Brandon Applegate @bapplegate.bsky.social Weird things are happening. Sometimes I write. Usually about monsters, ghosts, magic, messed up family dynamics and whatnot. Book here: https://www.amazon.com/Those-We-Left-Behind-Sacrifices/dp/057896841X/
Austin Shirey @austinshirey.bsky.social He/Him. Pronounced “SHY-ree.” Author of PALLBEARERS (2026, Madness Heart Press) and CITY OF SPORES (2024, Madness Heart Press). AntiFascist. Black Lives Matter. Husband. Father. Cat-lover. Nerd. NO AI! https://linktr.ee/austinshirey
Wytwavedarling (she/her) @wytwavedarling.bsky.social Writer. Book Coach. Editor of Horror & SFF & PNR & Suspense. Lover of Moose & Wolves & Snakes. VP of HOWL Society. Repped by Keir Alekseii of Azantian Literary.
Find my horror stories in Cosmic Horror Monthly, Marshlands Horror, & Howls from the Wreckage!
Matt Blairstone @mattblairstone.bsky.social Publisher/Founder @tenebrouspress.bsky.social
Shirley Jackson Award-nommed editor.
Illustrator of slimy things.
Comix devotee.
Guitar & vox for Cult Racer.
Thou shalt worship no god but Rock.
He/him
Portland OR
Good to Know @goodtoknowhq.bsky.social The Home of Indie
💎 Discover hidden gems you’ll love
💬 Get honest reviews & feedback
📚 Books 🎙️ Podcasts📍Places 🎶 Music & more
Submissions open now (free)!
https://good-to-know.com/submissions/
https://post-script.app
Horror Underground Film Festival @horrorfilmfestival.bsky.social Various options to submit to the Festival. A HYBRID model. Cinema screenings for audience feedback video.Blog and podcast interviews. And bonus Virtual screening (optional!).
https://filmfreeway.com/horrorunderground
https://festivalforhorror.comi
Experimental/Dance/Music Festival @dancemusicexper.bsky.social Festivals take place in downtown Toronto, Canada, for the audience feedback video.
The festival has created 4 tiers to enhance your festival experience.
https://filmfreeway.com/ExperimentalFilmMusicVideoFestival
https://experimentalfilmfestival.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
Katharine Tyndall @katharinetyndall.bsky.social (she/her)
Berlin based writer, Granta Workshop Alum, words in Strange Horizons, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Wigleaf & more.
🌿🍄🐌💖✨🏳️🌈
Rep'd: @transatlanticagcy.bsky.social
My website! tyndall.earth
James Parenti @jamesparenti.bsky.social Writer, performer, cat dad (he/him)
My writing:
- https://www.havenspec.com/the-back-of-the-hand-to-everything
- https://www.thedreadmachine.com/nothing-separates-you/
@fruddudley.bsky.social @fruddudley.bsky.social 
WILDsound Feedback Festival @wildsoundfestival.bsky.social Telling stories through film and conversation. WILDsound showcases the best of new films & screenplays from around the world in a daily film festival.
www.wildsound.ca
https://filmfreeway.com/WILDsoundFilmandWritingFestival
Workers’ Lit Podcast @workerslit.bsky.social Workers' Lit is THE literature podcast for hot, cool, gay, and/or working class people. Hosted by Aysha, Jen, Lenore, and Jacob
Account run by Jacob. Others bear no responsibility for bad posts
www.workerslit.com
https://patreon.com/WorkersLit
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
Hugh W. Roberts 🏴 🏳️🌈 @hughsviewsandnews.com Dyslexic blogger, writer, author, keen photographer and time-traveller.
Dog Dad to two Welsh Cardigan Corgis.
Blog: https://hughsviewsandnews.com/
Located: Swansea, Wales.
Two short story and flash fiction collections - Glimpses and More Glimpses.
Lydia Hygaard @lydia-hygaard.bsky.social perhaps a writer, definitely a bundle of melancholic nihilism in the guise of a girl
VERY incredibly anti-AI 🚫
now querying: a weird fantasy western
Kim Mannix @kimmannix.bsky.social she/her
Listener. Watcher. Writer.
First poetry collection, Confirm Humanity, published Oct 2025
https://wildskiespress.com/our-books/#confirmhumanity
We're in a climate crisis & an empathy deficit. Be a good human.
🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸❤️☮️🐈⬛️🌎 #Treaty6 #YEG #ShPk #NoAI
Noor Lovelace @noorlovelace.bsky.social 🖤 Noorlovelace.com
Horror author surviving on books, metal, and pomegranate tea. Living that ~rare condition~ life with grace and attitude. Published at Gavagai [ she/her ]
Come fall in love with a new song. #noorsplaylist
🇪🇬🇦🇹🇺🇸
🩷💜💙
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
M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social SFF writer, fan, and dork - now published in Gallus: A Glasgow SF Writers' Circle anthology! (it's NESH-uh but I actually answer to Maggie) she/her. Disabled.
