Lucy Worsley @lucyworsley.bsky.social Hello! I'm Lucy, I'm a historian, I write books like biographies of Agatha Christie and present a VERY GOOD @BBCSounds podcast called #LadyKillers. For ages I was Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces, now an Ambassador for the charity.
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
Sidmouth Folk Festival @sidmouthfolkfest.bsky.social A week-long annual folk festival, held in August (30 Jul - 6 Aug 2027), featuring concerts, ceilidhs, workshops, top bands, late-night dancing, sessions & more!
Jim Causley @jimcausley.bsky.social Devonian folk musician, singer & song-maker. Play in various different guises and projects. Currently touring with Miranda Sykes.
Lucy Shields @lucyrshields.bsky.social Folk music marketer/booking agent/programmer/writer. Runs a newsletter called @thefolkforecast.bsky.social.
Website - lucyshields.com
Comedy writing credits - https://www.comedy.co.uk/people/lucy-shields/
Marry Waterson @marrywaterson.bsky.social Singer / writer / animator / serial collaborator on @olirecords
All things: http://linktr.ee/marrywaterson
Northern Horror Hub @northerhorrorhub.bsky.social Northern Horror Hub gathers writers, readers and thinkers drawn to the darkness. Explore all aspects of horror via our writing courses, retreats, conferences and events both online and in person. Watch this space for submissions to our upcoming zine.
Script Haven LTD @scripthavenltd.bsky.social Thriving independent bookshop, coffee shop, event venue, safe community haven in Worcester, UK!
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5 Crown Passage, Worcester WR1 3LL
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Also on Insta, Facebook and Twitter
British Fantasy Society @britfantasysoc.bsky.social Latest news updates and reviews from the British Fantasy Society Community. Home to readers, writers, artists and gamers. Love SFFH? Come join us! www.britishfantasysociety.org
First Ten Pages Programme: https://british-fantasy-society.vercel.app/welcome
Suzannah Lipscomb @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social Award-winning historian, professor & TV presenter
Author, The King is Dead; Voices of Nîmes; 1536
Host, Not Just the Tudors podcast from History Hit
Bar Fridman-Tell @barfridmantell.bsky.social Writer, coffee enthusiast & librarian-in-training.
Honeysuckle (Bloomsbury US, S&S Canada & Tor Nightfire UK) coming Spring 2026.
https://linktr.ee/barfridmantell
Luise Loges @luilog.bsky.social Antiquities crime researcher, science communicator, journalist, feminist, nerd. This is a private account. I repost anything that catches my attention: cats, AI slop hate, politics, Star Trek, cats, academia, archaeology, cats, and other things. Also cats.
Sarah Jack @restingwitches.bsky.social 3 Witch Hunt podcasts. 1 mission: witch trial history and the living consequences | Founding ED endwitchhunts.org | Descendant advocacy | youtube.com/@aboutwitchhunts
Laura Williams, author @lwilliamsauthor.bsky.social Podcaster, Author (mostly fantasy), artist, amateur photographer, and bibliophile.
Lucie McKnight Hardy @lmcknighthardy.bsky.social Author of NIGHT BABIES (2026) @johnmurrays.bsky.social
and DEAD RELATIVES (2021) & WATER SHALL REFUSE THEM (2019) @deadinkbooks.bsky.social
She/her
lmcknighthardy.com
Agent: @donaldwin.bsky.social @watsonlittle.bsky.social
Derek Johnston @drdjohnston.bsky.social Media lecturer: UK TV history, telefantasy, historical dramas. At Queen’s University Belfast.
Richard Batten @richardbatten.bsky.social Honorary Research Fellow at University of Exeter, Historian, Devon, WW1; Author; Farmer’s son; Views my own, reposts not endorsements;
Dr Emma Probett @emmaprobett.bsky.social PhD in Victorian Studies. Currently writing a book about Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, and the novel of manners. They/Them
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Jon Dear @accordingtojond.bsky.social Writer on archive TV and film. Currently working on a book about the BBC’s A Ghost Story for Christmas. Produced The Quatermass Experiment (2023) and Children of The Stone Tape (2024). Podcasts on Nigel Kneale and Giallo.
