Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com Co-owner @eveninghouse.bsky.social
Writer:
FEAST OF THE PALE LEVIATHAN
BOXCUTTERS
EIC @cold-signal.com
Buffalo, NY
johnchrostek.com
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
Bourbon Penn @bourbonpenn.bsky.social 
Weirdpunk Books @weirdpunkbooks.bsky.social Weird Horror
Queer | Leftist | DIY
These Books Kill Fascists | This Press Runs on Spicy Pickles & High Life
Minneapolis.
All posts @sammytotep.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/weirdpunkbooks
Nadia Bulkin @nadiabulkin.bsky.social Horror writer (SHE SAID DESTROY, RED SKIES IN THE MORNING, ISSUES WITH AUTHORITY). Co-editor of WHY DIDN'T YOU JUST LEAVE.
📍 DC, raised in Jakarta/Nebraska, she/her ♠️💜
https://linktr.ee/nadiabulkin
@msulka.bsky.social @msulka.bsky.social Book lover and publisher sales rep. Living with #Scleroderma. Out here trying my best.
Kangas Kahn @kkfilms.bsky.social I'm the writer/director of seven feature films--all free at bit.ly/kkftubi as well as a few books. 
Cult Publishing - Manuscrypt Magazine @cultpublishing.bsky.social 🌙Indie Horror Publication
Created by writers, for writers.
✨Manuscrypt Magazine | Issue 1 ✨
OUT NOW! Join us 🖤♉️
💻 https://cult.pub/
💌queries@cult.pub
David Demchuk 👻 (he/him) 📚 @daviddemchuk.com Nightmares for sale. 🏳️🌈🇨🇦 Sunburst winner; Giller Prize, Amazon, Aurora & Shirley Jackson nominee. The Stone Garden. The Butcher’s Daughter. RED X. The Bone Mother. Gay/Queer. Cis. Old. No AI. https://daviddemchuk.com
Nora B. Peevy @biteycat.bsky.social Author, editor, submissions reader, HP Lovecraft Film Script Reader, photographer, blogger, artist, illustrator
https://substack.com/home/post/p-149177176
Diabolical Plots @diabolicalplots.com SF/F/H magazine, Ignyte & Locus Award winning Submission Grinder tool for writers, Long List Anthology. https://ko-fi.com/diabolicalplots
Tachyon Publications @tachyonpub.bsky.social Tachyon Publications, founded in 1995, is a award-winning, San Francisco-based independent publisher specializing in speculative fiction.
Todd Sanders @lackriver.bsky.social formerly of the other place. game/book/graphic designer/maker - publisher of Air and Nothingness Press - aanpress.com aanpress.com/artworks
Timber Ghost Press @timberghostpress.bsky.social Timber Ghost is a small press that specializes in publishing #creepy, #weird, and #disturbing fiction.
https://www.timberghostpress.com/#/
Strange Wilds Press - BOREAL is here! @strangewildspress.bsky.social Tiny Maine Horror Press. BOREAL - Feb. 25th | Vulpine Curse - Apr. 30th |EIC @katsilvaauthor.bsky.social. Website: www.katherinesilvaauthor.com/strange-wilds-press
Order BOREAL: https://books2read.com/u/470Rq8
Somer Canon @somercanon.bsky.social Writer, horror-person, lover of cozy socks. Contact me at somercanon.com
lor gislason🪱 @lormaggot.ca (giz·luh·sn) 35, they/he goop maestro 🇨🇦🏳️⚧️
Autistic 🪱 I BELIEVE IN SLIME 💚
wrote INSIDE OUT, edited BOUND IN FLESH
See also FLESH OF THE SEA, LIL GUTS
OUT NOW - COSMIC DYKE PATROL⚢
Radon Journal @radonjournal.bsky.social Award-winning publisher of short stories & poems relating to science fiction, transhumanism, anarchism, and cyberpunk dystopia. Pays semi-pro rates. Foofaraw dual sub partner. CLMP member. Like Black Mirror but more political.
