Mike Davis @michaeldylandavis.bsky.social Horror podcaster, reader, dad, husband. Winner of the Robert Bloch Award.
Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@lovecraftezinepodcast
GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social Writer of stories about women getting what they want.
My short story "Unnoticed" appears in #MixedBagOfTricks,
an anthology of 11 short stories by 11 women writers.
Finalist in 2025 Fugue Prose Contest
Member of Armadillo Authors Society
Jennifer Givhan @jenngivhan.bsky.social Chicana + Indigenous author of THE SLEEPING SISTERS & SALT BONES (Little, Brown). Monstrous mamawriter of folk horror on the borderlands. Hexer of the patriarchy. Haunted woman.
She/Her/La Bruja
jennifergivhan.com
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C.M. Rosens @cmrosens.com UK Horror & Dark SFF hybrid [Canelo -> Penguin] author
HWA Affiliate Writer, BFS Member
ADHD. Welsh-Turkish 🏴🇹🇷. Queer/cis🏳️🌈. She/her.
Podcast: @eldritchgirlpod.bsky.social
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Visit Pagham-on-Sea: visitpaghamonsea.co.uk
PseudoPod 🎙️ @pseudopod.org The oldest short-fiction horror podcast. We have always lived in the tower. We/they/them 🦑 Co-Editors: Kat Day & Alex Hofelich | Host: Alasdair Stuart | Asst Eds: Scott Campbell & Joshua Tuttle | Audio: Chelsea Davis & Graeme Dunlop 🎙️ PseudoPod.org
Texas Observer @texasobserver.org A nonprofit newsroom covering Texas through investigative journalism & narrative storytelling since 1954.
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Richard Chizmar @richardchizmar.bsky.social Author.
Michael Marano Punches Nazis @mikemarano.bsky.social Bram Stoker, International Horror Guild Award- winning and Shirley Jackson-nominated Author. Film and Arts Critic/Commentator. Editor. Book Doctor. Fitness Trainer. Writing Instructor. He / Him www.BluePencilMike.com / www.GetOffMyLawnFitness.com
Diana Rodriguez Wallach, YA Horror Author @dianawallachauthor.bsky.social YA Horror Author of SMALL TOWN MONSTERS & HATCHET GIRLS (out now!), and THE SILENCED (Delacorte Sept. ‘25)
Mathew Nicholas Clarke @mathewnclarke.bsky.social Writer. Drummer. Seattle.
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Writing an 80’s-set YA horror novel about heavy metal, Catholicism, Bowie obsession, and dogs.
John Carpenter @thehorrormaster.bsky.social Filmmaker and Composer
Theofficialjohncarpenter.com
@stormkingcomics.bsky.social
A Nightmare On Fierce Street @nightmarefierce.bsky.social A monstrous podcast about all things horror.
Hosted by @sharai.bsky.social
https://allmylinks.com/anightmareonfiercestreet
Milo Rossi @miniminuteman.bsky.social Archaeologist • Environmental Scientist • Googledebunker
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Jay Shepherd @shepjay.bsky.social good speller | poor typist
Mark O. Estes - The Horror Blerd @markoestesmsd.bsky.social Host of Midnight Social Distortion; co-host of Scream Kingz & The Alter Tapes. Black Gay Horror enthusiast/student. Queer & Black Horror, Buffy, Superhero Movies, Comics, Blerdom, Whovian, Action Figures & Monster High dolls, Reader, Music Lover & Writer!
Kathe Koja @kkoja.bsky.social Life is for joy. Writer & director & reader, fan of animals, democracy forever, let's dance and keep each other safe! She/her
The Scares That Shaped Us @scaresshapedus.bsky.social A podcast from @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social about horror writers and the stories that made them. New episodes every Wednesday!
Diversity in Horror (they/them) @diversityhorror.bsky.social I’m a queer, biracial, and neurodiverse enby. Diversity in Horror is my website where I review and promote fiction featuring and/or created by BIPOC, people with disabilities, and LGBTQIA+ folk. You can check it out here: https://diversityhorror.com/
Rusty Cundieff @rustyc.bsky.social Fear of A Black Hat, Tales From the Hood, Chappelle's Show. I was involved in the making of these things. I also have three children. I was involved in the making of them as well. Or so I've been told. 
