Odyssey Workshop @odysseyworkshop.bsky.social The Odyssey Writing Workshops Charitable Trust is a 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to helping writers of fantasy, science fiction, and horror improve their work.
M.K. Sholund - Author #amquerying @mksholundauthor.bsky.social Published horror author
#amquerying BURIED SECRETS ON DARBYTOWN ROAD. @ 89k Lite folk horror
150+ Prompts: A Creative Writer’s Journal is available via online book retailers and www.mksholund.com
Visit Substack - Horror on the Page 👻
David Castleton (Author) @david-castleton.bsky.social Prize-winning author specialising in the gothic, weird history, folklore, graveyards, myth. My new book 'Atlas Gothica: An Alternative Guide to the World's Most Curious Destinations' (Hachette) is out now. Grab it here: https://mybook.to/atlasgothica
Environmental Film & Screenplay Festival @environmentalfest.bsky.social A festival designed to showcase the best of new environmentally themed films (shorts, features) and screenplays (shorts, features, TV pilots) from around the world. We accept any genre.
https://filmfreeway.com/EnvironmentalFestival
The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social Enthusiast of British (mainly) ghostlore, folklore and vintage ghost and weird fiction. Collector of old magazines. Also keen on prehistoric monuments, old churches and suchlike. Am decidedly Q. All scans/photos my own (unless stated). Runs #SpookySunday
Daniel Cottam @litbystraylight.bsky.social 
Brayden Coldwater (xe/they/he) @braydencoldwater.bsky.social Unapologetically gay, trans, and disabled goblin writing weird little stories for weird little guys.
Join me for daily goings ons and passing thoughts.
18+ MDNI
🔞Jericho | The House🍷 @houseofblackroses.bsky.social 𝔉𝔬𝔯 𝔅𝔢𝔞𝔲𝔱𝔶 ⛥ he/they/it ⛥ 33 ⛥ plural ⛥ cognitohazard ⛥ 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈♿️ ⛥ 🪦🕊️ ⛥ no AI ⛥ queer vampire ⛥ author, occasional artist, and wannabe game dev
https://rookandrite.neocities.org
https://houseofblackroses.itch.io
Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social Doing what I dreamed of since I was a kid.
Books: Lone Women, The Changeling, The Ballad of Black Tom, The Devil in Silver.
TV: The Changeling (EP), The Terror: Devil in Silver (Creator, Showrunner)
Comics: Destroyer, Eve, Sabretooth, Black Panther
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
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
Caitlín R. Kiernan @caitlinrkiernan.bsky.social Paleontologist & 2-time World Fantasy Award winning F&SF author. McWane Sci. Center & University of Ala. research assoc. (mosasaurs, turtles, PETM). Humanist. Classical liberal. Irish Appalachian. Math nerd. Anti-fascist. Trans; LGBTQ+ They/them/she/her.
Brian Evenson @brianevenson.bsky.social Short story writer, novelist, television writer. Married to the excellent Kristen Tracy.
John Langan @johnlangan.bsky.social Writer. All monsters, all the time. Filthy liberal.
Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of the Southern Reach series, including Annihilation. Agent Joe Veltre at Gersh / speaker bureau Authors Unbound. To contact, use the contact form at jeffvandermeer.com. PDX, anti AI, he/him
Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com I’m on my way. https://www.stephengrahamjones.com
Geoffrey Taber 📖 @geoxblog.bsky.social Author of LISTENING: From the Collapse Chronicles (literary horror) and the Fracturism framework. Speculative fiction, essays, and transmissions from the edge. Born in the heartland, forged in the contradictions of Cold War suburbia. → geox.blog
mdfireline.bsky.social @mdwillis.bsky.social Non-Binary Horror & Speculative Fiction Writer| Photographer| Night Owl & Naïve Fool. They/Them
What is madness...if not an abundance of original thought...a mind untamed with no ability to separate the good from the bad.
Steven T. Gibbon @stgibbon.bsky.social Buy LIPSNITCH SNILLY, a very strange fantasy novel out NOW.
Writer, game maker, artist, poet, creature enthusiast
steventgibbon.com
Johnny Mains @johnnymains.co.uk Horror anthologist.
"This generation's Hugh Lamb" - Mike Mignola
"A valuable man" - Stewart Lee
AuDHD.
