Emma Cole @editrixemma.bsky.social Editor @Mira Books (views are my own). Staff Writer @Night Tide. Notes & Queries Editor @JPRS. Rep'd by Danai Christopolou and Lane Heymont. Writing about romance in horror movies: Love Never Dies (Beacon Press): September 29, 2026. editrixemma.com
Jon Chaiim McConnell @jonmcconn.bsky.social writer | etc
https://linktr.ee/jonmcconn
Brandon Applegate @bapplegate.bsky.social Weird things are happening. Sometimes I write. Usually about monsters, ghosts, magic, messed up family dynamics and whatnot. Book here: https://www.amazon.com/Those-We-Left-Behind-Sacrifices/dp/057896841X/
Kay Vaindal @kayv.bsky.social Baltimore | weird fiction writer 🏆 | scientist by day | find me at the bottom of the Chesapeake | find my stories at link below:
https://kayvaindal.com/
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.
Seán Padraic Birnie @seanbirnie.bsky.social seanbirnie.com
https://undertowpublications.com/shop/i-would-haunt-you-if-i-could
Short stories in ergot, Weird Horror, Interzone, Remains & elsewhere
me/cfs
Grid @isbergillustration.bsky.social Illustrator, writer, aspiring failure. Extremely open for any kind of commission. Mostly #art stuff. All originals 4 sale. DM 4 details
They/them. 🇧🇻
Isbergillustration.com
Ko-fi.com/isbergillustration
Isbergillustration@gmail.com
The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com a journal of ends and beginnings
https://psychopomp.com/deadlands/
published by @psychopomp.com, tweets by @feliciafm.bsky.social and @seanmarkey.bsky.social
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
Ryan Marie Ketterer @ryanmarie47.bsky.social I write weird.
https://linktr.ee/ryanmarie47
Horror Writers Association, New York Chapter @hwany.org We’re the horror and dark literature authors from the Tri-State area. Our chapter hosts meetings and local events. We are committed to the professional development and growth of our members. Find out more here:
https://horror.org/
https://hwany.org/
Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social poet. writer. editor. reviewer. translator. corrupted bibliomaniac. exists in romanian and alabamian. hybrid in she/her dreams. self-deleting. self-ghosting.
www.alinastefanescuwriter.com
Erratum Press @erratumpress.bsky.social Publishing the international avant-garde (EIC @ansgarallen.bsky.social)
https://www.erratumpress.com/
Lucy A. Snyder @lucyasnyder.bsky.social SISTER, MAIDEN, MONSTER (Tor Nightfire, Titan). 5 Bram Stoker Awards. Shirley Jackson finalist. Work in Strange Horizons, Nightmare, Asimov's, Pseudopod, etc. Clarion grad. 🏳️🌈
www.lucysnyder.com
Rep: @jord4nhill.bsky.social
Cats, aquariums and terrariums
wren d @awritingwren.bsky.social they/them. SFF author who might be a bird or a cat or a secret third thing. wrendouglas.carrd.co
ian kappos @nokappos.bsky.social ✍️ in Strange Horizons, ergot., Seize the Press, Cosmic Horror Monthly, etc. Forthcoming in: Chthonic Matter Quarterly
Co-creator: Los Suelos, CA (www.LosSuelos.com).
Instagram: @jung_carl
Death to false powerviolence//
Death to false weird fiction
Chelsea Davis @chelsead.bsky.social Writer. Audio producer @Pseudopod.org. https://chelseamdavis.net/writing/
Richard Gadz, horror writer @frankenwriter.bsky.social Award-winning author, ace neurodivergent and keen amateur idiot. Lives in Bristol but spends most of his time in a world of his own.
Also at www.richardgadz.co.uk + Facebook, Instagram, YouTube
Whiskey Tit Press @whiskeytit.com Whiskey Tit makes delicious books and believes, sincerely, that great literature will keep us alive and fighting and (hopefully) free from brainworms.
Luna Asli Kolcu 🌙 @lunaaslikolcu.bsky.social Fantasy • Quiet Horror • Spec Fiction
Photographer turned indie author. Stepping into dreams—but with teeth 🌻 🖤
The Rootbound Bride trilogy live now.
Free dark fiction → lunaaslikolcu.kit.com
A small village near Barcelona.
Evangeline Gallagher @egallagher.bsky.social illustrator | Baltimore | repped by sari@levycreative.com | email evangelinemgallagher@gmail.com for work, I don’t check DMs!⭐️ they/them
https://linktr.ee/evangelinegallagher
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
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
D.J. Tuskmor @tuskmor.com Horror Writer | Narrative Designer | Chief Cyber Exorcist
Website: Tuskmor.com
cmcrockford.bsky.social @cmcrockford.bsky.social BIRDSONGS (Alien Buddha, 2024) and WITH ONE'S OWN EYES (Moonstone Press, 2026). AuDHD. West Philly. Cat dad. Anti-fascist.
