Heartland (The Sisters Forum) @heartlandforum.bsky.social Fan forum for The Sisters of Mercy
SJ Groenewegen @sjgroenewegen.co.uk SFF author, trans-inclusive feminist, gay, non-binary, autistic. BEM.
Website: https://www.sjgroenewegen.co.uk - includes links to all my publications.
Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/sjgroenewegen - new posts every so often on politics and/or writing.
M.H.Urban - Horror Author @mhurban.bsky.social Just another indie author trying to come out of her hard drive. Horror, psychological thriller, dark fantasy... I like them like my coffee: strong and black. No AI, all my mistakes are human-made.
mhurban.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/
Mike Bailey @linusd.bsky.social 20th century art, surrealism; Georgian antiques, porcelain and silver; cats; Europe; Woke; pro Palestine & two states; taxing wealth not work; climate change action; reentering CU & SM then EU; pro multiculturalism & immigration. Anti fascist, anti racism
Sarah Appleton @sarahappleton.bsky.social 🎥 Co-director of Shudder Original The Found Footage Phenomenon and Shudder Exclusive The J-Horror Virus! ♑️
📹 I make blu-ray extras for Severin Films, BFI, Arrow Films, Toy Robot, Via Vision, VinSyn, Rekall Films, Delirium…
www.caprisarproductions.com
Elizabeth - hand-crafted unique dolls & more @elizabethdollmaker.bsky.social Australian mixed media artist & author who is inspired by Ghost/Gothic/Vintage culture and creates strange characters. "There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness" - Edgar Allan Poe
https://www.youtube.com/@elizabethwilsonartistauthor
Matt Mason - One Chaotic Author @chaoticauthor.online Indie mixed genre horror and fantasy author (Died 2025 - account managed by my widow, so I can carry on spooking you!)
https://chaoticauthor.carrd.co/
https://chaoticauthor.online/
Paul Watson @lazaruscorporation.co.uk Artist | Hastings, UK | He/him | Grand Council of #Hookland | https://www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/
Hacked Off @hackedoff.bsky.social Born out of the UK tabloid phone hacking scandal. We fight for press accountability, for justice for victims still denied and for a responsible press that protects the public, upholds democracy, and defends free expression. https://linktr.ee/hackedoff
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.
Jennifer 📚🎧❣️ @jdawson001.bsky.social ♿️🏳️🌈American SFF author, poet, editor, & book reviewer living in England. She/her. The Poetry Society & The British Fantasy Society. Old OWW member.
Online at: WorldsOfMayhem.com
https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/dawson001
🏳️⚧️ rights = human rights.
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.
Edward Martin III @edwardmartiniii.bsky.social Author, screenwriter, filmmaker, and solver of problems (usually my own, I’ll admit). Always happy to talk story with story-talkers. Always welcoming to under-represented voices, trans voices, etc.
If I ran for office, my “party” would be Starfleet.
Martin Delaney 🐈⬛🎹🧟♂️📸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️✍🏻 @delaneyplanet.bsky.social Cat-dad, composer, educator, horror writer, parent, photographer. Not always in that order. Feminist-in-progress.
Tom Servo @angelus04.bsky.social #RetroGames #RetroGaming #AdventureGame #AdventureGames #PointandClick #SierraOnline #Lucasarts #HorrorGame #HorrorGames #HorrorGaming #MegaMan #Shantae #FinalFantasy #ResidentEvil #SilentHill #Metroidvania #Doom #Castlevania #MutantFam #HorrorMovie
Jennifer Gable @jennifergable.bsky.social 🌎🏟️🎪🎫Touring Headliner Viral🦠Comedian, Lol0nKillTony,
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emmatonkin.bsky.social @emmatonkin.bsky.social Researcher, sometimes lecture - currently digital health, data ethics, misc other. Charity swimathons. Ink, fiction, occasional yarn. Zombologiste à temps partiel. Citoyenne de nulle part. Franglaise. πόλλ’ ἠπίστατο ἔργα, κακῶς δ’ ἠπίστατο πάντα.
