Mark Ruffalo @markruffalo.bsky.social A husband, father, actor, director, & a climate justice advocate with an eye out for a better, brighter, cleaner, & more hopeful future for all of us.
Jeff Evans @jeffevanswriter.bsky.social Beer, television, music, quizzing, not necessarily in that order. Author: The Penguin TV Companion, Rock & Pop on British TV (new edition September 2026), numerous books on beer; former editor of the Good Beer Guide; question writer for Mastermind.
Geoffrey D. Henry, Ph.D. @ghenry2.bsky.social Ph.D. in Communication - Film from Georgia State University (GSU). Moving Image Studies track.Former graduate teaching/research assistant in the School of Film, Media, & Theatre at GSU. Primary scholarly interest: TV mystery/detective shows. He/his/him
Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social SFF author, triple Hugo award winner (and three times Locus award too), over a million books sold.
Mostly on Mastodon: @cstross@wandering.shop
Blog: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/
Dr Hayley Louise @hazzachaz.bsky.social Doctorate in bisexuality in gothic TV. Karaoke host and NHS admin. Horror and Neighbours fan. she/they
π³ππππππππππππππ | The Tower, The Moon, The Gun π¨π¦π¦π₯πΈ @horrorculturist.bsky.social Gothic gardening, goblincore, dark art, horror, weird music. πΏπππ
Agnostic atheist. Nyctophile. AuDHD. Demi-Pan. They/them. | Contrary to internet lore, I am not lost, sorrowful, despairing, trapped, drowning, falling, or stuck in a maze. (You OK?)
Factory Gothic / Bridget Marshall @factorygothic.bsky.social Sharing 19th-century Gothic industrial research
Dr. Bridget Marshall (she/her), Professor of English, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Books: https://www.uwp.co.uk/book/industrial-gothic/ and https://www.uwp.co.uk/book/mary-elizabeth-braddon-marshall/
Anne Ganzert @annesleuths.bsky.social Studying how people follow clues together online. Media scholar researching web sleuthing, digital investigations, platform cultures & participatory knowledge. PI @Philipps-UniversitΓ€t Marburg (DFG Emmy Noether). Mom. Feminist. Ally. Nerd.
Adrian Edmondson @adrianedmondson.bsky.social Berserker!
Out now from all good bookshops, and bad ones, and ones in between.
Meghan Hewitt @floodme.bsky.social Researching all things horror lit, film, and gaming focusing on identity, monsters, and storytelling.
B.A TCD - M.A UCL
https://linktr.ee/thefloodflow
she/her
Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social Encyclopedist, college librarian, writer, ttrpg writer. I like to talk about Mesopotamia & Vikings. Always outnumbered, never outgunned.
My podcast, "The History of Comic Books in 500 Issues," is at http://500issues.com
Alex West @alexwest.bsky.social Genre film critic and author. Co-host of the Faculty of Horror podcast. She/her.
Jo Isaacson @stepforddaughter.bsky.social Feminist horror scholar, author of Stepford Daughters: Weapons for Feminists in Contemporary Horror, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, and Sisters, Professor of English at MJC, editor of Horror Studies and Blind Field journals, lover of mutual aid.
Amanda Lotz @drtvlotz.bsky.social Reimaginer of media industries and society in digital age | Prof@QUT | Strategy consultant | US expat | Fan of swimming, baked goods & nature | drtvlotz@gmail | amandalotz.com | Mostly writing on LinkedIn, glimmers of also being a human here
NetworkOnAir @networkonair.bsky.social 
Queen's University Belfast @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social Official account of Queen's University Belfast.
One of the Russell Groupβs leading research-intensive universities.
We provide world-class education & research.
RTβ Endorsement.
More: www.qub.ac.uk
House Rules: ow.ly/APC750YZAnz
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ππ πΏπππ @drcraigvanpelt.bsky.social Political Economy of AI | Dead Cognitive Labor | Critical AI Studies | Data Temporalities | #Cyberzombies | Sociologist | No DM | Follow does not = endorsement | Views are mine, not my employer |
https://craigvanpelt.org
Greg Stolze @gregstolze.bsky.social Metafictive anti-realist, apparently. 1/3 of LUDONARRATIVE DISSIDENTS. You can get a ton of free fiction I got paid to write from www.gregstolze.com.
Surely I β the smartest frog in the pond! β can carry this scorpion without getting stung.
