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s.j. bagley @heksenhaus.bsky.social .sjb. is an artist, philosopher, and critic what edits the journal THINKING HORROR, the zine SOFT TEETH, and listens to things. they/them. .∅.
Illustro Obscurum @illustro-obscurum.bsky.social Obsessed with monsters in literature, folklore and mythology from all over the world. Wobbly, taphophile. No gods, no masters. 🇵🇸 🇱🇧 🇾🇪
Saturday Night Séance @eerieallsorts.bsky.social Brandon • Aficionado of the weird & the macabre • occasional artist • 1/2 Japanese • Queer/Gay • Demi/Ace • he/him/they/them • based on a true story
Dr Bethan Juliet Oake @bethanjuliet.bsky.social PhD in Sociology of Religion, researcher focusing on Satanic moral panic. Interested in all things folklore, myth, moral panic and the occult. Tutor in Religious Studies & History of Science at the University of Leeds
Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social Illustrator, performer, walker of the hills at dusk, lunatic. Hooklander. Pro EU, anti fascist. https://thomassbrown.com/ Store here https://thomas-brown-1.sumupstore.com/ and also here https://www.redbubble.com/people/TattercatStudio/shop
Marc C. Green @owillowwaly.bsky.social Painter and digital illustrator of haunted landscapes and folklore. Nature lover. No AI trash. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Jason D. Brawn @jasondbrawn.bsky.social A published horror author, collector, fanboy with an MA Gothic and a BA Film and Media. Vegetarian with AuDHD, who has completed three marathons. Halloween 🎃👻 is my favourite season.
Melissa Elborn @melissaelborn.bsky.social Writer of gothic and horror fiction. Debut novel longlisted Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize 24.
Rebekah King @rebekahking.bsky.social Writer/researcher https://www.rebekahkingwriter.com/ Articles on magic, theatre, horror etc here https://rebekahkingwriter.substack.com
Dave McKean @davemckean.bsky.social Comic book creator, writer, illustrator, artist, filmmaker, musician, composer, photographer, designer, twitcher, bad cook.
Charlie Brigden (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️ @filmsonwax.bsky.social Hi, I’m Charlie Brigden! You may remember me from such film outlets as Roger Ebert and music outlets like The Quietus! You may have also seen my booklet essays on Blu-rays such as “Seven Samurai” and Excalibur!”
Matthew Jaffe @mrj81.bsky.social
Wm. Schumacher @wmschumacher.bsky.social Gothic/Horror Film & Fiction Pedant (ghost stories, esp. M. R. James); Amateur Theatricals; Wastrel and Ne'er-Do-Well in the ‘Western Suburbs.’ Former Teacher. U of I and WPGU ‘91.
Cory Walsh @neuro310.bsky.social Using this as a journal of sorts, like leaving breadcrumbs. And all of you are writing it for me.
Tracey Norman Author @traceynormanauthor.bsky.social Dark Folklore -The History Press. Who Is Anna Stenberg? -Liminal Books. Author, historian, voice actor, creator of woolly things & art. Tutor Intro to British Witchcraft - Learn for Pleasure. Project Mgr - Folklore Library. http://traceynormanauthor.com/
Simon Bestwick @thebestwick.bsky.social Butler to Cate Gardner. Writes horror and other weird stuff. Raised in Manchester, living on the Wirral, pining for Wales. Loves dogs, tea, and Pepsi Max. Bi. He/him.
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/
Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social Books: Is A River Alive? (May ‘25), Underland, The Lost Words, The Old Ways etc | Films: River, Mountain, Upstream | Music: The Moon Also Rises, Lost In The Cedar Wood, etc Nature, climate, people. Prof at Cambridge. https://linktr.ee/robmacfarlane
Paul Tremblay @paultremblay.bsky.social Writer person. Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep, Horror Movie, Another, A Head Full of Ghosts, The Cabin at the End of the World, The Pallbearers Club. F*ck AI
Jon Padgett @grimscribepress.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief of Thomas Ligotti Online and Grimscribe Press. Ligotti narrator for Penguin Random House Audio. Author of THE SECRET OF VENTRILOQUISM. he/him.
Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social Writer/reader/speaker/music lover/book reviewer (NPR, Locus, etc)/freelancer/photographer/PhD. Words in many places. I want to do all the things, so invite me! https://linktr.ee/gabinoiglesias
Mike Flanagan @mikeflanaganfilm.com Writer/Director: Life of Chuck, Doctor Sleep, Hush. Showrunner: Carrie, Fall of the House of Usher, Haunting of Hill House, Midnight Mass. Founder @redroompictures.com www.mikeflanaganfilm.com https://linktr.ee/mikeflanaganfilm
Bev Vincent @bevvincent.bsky.social Author of Stephen King: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life & Influences, The Road to the Dark Tower. Co-editor of Flight or Fright. Stoker/Edgar nominee.
