Leanna Renee Hieber @leannareneehieber.bsky.social Gothic novelist. Ghost-filled non-fiction. Actress. Goth. Narrator. Playwright. NYC Ghost Tour Guide. RAVENFIELD HALL (2/27, Hachette) A HAUNTED HISTORY OF INVISIBLE WOMEN, AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC (USA Today Bestseller, Kensington), STRANGELY BEAUTIFUL (Tor)
Pam Wishbow @pamwishbow.bsky.social Illustration, zines, fortunes, playing with metal sometimes
Seattle
Pamwishbow.com
DMiurge @inplacesdeep.bsky.social She/Her, TTRPG blogger who likes Old Things, Pinko, Witch Loving Witch, Assigned Mage at Birth
Acteon had it comin'
PFP by @zal-cryptid.bsky.social
James Bojaciuk @theonetruejames.bsky.social Excited by history, mystery, and a dash of adventure. Tabletop RPGs & model painting. 
@roughlandslm.bsky.social @roughlandslm.bsky.social Gen X. Interested in horror, sci-fi, urban fantasy, history, movies, crafts and art.
Chris Packham @bleedbuild.bsky.social Chancellor of the Exchequer
✅ Deck Verified • Copyeditor and occasional writer • Brooklyn via Kansas City • he/him • the benefits of automation are not equally distributed
Joey Weiser @joeyweiser.bsky.social THE LITTLEST FIGHTER out now! 🌴🦖🌴 Eisner-nominated, Georgia Book Award-winning graphic novel author of DRAGON RACER, GHOST HOG, MERMIN, SPONGEBOB COMICS ☕️ https://ko-fi.com/joeyweiser 🎨 http://tragic-planet.com he/him
Kit Bauserman (ABD) @kitbauserman.bsky.social Ph.D. Candidate @ W&M | Dissertating on Spatial Imaginaries & Epistemologies in DH & Media Studies | Horror, Tech, and the Environment | They/Them
SSAG Social Media Coord.
Yeri Martinez-Vallejo @yerivallejo.bsky.social Founder, Realms Media | Psychological thriller & horror filmmaker | Character-driven genre cinema | Bellgrave 2026
NAMOSRL Study Group @namosrl.bsky.social NAMOSRL, or New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library is an Occult Archive at Valdosta State University in the Deep South. The Study Group is intended to be a place to share ideas and discover some of the gems in the collection.
Trevor Humble Art @tea3d.com Artist, grad student, animator, meditator
Tea3D.com
Dorian @dorwright.bsky.social Mouthy gay man, SoCal, your dad thinks I'm hot. Here to shoot the breeze with my pals, not to play a role you've invented for me.
Crambone Truther @zacksoto.bsky.social ⚡Cartoonist⚡Creator: The Secret Voice & Power Button⚡Executive Editor⚡host: @inthisissue.bsky.social comics pod⚡ ⚡🇵🇷🌹🍄🦂⚡He/Him⚡Southerner⚡Flaneur⚡
https://www.Zack-soto.com
Sarah Sarah Sarahhhhh @bookpants.bsky.social Reader. Writer. Music junkie. Mom. Weirdo. Unnatural four-leaf clover-finding talent. Halloween enthusiast.
Richard H Moon @rmoonhill.bsky.social Movies, writing, curling, physics, not necessarily in that order.
Book about Ancient Egyptian Adventure (and the undead!) TO CONQUER DEATH is out now!
https://richardmoonbooks.com/
He/Him
https://linktr.ee/rmoonwrites
Rachel Abbey McCafferty @ramccafferty.bsky.social Writer. Reader. Reporter. Editor.
https://rachelabbeymccafferty.com/
Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social Genderqueer SFF writer & poet. They/them. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Rhysling & Elgin nom’d author of TIME TRAVEL IS EASY (2025). Words in F&SF, NESS, Strange Horizons, Analog, OTHERSIDE, Kaleidotrope, ALOCASIA.
mimulus.weebly.com
🐍 Abigail Kemske 🐍 @abigailkemske.bsky.social 👻 SFFH writer from MN
🌌 SFWA, Codex
🌿 sometimes moss
✏️ Work in Apex, The Dark, Flame Tree Press, Nature: Futures, The Saturday Evening Post, Adventitious, Gavagai, +
🚫 no gen AI 🚫
Story 🔗 https://gavagai.com/@abigailkemske/links 🌳 AbigailKemske.com
Acrobatic Flea @acrobaticflea.bsky.social Geek, comic book reader, table top gamer, fan of Judge Dredd, Doctor Who, Rick and Morty, westerns, sword & sorcery, sci-fi, and Lovecraftian horror. Married to @rachellk.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/AcrobaticFlea
#StrokeSurvivor
Murray Mintz @www.cinevibezhq.com I write CineVibez Fanzine
https://www.CineVibezHQ.com
https://www.linktr.ee/CineVibez
Erik @kirebooks.bsky.social Flotsam and Jetsam. Folklore, customs and odd guilds, gangs and groups.