Got the morbs.
Demagogue Press & Qilin Press @paippolito.bsky.social Girl Boss Indie publisher (@demagogue_press & @qilin_press ), lawyer, writer, and gamer & nonprofit founder.
@moanariafc.bsky.social @moanariafc.bsky.social 
@riavargaswrites.bsky.social @riavargaswrites.bsky.social 
ABCtales @abctales.bsky.social http://ABCtales.com is the place for writers to share, discuss and develop their talent.
Ben Campbell @bencampbell.dev Web projects💻| Reading📚| Movies🍿
Not here to buy or sell anything. Here to connect with people who love reading, writing, watching movies/tv, and anyone else I meet along the way.
Letterboxd: bencampbell.dev/letterboxd
Goodreads: bencampbell.dev/goodreads
Urethra Franklin @urethrafranklin.bsky.social she/her | 40 | trans woman | AuDHD | disabled | mutual aid > charity | ACAB | anti-capitalist | still unlearning | #TransRightsAreHumanRights | if you’re normal about trans people we can be friends
Tamara (Rhymes With Camera) Sellman @rhymeswithcamera.bsky.social ℕ𝕠 𝔻𝕄𝕤 • ℕ𝕠 𝔸𝕀
https://linktr.ee/TamaraSellman
💻author 🌀poet 🎥filmmaker
🎙️podcaster 📒zinester 🏳️🌈ally
✊🏽truthteller ♀feminista 🗽1A ⚖️justice ☮️peace 🌲PNW 🥾hiker
🍝cook 🥬gardener ✨nature
💭dreamscapes ♎️♏️energy
🎴tarot 🧠ND 🔥MS 🩻RA/OA/PsA
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/
Erin Al-Mehairi, Editor & Author @erinalmehairi.bsky.social Published author & poet / Professional Editor for Hire, Journalist, PR Pro / BA Degrees in English, Journalism, History / Book News&Views / she•her / 🇬🇧🇺🇸🧿
https://hookofabook.wordpress.com/editing/
J.L. DuRona, Middle Grade Author 👻 🎃 @jldurona.com Spooky middle grade author, music and movie friend, fledgling DM. #SCBWI #HWA. 🚫AI
Troupes are the ropes on which we joyfully swing!
Darker Times @darkertimes.bsky.social A worker-owned horror culture magazine.
www.darkertimes.com
Rachel Cordasco @rachelcordasco.bsky.social Speculative fiction in translation | SFinTranslation.com | Small Planet Magazine | translates Italian sf | contributor at Strange Horizons, World Literature Today, Samovar.
Sad Bastard @sadbastard.bsky.social Here to kick a dent in the universe and have it kick a dent in me. he/him/el
Tony Jones @jonezyboy.bsky.social Scotsman, school librarian, prolific horror and YA book reviewer. Author of THE YA HORROR 40O non-fiction almanac. When not reading, snooker fanatic, boxing maniac and lifelong fan of very VERY loud music. Veteran of a million moshpits.
Final Grrl Horror @finalgrrlhorror.bsky.social All things horror, curated by a final girl. Reviews + recommendations for movies, books, games, and more. I survived the horror and I have opinions Linktr.ee/FinalGrrlHorror
NightTide Magazine @nighttidemag.bsky.social Horror Magazine feat. fresh & diverse voices in genre journalism, covering film, TV, literature, podcasts, academia & events. EIC @momoshaty.bsky.social for Mourning Manor Media
https://nighttidemag.com/
The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social King, Lovecraft, Koontz, Poe, Barker & others telling stories round the campfire. Header by David Mumford. Three (3) x Hugo Nominee. Posts by Bitter Karella. www.midnightpals.com
rynwylde.bsky.social @rynwylde.bsky.social Writer of ancient monsters, gothic horrors, and the strange places where love and terror meet.
Prolecast @prolecast.bsky.social Writing random things about the insignificant life of a prole.
https://prolecast.substack.com/
Scott Engholm @scottengholm.bsky.social Follow my Substacks: hypocriteteacher.substack.com & teachermovies.substack.com
Candace Croasdale @candacecroasdale.bsky.social Author of LGBTQ+ Gothic horror.