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 🇨🇦
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Kai "L.A.Banks is BlkLitHistory" Leakes , MA✨🙅🏾 @kaileakes.com Author of SinEaters/Rebels & BOK Series-HWA member,STL Libra. She/Her
Conjurer of #Fantasy #Romancelandia #Scifi #Horror
#VampireOracle🙅🏾♀️♎#BlackLivesMatter & #Rootin4BlkGirlMagic
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Sadie Hartmann (Mother Horror) @sadiehartmann.bsky.social Co-Owner of Night Worms. Bram Stoker Award winner of 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered. New book: 2025
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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.
https://pod.link/1530064310
You can reach me at talkingscaredpod@gmail.com 
Girl, That’s Scary @girlthatsscary.blacksky.app Your favs talking about the scary things that we love!
Dread Central Podcast Network
*New episode on Thursdays* #HomeGirlHorror
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Melody Cooper @melodyc.bsky.social Writer Director Producer. TV, film,OMNI comic book. Rideback Rise, Sundance Episodic Lab, Half Initiative. Writer: CW’s 2 Sentence Horror Stories, Law & Order: SVU Co-producer, Power: Force, @NyxHorror #13MinutesofHorror CAA/The Cartel IMDb.me/melodycooper
Cadwell Turnbull @cadwellturnbull.bsky.social Award-winning SFF author of THE LESSON and NO GODS, NO MONSTERS, founder/member of Many Worlds. 1/5th of Darkly Lem.
Shane Hawk @shanehawk.com 🪶 Cheyenne & Arapaho
📥 Editor at Counterpoint Press
📚 NEVER WHISTLE AT NIGHT series
👤 Rep: Rachel Letofsky
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Rioncarnated @reeamilcarscott.bsky.social Camouflage fatigues & dashikis. Somewhere in between Ralph Ellison and PE
📚:🔥INSURRECTIONS🔥(PEN/Bingham winner) and THE W🌍RLD DOESN’T REQUIRE YOU
I write love notes to black people & dis songs to white supremacy. 90% love. 10% dis.
I deserve it all.
Alma Katsu (pre-order INCARNATE now!) @almakatsu.bsky.social NYT bestselling novelist. Former intelligence professional, tech futurist.
Ellen Datlow @datlow.bsky.social Award-winning editor of short sf/f/h. I live & die by the Oxford comma & I skeet about my passions, take it or leave it. I block mooks-don't be one. she/her
Erin E. Adams @iameeadams.bsky.social Storyteller of all things dark. Author of JACKAL and ONE OF YOU.
Updates only
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Keith Rosson @keithrosson.bsky.social Writer, arteest, blindish, kinda punk. Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award. FEVER HOUSE, THE DEVIL BY NAME, COFFIN MOON, more. CRONE coming 9/26. Repped by Chad Luibl, Janklow & Nesbit. CLOSED FOR BLURBS, SORRY.
Cynthia Pelayo @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social Bram Stoker Award–winning author | MFA, PhD English(c) | IT CAME FROM NEVERLAND, June 9 | SOMETHING FOLLOWED US HOME, Sept 29 | Rep-Lane Heymont | cynthiapelayo.com
Mike Flanagan @mikeflanaganfilm.com Writer/Director: Life of Chuck, Doctor Sleep, Hush.
Showrunner: Carrie, Fall of the House of Usher, Haunting of Hill House, Midnight Mass.
Founder @redroompictures.com
www.mikeflanaganfilm.com
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Teresa Ardrey (She/Her) @teresa-ardrey.bsky.social I like books, Bob's Burgers, and booze (and 👻). Equal parts steampunk, whimsy, horror, and curmudgeon. 
JohnFosterFic @jfoster.bsky.social I write horror and crime fiction, live in Brooklyn and love cooking and martial arts. My wife is the actress Linda Jones and our dog is half pit, half Dutch shepherd and all clown. Though I may wince, you really can choose any pizza toppings you like.
Kristin Temple 🎈 @kristintemple.bsky.social Associate EdiTOR at Tor Nightfire. Chaotic neutral, horror fan, cat mom, and "little bisexual gremlin". Opinions my own. she/her. 💖💜💙
Story Hour @storyhour.bsky.social Every Wednesday at 7:00 PT, gather round the virtual campfire and listen to SFFH short stories read by their authors. Follow the links on our site to Zoom or Facebook. Updates by @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social.
https://www.storyhour2020.com/
Laura Blackwell @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social Shirley Jackson Award-winning writer, manic pixie night hag. Copy editor, Hugo-nommed @thedeadlands.com. Cohost @storyhour.bsky.social. Website: pronouncedlahra.com. HWA, SFWA. No AI. She/her. Photo: Jodi Foucher. Rep: @alexbrownwrites.bsky.social
Clara Elena García, Author 🇵🇾 @claraelenadice.bsky.social Paraguayan Poet 🇵🇾 Elgin Award Nominee 🏆 SEVEN LEGENDARY MONSTERS | Moonrise 2025 📕 JUEGO DE PALABRAS | Valparaíso Ediciones 2023📗
www.claraelenawrites.com
Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social Storyteller. 
