Katie Urquhart @katie-urquhart.bsky.social Commissioning Editor at Yale University Press London. Commissioning medieval and early modern history. (views my own)
Yale University Press London 📖 @yalebooks.bsky.social Yale University Press in London https://yalebooks.co.uk/
Publishing books that champion arts & humanities 🏰 home of history!
⭐️ For book updates & UK OFFERS join the Yale in London newsletter: bit.ly/YaleBookNews ⭐️
Mark Jones @drmjones.bsky.social Sherlockian, Doylean, Ultracrepidarian. BSI, MBt, ASH classes of 2022. Commissioning Editor of the Sherlock Holmes Journal. Co-host of Doings of Doyle - The Arthur Conan Doyle Podcast www.doingsofdoyle.com.
Frank Cottrell-Boyce @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social Waterstone's UK Children's Laureate
Ideas lead to idols. Only wonder leads to truth.
Swinging a hammock on the Island of Brilliant podcast
https://islandofbrilliant.podbean.com/
International Walter Pater Society @walterpatersociety.bsky.social Promoting the study and appreciation of Walter Pater (1839-1894) | Aestheticism, Decadence, and Victorian studies
Colin Bond @colinbond.bsky.social Music, books, nature. Walks like a jerk, but he could eat you with a fork and a spoon. Re-follows/blocks seemingly arbitrary. Bespoke librarian. Wales.
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
John Riordan @johnnyriordan.bsky.social Comic artist, illustrator, co-creator of Hitsville UK and trustee of the Blake Society, currently creating a graphic novel about Blake
James Bailey @drjamesbailey.bsky.social Writer from Manchester. LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD, my biography of Muriel Spark, out now! 🐈⬛
https://lnk.to/LikeaCatLovesaBird
Instagram.com/drjamesbailey
Pete Morgan @mobymooby.bsky.social Football, politics, bad jokes, music. Welsh person who has ended up calling Norwich home. NCFC💚💛
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.
London Fortean Society @forteanlondon.bsky.social Strange and wonderful events since 2011
Paranormal, psychic, folkloric, fortean events.
Sharing the oddest London-based news.
East Anglian Folklore Centre @shuckhappens.bsky.social 
Rebekah King @rebekahking.bsky.social Writer/researcher https://www.rebekahkingwriter.com/
Articles on magic, theatre, horror etc here https://rebekahkingwriter.substack.com
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)
Thorn Mooney @thornthewitch.bsky.social Religious Studies PhD candidate: paranormal, secularism, magic, spiritualism, ethnography. Lit MA. Publishing production day job. Witch author, Gard priestess, guitarist, fountain pen person, Swiftie, probably a werewolf.
https://linktr.ee/thornthewitch
Dr Andrew Higgins @ashiggins.bsky.social Director of Development at Imperial War Museums. Tolkien Scholar and author Live in Balham London 🏳️🌈
Minimum Labyrinth @minimumlabyrinth.bsky.social The creative paroxysms of Robert Kingham and Rich Cochrane. Guided walks, books, films, audio dramas and journeys into the uncanny. http://minimumlabyrinth.org/
Nina Antonia @ninaantonia13.bsky.social Author. Represented by Kevin Pocklington @ The North Literary Agency. 'With a host of Furious Fancies, Whereof I am commander.
With a burning spear & a horse of air, To the wilderness I wander.' (Tom O' Bedlam) L.A.M.F
Strange Attractor Press @strangeattractor.bsky.social Book publisher, London, UK.
Celebrating Unpopular Culture since 2001.
Morbid Anatomy @morbidanatomy.bsky.social www.morbidanatomy.org
Thin King Productions @thinkingproductions.com Home to THE ATTIC.
Old friends return for another hour of arcane observations, gentle shenanigans, and wide-ranging conversation.
Ancients of the podcasting world in ultra-wide format.