Buy my book: https://www.cmcrockford.net/store/p/with-ones-own-eyes
Bryan Holm @holmbry.bsky.social MN Horror Author - Short stories: Sinister Smile Press, Eerie River Publishing, Strange Wilds Press, Dead Sky Publishing. Satanic Static out now from Anuci Press.
www.bryanholm.com
Linktr.ee/holmbry
🪽🐇 @mourningdoves.bsky.social Texas sweetheart
esoterica in suburbia
🦋
https://throne.com/mourningdoves
Ava DeVries @avadevries.bsky.social she/her 🌈 words at https://www.avadevries.com/
fiction editor @btgardenmag.bsky.social
reader @fusionfragment.bsky.social
Shonna White @shonnathewhite.bsky.social Author, artist, gamer & GIANT GEEK (she/her) 🇨🇦
LOST INFERNAL - Now available: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HBLTY4TJ
Learn more at Lostinfernal.com
Tortured soul behind the writer's resource
@descriptionary.bsky.social | descriptionary.wordpress.com
Katabatic Circus @katabaticcircus.bsky.social an anthology of speculative poetics
https://duotrope.com/anthology/katabatic-circus-36036
[open to submissions for volume 3]
EIC @nsborwein.bsky.social
[sentiment inexpressible] @goresorcerer.bsky.social horror writing | industrial music (surgeryhead) | metal (thrall/argento) | rpgs (squishy) | waow
Thea O'Ryan Files @theaoryanfiles.bsky.social Thea O'Ryan is a Canadian writer with a love for all things horror. She went on a road trip to the Bruce Peninsula in 2014 and has not been seen since.
She is, however, still frequently heard.
https://www.theaoryanfiles.co.uk/
💗💜💙
🖤🩶🤍💜
Cymru/Canada
Kyle E. Miller @kymiller.bsky.social Writer. Author of The Idiot’s Garden.
www.kyle-e-miller.com
🪱💀mindy💀🪱 [exorcism bondage era] @garbagesauce.bsky.social she/her. 38. bookseller, helpline worker, publicity ghoul & assistant editor @ ghoulish books, reviewer @ the sinister scoop, very delicate tenderhearted crybaby, slime gargoyle.
Garrett Bliss 🇺🇦 @gbliss.bsky.social Old Movies…Ghost Stories…Fairytales…Opera…Politics… Marxist Woke Pope
Todd S. Jordan @toddsjordan.bsky.social A horror writer and a sorry sack of guts.
THE FLESH I WANT coming 2027, Titan Books.
Agent: Julie Gourinchas, Bell Lomax Moreton.
Pre-order: www.linktr.ee/toddsjordan
Addison Smith (Addi) @addi.social Ace author of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror.
Would rather be a fish. 🐠
https://addi.studio
Jayaprakash has a mastertape @jayaprakash777.bsky.social Can't not write. Not seeking publication. Plays bass guitar. Writes doom metal songs.
He/him. AI-free. Lives in Bangalore, India.
KENNETH SCOTT @superactionfunboy.bsky.social Chets Dad. 🏳️⚧️ Art Director/Gamedev ( #halo4, #doom3, #quake3, #oculus #vrgamedev ) and #gamedev #solodev #indiegamedev || He/Him || Humans only plz || CW: Mostly Horror content || https://linktr.ee/superactionfunboy
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)
Duchess of Winnipeg @duchessofwinnipeg.bsky.social Sometimes I write things. Sometimes it's funny: https://www.pointsincase.com/author/ashley-k-frantik
Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social trailcams
no AI ever
Adrienne Clark @adrienneclark.bsky.social Writer, editor, and horror fan freezing in the PNW.
Short stories in ‘His Soul’s Still Dancing’ and ‘Let the Weirdness In.’ Book reviews at Phantastiqa.com 
Ute Orgassa @uteorgassa.bsky.social Author, playwright, strange human being.
https://www.uteorgassa.com/
Member of https://www.penandpier.com
Tashi Saheb-Ettaba @tashise.bsky.social She/Her
Multiracial 🇯🇵 🇺🇸 🇹🇳
MG and YA Horror Writer
#AmQuerying my YA Horror, THE NIGHTMARE THAT DEVOURS
https://www.tashisaheb-ettaba.com
The Rotting Leaf @rottingleafmag.bsky.social A literary space for the eco-gothic, the eco-horrific, the eco-surrealist, and the eco-weird | Edited by @benlockwood.bsky.social
Read: https://www.briefecology.com/the-rotting-leaf
Submit: https://www.briefecology.com/submissions
TKENDALL @tkendall.bsky.social Writer: The Autodidacts (https://whiskeytit.com/product/the-autodidacts/)
How I Killed The Universal Man (https://whiskeytit.com/product/how-i-killed-the-universal-man/)
Jude Deluca @judedeluca.bsky.social Writer done with just about anything. 35 year old Christmas baby. Aegosexual. She/they
ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/A2664URX
Vmo: Jude-Deluca
Sliced Up Press @sliceduppress.bsky.social Queer-run indie horror micropress, publishing anthologies since 2020. Firmly anti-AI.
