Yaika @yikesyaika.bsky.social She/her. 🇵🇷 Cat lady who also wants to be best friends with all the dogs. Horror book and media fanatic. 
Melissa, A Watkins(also a writer and a bookworm) @eqreader.bsky.social Fast reader, slow writer, stealth introvert, openly grouchy woman in an ethically non-monogamous relationship with the USA.
Words in Lightspeed, The Magazine of F&SF, Fantasy, khoreo, Nightmare, and others..
Reviews at www.equalopportunityreader.com
KS Walker @kswalkerwrites.bsky.social Spec fic. Bikes.Books.
Words in Uncanny, F&SF, FIYAH, Apex and elsewhere
VP 2022
they/any
Aardvark Book Club @aardvarkbookclub.bsky.social Book Box Shipping to USA & Canada 🇺🇸🇨🇦
Independent Small Business & Hint Freaks
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George Dunn @georgesreads.bsky.social Horror reader
Reviewer for fanfiaddict.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!
Jessica writes "some messed-up stuff" @authorlevai.bsky.social She/her. PhD in Egyptology, now I write fiction. The Night Library of Sternendach is my novella in sonnets. The Glass Garden is space horror and family drama.
Will boost almost anything with a bat in it.
linktr.ee/authorlevai
Leslie J. Anderson @lesliejanderson.bsky.social Weird writer living beside a cemetery with two good dogs and a roomba. Author of Take This to Space and The Unmothers. Coming in 2027: Children of the Wrong Heaven. she/her
Brennan LaFaro @brennanlafaro.bsky.social Hopecore author. SLATTERY FALLS TRILOGY🏚️ BUZZARD’S EDGE SAGA🤠 THE DENIZENS 🧟♂️ ILLUSIONS OF ISOLATION 👻. He/Him.
Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com Brief elaboration of a tube.
Natalie Shutler @natalieshut.bsky.social features editor at WSJ, here to observe
Word Horde @wordhorde.bsky.social A publisher of award-winning horror, fantasy, and science fiction. Find us at www.wordhorde.com
Bloody Disgusting @bloody-disgusting.com 💀 Your #1 source for all things #horror 💀
Discord ➡️ http://discord.gg/s452vAnDx2
The NoSleep Podcast @thenosleeppodcast.bsky.social The NoSleep Podcast is an anthology of original short stories featuring immersive music and sound design. 
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 Deschain @thatnerdchick.bsky.social 🎬 IATSE 488 makeup artist The Last of Us on HBO MAX, Passenger, A Dying Art
🕯Candle Maker
📚literature addict
🏳️🌈queer
🎮gamer
🔪Final Girl❤️
🌱 BPD/PTSD
💍K Myka Deschain 🖤💀
Killian's mom, the Elder Emo
Www.thatnerdchick.com
Brian Keene @briankeene.bsky.social Bestselling, award winning writer, editor, film producer, podcaster, and showrunner. Board of Directors for Scares That Care charity.
CLASH Books @clashbooks.bsky.social Big Indie Establishment Mom & Pop Press in Troy, NY Publishing Beach Reads from Hell. Skeets by Christoph Paul.
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.
Valancourt Books @valancourtbooks.bsky.social Indie/horror/LGBT/classics. 2021 HWA Specialty Press Award. 'Valancourt's publications may be just what you're looking for.' - Michael Dirda, Washington Post
Bad Hand Books @badhandbooks.bsky.social You can do a lot with a bad hand. We're bringing you the best horror, dark fantasy, & crime fiction. Owned & operated by Bram Stoker Award and Shirley Jackson Award winner Doug Murano.
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/
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
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
https://linktr.ee/sadiehartmann
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
GHOULISH BOOKS WILL KILL YOUR PARENTS @ghoulish.bsky.social https://ghoulish.rip
Award-winning small press specializing in transgressive horror fiction for perverts. Based in Minneapolis.
Heatherface Wixson @thehorrorchick.bsky.social Journalist & Author who celebrates horror, sci-fi & the artists who make the world of cinema so great.
Follow my writing here: https://from-the-desk-of-the-horror-chick.ghost.io/
Buy Me A Coffee: coff.ee/B2Te6h0Js
Real Queen of Horror @lovelyzena.bsky.social 🫶🏾 Your best friend who loves horror.
🎙️ Host of the official Bloody Disgusting Podcast.
Richard Newby @richardlnewby.bsky.social Writer. Here for positivity. Movies. Comics, Games, Horror. Fangoria THR TIME Vulture. Book: We Make Monsters Here. https://www.amazon.com/Make-Monsters-Here-Richard-Newby/dp/B08WZH8Q35/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=2X23U6JJN8LMJ&keywords=we+make+monsters+here&qid=1
Meagan Navarro @hauntedmeg.bsky.social Horror fanatic, journalist, and critic.
