Dr Craig Buchanan FSAScot @buchanan.today Academic, writer and commentator, living on unceded Whadjak Noongar Boodja; Hon Research Fellow (UWA).
Once dubbed “a ganja smoking hippy” by PHON’s James Ashby on Sky News.
Fighting to live in a community, rather than exist in an economy. 🚫 DMs.
J.D. Kraft @jdkraft-author.bsky.social I write deep-fried Southern horror
https://substack.com/@jdkraft
C.H. Pearce @chpearcewrites.bsky.social Spec fic writer, reader, artist. Wrangles, variously: words, data, two small children. Loves history, New Weird, rats. 💖💜💙 A/member SFWA, HWA. Rep: @clgslr.bsky.social | w: www.chpearce.net | IG: c.h.pearce
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
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/
Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social Indie press in Canada. World Fantasy Award, Shirley Jackson Award, HWA Specialty Press Award, and British Fantasy Award-winner. Endearingly weird. (Posts by Michael Kelly)
https://undertowpublications.com/
John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com Co-owner @eveninghouse.bsky.social
Writer:
FEAST OF THE PALE LEVIATHAN
BOXCUTTERS
EIC @cold-signal.com
Buffalo, NY
johnchrostek.com
Recent 🏚️ @kxzw.bsky.social fiction by David Lee Wright; Albuquerque grateful—presente for the maravilloso, la ciudad; writer, reader, slowest bookbinder.
S P Burton @spburton.bsky.social Some guy in Scotland trying to write strange stuff. Ex scientist. Current nothing. Occasional maker of dusty musical rambles. First novel coming soon...
https://spburton.weebly.com/
Thriller/Suspense Film Festival @thrillersuspense.bsky.social Entering its 10th year, this festival is a showcase of Thriller/Suspense Films & Screenplays from around the world, using the popular audience feedback video.
https://filmfreeway.com/ThrillerSuspenseFestival
https://thrillersuspensefestival.com
Daily Stage Play Festival Contests @stageplaycontests.bsky.social Submit to these contests via Submittable. Full feedback on every submissions. Winners get their play performed by professional actors and made into a promotional video.
https://festivalreviews.org/daily-stage-play-contest-deadlines/
Romance & Relationships Film Festival @romancefestival.bsky.social Submit your ROMANCE or RELATIONSHIP Film or Screenplay.
Get your short or feature film showcased and receive an audience feedback promotional video.
-Submit for a guaranteed acceptance.
https://filmfreeway.com/RomanceFestival
www.festivalforromance.com
DeRicki Johnson @derickijohnson.bsky.social Wanderer, writer, reader
Ambassador for daily writing prompt, #vss365, and inquisitive human.
@vss365hq.bsky.social @vss365hq.bsky.social 
Yolanda Sfetsos @yolandasfetsos.bsky.social Writer. Reader. Horror freak. Bibliophile. She/her.
Books: FALLEN DESTINY, MELANCHOLY DELUSIONS, ONLY DARKNESS, NUMB...
TV/Film Rep: Alec Frankel at IAG.
Website: https://www.yolandasfetsos.com/
ABSOLUTELY NO GEN AI!!
Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social Writer of dreamlike fiction | she/her | www.ivyivyivyivy.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...
Hannibal Lecter's Drippy Tip @felixffern.bsky.social Profile pic comm by cheeze_toastie
He/They | Writer/Public Speaker/Podcaster
http://ko-fi.com/felixfern
MDNI | 18+ Content
Rascal Hartley @rascalhartley.bsky.social I mostly make people cry
dear stupid penpal - out now! 🪐🏳️🌈
The Miniscule Magic of Humans - 🔜 @duckprintspress.com 🐏🏳️⚧️
IWNSUA: querying!🐾🏳️⚧️
WIP: 1K 🧌🏳️🌈
unfortunatelyobsessed on AO3, 2019 Hugo award winner (iykyk), bestselling author (apparently?!)
Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social he/him
writer of stories and such
professional bookman for Rough Draft Bar & Books
contributing editor at Literary Hub
occasional guitarist and singer
https://drewsof.neocities.org/
ellipsis zine @ellipsiszine.bsky.social Literary magazine and independent press, publishing beautifully written flash and microfiction. 1,000 words or fewer.
Est. 2017-2024. Relaunched in 2026.
https://www.ellipsis-zine.com
Easy's shop | AI Assets @easy-stock.bsky.social 高品質なAI素材をもっと簡単に。
High-quality AI visuals.
🌿 Landscapes & Items / 風景・アイテム
📝 Blog: Prompts / プロンプト解説
💎 Stock: Commercial / 商用版
🎁 Patreon: Bundles / まとめ配布
#AIArt #Assets #Art #photo #Stock
H. Marin @hanmarin.bsky.social • han
• she/they
• MFA - Fairfield U.
• queer, nd, & disabled spec fic author
• HWA, SFWA, Codex
• freelance editor @ http://www.hmarinliterary.com
• novelette editor @foofarawpress.bsky.social
• fck genAI
• words in Night Shades, ITAL, Gavagai & more
ghoul thing @davevriser.bsky.social he/him. graduate student, writer, & transsexual horror. work appears in Bloodletter, The Arkansas International, and Dark Matter Presents: The Off-Season. Not Only Will This Kill You But It Will Hurt The Whole Time You Are Dying via Tenebrous Press 2027
Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social Award-Winning Publisher of New Weird Horror + More, via Portland, OR & Transilvania, Romania.
@AlexWoodroe.com, Editor in Chief.
@MattBlairstone.bsky.social, Publisher.
SUPPORT INDIE. Hail the Tenebrous Cult🖤☠️
https://linktr.ee/TenebrousPress
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
Morgan Wodring 🦑 NEW WEIRD NATION @morkalmarrh.bsky.social Also summoned as 'Mog'. Writer, artist & scientist. On the @smallpitch.org team. He/they/it. ND & aroace. Rep: A.J. Van Belle
Daniel Mowery @dmowerywrites.bsky.social Writer of things dark, odd, beautiful, etc. What’s fear without an occasional laugh? Horror, literary, fantasy, and thriller lover. Father, husband, dog dad, musician, and constructioneer by day.
danielmowerywrites.com
N.J. Gallegos is Dr. Spooky (she/her) @drspookyer.bsky.social I like big cats. ER doc. Horror author. Artist. Cohost of The Scream Kings Podcast. Member of HWA. Pro-choice. BLM. I voted for her. Star Wars & BravoTV fanatic. She/her. 🌊🏳️🌈
Personal site: https://njgallegos.com
Podcast: https://www.screamkingspodcast.com
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
Flex Fish Games @flexfishgames.bsky.social Artist Matthew king and programmer Rami Bukhari, teaming up to develop nostalgic hand-drawn 2D games.
Nicole Davisson @nic-davisson.bsky.social Meezer mom 🐈⬛(siamese cats),PhD student at the U of U, small business owner w/ my kiddo refabulizing furniture with delovely art🎨, democratic socialist, feminist, late bloomer🪷🏳️🌈yacht rock lover⛵️🌊teatime keeper🫖 www.lavienouveaudecorshoppe.com
P.S.C. Willis 🌈🖋️ Crying Out for Magic - Out Now! @pscwillis.bsky.social Pronouns: any
A meet cute across worlds: get 'Crying out for Magic' from Space Wizard Science Fantasy or https://books2read.com/cofm
Fan of tea, cake, and cats. Writer of optimistic queer sci fi and fantasy from flash to novel length
pscwillis.com
Mercedes M. Yardley @missmurdermercedes.bsky.social Bram Stoker Award-Winning author, dark fantasist, family girl, artist, cupcake baker.
