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Fermented Fiction @fermentedfiction.bsky.social A podcast exploration of genre fiction through the lens of literature and film. This is also a fancy way of saying: drinking great beer and talking about our favorite books, movies, and shows with incredible artists and creators.
🍂 Caitlin Duffy 🍂 @caitduffy.bsky.social #AmQuerying THE THEATRE OF CRUELTY Horror Writer Mom to 1 toddler and 1 dog Voracious Reader Instructional Designer English Literature PhD Elder Emo L14 Tiefling Wizard HWA Member (not necessarily in that order) http://caitlinduffy.com
Mark Coakley @markcoakley.bsky.social #true #book #writer in #HamOnt #Ontario #Canada True crime - Hidden Harvest; Tip & Trade; and Faces of Fraud Romance/horror novel - Murder Bugs Norse epic - The Saga of Halfdan the Black History of psychedelic therapy - Shroom Boom markcoakleybooks.com
Shelly Blake-Plock @shellyblakeplock.com Writing horror fiction, making music, building weird things. Oh, and baseball. And open source. Also, I've lived in a haunted house for 23 years, which is fun.
Jack LaRoche 🐺 @coyotespeaks.bsky.social Just looking for hope wherever I can and wondering what the fuck. QAA https://jacklaroche.com
Christopher Golden @cgolden.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of Road of Bones, The House of Last Resort, Ararat, and many others. Writes a lot of comics with Mike Mignola. Screenwriter. Anti-fascist. New novel CARRY ME TO MY GRAVE out 7/21/26.
Meredith Morgenstern she/her | Read banned books @mlmorgenstern.bsky.social Fiction editor @ TalesToTerrify. Member of HWA. Mom. Knitter. Reader. Baker. Murder unicorn. Indoorsy. Tired. FDT. I acknowledge that I am on the unceded land of the Lenni Lenape People. I don't auto-follow back.
Sephera @gothmother666.bsky.social Author, screenwriter, creator Studio.com/sephera/writer
Casey Masterson @kaseejedimaster.bsky.social Hello! I'm an aspiring full-time horror author. I wrote Revelations of the Raven Master and have various short story publications. The novel is coming, I swear. On an alternative note, I'm also a librarian and I love animals.
Zoje Stage @zojestage.bsky.social (ZOH-yuh, she/her) USA Today/internationally bestselling author. Late-diagnosed autistic. Obsessed w/ my cats & the wildlife in my backyard. https://linktr.ee/zojestage
Wile E. Young @texascthulhu.bsky.social Award winning author of THE MAGPIE COFFIN. A purveyor of tales and wanted dead or alive.
John Shirley @johnshirley2024.bsky.social Writer of books, scripts, lyrics. Bram Stoker Award for Black Butterflies; Spur Award for Gunmetal Mountain. Newest sf novels: SubOrbital 7, Stormland. New novel: The Silver Revolver. Writer: The Crow. Deep Space 9 et al. Science! https://john-shirley.com
Kent Priore @kentpriore.bsky.social Award-winning author of THE MONSTERS AMONG US and IN THE WAKE OF GODS. Member of the Author's Guild and the HWA.
Daniel Carpenter @dancarpenter.bsky.social Commissioning editor at Titan Books. Debut collection HUNTING BY THE RIVER out now from Black Shuck Books. https://linktr.ee/dancarpenter85
Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social Novelist, screenwriter, and the James half of James SA Corey. Will block on tone. He/him office@danielabraham.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
Tammy Komoff @tammykomoff.bsky.social Horror/Fantasy writer. Mom of two semi-feral girls and a pack of mutts. Follow for books, short stories & random things I find interesting. Work in LCRW, Uncharted, Abyss & Apex Member of HWA, Codex, SFWA Eugie Award Finalist tammykomoff.com #writer
Gordon B. White @gordonbwhite.bsky.social Horror/weird fiction writer. Shirley Jackson and Bram Stoker Award nominee. Best Horror, Clarion West, dog dad, critically acclaimed (not in that order). He/him.