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/
Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social Publishing speculative fiction, poetry, reviews, essays & podcasts. Every Monday, free to read at http://strangehorizons.com. IGNYTE Community Award winner. Hugo Award winner 2024.
linktr.ee/strangehorizons
Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social Science fiction. Fantasy. The universe. And related subjects.
https://beacons.ai/reactormag
FANGORIA @fangoria.bsky.social First in Fright since 1979, FANGORIA is a collectible magazine, a podcast network, and an entertainment studio.
FANGORIA.com
HorrorGirl Problems @horrorgirlprobs.bsky.social Formerly FANGORIA Digital Editor + Online Creep 💚🦇 Red Carpet Rapscallion. Cheeseburger aficionado. Spaghetti and meatball enthusiast.
Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social I write about movies. Sometimes I talk about them. Usually just write. Award-winning screenwriter for what it's worth. Film instructor at the University of Colorado, Denver, but ridiculous social media presence definitely my own. http://walterchaw.com
Lorin Elise @paperbackbish.bsky.social sgj’s favorite bish 🔪
don’t temp me with a good time (books & silence)
🏳️🌈🍉🇺🇦 // 🚫🧊👑
http://www.instagram.com/paperbackbish
𝔏𝔲𝔠𝔶 ℜ𝔬𝔰𝔢 🌊 @lucyrosecreates.bsky.social • black cat owner and horror girlie
• sunday times bestselling author/forbes 30 under 30 with no mystique
• the lamb 🥩 @wnbooks @harperbooks
• audhd / bi
https://linktr.ee/lucyrosecreative
She/they
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 🐷🦇
Nicholas Binge @bingewriting.bsky.social Bestselling author.
"Provocative and surprisingly tender." — The New York Times
Next book: EXHUMATION — out October 2026.
Rep: Greyhound Lit (UK) + UTA (US + film/tv)
www.nicholasbinge.com
also: @nickbrucker.bsky.social
Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com Award-winning and bestselling author of THE LUMINOUS DEAD, THE DEATH OF JANE LAWRENCE, LAST TO LEAVE THE ROOM, and others. She/her.
Colin Dickey @colindickey.com Writer of books, most recently Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy. Also Ghostland, The Unidentified, Afterlives of the Saints, Cranioklepty. Opinions mine, not my employer’s. He/him.
Heather-jane @igotbigbooks.bsky.social 🧛🏻♀️ books, movies & physical media 📼 📀 📚
Alex C. Telander @alexctelander.bsky.social (He/Him) Horror writer. Creator/writer of Ostium Podcast and Circé Podcast. Cohost Me & Virgil: A Genesis Brother’s Podcast. Love Stephen King, Stephen Graham Jones, Josh Mallerman, all horror, the Expanse, Genesis, Phil Collins, Mike Oldfield, Pink Floyd.
Ronald Malfi @ronaldmalfi.bsky.social Novelist and musician 
Wild Hunt Books @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social Independent publisher.
Leeds.
Publishing director: Ariell Cacciola @ariellcacciola.bsky.social
🖤🌈https://www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk/bookshop
Kailee Pedersen @kaileepedersen.bsky.social THE MINIMALIST (St. Martin's '26)
PASTORALE (Burnside Review '25)
SACRIFICIAL ANIMALS (St. Martin’s + Titan '24)
writer/opera singer/swe | 🏳️🌈🇨🇳 adoptee | she/her
rep: Paul Lucas @ Regal Hoffmann
kaileepedersen.com
Brian McAuley @brianmcwriter.bsky.social WGA Screenwriter. HWA Author.
🎞️⛓️ CURSE OF THE REAPER
🌲🔨 CANDY CAIN KILLS
🙏🪓 CANDY CAIN KILLS AGAIN
🧘🏻♀️🩸 BREATHE IN, BLEED OUT (9/2/25)
Chris Panatier @scribeofhades.bsky.social Writer/Artist
🦋THE REDEMPTION OF MORGAN BRIGHT
🩸THE PHLEBOTOMIST
🛸STRINGERS
🎪SHITSHOW
🐦⬛DAYTIDE
🧹KILL ME WITH FIRE
🪓 Rep Sara Megibow 🪓 SFWA
🪓 HWA
Linktr.ee/chrispanatier
Erika T Wurth @erikatwurth.bsky.social Erika T. Wurth is the author of WHITE HORSE + THE HAUNTING OF ROOM 904. NYT/GMA | WIU. Find her: Insta Goodreads Amazon TikTok Native Voices Medium. Trident.
