Anne Louise Avery @annelouiseavery.bsky.social Writer and Art Historian. Old Fox stories. Edward M.Bannister catalogue raisonne and research. Reynard the Fox and Fox for All Seasons published by Bodleian Publishing. Oxford & Dorset. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/AnneLouiseAvery
Sarah Peverley @sarahpeverley.bsky.social Medievalist, Cultural Historian, Writer, Broadcaster. Professor at University of Liverpool. Wars of the Roses, Medieval Literature & Mermaids. Lost in the 15th Century.
Marta Zanucco @martaswriting.bsky.social PhD in English Literature from the University of Liverpool: autofiction / metafiction / collective authorship
Paddy Brennan @paddy-brennan.bsky.social PhD in food consumption and self-starvation in 20th-21st century Irish fiction at the University of Liverpool's Institute of Irish Studies 🥔
Joey McGarvey @joeymcgarvey.bsky.social Known soup enthusiast | Overcomer of self-inflicted adversity | Senior Editor at Spiegel & Grau
Michael Egan @northernashes.bsky.social Writer of speculative fiction. Sunday Times Book of the Year, Carnegie Nominee.
Dan Howarth @danhowarth20.bsky.social British Fantasy Award Nominated Horror Author
Author of Last Night of Freedom, Territory, & Dark Missives.
Proud part of Motives Unknown: New Northern Crime from Dead Ink Books.
www.danhowarthwriter.com
https://linktr.ee/danhowarth
Lauren Archer @brutishlibrary.bsky.social Reader and writer.
Words in @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social and forthcoming with @deadinkbooks.bsky.social
Beth Barker @bethrdb.bsky.social writer by the sea🌀
— blackpool, uk
Gemma Bird @gemmabird.bsky.social Reader in Politics & IR at the University of Liverpool. Activist scholar working on the politics of migration and solidarity in the EU & African political theory. Views my own. She/her
Utopian and Dystopian Fictions Podcast @utopiaanddystopia.bsky.social A podcast about utopia and dystopia hosted by @matthewleggatt.bsky.social and @dystopiajunkie.bsky.social. Each episode we interview a different thinker in the field of Utopian and Dystopian studies. Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or YouTube.
Dr Andrew S. Roe-Crines 🏳️🌈 @andrewcrines.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Communication | PhD Pol. Sci. | MA Acad. Prac. | Award-winning book author & editor, peer review articles, & media comments.
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/politics/staff/andrew-crines/
Liverpool | Yorkshire | United Kingdom
Balkan Underdogs @balkanunderdogs.org.uk Creating happier days for Serbian strays 🩵
We’re a UK Registered Charity, run solely by volunteers.
For info on donating, adopting, fostering and more, please visit our website via linktree below ⬇️
https://linktr.ee/balkan.underdogs
Cat Mahoney @catmahoney.bsky.social Senior Lecturer Communication and Media at University of Liverpool. Researching television, gender, collective memory, convergence and Dungeons & Dragons. Common or Garden Nerd.
Christopher Pittard @christopherpittard.bsky.social Academic, Course Leader in English Literature at University of Portsmouth (but posts are my own, mind). Victorian literature, detective fiction, Arthur Conan Doyle, Dickens, Wilkie Collins. Next book: *Arthur Conan Doyle* (Liverpool UP, 2028).
Helen Duxfield @saxhelen.bsky.social Self employed music teacher, sax player and SEND practitioner. Fond of a nap and a slice of cake.
Evan Hayles Gledhill @gothicbodies.bsky.social Professional nerd researching Gothic Fangirls and Families.
Disabled, Queer, Socialist. They/them
Myriam Wilks-Heeg @myriamwilksheeg.bsky.social Lecturer in twentieth century history at the University of Liverpool. Interested in Germany, material culture, food, and gender.
David Tierney @writedavidwrite.bsky.social Creative Writing PhD at Uni of Liverpool, researching animal communication in SF through a novel, Ark set in a near-future Ireland (featuring a robot duck, dog, and many wonderful non-cyber animals). Aspiring pianist.