William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social Author of Neuromancer and, most recently, Agency (still above from “Kill Switch”, The X-Files, Season 5, Episode 11, co-written with Tom Maddox)
Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social Issue 2: The Devil Has the Best Tunes is due out in October. Online shop reopens late September.
Edited by @scaryasfolk.bsky.social and @theharvestmaid.bsky.social.
Peter Anghelides @anghelides.bsky.social It's pronounced /ˌændʒɨˈliːdɨs/
Writer, script editor and producer of licensed #DoctorWho and #Blakes7 stuff
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 | The Tower, The Moon, The Gun 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸 @horrorculturist.bsky.social Gothic gardening, goblincore, dark art, horror, weird music. 🌿🍁🍂🎃
Agnostic atheist. Nyctophile. AuDHD. Demi-Pan. They/them. | Contrary to internet lore, I am not lost, sorrowful, despairing, trapped, drowning, falling, or stuck in a maze. (You OK?)
Temporal Boundary @temporalboundary.bsky.social Editor at Temporal Boundary Press (Undefined Boundary: The Journal of Psychick Albion, Waiting For You: A Detectorists Zine, Man is the Animal: A Coil Zine).
Titan Books @titanbooks.bsky.social Leading independent publisher of Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror, Crime, Pop Culture, Movie/TV tie-ins & much more 📚 Also, @hardcasecrime.bsky.social
Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social academic/freelance writer, on Gothic, Horror film, Science Fiction. Latest: Graveyards: A History of Living with the Dead (2025). Next 2 books: a taxonomy of the undead and a biography of H P Lovecraft
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
City Witch 🇨🇦 @citywitch1973.bsky.social Urban witch. Nasty Canadian. Love the paranormal. Middle aged cat lady. Gen X and feral AF. Low Level Demon. Wrestling is my guilty pleasure. In my Goblincore Forest moment. Accept coffee and cigarettes as tribute.
Cherry Red Records @cherryredrecords.bsky.social The unmistakable sound of independence. A record label releasing the most independent thinking music since 1978.
https://linktr.ee/cherryredrecords
Dr Ami Nisa @ami-n.bsky.social Autism researcher at Swansea University | PhD in found-footage horror film
Studies in the Fantastic @fantastic-journal.bsky.social A peer-reviewed journal devoted to the Fantastic in literature, film, and other media. Send essays of 6,000-12,000 words to fantastic@ut.edu
Kim Newman @annodracula.bsky.social Novelist and Critic. https://johnnyalucard.com/
Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social Words and smiles.Partridge,Thick of It,Veep,Death of Stalin, Dr Strangelove Taskmaster,Podcast #StrongMessageHere. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m0024cp6?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile Patron of Child Poverty Action Group, @cpaguk.bsky.social.
Mark Rees @reviewwales.bsky.social Author | Art Historian | Cultural Adventurer. Arts journalist & PhD researcher in the Gothic & the uncanny in visual culture. Ghosts & Folklore of Wales podcast. Made in Port Talbot. Happiest at Halloween.
Katherine Lucia Prentice @katherineprentice.bsky.social Glasgow based horror nerd👻
Researching disability, witchcraft, decoloniality, & ecofeminism in LatAm and Celtic folk horror @ northumbria uni🧿
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
Lord Jubalon Flux @lordflux.co.uk He/Him
Fortean, Comics Reader & TTRPGer
Hailer of Eris
Zine Reader: Folklore, Occult & TTRPG
Whimsy Purveyor
Was a mathematician, then retired
Weebl (with bits) @mrweebl.bsky.social Animator, Composer, Director, Scriptwriter, Voices.
Odd ideas for a living.
Yes, you should hire me.