My website: https://candacecroasdale.com/
My Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/shop/candacecroasdale
My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/candacecroasdale
Forbidden Worlds Film Festival @fwfilmfestival.bsky.social Genre film festival dedicated to screening repertory action, sci-fi and horror films from around the world on the biggest screen in the South West.
Forbidden Worlds will return: 22-24 October 2026
linktr.ee/FWFilmFestival
High Strangeness @highstrangenesss.bsky.social High Strangeness is the world's #1 exalted dreamcore zine exploring the strange, the unseen and the mundane.
xavier garcia @xaviergarcia.bsky.social writer / editor / hermit / collector of dust
Editor at Twin Pies Literary / Linktree: linktr.ee/xavieragarcia
jonniemwright.bsky.social @jonniemwright.bsky.social Aspiring queer writer searching for his voice in this sea of endless cries. I post articles and short stories Monday-Friday. No weekends!
Serj Rowan @serjrowan.bsky.social Writer, musician.
Working on psychological horrors.
See more at www.serjrowan.com
Paul Stephenson @hollowstone.press Writes horror and science fiction, made by hand to be read by lamplight: Blood on the Motorway, Sunset Chronicles, Bleakwood, Darkness Rises.
ATProto enthusiast. Trans rights are human rights. Fuck AI 'art'.
Crooked Spine Press @crookedspinepress.com A small horror magazine out of nowhere in particular. In paperback and on Kindle. Themed reading periods. We publish what scares us.
Submissions for issue Two: https://crookedspinepress.com/
Buy Issue One Now: https://crookedspinepress.com/store
Sean DiLeonardi @sdileonardi.bsky.social Writer, literary critic, Pittsburgher, professor, director of the Center for Digital Studies (he/him)
https://www.seandileonardi.com/
Wayne Fenlon @waynefenlon.bsky.social Author of: WHERE THE MOOD LEADS
THE BLACK CABIN
SCATTERED LITTLE PIECES
http://mybook.to/ScatteredLittlePieces
https://mybook.to/TheBlackCabin
https://mybook.to/Where-the-Mood-Leads
Dr. Nasrullah Anwar @noorajahangir.bsky.social Writer of fantasy and sf. Social Scientist. Podcaster. Works in Adult Education. Member of BFS and ALCS. Posts about writing, SFF, current affairs. Visit https://www.trollking.co.uk, https://ko-fi.com/noorajahangir?ref=onboarding_email_founderwelcome
AC Cross @aaronccross.bsky.social Author of Where Blood Runs Gold, The Boddicker Letters, and Zoo. Doctor but not that kind. Raconteur. Darn good cook. 100% undiluted awesome. Amateur memelord and shitposter.
www.aaronccross.com
The Bookseller @thebookseller.com At the heart of the book trade since 1858📚
News, charts, previews and more, online & in print. Buyer's Guides, conferences & The British Book Awards (Nibbies)✨
Garrett D. Schneider @garrettdschneider.bsky.social Lives in the woods and writes sad books about goblins. Father of two human children, four chickens, two ducks and a turtle.
Shelly Blake-Plock @shellyblakeplock.com Writing horror fiction, making music, building weird things. Oh, and baseball. And open source. Also, I've lived in a haunted house for 23 years, which is fun.
Vee @vee-thevoyd.bsky.social 🇮🇹 ace lesbian writer | reader | gamer
i create chaos, fragmented gods and foolish women
The Locked Tomb fan | obsessed with Lightning Farron since 2009 | Buffy the vampire slayer best show ever
@missreema.bsky.social @missreema.bsky.social An ESL writer and a lover of dark fiction. Looking for writing feedback and writing buddies.
Kelli Dianne Rule @kdiannerule.bsky.social I'm an art school dropout from the 1990s. I write about Florida. It is a weird and cursed land. www.kellirule.com
John Togher @thecairnshoretides.bsky.social Author. Debut folk horror novella out now. https://amzn.eu/d/00cU0zUq
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
Chris DiLeo @authordileo.bsky.social Reader. Writer. Teacher.
He/Him. ANTI-AI.
Gerrie Summers @gerriesummersink.bsky.social Writer. 🥬Wellness 🛫Travel 🧘🏾♀️Lifestyle 📚Fiction
Yoga & meditation, TaiChi/Qigong enthusiast.