Christopher Brown @christopherbrown.bsky.social Writer & lawyer. Author of A NATURAL HISTORY OF EMPTY LOTS • Novels TROPIC OF KANSAS et al • urban nature newsletter FIELD NOTES • christopherbrown.com
brooke @daynpitseleh.bsky.social genre fiction and film. indie video games. alt music. women's basketball.
she/her
Matthew D. Berkshier @berkshierwrites.com Writer of speculative fiction (usually horror) and poetry (usually blank verse).
NO A.I.! 🚫🤖
https://berkshierwrites.com
Neil Blackman @n3il4real.bsky.social Writer of fiction. Heart that you call home. Movie stuff. Music junk. Mental Health. Still chasing the highs of discovering AOL and finding the lows of everything since.
Ray Sidman @raysidman.bsky.social College instructor, supporter of DEIB and LGBTQ+, pop-culture geek, dog enthusiast, ostensible thinker and philosophizer, reader, raconteur, occasional writer and filmmaker
Views are my own
he/him
See my cinephile page at
@filmnerdness101ray.bsky.social
Kevin Gallant @kevin-gallant.bsky.social Canadian
Author of Beyond the Mark: Ashes of the Hero. 🗡🛡🔮✨️🧙♂️
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/beyond-the-mark
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DM96B5J9
Singer for Violet Outburst 🎸🎤
https://open.spotify.com/artist/0Vf4w9Ze38rLniADBEGKSp?si=AcWduGX
ModCon02 is Keeping On @modcon2.bsky.social “I think people ought to know we’re anti-fascist, anti-racist, anti-violence, and we’re pro creative” J. Strummer
Also?
Fuck you. Make me.
Tanya Floaker @floaker.bsky.social Game Designer ❖ Writer ❖ Consultant
https://floaker.carrd.co
(they/them)
Avatar is a headshot of a white person w. shaved head, pink hair tuft, round glasses, and surreal collage background (no AI)
C.A. Petrov @capetrov.bsky.social she/her. aka FullMetaDuchess. Naturalized ✡️, absent most Saturdays. Learning every day if I'm lucky. On the downside of middle age and drifting ever leftward. Header from 'Dreams' by Melton Fisher.
Please don't follow me unless you like reading my skeets.
Beck W @loudtristero.bsky.social bike and ped advocate. mechanical engineer, getting my PhD at NCSU. he/him
Brooklyn Ann @brooklynannauthor.com Romance & Horror author. Series: Scandals with Bite, Brides of Prophecy, Hearts of Metal, & The Final Couples. Repped by The Knight Agency. HWA Member. https://linktr.ee/brooklynannauthor
Gabby @yorkshiregabby.bsky.social Spooky Scary, AuDH, queer, uncomfortable
Horror writer + editor
Based in Yorkshire
EnigmaticLabs @enigmaticlabs.bsky.social Illustrator and comic artist trying to find the beauty in the horror show we find ourselves living in.
Zodi 🌌🪻 @zodi777.blacksky.app // All things Southern Gothic // ♏️☀️ // ♋️🌕 // Little Free Library Steward //
https://ko-fi.com/zodibell
Banner: Vonetta McGee & Max Julien in “Thomasine & Bushrod” (1974)
Catherine Cottrell @cathbath.bsky.social Likes: books, cats, comedy, cryptic puzzles, music. Gothic fiction nerd. Mostly lurks on Bluesky.
Burke Means To Smother @timwburke.bsky.social Burke (v): To smother to sell the corpse.
"Fazgood & the Obstreperous Moosecrab Caper" Fantasy Humor novel https://shorturl.fm/o8KfG
"Saints of Flesh" & "The Flesh Sutra" Goth Body Horror
https://shorturl.at/x2fPn
https://timwb.substack.com/subscribe
Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social Lecturer in Medieval English and AFY English Subject Lead (Ox) ¶ Author of BOOK CURSES for Bodleian Publishing ¶ Being critically creative @guildmedmak.bsky.social ¶ Liker of material texts, medieval folk horror, university access & print making ¶ She/her
Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social artist of sorts
Andy Kolovos @akolovos.bsky.social Folklorist, archivist, comic nerd. One of the humans behind The Non-Fiction Comics Festival in Burlington, VT.
