Stephen Mark Rainey @markrainey.bsky.social Author/editor of scary fiction, graphic artist, geocacher, occasional musician & actor, perpetual old fart
Swords Against! Magazine @swordsagainst.bsky.social Swords Against! is a sword & sorcery fiction magazine edited by @rpaulwolfe.bsky.social
Issues available at https://www.swordsagainst.com
Withering Realms @moonlessformless.bsky.social Moonless Formless is a solo developer and vintage horror game tinkerer. Creator of Withering Rooms, a 2.5D horror RPG out now on PS5, Xbox Series X|S and Steam.
HellBound Books @hellboundbooks.bsky.social We are an independent publisher of horror, bizarro, erotic horror, dark erotica, poetry, and associated anthologies.
hellboundbookspublishing.com
@monsterbookclub.bsky.social @monsterbookclub.bsky.social Reviews and commentary on monster and superhero fiction by Eric Searleman.
Jason Aaron @jason-aaron.bsky.social Writer: BUG WARS, ABSOLUTE SUPERMAN, TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES, NAMOR, THOR, ONCE UPON A TIME AT THE END OF THE WORLD, SOUTHERN BASTARDS, SCALPED.
BUG WARS available now from Image Comics!
https://linktr.ee/jasonaaron73
Jonathan Melville @jonmelville.bsky.social Fan of old films and telly / Author of books on Local Hero, Highlander, Tremors, Hamish Macbeth and Jim Henson / Owner of too many Blu-rays. Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/iyB
Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social Books and Archives since 1683.
Website: orkneylibrary.org.uk
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Nathan Long @nathanrlong.bsky.social Former writer at inXile Entertainment, novelist, script writer, game writer, general plot hammerer - He/Him
Joe Abercrombie @joeabercrombie.com Lord Grimdark (self-appointed). Writer of the First Law and Shattered Sea books and the Devils. Part-time Witch King of Nihilism, deep in a jaded literary sewer etc. etc.
Bryn Hammond @brynhammond.bsky.social | Writer. Sword & Sorcery: Goatskin novellas WASTE FLOWERS, WHAT ROUGH BEAST? from Brackenbury Books. Historical fiction: AMGALANT on Tchingis Khan & 12thC Mongols
| She/her 🌈Queer. Australia
| https://amgalant.com / buy direct https://payhip.com/Amgalant
Oliver Brackenbury @obrackenbury.bsky.social https://www.patreon.com/soimwritinganovel
Author / Screenwriter / NESS Magazine Editor and head of Brackenbury Books. Podcast Host: So I'm Writing a Novel, Unknown Worlds of the Merril Collection. (He/Him)- W @willmurray53.bsky.social @willmurray53.bsky.social Novelist. Journalist. Remote Viewer. Creator of Marvel Comics Unbeatable Squirrel Girl. My books here: Www.adventuresinbronze.com
Nicholas Meyer @nicholasmeyer.bsky.social Author, TV-film Writer, novelist and Director. The Real Thing in stores now. https://a.co/d/hDFYbhm
Danny Fingeroth @dannyfingeroth.bsky.social Author of upcoming bio "Jack Ruby: The Many Faces of Oswald's Assassin" due in Nov from CRP. Also Stan Lee bio, "A Marvelous Life." Lots of comics and comics related stuff. Audio book narrator. Consultant to JewCE Comic Con and Will Eisner Studios. 
✨Nicola Scott✨ @nicolascottart.bsky.social Australian comic book artist.
NYT bestseller/Eisner award winner
Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social NYT Bestselling Author. Medical Historian. Breast Cancer Survivor.
Next book: SLEUTH-HOUND, a whirlwind tour of Victorian forensics from the perspective of the man who loaned a voice to Baker St.’s famous resident: Sherlock Holmes. Out October 20.
Friends of Lister Lane Cemetery (KAVS) @listerlanecem.bsky.social In collaboration with Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council, the Friends maintain this Grade II listed, significant cemetery; the final resting place of some 20,000 individuals. Location: Halifax, England.
https://www.listerlanecemetery.co.uk
Lev Butts @levbutts.bsky.social English professor, writer, all around nerd, geek, idiot, and whatnot.