Shows & links...
https://ThinKingProductions.com
Claire Harman @claireharman.bsky.social Biographer, critic, emeritus Professor. Books on Charlotte Brontë, Jane Austen, Fanny Burney, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Katherine Mansfield. Also Murder by the Book, a Victorian literary true-crime.
www.claireharman.com
Frazer Martin @frazermartin.bsky.social Associate Editor, Yale University Press London - he/they - views my own
Astrum Argenteum @argenteumastrum.bsky.social Just another temporal pylon for a sempiternal impulse.
Bluesky's first A∴A∴ account.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%E2%88%B4A%E2%88%B4
DM for Probation queries.
David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social the sea is completely written for me
https://www.transitbooks.org/books/darker
John Reppion @johnreppion.bsky.social Knackered writer. Mr @leahmoore.bsky.social
Comics for DC, Dark Horse, 2000 AD etc, articles for Hellebore, Daily Grail, Fortean Times, etc, Weird Fiction... loads of stuff.
Haunted Book Club with @gavcross.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/haunted_bookclub
Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social Professor of Urban Studies, King's College London; Editor Urban Studies. Part-time psychogeographer, landscape punk and walker.
Justin Hopper @oldweirdalbion.bsky.social Writer. Uncanny Landscapes podcast. Belbury Poly - The Path. Obsolete Spells. Chanctonbury Rings. The Old Weird Albion. https://linktr.ee/oldweirdalbion
Jad Adams @jadadamsauthor.bsky.social Writer. Most recent books: Decadent Women: Yellow Book Lives; Cafe Europa (novel); Madder Music, Stronger Wine, The Life of Ernest Dowson
Charlotte Smith @charlotteofthefens.bsky.social Librarian. Folklorist. Cat butler.
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
Ellenoftheways @ellenoftheways.bsky.social magical thinker; bog creature; stone botherer; folklore librarian…
Treadwell's Books @treadwells-books.bsky.social Esoteric arts, great books, high culture, witchcraft, scholarship. Advanced degrees in the banned, the burned, the ridiculed.
@cunningfolkmag.bsky.social @cunningfolkmag.bsky.social An independent magazine about magic, folklore, mythology and the occult
Fiona Robertson @stonelands.bsky.social Megalith geek, writer, editor, author of STONE LANDS
Gary From... Manchester Morgue! 🩷💚💀 @killertunes.bsky.social I'm a horror buff from the UK and I host Live From Manchester Morgue, a podcast about horror films. I like cats, too.
Check it out below for a good time! ⬇️
https://pod.link/1802719820
Tim Howles @timhowles.bsky.social Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Theology, philosophy, ethics, politics, environmental humanities
Associate Director @LSRIOxford
Anglican Priest
https://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/people/revd-dr-timothy-howles
Michelle E. Moore @memoore6.bsky.social Professor Film and Lit, Author of Chicago and the Making of American Modernism (Bloomsbury Academic, Historicizing Modernism Series), coeditor Refocus: The Films of John Waters and Refocus: The Films of Paul Schrader (EUP).
The Quietus @thequietus.com Black Sky Thinking since 2008.
Help support independent cultural journalism & get perks by becoming a tQ subscriber here: https://steadyhq.com/thequietus
Katie Harling-Lee @katieosha.bsky.social Literature academic & bookish person based around Edinburgh, Scotland, curiously crossing disciplinary boundaries in work and life 📚
Current in-progress project: researching Quaker Silence in the novels of neglected author Dorothy Canfield Fisher 🌸
Natasha Bradley @natashaamberjo.bsky.social AHRC DPhil Student at Lincoln College, Oxford | women in Old Norse translations, hagiographies, and religious texts | Clarendon Scholar | she/her
Gita Ralleigh @gitaralleigh.bsky.social Writer/Poet/Lecturer/ex-doc
Kids' novels:
Minou Moonshine / Sam Singh @kidsbloomsbury.bsky.social
Poetry:
Empirical
@thebraag.bsky.social
Siren @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
A Terrible Thing Bad Betty Press
https://linktr.ee/gitaralleigh
Michael A Cox @shin-mc.bsky.social Reading & writing about weird fiction, forteana, spooky shit • blogs about William Hope Hodgson at @hodgsoniana.bsky.social • guit & vox in @pkbats.neocities.org • used to run an arcade
The Sylvia Townsend Warner Society @stwsociety.bsky.social An account dedicated to the writer Sylvia Townsend Warner, and for news from the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society https://townsendwarner.com/
Hodgsoniana @hodgsoniana.bsky.social https://hodgsoniana.wordpress.com
Bluesky account for Hodgsoniana, a blog about the life and works of author William Hope Hodgson.