Emilie Laurent @emilieslaurent.bsky.social PhD Student at Université Clermont Auvergne (France). 19th century literature, Gothic, ghost stories, Victorian Gothic, Vernon Lee. Dissertation topic: "Vernon Lee's rewriting of Gothic literature." She/her.
Annet Kirabo D.V.M., M.Sc., Ph.D., F.A.H.A. @annetkiraboc1.bsky.social Professor @VanderbiltHealth #Hypertension, #kidney, #immunology #HostMicrobiotaInteraction. Mother of 2, wife. Associate Editor @CircRes
Dr Elaine C. Sanderson @elainam42.bsky.social 🏛️ Classicist (Roman literature, civil war, emotion and trauma)
🎻 Violinist
🐴 Mum to Bish
Amsterdam University Press @amsterdamupress.bsky.social Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher in the Humanities & Social Sciences.
Posts in EN & NL.
WillowWinsham @willowwinsham.bsky.social Author and historian, specialising in witchcraft, folklore and cats. Co-founder of #FolkloreThursday
The Story of Witches - Out Now
https://bit.ly/3PNy8yC
willowwinsham.com
Jesmyn Ward @jesmimi.bsky.social
Caroline Koegler @carolinekoegler.bsky.social Chair of English Lit / Global Literature and Its Media
@ Freie Universität Berlin (FU)
Empire/post/colonial/18C/19C/affect/queer & gender stds/maritime fictions/lit&Economics/book stds
Website: https://tinyurl.com/bddnpakt
@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
Alex Bove @abovepdx.bsky.social If fingers were xylophones then I could play a tune on your fingers.
(Writer on film and 19th C lit, prof of literature).
Taylor Swift Updates @tswiftupdatess.swifties.social Your source for all Taylor Swift news and updates! Not affiliated with Taylor, just a fan account 🦋
taylor swift lyrics @taylorlyrics.swifties.social
Digital Media and Society Institute @Uni of Liverpool @dmsi-uol.bsky.social Understanding the role of digital media in society and its impact on individuals, communities, nations and the world.
The Digital Media & Society Institute @UoL brings together researchers to explore the role and impact of digital media in society today.
Mark McGlashan @markmcglashan.com Senior Lecturer in English Language & Linguistics
University of Liverpool
@liverpooluni.bsky.social
@livunienglish.bsky.social
🌐 www.MarkMcGlashan.com
Tamsin Wilson @tamsinwilson.bsky.social She paints, she draws, she rarely talks about herself in the third person. Stone botherer. Oil painter. Costume maker. No Gen AI. No DMs.
Geology Disco @geologydisco.bsky.social Music creator. Lover of folklore, horror, stones, occult, obscure.
https://dustopianfrequencies.bandcamp.com/album/celebrating-the-bat-chapter-2-into-the-night
https://folkloretapes.bandcamp.com/album/ceremonial-county-series-vol-xvii-bristol-hertfords
Emma Weird Wiltshire @weird-wiltshire.bsky.social 🌲🧚👻 Writer of strange & unusual tales. Ghosts, folklore & history from Wiltshire and beyond. Earth & nature lover. 👻🧚🌲 ☕ www.weird-wiltshire.co.uk
WEIRD WALK @weirdwalk.bsky.social Publishing zines and books, curating events, walking in circles…
https://shop.weirdwalk.co.uk
Hellebore @helleborezine.bsky.social Small press devoted to #FolkHorror, #folklore, #magic and the #occult in Britain. World Fantasy Awards and British Fantasy Awards finalist. Founder/editor: @mjpcuervo.com
🌍 Now shipping worldwide from
www.helleborezine.com
Maria J Pérez Cuervo @mjpcuervo.com Writer, editor • Founder/ editor @helleborezine.bsky.social (World Fantasy Awards and British Fantasy Awards finalist) • History, art, myth, mystery.
Bristol, UK.