Andreea @infinitetext.bsky.social Rare Book Librarian. Booktuber. Pirate History Enthusiast. Loves mushrooms, weird fiction, and long cemetery walks.
https://www.youtube.com/c/infinitetext
I'm a cartoonist. @frankmillerink.bsky.social 
Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social No NFTs, No A.I.
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The Swamp Wytch @theswampwytch.bsky.social Witch of the SwampLands. Creator & Curator of #FolkWitchFriday. Folk Witch, Cunning Woman, Pellor. Folklore, Magic, Herbs & Trees, Raptors, Stones & Bones. Diviner. Olorisha. Monankisi in Quimbanda de Angola.
https://linktr.ee/theswampwytch
Annie Brassey @anniebrassey.bsky.social Victorian Traveller, Writer and Collector (1839-1887)
Erik Larsen @eriklarsen.bsky.social Savage Dragon perpetrator
Robert Hack @roberthack.bsky.social Funnybook scribbler.
Draws The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Doctor Who, Hello Darkness, and tons of covers.
Chaosium @chaosium.bsky.social For the past half-century, our award-winning roleplaying games, board games, and fiction are praised as being some of the most engaging and innovative of all time.
The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society @hplhs.bsky.social Producer of Lovecraftian entertainment, creating motion picture, audio drama, book, game, spoken word and musical projects with authenticity and humor.
Ian McDowell @ianmcdowell.bsky.social Author, illustrator, award-winning journalist.
Most recent book: I Ain’t Resisting: the City of Greensboro & the Killing of Marcus Smith (Scuppernong Editions, 2023).
Loves vintage cinema, cats & my beautiful wife SuperAmanda.
Stephen R Bissette @stephenrbissette.bsky.social Father, son, husband, artist, author, researcher, cinema & comics historian, and former instructor (retired), 
Samuel Agro @samuelagro.bsky.social Illustrator, writer, storyboard artist, and sometime actor.
Ruckawriter @gregrucka.com Writer. He/him. Too boring for social media. Incandescently angry. #RCTID #BAON #YNWA Trans rights are human rights. There is no going back.
The Forged is back in May! Batwoman monthly!
Newsletter: https://front-towards-enemy.ghost.io
@hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social Phoenix Guide to Strange England: #Hookland. Run by David Southwell
#Hauntology Re-wilding #Folklore #FolkHorror #Psychogeography #LandscapePunk Re-enchantment Is Resistance https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1068598123
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
Hello, it's Dan McDaid @danmcdaid.bsky.social artist, writer, god of hell fire. My graphic novel DEGA is currently available from Oni Press and right here:
https://a.co/d/022tuav0
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Josh Mayfield @bean525.bsky.social Hey, I'm Josh, and among other things, I made the Star Trek Title Generator at trek.epicrandomness.com, and I run the Trans Rights Screenshot Generator.
Be excellent to each other!
@originalgrognard.bsky.social @originalgrognard.bsky.social Vintage gaming enthusiast, Nostalgia Nerd, Aspiring Bass Player and Cocktail Aficionado!
🇨🇦 Elbows Up!
Kevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social Author of the Iron Druid Chronicles, Ink & Sigil, the Seven Kennings, and more. Into nature photography, metal, and beard maintenance. https://kevinhearne.com Newsletter: https://wordsandbirds.ink
Spy Fi @spy-fi.bsky.social Risk. Risk is our business.
Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, Babylon 5, Conan, 007
Classical Antiquity
Humanist
Warwickshire @warwickshireuk.bsky.social News and updates from the county of #Warwickshire, UK - we originally started this service on another app in 2012 and now here on Bluesky
Spooky Sunday @spookysunday.bsky.social Ghost-related posts every Sunday - words, art, folklore, popular culture, haunted places etc. Just use the #SpookySunday tag. All relevant contributions will be welcome and reposted. (Up to FOUR posts/reposts pp please). Run by @theghostmonk.bsky.social
Folklore of Scotland @folklorescotland.bsky.social A book of Scottish folklore by Ayrshire-born Druid and Bard, Stephen G. Rae. Available in print and ebook. Published by The FolkLore Press.