Support my work: https://buymeacoffee.com/mnescedrake
yohandupuy.bsky.social @yohandupuy.bsky.social French writer, illustrator, indie dev. Making a psychological horror
interactive novel set in 1920s Boston. 7 years of Twine.
1,755 narrative nodes. → Maximilien, Steam, Oct 26 2026.
https://maximilien-game.com
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4755440
Leticia Urieta @leticiaasu.bsky.social (she/her) Tejana writer, teaching artist, editor and mentor. Author of Offerings to a Tumbled Temple with @purpleinkpress.bsky.social & The Remedy is the Disease, forthcoming in 2026 @undertakerbooks.bsky.social
Find my work at: http://linktr.ee/lurieta16
Anemone Moss @ecoevoexo.bsky.social she/her
horror and speculative fiction writer
⚢ transfeminist
read New Developments at https://www.scribblehub.com/series/1111286/new-developments/
Adam @chalicotherex.bsky.social mentally robust
https://adamsnotes.substack.com/
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
horrorsandbox.bsky.social @horrorsandbox.bsky.social A weekly horror movie podcast where we dig around in horror films and see what we unearth.
@blue-n-al.bsky.social @blue-n-al.bsky.social Make America Gracious Again
Stop
Decostrutionist Exhibitory Insurrectionist
hires
Xochilt Avila @xavilawrites.bsky.social They/Them | Indie Author and Slusher @cateyepress.bsky.social
My debut novella Mariposa releases Feb 2027 with https://www.lmhpub.com/
Icon by (my husband) @harboretum.bsky.social
https://xochiltavilaauthor.com/
Andrea @andreagoyan.bsky.social Writer, painter, performer, animal lover and co-host of Metastellar's Long Lost Friends. Codexian and member of The Electric Sheep. www.andreagoyan.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
E.B. Grambké @eb-grambke.bsky.social Aspiring writer of weird.
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
Marissa van Uden @marissavu.bsky.social Freelance Editor | EiC Violet Lichen (Apex Books) | Editor "ECO: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction" | woods mädchen | friend to animals | biodiversity stan | stories in Vastarien, Dark Matter, Los Suelos | ACES & EFA member
S. E. Perez (she/her) @okielele.bsky.social 
Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social Writer of dreamlike fiction | she/her | www.ivyivyivyivy.com 
O F Cieri @ossuary.bsky.social It's pronounced like 'ossuary'. Neodecadentata pulp novelist + flame shirt revitalist
Local 210
Ksamkcab yub
Ofcieri.com
Thea O'Ryan Files @theaoryanfiles.bsky.social Thea O'Ryan is a Canadian writer with a love for all things horror. She went on a road trip to the Bruce Peninsula in 2014 and has not been seen since.
She is, however, still frequently heard.
https://www.theaoryanfiles.co.uk/
💗💜💙
🖤🩶🤍💜
Cymru/Canada
Mar Vincent @marofthebooks.bsky.social Weird little stories in Analog, Strange Horizons, Escape Pod, and other fantastical places. Always seeking human creativity (NO AI), coffee, and petrichor. https://www.marvincent.com/
Currently in the liminal space known as novel revisions. 📝✍️✍️
Alex Davis @alexdavis1981.bsky.social Lecturer, workshopper and creative writing events organiser - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/alex-davis-events-17318878423
Sam Logan @samlogan52.bsky.social 
Rikki @starmothpress.bsky.social You can just do things 🤡
https://ko-fi.com/starmothpress
https://starmothpress.com/
starmoth.substack.com
Renee S. DeCamillis @reneedecamillis.bsky.social Writer: The Bone Cutters; Chisel the Bone; Try Not to Die By Your Own Hand. Editor for Ruadán Books & Vincere Press. Guitarist, Singer-songwriter: Scars Aligned.
Book Link: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/chisel-the-bone-renee-s-decamillis/1144872496;j
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
Robert Helfst is doing the best he can @roberthelfst.bsky.social Cosmic & literary horror enthusiast | Fraidy Cat Press editor | Absolutely no AI | Words in Chthonic Matter Quarterly, Saros SF, X-Ray Lit & more. https://linktr.ee/roberthelfst
Dakria @dakria.bsky.social Dark short story writer & Founder/Editor of WATG Press, an independent press for misfit voices.
Peter Ong Cook @peterongcook.bsky.social Writer, follower of contemporary nostalgia and spooky things.