FIYAH Literary Magazine @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social Award-winning Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction. Submissions CLOSED. Publisher + Executive Editor: @davaun.bsky.social #fiyahlitmag
Jack-O'-Lantern @jack-o-lantern.bsky.social Posting spooky Halloween pictures from my folder.🎃
Jack LaRoche 🐺 @coyotespeaks.bsky.social Just looking for hope wherever I can and wondering what the fuck. QAA
https://jacklaroche.com
Peter Rosch @peterrosch.bsky.social author of WHAT THE DEAD CAN DO / FUTURE SKINNY / MY DEAD FRIEND SARAH / rep'd by @elizcopps at @confluencelit
Lacey Trautwein @laceytrautwein.bsky.social Horror Writer & Gremlin
Michael Sellars, Horror Writer @michaelsellars.bsky.social Author of HYENAS, a Liverpool-set apocalyptic horror novel, out now from Northodox Press: https://amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B09WKKCN4Y Rep'd by The Liverpool Literary Agency. #horrorwriter #writingcommunity #horror
Rusty Barnes @rustybarnes23.bsky.social poet
http://www.linktr.ee/rustybarnes23
Fox Claret Hill @foxclarethill.bsky.social Hopeful Author. Professional Ghostwriter. Horror Obsessed. Whodunit Lover. Folklore Enthusiast. Currently Writing Novel #1. AHWA Member. He/They. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Jay Stringer @jaystringer.bsky.social Writer. 2 degrees of Kevin Bacon. Jokes. Neurospicy. Multiple award loser. Rufio deserved better.
Paul Farrell 🎃 @paulisgreat2000.bsky.social Bylines: Bloody Disgusting, StudioCanal, HorrorHound Magazine, Dead Ringers
Podcasts: Dead Ringers, Scream Addicts: Hammer Pub
You know, I like horror movies and stuff.
Stuff I’ve written! : https://bloody-disgusting.com/author/paul-farrell/
Lee Murray @leemurraywriter.bsky.social ONZM. USA Today bestselling author, 5-time Bram Stoker Award winner, Shirley Jackson, and New Zealand Prime Minister's Award winner. Monster lover from Aotearoa. Represented by Becky LeJeune at Bond Literary.
Jenn Jordan @jennlynnjordan.bsky.social Strange but not a stranger. Comicsmith. Medievalist. Podcasting librarian selecting media (@SPLTurnthePage.bsky.social). Face/Off (1997) enthusiast. She/her. 🖖
https://linktr.ee/jennlynnjordan
💙💜💖
Lee Matthew Goldberg @leematthewgoldberg.bsky.social Author of 16 📚 including ANCESTOR, MENTOR and the GREAT GIMMELMANS.
Lit Rep: Josh Getzler @ HG Literary
Screenwriter and publisher of Fringe Press.
Native New Yorker. LeeMatthewGoldberg.com
Jacob Cherry @jacobcherry.bsky.social Horror Writer/ HWA Member/ Bearded Mountain Man🩸🩸
Eve Harms, Orph Understander @eveharms.com Exploitation/bizarro/horror authoress of books such as TRANSMUTED and CHASERS. Streaming with Bitter Karella at 10am PST every Weds.
https://eveharms.com/links/
Lora Senf @lorasenf.bsky.social Writer. Wife. Twin momma.
Bram Stoker Award Winner.