RadonJournal.com
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
Haven Spec Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social Online SFF magazine featuring stories and poetry for the 21st century! We publish numerous issues a year, two of which are focused on the climate crisis. Editor: Leon Perniciaro.
HavenSpec.com
Eric Fomley @ericfomley.bsky.social I write science fiction, fantasy, and horror short stories and flash fiction. Read my stories on ericfomley.com!
Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social SF mag from Canada | 2007-2013, 2020- | Opening to submissions on November 1st.
Publisher of Saros SF
For all of your various FF needs: http://linktr.ee/fusionfragment
The Rumpus @therumpus.net Independent since 2009. Read The Rumpus Magazine. Become a Member. Receive Letters in the Mail from Authors. Join a dynamic, global community.
http://linktr.ee/The_Rumpus2.1
Tales to Terrify @talestoterrify.bsky.social An award-winning weekly horror fiction podcast
⛔ CLOSED TO SUBMISSIONS FOR NOW
🖤Stay tuned for when we'll reopen!
www.talestoterrify.com
#HorrorCommunity
Remy Nakamura (he/they) @remymura.bsky.social Writer. Activist. Traveler. Outdoorsy. Queer.
Current projects: hopepunk fungi-post-apocalypse novel, and kabuki onnagata actor turned consulting detective series.
SFWA, HWA. Clarion West grad & board member. he/they.
Dan McClellan @maklelan.bsky.social Public scholar of the Bible and religion
For speaking requests: live@thewatermarkagency.com
J.B. Kish @jbkish.bsky.social Horror Author. Former Co-Chair of the Oregon Horror Writers Association. I help emerging authors roadmap their goals.
Horror Writers Association @horrorwritersassoc.bsky.social Official Account of the Horror Writers Association. The oldest literary organization serving writers and publishing professionals around the world, dedicated to promoting dark literature and the interests of those who write it.
Mary SanGiovanni @marysangiovanni.bsky.social Writer of cosmic horror, supernatural thrillers, dark fantasy, and occasionally sf/horror and comics. Likes to craft. She/her
Rep: Elizabeth Copps/Confluence Literary Services
HarperCollins @harpercollins.bsky.social Publishing great authors since 1817. 📚
Michael Bailey @nettirw.bsky.social Writer / Editor / Publisher
DAR @darbooks.com Author/Writer/Dreamer - DA RASMUSSEN
Pandore Series
Bryan Jenks @bryanjenks.bsky.social Tall, tattooed, Autistic man with 6 cats
https://www.bryanjenks.dev
Richard Gadz, horror writer @frankenwriter.bsky.social Award-winning author, ace neurodivergent and keen amateur idiot. Lives in Bristol but spends most of his time in a world of his own.
Also at www.richardgadz.co.uk + Facebook, Instagram, YouTube
James_AL_Downs @magiclantern.bsky.social Writer: 'Anton Walbrook' (2020) 'Joseph Pike' (2018) & 'A Carnal Medium' (2012), photohistorian, archivist of Middle East collections at Exeter University, runs the Digital Archive of the Middle East (https://dame.exeter.ac.uk/), collector & bibliophile
David J. Thirteen 🇨🇦 @davidjthirteen.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Writer of Horror and other dark fiction. My work has appeared in Lamplight Magazine, Seize the Press, in several anthologies, and on The Other Stories Podcast. I'm also the event coordinator for the HWA's Ontario chapter.
Devil's Rock Books @devilsrockbooks.bsky.social Horror curated by those who bleed it.
Mehitobel Wilson @mehitobel.com Horror author, goth, gamer, nocturnal tatterdemalion, ornamental hermit, witch, recluse. She/her, KY USA. Wed to a radio fella. The "social" bit of "social media" is really hard for me. https://links.mehitobel.com/go Out now: WRECKS & VIOLETS.
Luna Asli Kolcu 🌙 @lunaaslikolcu.bsky.social Fantasy • Quiet Horror • Spec Fiction
Photographer turned indie author. Stepping into dreams—but with teeth 🌻 🖤
The Rootbound Bride trilogy live now.
