Richard Fallon @richardfallon.bsky.social Research Associate in Natural History Humanities at the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, Cambridge (https://www.esc.cam.ac.uk/staff/dr-richard-fallon). Author of "Contesting Earth's History", "Reimagining Dinosaurs", and more. Also, graptolites.
Iman Sheeha (she/her) @drsheeha.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature at Brunel University of London
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Cael M Keegan @caelkeegan.bsky.social Media nerd, gaymer, teacher, critic, theorist. Associate Professor of Film/Moving Image Studies at Concordia University, Montréal. Bard energy. Author of "Lana and Lilly Wachowski: Sensing Transgender" and a bunch of other stuff.
Witold Konopka @pipesnscotland.bsky.social Bagpiper, scholar, fascinated with Scottish history, literature and culture. Currently exploring Scottish contemporary crime fiction aka Tartan Noir
@miriamrose85.bsky.social @miriamrose85.bsky.social 3rd year creative writing student. Horror and psychological thriller fan.
Noel Mellor @noelmellor.bsky.social Lecturer - Content marketing | Researcher - Film promotion and marketing | Author - Film Marketing in Context (Routledge).
https://noelmellor.com/
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.
Elizabeth (Liz) Acosta @elizacosta24.bsky.social music cognition, film sound, audiovisual media, stats, behavioral/computational methods, horror stuff • PhD @TexasTech • MA @LeedsUni • BA @WUSTL • eepy
📷 Rachel Kiwior • banner @briscoepark
Alexia Mandla Ainsworth 🦇 @alexiamandla.bsky.social PhD Student at Stanford | Studying the literature, theatre, and games of the (very) long early modern period | Gothicist | Shakespeare+ | she/her
Katie Marie Robinson-Sherlock @kmrobinsonsherlock.bsky.social I write horror fiction under the name Katie Marie and publish academic research as Katie M. E. Robinson-Sherlock. My work explores disability, cosmic horror, and the ethics of storytelling.
✨ [anon phd student] @surejandotgif101.bsky.social aaa, ba, ma, phd student
she/her
pet haver
~comm studies~
*endo, health, media/pop culture, AuDHD*
@pajlikesgardens.bsky.social @pajlikesgardens.bsky.social
University Press of Mississippi @upmississippi.bsky.social Founded in 1970, UPM is the publishing arm of Mississippi’s state universities.
📚 Publishing books in African American studies, popular culture, and more.
💻 Learn more at https://www.upress.state.ms.us/!
Goosebart @goosebumpsart.bsky.social
Emma Merkling @emmamerkling.bsky.social Lecturer (Assist. Prof.) in British Art @manchester.ac.uk | c19 Horror/Occultism @cncsi.bsky.social | Co-Host @drawingbloodpod.bsky.social | Writing & teaching c19 British art & science | Victorian ecologies, bodies, occultisms, subjectivity | they/she 👻🔮
Juha Virtanen @jpvirtanen.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Creative Writing | Currently working on apocalyptic feelings and the end of the world | poet and writer
amber @tamponcave.bsky.social I borrow paranormal romance books from the library. And movies too.
Evan Benner @evanbenner.com Copywriter, concertgoer, and horror fiend. 🧛🏻🎧✏️🏳️🌈 (he/him)
https://linktr.ee/evanbenner
Billie Jane Mozal @billiejane.bsky.social Witchy Girl. Fifty something smut writer. Daughter of Persephone & Hecate. 🏳️⚧️🌙🏛🗝🏳️🌈
Gavin Miller @drgavinmiller.bsky.social Academic in medical humanities, science fiction, history of psy disciplines, and UFOs. English Literature, University of Glasgow. Blog www.ufos.ac.uk. Academic profile: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/staff/gavinmiller/
Tom Disney @tdisney85.bsky.social Associate Professor and Social Geographer at Northumbria University. My research applies geographical theory and spatial methods to social work and child welfare.