YT: https://youtube.com/@weebl
Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/mrweebl
Discord : https://discord.com/invite/hVFFj8U
Website : https://weebls-stuff.com
Mark Kirkbride @markkirkbride.bsky.social Author of The Plot Against Heaven, Game Changers of the Apocalypse (Kindle Book Awards semi-finalist) and Satan's Fan Club. https://markkirkbride.com/ 
Captain Howdy @captainhowdy.bsky.social [Skip Intro]
Redbubble: https://www.redbubble.com/people/captain-howdy/shop?asc=u
Folk 'n' Hell @folknhell.bsky.social Three chums, one microphone, and a whole world of folk horror. The Folk n Hell podcast unearths delights from around the world and tries to agree if they're worth our (and your) time.
www.folknhell.com or wherever you get your podcasts
Baz To The Bone @baztothebonecast.bsky.social Horror and cult film podcast with Baz Bishop. Deep dives, dark humor, and bad taste done properly. The kind of show your mother warned you about. Check it out at beacons.ai/baztothebonecast
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.
A Mutual Fascination: British Horror and the Psy Disciplines @mutualfascination.bsky.social A Leverhulme Trust Research Project, based at the University of Glasgow, investigating the relationship between the ‘psy disciplines’ and horror fiction in British culture.
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
Amber Hathaway, Little White Flowers author @amber-hathaway.bsky.social Horror and dark fiction writer from central Maine. Physics PhD. Fan of things spooky and/or sparkly. Cosplayer, Disneybounder, and Pokemon GO player. Autistic ace. She/her.
Tanweer Dar @tanweerdar.com Indie author & artist (No AI). Teacher. Muslim. Loves cats, nature, walking, gardening, house plants, history, art, poetry, reading, gaming & film (esp. horror, fantasy & sci-fi).
Love for all, hatred for none.
🌐 tanweerdar.com
Birmingham, UK
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
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
Trish Wilson @trishcwilson.bsky.social Trish Wilson is all about what scares you. Her short horror stories appear in numerous publications. As the former Media Director for The Horror Zine (now closed), she had interviewed Ramsey Campbell, Bruce Campbell, Joe Lansdale and more.
Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social The petty and antagonistic Frog of Super Castlevania 4! Sometimes. Lead writer/world designer for Ultima Studios, Horror Creator of the Bloodied Rose: Verses of Midnight setting. Co-host of #HorrorWritersChat.
He/They, Agender, 30's Eastern European.
Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social Creator of @scarfolk.bsky.social. "This guy, who apparently saw the future" - Edward Snowden. Running an ASD/ADHD operating system.
https://www.richardlittler.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/
Paul M(icheals). Feeney @paulmfeeney.bsky.social Indie writer, mostly horror. Avid reader, movie/TV watcher, guitarist, occasional reviewer at This is Horror. Find me: https://linktr.ee/PaulFny75 (he/him)
Lanie Treen @lanietreen.bsky.social Aspiring polymath. 80s enthusiast. Travelphile. Craft beer adventuress. Occasional vocalist. D&D nerd. She/her. Surrender? Never.
The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com Independent news website. Only publishes articles written by academics and researchers. No paywall, no ads. All Creative Commons licensed.
Sign-up now for our free newsletter: https://theconversation.com/uk/newsletters/
This account is mostly automated.
Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social Dad, husband, President, citizen. barackobamabooks.com
Máiréad Casey @maireadcasey.bsky.social Research interests: horror, gender, genre, sexuality onscreen, representations of sexual violence, demon possession
Pete Turner @ilovethatfilm.bsky.social Senior Lecturer DigitalMediaProduction OxfordBrookes Author: Found Footage Horror Films: A Cognitive Approach + DevilsAdBooks The Blair Witch Project. Second Sight contributor. Running and Pop-Punk. Forthcoming book: Unsuitable Films and Video Audiences.
