Hamstandoff munitions @hamstand.bsky.social Biological / Bristol (original) / Dorleypilled
mildly credentialed in animal behavior, ecology; all my other opinions are wrong
Beatrijs Brouwer @beastlyworlds.bsky.social 
Stíofán Mhac an Bhaird (Stephen Ward) @stephencward.com Comic-loving bookworm. Scribbler of words and images. (cis,he/him)
Website: https://stephencward.com
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Mark Stafford @marxtafford.bsky.social Cartoonist, co-creator/creator of Salmonella Smorgasbord/the Bad Bad Place/Lip Hook and such.
Chie Hosaka @chiehosaka.bsky.social 
Small Press Day @smallpressday.bsky.social Official account of the UK and Ireland's annual Small Press Day, uniting self-published comics creators with shops in a celebration of our vibrant small press comics scene📚 Organised by @brokenfrontier.bsky.social
smallpressday.co.uk
Zoè Delautre @zdelautre.bsky.social illustrator, comic artist & printmaker 🌿🖋️
https://zoedelautreart.bigcartel.com/
/ Insta: What_Zoe_did
/ FB: ZoeDelautreArt
/ Donate :) https://ko-fi.com/zoedelautreart
no DMs please :)
Steven Ingram @steveningramart.bsky.social I make comics, most recently the graphic novels Holly and Burn With Me as well as a new comic SOUP.
I also run a small press publisher, ThirdBear Press: thirdbearpress.com
The Neon Church by Aden Albert @theneon.church the neon church has moved to @futurehellslang.com
https://futurehellslang.com/
(s)crawl literary magazine @scrawlmagazine.bsky.social » issue no. 02 coming 10.30.26
» horror focused lit mag amplifying voices marginalized within the genre
» we publish short fiction & poetry by LGBTQIA+, neurodivergent, BIPOC, disabled, and gender-diverse writers
» subs currently closed
🔗 scrawlmag.com
SCMS Horror Studies SIG @scmshorrorsig.bsky.social This page is for the Horror Studies Scholarly Interest Group for the Society of Cinema and Media Studies.
Lucy Sullivan @lucysullivan.bsky.social Comic Artist/Writer (UK) • BARKING | SHELTER | BLACK HAMMER short | The Thing With Feathers [2025] | DOT Wild Fictions | Razorblades & more
Rep’d by James at The BKS
Coming soon- MOTHERS RUIN (Avery Hill)
https://bio.site/LucySullivan
Folklore with Marcus @skaldemarcus.bsky.social Major in religious studies. Have a special interest in Nordic folklore. 🧌 Wrote my bachelor’s thesis about Devil lore in Värmland. 😈
Studying to become a teacher of history & religious studies. 📚
Writer, Director and Researcher over at Skildra. 🧙🏼♂️🗃️
Lynn Huggins-Cooper @hugginscooper.bsky.social Horror maven. Co-host of Northern Horror Hub. Thanatologist. Creative Writing lecturer at Falmouth. Author. She/her, ADHD. Views all mine...mine I say!
Simon Bacon @baconetti.bsky.social Author, film critic, and editor of all things Gothicky.
Elana Gomel @mor1233.bsky.social I am a writer. I have lived in 5 countries (including one that no longer exists), written 6 novels, and 160 stories (more, actually, but who’s counting?). And when I am not writing fantasy and horror, I am writing about fantasy and horror written by others
Kate Egan @kte75.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Northumbria University. Co-Investigator, AHRC Youth & Horror network. Co-editor of Hidden Horror Histories book series. Lover of horror and British cinema, cats and strong tea. She/her.
Erin Wiegand @erinwiegand.bsky.social Film programmer, independent scholar, book editor. One half of @cinemaniapresents.bsky.social
Dave Jeffery @davebjeffery.bsky.social Bram Stoker Award, British Fantasy Award and Bridport Prize finalist. Creator of 'a Quiet APOCALYPSE'. Anthologist at Flame Tree Press.
I do not use generative AI in my work; nor do I support its use in the arts.
https://www.davejefferyauthor.com/
Eugen Bacon @genni.bsky.social African Australian author, editor. Winner: Solstice, Ignyte British Fantasy, Locus Awards. Finalist Shirley Jackson, PK Dick, World Fantasy Award. Twice Otherwise honoree for exciting work in speculative fiction. eugenbacon.com
Tom Ue @tomue.bsky.social Public historian, editor, & literary critic. Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Popular Film & Television. Associate Editor, The Complete Letters of Henry James @ctrhjstudies.bsky.social @univnebpress.bsky.social.