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
Jessica Andrewartha @jandrewartha.bsky.social Avid reader, annoyingly persistent writer, exhausted mom, wants to pet your dog
Emily @emilyrose.bsky.social Autistic. ADHD. Chihuahua parent. Not actually a hedgehog. She/her.
Occasional swearing, but pretty SFW.
Redbubble Shop: https://www.redbubble.com/people/emilyrosew1/shop
📍Concord, CA
Brian Borncamp @zubaplants.bsky.social www.zubaplants.com - Native Plants and More - Buffalo, NY
C. Signy Maraine 🛹🐢 @csignymaraine.bsky.social Wordlarker 🛹🐢 Poetry, nature, photo art. Jesus follower. Grace and peace. Not religion. Fan of Julian of Norwich, Halloween, dogs, classic/punk rock, humor, and KINDNESS. Teen horror fiction writer. Author of DREAD THE BOARDS
my works©️
she/her 🌈🕊
Thomas Andrew Richardson @thomasawriter.bsky.social Writer from West Yorkshire. 29.
David Corse @itsmedavidcorse.bsky.social Hey, weirdos. I'm David, a dark fantasy and horror author from the Midwest. I write stories that will hit you in the feels and make you say WTF.
OUT NOW: CERULEAN SKY
OUT NOW: Split Scream Volume 6
📚 https://linktr.ee/DavidCorse
Demitroy @demitroy.bsky.social Twisted Expectations
Writer of daily #vss365, unless life gets in the way. Physicist, astronomer, programmer, spec fic enthusiast, gamer, writer, ally.
Trying to simplify my life and expectations. Too many failures at reaching for greatness.
Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com Shirley Jackson Award-nominated EIC of @tenebrouspress.bsky.social. Dark specfic writer, Romanian folklore nerd, optimistic nihilist.
she/her
WHISPERWOOD out now
THE NIGHT SHIP out now
TATRATEA coming Oct 2026
https://linktr.ee/AlexWoodroe
Linds Theodore @quitetookish.bsky.social "Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates." 🏴☠️
🌲upstate NY / troyalty since '06
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ queer & gnc
🥂 married to @tencentblues
💜 nonprofit work
🐾 dog dad
🍹 cocktail enthusiast
🗝️ vintage stuff
🪴 plant parent
Richard Seltzer @richardseltzer.bsky.social Author of two dozen books. Writing stories for 70 years. I've been editor, novelist, Russian translator, parttime spy, Internet evangelist, and ebook entrepreneur. http://www.seltzerbooks.com https://www.amazon.com/One-Family-Richard-Seltzer/dp/1959621211
Rae Vanth @raevanth.bsky.social 🌞 Witchy wordsmith | 📚 Book lover |🔮 Occult explorer | ✨ Pagan + Luciferian insight | 🧘 Healing vibes w/ spooky aesthetics | 🖤 Non-binary introvert | 🐺 WIP: Neo-feminist werewolf novel in 1400s France. 🚫DMs 🚫MAGA 🚫Bible thumpers 
A.R. Millner @armillner.bsky.social Fiction writer, sometimes poet.
Killing my inner demons one word at a time while navigating the hardships of middle age.
https://linktr.ee/armillner
She/They non-binary weirdo
Amanda M. Blake @amandamblake.bsky.social Horror and fantasy author of QUESTION NOT MY SALT and the Thorns series; mid-age goth, horror movie aficionado. IN THE DOLLHOUSE WE ALL WAIT out now! Coming soon: MASQUE (2027). 🦇🪚💀
www.amandamblake.com
Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/amandamblake
Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog Joe Koch writes literary horror and surrealist trash.
Website: horrorsong.blog
Preorder: Dead Boys Don't Cry https://bookshop.org/p/books/dead-boys-don-t-cry/840db6f4b7160b5e?ean=9781968043568
Books!