Gemma Amor @manylittlewords.bsky.social Bram Stoker, Shirley Jackson & British Fantasy Award nominated author, illustrator from Bristol, UK. ROOTS OF MY FEARS, Titan 2025 ITCH! Hodder & Stoughton 2025 FIRST DATE, Datura Books 2026 HAPPY HOUR, Shortwave 2026 NoSleep Podcast.
Tim Lebbon @timlebbon.bsky.social SECRET LIVES OF THE DEAD out August '25. DEAD RED & RAZOR out September. NY Times bestselling writer. Father, husband, triathlete. Real ale. Cake. Music. The countryside. Love is the fing. Be kind. AMONG THE LIVING out now.
Angela Slatter 📚 @angelaslatter.bsky.social AKA AG Slatter. Many gothic novels (okay 4). A Forest, Darkly coming in Feb '26. Several gothic novellas (okay 5). Some Awards. Hellboy U comic. PhD.
Ellen Datlow @datlow.bsky.social Award-winning editor of short sf/f/h. I live & die by the Oxford comma & I skeet about my passions, take it or leave it. I block mooks-don't be one. she/her
Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social I like apples. I post photos. I dig birds. I write books. (One of those is THE CALAMITIES, out now.) Yes, I'm cringe. What do you want from me, I'm a 50-year-old dad and my brain is a mouse-eaten shoebox.
Joe Hill @joe-hill.bsky.social Author of The Fireman, Strange Weather, and King Sorrow (out in October). Co-creator of Locke & Key (along with maestro Gabriel Rodriguez). Let's do a better job lookin after the kids: https://www.sandyhookpromise.org
FANGORIA @fangoria.bsky.social First in Fright since 1979, FANGORIA is a collectible magazine, a podcast network, and an entertainment studio. FANGORIA.com
Eric LaRocca @ericlarocca.com (He/They) Sunday Times and USA Today Bestselling Author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Wretch ericlarocca.com
Sadie Hartmann (Mother Horror) @sadiehartmann.bsky.social Co-Owner of Night Worms. Bram Stoker Award winner of 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered. New book: 2025 https://linktr.ee/sadiehartmann
Tim Waggoner @timwaggoner.bsky.social Weird Fiction - Horror - Dark Fantasy. Multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning author and creative writing teacher.
Todd Keisling @toddkeisling.com Horror writer & designer. Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of DEVIL’S CREEK, SCANLINES, & more. Rep: Becky LeJeune | Confluence Literary Agency. He/him. atom.bio/tkeisling
Matthew M. Bartlett @mattmbartlett.bsky.social Writer
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
Trevor Henderson 🍉 (commissions closed) @slimyswampghost.bsky.social he/him NO A/I GARBAGE 🪱 Artist / illustrator / writer obsessed with ghosts ‘n ghouls 🪱 Wrote Scarewaves / Scarewaves: Beyond The Grave 🪱 Creature concepts for Tarot (2024) + others
Marie O’Regan @marieoregan.bsky.social Writer, editor of anthologies, managing editor of Absinthe Books, PS Publishing’s novella imprint. Married to @paulkane.bsky.social Fuelled by tea. Represented by @megdavis.bsky.social of https://ki-agency.co.uk/ marieoregan.net
Catherine McCarthy @catherinemccarthy.bsky.social Welsh author of dark fiction and roamer of ancient paths. Words in Haven Spec, Dark Matter, Gamut Mag and other strange places. Find me @ https://cmccarthywriter.substack.com/
Jayaprakash has a mastertape @jayaprakash777.bsky.social Can't not write. Not seeking publication. Plays bass guitar. Writes doom metal songs. He/him. AI-free. Lives in Bangalore, India.
Steve Rasnic Tem @stevetem.bsky.social writer
Rebecca J. Allred @ladyhazmat.bsky.social Bram Stoker Award Finalist. Pathologist. Painter of Plagues. Loves cats, beaches, and dreaming about quitting her day job. Central Oregon. Bi - she/her/they/them https://diagnosisdiabolique.com/ https://www.bexxart.com/
Kendall Reviews @kendallreviews.bsky.social UK based Horror & Dark Genre reviewer KendallReviews PS5 Clive Barker Obsessive Together, let's #PromoteHorror www.kendallreviews.com
Laird Barron @lairdbarron.bsky.social A dog of the house Mainly updates; occasional commentary Catch me at my Patreon: Realms of Old Leech https://www.patreon.com/lairdbarron/about Banner art: Chuck Killorin.