James Reich @jamesreich.bsky.social Writer, Research Psychologist, Existentialist, Friend to Cats. Author of SKINSHIP, THE MOTH FOR THE STAR, WILHELM REICH VERSUS THE FLYING SAUCERS etc.
Stephanie Cotela @stephaniecotela.bsky.social Art Historian & Author writing spooky mysteries for children & crime thrillers for adults. 👻📚 @scbwi_british_isles @mslexia & @thesocietyofauthors https://linktr.ee/stephaniecotela
Natalja Saint-Germain @nataljastgermain.bsky.social I am the spooks🧛🏻♀️🍷
non-fiction, translation, dark lore, art, music & weird niche stuff
I run #dailyspooklore & #swampsunday (feel free to join me).
Also, I often post about vamps #vampiresweekly- F Farrah Freibert @ffreibert.bsky.social She/Her. LGBTQ+ Film & Media Historian. Media Studies Assistant Professor. PhD in Visual Studies. Research Areas: Film Studies & Film History; Media Industries; Bisexual, Trans, Gay, & Queer History; Distribution & Exhibition; Archives; Horror Studies.
John J Johnston @johnjjohnston.bsky.social Egyptology, Classics, reception, and cultural history.
Chair - gentlefuries.bsky.social
Ambassador - issegyptomania.bsky.social
BSFA Award finalist 2013
Agents:
Max Edwards - @AppleTreeLit
Nigel Hetherington - @Pastpreservers
London & Glasgow
Vicky Brewster (they/them) @vickybrewster.bsky.social ✏️Copy & developmental editor, & indexer
👻Gothic, horror & sci-fi academic
🧑🏫 Occasional lecturer & support at Swansea U
🏳️🌈Asexual-agender-panromantic
Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Seattle University. Author of The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life available from UC Press here:
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520342347/the-celluloid-specimen
Krista Mitchell @kristamitchell.bsky.social Musicology Ph.D. Candidate. Librarian. Horror Genre Lover.
Sean Woodard @swoodard7326.bsky.social American West, Horror & Giallo Scholar | PhD Candidate | Writer | https://linktr.ee/swoodard7326
Xanthe Pajarillo @xanthepajarillo.bsky.social 🇺🇸🇵🇭 Film Director doing a PhD in Horror
🐁 The Feral Academic
🎬 In Post: Kids Make Horror
📍 Birmingham UK 🔁 LA
Marc Olivier @dullboy237.bsky.social Professor (film and lit), series editor Icons of Horror (Indiana UP). Love and support the marginalized. 🏳️🌈 he/him #horrorsky
Bristol Black Horror Club UK @brisblakhorrorclub.bsky.social Exploring all things Horror through a Black/BIPOC Diasporic lens
LGBTQ+ Friendly
www.bristolblackhorrorclub.com
Steve Jones @drstevejones.bsky.social Lead of the Horror Studies Research Group, Northumbria University. Known for research on extreme horror, philosophy, pornography, and the slasher subgenre.
drstevejones.co.uk
Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social Horror Lex® (https://horrorlex.com) is the home of academic horror. Explore our huge research database of scholarly, thoughtful writings on horror films. #horror
Dale Townshend @dalegothic96.bsky.social Professor of Gothic literature mainly posting about books, cake, horses and my cat Dickens.
Dr Stephanie Farnsworth-Meek @mutanttheorist.bsky.social Lecturer of Media and Communications at the University of Sunderland. Researcher of Mutant Theory and monstrous bodies. https://stephaniefarnsworth.co.uk
Naomi Simone Borwein @nsborwein.bsky.social Horror scholar, PhD, HWA, CSFFA | Global Indigenous Horror (UPM, 2025) | Poetry Editor Orion’s Belt | Words in Future Fire, UtopiaSF, Space&Time, Lovecraftiana | EIC @katabaticcircus.bsky.social co-EIC @angrygablepress.bsky.social
Helen Grant @helengrantsays.bsky.social Lives in Scotland & writes books. Order my new novella STEAL ME from Absinthe Books. Short story collection ATMOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES available from Swan River Press. Perthshire Gothic. M.R.James fiend. Represented by John Jarrold.
Katy Soar @kjsoar.bsky.social PhD. Senior lecturer in Archaeology @uniwinchester.bsky.social.