Shannon Appelcline @shannonappelcline.bsky.social Author of the DESIGNERS & DRAGONS series of RPG histories, including THIS IS FREE TRADER BEOWULF: A SYSTEM HISTORY OF TRAVELLER. Science-fiction, fantasy, comic, and RPG fan. Currently working on Traveller and Call of Cthulhu history projects.
Alex Davis @alexdavis1981.bsky.social Lecturer, workshopper and creative writing events organiser - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/alex-davis-events-17318878423
Dr Pauline McGonagle @pgmcgonagle.bsky.social Lecturer in Mod Lit, University of Groningen, Netherlands. Donegalian. AHRC PhD at Exeter/BL on archive of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.@unigroningen@bsky.social
Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social Writes, talks, listens, reads. Not always in that order.
Writer for BBC, Big Finish, Obverse Books, RiffTrax, Jim French's Imagination Theatre and money.
Nat Doig @weirdinthewade.bsky.social Iβve an award winning podcast about all thatβs weird and a little off kilter in the town of Biggleswade and Bedfordshire. History with a pinch of the paranormal, folklore & urban legends. I also like cake, cats, beating bosses and disability rights.
Studies in the Fantastic @fantastic-journal.bsky.social A peer-reviewed journal devoted to the Fantastic in literature, film, and other media. Send essays of 6,000-12,000 words to fantastic@ut.edu
Katherine Lucia Prentice @katherineprentice.bsky.social Glasgow based horror nerdπ»
Researching disability, witchcraft, decoloniality, & ecofeminism in LatAm and Celtic folk horror @ northumbria uniπ§Ώ
Matthew Cooper @mcooperk.bsky.social PhD student in the UK, researching gender, monstrosity and the supernatural in Japanese (and Mexican!) literature. Horror and the Gothic in Japan.
Irish, Queer, Hopeful.
Kind is cool!
EN/ES/ζ₯ζ¬θͺ OK
WobbuPalooza @wobbupalooza.bsky.social Parlor game history, especially focused on early collaborative storytelling / roleplaying / Surrealist games but also forfeits and pre-1800 games in general:
https://wobbupalooza.neocities.org
Lucyna Krawczyk-Ε»ywko @drlkz.bsky.social academic | into adaptations, crime fiction, and neo-Victorianism | QAQV group coordinator [qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl] | Changing Narratives conferences organiser [changingnarratives.weebly.com] | bad at social media
ciara moloney @ciaramoloney.bsky.social film and TV critic, at current affairs and other places. eclectic academic. phd on martin mcdonagh + diaspora. intermittent podcaster. into sitcoms, slasher movies, and martin and lewis.
ciaramoloney.net | thesundae.net
Scott Santens @scottsantens.com Writer and Unconditional / Universal Basic Income (UBI) advocate
Founder & CEO of UBI-focused nonprofit ITSAfoundation.org
Sign and share the AI Pledge for Humanity for UBI: aipledgeforhumanity.org
My UBI FAQ: scottsantens.com
π© linktr.ee/scottsantens
Sam Gill @samgill.bsky.social Librarian. Animation. Chief washer-upper. Drums in Rongorongo. Keyboards in Feral Wheel. Always scared of something. samgillanimation.com
Jimmy Packham @jfpackham.bsky.social Researching and writing about literature of the sea and the gothic: mostly coastly, the seabed and deep ocean, blue hums, and gothic voices. Co-runs the Haunted Shores network. Senior Lecturer at University of Birmingham.
Emma Weird Wiltshire @weird-wiltshire.bsky.social π²π§π» Writer of strange & unusual tales. Ghosts, folklore & history from Wiltshire and beyond. Earth & nature lover. π»π§π² β www.weird-wiltshire.co.uk
Saesnes @saesnes.bsky.social Fan of international TV drama πΊ #supernatural #historical #romance #cosy π Watching from Britain
I'm also a QA proofreader and proofeditor for documents and publications:
www.tideandcanute.com
Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social Nonfiction about weird fiction at Seize the Press, Strange Horizons, Interzone, Los Angeles Review of Books, Nightmare, and Ancillary Review of Books, where I am also an editor. Also jazz, metal, leftism. he/him
https://doomsdayer.wordpress.com/writings/
Hallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social Author of The Five, historian and a bit of TV. Story of A Murder: The Wives, The Mistress and Dr Crippenβs Crime of the Century on bookshelves March 2025. https://linktr.ee/hallierubenhold
Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social The magazine for explorers of strange worlds & new horizons! Say hi press@wyrd.science
Made in Belgium. Published in the UK. Read Everywhere.