THE CLACKITY
THE NIGHTHOUSE KEEPER
THE LONELIEST PLACE
THE LOSTING FOUNTAIN
PENNIES
UNNAMED BONES (summer 2026)
LoraSenfAuthor@gmail.com * LoraSenf.com
Lori Booth @lorimichelle.bsky.social Owner of Morbid Curiosities bookstore in San Antonio
Joe X Young @joexyoung.bsky.social I have created an Indie Horror Author Community resource website that will help you to succeed as authors, and help readers to find you.
https://joexyoung.com/welcome-home/
Shane McKenzie @shanemchorror.bsky.social Horror author, comic book writer, and screenwriter with a couple screws loose
Francesca Maria @writerofweird.bsky.social Horror Author / Publisher / Cat Slave / Haunted House Survivor / They Hide: Short Stories to Tell in the Dark / Black Cat Chronicles / Black Cat Tales (6/13/2025)
francescamaria.com
black-cat-publishing.com
HorrorStruck Podcast @horrorstruckpod.bsky.social We review horror movies. Sometimes with special guests! New episodes every Wednesday 👻 (posts by Riley)
✉️: horrorstruckpod@gmail.com
🔗:
https://linktr.ee/horrorstruckpod
https://horrorstruckpod.creator-spring.com
https://www.
ANDREW @andrewbach.bsky.social SFF novels
hi-fi stereo reviews in The Absolute Sound
full time indie romance author
reddit fiction as /u/speculative--fiction
stories on www.thesprawl.com
Jordan Rosenfeld @jrosenfeldwrites.bsky.social Writer, journalist, editor, teacher, mother, vigorous hand talker. Author of novels, Forged in Grace, Fallout, Women in Red & 6 books on craft of writing. Linktr.ee/jordanr30
NIGHTLIGHT Podcast @nightlightpod.bsky.social Black horror fiction podcast. IGNYTE Best Fiction Podcast 2021. World Fantasy 2022. Short Story submissions open Feb 1, 2025.
Support: http://nightlightpod.com/support
Listen: https://nightlightpod.com/listen?sid=bsprofile
Afflicted: A Horror Thriller Audio Drama @afflictedaudio.bsky.social Afflicted is a hoodoo audio drama. New storylines each season. Next season: The Conjuring x True Blood.
Support: patreon.com/afflicted
Listen: https://afflictedaudio.com/listen?sid=bsprofile
Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social Science Fiction & Fantasy Magazine Edited by Michael Damian Thomas. 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2025 Hugo & 2024 Locus Award Winner. uncannymagazine.com
Tonya Liburd is querying Postcolonial Horror & Fantasy @spiderlilly.bsky.social The Ace Of Knives eBook out now! https://books2read.com/TheAceOfKnives . Fiction in Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy 2022. #amquerying Tonya.ca
PN Hinton @pnhinton.substack.com - H @handle.invalid @handle.invalid
Dino Parenti @dparenti.bsky.social World faker, picture taker, furniture maker. Author of BITTER BREED and DEAD RECKONING & OTHER STORIES.
Will Hartzo @willhartzo.bsky.social 50-something life-long horror fanatic, cat papa, and all-around pop culture junkie. 👻🙀🏳️🌈🤡
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
Elizabeth Land Quant @elizabethlquant.bsky.social MN Writer, queer, #autistic, wife, mom, #disabled 🐈⬛Moss enthusiast
🐈⬛Publications in NY Times+
🐈⬛ Repped by Elisa Saphier
🐈⬛Co-founder of The Unpopular Publishing Co.
🐈⬛Co-creator of autisticaunties.com
🐈⬛Cosy mystery F*CK THIS MURDER out now!
Chris Mason @chrismason.bsky.social Scribbler, warbler, cat wrangler.
A.Z. Louise | T.O. Tate @azlouise.bsky.social Writer and stuff. They/them
https://azlouise.com/#books
Kelly Lonesome @kellylonesome.bsky.social Executive Editor of nightmares at Nightfire / Tor Publishing Group. Working hard on my sea witch vibes. I have such sights to show you. (she/her)
Lisa Morton @lisamorton.bsky.social Writer, bookseller, Halloween expert, paranormal historian, L.A. woman
Ken MacGregor @kenmacgregor.bsky.social Writer, editor, bookmobile driver, father, optimistic curmudgeonly crankypants. Active Member: HWA. Finalist: Shirley Jackson Award (editing). (He/him/his)
Valerie B. Williams @valwillwrite.bsky.social Writer of Dark Fiction and Twisty Tales. Latest novel "Darkroom Phantoms" releases 12/1/26. Owned by a Golden Retriever. Tea drinker. Politically left of center. https://linktr.ee/valeriebwilliams
Sam Rebelein @rebelsam94.bsky.social A spoOoky writer😱dog dad🐕Rep’d by Claire Harris, PS Literary🥂HWA NY🌻Hudson Valley critter🍁Stoker Nom’d🩸THE POORLY MADE AND OTHER THINGS🩸GALL😶🌫️WAY’S GOSPEL 🐷🦇
Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social USA Today bestselling horror noveler (MARY; NESTLINGS; REST STOP; WHEN THE WOLF COMES HOME). TV actor. Musician. Out now: I KNOW A PLACE, May 5, 2026, Shortwave Books. (he/him)
Cutthroat Queens Podcast @cutthroathorror.bsky.social A podcast dedicated to openly and honestly discussing the indie horror writing+ community. Hosts Brett Mitchell Kent, Chelsea Pumpkins, and Elton Skelter chat with authors, editors, artists, publishers, and more!