M Brown @mbrown007.bsky.social Friendly writer of thrilling SF, Fantasy, Horror. Screenwriter/Novelist. TTRPG enthusiast. Architecture/Design nut. Biography and history fiend. All around lover of art. Shouldering the burden of one massive TBR!
@stevenallon.bsky.social @stevenallon.bsky.social 
Malcolm Schofield @malcschofield.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Psychology. Researching paranormal and conspiracy beliefs. Council member, Society for Psychical Research.
Nicolettew 🐈⬛🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🐝 @shadowsbetween.bsky.social Queer writer of dark creepy MM fiction - both original and fanfic. Pagan, union activist, fangirl, lover of history, horror, Supernatural, and Strictly Come Dancing. Favourite time of the year - Samhain!
Embrace the weird!
Photo by Nick Fewings
Karin Celestine @celestineandthehare.com Artist Author Illustrator
Magical tales in wool and words from the Shed in Wales. Seasonal joyful felted animals and picture books for all ages published by Graffeg.
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Dr. Kristina Downs @kristinadowns.bsky.social Folklorist. Childless cat lady. Wine maker. Goth fairy. I research legend and crime. She/her
Thoughts are my own, not speaking for anyone else. 
Amy Tryphena @uncannykernow.bsky.social Cornish Writer • Teller of Cornish tales , nature writer and megalith obsessive • Dendrophile, Ancient Stone Botherer & Haunter of the Woods 〓〓
https://uncannycornwall.com
https://linktr.ee/AmyTryphena
https://bipolarroughguide.com
@indykatley.bsky.social @indykatley.bsky.social 
Sabrina River Folk Podcast @sabrinariverfolk.bsky.social Sabrina, (Welsh Hafren) is the ancient Goddess of the River Severn, the longest river in Britain. Priestess Nicola Haasz has researched the legends and mythology for over two decades. This Podcast celebrates everything relating to our Sacred River 🦆🐟🐗🦢🌀🌛
The Icarus Writing Collective @icaruswritingcollective.com 🏺 literary magazine retelling myths + classics
🏹 bringing the "then" to our "now"
🖋️ SUBS OPEN 💚
https://www.icaruswritingcollective.com/submit
Piers Torday @pierstorday.bsky.social Children’s writer - books include The Last Wild, Midnight Treasure and Tree Thing. Plays include Box of Delights (RSC)
Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social Library of Anglo-American Culture & History #FIDAAC
Resources for British, Irish, Australian, New Zealand, American & Canadian Studies
https://libaac.de/
https://libaac.de/legal-notice/
𝐇𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 @hadeanpress.bsky.social Hadean Press Limited is a UK based small press producing some of the most exciting titles in modern occultism, publishing academic and independent scholarship in the areas of folklore, folk magic, and spellbooks.
Soundart Radio @soundartradio.bsky.social Soundart Radio 102.5 FM is the licensed community radio station for Totnes & Dartington in South Devon, England.
https://linktr.ee/soundart_radio
Cat Irving @anatomicalcat.bsky.social Human Remains Conservator at Surgeons’ Hall. Snake charmer. Beagle feeder. All-round general necromancer
horror Ewacui @ewacat.bsky.social Massive human raccoon, broad spectrum nerd, 6ft 1 of ADHD chaos, a cishet she/her of mayhem, used to be a SFF bookseller.
'Ever'.
carcosa-based lifeform. UK.
@EwaSR on twitter
DID NOT INTENTIONALLY KILL OPTIMUS PRIME
WitchLit Podcast @witchlitpod.bsky.social A place to talk about the craft of writing and writing the craft. Weekly conversations with witchcraft and occult authors. Main account: @vvitchtoria.bsky.social
Sayde Scarlett @saydescarlett.substack.com Author and Poet 🖋️ | Artist 🎨 | ❤️🔥🗡️ |🪬
https://linktr.ee/sayde_scarlett
Waterstones Ipswich @waterstonesipswich.bsky.social Profile for Waterstones Bookshop in Ipswich 📚✨
📞 01473 289044
Ocean City Table Top Podcast @oceancitytabletop.bsky.social In which a trio of balding beardos talk table top games - from RPGs, CCGs, Wargames and Board games - served from Britain's Ocean City, Plymouth!