https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/d/tom-disney/
Susan Weidmann, Ph.D. Professor of Halloween @mysterysue.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Recreation Management at Appalachian State University , Halloween and Haunted House researcher studying #immersivehorror #hauntedhouse #storytelling #Halloween #recreationalfear #hauntedattractions #tourism
GG Dascal @gg-dascal.bsky.social 📚 Film studies • Cultural studies • Literature
🎓 PhD from the University of Manitoba
🏳️⚧️ Non-binary (they/them)
Dr Gheorghe Williams @gheorghewilliams.bsky.social ECR, contemp. Gothic drama, ecodramaturgy, queer theatre 🎭 Reviews Editor at Revenant (revenantjournal.com) 📖 @Gheorghe_L_W
Madelaine Culver @fromxthextower.bsky.social Writer, poet + horror scholar 💫
Debut poetry book: The Second Dream
Research: woman-led British horror film + intertextual poetics 💋🔪
www.notesfromthetower.info
Rosalynde AK @sisterdecay.bsky.social An unearthly, formless, chance-like apparition of life | Writing & Podcasts | (Co)[G]Hostess with the Mostess of Horror Vanguard
Dr Kerry G @kerrygoth.bsky.social Retired, widowed, disabled, cats - all the stereotypes. Recently completed a PhD on American haunted house narratives. Absolutely no shits left to give. Mainly trying to be a nice person. Minion to my feline overlords.
Steven Sheil @scsheil.bsky.social Screenwriter and director: 'Mum & Dad', 'Dead Mine'. Writer of dark fiction. Co-Director of Mayhem Film Festival @mayhemfilmfestival.bsky.social. Nottingham, UK. https://linktr.ee/StevenSheil
Creator of @adrianchills.bsky.social
nina @nintrixa.bsky.social film academic
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.
The Dark Projector @thedarkprojector.bsky.social Eric
Horror/Cult/Camp/Classic Films All Day! http://boxd.it/iBfJ 🏳️🌈 He/Him/His Ph.D. in American Culture Studies/Film Studies https://linktr.ee/thedarkprojector
Lex Pulos @elflex21.bsky.social Educator, game player, film and TV watcher, podcast listener, book reader, trying to be the best nerd teacher I can be.
https://boxd.it/aXzPd
S. E. Perez (she/her) @okielele.bsky.social
Sarah Wride @srwride.bsky.social Historian of culture & ideas | hows, whys, & effects of writing & making c18th+ | now: political activism's role in framing practice; ethics of reimagining historical homicides | @york.ac.uk, @ihr.bsky.social, & in the wild | shop window 👉 sarahwride.co.uk
Drs. Mark Beumer @markbeumer.bsky.social Historian of Medicine | PhD-Candidate Charles University, First Faculty of Medicine, Institute for History of Medicine and Foreign Languages | Voorzitter @medhistoddemoulin.bsky.social | Directeur @kleiohistoria.bsky.social
Victoria Santamaría Ibor @victoriasantamaria.bsky.social PhD in horror cinema. Abjection/space
Martin Weller @edtechie.bsky.social Emeritus Prof at the Open University, living in Cardiff. Professional interests include Educational technology & open education. Fun interests include ice hockey (Cardiff Devils), vinyl, dogs, horror books, walking in Wales.
Núria Molines-Galarza @nuriamolines.bsky.social Prof. d'Estudis Anglesos i Traducció (Universitat de València). Traductora de llibres. Directora de la revista Asparkía. || Lecturer of English Studies&Translation (UV). Literary Translator. Editor-in-chief of Asparkía.
www.nuriamolines.com
Britt Camm @thesaltkeeper.bsky.social Writing and reading and dreaming. https://brittcamm.com/
Olivia Colborn-Clark @oliviacolbornclark.bsky.social PhD candidate in English Literature at Northumbria University 📖 Consuming modernist cultures in Newcastle, 1910-39
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).