Jake Stein @jakeiswriting.bsky.social Stories in Lightspeed Magazine, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, The Daily Tomorrow, and other awesome places! Robert L. Fish nominated. storiesbystein.substack.com
Baz To The Bone @baztothebonecast.bsky.social Horror and cult film podcast with Baz Bishop. Deep dives, dark humor, and bad taste done properly. The kind of show your mother warned you about. Check it out at beacons.ai/baztothebonecast
Jordan Harper @jordanharper.bsky.social Edgar-and-steel-dagger-winning author of SHE RIDES SHOTGUN, EVERYBODY KNOWS, THE LAST KING OF CALIFORNIA and LOVE AND OTHER WOUNDS. A VIOLENT MASTERPIECE: "The Noir Novel of Our Times" -- The New York Times
Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social Cartoonist and Illustrator. My book of science cartoons, PHYSICS FOR CATS, is available now! www.tomgauld.com
annika barranti klein @noirbettie.bsky.social writer 🌙 rhymes with monica friend of pippi 💖💜💙 stories: annikaobscura.com letters: buttondown.email/annikaobscura
David Demchuk 👻 (he/him) 📚 @daviddemchuk.com Nightmares for sale. 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦 Sunburst winner; Giller Prize, Amazon, Aurora & Shirley Jackson nominee. The Stone Garden. The Butcher’s Daughter. RED X. The Bone Mother. Gay/Queer. Cis. Old. No AI. https://daviddemchuk.com
P.A. Cornell (She/Her) @cornellwriter.bsky.social 2x Nebula finalist. Aurora, and World Fantasy-finalist. Chilean-Canadian writer. Winner Short Works Prize. SFWA, CSFFA, ALCiFF Chile. Odyssey ’02. Codex. Stories in Apex, Fantasy, Lightspeed, and others. Linktree: http://linktr.ee/pacornell
Odyssey Workshop @odysseyworkshop.bsky.social The Odyssey Writing Workshops Charitable Trust is a 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to helping writers of fantasy, science fiction, and horror improve their work.
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.
Tim Lebbon @timlebbon.bsky.social SECRET LIVES OF THE DEAD out August '25. DEAD RED & RAZOR out September. NY Times bestselling writer. Father, husband, triathlete. Real ale. Cake. Music. The countryside. Love is the fing. Be kind. AMONG THE LIVING out now.
Cullen Bunn @cullenbunn.bsky.social NYT bestselling writer of horror and comics. THE SIXTH GUN. HARROW COUNTY. GHOSTLORE. DEADPOOL. MAGNETO. UNCANNY X-MEN.
Rue Morgue Magazine @ruemorguemag.bsky.social The world's leading horror in culture and entertainment publication. #printsnotdead! We ship worldwide! ✈️🌎 Rue Morgue TV on YouTube! 📺 Toronto, Ontario 🇨🇦 https://rue-morgue.com/
Chris the Long Box Punk @longboxpunk.substack.com Podcast Host🎙️ Reader/Lover of comics💜 Aging punk💀 Never too serious🃏Abenaki Long Box Punk: https://youtube.com/@longboxpunk Zine supplies: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1FSUOAIYR6YG5?ref_=wl_share
Phil Keeling @philmakesmonsters.bsky.social Writer. Co-host of the Pixel Lit podcast. Dollar store Orson Welles. Pre-order BE NOT AFRAID: https://bookshop.org/p/books/be-not-afraid-phil-keeling/6e016f5d890f19aa
Bloody Disgusting @bloody-disgusting.com 💀 Your #1 source for all things #horror 💀 Discord ➡️ http://discord.gg/s452vAnDx2
Ghoulish Books @ghoulish.bsky.social https://ghoulish.rip Award-winning small press specializing in transgressive horror fiction for perverts. Based in Minneapolis.
Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social Coffee House Press is an independent nonprofit publishing house based in Minneapolis. Literature forever.
Tamara (Rhymes With Camera) Sellman @rhymeswithcamera.bsky.social ℕ𝕠 𝔻𝕄𝕤 • ℕ𝕠 𝔸𝕀 https://linktr.ee/TamaraSellman 💻author 🌀poet 🎥filmmaker 🎙️podcaster 📒zinester 🏳️‍🌈ally ✊🏽truthteller ♀feminista 🗽1A ⚖️justice ☮️peace 🌲PNW 🥾hiker 🍝cook 🥬gardener ✨nature 💭dreamscapes ♎️♏️energy 🎴tarot 🧠ND 🔥MS 🩻RA/OA/PsA
Dan Chaon @danchaon.bsky.social Novelist and short story writer. Signed/personalized copies of my books here: https://www.macsbacks.com/dan-chaon
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.