S.P. Miskowski @spmiskowski.bsky.social writer (she/her)
Danielle Svetcov, LGR Literary Agency
Phil Nobile Jr. @philnobilejr.bsky.social SVP of Editorial, FANGORIA Publishing
Editor-in-Chief, FANGORIA Magazine
Exec Producer, HORROR NOIRE
Grieving Bond fan
Personal account; all opinions correct
Bernice M. Murphy @murphgothic.bsky.social Professor in Popular Literature with a focus on American horror and Gothic narratives & the work of Shirley Jackson. Views own.
Matthew Johnson @matthewj.bsky.social Archaeologist at Northwestern University; Norwich City fan. He/him. Dis/Abled. Opinions expressed my own. 
@sleepship.bsky.social @sleepship.bsky.social Writer, artist, parent.
I write about art in lutruwita at Makeando.art
they/them.
Free Palestine.
Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social Author, filmmaker, book dealer. New York and Dallas. Bookstore: mzs.press. RogerEbert.com editor-at-large. Next book: Jack Nicholson: Leading Man
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.
David Avallone @davallone.bsky.social Writer and stuff. Comics and tv and film. The second-best dressed man in #comics.
The Devil doesn't need advocates: advocate for humans, instead. He/him.
All the things: https://linktr.ee/DAvallone
El Romero Mero @maxoromero.bsky.social He/him/his. Host of PLASTICAST, THE MIRROR FACTORY, THE DEATH-DEFYING HUMAN FLYCAST on the Fire & Water #Podcast Network; writer/copy ed. #comics Brown ‘n proud. Newsletters and contacts at https://linktr.ee/maxromero
Laura E. Hall @lauraehall.bsky.social Mysteries, puzzles, adventures. I make games, write books & preserve immersive history. PDX. They/she
Immersipedia coming soon 📖
PLANNING YOUR ESCAPE (Simon & Schuster), KATAMARI DAMACY (Boss Fight Books)
✨ lauraehall.com
🔎 cfia.org
🎙️ secretlives.games
xavier garcia @xaviergarcia.bsky.social writer / editor / hermit / collector of dust
Editor at Twin Pies Literary / Linktree: linktr.ee/xavieragarcia
encounterparts @encounterparts.bsky.social "All I do is sit down at the typewriter and start hitting the keys. Getting them in the right order, that's the trick." ~ Garth Marenghi
Too much rock for one hand.
https://boxd.it/1GIYN
https://record.club/encounterparts
mx. emotion @mx-emotion.bsky.social writer/singer/danny/they/them
https://mxemotion.bandcamp.com/
Nemone7 @nemone7.bsky.social Writer, reader, wanderer, always curious.
Colin Harker @lordsteerpike.bsky.social (she/her) THE FEAST OF THE INNOCENTS (2022) / THORNS: A BOOK OF POEMS (May 2026) / Gothic cosmic horror author / William Godwin and Charles Maturin are my patron saints / https://ko-fi.com/colinharker
Tennessee Riverkeeper @tnriverkeeper.bsky.social Environmental nonprofit, defending water supply for 6.3 million Southerners. www.TennesseeRiver.org
IRANZYE ART @iranzye.bsky.social Landscape Artist / writer
More curated artworks on Instagram 👆🏽👇🏽
Instagram.com/Iranzyee
ericnewsom.bsky.social @ericnewsom.bsky.social Ph.D. Media Scholar, Designer, Psychic Detective (retired).
Was Eric Newsom on Twitter, but now here I am known as Eric Newsom.
