ttrpgs and watching horror/sci-fi movies. Actual Play performer. Ronette Pulaski stan account. Dazzler obsessive. Lefty and Very Queer.
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Ken Mooney @kenmooney.bsky.social Ireland, gay, knows what it's like to be awake while getting your skull drilled open (thanks brain cancer.)
Writer of Godhead, Apocalypse...Whenever, Tackling The Issue et al.
Punk shit, tattoos, horror/SF, queer stuff, video games. He/Him. 
stschorey @stschorey.bsky.social writer | editor | PhD, UNC Chapel Hill | 🏳️🌈
Amanda Jane Stern - Perfectly Good Moment out now on Tubi @amandajanestern.com #SAGAFTRA Actor┃Writer┃Prod┃Repped by Citizen Skull & Broad Talent┃Podcasts: Pleasers & Punishers, Murder Made Fiction, Don't Be Crazy┃She/Her 🩷💜💙
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Mike Bracken @horrorgeek.bsky.social Writer, Powerlifter, Strongman, old school/underground/golden era hip hop junkie, was Beat the Geeks' Horror Geek, and host of Sick Flicks on The Horror Geek YouTube Channel.
youtube.com/c/TheHorrorGeek
Hayden Scott @haydenascott.com Liberal and friendly writer from London who decided it would be fun to explore the world for a bit. If not teaching you'll find me reading, travelling, writing, and wandering around imaginary worlds from my book - in my head, obviously.
AmandaGW @amandagw.bsky.social Mom, Wife, Writer (YA & MG Horror/Thriller/Paranormal), Advocate, 🌈🏳️⚧️Ally, Attorney, I love cheese/chocolate/art/lifting/stories in the spirit of The Goonies. No Kings. She/Her
Jessica Scott @wewhowalkhere.bsky.social Film critic, horror scholar, cat enjoyer. Words at Fangoria, Arrow Video, Second Sight Films, Inverse, and more. GALECA and OAFFC member. She/her.
Portfolio: authory.com/jessicascott
Email: jls.jessica.scott@gmail.com
HorrorStruck Podcast @horrorstruckpod.bsky.social We review horror movies. Sometimes with special guests! New episodes every Wednesday 👻 (posts by Riley)
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The Monologue - A Flanaverse Podcast @themonologuepod.bsky.social PRESENTED BY HORRORSTRUCK:
A Flanaverse Podcast – A deep dive into the mind, movies, and works of Mike Flanagan. Themes, scares, and all the feels. 💀✨
Riley O. @popeincognito.bsky.social Riley. Screenwriter. Co-host of HorrorStruck Podcast. Chihuahua Dad. Horror movie enthusiast. Just some guy.
he/they 🏳️⚧️
Andy Samuelson @andysamuelson.bsky.social 🌈 BLM. Horror junkie. Director of HOUSEWIFE ALIEN VS GAY ZOMBIE (Amazon/Vimeo)
IG: https://www.instagram.com/hagzandy
Robyn "Re-Tranimator" Adams @realrobynadams.bsky.social (she/her, 25) Transgender actress, writer, filmmaker and "she-freak". KATIE & JOAN, THE ESTROGEN GOSPEL, FRANKENSTEIN CREATED ROBYN. Coming soon: THE MOON IS A HOLOGRAM, CASTRATION MOVIE VOL III. Critic for The Geek Show. Weird woman and monster girl. 🔞
WriterWarren @warrenshaver.bsky.social Writer of horror. Designer of board games. Donut connoisseur. Salty. He/Him 🏳️🌈 When abstraction sets to killing you, you’ve got to get busy with it.
DEVOGLAER @devoglaer.bsky.social 👹 Demon Daddy 👹
😈 Award Winning Twitch Streamer 🏳️🌈
☠️ Horror Media Analyst 🦇
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Join the Brood. Tithe your Soul.
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Just Kev 💛🤍💜🖤 @kbd.ink Apologies, I say Fuck. A lot. I also write some things and help out with Fantastic Fest. Making a movie! Follow or support us at termsandcons.com! Official film account is @terms-n-cons.bsky.social, now an official selection of the 2025 Scream List!
JAHARIA @itsjaharia.bsky.social Star of Boulet brothers Dragula Season 6
Watch on Shudder and AMC +
Merch Available on itsjaharia.com
MAJESTY @majestyremastered.bsky.social I Have Multiple TV-Personality Disorders.
Star of Boulet Brothers Dragula Seasons 2 & 6
New Single “Red Headed Step Son” OUT NOW!