https://linktr.ee/cutthroathorror
Molly Odintz @mollsotov.bsky.social Managing Editor, CrimeReads. Slattern. Zero Mostel stan. Fellow traveler. Cat fancier. Jewish. Y'all means all. Editor of Austin Noir. She/They. Free Palestine.
Candace Nola @candacenola.bsky.social Award-winning Author. Editor. Creator of UncomfortablyDark.com 
Christopher Ryan @chrisryanwrites.bsky.social Full-time author. Trad: Alien Buddha Press, Beckie Books, Flinch! Books, Madhouse, Wildside, Uncle B. Pub., Jersey Pines Ink, Wicked Shadow Press, Crimespree, Shotgun Honey. Indie: four novels and Soul Scream Antholozine. Podcast: Tell The Damn Story- H @handle.invalid @handle.invalid
Celso Hurtado @celsohurtado.bsky.social Author of THE GHOST TRACKS and THE DEVIL'S PROMISE (10/3). International Latino Book Award Winner. Active HWA Member. San Antonian.
Bonnie Burton ✍️ @bonniegrrl.bsky.social 👧🏻 WRITER: Books, Comics, TV, Games, Crafts, News & Podcasts. Clients: Lucasfilm, Disney, Microsoft, Penguin Random House, Hunt A Killer Games, CBS, NBC
👩🏻💻 https://linktr.ee/bonnieburton
Paula D. Ashe @pauladashe.bsky.social Award winning author of WE ARE HERE TO HURT EACH OTHER. Developmental editor. Hellraiser obsessive. Queen of Martyrs. She/her. 🏳️🌈 ✊🏽. Opinions = mine alone. Rep: Lane Heymont
https://linktr.ee/pauladashe
Nicole M. Wolverton (she/her/hers) @nicolemwolverton.bsky.social Professionally unsettling | Philly-area writer of (mostly) horror & thrillers | MEAT SWEATS * MARCH 2027 | horror academic | scent-obsessed | nicolewolverton.com
Nichole L. Lightner @nicholeon.bsky.social weird writer and managing editor at Violet Lichen
https://nichole-l-lightner.neocities.org/
Angel Luis Colón @angelluiscolon.com he/him | Award Winning 🇵🇷 Writer of🪳INFESTED🪳, MINECRAFT: HOUSE OF HORRORS, and the upcoming POP! | Rep'd by JM Darga at Aevitas Creative | https://angelluiscolon.com/
Agatha Andrews @agathaandrews.bsky.social Writer. Professional Gothic Swooner
Host of the She Wore Black Podcast
Rep: Jill Marr at Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency
Active HWA member
Chick-Fil-B @hackett.bsky.social Attorney, writer, dad. Stories in PseudoPod, DailySF, and elsewhere. Codex. Bad runner, worse climber (he/they)
Scott Drebit @sdrebit.bsky.social My book A CUT BELOW: A CELEBRATION OF B HORROR MOVIES, 1950s TO 1970s, is available everywhere from McFarland Publishing. Also: Daily Dead and Corpse Club podcast.
FUCK A.I. Rep: Darlene Chan of the Linda Chester Agency
Email: drebitscott@gmail.com
ellie (e. m.) roy @emroy.bsky.social writer of weird things. 26. maine. she/they. queer. and other words.
🍂 LET THE WOODS KEEP OUR BODIES (10.10.23, Ghoulish Books) 🍂
🩸BLOODLETTING GO (06.02.206)🩸
Tanya Pell @tanyapell.bsky.social 💀Bram Stoker nominated author
😴 narcolepsy
🩷💜💙she/her
A DARKNESS RATHER BLACKER (Gallery ‘27)
THIS B JUST WON’T DIE! (Gallery ‘26)
HER WICKED ROOTS
CICADA
Rep’d by Marcy Posner
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
bomani @bomani-jones.bsky.social