Chris N, Jon G and Ross K. Produced by Cody B
https://shows.acast.com/ocean-city-table-top
Knock Once For Yes @knockonceforyes.com A paranormal podcast where Lil, Fitz and their listeners share their experiences of the paranormal, haunted history, weird folklore and curious cryptids!
http://ko-fi.com/W7W6CNYX
http://patreon.com/KOFY
http://knockonceforyes.com
🏰 Ben Paites 🏛️ @benpaites.bsky.social Senior Curator at Colchester Museums. Mainly Roman archaeology and LGBTQ+ history. Also cat dad to Artemis and enthusiastic Gaymer. He/Him
Author of 50 LGBTQ+ Finds: https://www.amberley-books.com/50-lgbtq-finds.html
Website: www.benpaites.uk
Eerie Edinburgh @eerieedinburgh.bsky.social Author of the best selling Hidden Haunts books and Ghostly Tales of the NC500, and creator of the Eerie Edinburgh YouTube channel, where I explore Scotland’s haunted history.
Join me as I uncover the eerie side of Edinburgh and beyond.
The Essex Witch Museum @essexwitchmuseum.bsky.social Help us to create a museum about the witch trials held in Essex during the 16th to 18th Centuries.
EssexWitchMuseum.co.uk
Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social Illustrator, performer, walker of the hills at dusk, lunatic. I get paper dirty professionally. As it is said in Hookland, Re-enchantment is resistance.
Pro EU, anti fascist. https://thomassbrown.com/ Store here https://thomas-brown-1.sumupstore.com/
LichfieldLore @lichfieldlore.bsky.social Lover of curiosities, legends & languages. Searching for stories in Staffordshire & beyond. The weird one from @lichdiscovered. Website: lichfieldlore.co.uk
The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social Exploring the folklore and folk life of Warwickshire. I can also be found at @hilaryrsparkes.bsky.social
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
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Uncanny Japan Podcast--Thersa Matsuura👹👋 @uncannyjapan.bsky.social Podcasting the more obscure nooks & crannies of Japanese culture - Uncanny Japan. She/her. Crows. Fountain pens. Nature. Horror w/ a wry sense of humor. 🚫Fascism✊
✨New Book✨ - Legends of Japanese Mythology (mid-grade)
--> https://geni.us/JapaneseMythology
Dark Talk @dark-talk.uk The official BlueSky account for the Dark Talk podcast.
• https://dark-talk.uk
• https://patreon.com/DarkTalkPod
Claire Heywood @claireheywood.bsky.social Author | DAUGHTERS OF SPARTA (2021), THE SHADOW OF PERSEUS (2023), THE WANDERING QUEEN (2026) | Only Connect alumna and quiz enthusiast | Interested in classics, archaeology, mythology, writing, books, films, games
Website: claireheywood.info
Sonia Overall @soniaoverall.bsky.social writer, psychogeographer, walking artist, educator, performer; lover of the weird and folkloric
Treadwell's Books @treadwells-books.bsky.social Esoteric arts, great books, high culture, witchcraft, scholarship. Advanced degrees in the banned, the burned, the ridiculed.
Vita Werdegast @wordcountess.bsky.social Hedge academic, Hårgan sysadmin, writes. Wrong perhaps, but not incorrect.
she/her
This account is:
Writing
My ridiculous doggos
History
Horror
The Fascism
Dragon Age brainrot
Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social NYT Bestselling Author. Medical Historian. Breast Cancer Survivor.
Next book: SLEUTH-HOUND, a whirlwind tour of Victorian forensics from the perspective of the man who loaned a voice to Baker St.’s famous resident: Sherlock Holmes. Out October 20.
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.
Rachael King @rachaelking70.bsky.social Writer of novels & other stuff from NZ. MG novel The Grimmelings and YA Song of the Saltings (“Horse girl folk horror”) out in Aus, NZ, UK & Nth America. Secrets at Red Rocks TV adaptation out NZ, Aus & US. https://www.rachael-king.com Band Pic: J Ganley
Zeph @zephx.bsky.social Sticking my neck out for the Greater Good.