Booking & Inquiries DragMusicBookings@gmail
Louisianna Purchase @louisiannapurchase.bsky.social Austin’s Ethereal Queen
Dragula S3’s pillow princess
Anna Phylactic @annaphylactic1.bsky.social Star of the Boulet Brothers Dragula season 5, Drag SOS and Everybody's Talking About Jamie
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
Pedro Iniguez @pedroiniguez.bsky.social Bram Stoker, Elgin, and Dwarf Stars Award-winning Horror/SF writer. Rhysling finalist, Pushcart nominee.
THE BUILD-A-MONSTER WORKSHOP (Out Now!)
ECHOES AND EMBERS (Out Now!)
THE FIB (Out Now!)
Repped by Peter Steinberg, UTA
www.pedroiniguez.com
Fae fatale @faefataledrag.bsky.social transmasc drag artist who loves women and horror 💖 uk based, 18+
Kirk Schlueter @kirkschlueter.bsky.social St. Louis-based writer and teacher, doing poetry and horror stuff. www.kirkschlueter.com
Cristian Presgraves @cristianpresgraves.bsky.social SFF/Horror writer. Chileno. Mestizo. Queer. I curse a lot. He/Him. 🏳️🌈🇨🇱
https://linktr.ee/cristianpresgraves
Ari Drew @thearidrew.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 Horror writer and pop fiend. Founder of #HighQueerness. Ph.D. Licensed Psychologist. Check out my horror coverage at @bloody-disgusting.com.
Horror Queers @horrorqueers.bsky.social LGBTQ horror podcast. Part of Bloody Disgusting's BloodyFM.
Tweets by co-hosts @joelipsett.bsky.social and @tracedthurman.bsky.social | horrorqueers at gmail dot com |
Patreon.com/horrorqueers
thank u, hexed @lindsaykingmiller.bsky.social Author, horror nerd, queer mom. She/her. ASK A QUEER CHICK (Plume, 2016), THE Z WORD (Quirk, 2024), THIS IS MY BODY (Quirk, 2025). https://www.lindsaykingmiller.com/
Lore Lopez @writinglore.com Writer! Composer! Game designer!
These days I am mostly worldbuilding, writing interactive fiction, and working on various TTRPG projects🧙
• they/them •
https://writinglore.com/
Angel L🏳️⚧️ @angelvleal.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️| Mexican | They/She | ✍️ in Strange Horizons, Uncanny, The Deadlands, Heartlines Spec, & others| Clarion West '25 | Poetry editor @Otherside | http://angel-leal.com
Brendan Haley @brendohales.bsky.social Assorted box of frights and homoerotism
🎥 Writer/Director of SCORCH MARKS.
Production Designer of the Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
Peter Marra @thepetermarra.bsky.social Spoopy queer AuDHD professor.
Author of QUEER SLASHERS.
All pronouns.
https://linktr.ee/thepetermarra
Bobby Torrez @bobbytorrez.bsky.social Horror YouTuber | Bobby Likes It Scary 👻, Co-host on @People_Scares Podcast|
Nat Lawless 🌈🦄 @nat-lawless.bsky.social Queer ND writer, reader, muso, academic, critic. Different hats, different names. Queer fantasy/romantasy/historical romance/sci-fi. Ask my characters about my gender. No DMs. No AI. https://archiveofourown.org/users/Nat_Lawless/pseuds/Nat_Lawless
Eldritch Girl Podcast @eldritchgirlpod.bsky.social A podcast by @cmrosens.com (BFS & HWA member) - free audio versions of C.M. Rosens' fiction, with author interviews as bonus episodes.
Listen: rss.com/podcasts/eldritch-girl
Transcripts: cmrosens.com/author-interviews
Support: https://ko-fi.com/cmrosens
l. kyle ☽ ☽ ☽ @giallozombi.bsky.social 34 / gay horror geek / former myspace kid / manchester 🦇 💀
Insta - @giallo_zombi
Sarah @coffeemug13.bsky.social Cat parent, horror fan, co-host on OG ZombieGrrlz podcast, public servant. Detroit Lions fan before it was cool.
She/her, they/them 🏳️🌈
Yovska @yovska.bsky.social 🧸The Ultimate Drag Plushie 🍁 1st gen Mexican-Canadian ⭐ Toronto Kiki Ballroom Legend ~ Twitch Streamer 💙
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Disasterina @disasterina.bsky.social LA’s Most Disastrous Drag Queen! Star of OUTTV’s My Drag Is Valid, Sado Psychiatrist, and co-producer of horror short Which Witch Won?