https://linktr.ee/wyrdscience
#RPG #TTRPG #Wargames #Boardgames #Fantasy #SciFi #Comics #CoolShit
Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social Writer, researcher, editor, failed model. N17. Penda's Fen: Scene By Scene out now: https://tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com/product/pendas-fen-scene-by-scene
josie w. @tvdoctor.bsky.social not that kind of doctor. tv & film academic in the netherlands / lecturing in arts & visual culture / researching tv costume and tv satire
Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social Chris Coates, purveyor of niche drivel: https://substack.com/@oddthisday
Gareth Hanrahan @mytholder.bsky.social He/Him. Novel THE DUNGEON BOOK out August '26. Currently writing: Black Iron 4, The Dreadful Heir, Terraforming Mars rpg, Metadungeon!, Tunnels & Trolls, too much tbh
Andrew Ellard @ellardent.bsky.social Writer of Nova Jones (CBBC), Deep Heat (ITV2) and AfterDeath (film). Script editor of far more famous things. Neurodivergent and widowed. A typo in every tweet, guaranteed.
All In The Telling - The Ghost Story Network @allinthetelling.bsky.social Shining a lantern on the finest ghost story performers.
#ghoststories #gothic #horror #storytelling #folklore #folkhorror #weirdfiction
Medieval Manuscripts @blmedieval.bsky.social Posting about The British Library's marvellous medieval manuscripts.
https://www.bl.uk/stories/blogs
Stephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk Not even the most famous person in my bedroom. Full biog: https://tinyurl.com/29skn3p6
QUBstaff @qubstaff.bsky.social Official staff account at Queen's University Belfast. Latest news, behind the scenes, events, and more. #LoveQUBstaff | Repost β Endorsement. QUB Social Media House Rules > ow.ly/WFgu50MY7by
Website: https://www.qub.ac.uk/sites/StaffGateway/
James Kneale @jameskneale.bsky.social Cultural/historical geographer at ucl working on drink/temperance, insurance, literary geographies, sf/fantastic/horror, &c. He/him.
Author of Temperance Lives: Life Assurance, Drink and Medicine in Britain, 1840-1918 (Bloomsbury 2026)
The Folklore Library & Archive @folklorelibrary.bsky.social Registered Charity No: 1203418. Patrons: Michael Rosen, Joanne Harris.
Preserving traditional heritage and folklore materials for the future, and delivering these through open access. Focus on at-risk heritage.
Online at www.folklorelibrary.com
The Folklore Podcast @folklorepod.bsky.social Official account of The Folklore Podcast. 2 million downloads worldwide. Created by folklorist and author Mark Norman. Find us online at http://www.thefolklorepodcast.com
Film/TV rep: Past Preservers Author for various publishers
Eli Dolliver @elidolliver.bsky.social PhD candidate in Horror Cinema and Folklore at St John's College Cambridge π₯π π
And after that I WILL find a way to academicise both Below Deck and all the animated Barbie movies
(She/her)
Offscreen Film Festival @offscreenff.bsky.social Offscreen Film Festival takes place for 3 weeks every March at Cinema Nova, Cinematek, Cinema Aventure & Cinema RITCS in Brussels. We celebrate cutting-edge cinema, cult films & all the genres from B to Z. https://www.offscreen.be/en
Mathieu O'Neil @mathieuon.bsky.social Professor of communication, News & Media Research Centre, University of Canberra, Ngunnawal country β’ Director, Digital Commons Policy Council β’ Civic information literacy for schools β’ Political economy of digital commons β’ https://dcpc.info/actions/
David Brown @davidebrown.bsky.social Deputy Previews Editor, Radio Times
Jonathan Paul Mitchell @jonathanmitchell.me Disabled philosopher of disability.
Accessibility person at University of Atypical. All views are my own.
Autumn goth. Music liker. Guitar player.
University of Atypical @universityofatypical.org Belfast based disabled-led charity developing, showcasing & promoting work by D/deaf, disabled & neurodivergent artists. Atypical Gallery, Bounce Arts Festival & much more!
www.universityofatypical.org
Dr Rebecca Warren @drrjwarren.bsky.social Early modern historian, writing βThe Church in Interregnum England c1649-62'.
Illustrator & co-author 'Nature's Calendar' (Granta, 2023). Environmentalist. 