Drafting #horrornovel.
Twilight Sage Moon (T.S. Moon) @thehorrormaven.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️👽♠️♾️
Pronouns: They/Fae or Just Use My Name
📖 | Horror Critic & Scholar
✍️ | Author & Poet
💚 | Sensitivity Reader
🔗 | https://linktr.ee/thehorrormaven
🖼 | Logo art by @blunder-busted.bsky.social
Pride with a Bite @pridewithabite.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Pride with a Bite is a space for promoting and celebrating queer horror. We are dedicated to creating a positive platform for amplifying queer voices, while analyzing the horror genre through a queer lens.
🌟| HWA
🚫| AI
🔗| www.pridewithabite.com
Disguised Agony @disguisedagony.bsky.social 💀 Horror + Healing
♾ Autistic | Fibro | Mental Health Advocate
🎶 Promoter, stagehand & musician since mid-90s
🕯 Streaming to unmask pain & build connection
Alexis @alexisann.bsky.social Native American 🪶 Reader/writer sometimes ♡
Bad crocheter ♡ thinking out loud 💙💙
JIMMO @oldjimmo.islandsofno.ca Artist & writer.
World-building across print, books, and objects.
islandsofno.ca
Willerby @welcometowillerby.bsky.social Welcome to Willerby, a village where the supernatural is as everyday as the weather. Free short stories about the weird things that happen in our village on our website and substack.
https://willerby.substack.com
www.welcometowillerby.co.uk
Jake Stein @jakeiswriting.bsky.social Stories in Lightspeed Magazine, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, The Daily Tomorrow, and other awesome places! Robert L. Fish nominated.
storiesbystein.substack.com
Lalo! @lalowolveralo.bsky.social They/them | 29 yrs old | pfp by @yubelinc.bsky.social | Horror/Fantasy Artist | Author (as Carolina Cruz) | Host: Casual Obsession Horror Podcast/RHWQ Podcast
Info: ninawolverina.carrd.co
Be My Renfield ARC form: https://forms.gle/4JkkRGQkdfa7GfDR9
Sad Monster @dyre.bsky.social Sad monster and resident coffee gremlin what writes about uncomfortable subjects and fantastical things that lurk in dark places.
Is normal about trees.
|| store: https://payhip.com/AReinke ||
|| Fuel me: https://www.paypal.me/authoramberreinke ||
Ruins of Despair @ruinsofdespair.bsky.social A weary pilgrim on the grave of the Romantic Hero, a forlorn eulogist cast upon the desolate shore of the exquisite agony that is The Gothic.
#books #art #gothic #romanticism
'Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' (P.B. Shelley)
The Braag | Press & Journal @thebraag.bsky.social thebraag.co | carmenerror.com | trickster figure | poetry & spec fic press and journal | selling you books in the end times | NO AI
Folkloring Podcast @folkloringpodcast.bsky.social Welcome to 'Folkloring,' the podcast that invites you to actively engage with practical folklore in your daily life. Created by writer and folklore researcher Tracy Nicholas Find us online at: https://folkloringlife.com/ #folklore
E. D. Jones (he/him), author and weirdmaster of Write Sinister @sinister42.bsky.social Weird fiction, fantasy, and horror writer, and occasional dragon, living in interesting times. SFWA Associate member. https://writesinister.substack.com/
Tristan Beaver Brain Zelden @tristanzelden.bsky.social Author of The Huntress and the Trickster and Unfold | Former entertainment journalist looking for a new career | Tattoo enthusiast, metalhead, gamer | tszelden@gmail.com | https://tristanzeldenauthor.my.canva.site/ (He/Him)
Damo Says @damosays.bsky.social Hubby. Dad. Irish.
Horror and speculative fiction writer: Flame Tree Press, Pelgrane Press, British Fantasy Society, Lethe Press, Jurassic London, Sci-Fi Ireland.
Head to the website: damienkellyauthor.com
https://linktr.ee/damosays
Galen Bunting is querying 👽📚 @galenbunting.bsky.social querying my speculative coming-of-rage novel WITNESSERS OF THE UNKNOWN | HWA member|Postdoc at Georgia Tech | 2026 Lambda Literary Fellow | words in Black Warrior Review, Minnesota Review, Fabulist, Pushcart Prize Nominee https://galenbunting.substack.com/
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.