Dr Rhys Steven Jones @rhysteven.bsky.social asst prof film, media & culture @UvA_Amsterdam | historical materialism - critical theory - horror cinema - pop culture | he/him
Sam Thomas @literarymetal.bsky.social Associate Professor of American Studies
Pynchon | Film & TV | Metal & Experimental Music | Genre & Franchise Culture | Political Violence | Star Wars
he/him
Views my own
David S. Moon @daimoon.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Politics, teaching and writing about politics, ideology and pro-wrestling, with a bit of Wales 🏴 when I can. https://www.davidsmoon.co.uk
Karl Johnson @karlpjohnson.bsky.social Shetlander in Edinburgh, Sociology lecturer, Gaada advisory board, comic & sci-fi fan, parent and dog butler.
Wrote The Loki Variations📗 https://saraband.net/sb-title/the-loki-variations/
He/Him. Views are mine and Morag's🐶
Dr Kate Fitzgerald @katefitzgerald.bsky.social Writer, hound mother, goat botherer, film dingus, AuDHD, she/her.
"Too shouty." - Everyone ever.
Vampire Fangs. Laugh Bag. Uncle One-Tooth.
http://raisingdemons.ghost.io
https://boxd.it/1fUL
Leland Merritt @lelandmerritt.bsky.social PhD studying the intersection between horror and the Hebrew Bible. My wife says all I talk about is horror and football. My posts prove this. (He/him)
Jillian Allen @jillianallen144.bsky.social Horror scholar and poet at San Francisco State University. Co-founder & poetry editor of two-headed press, an indie press dedicated to the monstrous & the weird.
Lover of all things gothic and goth
Mars Nicolí @marsnicoli.bsky.social One of those queers.
PhD candidate on Trans Horror.
He/him ze/hir
Fishnets and Philosophy Podcast @fandppodcast.bsky.social She/They 🏳️⚧️🇨🇦🇮🇪
Fishnets and Philosophy is a podcast that discusses horror and genre films through a Queer lens.
You can find my writing at www.fishnetsandphilosophy.com
Graham🐝 @grahamthings.bsky.social Retired special ed teacher. Fascinated by the weird, the beautiful and the extreme especially in Horror cinema. Love all things Gothic. Indie Horror, Physical Media, Cats, Vegetarian, Fledgling Birdwatcher…
Letterboxd… https://boxd.it/L4Zx
Mylene Pharma @dracula.church I met a man who loved everything, and he died in a flood of shit
Writing/audio work portfolio at https://dracula.church/
James C. Taylor @jamesctaylor.bsky.social Teaching Fellow at the University of Warwick's Film and TV Department. Wealth and fame I ignored, pursuing academia as my reward. He/him.
Daniela Urzola @danielaurzolag.bsky.social Crítica y programadora de cine
✍🏼 Caimán Cuadernos de Cine, Filmtopia, Revista Mutaciones, NUEBO
📽 FILMADRID
Female Feedback Film Festival @femalefilmfestival.bsky.social The FEEDBACK Female Film Festival (FFFF) was created for women filmmakers and screenwriters. The goal is to showcase the best of female talent from around the world.
https://femalefilmfestival.com/
https://filmfreeway.com/FEEDBACKFemaleFilmFestivalFFFF
Paula García-Rodríguez @pgarrod.bsky.social PhD student at University of Málaga 👩🏼💻📖
Horror and the Gothic! 🧛🏻♀️🦇
Gender, Feminism, Queer, and Embodiment
Member of @trans-use.bsky.social
Associate Editor of @jaclrinfo.bsky.social
Stuart Wright @stuartwright.bsky.social Screenwriter. Adapting 2 novels for tv: David Nolan’s Manc noir BLACK MOSS & Justin Robertson’s folk horror THE TANGLE, developing a black metal horror & more. Britflicks Podcast. LFC.