SLASHER F👻G @slasherfg.bsky.social 18+ A little raunchy. A little outspoken. A little scary.
🏳️🌈🇲🇽
Join My Cult & Listen To My Podcast
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Carter Smith @allthedeadboys.bsky.social director / writer / photographer into all things scary sexy dirty & queer
⬇️DIRTY LITTLE FRIDAYS⬇️
https://allthedeadboys.com/?post_type=dlf is my weekly dose of raunchy sexy ‘dead boys’ up to dark disturbing things.
🎥 SWALLOWED / RUINS /BUGCRUSH🎥
ash 🕸️🫧 @thtrllyshrtchick.bsky.social writer 📚 & artist 🎨
Patreon: Short Tales With Ash
Reddit: u/thatreallyshortchick
Author of the “Welcome to Charlie’s” series ✨
Yanni Hamburger 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️🏴☠️ Splatterpunk Author. @macabretavern.substack.com Age: 45. Horror content creator. Writing, reading, watching horror is my passion. Lover of kink and fetishism. They/Them pronouns. Minors not welcomed on my TL.
WIP: "Tales from the Macabre Tavern"
Stay out of DMs if we've never interacted.
Mark O. Estes - The Horror Blerd @markoestesmsd.bsky.social Host of Midnight Social Distortion; co-host of Scream Kingz & The Alter Tapes. Black Gay Horror enthusiast/student. Queer & Black Horror, Buffy, Superhero Movies, Comics, Blerdom, Whovian, Action Figures & Monster High dolls, Reader, Music Lover & Writer!
Kay Lynch @kaywithfire.bsky.social Founder of Salem Horror Fest
Program Director: tba soon
Film Lecturer at Coolidge Corner Theatre
Presenter at American Cinematheque (Bram Stoker’s Dracula, The Cell, Barb Wire)
Discs: The Cell (Arrow), City of the Dead (Severin)
https://boxd.it/2oDr
Jack Foster @recklesseyeballs.com Comics Outlier, Hairy Handed Gent, Gay as a 3 Dollar Bill, He/Him
www.GUNcomic.com
Alice Maio Mackay @alicemaiomackay.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️20 y/o filmmaker
5 Shudder / AMC plus exclusives
Brandon Perras-Sanchez @brandonperras.bsky.social Co-creator of DEATH DROP GORGEOUS, SAINT DROGO and QUEEN OF THE RATS. MONSTER MAKEUP PRODUCTIONS. Author of THE WHITE BISHOP, RECESSIVE NATURE. Lover of animals, black metal and noise rock. https://linktr.ee/brandonperrassanchez
Diversity in Horror (they/them) @diversityhorror.bsky.social I’m a queer, biracial, and neurodiverse enby. Diversity in Horror is my website where I review and promote fiction featuring and/or created by BIPOC, people with disabilities, and LGBTQIA+ folk. You can check it out here: https://diversityhorror.com/
Kyle Edward Ball @kyleedwardball.bsky.social Director/Writer Skinamarink
Managment : dissident.la
He/Him 🏳️🌈BLM
Michael Varrati @michaelvarrati.bsky.social Filmmaker/screenwriter of a bunch of indie horror flicks and some made-for-TV movies your mom likes. Co-host of Midnight Mass. Co-Founder of June Gloom Productions.
Peaches Christ @peacheschrist.com Filmmaker / Cult Leader
Terror Vault Co-Creator
Midnight Mass Podcast Co-Host
Trace Thurman @tracedthurman.bsky.social • Co-host of the @horrorqueers.bsky.social Podcast on @bloodyfm.bsky.social
• #TerrorTuesday/#WeirdWednesday programmer @ Alamo Drafthouse Denver.