👩🏻 mjpcuervo.com
📖 helleborezine.com
DevonChurchLand @devonchurchland.bsky.social Extraordinary churches, enchanting art, deep history…
Dr Icy Sedgwick @icysedgwick.bsky.social Host of the Fabulous Folklore podcast/blog. Researcher & writer for hire. Gothic author. Crafter. PhD in haunted house films.
NearlyKnowledgeable @g0blinegg.bsky.social Amy
𖦹 Folklorist & Writer 𖦹
Ghostlore ● Witchcraft ● Devil Folklore
Rooted in Shropshire History & Lore 💀
Writer of 'The Best Of Men' -A Shropshire folk horror 🦇
Johnny Mains @johnnymains.co.uk Horror anthologist.
AuDHD.
Buy Me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/johnnymains
@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
Scarred For Life Books @scarredforlife.bsky.social A trilogy of books about the dark pop culture of the 1970s and 1980s, from public information films to nuclear war!
Buy the books: linktr.ee/scarredforlife
Patreon: bit.ly/3Rfo1Xz
Contact: ste1bro@hotmail.co.uk
Lunatraktors @lunatraktors.bsky.social Broken folk experimentalists. If you're into weird folk music with drums and drones you might like this: https://lunatraktors.bandcamp.com/
The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social Megaliths and✨SO MUCH✨more.
Browse our🗿WORLDWIDE 📜 ancient site 🗺️ map/database/gallery. 🪨 Human prehistory🦣 to🏺1100CE 🏛️ Andy B posting✨
Main site: https://www.megalithic.co.uk
More: https://www.megalithic.co.uk/linktree/
Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social A very Irish filmmaker.
All You Need is Death streaming now, see linktree.
“A folk horror masterpiece” (Daily Beast)
He/him, anarchist, artist. Avatar painted by Sol Robinson.
https://linktr.ee/paulduane
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
Stephen G. Rae @stephengrae.bsky.social Writer of folklore at The FolkLore Press; Druid and Storyteller alias the Bard of Cumberland; contemporary artist; filmmaker at Land of Lore Films; Haiku poet.
Stone Club @stoneclub.bsky.social Stone Club believes the journey is as important as the destination and encourages people to pause and think about place in new ways; connecting ancient sites through community and conversation.
stoneclub.rocks
#MDANT
The Folk Archive @thefolkarchive.bsky.social Folk from the past, folk from the present, folk for the future
Folklore Centre Todmorden @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social Arts, Film, Talks, Crafts, Library, Archive, Museum, Research, Education, Workshops, Exhibitions, Storytelling, Conferences, Local Folk History.
Currently hibernating except for events.
Hidden Britain @hiddenbritain.bsky.social Handmade signs, prints, music & books inspired by British Folk Horror and unsettling TV, film & literature. Based in The Black Country, England.
https://linktr.ee/hiddenbritain
Butser Ancient Farm @butserancientfarm.co.uk Learning about the past by recreating it! Experimental archaeology, traditional crafts, reenactments & more. Hampshire, UK. https://bio.site/butserancientfarm
Right to Roam @righttoroam.bsky.social Campaigning to unlock access to nature in England & Wales. 🥾🌿🔓
get in touch: hello@righttoroam.org.uk
resources and links: https://linktr.ee/right2roam
Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social He/him. Bristol. Writer, content designer. No alt text = no repost. Not here for politics. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/raynewman Header: Thin Places in Hard Concrete https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DC5PL7T4 Agent: https://blakefriedmann.co.uk/ray-newman
The Folklore Society @folkloresociety.bsky.social Based in London, The Folklore Society has been collecting, studying, publishing and promoting the study of folklore in all its forms since 1878. Visit our website: https://folklore-society.com
B O T C tattoo @botctattoo.bsky.social I hail from the pastoral/industrial depths of the English Midlands, I live in Belfast and I work at Skullduggery Tatú where I make tattoos and artwork inspired by the folk psychedelia of these haunted islands.
For bookings email botctattoo@gmail.com
Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social Historian of religion and belief | folklorist | Balticist | indexer | lay canon @stedscath.bsky.social | series editor for @universitypress.cambridge.org
Tales of Britain and Ireland @talesofbritireland.bsky.social A podcast telling myths, legends and folklore of Britain and Ireland in no particular order, made by Graeme.