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
Marcella @marcella17.bsky.social Horror Film Researcher
Bears and Bunnies enthusiast
Still trying to figure out this whole life thing…
Delicia Johnson @18thc-delicia.bsky.social 18th century England enthusiast, proud Janeite, library assistant, habitual tea drinker
Siân Pearce @sianp.bsky.social Public law solicitor, horror researcher.
"Gary Sherman's Nemesis" (Abertoir, 2023)
https://linktr.ee/SianP
chad black @chadblack.bsky.social Impostor. Latin America, Theory, Marx, Freud, Lacan, Horror, Monsters. Cycling, trail running, music. RDU, TYS, UIO, ABQ, BAL, SAN
malinchecyborg @malinchecyborg.bsky.social e-libertine. past and future history. chronicling stray thoughts. cdmx.
Thomas Britt @thomasrbritt.bsky.social Professor of Screen Ethics and Screenwriting.
Commissioning Editor of Cinegraphia: Journal of Literature, Film, and Other Media.
Editor at Caméra-Stylo.
Music critic.
Add some music to your day.
Lisaa @spacesandplaces.bsky.social Video game PhD Student at Sunderland Uni. I love books, dogs and coffee. I post a lot about puzzles 🧩
Meghan Hewitt @floodme.bsky.social Researching all things horror lit, film, and gaming focusing on identity, monsters, and storytelling.
B.A TCD - M.A UCL
https://linktr.ee/thefloodflow
she/her
Poulomi Choudhury @choudhup.bsky.social Researcher in Animal Studies, Environmental Humanities, Horror. Completed PhD thesis explored depictions of meat and cannibalism within the context of the current climate crisis and food systems 🌱
Alex (thebetterwithbooksclub) @alexherod.bsky.social Books, writing, horror, mental health.
Creative Writing PhD student (PT) & snr marketing manager (FT) at Salford Uni; counsellor.
Happy in water.
Manchester, UK.
She/Her
@thebetterwithbooksclub on t'other apps
https://linktr.ee/thebetterwithbooksclub
Angela Wright @angelawright1794.bsky.social Professor of Romantic Literature, University of Sheffield. Romanticism, Gothic, author and general co-ed of Ann Radcliffe for forthcoming Cambridge edition and gen co-ed of Cambridge Elements in the Gothic. PL AHRC project ‘Ann Radcliffe, Then and Now’
Rhi Belle @spoopyspoonie.bsky.social Disability trans and queer stuff.
Impatient crip/"bad vibes"
They/them
Kev Bickerdike @kevbickerdike.bsky.social Space, place and horror film.
https://spaceandbritishhorrorcinema.wordpress.com/
Katherine Lucia Prentice @katherineprentice.bsky.social Glasgow based horror nerd👻
Researching disability, witchcraft, decoloniality, & ecofeminism in LatAm and Celtic folk horror @ northumbria uni🧿
Julia Chan @juliachan.bsky.social Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication, Media, and Film at University of Calgary.
Dr Sean Travers @seanjetravers.bsky.social PhD in Trauma, Popular Culture and Postmodernism. Published with Palgrave Macmillan. Illustrator. Horror, movies, TV, games, cats. #mutantfam she/her
Dipyaman Bhowmick @dipyamanbhowmick.bsky.social MA in English student, Jadavpur University (2025-2027).
Interested in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature, Gothic studies, and environmental humanities.
Alex Ludwig @celexo.bsky.social “Dies Irae Guru” • Liberal Arts @BerkleeCollege • Author, "Hearing Death at the Movies” https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-78795-9
Co-editor, “Woodstock Then & Now” https://libraries.clemson.edu/press/books/woodstock-then-and-now/
Daniela Mier @danielamier.bsky.social Professor for Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Konstanz
https://www.psychologie.uni-konstanz.de/mier/
social cognition, schizophrenia, forensic psychiatry, psychotherapy, fMRI
#govegan
Catherine Pugh @catherinepugh.bsky.social Horror Scholar. Writer. Guide Dog puppy raiser.