Writer for Hellebore. Editor 'Strange Relics' with Dr. Amara Thornton (Handheld Press), 'Circles of Stone' & 'Return of the Ancients' (BL Tales of the Weird). She/her.
I have a dog.
Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca Professor, English/Gender & Women’s Studies Dalhousie. He/him. Speaking only for myself (sometimes not even!)
The Broadview Anthology of Science Fiction: https://broadviewpress.com/product/the-broadview-anthology-of-science-fiction/
http://jasonhaslam.ca
Dr Joan Passey @joanpassey.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English / Gothic / queer ecologies / coasts and seascapes / Shirley Jackson
Dr Janice Deitner @janiceflux.bsky.social Scholar of Shirley Jackson and periodical culture, funded by Research Ireland. Research interests include periodicals, Horror, the Gothic, Science Fiction, popular culture in general, zombie bites in narrative and popular discourse. Opinions my own.
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 🦇
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.
Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social Cat sitter. Gothic lit and theology. Romance studies. Byron studies. Runs 'Romancing the Gothic'. Writes queer little stories.
Melissa Edmundson @melissae.bsky.social PhD in Victorian lit. Editor/researcher/lecturer. Women’s ghost stories & the supernatural. Lots of posts about books. And ghosts. And Margery Lawrence.
Violet Hunt’s The Tiger Skin and Other Tales of the Uneasy out now with The British Library.
Kristof Smeyers @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social natural + supernatural histories 1750-2000 🗃️ | editor + essays Dutch Review of Books | RAAF (2022) | WOLF (2023) | SUPERNATURAL BODIES (2024) | UITDRIJVEN (2025) | PERFORMING MAGNETISM (2026)
Mo Moshaty @momoshaty.bsky.social Genre Lecturer, Writer, Journo & Prod, EIC of @nighttidemag.bsky.social: Diverse Horror Perspectives, Host of From Inside the House Pod, Member of Nyx Horror, 13 Minutes of Horror for SHUDDER
NY-er in London
https://nighttidemag.com/
http://momoshaty.com
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/
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.
Brontë Schiltz @bronteschiltz.bsky.social 🖊: @bigissue.com @bigissuenorth.bsky.social 👻 PhD on the BBC’s Televisual Gothic @manmetuni.bsky.social 👩💼 Members Coordinator @igagoths.bsky.social
Nicholas Diak @nickdiak.com Pop culture scholar of peplum, Italian films, industrial music, horror studies, and other odd subjects. Tiki and cocktails, mid-century and pinups. Co-host of H.P. Lovecast Podcast. He/Him. nickdiak.com. Glendale, AZ.
Sasha Ravitch ☄️ @sasharavitch.bsky.social writer & educator & academic.
cthulhu(s)cene queen.
hwa; codex.
banff writer residency '25.
words in strange horizons, ergot., cosmic horror monthly, & more.
co-founder antilogos press.
pioneered a field of posthuman witchcraft.
Adam Daniel @realtopekapeople.com Writer / Director / Producer. Lecturer in Communication/Film @ WSU. Horror scholar. ‘Affective Intensities and Evolving Horror Forms’ from EUP. He/Him.
obiwanishinaabe @obiwanishinaabe.bsky.social White Earth Anishinaabe. Quilter. Beader. Teacher. Musician. PhD. Latest article: http://journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php/transmotion/article/view/395 #zombies
Eric Gary Anderson @ericgaryanderson.bsky.social Your home for Undead Studies. Literature professor & director of grad studies in English at George Mason, where I teach NAIS, southern lit, horror/gothic lit, etc. Cat dad to Thena, Coraline, and Jackson Gray. Drinker of coffee. He/him/👻
Alia Volz @aliavolzzz.bsky.social Author of NBCC finalist HOME BAKED: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco. Nonfiction ghost story forthcoming with Avid Reader (Simon & Schuster). Freelance editor based in Portugal.
DeAnna Monique @deannamonique.bsky.social 💕Ordained Womanist Afrofuturist Afropessimist... Asst. Professor of Africana & Religion @ U of A.💜of Black Religion, Horror, and Spec. Fict and Film.
HP Bookcraft @hpbookcraft.bsky.social 38. She/they. Folklore, horror, hauntology. Master's in Gothic literature. Keeper of wayward books, editor, and thing that goes bump in the night.
