Vusumuzi Ngonidzashe Hove, M.S. @vusumuzihove.bsky.social
Ph.D. Student, Pharmaceutical Sciences, @umaryland.edu School of Pharmacy 💊 | Medicinal Chemist👨🏾🔬🔬🧪| Oncology Researcher 💻🧬💉| @ubuffalo.bsky.social Alumnus🎓🦬 | @UBmenstennis🤘🏿🎾 | Zimbabwean Pro Tennis Player🎾🇿🇼 |#BillsMafia🏈🇺🇸
https://linktr.ee/vusumuzihove
@92628l.bsky.social @92628l.bsky.social 
Shawn Gilmore @gipperfish.bsky.social Teaching Assistant Professor at UIUC, Editor of the @vaultofculture.bsky.social (https://www.vaultofculture.com/), Executive Secretary of the Comics Studies Society, NTFC Local #6546 steward, comics scholar, and a ton of other stuff. Views own.
Pete Anthonisz @peteanthonisz.bsky.social Number enthusiast. Professional fence leaner. Letterboxd bro. Occasional talking head.
Mark Frost @markfrost.bsky.social Twin Peaks architect. Incurable storyteller. Stoic optimist.
Kristof Smeyers @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social natural + supernatural histories 1750-2000 🗃️ | editor + essays Dutch Review of Books | RAAF (2022) | WOLF (2023) | SUPERNATURAL BODIES (2024) | UITDRIJVEN (2025) | PERFORMING MAGNETISM (2026)
DAR @darbooks.com Author/Writer/Dreamer - DA RASMUSSEN
Pandore Series
@horhpodcast.bsky.social @horhpodcast.bsky.social Hollywood or History? Unpack fact vs. fiction in film. Great for teachers, trivia buffs, and history fans. New episodes every other week.
Available on Spotify, Apple, and YouTube
https://youtube.com/@hollywoodorhistorypodcast?si=gNOPQUnVXde2_NZz
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
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
Patrick McGahon @paadzer.bsky.social Irish gay guy in the East of England 🏳️🌈
In my fifties
EastEnders & Bargain Hunt fan
RIP mum 💔 2022
Worked at Cambridge University & NHS
Awful at responding to DMs
Sober a few years
Not looking for hookups or onlyfans subscriptions
Rebecca Shipp @rebeccashipp.bsky.social doctoral researcher - writing on walking, C19/C20 rural cultures, land access, class identities — editor of the thomas hardy journals ✨🐅🌴
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
@writewin8.bsky.social @writewin8.bsky.social 
Horror Underground Film Festival @horrorfilmfestival.bsky.social Various options to submit to the Festival. A HYBRID model. Cinema screenings for audience feedback video.Blog and podcast interviews. And bonus Virtual screening (optional!).
https://filmfreeway.com/horrorunderground
https://festivalforhorror.comi
Fenna Imara Hoefsloot @fennaimara.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life and Department of Geography, University of Durham. Researching the digitising state, urban infrastructure, and data justice. (she/her)
www.fennahoefsloot.com
The Irish Network for Gothic and Horror Studies @irishgothichorror.bsky.social An informal network for promoting the work of Gothic and horror scholars (whether they be affiliated or independent) and creative practitioners from throughout the island of Ireland.
Aqsa @aqsa-eram.bsky.social Researcher, Gothic
LoriPerkinsRAB @loriperkinsrab.bsky.social Bohemian Feminist,Word-slinger,Publisher@RiverdaleAveBooks & RomanceDailyNews. Lit agent@lperkinsagency.com Pink sister,pro-choice, Blue.Co-author Two Dukes Are Better Than One @LornaJWrites, https://linktr.ee/Riverdaleavenuebooks101, LoriPerkinswrites.com
Film Milf 🌊💙Blue Dem. Resister. 🏳️🌈 LGBTQ+ 📚 @filmilf.bsky.social Work @ TrixStarT Film Productions.
🌊💙Blue Dem. Resister. 🏳️🌈LGBTQ+ 📚
Fully Full Frontal 4 Film. Crazy Cool Comics.
Derek Johnston @drdjohnston.bsky.social Media lecturer: UK TV history, telefantasy, historical dramas. At Queen’s University Belfast.