Mar Vincent @marofthebooks.bsky.social Weird little stories in Analog, Strange Horizons, Escape Pod, and other fantastical places. Always seeking human creativity (NO AI), coffee, and petrichor. https://www.marvincent.com/
Currently in the liminal space known as novel revisions. 📝✍️✍️
Xavier Aldana Reyes @xaldanareyes.bsky.social Reader in English Literature and Film •
International Gothic Association co-president (2022-2026) • Manchester #Gothic Centre founding member • #Horror Studies book series editor • Profile: https://tinyurl.com/2czvabnz
Ten Acre Books @tenacrebooks.bsky.social Special books celebrating great TV shows and the people who make them. tenacrebooks.co.uk | https://linktr.ee/tenacrebooks
The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social Empowering authors since 1884. The largest UK union for writers, illustrators and literary translators. #societyofauthors #humanauthored
Lady Kraken @cjhenderson.bsky.social Scottish fantasy writer. She/her. Books, cats, more books. SFF, language, history, Twin Peaks, BSG, Star Trek. Co-founder @edinburghsff.com; member @gsfwc. Latest story is in Gallus anthology.
Writing About Writing About Writing @writingabtwriting.bsky.social A free blog about writing books, and books about writing, and reading books about writing.
Writing About Writing About Writing is a project by @thatemilymunro.bsky.social
Find it at Writingaboutwritingaboutwriting.com
David Leavitt @davidleavitt.bsky.social Award-Winning Multimedia Journalist.
Bylines: CBS, AXS, Yahoo, Examiner, etc.
I love #Games, #Lotr, #StarWars, and #StarTrek.
Casual #MTG #TTRPG, & #Boardgames player.
Work w/me: DavidLeavitt@gmail.com
linktr.ee/david_leavitt
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 • /|\
Wildlife @worldwildlife.bsky.social Wildlife Community for those who care about species & habitat conservation. Photography, Art, Videos of Birds,Mammals,Reptiles,Plants,insects
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61578489868735
https://www.tiktok.com/@wildlife.net?_t=ZN-8yV9vhsHk0c&_r=1
Stewart Guy @stewartguy.bsky.social Naturalist. Wildlife Photographer.
Aka StewRat. Founder of Wildlife.net
Share, Inspire, Protect.
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
🏳️🌈
Promoted by Elfrede Brambley-Cranshaw on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales. c/I po box 78066, London. SE16 9GQ
Ian Coomber @madeindescribable.bsky.social Occasional Academic. Sporadic Backpacker. Constant Geek.
Helen Cullen @wordsofhelen.bsky.social Irish writer. Author of The Truth Must Dazzle Gradually and The Lost Letters of William Woolf. Repd. by Peter Straus, RCW (UK) and Kim Witherspoon, Inkwell (USA). www.helencullen.ie
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
May Walker @maywalker.bsky.social Horror Author and Colored Pencil Artist
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
Duran Duran @durandurancom.bsky.social The official Bluesky of Duran Duran. Visit duranduran.com for tour dates, news, store and more.
INDICATOR @indicator.bsky.social The UK's favourite boutique 4K UHD and Blu-ray label.
Part of British film distributor Powerhouse Films Ltd, UK.
Shop here:
powerhousefilms.co.uk
Julianne Regan @julianneregan.bsky.social Songs, book chapters, and journalistic pieces. Nature, 2nd-generation Irishness, melancholy & joy! Survived the great All About Eve miming disaster.
小島秀夫 @hideokojima.bsky.kojimaproductions.jp ゲームクリエイター：僕の体の70%は映画でできている
Game Creator: 70% of my body is made of movies.
Dr Diane A Rodgers @dianearodgers.bsky.social Doctor of Folk Horror & Wyrd TV | tinyurl.com/WyrdTV | Centre for Contemporary Legend | President of ISCLR | National Folklore Survey | Derby Dracula | The CK5 band | All views my own (she/her) https://linktr.ee/dr.diane.rodgers
The Tiny Bookcase Podcast @tinybookcase.bsky.social TTB Official Account. Ben (@benholroyddell.bsky.social) & Nico (@nicorogers.bsky.social) are joined by guests on their quest to write stories for a Bibliomancer! Episodes Regularly! A BFS Award-Winning Podcast!