Find us at sliceduppress.com
SATURDAY MOURNING TELEVISION out now!
A. Bastedo is trying, okay? @abastedo-writing.bsky.social * (he/him)
* Published writer of horror and dark fiction
* Human services worker
* MFA Arcadia University
* Reconciling Lutheran
* Totally Not a Furry
* Happily Married
* Dad Living/Dad Dying
* AI art doesn’t exist
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/
Robert Helfst is doing the best he can @roberthelfst.bsky.social Cosmic & literary horror enthusiast | Fraidy Cat Press editor | Absolutely no AI | Words in Chthonic Matter Quarterly, Saros SF, X-Ray Lit & more. https://linktr.ee/roberthelfst
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.
Sarah Peploe @sarahpeploe.bsky.social writing and drawing
https://linktr.ee/sarahpeploe
Header from THE BERG, by @bobgoblynn.bsky.social!
Mike Davis @michaeldylandavis.bsky.social Horror podcaster, reader, dad, husband. Winner of the Robert Bloch Award.
Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@lovecraftezinepodcast
RSLjnr @rsljnr.bsky.social (he/they)🌹AHRC-funded and researching (New) Weird & Ligotti @ Uni of Liverpool 🌹 work at ergot., CHM, Sans Press, Vastarien 🌹 the way in is the way out 🌹https://linktr.ee/RSLjnr
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.
Rekha Valliappan @silicasun.bsky.social Author - Poet
Award-winning Pushcart & Best of Net nom. Writer & Poet- Nature Nomad, Science Scarab, Art Aesthete -Stories, Poems, CNF, Flash Fiction, Haiku, Published in Over 100+ Literary & Genre Journals & Anthologies
https://www.silicasun.wordpress.com
Jason Baltazar @jasonbaltazar.bsky.social Writer, artist, anomaly.
Website: http://jasonbaltazar.com/
Insta: @jasonrbaltazar
Callum Haire @calscareseasy.bsky.social Horror writer. It’s all fiction … probably.
May Walker @maywalker.bsky.social Horror Author and Colored Pencil Artist
Matthew Jaffe @mrj81.bsky.social 
Wyatt Bonikowski @wbonikowski.bsky.social Suffolk U. English prof. Book: Shell Shock and the Modernist Imagination. Essays on Shirley Jackson, fairy tales, psychoanalysis. Fiction writer.
Xochilt Avila @xavilawrites.bsky.social They/Them | Indie Author and Slusher @cateyepress.bsky.social
My debut novella Mariposa releases Feb 2027 with https://www.lmhpub.com/
Icon by (my husband) @harboretum.bsky.social
https://xochiltavilaauthor.com/
Evan Dean Shelton @realsonicdanger.bsky.social Writer, musician, filmmaker, podcaster, adventurer, Southerner, occult practitioner. Creator of The Lurking Transmission. Horror ist krieg. Hail holy Death.
Ri Stypula @ristypula.bsky.social Totally not a hundred rats in a trench coat. Writing queer horror that’s always weird, and occasionally about parasites.
SQUELCH! (Merigold Independent) coming September 2026.
(They/Them)
https://ratkinghorror.carrd.co
In Praise of Shadows @praiseshadows.bsky.social I make videos about horror | YouTuber, Writer, and Artist 
O F Cieri @ossuary.bsky.social It's pronounced like 'ossuary'. Neodecadentata pulp novelist + flame shirt revitalist
Local 210
Ksamkcab yub
Ofcieri.com
mere rain @mererain.bsky.social Author of speculative fiction of all genres.
Pubbed by JMS Books, Mischief Corner, Flametree, CossMass, Mad Scientist Journal, Astral, Things in the Well...