Elena Sichrovsky @esichr.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 she/they/it
🪦 writing horror is cheaper than therapy
📘 debut chapbook EATING OUT ANNE SEXTON with Ghost City Press
🌐 https://www.elenasichrovsky.com/
Moira @moirariom.bsky.social I write weird stories
www.ohmoira.com
May Walker @maywalker.bsky.social Horror Author and Colored Pencil Artist
Matthew King @matthewkingart.bsky.social Artist & Author of Don't get Blood in my House books2read.com/matthewking
Likes Character Design, Gamedev, 90’s, Cooking, Sharpies, Beetles, Raccoons, Wrestling, The FGC, Baki, Capcom, Boardgames, DDR
D. Matthew Urban @breathinghead.bsky.social weird fiction person • TX → NY • stories here and there • SHAKY PICTURES OF VANISHED FACES out now from Cursed Morsels Press! • he/him • https://dmatthewurban.com
J. Neira - cozy horror author & slush reader @jneiraauthor.bsky.social Formerly a slush reader for Graveside Press
Now a slush reader for Translunar Travelers Lounge
Hispanic hicklib
The Haunting of Lola Barrera coming soon!
Jeremiah @jeremiahsp.bsky.social Peculiar husband. Dorkiest of dads. Middling Horror Writer. Probably cooking dinner.
Callum Haire @calscareseasy.bsky.social Horror writer. It’s all fiction … probably.
K Lucian Jones (Kit) @spideyj.com Horror writer. Queer goth kitchen thembo
spideyj.com
http://xoxo.zone/@spideyj
he/they 
Flex Fish Games @flexfishgames.bsky.social Artist Matthew king and programmer Rami Bukhari, teaming up to develop nostalgic hand-drawn 2D games.
Willow Nichols-Capra 🤎 @novellamenagerie.bsky.social Writer | Salem, MA | BIPOC & 🏳️🌈 | NEHW | WIHAMA | HWA | 1816 and Boston Writers of Color Award Winner
Assist. Editor: Drabblecast | Moonday Mag |
Blood+Honey, Horrific Scribes, Cosmic Horror Monthly, Gavagai, etc 🔽
https://linktr.ee/WillowNicholsCapra
Print Play Protect @printplayprotect.bsky.social We make cool tabletop items :D
SLUGGER @sluggerfiction.bsky.social sluggerfiction.com
https://ko-fi.com/sluggerfiction/shop
Christi Nogle @christinogle.bsky.social Bram Stoker Winning first novel, BEULAH. Work in Apex, Strange Horizons, PseudoPod, 3LBE, etc. Three Collections from Flame Tree Press.
https://linktr.ee/christinogle
Gene @downtonstabby.bsky.social “Woke” and already broke. Churlish. Reader of books. Drinker of scotches.
Halfbloodlycan (Christine Cunningham) @halfbloodlycan.bsky.social Xray Tech, writer of horror and fantasy, mtg pauper, mtg lore, Bloodborne. She/Her. TransRightAreHumanRights https://linktr.ee/ChristineCunningham
Kyler Fey vs Destoroyah @kylerfey.bsky.social Writer of queer sci-fi and horror, literary pornographer, aesthetic terrorist, lube expert, gay cis male(he/him), friend of all cats. I have books on Amazon. TRANS RIGHTS ALWAYS, ABORTION ON DEMAND, BLACK LIVES MATTER. Horny fagsexually active slut.
Gordon B. White @gordonbwhite.bsky.social Horror/weird fiction writer. Shirley Jackson and Bram Stoker Award nominee. Best Horror, Clarion West, dog dad, critically acclaimed (not in that order). He/him. 
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
rory g. | COME BACK WRONG @gilhouligan.bsky.social ✶ zinester & medievalist ✶ prison abolition now ✶ ocd advocacy ✶ tin house ‘22 scholar ✶ lambda ‘25 fellow ✶ toward a literacy of the grotesque
they/them agender | 🇪🇬🏴
Sam Richard @sammytotep.bsky.social Widower | Owner Weirdpunk Books | Author | Wonderland & Lit Nasties Award-Winner | BNW & Splatterpunk Award-Nominee | Anarchist | Aging Punk | Bi | He/Him | 'Saddest Man in Indie Horror' | Void Collective | Zinester | MPLS
https://linktr.ee/weirdpunkbooks
VOIDCON @voidcon.bsky.social VOIDCON is a dark covenant, a consortium of shadowy artists and creators across all media. Watch this space.
www.voidcon.wordpress.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...
David @dchandler.bsky.social Currently teaching, reading, and writing, in that order. I enjoy looking at old boats.