• Bylines @bloody-disgusting.com
• 🍅-Meter Approved
• He/Him
Bee Delores @beedelores.bsky.social Horror Critic + Music Journalist • 🍅 • B-Sides & Badlands • EntertainmentNow, Billboard, Nashville Scene, Neon Splatter etc
Brad Miska @bradmiska.bsky.social founder: http://bloody-disgusting.com | producer: Southbound, V/H/S/2/3/94/99/85, Silent Night, Deadly Night | #Terrifier2 | #Terrifier3 | box office champ
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
Vander Von Odd @vandervonodd.bsky.social 𝔉𝔦𝔩𝔪𝔪𝔞𝔨𝔢𝔯 | 𝔇𝔯𝔞𝔤 𝔔𝔲𝔢𝔢𝔫 | 𝔗𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔰 𝔉𝔢𝔪𝔪𝔢 | 𝔇𝔯𝔞𝔤𝔲𝔩𝔞 𝔖1 | 18+ | 𝔒𝔴𝔫𝔢𝔯 @𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔱𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔰𝔴𝔬𝔩𝔣
Sean aka Gay of the Dead @gayofthedead.bsky.social A total queer 🏳️🌈 Horror journo who primarily writes abt LGBTQ cinema
Bylines: Fangoria * Second Sight * Arrow * Cinematographe * Vinegar Syndrome
Books: QUEER HORROR: A FILM GUIDE
PHYSICAL MEDIA BOOKLET ESSAY
Patreon: www.patreon.com/gayofthedead
HORROR PRESS @horrorpress.com Do me a solid and go read horrorpress.com
Shane Anderson 🏳️🌈 @shaneanderson.bsky.social Filmmaker: SONOS (Out now!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JnwXiBzoVk
and THE CARDINAL (coming soon!)
Incompetently Gay. He/Him
10 💀 @theblueiriss.bsky.social Ten • 31 • Trans Girlie • She/Her • Denver • 18+ • Polyam • Horror Flix • TTRPG's • Chronically ILL 😎 • Vegan • Autistic • Bad Jokes • Vinyl • Pro Yapper • Dungeon Master • Musician: The Blue Iris • https://linktr.ee/The_Blue_Iris
Jonathan Lees @jonathanlees.bsky.social Writer of horrors and other things feat. in: The Rack (Vol. II), Long Division, Fear of Clowns, Other Terrors, Even in the Grave, & The Hideous Book of Hidden Horrors +++
✒️📚🏳️🌈☠️🩸
Director, Video: ex-Complex & ex-Tidal
www.documentiaprojects.com
FriGay the 13th Horror Podcast 🏳️🌈 @frigay13.bsky.social Co-hosts Andrew & @mattyzaddy.bsky.social explore horror—in real life & in the movies—from an LGBTQ+ perspective.
*a proud, independent podcast*
*DiscoverPod Award Winner*
Keith Goulette 🌻 @keithgdesigns.bsky.social movie key art designer | boston, ma | he/him
portfolio: keithgdesigns.com
Sigourney Beaver @sigourneybeaver.com Female impersonator impersonator ✨✨
Obituary (YouTube)
Boulet Brothers Dragula Titans 2 (AMC+ and Shudder)
Boulet Brothers Dragula S4
Onyx Ondyx @onyxondyx.bsky.social The Showghoul of Boulet Brothers Dragula S5
The Broadway Slasher 🔪🎭🏳️🌈 @sequins4thots.bsky.social President of the Gale Weathers Fan Club | Rated R for extreme homosexuality | He/Him | NSFW
Jon Wesley Huff @jonwesleyhuff.bsky.social Writer. Novels. Scripts. Comics. 🏳️🌈.
Latest Book: The Master of Shearhaven
https://linktr.ee/jonwesleyhuff
Bright Light Bright Light @brightlightx2.bsky.social Music maker, movie lover, cat protector.
Music: Bright Light Bright Light
Contact: hello@brightlightx2.com
Cats: volunteer at Bideawee.org
Robbie Banfitch @robbiebanfitch.bsky.social Logic with a dash of whimsy 🦋
Jersey boy 🌺
Writer | Filmmaker: The Outwaters🏜
https://www.patreon.com/c/RainlightVideo
Joshua R. Pangborn @joshuarpangborn.sidekickproductions.org Cal on HBO's The Chair Company
Creator: Skeleton Crew, Demon Doctor, A Taste of Youth, The Brooklyn Butcher, The Contract
Queer, Fat-Positive Horror Actor, Writer, Director, Filmmaker (he/him)
Founder: SideKick Productions
Linktree: https://t.co/rUET1x5ppw
Violencia! @violenciaboston.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️ she/her
🔥 NSFW 18+
💄Drag Artist
🏠Boston
🧟♀️ Boulet Brothers Dragula S3
🦝 Producer of @nuzzleboston.bsky.social
DRKLGHT Clothing @drklght.bsky.social 100% LGBTQ+ owned and operated positive themed clothing from the dark side featuring #goth, #occult, #Disney, #straightedge, #LGBTQ & more #666 #disneygoth www.DRKLGHT.com
Midnight Mass @midnightmasspod.bsky.social Join cult leader Peaches Christ & filmmaker Michael Varrati for some hilarious and hardcore audio worship of their favorite cult movies!