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
Vera Morgen @vera-morgen.bsky.social Horror writer, lesbian crone, and dumpster crow witch. Obsessed with folk horror, old gods, bone-eating deer, and women's wrongs.
Anna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social Books, corvids and the shakily cheerful evasion of despair. PHENGARIS
@nefariousbatpress.bsky.social PARCH MARKS out with @GoldSF.bsky.social in Sept 26.
Author website: https://annaorridge.com/ (thanks to @sonorataylor.bsky.social)
she/her
Grendel Press @grendelpress.social We bring together lovers of the dark and deep.
Find more about our novel and anthology submissions on our website, https://grendelpress.com
Readit Club @readit.club If you’re into books - welcome 🤗
Everything about books, writers, reviews, literature discussions.
📚 ReadIt.club
Angry Gable Press @angrygablepress.bsky.social a publisher of niche speculative fiction and poetry
angrygablepress.com
This Exquisite Topology available now!
https://a.co/d/4b4OElO
Katabatic Circus
@katabaticcircus.bsky.social
Penny Dreadful Hour Podcast @penny-dread.bsky.social Official account of Penny Dreadful Hour, a weekly #podcast that's like an early #Victorian variety show. https://pulp-lit.com/spotify
Bracken MacLeod 𖤐 ⚰ @brackenmacleod.bsky.social Recovering lawyer. Author of STRANDED, COME TO DUST, & CLOSING COSTS. A new collection, LET NOT YOUR SORROW DIE, out NOW from Bad Hand Books! Represented by Howard Morhaim at http://morhaimliterary.com He/Him
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!
S.M. Carter (Sheldon) @sheldoncarter.bsky.social New here!
-Author: To Steal the Sun (23) & Aardehn Awakening (mid 26).
-Developer/Prez: DE (Warframe & Soulframe)
-Podcaster: The War with Art.
Also: Collecting books, Metal music, Hiking/Camping.
Say no to birds
https://linktr.ee/smcarter
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
Night of the Living Dad @livingdadkeith.bsky.social #MutantFam #TheLastDriveIn #Horror #Writer #T1DAdvocate #ClevelandGuardians #CincinnatiBengals #Punk #Cleveland #Fangoria #ConstanceFry #Ally #ASDAdvocate #CincinnatiCyclones #ClevelandMonsters
https://boxd.it/ctt2x
❤️🧡💛Bethany Rae 💚💙💜 @marathoner452.bsky.social I'm a little Rae of sunshine!
TTRPG player. Freelance writer. DSP 2! Mental health advocate diagnosed bipolar anxiety and newly ADHD. ELCA Lutheran. Born and raised Maryland but New Orleans in my soul.
She's sunshine mixed with a little hurricane.
Moira @moiragentry.bsky.social old lefty bookworm (mostly sffh & crime fiction); awkwardly ND; listens to (good) prog, watches horror movies, and makes quilts 📚♿ love, support, and defend 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈
M.M. MacLeod @lenemacleod.bsky.social Quiet Horror/Dark Fiction author Lene MacLeod
ON THIS DARK OCCASION - collection Autumn, 2026
FRINGES of GREY-collection https://books2read.com/u/4NVxA9
eic @frostzonestories.bsky.social
👻🎸🎵👽💀🎥🍁🇨🇦
https://linktr.ee/lenemacleod
darkwinterlitmag @darkwinterlitmag.bsky.social Small press and literary magazine from Ontario, Canada publishing poetry, short stories, novels, and novellas. Editor: Suzanne Craig-Whytock
✨ Joy Shaw | Author ✨ @joyshaw.bsky.social Mom • Teacher • Dark Myth-Tech fantasy Author ✨
CPTSD survivor.
Scarred heroines, fierce, like their readers.
Scars aren’t endings. They’re the sparks that start the blaze.
#RevPit 2026 | #10Queries critique
➡️ www.joy-shaw.com
x.com/authorjoyshaw
Blue Villa @bluevilla.org Literary mag 📖
Est. 2023 🏙️
Bluevilla.org 🔗
Discord.gg/xVkWr5BJjk 👾
It’s a privilege to study sonder. 📖
Dan @usagoldcoupons.bsky.social dead internet theory enthusiast.