Ruth Heholt @ruthheholt.bsky.social Prof of literature and culture. Gothic, crime, masculinity, ghosts. Lead of the Dark Economies Scholarly Association (dESA). Editor Rvenantjournal.com
Kate DeJonge @katedejonge.bsky.social -Canadian horror author
-Gen X with late diagnosed AuDHD (explains a LOT)
-Review journalist for Grimoire of Horror
-Proud ally of the Rainbow Mafia
-Fan of bullet points
-Definitely NOT a meth head babysitter
technomalinche @technomalinche.bsky.social Inauthentic Ethnic. Practical Radical. Class Traitor. Feminist Fatale. Postcolonial Cyborg. Queer Sympathizer. Migrant Professor. Malcontent. Mutant.
Dr Darren Gray @drdarrengray.bsky.social Researcher in Literature, Film and Cultural Studies | The Gothic, Horror, Technology, Disability | Currently writing ‘Horror and Disability’ for the University of Wales Press Horror Studies series.
Proudly neurodivergent (ADHD)
Nikki @midnightpanacea.bsky.social auDHD
📸 photographer
Airbuds: https://i.airbuds.fm/midnightpanacea/k202by3N6K
Matthew Thompson @drmatthewthompson.bsky.social Academic. PhD on historical reconstructions of the Whitechapel Murders. Writes about toxic masculinity, Neo-Victorianism and historical reconstruction. Currently researching the vampire in interactive media. He/Him
PinkAppleJam @pinkapplejam.bsky.social Art/Personal⚡UK Oldtaku⚡Comics omnivore⚡Spoonie⚡ND⚡She/They⚡ Art Qs: Laura@PinkAppleJam.com ⚡ www.pinkapplejam.com
Lydia Turner @lydiaturner97.bsky.social Managing Editor of Broken Frontier comic reviews/coverage team • Co-organiser of Small Press Day 2025 & 2026
Published in The Comics Courier Issue 2 - Sept 2025!
www.brokenfrontier.com/author/lydiat/
Mike Armstrong @mike-armstrong.com He/him. UK-based comic writer/artist. One of the 2024 Broken Frontier "6 to Watch". Author of Span, Skeleton Crew, Bigger, The Lore Library. Up next: DROP
https://mike-armstrong.com
@timothy-headgear.bsky.social @timothy-headgear.bsky.social 
Bracken (they/them) @summonrats.bsky.social A sleepy mongoose, a feathery firefly. Rat keeper and very slow gardener. Disabled queer nerd.
Banner is a rat wearing a paper crown. Avatar is a pic crew of a white person with shaved head, firbolg ears and glasses in dungarees holding a knife.
Richard Bruton @richardbruton.bsky.social Comic journo for Comicon, 2000AD. Loves comics. https://linktr.ee/richardbruton
Alba Ceide ☀️💧Comics @alba-ceide.bsky.social Comic Book Creator & Illustrator • London
Storyteller tackling social & ecological issues through fiction. Currently in production: New Graphic Novel.
Sarah The Chaos Pixie- comics, art and brain farts @rustedsilver.bsky.social Comic book creator, fantasy #artist and video gamer. 🎨📖🎮. Artist and author of the #comic series 'Knave of Hearts'
♥️Buy the comic: https://knaveofheartscomic.com
♠️Support: https://patreon.com/Rustedsilver♦️♣️
Axe Marnie @axehandle.bsky.social Arf Arf Arf !!! oh, and I make comics
Dibs @lroxby.bsky.social Comic artist, writer, in the astrophysics vortex
Marc N @marcusn.bsky.social Comics, ttrpg, board games, guitars and music. 
Amanda Lillywhite @amandalillywhite.bsky.social Illustrator of books & other things. Including:
Tottenham's Trojan Horse? book
Duck&Bear webcomic
Soho Poly Theatre education pack
https://linktr.ee/amanda.lillywhite
London UK.
Avery Hill Publishing @averyhill.bsky.social Avery Hill helps aspiring creators reach their potential and is a home for those geniuses the mainstream has yet to recognise.
Posts generally by Ricky
https://averyhillpublishing.bigcartel.com/
Broken Frontier @brokenfrontier.bsky.social Socially conscious European comics culture site exploring the comics universe, celebrating the small press and championing new creative voices since 2002. https://www.brokenfrontier.com/ Managed by @andywpoliver.bsky.social
Andy Oliver @andywpoliver.bsky.social Broken Frontier @brokenfrontier.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief, small press champion, Small Press Day co-organiser, multiple comics awards judge and recreational nihilist He/Him. "Small-time journalist" (Art by Francesca Cassavetti).
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