Jonathan Janz @jonathanjanz.bsky.social Author of VEIL, MARLA, and CHILDREN OF THE DARK. Repped for Film & TV by Adam Kolbrenner. Lit Agent Lane Heymont.
Michael Wehunt @michaelwehunt.bsky.social A creature assembled from found footage. Bram Stoker Award Winner, Georgia Author of the Year Award winner, Crawford Award + Shirley Jackson Award Nominee. Author of the novels NIGHTJARS (9/29/26) & THE OCTOBER FILM HAUNT.
Jeremy Robert Johnson @jrjisprobable.bsky.social THE LOOP, ENTROPY IN BLOOM, IN THE RIVER, SKULLCRACK CITY, ALL THE WRONG IDEAS
Repped by Mollie Glick (Literary) and Jon Cassir (Book-to-Film) at CAA.
Ally Ally Oxenfree @allymalinenko.bsky.social She/her 🏳️🌈 @Horrorwriters #SpookyMG Rep'd by @renarossner. GHOST GIRL, the Bram Stoker nominated THIS APPEARING HOUSE, THE OTHER MARCH SISTERS and Stephen King endorsed BROKEN DOLLS
Robert P. Ottone @robertottone.bsky.social Bram Stoker Award-winning author. Bagel enthusiast.
Philip Fracassi @pfracassi.bsky.social USA Today Bestselling writer of:
• SARAFINA
• THE AUTUMN SPRINGS RETIREMENT HOME MASSACRE
• THE THIRD RULE OF TIME TRAVEL
• NO ONE IS SAFE!
• BOYS IN THE VALLEY
• GOTHIC
• A CHILD ALONE WITH STRANGERS
www.pfracassi.com/books
(Header art by Chris Nurse)
Joshua Hull @joshuathehull.bsky.social Screenwriter - GLORIOUS (Shudder)
Author - UNDEREXPOSED (ABRAMS Books), MOUTH (Tenebrous Press) 8114 (CLASH Books, August 26th, 2025 - preorder TODAY)
weird menace and excessive bloodletting @gemmafiles.bsky.social a preliminary sketch of a crone. Aspergerian mom of an autistic son. I wrote Experimental Film and literally 100+ short stories. Out now: Little Horn, a collection, from Shortwave Publishing. I sing, make jewelry and doodle pretty monsters.
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.
Titan Books @titanbooks.bsky.social Leading independent publisher of Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror, Crime, Pop Culture, Movie/TV tie-ins & much more 📚 Also, @hardcasecrime.bsky.social
Greg Greene @igreggreene.bsky.social I love horror in all its fictional forms! My occasional podcast Chthonica is on YouTube & Apple Podcasts. I’m in Nashville, TN. AKA +The Blessorcist+ I sell cool horror merch at threadsofdread.com!
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.
max booth will never die @interrobangbus.bsky.social "max booth is a fiend haunting the midwest" — jeff vandermeer
writer & editor
publisher @ ghoulish books
they/she
interrobangbus.com
The Kingcast @thekingcast.bsky.social A very important Stephen King podcast hosted by Scott Wampler and Eric Vespe, via the FANGORIA Podcast Network. Patreon: www.patreon.com/TheKingcast
Todd Keisling @toddkeisling.com Horror writer & designer. Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of DEVIL’S CREEK, SCANLINES, & more. Rep: Becky LeJeune | Confluence Literary Agency. He/him. atom.bio/tkeisling
Maurice Broaddus @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social Writer, librarian, practice adult, forever mentor...
Alison Rumfitt (preorder BRAINWYRMS thanks) @hangsawoman.bsky.social Confrontational and yet quite friendly author. Books: TELL ME I'M WORTHLESS (out now) and BRAINWYRMS (coming October 10th)
Laird Barron @lairdbarron.bsky.social A dog of the house
Mainly updates; occasional commentary
Catch me at my Patreon: Realms of Old Leech https://www.patreon.com/lairdbarron/about
Banner art: Chuck Killorin.
Andrew F. Sullivan @afsulli.bsky.social one vile task after another. EARTH FILLED WITH BLOOD - a novel forthcoming from Gallery Books in 2027.
author of The Marigold, WASTE, All We Want is Everything, and co-author of The Handyman Method. www.andrewfsullivan.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.
Marguerite/Peg Turley @margueriteturl2.bsky.social Nature photographer and horror book lover who moonlights as a bookseller at Lahaska Bookshop.
Instagram @pegt
Twitter MargueriteTurl2
https://linktr.ee/margueriteturley
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
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.