Mystery Machine Pilot. 
Life Is Amazing publisher @lifeisamazing.bsky.social I deal in rare books, write & publish books, give talks, present shows. I make my living from words.
If you're rude or aggressive I'll block - I am curating, that's all. I block habitual shitposters because I hate lies. I do not engage with the far right.
Hex Rake @lexyhex.bsky.social Folklore botherer
Virgil Twobyfour @virgiltwobyfour.bsky.social Part-time mystic, allotment keeper, & shed-based philosopher. Publisher of rustic almanacs, horoscopes & questionable advice. Tea stains, rude vegetables, & wartime peculiarities. Frequently baffled by technology. https://linktr.ee/virgiltwobyfour
Newham Bookshop @newhambookshop.bsky.social Est in 1978, Newham Books is one of east London's leading independent bookshops. With an extensive events programme, check out some of the authors coming up.
www.newhambooks.co.uk
Critical Thinking Witch Collective @critwitches.bsky.social Connect, learn, and get involved with this community of like-minded witches and seekers from around the world. Join the Collective! https://criticalthinkingwitches.com/
Abigail Yardimci @abigailyardimci.bsky.social Author of uplifting fiction and cosy murder mystery and now self-care journals too! Get the Life is Yours Journal now: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1738529010
Jasmine Watkiss @jasminewatkiss.bsky.social Freelance PR & Communications. One half of award-winning UK Americana duo Roswell Road. She/her.
Mandy @mandywest.bsky.social Free Spirit. Folkie. Foodie. Forager. Traveler. Photographer. Nature Lover. Always has a stash of upcoming gig tickets :-)
Halo Grottesco @halogrottesco.bsky.social Pro wrestling and Horror apologist. Very poor at video games. Slightly preoccupied with Godzilla. Flimflam Merchant.
Fiona Robertson @stonelands.bsky.social Megalith geek, writer, editor, author of STONE LANDS
Coffin Boffin @coffinboffin.bsky.social Dr Sam George, Open Graves Open Minds Project. Gothic Enchantment. Books on Vampires, Wolves, Fairies, Unruly Plants, Shadows. https://herts.academia.edu/SamGeorge
Wessex Hag @wessexhag.bsky.social I’m making a podcast about weird Somerset stuff 🌾
wessexhag.bandcamp.com
Georgia Hill @georgiawrites.bsky.social Writer of romance. Wrangler of spaniels. Lives by the sea. “Georgia’s books are a huge chunk of loveliness.” http://www.georgiahill.co.uk
Victoria Raschke @vvitchtoria.bsky.social (she/her) Author where you buy books, publisher at 1000Volt Press, podcaster at WitchLit, and syncretic antiquarian animist folk witch wherever (still workshopping my P-Touch drawer label) also: @witchlitpod.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/victoriaraschke
Nat Doig @weirdinthewade.bsky.social I’ve an award winning podcast about all that’s weird and a little off kilter in the town of Biggleswade and Bedfordshire. History with a pinch of the paranormal, folklore & urban legends. I also like cake, cats, beating bosses and disability rights.
Book Publicist Helen @helenmccusker.bsky.social Mama, journalist, award-winning freelance book publicist. Publicity Manager @reaktionbooks.bsky.social 📚
Robert Edgar @robertedgar.bsky.social Writer and Academic. Professor of Writing and Popular Culture, York St John University. Scriptwriting, Music Memoir, Hauntology, Folk Horror, Science-Fiction
Scarred For Life @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 our books: linktr.ee/scarredforlife
Patreon: bit.ly/3Rfo1Xz
Contact: ste1bro@hotmail.co.uk
Ed Parnell @edparnell.bsky.social Writer, podcaster, mysterious shadowy figure.
edparnell.co.uk or www.edparnell.com
These dark times will make madmen of us all.