The Wingspan of Severed Hands
Invaginies
Convulsive
👩🦯✏️Maureen📚🦯 @anythingmaureen.bsky.social Writer, #ActuallyAutistic, legally blind. Former journalist/editor. Dutch. Disability and mental health advocate. ❤️ books, music, crafting. #WritingCommunity
Briana Morgan @brianamorganbooks.bsky.social ✍️ Writing horror for weird girls
🐅 HOW TO ESCAPE A TIGER CULT (Out 10/6)
💀 Reviewer @cemeterydancepub
💌 brianamorganbooks@gmail.com
Michael Boulerice @michaelboulerice.com Award-winning horror broski, salty New Englander, Archduke of Goofington Manor. INHALATION out now via Dead Sky Publishing. Hit the Linktree for more 👉 https://linktr.ee/michaelboulerice
Dr. Travis Langley @drtravislangley.bsky.social Batman & Psychology author, Popular Culture Psychology editor, psych professor/chair, social psychologist, Wheel of Fortune champ. Teach on media, crime, mental health.
16 books, most recently on Stranger Things, Spider-Man, The Handmaid's Tale.
#blue
CJ Hoke @cjhoke.bsky.social Scripts, street cats, stories w/heart. | WGA | SC on #Shrinking | 1500 eps of #GH & 1 #Sharktopus🦈
Mistress J 🏳️⚧️🆓 NSFW @mistressj.gay Lesbian service top attention enjoyer dommy mommy | Late 30s 🏳️⚧️ transfem slut 🖤 puppygirls | MDNI🔞| All kinks & fetishes welcome except pedos & zoophiles | Don't fall in love with me |My main=🤫|🆓 | DMs+Tips https://mistressj.gay
Jaymie2D 😈🏳️⚧️ VR Dancer @jaymie2d.com 40yo she/it 🏳️⚧️🇨🇦🏳️🌈 🔞Neon hurricane succubot｜ #VRchat #dancer ｜ Pan Poly T4T ENFP 4w3 PLUR｜Socials: https://j2d.carrd.com
Rebecca (or Becky) Blondin @beckybewriting.bsky.social Writer of fiction, grants, scripts, & to-do lists. My posts consist of film, classic lit, tv, art, progressive stuff, and random nerdy stuff. She/her/hers. Joined 2024. Part of the twitter diaspora.
K. R. Wilson 🇨🇦 @krwbooks.bsky.social The wart on the frog on the bump on the log in the hole in the bottom of Canadian Literature. www.krwilson.ca No A.I.
Stan On Guard now available.
Eeriette - Emanuela Cucchiarini @eeriette.bsky.social She/her. Italian. Watercolours, oil paintings, drawings, dolls, monsters and horror movies. Cozy gamer. NO AI AND NFT
hannah (herding cats) @alluringskull.bsky.social I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine! ~ paranormal writer, queer/ace, covid-cautious, cat parent, slut gnome of false berlin. dog person sun, cat person rising. in a constant state of free association. she / her 👻
linktr.ee/hannahlamarre
TTMadden 🏳️⚧️ @ttmaddenwrites.bsky.social she/they writer of weird fiction
https://ttmaddenwrites.carrd.co/
Matthew Pritt @matthewtpritt.bsky.social Baker, Author of literary and speculative fiction and poetry, Collector of cats and tiered rejections, Appalachian, Perpetually tired. Novelette LASH EGG out now in Split Scream Volume 8 from Tenebrous Press. He/him
Lazy & Entitled @lazyandentitled.bsky.social writing and music collaboration from Chris (@thecorlew.bsky.social) & Brendan (@bnothing.bsky.social)
Album: https://tinyurl.com/2npnt55a
Blog: https://www.shorturl.at/shortener.php
Podcast: https://shorturl.at/A8su2
YT: https://tinyurl.com/2t52f627
Jack CJ Stark @jackcjstark.bsky.social Jack CJ Stark is a DIY storyteller.