Posts by @shin-mc.bsky.social
#WilliamHopeHodgson #WeirdFiction #WeirdLit #CosmicHorror #Horror #Fantasy
Arthur Durkee @phoenixdragon1.bsky.social Composer, poet, book artist, printmaker, letterpress, graphics, recording studio, photography, type designer. Pan/poly/neurodivergent/queer.
arthurdurkee.bandcamp.com
www.patreon.com/ArthurDurkee
arthurdurkeearts.crevado.com
Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social Traffic island castaway.
https://www.invisibleworks.co.uk/
Jordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social Author of Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right
Hugo winner
Words in Kaleidotrope, Polygon, The Nation, Post*45, American Literature, and the LARB
Opinions my own, find me at https://jordansmithcarroll.com/
Lovecraft: RPG & More @lovecraftrpg.bsky.social Anything related to the works of H.P. Lovecraft and my own personal projects that are Lovecraft or horror-related.
Tim @timrowe.org Consciousness Explorer. Radionics Practitioner. Musician.
Based in SE London.
Music: https://soundcloud.com/innervox
Mike Davis @michaeldylandavis.bsky.social Horror podcaster, reader, dad, husband. Winner of the Robert Bloch Award.
Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@lovecraftezinepodcast
Celtic at Oxford @oxfordceltic.bsky.social Celtic at the University of Oxford
https://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/graduate/courses/mphil-celtic-studies
Nazaret Ranea @nazaretranea.bsky.social Poet. Scotland’s Next Generation Young Makar. My debut collection, Nettles, is out now! 🇪🇸🏴
nazaretranea.com | https://www.instagram.com/nazareterreese?igsh=MWdyNmNpNHcxcjVwNg%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
Michael Uhall @grayskythinking.bsky.social Political theorist, author, translator interested in conceptual engineering, political ecology & geography, astropolitics, intelligence, weird media. Views mine. Noir Materialism (2024); Theory of the Alien (2026). https://www.michaeluhall.com/
Mark Jarrell @markjarrellart.bsky.social Archaic Dark Fantasy
Pen & ink illustration from the realm of Cosmataeon
~ Commissions Available ~
Servant of the Eroded Temple 🗡🌙🦇
Vosus Sohm
@mark-radio.bsky.social
www.markjarrellart.com
neanderthal paganism @milbel.bsky.social Writing about the origins of religious thought, prehistoric ritualism, mythology, and pre/perinatal psychology.
Articles here ➡️ milbel.com
Weird Providence @weirdpvd.bsky.social The new face of Lovecraft Arts & Sciences Council. Keep Providence weird.
weirdprovidence.com
Jeffrey J Cohen @jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social writer and teacher who cares a lot about the future of the humanities as well as access to education
dean of humanities & professor of English @ ASU, but this is my personal account, opinions are mine
https://www.jeffreyjeromecohen.com
@joycecaroloates.bsky.social @joycecaroloates.bsky.social 
John Galantini @johngalantini.bsky.social Writer of things.
Digital Services @ The Friends of Arthur Machen
Julie Gay @juliegay.bsky.social PhD British Literature - Senior Lecturer (MCF) Univ. du Littoral Côte d'Opale. Fin de siècle, adventure, islands, space, coasts, literary geography, R. L. Stevenson, J. Conrad, H. G. Wells.
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.