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
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
Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social I make movies. I watch movies. I love movies.
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.
Joe Hill @joe-hill.bsky.social Author of The Fireman, Strange Weather, and King Sorrow (out in October). Co-creator of Locke & Key (along with maestro Gabriel Rodriguez). Let's do a better job lookin after the kids: https://www.sandyhookpromise.org
Trevor Henderson 🍉 (commissions closed) @slimyswampghost.bsky.social he/him NO A/I GARBAGE
🪱 Artist / illustrator / writer obsessed with ghosts ‘n ghouls
🪱 Wrote Scarewaves / Scarewaves: Beyond The Grave
🪱 Creature concepts for Tarot (2024) + others
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 
Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social Icelandic writer.
The Night Guest // Dead Weight // Down Where Monsters Dwell coming in March 2027!
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/
Alma Katsu (pre-order INCARNATE now! Coming Sept 22 in US) @almakatsu.bsky.social NYT bestselling novelist. Former intelligence professional, tech futurist.
J.A.W. McCarthy @jawmccarthy.bsky.social 2x Bram Stoker & 2x Shirley Jackson Award finalist. Author of SLEEP ALONE and SOMETIMES WE’RE CRUEL. Stories: Best Horror of the Year Vol 13, PseudoPod, Vastarien, Split Scream 3, more. Cat & lipstick enthusiast. She/Jen. Rep: Lane Heymont. jawmccarthy.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
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
Erin E. Adams @iameeadams.bsky.social Storyteller of all things dark. Author of JACKAL and ONE OF YOU.
Updates only
https://linktr.ee/iameeadams
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 🖤
Gwendolyn Kiste @gwendolynkiste.bsky.social Horror Author. 4x Bram Stoker Award Winner. Lambda Literary Award Winner. Potato Chip Connoisseur.
Catriona Ward @catrionaward.bsky.social USA Today bestselling author of LOOKING GLASS SOUND 🪞💀🪞, THE LAST HOUSE ON NEEDLESS STREET, SUNDIAL & more Rep @jennysavill1 & @RStrausAgency Film/TV @mldean_& @unitedtalent
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
A.C. Wise @acwise.bsky.social Author and reviewer. Stoker and Sunburst Award winner. Nebula, World Fantasy, Stoker, Locus, Shirley Jackson, British Fantasy, Lamba, and Ignyte finalist. She/her. www.acwise.net. https://linktr.ee/acwise
Isabel Cañas @isabelcanas.bsky.social Your friendly neighborhood horromance evangelist. Out now: THE HACIENDA & VAMPIRES OF EL NORTE & THE POSSESSION OF ALBA DÍAZ. Up next: THE HOUSE OF GARDENIAS (Dutton Fall ‘26). | Bram Stoker Award Nominee | UChicago PhD
https://www.isabelcanas.com/
Gemma Amor @manylittlewords.bsky.social Bram Stoker, Shirley Jackson & British Fantasy Award nominated author, illustrator from Bristol, UK.
ROOTS OF MY FEARS, Titan 2025
ITCH! Hodder & Stoughton 2025
FIRST DATE, Datura Books 2026
HAPPY HOUR, Shortwave 2026
NoSleep Podcast.
Kristy Park Kulski @garnetonwinter.bsky.social Bram Stoker Award winning editor & author ❀ CRACKS coming spring '27 ❀ SILK & SINEW ❀ feminist, historian, veteran, Korean-Polish-et-al hapa, HI born ❀ (she/her) ❀
Rep: @laneheymont.bsky.social @danaiwrites.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/garnetonwinter
Sapphire Lazuli @sapphicsapphire.bsky.social Sapphire Lazuli
she/they 🏳️⚧️ writer of perverse desires and knower of bird stuff. Video Essays about horror and such
sapphirelazuli.com
Books in the Freezer Podcast @booksinthefreezer.bsky.social Horror book recommendation podcast
Becky Spratford @raforall.bsky.social Matching books w/ readers thru the library especially #HorrorForLibraries. Jersey Girl in exile. Reviews for LJ & Booklist. HWA Sec. Rep @laneheymont.bsky.social. Bram Stoker Winner, WHY I LOVE HORROR (Saga Press) https://bit.ly/WhyILoveHorror. (She/Her)
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
Laura Keating @lorekeating.bsky.social Writer of Fiction; Bae of Fundy
Irish-Canadian
Website https://www.lorekeating.com/
Novella AGONY'S LODESTONE https://store.tenebrouspress.com/products/agonys-lodestone-print
Collection THE TRUEST SENSE https://a.co/d/090sQN3I
She/Her