K.W. Colyard @kristianwriting.bsky.social chaotic neutral spoonie bi. a horrible goose of a person. a dire threat to the American people and our way of life. books. SFF/H. games. they/them. https://linktr.ee/kristianwriting.
Noah Ross @noah-ross.bsky.social
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
May Walker @maywalker.bsky.social Horror Author and Colored Pencil Artist
Elliott Gish @elliottgish.bsky.social TT, LL. Writer, librarian, too many freckles, not enough sleep. Debut novel GREY DOG available now. She/her. https://linktr.ee/elliottgish
Tea Witch Friday @teawitch.bsky.social (she/her/ella) 🇲🇽🇮🇪🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍🌈🇲🇽🇺🇸 Queer Chicana ❤️‍🔥 Raw-hearted word sommelier ✍️ #amwriting THE GOLDEN STATE 🍵 Head Tea Witch at @fridaytea.com 💀 Founding Member: Women in Horror Arts & Media Association linktr.ee/fridaye
Ari_Hellraiser @arihellraiser.bsky.social Horror fan from womb to tomb. Author of Millennial Nasties, regular contributor to The Pod and the Pendulum. Letterboxd: Ari_Hellraiser linktr.ee/Ari_Hellraiser
Diane Dooley @dianedooley.bsky.social Aging guttersnipe. Brit living in Vermont. Published author of Science Fiction, Horror, Romance. Interests: books, history, politics, tennis, music, poetry, travel, gardens. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/dianedooley
Candace Nola @candacenola.bsky.social Award-winning Author. Editor. Creator of UncomfortablyDark.com. Zero ai. Do not send it. Human created art only.
Amy Grech @amygrech.bsky.social NYC-based prolific crime/horror author/poet. Active HWA Member. Alien Buddha Press published my poetry chapbook, A SHADOW OF YOUR FORMER SELF. 2x Pushcart Prize nominee. SEO is my bread and butter. 🔪🩸 ☕️ https://ko-fi.com/amygrech 💻 crimsonscreams.com
Kimberly Davis Basso @kdbwrites.bsky.social writer she/her Humor: I’m a Little Brain Dead; Birth and Other Surprises; No Help at All: soon! Horror: Next Door; Revolve Voter suppression is a sign of weakness & poor hygiene #strokesurvivor linktr.ee/kdbwrites
CJ Leede @ceejthemoment.bsky.social Americana Psycho❤️‍🔥🏜️🐺🏔️🪐🖖🏻 USA Today bestselling author of MAEVE FLY, AMERICAN RAPTURE, & HEADLIGHTS
Kay Chronister @kaychronister.bsky.social kaychronister.com THE BOG WIFE out 10/1 🌾
Daphne Fama @daphnefama.bsky.social Writer, author, researcher. 🌺 A DEADLY BLOOMING🌺 MARCH 9, '27 US & UK RELEASE UK & US Release March 9
Liz Kerin @lizkerin.bsky.social Author, Screenwriter, mother of corgis | I wrote those sad vampire books NIGHT'S EDGE and FIRST LIGHT. 🩸🥀 | 🌴 by way of 🗽, 💙💜💗
Katrina Monroe @authorkatm.bsky.social Author of 👻 things, recently: THROUGH THE MIDNIGHT DOOR. Whiskey drinker. Hates feet.