Sarah Wride @srwride.bsky.social Historian of culture & ideas | hows, whys, & effects of writing & making c18th+ | now: political activism's role in framing practice; ethics of reimagining historical homicides | @york.ac.uk, @ihr.bsky.social, & in the wild | shop window 👉 sarahwride.co.uk
AI Film @aifilm.bsky.social AI Enhanced UK Film and Research Company
ML AI R&D
FX, Graphics, Storyboard, Logistics, Editing Film Production
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)
Adam Z. Robinson @adamzed.bsky.social Writer and actor
Theatre co: The Book of Darkness & Light (https://bsky.app/profile/tbodal.bsky.social).
Host: @ghoststorybookclub.bsky.social
https://www.adamzrobinson.com
https://linktr.ee/tbodal #horror #ghoststories
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
@lurkingsoquietly.bsky.social @lurkingsoquietly.bsky.social 
19cprof @lauracstruve.com Professor of English literature at Wilmington College, lover of Victorian things, mother of two
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.
@thomasolsen18.bsky.social @thomasolsen18.bsky.social 
Raven Youngblood - Author @ravenized.bsky.social 📚Author- 📈Marketing Exec- 👩🏼💼Small Business Owner- 🌶️Neuro-Spicy - ☕️Coffee Addict
Currently #amQuerying Gravewater- 88k Gothic Erin Brockovitch
Currently writing Catalyst: The Helm of the Awakening- Dystopian Cyberpunk Pirate Adventure
AccordingLee @accordinglee.bsky.social Expatriated US postdoc in Europe. Overeducated hot takes, unpopular opinions, and unsolicited feedback. Shamelessly plugging the 'stack here: https://accordinglee.substack.com/
Subscriptions are free, quality is 100% guaranteed... to be inconsistent.
Sara Zadrozny @drsarazadrozny.bsky.social Victorian fiction, female ageing, medicine and culture. Departmental Tutor at the University of Oxford, Oxford Lifelong Learning,
Robin Como 🇮🇹🇨🇭 @roby2308.bsky.social 📍Como Italy
I❤️ justice, climate/nature/pollution protection,
culture, art,music
I❤️ 🎹🎹 🎸🎾⛷️🏊🤿⚽📸📽️
🚫No violence,wars, fanaticism,racial discrimination, corruption,scammer,drugs, smoking.
🚫OF,Porno,Crypto,Steam,Illuminati
Jake Hayes @theboltergeist.bsky.social Author of 8 novels, poet, artist, and horror geek living in the Colorado mountains. Obsessed with apocalyptic vibes, humanity's resilience, and the stories we leave behind.
All my stuff!: linktr.ee/Boltergeist
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/
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.
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. 🏴
Conor Reid @cedreid.bsky.social Podcaster, Writer, Researcher. Podcasts: 'The Greatest Matter' (Victorian Gothic Audiodrama) and 'Words To That Effect' (Narrative storytelling show on popular fiction). Head of Podcasts at HeadStuff/The Podcast Studios.
Ann Radcliffe, Then and Now @radcliffecup.bsky.social AHRC-funded project into the life and works of Gothic trailblazer, Ann Radcliffe 🦇🩸
Forthcoming edition of her works from Cambridge University Press 📚
Sandie Mills @drsandramills.bsky.social Digital analyst | Gothicist | PhD on dolls & horror |
Rachael Squire @squirerachael.bsky.social Human geographer. Interested in states of precarity, oceans (and aquariums), feminist geopolitics, territory, Cold War science.
https://www.statesofprecarity
https://indoor-oceans.com/
Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social Money happens; @moneyontheleft.bsky.social editorial collective; credit @wherecreditsdue.bsky.social; Former Chair @modernistudies.bsky.social; researching literature, money, and trust; he/him; https://linktr.ee/robhawkesMotL
jannon @jannste.bsky.social jannon at the old place
Ruth Heholt @ruthheholt.bsky.social Prof of literature and culture. Gothic, crime, masculinity, ghosts. Lead of the Dark Economies Scholarly Association (dESA). Editor Rvenantjournal.com
Charlotte Bartle-McDaniel @ckbmcd.bsky.social 📖Asst. Professor of English
📚PhD researcher - Hair in 19thC/Neo-Victorian mourning/memorialisation • Anglo-American Literature • Material culture • Death & dying • Grief • Sensation fiction •
Yorkshire 🏴 ➡️ Missouri 🇺🇸
💀 Taphophile
http://www.ckbmcd.com
Jane Ford @janeford.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English Studies, Teesside University. Interests: fin-de-siecle literature; women’s writing; socialist writing and print culture; the Gothic; literary representations of insects.
Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social Quondam Prof. English Language & Literature. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. 𝔄𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔦𝔠 𝔈𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔥. Editor, Shakespeare: New Voices. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
Dr Scarlett Butchers @scarlettbutchers1.bsky.social Early Career Researcher ◇ Ecocriticism, Folk Horror, Monstrosity, David Rudkin, (eco)gothic, C20th British theatre ◇ I run @makingitwyrd.bsky.social
G.B. Marian @gbmarian.bsky.social Artist, writer, musician, and priest for the Egyptian/ #Kemetic God Set/ #Sutekh. Official site: DesertOfSet.com
On Several Music Platforms:
https://hyperfollow.com/gbmarian
#pagan #witch #synth #occult #setianism #polytheist #horror #SciFi #music #art
John Savarese @johnsavarese.bsky.social Assoc Prof @ UWaterloo English. Romanticism, gothic studies, history of science, and sound studies
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 • /|\
Kailash Kiwi @kailash-kiwi.bsky.social I’m a Kiwi in Aotearoa who watches US politics as a hobby. Kind of concerned right now to be fair. 💣🚀🍊☢️
🌻🇺🇦🌻
Slasher Film | Horror Movie @slasherfilm2024.bsky.social WATCH THE TEASER TRAILER NOW on YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/ebbrwb6f (Warning: 18+)
Movie coming soon. Calling all #HORROR fans.
#horrorcommunity
Ottawa, ON, Canada 🇨🇦
Instagram: https://tinyurl.com/yf2e6vr8
FB page: https://tinyurl.com/mwwrf68e
Jason Dittmer @realjdittmer.bsky.social Professor of Political Geography at UCL. Posting about geopolitics, popular culture, and cat memes
James Kneale @jameskneale.bsky.social Cultural/historical geographer at ucl working on drink/temperance, insurance, literary geographies, sf/fantastic/horror, &c. He/him.
Author of Temperance Lives: Life Assurance, Drink and Medicine in Britain, 1840-1918 (Bloomsbury 2026)
Lathspell the Grey @lathspell.bsky.social Renegade Dope Dog, outlaw Christian wizard, two-fisted AnCom pulp writer.
Zoe @kzoet.bsky.social 
Gothic Studies @gothicstudies.bsky.social The academic journal of the International Gothic Association (www.globalgoth.org), published by Edinburgh University Press and edited by Emily Alder and Jamil Mustafa. Email gothiceditors@gmail.com
Emory 🩶 @emory-f8.bsky.social I write dark Victorian fiction and specialize in the long 19th century.
She/Her 🏳️🌈🇪🇸✡️ (I'm always kind)
#writer #historian #Lesbian #sapphic #wlw #Hispanic #feminist #goth #vampires #jpop #bibliophile
NO DMs | Terfs & Narcissists DNI
Dr Kathleen Hudson (she/her) @kathleenh42.bsky.social Adjunct professor, specialist in Gothic literature and media, usually pretty sleep-deprived. Bully your university library into buying a copy of “Religious Horror and the Ecogothic”.
Jin L. Li @jinlorili.bsky.social (Im)mobility | Uncertainty | Transmigrant families, parenting and education | international migration and financial infrastructure｜🇬🇧 - 下南洋ing - 🇸🇬
Brian Borncamp @zubaplants.bsky.social www.zubaplants.com - Native Plants and More - Buffalo, NY
Johanna L. Waters @johannawaters.bsky.social Professor of Human Geography & Co-Director of MRU @ UCL | Editor of 'Global Networks' | Migration, transnational families, education & (international) students | Likes orienteering, running & vegan food | Views mine, not my employer's
UCL Department of Geography @uclgeography.bsky.social UCL Department of Geography | One of the UK's largest and most prominent institutes for geographical study and research.