Valdemar Ediciones @valdemar.com Ed. independiente dedicada a difundir la cultura popular, especialmente literatura fantástica y terror, aventuras, filosofía intempestiva y clásicos.
Philip Fracassi @pfracassi.bsky.social USA Today Bestselling writer of: • SARAFINA • THE AUTUMN SPRINGS RETIREMENT HOME MASSACRE • THE THIRD RULE OF TIME TRAVEL • NO ONE IS SAFE! • BOYS IN THE VALLEY • GOTHIC • A CHILD ALONE WITH STRANGERS www.pfracassi.com/books (Header art by Chris Nurse)
Cynthia Pelayo @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social Bram Stoker Award–winning author | MFA, PhD English(c) | SOMETHING FOLLOWED US HOME, Sept 29 | Rep-Lane Heymont | cynthiapelayo.com
Black Shuck Books @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social World Fantasy Award-winning publisher www.blackshuckbooks.co.uk
Adam Cesare @adamcesare.bsky.social Horror Enthusiast. Bram Stoker Award-winning author. CLOWN IN A CORNFIELD, VIDEO NIGHT, DEAD MALL, and more. Please buy a book. https://linktr.ee/adamcesare
R Ramsey Campbell @ramseycampbell.bsky.social I write horror.
Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social Writer. Latest: Paris Fantastique from @confingopublishing.bsky.social and Finders, Keepers from @saltpublishing.com Also runs @nightjarpress.bsky.social nightjarpress.weebly.com
William Meikle @williammeikle.com Wee sweary Scottish writer, living in Canada, with 30+ novels and 300+ short stories in genre presses over the past 30+ years. Mostly at williammeikle.com ... mostly.
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
Cate Gardner / Cate Bestwick @categardner.bsky.social Weird Fiction Writer Loves books 📚 cider 😋 crafts 🎨 true crime 🔪
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/
Heather-jane @igotbigbooks.bsky.social 🧛🏻‍♀️ books, movies & physical media 📼 📀 📚
Julia Rust @juliarust.bsky.social Writer, actor, cat lover, Buddhist. Author of ANGEL FALLS and SAVING THORNWOOD with David Surface. Will play Eleanor of Aquitaine for parties. www.juliarust.net
⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (Stina Marie) @stinasdemons.com I share the Horror & spread the Dread. She/Her/Weirdo/Horror Lover/AuDHD/TradArtist/Reviewer/Malcontent/Misanthrope 🤷🏳️‍🌈🤷‍♂️ 🚫 No AI No NFTs No Crypto 🚫 💙📚 #MSReview 🎨 https://stinasdemons.bigcartel.com 🎨 Art feed 😈🎨🦇
Kathe Koja @kkoja.bsky.social Life is for joy. Writer & director & reader, fan of animals, democracy forever, let's dance and keep each other safe! She/her
Tor Books @torbooks.bsky.social Publisher of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller and Suspense, and Other Speculative Fiction
Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social Publishing speculative fiction, poetry, reviews, essays & podcasts. Every Monday, free to read at http://strangehorizons.com. IGNYTE Community Award winner. Hugo Award winner 2024. linktr.ee/strangehorizons
Nightmare Magazine @nightmare-magazine.com Monthly magazine of horror and dark fantasy short fiction published both online and in ebook format. Edited by @wnwagner.bsky.social (till 12/26, then edited by @johnjosephadams.com).
John Langan @johnlangan.bsky.social Writer. All monsters, all the time. Filthy liberal.
Silvia Bethencourt @baterfly.bsky.social Batty lover of the dark, books, history, art. Fan of the macabre, champagne, dogs, and rain. Left of centre. Cantankerous. Australian. Uruguayan-born.
Nepenthe Press @nepenthepress.bsky.social Fine Press Publisher of Horror, Weird Fiction & Gothic Literature Illustrated, Limited & deluxe editions. Based in North Yorkshire, UK www.nepenthepress.co.uk
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HermeticHermit @hermetichermit.bsky.social Quasi-Hermit, Bibliophile, Horror Fanatic, Whovian and Animal Lover (especially dogs and opossums)
Rivka @theasraidance.bsky.social Arts and Magic. Folklore and Fairy Tales. Poetry and Prose. History and Nature. Music and Film. The cosy and the uncanny. The weird and the whimsical.