Silvia Moreno-Garcia @silviamg.bsky.social Writer. THE BEWITCHING (2025), SEVENTH VEIL OF SALOME, MEXICAN GOTHIC, and others books. https://silviamoreno-garcia.com/
🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social Make horror gay AF, Stoker Award winner out now: NO GODS FOR DROWNING Sept 15: THIS MOVIE DOESN'T END THE WAY WE WANT she/her; rep: Lane Heymont haileypiper.com
Rachel Harrison @rachelharrison.bsky.social Friendly Ghost 👻 NYTimes bestselling author of The Return, Cackle, Such Sharp Teeth, Bad Dolls, Black Sheep, So Thirsty, Play Nice & KISS SLAY REPLAY 9/1 🖤
Donyae Coles @okokno.bsky.social I'm a writer, artist. A brain inside of a pile of blankets. Also check out my book, Midnight Rooms! Find me in these places: https://linktr.ee/okokno
Erin E. Adams @iameeadams.bsky.social Storyteller of all things dark. Author of JACKAL and ONE OF YOU. Updates only https://linktr.ee/iameeadams
V.Castro @vlatinalondon.bsky.social 2x Bram Stoker Award nominated author Chicana Aliens:Vasquez Rebel Moon (Netflix) The Haunting of Alejandra Immortal Pleasures Goddess of Filth The Queen of The Cicadas Rep Jessica Berg vcastrostories.com
Sara Tantlinger @saratantlinger.bsky.social Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Devil’s Dreamland. Collector of sea glass. Enthusiast of cats. 🐈‍⬛ saratantlinger.com
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
Christa Carmen🌘🦉🔮 @christaqua.bsky.social Bram Stoker Award-winning & 2x Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author. She/her. Pre-Order How to Fake a Haunting: https://www.christacarmen.com/books-how-to-fake-a-haunting.aspx Substack: Horror Homesteading: https://christacarmen.substack.com/
Angela Sylvaine @angelasylvaine.bsky.social Horror & thriller author & reader. HWA. Cheerful goth. Bi. She/her. No AI! Bram Stoker Award nominee Horror comedy FROST BITE & COLD SNAP Collection THE DEAD SPOT Mall slasher CHOPPING SPREE https://linktr.ee/angelasylvaine
Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social Icelandic writer. The Night Guest // Dead Weight // Down Where Monsters Dwell coming in March 2027!
The Horror Lounge @thehorrorlounge.bsky.social The Horror Lounge is your source for horror news, reviews, lists, interviews, deep dives, and more! www.thehorrorlounge.com
Micah Castle 🎃 @micahcastle.com 🐺New book The Companions We Lose🐺 mybook.to/companion | Horror and weird fiction author. | Editor. | Drifting in the Void. www.linktr.ee/micahcastle
Writing About Writing About Writing @writingabtwriting.bsky.social A blog about writing books, and books about writing, and reading books about writing. Writing About Writing About Writing is a project by @thatemilymunro.bsky.social. Find it at Writingaboutwritingaboutwriting.com
Cliff Jones Jr. @cliffjones.bsky.social Author/editor of dreampunk and weird SFFH fiction: DRECK (2023), MIRRORMAZE (2020), SOMNISCOPE (2024), THE LASTING LANDS (2027). Watty winner, Imadjinn finalist, linguist, artist, coder, neurodivergent, INFP-T, 4w5, Scorpio, he/him. CliffJonesJr.com
SLUGGER @sluggerfiction.bsky.social sluggerfiction.com https://ko-fi.com/sluggerfiction/shop
Corey Harris @coreyharris.bsky.social From Kansas City, Magician, Comic Book and Movie fan. Working on getting back into shape. Looking for friends/Community.
KC Grifant, Author @kcgrifant.bsky.social ~Award-winning author of horror, fantasy, scifi & weird west stories in podcasts, mags & Stoker-nominated anthos ~Creator of Monster Gunslinger series & game ~UCSD writing instructor ~HWA San Diego co-founder/chair ~SFWA mentor https://linktr.ee/kcgrifant
Scott Edelman @scottedelman.bsky.social Scott Edelman is a Stoker Award-nominated writer and Hugo Award-nominated editor of science fiction, fantasy & horror, as well as the host of the Hugo Award-nominated Eating the Fantastic podcast! (He/Him)
Lauren Beukes @laurenbeukes.com Novelist, scriptwriter, imaginative futurist, recovering journalist. Winner of the Arthur C Clarke and the University of Johannesburg Prize. Author of The Shining Girls (now on Apple TV), Zoo City and Bridge.