Duane Swierczynski @swierczy.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of CALIFORNIA BEAR, SECRET DEAD MEN, LUSH and BILLION-DOLLAR RANSOM. WGA. MWA. "The Pole WIth Soul." gleefulmayhem.com
CascadianViking @ahimsa.bsky.social 🌲Wandering Vegan SF writer, RPG designer, ESL teacher, RTW traveler and probably some other abbreviations too. 🌲
https://www.ahimsakerp.com/
Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social Celtic Revivals and Imperial Cultures. Research Fellow at University of Wales (CAWCS) on C18th/19th travel in Wales, Scotland, and India. Cymrawd Oddi Cartref
Book: 'Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain' (2025), Francis Jones Prize Winner
He/They/Fo/Nhw
Moths in a human suit (they/them) @lycomorpha.bsky.social A collection of moths trying to cosplay a human interdisciplinary artist. MedSci escapee, always drawing or making paint. In my chaos-bisexual-enby-hag era. Moths, paint-making, disability, & art sh*t-posting. lycomorpha.etsy.com & mothsinahumansuit.uk
🍄Trelle of Tragedy🍄Maiden of Fear🍄ArtFight @artofstace.bsky.social Autistic ttrpg Artist & Music Enthusiast ✧ They/She ✧Pan✧ Experiencing the horrors ✧ 🌱🍄Dark Fantasy, Gw2, D&D, and Fear & Hunger🍄🌱 ✧ Spore Druid that💟to draw things ✧ ✧ ✧ https://vgen.co/ChanterelleDreams ✧ chanterelledreams.carrd.co
@comicbookmisfit.bsky.social @comicbookmisfit.bsky.social 
Joey Royale @joeyroyale.bsky.social Creator, Monster Kid, Collector
https://gethauntedindustries.etsy.com
James Stoorie @jamesstoorie.bsky.social I learnt to write from Scratch.
Author of MiStoorie: The Autobiography Of A Feral Child, AfterWitch, AfterWitch In The City, Heirlooms & Other Ghosts Stories and James Stoorie's Book Of Joy.
http://jamesstoorie.wordpress.com
g.j.hilton @hltn.bsky.social historian of scenography
interests: the material, manufacture & manufacturers of spectacle (intermezzi, machines, festivals, feasts, fireworks); history of magnificence from below
before I was ill: choreographer, production designer, theatrical engineer
Corrin (they/them) @phonoirlex.bsky.social They/them. Nonbinary. Queer. Polytheist. Autistic. Disabled. Fannish (Wheel of Time, Star Trek, Supernatural, Wynonna Earp, and Doctor Who, among others).
James In Beta @jamescheung.bsky.social Building https://www.redditmaster.com
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!
Wendy Hammer @weirdtea.bsky.social Reader. Writer. Weirder.
Hating Ronald Reagan is approximately 7% of my personality.
Gabe Soria @bitchinville.bsky.social Writer of comics, books, RPGs, etc.: MegaGhost (Dark Horse), Jimmy Olsen’s SuperCyclopedia (DC Comics), Life Sucks (Fantagraphics), Sword & Backpack (Penguin, Sept. 2026) and blah blah blah. NO KINGS/NO AI.
Paige Bryony @paigebryony.bsky.social She/her/it, 46, Author, primarily horror, Texpat in Ontario, constantly murmuring about terrible things felt but not seen
Paul J. Garth @pauljgarth.bsky.social BAMS Distinguished Story writer (twice!)
Midwestern Gothic and Nebraska Noir. Crime fiction. Doom metal. Editor for Rock and a Hard Place magazine. Shotgun Honey alum. Should probably be writing. Might be playing Warhammer
@indarkwerisepod.bsky.social @indarkwerisepod.bsky.social All Things Dark, History, And True Crime. No Nonsense. No Banter. Just Easily Digestible Stories To Consume On Your Break.
Music Here 👇🏻
https://robertchristopher.bandcamp.com/
Podcast Here👇🏻
https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/in-darkness-we-rise--5918193
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
z kennedy-lopez @zkennedylopez.bsky.social they/them. writer, noisemaker, fermenter, teacher. words in catapult, foglifter, autostraddle, bedfellows, & others. jake sun, marceline moon, b-mo wannabe. editorial asst @ split lip mag www.zkennedylopez.com/
Adrian Woland @adrianwoland.bsky.social Free-thinking refugee nutball. Reader, writer, creative, kinda good at it. Awaiting the inevitable firestorm.
Cats, Satan, (Food/Word/Book) Porn
Elias Björkman @eliasbjork.bsky.social Film- och tv-redaktör på Svenska Dagbladet.
SvD.se/av/elias-bjorkman
Nyhetsbrevet Bäst på tv: SvD.se/nyhetsbrev 
Quinn Bailey @qjtbailey.bsky.social Horror filmmaker/composer/writer; they/them. Editor of KNIFEMAN (in festivals now), director of EXCLUSION (2027). No fascists, no AI.
🟨⬜️🟪⬛️
https://linktr.ee/qjtbailey
Auferre 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @auferre.bsky.social Huge nerd. Sings and codes, not necessarily in that order. Not big on own pronouns, happy to respect yours.