ucl.ac.uk/geography
Thomas Sheridan @thomassheridan.bsky.social Fantasy writer. Working on a literary dark fantasy about fear, responsibility, and the Dead. M.Phil in Creative Writing from Trinity College Dublin
https://linktr.ee/Thomas_Sheridan
Ramblin' Jack Travis @ramblinjacktravis.bsky.social Alt-Country Space Cowboy, Psychedelic Song & Dance Man, Purveyor of Bohemian Honky-Tonk Hokum, and Polka King of Turkey Creek
Dr Retro @retroramblings.bsky.social Writer, film historian, lecturer, Rondo Award-nominated freelance bonus feature creator, Wild, Wild Podcast co-host, husband and father, your man in Beijing
Jason D. Brawn @jasondbrawn.bsky.social A published horror author, collector, fanboy with an MA Gothic and a BA Film and Media. Vegetarian with AuDHD, who has completed three marathons. Halloween 🎃👻 is my favourite season.
Gene @onefall.bsky.social Melbourne, Aus. Old books. Old music. Old movies. Old games. Old class struggle.
Dr Dorothée Boulanger @doboulanger.bsky.social Scholar of African Lit., Gender and Ecocriticism; wrote Fiction as History: Resistance and Complicities in Postcolonial Angolan Literature (Legenda, 2022); Career Dev. Fellow in Women's, Gender and Sexualities Studies at Oxford.
Shay.P.Leighton @shaypleighton.bsky.social Community Organizer / Unionist / Spooky Liker
https://linktr.ee/SPLeighton
Wendy Russell @wendbr.bsky.social Lover of books, history, nature, wildlife.
Making It Wyrd @makingitwyrd.bsky.social A scholar putting a gothic spin on pop culture. Books, films, music - we're making it wyrd 👻
Check out our blog: https://makingitwyrd.wordpress.com
Taylor Agajanian @cyborglibrarian.bsky.social PhD student of Media, Technology, & Society at Northwestern University | Critical media scholar studying the ways digital platforms fuel problematic information, shape politics, and cause offline harm to marginalized communities.
🇦🇲🇲🇽 www.cyborglibrarian.com
Noctoth @noctoth.bsky.social Shadow shadow on the ground, dark in nature come unbound;
Cloak my body strolling incog, render my soul tranquil & sound
Steve Jones @drstevejones.bsky.social Lead of the Horror Studies Research Group, Northumbria University. Known for research on extreme horror, philosophy, pornography, and the slasher subgenre.
drstevejones.co.uk
Lindsey McClure ✨ @ghostiesghoulies.bsky.social PhD candidate studying 19th century Irish and British folklore and literature ☕️📚I Folk & Fairy Tales | The Gothic | Archives ~loves cats, coffee, and cold, rainy days 🌨️
NAT1138 @nat1138.bsky.social Pessimists are the happiest people in the World: 80% of the time they are right, the other 20% of the time they are pleasantly surprised.
Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social Professor of English, University of Dundee & General Editor of The Oxford Complete Works of Mary Shelley (Oxford University Press) (https://linktr.ee/profdanielcook)
Chris Seggerman @chrisseggerman.bsky.social He/Him. Kept man in Vermont, late of Arizona. Sometime writer; calligrapher; fountain pen enthusiast. 
Katrina Jan @katrinajan.bsky.social English Lit PhD & Project Manager @UniBirmingham
Jack the Ripper in #19c & Contemporary #Romance Novels, Serial Killers, True Crime, #Gothic
Co-runs @gothicauob.bsky.social 🦇 & cerealkillernet.bsky.social 🔪
GOTHICA 🦇 @gothicauob.bsky.social A spooky network interested in exploring all aspects of the Gothic at @unibirmingham.
Co-run by @katrinajan.bsky.social, @dremilyvincent.bsky.social.
Blog: https://uobgothica.wordpress.com/past-sessions/
Harley Tillotson @harleytillotson.bsky.social PhD Student in English Literature 📚
Part of the OGOM crew
All things fairy, folkloric and gothic 🦇
23 | she / they | trainee powerlifter