Free dark fiction → lunaaslikolcu.kit.com
A small village near Barcelona.
Jay Bower @jaybower.bsky.social Author of nightmares. sleek.bio/jaybower
Mark N Drake @mark-n-drake.bsky.social Author - mostly horror. Before that: research physicist & university manager. Flits between rural Co. Durham & south of France. Check out www.markndrake.com for news/info. Free story for you at https://dl.bookfunnel.com/kn2xszai89. Please follow & say hi!
Christopher Buehlman @buehlmeister.bsky.social Word-grouping dogbotherer, garlicky kitchen haint, father of goblins. Non-compliant, secular, cat-whispery, has a kraken-ink tattoo.
Xavier Aldana Reyes @xaldanareyes.bsky.social Reader in English Literature and Film •
International Gothic Association co-president (2022-2026) • Manchester #Gothic Centre founding member • #Horror Studies book series editor • Profile: https://tinyurl.com/2czvabnz
Shacklebound Books @shackleboundbooks.bsky.social Publisher of Sci-if, Fantasy, and Horror Flash Fiction and Drabble collections and anthologies. www.shackleboundbooks.wordpress.com
Henry Herz @henryherz.bsky.social #Author of 14 picture books (I Am Smoke) & many #MG, #YA & adult short stories - #fantasy, #scifi, #horror. #Editor of 10 #anthologies (Combat Monsters). henryherz.com
Agent: Laurie McLean (Fuse Literary)
Joanna Rifkin they/them @joannarifkin.bsky.social Computational biologist, plant geneticist, gardener, SFF enthusiast, rock climber, not that kind of doctor, transplanted to Toronto, nonbinary, trans, Jewish, and more! Opinions my own. 
Iain Rowan @iainrowan.com Writer, runner-up Costa Short Story Award, Dinesh Allirajah Prize for Short `Fiction | ocean activist with CPWF UK (formerly Sea Shepherd UK) | Sunderland.
https://iainrowan.com.
Also write weird microfiction https://mapsofthelost.substack.com
Todd S. Jordan @toddsjordan.bsky.social A horror writer and a sorry sack of guts.
THE FLESH I WANT coming 2027, Titan Books.
Agent: Julie Gourinchas, Bell Lomax Moreton.
Pre-order: www.linktr.ee/toddsjordan
Horrific Scribblings @horrificscribs.bsky.social 🩸 Provocative. Scary. Strange.
Independent Publisher of Transgressive Dark Fiction.
📚 Books • Anthologies • Horrific Scribes
Dark Peninsula Press @darkpenpress.bsky.social Independent publisher of dark fiction anthologies. Managed by author/editor Aric Sunduist. linktr.ee/darkpenpress
Vintage Books @ireadvintage.bsky.social Imprint of @penguinrandomhouse
https://linktr.ee/ireadvintage
Penguin Random House @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social 
Captain Valhalla @captainvalhalla.bsky.social Owner and founder of @barsandstripesfitnessllc
Dogs | Weights | Food | Books | Comics
https://linktr.ee/captainvalhalla
@tracycrosswriter.bsky.social @tracycrosswriter.bsky.social Writer. Mom. Nerd. Loves disco and yellow cupcakes with chocolate icing. Independent mind. Encourages individual thinking.
Renae Rhoads @renaerhoads.bsky.social thriller writer • birthed 3x hellions • overthinker • music lover • enchanted by horror tropes • WriteMentor '23 mentee
Lucas Mangum @lucasmangumhorror.bsky.social Dad. Husband. Splatterpunk Award-winning author.
https://linktr.ee/LucasMangum
Graveside Press @gravesidepress.bsky.social A small horror press who thinks everyone should be given a fair chance to be published.
Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social librarian, archivist, author, Ignyte award-winning & Hugo-nominated writer and critic, rat obsessive, hella queer, fuck genAI
words in reactormag.com, locusmag.com, npr, reader's digest, and elsewhere
bookjockeyalex.com
Slashic Horror Press @slashichorrorpress.bsky.social 🩸 Horror fiction from queer voices and allies 💀 🔪
📕 Submissions open
🚫 NO AI
Preorders:
🏠 The Light-House: Extremities #2 by TT Madden
Out now:
🚗 SUMMER 1973 trilogy by Dean Cade
📱Deadbeat: Extremities #1 by Maxim Volk
slashichorrorpress.com
Maureen O’Leary @maureenow.bsky.social wordy
https://maureen-oleary.com/
H.V. Patterson @hvpatterson.bsky.social Writes horror/speculative fiction, poetry, and plays. Loves folklore, spooky science, and baking/cooking. Cofounder Horns and Rattles Press she/her
Find me: linktr.ee/hvpatterson
Darkenryde Publishing @darkenryde.bsky.social uoıʇɔıℲ ʞɹɐᗡ
Projects from @calvindemmer.bsky.social
Luke F. Shepherd @f-shep.bsky.social Pulpy genre boi. SFF writer. He/Him
Skills include: distance running, disassociation
Things I am bad at: writing about myself in third person, the rule of 3
linktr.ee/lukefshepherd
Ryan Colley @ryan-colley.bsky.social Award winning author of the Among the Dead book series, and contributor to a LOT of anthologies.
I am obsessed with Turok, Halo, and anything with zombies in it.
Infested Publishing @infestedpublishing.bsky.social Working-class press.
Horror/sci-fi/Weirdness 🐀🖤🐁
Linktr.ee/InfestedPub
Jack Wright @jackwrightauthor.com Horror author from the North of England. Reyt Spooky.
Stories of grief, folklore, and the things that move when they shouldn’t.
Duskfield Pines — ???
Anna’s Veil — ???
https://ko-fi.com/jackwrightauthor
https://buymeacoffee.com/jackwright
Adam Rowan @shinjutnt.bsky.social Black lab dad. Writer and ambient musician. The Dynasty of the Divine out now!
www.adamrowan.ccard.co
Read my book (free in Kindle Unlimited): https://www.amazon.com/Dynasty-Divine-Adam-Rowan-ebook/dp/B0FS3G3WWH/ref
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
Dark Swarm Publications @darkswarmpub.bsky.social Indie Horror Press. Both English and German translations. Starting soon. Editing services and Translation imprints.
Based in Austria, America and England.
Velox Books @veloxbooks.bsky.social Publisher of innovative, exciting, and chilling horror including collections from top NoSleep authors.
http://veloxbooks.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 generative AI 🚫
Links to stories 🌳 AbigailKemske.com
🏳️🌈 Kimberly L Piper Writes Queer Shit 🏳️🌈 @klpwrites.bsky.social Bisexual Enby|Queer| Indie Writer of Fantasy & Horror|Mental Illness|Sober 3-25-24|Married May 4th|She/They| Neuro🌶️|Sugar cookies|Gender affirming care saves lives| Muppet Stan|The Wiz is life|Pineapple on pizza|Team Buffy #klpwritespromotesindies 🏝️🏰📚♌️🏳️🌈🌺🌞
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
Rex Burrows @improbablerex.bsky.social Writer, biologist, various other things. Stories in Cosmic Horror Monthly, Weird Horror Magazine, Supernatural Tales, Horror Library, etc.
RexBurrows.com
Jack Finn @therealjackfinn.bsky.social Award-winning dark fantasy & horror author.
HWA member
WILSON(Out Now!)
IT PIERCES(9/26)
www.therealjackfinn.com
Life-long believer that the Tooth Fairy is proof body parts can be traded for cold hard cash.
H. Perry Horton @hperryhorton.bsky.social New Novel Available Now:
DON'T LET THE DARKNESS EAT YOU UP
https://www.amazon.com/DONT-LET-DARKNESS-EAT-YOU/dp/B0FVT8VWKS
Books: https://shorturl.at/AuKlV
Archinode @archinodestudio.bsky.social A curated archive of architecture, furniture and design.