Anooshka Rawden @anooshka.bsky.social #museums #collections #archaeology #landscapes Formerly Museum Development SE, Science Museum Group, Society of Antiquaries, Chichester Museum, Reading Museum. Mainly #dogs #cats #books #archery and musings. All views my own.
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
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
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
Sarah-Jayne Farrer @sjfarrer.bsky.social Writer/Creator of Arcane Oddities | Founder of EDGEWAYS | Grand Council of #Hookland | 42 | She/Her | Salt Hag |Tremoribus Subterraneis | https://linktr.ee/SarahJayneFarrer
Adrian Bott @cavalorn.bsky.social Author of MG/YA fiction & game stuff. Rants about folklore. Opinions my own. He/him. Lead Writer for Warframe (you shiny things). Leopards, faces etc.
Rebecca Lambert (She/Her) ♾️🐭🍉 @reblambert.bsky.social Cultural Archaeologist, Wanderer, Ponderer. Practises Make Places: Artists’ Responses to ‘Prehistoric’ Monuments - Manchester Metropolitan University & English Heritage. Surprised, but very proud #MDANT Neurodivergent person
Sabina Stent @sabinastent.bsky.social Writing about women and surrealism and cinema. Cat worshipper. Small Brummie. Tired. https://linktr.ee/SabinaStent
Justin Sheppherd @ahappyhiveling.bsky.social He/Him UK/English (well, Scouse, which is almost the same thing) #TheFilmCrowd Unless I unequivocally ask for advice, please assume I unequivocally don't want advice. And that I will block you so hard for ignoring this warning.
Maria Strutz @mariastrutz.bsky.social Artist, printmaker, sculptor, translator of various subjects. Foxes, owls, stones and bones I have an online store for some of my limited edition linocuts https://www.maria-strutz.co.uk/
Sam K Horton @samkhorton.bsky.social Author based on Eythin Island, GORSE out now from @Solarisbooks Founder, Granite and Glitter. He/him rep’d by John Baker & Julie Gourinchas at Bell Lomax Moreton www.graniteandglitter.com
Paul Watson @lazaruscorporation.co.uk Artist | Hastings, UK | He/him | Grand Council of #Hookland | https://www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/
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
🧟‍♀️ Liza Frank @lilithepunk.bsky.social Have-a-go folklorist and writer. My new book Household Lore is out now! Learn the secrets of your dark corners and how best to use a potato... 🧌 https://linktr.ee/lizafrank
Unquiet Arcadian @unquietarcadian.bsky.social Printmaker, and some other things.
Allison C. Meier @allisoncmeier.bsky.social Writer on art, culture, history & other wonders. Editor at Fine Books & Collections. NYC-based, Oklahoma born. 'Grave' book is out now from Bloomsbury! (she/her)
Paul Robichaud 🪨🐐 @pjrobichaud.bsky.social Literature, myth, folklore • Stories of the Stones: Imagining Prehistory in Britain, Ireland, & Brittany • Pan: the Great God’s Modern Return • Hellebore contributor • poems in NewPoetry.ca, Ekphrastic Review, South Shore Review • 🇨🇦 in Connecticut • /|\
Stefan Dziemianowicz @stefandz11.bsky.social Weird fiction aficionado, indefatigable pulp collector, incurable moviegoer, irascible critic, incorrigible Jersey guy.
Stephen Graves @stephengraves.co.uk Special Projects Editor at Decrypt, director of short films (The Dead of Winter, @frightfest.bsky.social @screamfest.bsky.social alumnus), player of D&D, painter of little Warhammer/MESBG men. @stephengraves on Twitter.
Dr. Katie Liddane @katieliddane.bsky.social PhD at Northumbria on history and heritage of 17thc North East witches. Interested in Witchcraft, folklore, histfic, and Gothic tourism . She/her
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.
Gina R. Collia @ginarcollia.bsky.social Anti-fascist. #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 Historian, researcher, writer, editor, bibliophile, vegetarian, rambler. Publisher of supernatural/weird fiction at Nezu Press https://www.nezupress.com/. Haunted Library blog: https://hauntedlibraryblog.blogspot.com/
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.
Simon Davies @simonfd.bsky.social Publishing Manager, @themhra.bsky.social Co-editor of the MHRA Style Guide Posting about scholarly publishing • History and future of the book • Book design, typography, typesetting 📚 Also work on the history of witchcraft & magic 🌒 • Views here my own
Madeline Potter @madelinepotter.bsky.social Theological Monsters (University of Wales Press), The Roma (The Bodley Head/Harper Collins, 2025) | 19thC Gothic