Laurel Hightower @laurelhightower.bsky.social Horror loving mom. Author of that mothman book, BELOW. Also WHISPERS IN THE DARK, CROSSROADS, EVERY WOMAN KNOWS THIS, SILENT KEY, SPIRIT COVEN, and THE DAY OF THE DOOR
Paul Tremblay @paultremblay.bsky.social Writer person. Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep, Horror Movie, Another, A Head Full of Ghosts, The Cabin at the End of the World, The Pallbearers Club. F*ck AI
Amal El-Mohtar is at Worldcon @amalelmohtar.com Wrote half of This Is How You Lose the Time War & all of The River Has Roots. Next book: Seasons of Glass & Iron, March 24, 2026. I have a newsletter you can sign up for at amalelmohtar.com
Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social Archaeologist turned author with a science fiction take on life. Author of Plague Birds, member of SFWA and SPJ. He/His. Represented by Lucienne Diver. www.jasonsanford.com
Eric LaRocca @handle.invalid (He/They) The Sunday Times and USA Today Bestselling Author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Wretch ericlarocca.com
Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social Queen of Lasers, Mother of Storms, & NYT/USAToday bestselling author of Fairyland, Space Opera, Deathless, & many more. Any/All Art: http://patreon.com/catvalente Politics: http://catvalente.substack.com TipJar: https://venmo.com/u/cat-valente
Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com Writer, scientist, bug. she/her. #yeg. 🇨🇦 🇬🇾 Winner of a Nebula, Locus, World Fantasy, Ignyte, and Aurora award! Rep: Michael Curry 📚🪲 Tips for cat treats! https://ko-fi.com/premee
Cat Rambo @catrambo.bsky.social They/she. My cats' names are Bruce, Clark, & BabyBear. Nebula award winning F&SF writer/editor/teacher. Snark at your own risk. Located in South Bend, IN. Sometimes I swear. linktr.ee/catrambo
William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social Author of Neuromancer and, most recently, Agency (still above from “Kill Switch”, The X-Files, Season 5, Episode 11, co-written with Tom Maddox)
Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social I like apples. I post photos. I dig birds. I write books. (One of those is THE CALAMITIES, out now.) Yes, I'm cringe. What do you want from me, I'm a 50-year-old dad and my brain is a mouse-eaten shoebox.
John Scalzi @scalzi.com I enjoy pie. Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
Alex Z @alexzoubine.bsky.social Writer, Author, Poet | Producer of BIOME | First Reader @ The Colored Lens | Story Reviewer | Dog lover | Analytics Aficionado
Burial Books @burialbooks.bsky.social Burial Books is an indie horror publisher run by a human named Steve. We publish horror books and weird stories from time to time.
Shortwave Publishing @shortwavebooks.bsky.social Shortwave is an indie horror/sci-fi press. Our books are distributed worldwide by Simon & Schuster. Founded and run by @alandistro.bsky.social (active HWA member, full SFWA member). Our full catalog: https://shortwavepublishing.com/
Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social Nonfiction about weird fiction at Seize the Press, Strange Horizons, Interzone, Los Angeles Review of Books, Nightmare, and Ancillary Review of Books, where I am also an editor. Also jazz, metal, leftism. he/him https://doomsdayer.wordpress.com/writings/
patrick 🦓 loveland @pmloveland.bsky.social -pₘl- (h/h) hack writer • decent artist • pareidoliamancer books: https://linktr.ee/patrickloveland art: https://cara.app/pmloveland prints: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/pm_loveland/ Stage32: https://www.stage32.com/profile/1181778/about
Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social Issue 2: The Devil Has the Best Tunes is due out in October. Online shop reopens mid-September. Now taking proposals for issue 3, deadline Sept. 1: https://forms.gle/2jSRGKXMCxcEdSzM6 Edited by @scaryasfolk.bsky.social and @theharvestmaid.bsky.social.
crazymaryt @crazymaryt.bsky.social I really enjoy horror novels/films. Also a lover of bacon, occasional shipper, Coleminer, Phil Coulson always and forever, thanks ddagent for the profile pic
Corey Farrenkopf @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social Writer / Librarian Work in Electric Literature, the Deadlands, Strange Horizons, Nightmare, etc Repped by Marie Lamba of Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency. Novel: Living in Cemeteries Collection: Haunted Ecologies CoreyFarrenkopf.com
Raw Dog Screaming Press @rdspress.bsky.social Raw Dog Screaming Press publishes “fiction that foams at the mouth” specializing in dark and unclassifiable fiction and poetry.
Mike Davis @michaeldylandavis.bsky.social Horror podcaster, reader, dad, husband. Winner of the Robert Bloch Award. Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@lovecraftezinepodcast
Gwendolyn Kiste @gwendolynkiste.bsky.social Horror Author. 4x Bram Stoker Award Winner. Lambda Literary Award Winner. Potato Chip Connoisseur.
Matthew M. Bartlett @mattmbartlett.bsky.social Writer
Clay Vermulm @clayvermulm.bsky.social Writer of Horror and Dark Fiction Podcast Host of Fermented Fiction, Sinister Soup, and Beneath the Rain Shadow Board Game Nerd and Adventure Adict
Horror Writers Association @horrorwritersassoc.bsky.social Official Account of the Horror Writers Association. The oldest literary organization serving writers and publishing professionals around the world, dedicated to promoting dark literature and the interests of those who write it.