Monstermaker @monstermaker.bsky.social Creative DrWho / Star Wars / old telly & music.
Target Books blog at:
https://escapetodanger.net/
Wildlife @worldwildlife.bsky.social Wildlife Community for those who care about species & habitat conservation. Photography, Art, Videos of Birds,Mammals,Reptiles,Plants,insects
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61578489868735
https://www.tiktok.com/@wildlife.net?_t=ZN-8yV9vhsHk0c&_r=1
Xavier Aldana Reyes @xaldanareyes.bsky.social Reader in English Literature and Film β’
International Gothic Association co-president (2022-2026) β’ Manchester #Gothic Centre founding member β’ #Horror Studies book series editor β’ Profile: https://tinyurl.com/2czvabnz
Rowdy Geirsson @rgeirsson.bsky.social Promoting Leif Eriksson awareness and failing / Atrocities of the written word scattered around the world wound web / More active and likely to reply on Instadamn / Translator of The Impudent Edda
https://puffincarcass.etsy.com
Folk 'n' Hell @folknhell.bsky.social Three chums, one microphone, and a whole world of folk horror. The Folk n Hell podcast unearths delights from around the world and tries to agree if they're worth our (and your) time.
www.folknhell.com or wherever you get your podcasts
Iman Sheeha (she/her) @drsheeha.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature at Brunel University of London
Rachel Kitchen @rkitch91.bsky.social βοΈ Folklorist
βοΈ Writer
β¨ Support the EAFC https://justgiving.com/crowdfunding/east-anglian-folklore-centre
Prof Janina Ramirez @drjaninaramirez.bsky.social Oxford historian, best-selling writer fiction & non-fiction, documentary maker, cat lover, vegetable grower, unrelenting optimist. https://lnk.to/LegendaPB
Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social I was a New Face of 1984 in Harperβs and Queen magazine
Nigel Barrett @scorbydoo.bsky.social Rosewood. Mahogany. Geek..? Lifelong fan of that errant Time Lord.
Cult TV. Science Fiction. Horror. Ghosts, Supernatural & the Paranormal. Association Football. Spouse and Father plus Dog Daddy to Hattie, my Fox Red Labrador. Proud Oxonian.
Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social Ex-Financial Times Assistant Editor. Ex-editor Scotland on Sunday. Author of 'Made in Manchester' and 'Northerners: A History'. 'These Isles' due Feb 2026.
Dr James Brown @drjamesbrown.bsky.social Erstwhile early modern historian, now professional services at the Uni of Sheffield. Likes: intoxicants; the supernatural, folklore, folk horror; KE/impact; project management; πΈ; π₯Ύ; ποΈ. My photography portfolio and blog: https://darkframes.uk/
Tony Lee @pigasuspress.bsky.social Reader (mostly comics), writer (mostly non-fiction), watcher (films/movies & TV). Life-long fan of sci-fi media, Science Fiction critic & editor.
http://pigasuspress.blogspot.com/
Emily Cuming @emilycuming.bsky.social Associate Professor in Literature and Cultural History; author of Maritime Relations (CUP, 2025) and Housing, Class and Gender in Modern British Writing (CUP, 2016)
https://profiles.ljmu.ac.uk/11398-emily-cuming
Jennifer Schell @jenniferschell16.bsky.social English Professor, Cetacean Enthusiast, Canine Therapy Human. I write about anthropogenic species extinction, Arctic ecosystems, more-than-human organisms, and blue humanities. Ocean obsessed! Fairbanks, AK. Views my own.
Martin Montague @martinm-media.bsky.social Award-winning radio Producer/Director & Writer | Former BBC Executive Producer | Copy Writer | Freelance and Currently Seeking a Literary Agent
Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social I'm going on tour in 2026.