Jez Conolly @jezconolly.bsky.social Books: The Thing | Dead of Night | Seconds
Essays: Routledge Companion to Folk Horror | Horrifying Children | Scarred for Life
Memoir: Capture Spiral
Miniplay: Adam and Yves
Speaker: Festival of Darkness
Horror fiction writer
https://linktr.ee/jezconolly
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.
Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social Professor of Shakespeare Studies, University of Oxford
Elizabeth Dearnley @elizadearnley.bsky.social Folklorist, writer, Lecturer in Creative Writing at Edinburgh Napier. FEARSOME FAIRIES, HAUNTED YORKSHIRE etc. (British Library), THE FAIRY SPOTTER’S GUIDE (Welbeck). Fairy tales / horror / weird and eerie 🦇 Rep’d https://www.philippasitters.co.uk. She/her
Wouter J. Hanegraaff @wouterjhanegraaff.bsky.social I’m a scholar of the unknown, a historian of the forgotten, and a writer about everything that might be possible. You can find all my work at www.wouterjhanegraaff.net
Kirsty Pattison @kirstypattison.bsky.social PhD student at UofG. Researcher in Esoteric practice in Medieval and Renaissance Scotland. | Theology of Magic | Esotericism & Mysticism | Scottish History | Magic in Scottish literature.
Lover of cats, fine wines and heavy metal.
Timothy Fox @timothyfox.bsky.social 'every house needs a ghost' available from @thebraag.bsky.social.
Writing published in ergot., Molotov Cocktail, Denver Quarterly, The Ghastling, New Writing Scotland.
London Library Emerging Writer 2023/24.
https://linktr.ee/timothy_fox_
Dr Scarlett Butchers @scarlettbutchers1.bsky.social Early Career Researcher ◇ Ecocriticism, Folk Horror, Monstrosity, David Rudkin, (eco)gothic, C20th British theatre ◇ I run @makingitwyrd.bsky.social
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.
Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social Postdoc at Cambridge working between book history & early modern lit. Current project 'provenance: early modern books in/against time'
Volunteer for Abortion Support Network
Book: Hans Sloane’s Library Collection and the Production of Knowledge (CUP)
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
Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social Writer, teacher, person in New Hampshire
Books from Black Lawrence, Bloomsbury Academic, punctum, Third Man, Lethe.
Horror fiction, modernism, pedagogy, Open Access, general weirdness...
https://matthewcheney.net
Dr. Jeremy Swist @metalclassicist.bsky.social Assistant Teaching Professor of Classics at Michigan State University. Late antiquity & classical reception in metal music. he/him
“Julian Augustus” out with Oxford University Press: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/julian-augustus-9780197787519
Pinar S. 🦦 @pinars.bsky.social Used to be a Byzantinist, now an independent researcher, potter, part time translator and interpreter &person of leisure. Posts on history, art, archaeology, nature, mythology, folklore, the occult, books, language, καὶ τὰ ἕτερα. Team Oxford Comma.
Tom Pleasant @tompleasant.bsky.social Two-thirds horror writer, four-sixths editor, half dog, seven-fifths bad at maths.
Jay Wolf @jayxwolf.bsky.social sff writer & dev editor, book designer, author-illustrator, lapsed podcaster, sculptor, fabricator, Viable Paradise alum, online community specialist, queer as in here, they as in them, kennywood enthusiast.
writes books as @mdmcd.com
edward rathke @radicaledward.bsky.social Author of a bunch of books, stories, and essays.
erathke.com
Old Moon Quarterly @oldmoonquarterly.bsky.social oldmoonpublishing.com
Old Moon Quarterly is an indie magazine of weird sword-and-sorcery in the vein of Clark Ashton Smith, Tanith Lee and Karl Edward Wagner. 
Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social Making a '20s pulp horror roleplaying game at strangeaeons.substack.com. Lovecraft meets Indiana Jones. Big fan of creepy old photos - will be posting some here.