Teenage Cancer Trust @teenagecancertrust.bsky.social We’re the only UK charity providing specialised nursing care and expert youth support for young people with cancer. Learn more about us here: https://www.teenagecancertrust.org/about-us
Cliff Jones Jr. @cliffjones.bsky.social Author/editor of dreampunk and weird SFFH fiction: DRECK (2023), MIRRORMAZE (2020), SOMNISCOPE (2024), THE LASTING LANDS (2027). Watty winner, Imadjinn finalist, linguist, artist, coder, neurodivergent, INFP-T, 4w5, Scorpio, he/him. CliffJonesJr.com
GG Dascal @gg-dascal.bsky.social 📚 Film studies • Cultural studies • Literature
🎓 PhD from the University of Manitoba
🏳️⚧️ Non-binary (they/them)
Cat Treadwell @druidcat.bsky.social Author, reviewer, pagan priest and crazy lady from the Midlands, UK. Also yarn, cats and border collies 😊
https://linktr.ee/CatTreadwell
Phelim McDermott @openspacer.bsky.social I improvise. I open space, I facilitate. I make unforgettable theatre, amongst others. Director My Neighbour Totoro. Tao of Glass
Artistic Director @ www.improbable.co.uk
www.devotedanddisgruntled.com
Hilton Ariel Ruiz @hiltonarielruiz.bsky.social Filmmaker behind The Amityville Lost Tape & Zombie with a Shotgun - @zombiewithashotgun.bsky.social
Watch➡️ https://tinyurl.com/3fwy6f3j | https://tubitv.com/movies/100043140/zombie-with-a-shotgun
More 🎥 🌐 https://linktr.ee/hiltonarielruiz
Kristina • Truborn Press @nwreader.bsky.social 💀EIC at Truborn Press
💀Horror Enthusiast in the PNW
💀Book Lover/Reviewer
www.trubornpress.com
Bloody Disgusting @bloody-disgusting.com 💀 Your #1 source for all things #horror 💀
Discord ➡️ http://discord.gg/s452vAnDx2
Runalong Womble @runalongwomble.bsky.social Womble of Liverpool. Enjoys geekery, bad jokes & may tempt a bit. pronouns - he/they/Womble Also Book Blogger/Tempter run fast, laugh hard, be kind - https://www.runalongtheshelves.net
Ed Fortune @edfortune.com Journalist/Columnist for Starburst Magazine, print & online.
Popculture media type, covering books, games,TV, films,theatre & tech.
Podcaster, D&D person, that sort of thing.
He/Him. Edinburgh.
Liam Hogan @liamjhogan.bsky.social Award winning #Shortstory #Writer
#SciFi 📚: A Short History of the Future, Northodox Press
#Fantasy 📚: Happy Ending Not Guaranteed, Arachne Press
Oxford Physics, Codexian.
Everything, Ever ✍️: http://happyendingnotguaranteed.blogspot.co.uk
ChilternGreens @chilterngreens.bsky.social A home for @greenparty.org.uk members in the Chilterns💚
Published and promoted by Green Party of England and Wales c/o PO Box 78066. London
Ludibriumventis @ludibriumventis.bsky.social Plaything of the winds. Professional cat herder, part-time writer, dancer, time traveler extraordinaire. Moss gardener, fencer, needleworker, crocheter, and user of the serial comma.
Doctor Who Book Club @andwbcpodcast.bsky.social Chris (from the UK) & Matt (from the US) discuss a Doctor Who novel each month, from a variety of ranges. Read along as we explore the written worlds... 📚
https://andwbcp.libsyn.com/
Horror Underground Film Festival @horrorfilmfestival.bsky.social Various options to submit to the Festival. A HYBRID model. Cinema screenings for audience feedback video.Blog and podcast interviews. And bonus Virtual screening (optional!).
https://filmfreeway.com/horrorunderground
https://festivalforhorror.comi
The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk 💚 Real hope. Real change.
greenparty.org.uk
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales c/o PO Box Green Party London SE1P 6YL
Robert Lloyd Parry @nunkie.bsky.social performance storyteller and anthologizer
www.nunkie.co.uk
patreon.com/RobertLloydParry