General Witchfinders - The British Horror Podcast and Zine @generalwitch.bsky.social The British Horror Podcast and Zine
Britain… an ancient kingdom with cruelty and torment in its blood
Join Ross Jon and James as they tread where few dare
From Dracula to Damien Herbert to Hellraiser
www.generalwitchfinders.com
Laura | Books, Cats, Etc. @books-cats-etc.bsky.social Book blogger. Lover of books 📚, cats 🐈, owls 🦉 and a nice cup of tea ☕️
Ellis Light @ellislight.bsky.social Managing Editor at Renaissance Quarterly. Enjoyer of old songs, strange tales, crafty arts, nerdy pastimes. They/them.
Markonthemaps (Mark Ovenden) @markonthemaps.bsky.social 🌈 Author, broadcaster and lecturer in design, cartography, typography and architecture around public transport. Partner of ND 🌈♾️ person. Pro-Transit 🚆 🚃 🚋 🚟🚌 and ‘in transit’ from X as @markovenden.
James Goss @gossjam.bsky.social Writer and audio drama producer living in a cave in Turkey so you don't have to. Hickson in the streets, Rutherford in the sheets. 
Whiskey and the Weird @whiskeyandtheweird.bsky.social We’re a podcast exploring the British Library’s Tales of the Weird series. Each season we choose a different book; each episode a different story. Join us! 🥃
Lucy Furlong @lucyfurleaps.bsky.social writing ~ mapping ~ walking ~ snapping
clew~ (Hesterglock Press) Villiers Path, Sward, Amniotic City 2nd ed. (Sampson Low)
Setting Sundays lucyfurlong.substack.com
Amniotic City film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E25IOgfD4Q
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Tom Mead @tommeadauthor.bsky.social He/Him. Author of DEATH AND THE CONJUROR, THE MURDER WHEEL, and CABARET MACABRE published by Mysterious Press (US) and Head of Zeus (UK)
"Ingenious" - The Guardian
"Ingenious" - The Times
Rep: Lorella Belli Literary Agency
Stephen Graves @stephengraves.co.uk Special Projects Editor at Decrypt, director of short films (The Dead of Winter, @frightfest.bsky.social @screamfest.bsky.social alumnus), player of D&D, painter of little Warhammer/MESBG men. @stephengraves on Twitter.
Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social Reader, may be quite fond of books 💙📚 book reviewer, book blogger, runner, volunteer, transcriber, editor, parkrun Run Director, Birmingham, UK. Book reviews at https://librofulltime.wordpress.com
Swan River Press @swanriverpress.bsky.social Independent press dedicated to literature of the gothic, fantastic, strange, and supernatural. Æon House, Dublin, Ireland. Posts by Brian J. Showers. www.swanriverpress.ie
James Grady @jdgrady.bsky.social I like films, the odder the better. Interesting music and literature. I occasionally take pinhole photographs.
Dicky Bonham @dickbonham.bsky.social Co-Director of The Old Woollen, Leeds.
Partner in Cargo Wines.
Co-Chair of Red Ladder Theatre Co. & Fidget Theatre.
Director, producer and writer.
Movies, horror, books, theatre, wine, neurodivergence, Paganism etc.
He/him.
Old Woollen @oldwoollen.bsky.social 500-capacity venue in Farsley, Leeds.
Presenting the finest music, comedy & performance.
Run by Trouble at Mill Events. Within Sunny Bank Mills.
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Penarth, Wales
Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social Remind me I have too many books, BluRays, DVDs, comics, TV & games to get through to be wasting time on socials. Occasional maker of THINGS.
British.
SF, Horror, Comics, Books, Archive TV, Weird Shit.
Letterboxd : @MarkSlater42
(He/Him)
Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social Fragments of life in messages from old postcards, curated by Tom Jackson. BOOK: http://amzn.to/34rIDhp POD: http://Apple.co/2xNqQ8D AGENT: http://morgangreencreatives.com
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Life is too short to read books you don’t love, so I don’t.
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Wyrd Britain @wyrdbritain.bsky.social A place of stories of a stranger Britain.
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!