Queer. Very Ace.
https://linktr.ee/jackcjstark
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
Hana Carolina @hanacarolina.bsky.social Creative Writer & Academic Researcher | 30s | she/her | 🏴 🇪🇺 | Reviewer @ Strange Horizons | Fiction Editor @ Divinations Magazine | Debut Novella with Spaceboy Books, THE INESCAPABLE MARCH (2025)
https://readspaceboy.com/portfolio/the-inescapable-march/
Violet James McMaster @violetjmcmaster.bsky.social Bookseller & Events Coordinator @ Big Blue Marble Bookstore
Reviewer @inavioletnature (IG) & @violetjamesmcmaster on Substack
https://linktr.ee/violetjamesmcmaster
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/
K. Sigler @ksigler.bsky.social Weird Horror author | aka K. Ungeheuer | author of THE COCKROACH OF THE DADA MOVEMENT | Director of the K. Ungeheuer Preservation Society | HWA Affiliate (GA) | hacker during daylight | (he/him) | 🏳️🌈
https://karlsigler.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.
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
Becky Robison @rebb003.bsky.social Writer, dog mom, karaoke assassin. Ask me about my dead parents: @deadparentswhatnow.com.
Body in Kentucky, brain everywhere. she/her
https://linktr.ee/rebb003
Heironymous Bonk @heironymous.bsky.social writer, fighter, linux, dork.
gamer, explainer, audhd, uh...fork
the lakeshore monk @thecorlew.bsky.social writer | musician | co-host, The Line Break podcast | fiction reader, Cotton Xenomorph | 1/2 Lazy & Entitled | basketball junkie | Chicago Over Everything | exhausted dad | he/him
https://www.lazyandentitled.org/?page_id=41
Joe Butler @writelikeashark.bsky.social Weird/Curio/Sci-Fi/Horror writer, novelist, & creator of the Haunted Hotel Project. Founder/editor/cover artist for @TLDRpress. Imperfect Creatures published by Diachroneity Books, OUT NOW! (He/Him)
www.writelikeashark.com
Audrey Beth Stein @audreybethstein.bsky.social Author. Human. Curious. I write adult lit and picture books. Self-pubbed my first book before it was cool. Currently seeking trad pub homes for my latest manuscripts, a literary agent partner, and fresh readers for my published books.
audreybethstein.com
Jim Horlock @horlockwarlock.bsky.social Writer, gamer, Dungeon Master, collector of ghosts and cryptid enthusiast. Stories with Apex Magazine, Cosmic Horror Monthly and many more. Pushcart Prize Nominated.
https://ko-fi.com/jimhorlock
Shamichael @shamike2009.bsky.social Social Impact. Public Spaces. Currently writing about public libraries in the U.S.
Here’s a look at all of the interesting things I’m reading, listening to, and thinking.
Katherine Shaw @katheroony.bsky.social Thriller and fantasy author 📚
Lifetime nerd & enthusiastic roller of dice 🎲
Of Serpents and Sorrow out NOW 🩷 🐍
she/her 🌈 bi & grey ace | 🍉 | 🚫AI
https://linktr.ee/katherineshawwrites
Steven Patchett @stevenpatchett.bsky.social He/Him. Engineer, Husband, Father. Writer in the Northeast of England. Anti-AI. Kindness matters.
I don't reply to random DMs.
Reader for the Small Spec Book Awards.
Published here and there.
Linktr.ee/stevenpatchett
Michael Bettendorf @beardedbetts.bsky.social Writer. Eater of Books. Lover of Comics. Library Tech. Drummer. Burrito enthusiast. He/Him husband.
Author of TRVE CVLT, Midwestern Chrome (2026), Help! I Can't Stop Shitting Snakes (2027).
www.michaelbettendorfwrites.com.
Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social Horror writer startled by most sounds. The Barre Incidents and Kill Radio (both genre-bendy Horror) available thru Malarkey Books.
My website: https://www.laurenbolger.com/
Jewish / Free Palestine
Backgrd image quote: “Helloooo? My water dish is empty!”
Sammi Leigh Melville @sammileighm.bsky.social Author, filmmaker, improviser. Story is my religion. She/her
www.sammileighm.com