Listen to my show 'No Room' on BBC Radio 4 if you like.
https://www.mickperrin.com/tours/michael-spicer-hope-alls-well/
Reaktion Books @reaktionbooks.bsky.social An independent publisher of innovative non-fiction.
www.reaktionbooks.co.uk
dr. cat @cinefeline.bsky.social Children's horror doctor, rabbit film studies connoisseur and intermittent gremlin.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/author/catherine-lester/
Jon @thelitcritguy.bsky.social writer.
phd in gothic literature. writing on horror, utopia, the gothic nightmare of capitalism
CAPITALISM A HORROR STORY out now, working on a new book about HOUSES
Rob McCallum @robmccallum.bsky.social Storyboard artist. Starfleet Academy, Star Trek Discovery, Welcome to Derry, Pacific Rim, IT, Mandy, Ghost in the Shell, The Thing, a few Romeros, others. Comics in a past life for Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, 2000ad
Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com your horror nonna
dr / filmmaker / film critic / author of 10 books on cult, horror + exploitation cinema
in Venice award-winning doc CHAIN REACTIONS + Shudder's 1000 WOMEN IN HORROR based on my book
Naarm/Australia
she/her
https://horrornonna.com
Joleen Blom @jjol33n.bsky.social |Ph.D. in Games |Postdoctoral Researcher @Tampere Game Research Lab |Book Editor @Eludamos |Author of Video Game Characters and Transmedia Storytelling |(she/her)
Amanda Mason @amandajanemason.bsky.social Writer. THE WAYWARD GIRLS (2019) THE HIDING PLACE (2021) THE DARK (October 2026)
Jon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social No kings
Actor/Producer he/him
Claire Louise Amias @clairelouiseamias.bsky.social Actor / Theatremaker. Playing E Nesbit in 'Haunted Shadows - The Gothic Tales of Edith Nesbit' on UK tour from 24 Oct to 13 Dec 2025.
Previous show 'The Masks of Aphra Behn'.
www.clairelouiseamias.co.uk
Represented by Leodis Talent.
Bryan Fuller @bryanfuller.bsky.social STRAWBERRY FLAVORED MONSTER
Dr Marina Cano @drmarinacano.bsky.social Asst Prof English β Long 19th C β Writer β Researcher
Theatrical Afterlives (OUP 2026), https://global.oup.com/academic/product/theatrical-afterlives-9780198992882?lang=en&cc=es
https://metode.academia.edu/MarinaCano
JΓΌrgen Hubert @juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy Translates German folk tales. Tries to learn #Italian .
#ttrpg #pnpde #dnd #folklore
[bridged from https://mementomori.social/@juergen_hubert on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
@cultauthor.bsky.social @cultauthor.bsky.social 
David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social Dramatist, author, apostate newspaperman specializing in artisanal contempt and discerning maledicta. The claim that I am the angriest man in television is faint praise indeed; the second angriest is yelling at an agent because residual checks are late.
A Very Theory Xmas @averytheoryxmas.bsky.social Problematically having a wonderful Christmas 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.
The Sian from Atlantis @parthenoid.bsky.social Queen. Writer of things, wearer of tight shiny trousers. Them/they, queer/here. Actual Atlantis expert, I guess. Have some form talking about folk horror.
https://patreon.com/Room207Press
https://gofund.me/dad64ee08
Weird Christmas @weirdxmas.bsky.social All things holly, jolly, and odd-ly.
Henry Bartholomew @henrybartholomew.bsky.social Teacher, scholar, editor; PhD, FHEA; Academic Skills Lecturer at GBS. Interested in the Gothic, the weird, ghost stories, objects, Speculative Realism, Algernon Blackwood π² https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Henry-Bartholomew
Neil Brand @neilkbrand.bsky.social Composer, writer, broadcaster, musician, into film, theatre, and all things entertainment - touring regularly. www.neilbrand.com #composer #filmmusic #writer #broadcast #PODCAST - ALL ABOUT THE MUSIC - on allaboutthemusicpod.com
Nathan needs to put down the phone @feralharp.bsky.social I live in the borders between. Total nerd & crackpot. Musician (electric harp, synth, etc.) interested in too many things: food, drink, nature, astronomy, history, languages, anthro-archaeo-paleontologies, movies (SFF-horror-comedy-arthouse), books, etc.!
Headpress @headpress.com Independent non-fiction publisher since 1991. We publish the stuff you love. Film. Music. Strangeness. Head honcho: @davidkerekes.bsky.social. Press: @harbottlestores.bsky.social. We do not use or publish AI-generated work in any form.
web: headpress.com
Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org The Open Library of Humanities. Building a sustainable, diamond open access future for the humanities. Part of Birkbeck, University of London & makers of Janeway
The Horses of the Gods @horsesofthegods.bsky.social Wild wyrd music blending drone folk & experimental soundscapes. Come Join us! http://horsesofthegods.bandcamp.com
Eddie Kotleti @eddiekotleti.bsky.social Writer | Film & TV | Former Camera Dept.