Michael Bully @bleakchesneywold.bsky.social Based in Worthing, West Sussex, England. #Victorian History/ #Secondempire enthusiast, Listen to #Classicalmusic & #TheFall, Also love #TheArchers
This is the bluesky account for 19th century blog
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Simon Guerrier @0tralala.bsky.social Writer and producer. Out now: David Whitaker in an Exciting Adventure with Television, a biography of the first story editor of Doctor Who. Currently working on a biography of Terrance Dicks. www.simonguerrier.com
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Geek Chocolate @geekchocolate.bsky.social Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror/Comics, reviews and comment.
http://geekchocolate.co.uk/
Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social Chris Coates, purveyor of niche drivel: https://substack.com/@oddthisday
Costa Koutsoutis @costakout.bsky.social Weird writer/professor. Essays & short stories in Typebar Magazine, Akashic Press, The Alexandria Archives, & more. Books like NO CASTLES and THE HOWL OF THE EARTH. | He/Him | "Drums, drums in the deep…"
costak.wordpress.com
Tiernan Blanchard @gaycannibalism.bsky.social 🔞 He/They/Xe. Dark fiction for the gays and the goths, horror and fantasy perfectly blended. Father of Malice and famed cannibal pervert. Regrettably British. 🔞 Profile pic by @ardenpowell.bsky.com
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Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social 🇮🇪 Writer Hagstone | Constellations | This Woman’s Work (with Kim Gordon) | Agent: Peter Straus at RCW | Newsletter: momentsofrecognition.substack.com
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Sarah @norfolkbookworm.bsky.social Book lover & intermittent blogger. Hobby photographer, cat owning, holiday loving space nerd.
Malachi Whitaker @malachiwhitaker.bsky.social Official account of all things Malachi Whitaker, Yorkshire author, b. Bradford (1895-1976). Moderated by Whitaker's Literary Executor, Valerie Waterhouse (PhD researcher, Salford University. Winner of Biographers Intl Org Kitty Kelley Fellowship, 2025)
Catherine Angerson @sonofanger.bsky.social Archivist and manuscripts curator. Research on Anglo-German cultural relations and literary networks
Deborah Parkin @deborahparkin.bsky.social Photography - Art - Literature - Women’s Photo History - Bookbinding - Printing - Women Artists - Gardening - Walking
Living on the moors in Northumberland with family, animals & camera.
Whodunnit Whisperings @whodunnitwhispers.bsky.social Reviews of classic and more modern crime fiction, celebrating the Golden Age. https://whodunnitwhisperings.substack.com/
James Bailey @drjamesbailey.bsky.social Writer from Manchester. LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD, my biography of Muriel Spark, out now! 🐈⬛
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Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social Writer, teacher, person in New Hampshire
Books from Black Lawrence, Bloomsbury Academic, punctum, Third Man, Lethe.
Horror fiction, modernism, pedagogy, Open Access, general weirdness...
https://matthewcheney.net
Kathy Gori @kathygori.bsky.social Screenwriter, ADHD, Indian cook, Sat morning Cartoon voice, Lifelong Dem, 5th Gen San Franciscan, Uklulelist, Clio winner, Los Angeles radio vet, film dubber, 2xcancer survivor, 🐕♥️, found as kathygori. My cooking substack: https://kathygori.substack.com
Mike Rampton @mikerampton.bsky.social Author, journalist, hero, dad, sleepy etc. He/him. Cambridge, UK. Please buy the fun, funny books I write for children and grown-ups.
mikerampton.com / interestingskull.beehiiv.com
Mat Pringle @matpringle.bsky.social Illustrator, Printmaker and Arts Facilitator.
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Alice Slater @aliceslater.bsky.social damn girl that looks yummy as fuck. what’s your email address?
Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social Lecturer in Medieval English and AFY English Subject Lead (Ox) ¶ Author of BOOK CURSES for Bodleian Publishing ¶ Being critically creative @guildmedmak.bsky.social ¶ Liker of material texts, medieval folk horror, university access & print making ¶ She/her
So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social They/them. Overthinker. Reads things, writes things. BAD LANGUAGE out now with Peninsula Press 🐉 THE WORD FOR WORLD (co-ed) out now with @silver-press.bsky.social 🌳 Website & newsletter: somayer.net. Won't age-verify so no DMs.
Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social "The Dead Man's Empire", sequel to the award-winning "The Last Blade Priest", is out now from Angry Robot. Author of several novels, and the short story collection "The Anechoic Chamber & other weird tales" (Salt). He/him.