Delia Remington (She/Her) @therealdelia.eurosky.social Award-winning Editor Eagle Heights Press. VampFest Silver Stake Winner. Blood Royal Saga Author. Full time dog mom. https://deliaremington.bio.link
Ariell Cacciola @ariellcacciola.bsky.social Publisher: Wild Hunt Books.🦌 @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social
Writer & Reader. 📚
Editor. ✒️
Leeds.☔
theshapeofwords.blog
Nydia Hetherington @nydiawriter.bsky.social Novelist. Sycorax out 27/02/25 pre-order now published by Quercus | A Girl Made of Air published by Quercus | Bowie fan | Chronic illness: RA | Cat friend. 
Millie Cumper @milliefolklore.bsky.social PhD Student 'Narratives of Witchcraft and Spooky Storytelling in the promotion of Wookey Hole dark tourism’, lover of all things witchcraft and avid reader of fantasy. She/Her
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
Karl Bell @karlbell.bsky.social Historian. Author. Associate Prof of Cultural History @uophistory.bsky.social C19th fantastical, supernatural folklore, Gothic cities & seas. Co-director of port.ac.uk/portcities The Perilous Deep: A Supernatural History of the Atlantic (Reaktion) out now.
Folk on Foot @folkonfoot.com The multi-award-winning all walking, talking and singing podcast, presented by @matthewbannister.bsky.social
Find out more at www.folkonfoot.com.
Ulster Folk Museum @ulsterfolkmuseum.org Celebrating everyday skills, stories & traditions passed down through generations in Ulster.
🧵 Putting the past in dialogue with the present — to shape the future.
📍 Part of National Museums NI | 🔗 ulsterfolkmuseum.org
How Haunted? Podcast @howhauntedpod.bsky.social I'm Rob. A Geordie ghost hunter, author, and the host of the How Haunted? podcast 👻
www.how-haunted.com
https://how-haunted.dashery.com
Damh the Bard @paganmusic.bsky.social Nature, Myth, Magic and Music - Pagan, animist, musician, songwriter, podcaster.
https://linktr.ee/Paganmusic
S.R. Morton | Author is Officially Published! ☕️ @srmorton.bsky.social Christian. #Author of #fantasy 🖤 SWEET MUSIC is available now at the link below! ☕️🎻 Current WIP: 🫖🌸
Co-Authoring a #steampunk fantasy w/ @lordrilayen.bsky.social
linktr.ee/srmorton
Luna Press Publishing @lunapress.bsky.social Award Winning Small Press. SFF in Fiction and Academia. Est. 2015. Member of Publishing Scotland. https://www.lunapresspublishing.com
University of Exeter Press @uexeterpress.bsky.social Dedicated to scholarly book publishing for over fifty years. Internationally recognised for excellence in humanities.
www.exeterpress.co.uk 
Folk You! @folkyousongwriters.bsky.social The loosest, funnest, and most existential singer-songwriter round-robin in Chicago!
https://www.folkyou.org
The Bookery, Crediton @thebookery.bsky.social Non-profit organisation
Award-winning, not-for-profit community-owned indie bookshop in Crediton, Devon.
Schools, community outreach & events
Open 9.30-5 Mon-Fri and 10-2 Saturday
21 High Street, Crediton, EX17 3AH
https://linktr.ee/thebookeryhq
The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social We mobilise the humanities and social sciences to understand the world and shape a brighter future.
The Thing About Salem @thethingaboutsalem.bsky.social The official podcast of the Salem Witch Trials, featuring lively discussions on all things related to the witch-hunt of 1692-1693.
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/
National Museum of Ireland @nmireland.bsky.social Ireland’s premier cultural institution and home to the greatest collection of Irish heritage, culture and history. Free admission.
Delyth Thomas Art (QueenieVT) @delyththomasart.com Disabled, non binary #Webcomic creator and creature designer. #Dinosaur fanatic and #dragon connoisseur.
Icon by @werepuppy
Socials - https://delyththomasart.carrd.co
Tags #mythicmayhem #dragon #art #oc #spiritcaller
Sewzinski @sewzinski.bsky.social Art, illustration, pattern design, folklore, flowers, and something yet to be revealed. This is where I thrash. NeverAI She/her
https://linktr.ee/sewzinski
Carl East @thecarleast.bsky.social Manager of award winning bookshop by day, mild mannered janitor by night. Lynx in bio. 🐈