Bob Pastorella @bobpastorella.com Co-host of the This Is Horror podcast. Author of THEY’RE WATCHING (with Michael David Wilson). My vampire novel, THE SMALL HOURS, is available now. Anti-A.I.
bobpastorella.com
https://ghoulish.rip/product/the-small-hours/
patreon.com/BobPastorella
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
Carol Fornia @zombiegrl49.bsky.social I'm 75. I love video games on my PS4, especially Assassins Creed. I'm also a Monster/ Horror movie fan,always. And a retired pediatric nurse.
Rebecca Beans @rebeccabeans.bsky.social Writer, sitter, chocolate stealer
Endless Mike @itsendlessmike.bsky.social Dad, wife guy, writer, horror nerd, wrestling sicko, dog dad, beach bum.
Darren Kerr @xdkerr.bsky.social Associate Professor and Head of School of Creative and Cultural Arts at Bath Spa University, UK. Co-director of screeningsex.com. Series Editor for EUP's Screening Sex book series. And a quiet author of short fiction inc NoSleep Podcast. Personal acc.
Darius Jones @dariusjones.bsky.social Habitual writer. Cubicle poet. Transcendental Horror, Cosmic Horror, Dark Fantasy. Member: HWA, SFWA, SFPA. He/him. dariusjoneswriter.com
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
Kathleen @kathleenwanderz.bsky.social Small business owner. Digital Nomad.
Ash @ashdroid.bsky.social an Ash, but not actually a droid. Would like to be an asteroid when she grows up. Trans rights are human rights.
DC & WV -> Buffalo, NY -> Ontario
(@anAshdroid on twitter)
Bryan Holm @holmbry.bsky.social MN Horror Author - Short stories: Sinister Smile Press, Eerie River Publishing, Strange Wilds Press, Dead Sky Publishing. Satanic Static out now from Anuci Press.
www.bryanholm.com
Linktr.ee/holmbry
tarae, writing about ttrpgs and horror @munchkiin-rae.bsky.social They/them | uaw 4123 unit 11 | making music | meddling-in-horror on tumblr | podcasting @head-meddler.bsky.social | drag king | MA Cinema @ SFSU
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!
Justin Lutz @justinlutz.bsky.social Splatterpunk award nominated author / screen printer / punk in disguise.
Embrace the Void.
Layla Hawke - author @laylahawke2.bsky.social Human Writer who cares abt the environment, fairness, equality, animals...
Navigations series-dystopian, fantasy, romance, also sweet romance, fantasy. Reader
NO DMs-It can said on a post-I mute or 🚫
𝕿𝖆𝖞𝖑𝖔𝖗 𝕵. 𝕿𝖍𝖔𝖒𝖕𝖘𝖔𝖓 (𝐅𝐀𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐃𝐈𝐑𝐓 𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐍𝐎𝐖) @taylorjthompson.bsky.social 𝖍𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗 𝖆𝖚𝖙𝖍𝖔𝖗. 𝖙𝖆𝖙𝖙𝖔𝖔𝖘. 𝖕𝖚𝖓𝖐 𝖗𝖔𝖈𝖐. 𝖗𝖚𝖒. 🤘
https://linktr.ee/taylorjthompsonauthor
P.L. McMillan @authorplm.bsky.social 🦇 Author, Artist, Creator. 🦇
🍷 SISTERS OF THE CRIMSON VINE 🍷
☄️ WHAT REMAINS WHEN THE STARS BURN OUT ☄️
Co-host of the Dead Languages Podcast
https://linktr.ee/AuthorPLM
Kailljuus @kailljuus.bsky.social Executive Director Xaadas Kil Kuyaas Foundation (XKKF)
Nonprofit with a mission for Language Revitalization with a Healing Framework
Hydaburg, Alaska
Mercedes M. Yardley @missmurdermercedes.bsky.social Bram Stoker Award-Winning author, dark fantasist, family girl, artist, cupcake baker.
Taggart Rehnn 🇨🇦🍁 @taggartrehnnauthor.bsky.social Author of vampire, SFF / scifi & spy thrillers. Find me on Amazon amazon.com/author/taggartrehnn, KOBO or taggartrehnn.com . Also, all around jokester on spare time. 🚫DM only if I know you.🚫Based in Toronto, Canada.
Zak Cowell @reprobvte.bsky.social WNC➡️Bangor, Maine
Horror Author & Published Poet
Horror Writers Association Member
Author of “Tales From Devil’s Peak”
Listen to The “Tragedy of the Laughing Clown” on The No Sleep Podcast S21E12
Multiple stories in Dark Harbor Mag.
Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social Bram Stoker Award-winning horror bitch. Co-founder, Darker Times. Writer, critic, listmaker. HORROR FOR WEENIES on sale now. Reviews etc in the NYTBR, Reactor, Vulture, Slate, & more. She/her. 🍉
readjumpscares.com
darkertimes.com