Rossiter Books @rossiterbooks.bsky.social Independent booksellers
Ross on Wye, Monmouth, Leominster, Cheltenham, Malvern, Hereford, Ledbury
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Lisa Grimm @lisagrimm.com DAM nerd. Nat'l Library of Ireland Board. USian in Dublin. Beer judge & podcaster @beerladiespod & blog @weirdodublinpubs. Ex-archaeologist/archivist. Runner. Theatre nerd. Whovian. Transit enthusiast. Geek mom to cats/humans. She/her. lisagrimm.com
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Melissa Edmundson @melissae.bsky.social PhD in Victorian lit. Editor/researcher/lecturer. Women’s ghost stories & the supernatural. Lots of posts about books. And ghosts. And Margery Lawrence.
Violet Hunt’s The Tiger Skin and Other Tales of the Uneasy out now with The British Library.
Hidden Britain @hiddenbritain.bsky.social Handmade signs, prints, music & books inspired by British Folk Horror and unsettling TV, film & literature. Based in The Black Country, England.
https://linktr.ee/hiddenbritain
Rebekah King @rebekahking.bsky.social Writer/researcher https://www.rebekahkingwriter.com/
Articles on magic, theatre, horror etc here https://rebekahkingwriter.substack.com
Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social Historian of art & ideas, Cambridge
FSA FRHistS. Sometimes on the radio.
📕 The Story of Tudor Art out now
views own 🥦👻🎻
https://www.christinajfaraday.com/
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Dr Janette Leaf @janetteleaf.bsky.social Honorary Research Fellow: Birkbeck, Uni of London. 2023-2026. Weird cats, Cultural Entomology; Victorianism; Hypnotic Gothic; Egyptomania; Redheads; Shop Girls; Pre Raphaelite Art; Ghost Ships; Neo-Victorianism. Co-editor BL Insect Weird anthology.
Hodgsoniana @hodgsoniana.bsky.social https://hodgsoniana.wordpress.com
Bluesky account for Hodgsoniana, a blog about the life and works of author William Hope Hodgson.
Posts by @shin-mc.bsky.social
#WilliamHopeHodgson #WeirdFiction #WeirdLit #CosmicHorror #Horror #Fantasy
Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social Bestselling author of THEY KNEW, HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, THE VIEW FROM FLYOVER COUNTRY and THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP.
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Charles Prepolec @sherlockeditor.bsky.social Editor on the 'Gaslight Sherlock Holmes' series, 'Professor Challenger: New Worlds, Lost Places' and 'Beyond Rue Morgue' anthologies. Mostly, I just like to read... but will rage about Canadian politics as a federal Liberal and AB NDP supporter in Calgary.
Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social Lecturer in c19th and c20th Literature. #Gothic #DeathStudies #Childhood
Assoc Editor @ Gothic Studies
40y/o still using a bong @harrychronicjr.bsky.social 
Dr Joan Passey @joanpassey.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English / Gothic / queer ecologies / coasts and seascapes / Shirley Jackson
Alice Vernon @alicevernon10.bsky.social Lecturer in Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University. NIGHT TERRORS (Icon 2022). GHOSTED (Bloomsbury Sigma 2025). Writes about ghosts, the paranormal and spooky sleep. Represented by Donald Winchester at Watson, Little.
James Machin @jfmachin.bsky.social Editor, proof reader, writer, researcher etc.
Recent books:
The Strange Stories of John Buchan (British Library Publishing, 2025)
The Stark Munro Letters by Arthur Conan Doyle (Edinburgh University Press, 2024)
Patricia Lovett MBE @patricialovett.bsky.social Professional scribe and illuminator. Written 14 books and made a DVD on the subjects. Co-Director and Chief Judge of the Stanford Calligraphy Collection.
LizzaAiken @lizzaaiken.bsky.social Sharing all things Aiken...books, thoughts, memories...
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Fine Books & Collections @finebooks.bsky.social A quarterly magazine and daily updated website about rare books and collecting
Simon Brackenborough @sbrackenborough.bsky.social Londoner and writer on classical music. Interested in the arts, history, nature, reading, coffee, vegetarian food, and active travel infrastructure.
https://mosaicoftheair.substack.com/
Felix John Taylor @felixjrt.bsky.social Writer, librarian by day. Author of The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (Thames & Hudson) and a forthcoming Arthur Machen biography
Irregular blog posts at felixtaylor.org
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Talking Scared Podcast @talkscaredpod.bsky.social A podcast of conversations with the biggest names in horror writing. Find out where your favourite scary stories came from.