Leave my trans brothers and sisters alone.
Karl C Krumpholz@SPX-W73B @karlckrumpholz.bsky.social Cartoonist on ‘It's Oola!!', In The City’, and ‘Queen City’ (yep, there’s a theme.) Probably drawing right now.
https://karlchristiankrumpholz.com/
Stephen A Russell @stephenarussell.bsky.social Glasgow-born, Naarm (Melbourne)-based arts journalist and award-winning critic obsessed with film, theatre and a whole lot more. Live on the unceded lands of the Kulin Nation. Snorts generally included. He/him, quite gay.
Substack: Orion's Shoulder
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
Sloth or entropy @ludditerobot.bsky.social Writer, movie-watcher, jazz-listener, fascism-loather. Dad.
Autumn the Red Sage, Past & Future Pope @redsage.bsky.social liminal being. she/they. bi/pan. nonbinary possum. professional email expert. art / tech / politics / too many reposts. childless hedonist. i follow a lot of interesting smart people. oakland, ca. -><-
Dyn Hysbys @dynhysbys.bsky.social 🏴 Cymro, dysgwr, swynwr, hud gwerin. Hoyw AF 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
PA🇵🇸 Quakerish like Iolo /|\ he/him #Annibyniaeth Independence for Cymru
Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone NYT-bestselling, US-born immigrant living in Portugal. Books: RINGMASTER; TRUE BELIEVER; and on Oct. 6, @beckbook.com. Married to @sirosenbaum.bsky.social. Co-hostess of @herecomestomorrow.net. PFP is Nomi Sunrider as drawn by David Roach.
kel @viewtoakel.bsky.social music mostly. lover of film.
nostalgic for conversations i had yesterday.
ellipsis abuser...
sagittarius w/ social anxiety
she/her
collage artist living in nyc: kellakin.com
never AI
*trans rights are human rights*
Martin John @martinjohn.bsky.social Dakelh Author of Punk is Dead.
https://martinedjohn.ca
Poodle servant.
Living on the lands of lək̓ʷəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples.
marybee 🐇🦌 @godcomplex.monster BWEH!!! 🐇🦌
🔞🔞🔞 nsfw/personal account 👍 plural trans elk rabbit loser. you're worst nightmare. T4T ONLY, cis folks tread lightly, I'll block you SO FAST.
i make a webcomic about deer and other things 👀
emotional support blueberry 🫐 @aykdanroyd.bsky.social artist, film lover, avid reader!
if i cannot inspire love, i will cause fear.
🟠🟢🔵 https://boxd.it/2je0L
📚 https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/aykdanroyd
Steve Horton 🚀 The Comic Book Story of Space Exploration @mst3k.fan Writer (Comic Book Story of Space Exploration, NYT bestselling BOWIE, secret 3rd thing), SFF & film essays. Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop alumni. Rep'd by RHA. Codexian. Everything is rubbish and all rubbish is wonderful. stevehorton.neocities.org
Caleb Bethea (they/them) @calebbethea.bsky.social Author of DISCO MURDER CITY and Fever Clowns | Dirty South Enby Punk | No AI
https://shop.maudlinhouse.net/#disco-murder-city
Anna 🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social Freelance Game Writer & Narrative Designer | NOW: Kinali Works & Stupendium Softworks | Hugo finalist, BAFTA, DICE, Future Class | UVW-CWA | "Queen of the Freelancers" | ♐️ 💜🤍🖤💚 | she/her | annacwebster.com
@zeldabizarre.bsky.social @zeldabizarre.bsky.social Married Elder Goth. Frequently seen in San Francisco.😍🖼️ 🎥 📚 🎶 🤘🐈⬛🐕🦔🦇🕷️🦉-#Live Deliciously - see you in the shadows. I make dolls & weird stuff. 🚫 MAGA, extremists of any kind. Don’t be an asshole ok?
James @thasceles.bsky.social Queer. Autistic. Depressive. Cricket tragic. Dr Who fan since the age of 6. TWAW. TMAM. Horror film lover. BLM. He/him. RIP dad. And a hard-boiled egg. "Fix your hearts or die."
Gustav Carlson @backwoodgoat.bsky.social Ozarks based comic artist. Creator of Backwood Folk, Tourist Unknown, and Eve of the Ozarks.
backwoodfolk.com
Ariel Marken Jack @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social singer of stories, swinger of scythes.
work & words: arielmarkenjack.com.
newsletter: https://buttondown.com/SongsFromaRiversEdge