Find it on all good (and evil) podcast aggregators.
www.talesofbritainandireland.com
Fortean Times @forteantimes.bsky.social The journal of strange phenomena
London Fortean Society @forteanlondon.bsky.social Strange and wonderful events since 2011
Paranormal, psychic, folkloric, fortean events.
Sharing the oddest London-based news.
Dr Delyth Badder @folklorewales.com Welsh folklorist • Author • Honorary Research Fellow, Amgueddfa Cymru • Antiquarian book collector • Rheibio'n Gymraeg • The Folklore of Wales: Ghosts (2023) • Represented by jonathanclowes.co.uk
folklorewales.com
Scarfolk @scarfolk.bsky.social Scarfolk is a town called Scarfolk. For more information please re-read.
Folk Horror Magpie 🌬️ @folkhorrormagpie.bsky.social 🌾Collecting trinkets & curios of the folk horror genre.
Folklore, oral tradition, rituals & festivals, psychogeography, forteana, revivalism & the occult🌾
Alias Hollie Starling
https://smarturl.it/TheBleedingTree
The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social The BCDM is a virtual museum enjoying history, art and the natural world in the Midlands . All photos by the BCDM.
http://thebcdyingmuseum.blog
Angeline Morrison @angelcakepie2.bsky.social Feral folk singer, lover of stone circles, ancestral voices, folk tales, the wyrd and the eerie.
“Imagine if Broadcast’s Trish Keenan had been kidnapped at birth by The Copper Family and raised on a diet of Angela Carter’s folk tales” (KLOFmag)
Mat Pringle @matpringle.bsky.social Illustrator, Printmaker and Arts Facilitator.
Portfolio - https://matpringle.co.uk
Shop - https://matpringleillustration.bigcartel.com/
Fawnlorn @fawnlorn.bsky.social • Artist from the Lake District, England. • Inspired by folklore and nature. 🌿 www.fawnlorn.com
Victoria Clough @ladyvictoriart.bsky.social Historian and Artist
https://ladyvictori.art/
Kelly Holmes 👻 @kellydirector.bsky.social Director. Writer. Rejection Racoon. Goth Kitten Owner. Maker Of Horror Films...Runs Around In Graveyards. Probably A Witch. Def A Ghost 👻
Folk Horror Revival 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social "Speak now, come now, rise now from the forest, from the furrows, from the field and live"
https://folkhorrorrevival.com/
#FolkloreAgainstFascism
No AI 🚫🤖
Posts by Richard Hing, views my own
Folk&Horror Phenomena @folkphenomena.bsky.social Philosophy, SW and Education guy. Reviews of gigs, albums and theatre in the folk world. Considers all horror media. Writes with an emphasis on experiential feel and wonder. Sheffield based, also on Youtube and 1/3 of "3 Men and a Whisky".
The Shropshire Witches Podcast 🦇 @shropwitchespod.bsky.social History, witches, folklore, hauntings, and all things superstitious, Shropshire and beyond 🔮
Alix Chidley-Uttley and Amy Boucher. 🐸🐈⬛🦇
Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival @theharvestmaid.bsky.social Writer/Editor. Co-founder @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social. Folk horror obsessive. Loves to talk books, movies, music, and booze. She/her
Blog:
https://theharvestmaidsrevenge.com/
Tim Downie @timdownie.bsky.social Actor. Writer. Moustache. Ambassador for The Flying Seagull Project, Blue Sky Autism Project & The Sick Children’s Trust. Agents: Independent Talent & Lip Service Voices. https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/475535/rituals-by-downie-tim/9781529980387
The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social We explore the history of the English countryside and its people. Chaotic Good.
https://merl.reading.ac.uk/
Sheffield Folk Guide @sheffieldfolkguide.bsky.social A guide to folk music and dance events in and near Sheffield by @KathyBarnes. Please see www.sheffieldfolkguide.org.uk. A non-commercial information sharing service.