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You can reach me at talkingscaredpod@gmail.com 
Dr Julia Lindenlaub @julialindenlaub.bsky.social Senior Content Manager, Academic Journals, Cambridge University Press | PhD, University of Edinburgh | Historian of Religion in Mediterranean Antiquity & Production Editor for Humanities Research | She/Her
Johnny Restall @johnnyrestall.bsky.social Writes and podcasts about films, usually cult thrillers and horror. Likes movies, music, reading, drawing. My work can be found at: https://linktr.ee/JohnnyRestall
Carolyne Larrington @profcarolyne.bsky.social medievalist, medievalism-is, lover of things Norse and northern. #author
Elizabeth Dearnley @elizadearnley.bsky.social Folklorist, writer, Lecturer in Creative Writing at Edinburgh Napier. FEARSOME FAIRIES, HAUNTED YORKSHIRE etc. (British Library), THE FAIRY SPOTTER’S GUIDE (Welbeck). Fairy tales / horror / weird and eerie 🦇 Rep’d https://www.philippasitters.co.uk. She/her
Paula Simoes @paulasimoes.bsky.social My blog: https://paulasimoesblog.wordpress.com/
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The BHF Book of Horror Stories @bhfbooks.bsky.social A paperback series of original horror fiction, edited by Ian Talbot Taylor and Andrew Llewellyn
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The Book Vault @thebookvault.bsky.social An independent bookshop for Barnsley, UK. Eclectic ranges of fiction and non-fiction for all ages.
Valarie Smith @valarie.bsky.social Every time I reread Virginia Woolf’s The Waves I love it even more.
Also a fan of Sam Shepard, Kerouac, Dickens, Steinbeck, Capote, du Maurier, Willy Vlautin, Donna Tartt, the Backlisted podcast, film noir, Twin Peaks, Columbo & folklore. Portland, OR
Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social Historian of religion and belief | folklorist | Balticist | indexer | lay canon @stedscath.bsky.social | series editor for @universitypress.cambridge.org
British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social We’re the national library of the UK.- M Mark Eitzel @markeitzel.bsky.social Hack
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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 • /|\
Gemma Amor @manylittlewords.bsky.social Bram Stoker, Shirley Jackson & British Fantasy Award nominated author, illustrator from Bristol, UK.
ROOTS OF MY FEARS, Titan 2025
ITCH! Hodder & Stoughton 2025
FIRST DATE, Datura Books 2026
HAPPY HOUR, Shortwave 2026
NoSleep Podcast.
Big Bearded Bookseller @bigbeardedbookseller.com Expert bookseller with a very big beard
Books read: 83/100
📚 Art On My Mind
📺 The World's Finest Assassin Gets Reincarnated in Another World as an Aristocrat
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Jayson Carcione @carcionejay.bsky.social Fiction: The London Magazine, The Forge, Lunate, Epoque Press, elsewhere
Best of the Net 2024 finalist
Deputy Production Editor: Irish Examiner
Cork via New York
Darryl Jones @profdarryljones.bsky.social Professor of Modern British Literature and Culture, Trinity College Dublin. M. R. James, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle - and fountain pens.
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.
Liz White @lizcwhite.bsky.social Book lover. Tea drinker. Incorrigibly plural.
The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦🇬🇱 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social Reader, writer, nature-lover, garden-potterer, history-dabbler, selenophile. Distracted by birds. 🐦⬛
theunhurriedreader.substack.com
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KDS 📖 🎲 🎮 @kdsbooks.bsky.social Reader, gamer: Personal library of Classic SFF/Pulp/Gothic/Weird/Classic Crime/Noir/Kaiju/World SFF/Lost World Fiction. UK
No to AI. No DMs
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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social "I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself."
Wandering. Wondering. Freelance SFFH editor. Commissioning for The Broken Binding. Living in Edinburgh. Views my own and independent of my employers. Photos my own unless otherwise etc.
George Sandison @georgesandison.bsky.social Managing Editor @titanbooks.bsky.social. Ran multiple award-winning Unsung Stories. Writer: HINTERLANDS @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social. European (yes, still). Empathy, compassion & ice cream pls. He/Him.
AGENCY out now https://shorturl.at/iqPUx
The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social Small but mighty, award-winning indpendent bookshop in the heart of Edinburgh's lovely Bruntsfield area
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