Max Gee @maxgee1284.bsky.social Screenwriter/playwright/prose junkie working mostly in science fiction and horror. Principal Academic in Screenwriting at Bournemouth Uni.
Dr Eve Benhamou @evebenhamou.bsky.social She/her. Senior Lecturer / Maitresse de conférences, Université Bordeaux Montaigne. Teaches & researches contemporary American cinema & anglophone animation. University of Bristol alumni
Book on Disney animation published by EUP (2022)
Cüneyt Çakırlar @cuneytcakirlar.bsky.social Associate Professor of Film & Visual Culture @ Nottingham Trent University, UK.
Heartbreak Welkin @umabreakdown.bsky.social Quake shirt with a French tuck. https://umabreakdown.neocities.org/JunkInTheTrunk/
https://linktr.ee/Umabreakdown
Joana Jacob Ramalho @jori-saudade.bsky.social Lecturer (Teaching) at University College London | PhD in Film Studies | Aznavour fan with a love for classical musicals and all things dark and Gothicky.
Eric Parisot @eparisot.bsky.social Associate Professor in English at Flinders University.
Eighteenth-century and Romantic studies. Death and suicide. Graveyard poetry. The Gothic. Vampires. Jane Austen. In another life would make a killing as a wedding DJ. https://shorturl.at/GWY35
The Horror and Her podcast @spookybiqch.bsky.social How horror stays with us, changes us, and becomes part of who we are.
Host @ems06 | women’s horror origin stories
https://linktr.ee/Thehorrorandher
Mostly horror. Mostly.
Sam Mayne @samwritesweird.bsky.social Silly little horror writer and barely-functional academic. Not jazzed about the climate crisis. Part-time bog witch/full-time problem
Sophie Hodgetts @drshodgetts.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ Durham University | They/them | Interested in sex, gender, hormones, PMDD, and neurodiversity | Views are my own.
Fan of cats, vampires, horror, video games, and music.
Staff page: https://www.dur.ac.uk/staff/sophie-hodgetts/
Emma Stott @stottemma.bsky.social Lead Practitioner of English, Author of Speedy Reading (John Catt) and Jimi Hendrix On Track; The Zombies On Track (Sonicbond). Love On Track out now.
pikachu bebendo monster @ketiapina.bsky.social 32yo. pisces. she/her. falo de gatos, tubarões, filmes de terror e livros - got loads of therapy and it turns out i’m still a bitch
Finlay J Beatson @fjbeatson.bsky.social University of Dundee PhD studying sexual perversion in Gothic Lit | Dracula enthusiast 🦇 | 🏳️🌈🏴
He/Him
Irene Bulla @irenebulla.bsky.social Instructor @ Italian Cultural Institute, Lisbon. PhD @ Columbia. #Fantastic and #weird fiction and all things #monstrous
Máiréad Casey @maireadcasey.bsky.social Research interests: horror, gender, genre, sexuality onscreen, representations of sexual violence, demon possession
@tosharach.bsky.social @tosharach.bsky.social obsessed with horror movies and my cat
Dr GRat @drgrat.bsky.social Historian turned Screenwriter. Started in New Orleans, a few years in Macon, a few more in Edinburgh, ended up in Austin.
“One must imagine Sisyphus happy” — Camus- T Teraga @teraga.bsky.social Science and Environmental Writer | BA Environmental Studies + PGCert Social and Psychological Inquiry | Antispeciesist 🌿.
#environmentalpsychology #geography #proenvironmentalbehaviour #behaviourchange #scicomm #privacy
Josie @jotorresbarth.bsky.social Asst. prof of TV/media studies. Current book project: US radio + TV horror anthologies 1940s-1960s, gender/domestic space + media technology, the uncanny. #FirstGen. She/her.
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