Catherine Gogerty @catherinegogerty.bsky.social Artist and Illustrator, Folklore explorer, lover of History and the Macabre
Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social Wading around at the confluence of arts / nature / culture since 2007
Regular posts at caughtbytheriver.net 🐟 Irregular printed matter, record releases & events via rivertones.bandcamp.com and our Friday newsletter
Museum of Magic, Fortune-telling & Witchcraft @museum-mfw.bsky.social Witchcraft Museum, Witch Walking Tours and Tarot readings in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Directed by Ash William Mills
Website: www.museummfw.com
The Local Mythstorian @elilewislycett.bsky.social Eli Lewis-Lycett is an independent folklorist and history writer from Cheshire - described by the BBC as “one of the definitive voices on Cheshire and Staffordshire folklore."
Visit thelocalmythstorian.com
Francine @francibambi.bsky.social All cuttle and no fish.
Co-host of The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret. Writing and art and stuff, too.
Folk Around And Find Out @folkaround.bsky.social Folklore & History Enthusiast
Curator of Hidden West Yorkshire for the BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p0hzw9dt?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
Sam Sweeney @samsweeney.bsky.social Fiddle player with Bellowhead and Leveret. NYFE Artistic Director 2016-19. BBC Folk Musician Of The Year 2015. Folkophobe. Inadvisably vocal with my opinions.
Mark S. Williamson @spaceshipmark.bsky.social Musician, educator, filmmaker. Landscape drones and scrapes. Old stones.
Children's music workshops with the Primitive Percussion Youth Orchestra.
Deep in the valley, Todmorden.
#MDANT
https://linktr.ee/spaceship_mark
Sarah Coomer @sarahcoomer.bsky.social Edinburgh-based artist/illustrator. Folio Society Book Illustration Award 2022 Shortlist. Heraldic artist for the Lyon Court. Rep’d by Paul Moreton at @belllomaxmoreton.bsky.social Linktree: https://linktr.ee/sarahcoomer
Owen Davies @odavies9.bsky.social Historian and Folklorist. Writes books on witches, magic, ghosts, religion, popular medicine, and folklore.
Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social Bloke & sometime Illustrator (I illustrated The Woman in Black by Susan Hill, published by Vintage Classics).
Banner:Toby Jones in The Detectorists, a sign reads “ring pulls through the ages”
Bradford
nicktankard.co.uk Prints, Originals and Portfolio.
Hedley Thorne @hedleythorne.bsky.social Historic site photographer, podcaster, wild camping YouTuber, Heathrow's IT Operations Manager. Scared of fish.
Jack @jackalopeart.bsky.social Illustration, printmaking & pamplets - Right Villainous Chapbooks
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/RightVillainousCo
The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social Exploring the folklore and folk life of Warwickshire. I can also be found at @hilaryrsparkes.bsky.social
The Hoodeners @hoodening.org.uk Centuries of traditional folk drama with the Hooden Horse of East Kent; still never knowingly over-rehearsed.
Saddleworth Women's Morris and Clog @swmandc.bsky.social Northwest Morris side based in Saddleworth. Contact us also on saddleworthwomensmorrisclog@gmail.com
MISERDEN MORRIS @miserdenmorris.bsky.social A mixed Cotswold Morris Dancing side practicing Tuesdays at Stroud Old Town Hall, come and join us!
https://www.miserdenmorris.com/
morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social History, folklore, music, archaeology, books, Guardian reader. Castle botherer and humanist church crawler. Retired railwayman. Morris dancer and Mummers player. And trees. Lots of trees.
Abingdon Traditional Morris Dancers @abingdonmorrisatmd.bsky.social
Shrewsbury Morris Dancers @shrewsmorris.bsky.social A friendly #Morris dance team from Shrewsbury, England. We’re fun and we follow positive, hopeful people. 👉No DMs or Llamas please👈 (well, maybe Llamas) 😊 Also still at the other place. Posts by Graydon. We’re 50 this year! shrewsburymorris.co.uk