Sophia Adamowicz @sophia-adamowicz.bsky.social Writer of dark fictions//debut novel THE BRINK out with Ruadán Books Sept 2026//work published in Cunning Folk, Crow & Cross Keys, Haven Speculative and more//co-founder of Artemis Writers UK
sophia-adamowicz.wixsite.com/website
She/they 💗💜💙
Una McCormack @unamccormack.bsky.social NYT bestselling and BSFA & Scribe award-winning writer. Cardassia’s resident anarchist. Intersectional feminist science fiction with Gold SF. Fighting the long defeat since December 1981. Chiefest and greatest of calamities.
https://linktr.ee/unamccormack
Weird Friction @weirdfriction.bsky.social 💀 INACTIVE PROFILE 💀
Visit http://instagram.com/weird_friction or https://x.com/Weird_Friction to see any and all new updates.
The Alasdair Gray Archive @agrayarchive.bsky.social Scottish Charity SC052417 caring for Gray’s studio & visual/literary material. Education & New Commissions. Inclusive Community. Custodian sorchadallas.bsky.social
Peter Ross @peteralanross.bsky.social Author of Upon A White Horse: Journeys In Ancient Britain & Ireland. Also, Steeple Chasing: Around Britain By Church, & A Tomb With A View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards. Substack: https://smallfinds.substack.com
Dan Coxon @dancoxon.bsky.social He/him. World Fantasy Award, Shirley Jackson Award and British Fantasy Awards winner (twice). Collection COME SING FOR THE HARROWING out now.
Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social Lecturer in c19th and c20th Literature. #Gothic #DeathStudies #Childhood
Assoc Editor @ Gothic Studies
Darryl Jones @profdarryljones.bsky.social Professor of Modern British Literature and Culture, Trinity College Dublin. M. R. James, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle - and fountain pens.
Claire Dean @clairedean.bsky.social Writer, maker & conservator. Short stories, zines, book arts. Used to be an academic, retrained in conservation. Repairs & cares for old manuscripts, maps, plans, photographs & the curious objects that end up in archives.
📍Lancashire, North of England
John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com Magic Hours - Malick
Visible Darkness - Glazer
Variety/Sight&Sound/The New World
Cinema Italia&Writers On Film podcasts
Connery A Novel
https://linktr.ee/writersonfilm
Skionar @skionar.bsky.social Roger Clarke. Author of A Natural History of Ghosts, published by Penguin Books (2012). Former writer for the Independent Newspaper, Sunday TimesUK, Sight & Sound. In it for the long haul with severe chronic illness, dealing with NHS on a weekly basis
Backlisted Podcast @backlisted.bsky.social Giving new life to old books since 2015. Bookshop.org Indie Champion. Find us: backlisted.fm, Apple Podcasts, Spotify. Support us: patreon.com/backlisted.
John Mitchinson @johnmitchinson.bsky.social Writer, co-host of Backlisted, writer for Byline Times, former publisher.
Mary Boyle @maryrboyle.bsky.social Postgraduate Admissions Tutor and Fellow, Homerton College, Cambridge. Outreach Coordinator for German at Cambridge. Medievalist (English/German). Pilgrimage book: bit.ly/MedPilg 🇪🇺 Migrant justice. Own views.
General Witchfinders - The British Horror Podcast and Zine @generalwitch.bsky.social The British Horror Podcast and Zine
Britain… an ancient kingdom with cruelty and torment in its blood
Join Ross Jon and James as they tread where few dare
From Dracula to Damien Herbert to Hellraiser
www.generalwitchfinders.com
G. Thornton @inkgypsy.bsky.social Writer, Editor, Researcher
Folklore As Resistance
Listed in 'Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales', 'Fairy Tales 101' & other fairy tale study recs
Magic Beans for breakfast -Believes in 398.2 -Ⓥ -She/her
🇺🇦 #SlavaUkraini #IStandWithCanada #IStandWithAltGov
Alexandra Beaumont - Folklore Fantasy Author @abeaumontbooks.bsky.social 🦉Folkloric books, folk music, gothic meanders
📚Indie Press 2025 Distinguished Favourite
🦌 Folk horror obsessed
🐉British Fantasy Soc London Event Org
🌊Books @brigidsgatepress