Rajiv Moté @rajivmote.bsky.social Chicago. SFFH writer (Codex, ex-SFWA), software professional, Dragonmount contributor, shiftless dreamer. Views expressed are my own and do not reflect my employers or anybody else.
https://rajivmote.wordpress.com/published/
Roy Graham @grayhaem.bsky.social fiction writer and story lead @ wizards of the coast / he/him / repped by Arley Sorg / opinions are my own and do not represent my employer
https://www.roy-graham.com/
Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social Multimodal af. Collective Gravities, Every Galaxy a Circle, Patterns of Orbit, Escaping the Body, & more
Co-EIC of @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social
www.chloenclark.com
Cover image: raspberry danishes
Profile photo: a river heron
Joshua Chaplinsky @jchaplinsky.bsky.social Author of 'Letters to the Purple Satin Killer', 'The Paradox Twins' & 'Kanye West—Reanimator.' LitReactor Managing Editor (2011-2023).
https://linktr.ee/joshuachaplinsky
D.R. Forge @drforge.bsky.social lit horror author
Winner of the 2025 NYC Midnight Short Story Contest and 2025 NYC Midnight Scary Story Challenge
HWA/SFWA
https://www.nycmidnight.com/stories/when-dragons-do-laundry
too many names 🫖 @tigermolk.bsky.social Doer of a lot but not enough. Creatures, Characters, and Comics, oh my.
Weird Queer Gender Monstrosity
🔞Some of my art contains Nudity/Gore.
🔪 AI and NFT's ain't welcome 'round these parts, pardner.
Vinicio | aka Argento Nox @vinicio-the-weird.bsky.social he/him, they/them | german | 30 | queer | goth/emo/vkei-hybrid | 18+
- talking about books, manga and games
- unhinged thoughts
- unhinged poem-like pieces of text
- writer of Fantasy, Weird Fiction and Erotica
https://argentonox.carrd.co/
Jack Wright @jackwrightauthor.com Horror author from the North of England. Reyt Spooky.
Stories of grief, folklore, and the things that move when they shouldn’t.
Duskfield Pines — ???
Anna’s Veil — ???
https://ko-fi.com/jackwrightauthor
https://buymeacoffee.com/jackwright
Anthony M. Abboreno @anthonymabboreno.bsky.social He/him. English teacher. Fiction writer.
PhD @ University of Southern California.
Words @ Redivider, Copper Nickel, Story Magazine, American Short Fiction, Outlook Springs, Planet Scumm, Future Fire
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
Chris W. McGuinness @cwmcguinness.bsky.social Horror writer. Bookworm. Craft beer aficionado. https://chriswmcguinness.wordpress.com
Dave Serrette @daveserrette.bsky.social Elementally destitute storyteller.
Writer. Narrator. Mother fucking wizard.
Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina
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
Recent 🏚️ @kxzw.bsky.social fiction by David Lee Wright; Albuquerque grateful—presente for the maravilloso, la ciudad; writer, reader, slowest bookbinder.
Chris Doty-Dunn @chrisdotydunn.com Writer of weird and/or gay and/or spec fiction. Words in Crepuscular Magazine, Rat Bag Lit, Dream Theory Media, and more + forthcoming at Drabblecast. PhD in linguistics. ✡️🏳️🌈👬
Newsletter signup and stories: chrisdotydunn.com
Anemone Moss @ecoevoexo.bsky.social she/her
horror and speculative fiction writer
⚢ transfeminist
read New Developments at https://www.scribblehub.com/series/1111286/new-developments/
tRaum Books @traumbooks.bsky.social trans micro press ♡ BLACK HOLE SCIENCE IS FILLED WITH APOLOGIES, by Never Angeline North is out now!!!
🚫NO AI ++ FVCK ICE ++ FREE PALESTINE
https://payhip.com/tRaumBooks
https://traumbooks.itch.io/
www.traumbooks.com
Sara Century @saracentury.bsky.social Makes photos, videos, books, zines, and podcasts. A lesbian, she/her, etc. saracentury.com
K. A. Tutin / Kirsty Tutin @mskatutin.bsky.social She/they. Writer, editor → mskatutin.com, tutinediting.com. Tutin pronounced like a rootin’-tootin’ cowboy.
Juleigh Howard-Hobson @juleigh.bsky.social Formalist Poet. Heathen. 6 books. The usual nominations. I sometimes write prose. My 140 year old house is haunted. That's why I bought it. I follow back creatives.
Jordan Hirsch @jordanrhirsch.bsky.social She/her
Writing speculative fiction and poetry.
Currently reading: Model Home by Rivers Solomon
jordanrhirsch.wordpress.com
LindaAnn LoSchiavo @ghostlyverse.bsky.social Poet. Writer. New Yorker. Member: BFS, HWA, SFPA, Dramatists Guild.
2024 bks: Apprenticed to the Night; Felones de Se; Always Haunted.
2025 bks: Cancer Courts My Mother + Vampire Verses.
YouTube @lindaannliterary8035
https://ko-fi.com/lindaann_loschiavo
John Langan @johnlangan.bsky.social Writer. All monsters, all the time. Filthy liberal.
The Big Joe @joester-morris.bsky.social 
Matt Graham @mattgrahamwriter.bsky.social Writer.
Has written for BBC TV and Radio.
Short stories in different places.
Nature @nature.com Research, news, and commentary from Nature, the international science journal. For daily science news, get Nature Briefing: https://go.nature.com/get-Nature-Briefing