Joe Dante @thejoedante.bsky.social Director of motion pictures like Gremlins 1 & 2, The 'Burbs, The Howling, Small Soldiers, Innerspace and more.
Check out my side gig ➡ http://trailersfromhell.com (@trailersfromhell.bsky.social)
Official Site www.renfieldproductions.com
Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social Cartoonist and Illustrator. My book of science cartoons, PHYSICS FOR CATS, is available now! www.tomgauld.com
Marc Laming all singing, all dancing comics guy. @marclaming.bsky.social Comic book drawist, drinker of tea and gentleman adventurer - tally ho!
COMMISSIONS ARE OPEN Convention & commission representation by http://comicsketchart.com
Mary Wyrd (she/her) @marywyrd.bsky.social Creative Virtual Assistant & Author Assistant - www.marywyrd.com
All about the books. No GenAi.
Horror writer.
#AuthorAssistant
#HorrorWritersChat co-host
#TheShadowsThatWeCarry
#HauteHorrorCover
#BookPairing
#WriterTips
#BacklistSaturday
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Anthony S. @sevensoldiers.bsky.social Comic reader, movie lover, 80's music aficionado, Philly Proud.
Martin Boucher @authorfan.bsky.social Avid reader of #horror. 👀 Movie buff, especially of '80s #horror. 📺
Adam Christopher @adamchristopher.me New York Times Bestselling author • Star Wars • World of Warcraft • Stranger Things • Doctor Who • Original SFF including CRAWLSPACE, MADE TO KILL, EMPIRE STATE and many others • Agent: Stacia Decker at DCL • Destroy AI
www.adamchristopher.me
Echo On Publications @echohorror.com The world's leading publisher of retro genre novelizations
The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social Exploring the folklore and folk life of Warwickshire. I can also be found at @hilaryrsparkes.bsky.social
Antony Botting @antonybotting.bsky.social Sci-fi author
London - UK
I'm afraid that's me, darling 🎈 @ophelialoonyluv.bsky.social 32. She/her. White. Bi/Pan, anxious & neurospicy common loon. I love crossover ships, sappy horror, Sims 4, Vincent Price, Izzy Hands, and Bill Skarsgard's Pennywise. Fiction is not reality. Trans rights are human rights. AI SUCKS.
Anna Moshak @aizelkonart.bsky.social Freelance illustrator and cover artist.🇺🇦
https://aizelkonart.com/
Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com Illustrator, character designer, concept artist, draws a lot of ladies and monsters. Won a Hugo.
Netflix, WB, Disney Books, WotC, Penguin, Macmillan, Hachette
Torino 🇮🇹
Rep: Alison Mann
⟣ She/Her ⟢
⟣ Prints, patreon, merch: abigaillarson.com ⟢
⟣ No GenAI ⟢
Golden Age Comics @goldenagecomics.bsky.social Avid collector and fan of the Golden Age of Comic Books (1930’s through 1950’s), showcasing many gems from that era and beyond. Produced the first podcast devoted to the Golden Age. Have written extensively about the era over the years.
Xmas ghosts are stirring @toffph.bsky.social anthologist of Victorian Christmas ghost stories
local historian and gravestone conservationist
H. C. Dodge & shape poem collector
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/20841298.Christopher_Philippo/blog
https://www.findagrave.com/user/profile/477914
Jan Pospíšil @janpospisil.bsky.social Illustrator, Concept Artist, Art Director. (formerly at Perun Creative.)
Available for work (from October on)!
https://www.deviantart.com/merlkir
He/Him 🏳️🌈
Mike Mignola @mikemignola.bsky.social Artist-Writer-Creator of the Hellboy Universe or Mignolaverse etc...
Andy “voice of Brak” Merrill. 🦋🦋🦋🦋 @amerrill2.bsky.social I do voices and stuff. I also do marketing for things. I write and produce crap and occasionally get on stage and make people laugh. I’m open for work and comic conventions.