Based in Stockholm, Sweden.
linktr.ee/archinodestudio
High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com Antifascist middle-aged mall goth, making the most of her plantwitch era. Book rep: Stacia Decker at DCL; film rep: Tara Timinsky, Grandview LA. Contact - Cherie.priest@gmail.com
Ethan Embry @ethanembry.bsky.social Kid from Dutch
The Adams Family @adamsfamfilms.bsky.social Filmmaking fam. Mother of Flies (coming!); Where the Devil Roams; Hellbender; The Deeper You Dig; Hell Hole. www.WonderWheelProductions.com
D.R. Forge @drforge.bsky.social lit horror author
Winner of the 2025 NYC Midnight Short Story Contest and 2025 NYC Midnight Scary Story Challenge
HWA/SFWA
https://www.nycmidnight.com/stories/when-dragons-do-laundry
TheFrekiWolf @thefrekiwolf.bsky.social Trash content 🗑️
DM for D&D 🐉
Voice actor 🎙️
https://www.thefrekiwolf.com
Burial Books @burialbooks.bsky.social Burial Books is an indie horror publisher run by a human named Steve. We publish horror books and weird stories from time to time.
Meredith Morgenstern she/her | Read banned books @mlmorgenstern.bsky.social Fiction editor @ TalesToTerrify. Member of HWA. Mom. Knitter. Reader. Baker. Murder unicorn. Indoorsy. Tired. FDT.
I acknowledge that I am on the unceded land of the Lenni Lenape People.
I don't auto-follow back.
Symmetry Magazine @symmetrymagazine.org Hear the latest news, meet the people behind the science, and get the background you need to better understand the language of particle physics: https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/
N.J. Gallegos is Dr. Spooky (she/her) @drspookyer.bsky.social I like big cats. ER doc. Horror author. Artist. Cohost of The Scream Kings Podcast. Member of HWA. Pro-choice. BLM. I voted for her. Star Wars & BravoTV fanatic. She/her. 🌊🏳️🌈
Personal site: https://njgallegos.com
Podcast: https://www.screamkingspodcast.com
Galen Gower - Writer @galengower.com I write stories. Some weird, some funny, all poorly, like a child armed with nonsense words and heavily sugared coffee.
Kristin Kirby @kristkirb.bsky.social Award-winning writer. Carer about the world. Author of DARK WORLDS WE WANDER, a collection of horror/science-fiction stories.
Rain Corbyn (They/Them) @raincorbyn.bsky.social Writer and narrator of queer horror and smut. Words w Tractor Beam, Tenebrous, Lethe in 2026. Rain Corbyn’s Body of Work out now! If I block you it’s probably because of the AI.
🇵🇸🏳️⚧️
https://haruspex-audio.com/
linktr.ee/raincorbyn
Three Ravens Podcast @threeravenspod.bsky.social An independent history, mythology and folklore podcast hosted by Eleanor Conlon and Martin Vaux.
Gather round the campfire and listen in!
https://linktr.ee/threeravenspodcast
Pup Hazel; Goer of Gyms @gymshrew.bsky.social Trying to be the biggest muscle pup himbo I can be.
Mostly gym and puppy pics
Deconstruction Zone @justin-dz.bsky.social BA., M.Div.
| #exvangelical | #atheist | #heathen | Live Debates |
https://linktr.ee/justin_____
Silvia Moreno-Garcia @silviamg.bsky.social Writer. THE BEWITCHING (2025), SEVENTH VEIL OF SALOME, MEXICAN GOTHIC, and others books. https://silviamoreno-garcia.com/
The NoSleep Podcast @thenosleeppodcast.bsky.social The NoSleep Podcast is an anthology of original short stories featuring immersive music and sound design. 
Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social Sometimes I do graphic design stuff for telly and film. Other times I make spooky lino prints and things you can buy if you want...
📍Black Country (middle of the UK)
https://linktr.ee/SlipperyJack