Steve Niles @steveniles.bsky.social https://steveniles.net/
Michael Kronenberg @mwkronenberg.bsky.social Graphic Designer: WEF, Film Noir Foundation, TwoMorrows, Black Pool Productions, Kino Lorber. Yankees/Jets/Knicks/boxing fan.
Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.eurosky.social Starving artist. Weird art. Cosmic horror.
No AI, just biological idiocy.
https://linktr.ee/andrea.bonazzi
Goth Auntie @cupcakegoth.bsky.social Gothic Charm School. Your Goth Auntie and future Vampire Witch Queen. She/Her.
Patreon: http://patreon.com/JillianVenters
Ko-Fi: http://ko-fi.com/jillianventers
B. Rae “Rusty” Grosz @braegrosz.com She/They. Pittsburgh-born writer, researcher, and aspiring bog body. Host of the #MorbidMarch and #13MorbidMondays events at @morbidimagining.bsky.social. Greyromantic. Anti-AI.
You can support my work via https://ko-fi.com/braegrosz.
Official Robert E. Howard Days @robertehowarddays.bsky.social Robert E. Howard Days is held every June in Cross Plains, Texas where we celebrate the prolific and inimitable poet and writer where he lived and created his works. Stay tuned for the latest Howard Days 2026 info!
Hidalgo Trading Co. at DocSavage.Org @docsavage.org The longest-running, still updated Doc Savage website. We're the holding company for the Flearun discussion group and Bronze Gazette magazine.
Jim Beard @writerjimbeard.bsky.social Aging writer, editor, and self-publisher who still manages to get up every morning and face a cruel world that won't review his books. Cute, but not terribly handsome.
Matthew John @matthewjohnauthor.bsky.social Matthew John is a writer, game designer, and host of the Rogues in the House Podcast. He's sold fiction to Savage Sword of Conan and Tales From the Magician's Skull, and recently published, ‘To Walk on Worlds.’ Sadly, Crom doesn't care about any of this.
ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social art
Kasey Lansdale @kaseylansdale.bsky.social Here, but not here.
https://linktr.ee/kaseylansdale
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
Vintage Fantasy Art - NOAI @vintagefantasyart.bsky.social Daily pictures of XIXth and XXth centuries fantasy illustration masters.
V.K. Von Vorgrik.bsky.social @vovonvorgrik.bsky.social Lover of all things sword & sorcery. Fantasy, Grimdark, fell purposes and malevolent entities. Writer. Queer. ⚔️ NO AI EVER. 💀
The Great Detective @greatdetective.bsky.social In admiration of the greatest and cosiest of fictitious detectives, inspectors, sleuths and investigators ☕️ 🔍📺 📚 Poirot, Miss Marple, Jessica Fletcher, Morse, Sherlock and the rest!
The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social Enthusiast of British (mainly) ghostlore, folklore and vintage ghost and weird fiction. Collector of old magazines. Also keen on prehistoric monuments, old churches and suchlike. Am decidedly Q. All scans/photos my own (unless stated). Runs #SpookySunday
Gilead @gileadart.bsky.social I draw and paint Sword & Sorcery illustrations and signs and animals and birds and nudes and stuff.
Here's my Linktree https://linktr.ee/gileadartist
Christopher DiPiazza @chrisdipiazza.bsky.social Degree in Animal Science. Paleoartist, Zookeeper, Science Teacher, Birder. I work with dinosaur fossils in Maryland. (He/Him/His)
🦖Creator of Prehistoric Beast of the Week🦕
http://prehistoricbeastoftheweek.blogspot.com/?m=1
Steve Goble, author @curious-blue-dot.bsky.social Author, former journalist, amateur philosopher, Godzilla fan, music lover who left Twitter in a huff. Follows do not equal endorsements. Pronouns he/him. Where’s Mitch?
Chris Samnee @chrissamnee.bsky.social Rhymes with Omni
Most recent: Batman & Robin: Year One
**please don’t color & repost my art**
Bill Adcock (he/him) @paintingmoreorcs.bsky.social Cat dad, miniature painter/mostly-solo wargamer, former freelance TTRPG scenario author. Writing fiction again in 2026. No AI, no TERFs.
Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social Poet. #ReadMorePoetry Collections: Crown of Eggshell, In the Shadow of Gods @BookWormSat w/ Signe Maene. Literature, art, myth, folklore, the gothic. Left wing. 🇪🇺 She/her 🌈🏳️⚧️ Ally https://linktr.ee/rachel_deering
https://ko-fi.com/kofisupporter68929
Severin Films @severinfilms.bsky.social Entertainment with Sharp Edges. Creating, rescuing, and releasing the world’s most provocative cinema since 2006.
linktr.ee/severinfilms
Print Play Protect @printplayprotect.bsky.social We make cool tabletop items :D
@scottteereh.bsky.social @scottteereh.bsky.social https://www.facebook.com/rehcomicsgroup
Robert E Howard news & nostalgia posts every day!
Kim Newman @annodracula.bsky.social Novelist and Critic. https://johnnyalucard.com/
Mark Molchan @markmolchan.bsky.social Illustrator of book covers, posters, comics, murals, album covers. www.markmolchan.com
William Preston @williampreston.bsky.social Writer (2026 publications include Asimov’s, Analog, and F&SF; story arc A Work of Human Hands in paperback via Amazon), former teacher, parent to three grown women. Interests include film, religion, history, many sciences.
he/him ho-hum
Rebecca Baumann @arkhamlibrarian.bsky.social rare book librarian, book junkie, devotee of the weird, angry queer, friend to all monsters, nonbinary freak. Free Substack on queer pulps: https://nympholibrarian.substack.com/
BACK ISSUE! Magazine @backissuemagazine.bsky.social BACK ISSUE! Magazine examines comics & comic-related media from the 1970's, 1980's & 1990's.
Ask your local comic shop for the latest issue or subscribe at: www.twomorrows.com
BACK ISSUE! is published eight times a year.
We nearly always write ALT TEXT.
Prof Serena Trowbridge @serena-t.bsky.social Professor of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, Birmingham City University. Chair, Pre-Raphaelite Society, Senior VP, Birmingham and Midland Institute. Books, art, nature, stone circles, ballet, fresh air. https://serenatrowbridge.substack.com/
Guy Davis @guydavisart.bsky.social Concept Designer / Production Designer for Film, Television and Video Games including Frankenstein, The Buried Giant, Pinocchio, Nightmare Alley, Alone in the Dark, Diablo 4, Pacific Rim, Steven Universe. Creator of The Marquis
John Walters @jwvizdev.bsky.social VFX Art Director/Digital matte painter/Concept Artist - Avatar: The Way of the Water, The Batman, Black Widow….oh and Rogue Trooper.
Paul Scollon @scollon.social Listens to Stoner Rock, watches Movies and collects British Comic Books (2000AD, Eagle etc). Loves 1930s Pulp (Fantasy/Science Fiction). Recovering TV addict. Works with PHP & MySQL on GNU/Linux. Irish, Anxious, Asperger's - not necessarily in that order.
Ruins of Despair @ruinsofdespair.bsky.social A weary pilgrim on the grave of the Romantic Hero, a forlorn eulogist cast upon the desolate shore of the exquisite agony that is The Gothic.
#books #art #gothic #romanticism
'Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' (P.B. Shelley)
Ron Marz @ronmarz.bsky.social Writer. Mostly of comics and video games. My opinions are my own. 
Ricardo Delgado @delgadosaurusrex.bsky.social Father. Husband. Motion Picture Academy, Horror Writers Association, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Disney animation alum.
Matthew Dow Smith @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social Writer, artist, comic book creator. The October Girl (Book Three coming October from Mad Cave/Maverick), Amelia Shadows (Book Two out now from Papercutz), DC's Misfits of Magic, and others. He/him.
Literary agent: Moe Ferrara at TriadaUS.
Michael Wegener @michaelwegener.bsky.social Writer of prime crime and horror fiction. Former chemist (if there is such a thing) breaking bad on the page. Stories in Mickey Finn, Unnerving Magazine, Starlite Pulp, SNAFU, The Yard...
Keith Lansdale @keithlansdale.bsky.social