@graemethedean.bsky.social @graemethedean.bsky.social 
Vayse @vayseesyav.bsky.social A podcast about weird stuff…
Peter C Hine and Stephen James Buckley explore magic, mysticism, high strangeness & the occult. Usually Hine doing the posting.
Find us here: https://linktr.ee/vayse
Jennifer Schell @jenniferschell16.bsky.social English Professor, Cetacean Enthusiast, Canine Therapy Human. I write about anthropogenic species extinction, Arctic ecosystems, more-than-human organisms, and blue humanities. Ocean obsessed! Fairbanks, AK. Views my own.
Steve Toase @stevetoase.bsky.social Writer based in Franconian Forest, Germany
Fortean Times comics reviewer
published at Tor.com Shimmer 3LBE, Lackington's, Lead writer on Haunt www.stevetoase.co.uk
To Drown in Dark Water from Undertow Publications
Dirt Upon My Skin from Black Shuck Books
Nepenthe Press @nepenthepress.bsky.social Fine Press Publisher of Horror, Weird Fiction & Gothic Literature
Illustrated, Limited & deluxe editions.
Based in North Yorkshire, UK
www.nepenthepress.co.uk
Folk&Horror Phenomena @folkphenomena.bsky.social Philosophy, SW and Education guy. Reviews of gigs, albums and theatre in the folk world. Considers all horror media. Writes with an emphasis on experiential feel and wonder. Sheffield based, also on Youtube and 1/3 of "3 Men and a Whisky".
Jez Conolly @jezconolly.bsky.social Discomfort blanket
Books: The Thing | Dead of Night | Seconds
Essays: Routledge Companion to Folk Horror | Horrifying Children | Scarred for Life vol 3
Memoir: Capture Spiral
Miniplay: Adam and Yves
Horror fiction writer
He/Him
https://linktr.ee/jezconolly
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).
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
WEIRD WALK @weirdwalk.bsky.social Publishing zines and books, curating events, walking in circles…
https://shop.weirdwalk.co.uk
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
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/
The Night Monitor @thenightmonitor.bsky.social Soundtracking unexplained phenomena.
https://thenightmonitor.bandcamp.com
Grey Malkin @grizzelgreedigut.bsky.social Folk horror, cats, mist, cheesy chips.
English Heretic @englishheretic.bsky.social English Heretic, The Astral Geographic, Enter the Cineplasm!
Brontë Schiltz @bronteschiltz.bsky.social 🖊: @bigissue.com @bigissuenorth.bsky.social 👻 PhD on the BBC’s Televisual Gothic @manmetuni.bsky.social 👩💼 Members Coordinator @igagoths.bsky.social
Phil Hine @philh.bsky.social Occult Author, Researcher, Publisher, Lecturer.
https://enfolding.org/
William Lamb @witticaltheory.bsky.social PhD researcher at University of Cambridge looking into Weird Ecologies in 70s British television. VERY open to any good gothic/nature/tv/ghost story suggestions
https://linktr.ee/witticaltheory
Saorfhlaith Burton @drfloraposte.bsky.social Lecturer at RGU; Ethnograper and sociologist. I write and research on hauntings, ghosts, graveyards, the wilderness, and other sundry death things.
Chris Josiffe @christopherjosiffe.bsky.social Writer, cataloguer, Fortean Times irregular, Gef the Talking Mongoose's authorised biographer, twitcher, Eschaton immanentizer.
COYW.
http://instagram.com/cjosiffeart/
gefmongoose.co.uk
Stone Club @stoneclub.bsky.social Stone Club believes the journey is as important as the destination and encourages people to pause and think about place in new ways; connecting ancient sites through community and conversation.
stoneclub.rocks
#MDANT
Rebecca Lambert (She/Her) ♾️🐭🍉 @reblambert.bsky.social Interdisciplinary Archaeologist; Wanderer, Ponderer.
Practises Make Places: Artists’ Responses to ‘Prehistoric’ Monuments - Manchester Metropolitan University & English Heritage.
Surprised, but very proud #MDANT
Neurodivergent person
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
Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social Sometimes I do graphic design stuff for telly and film. Other times I make spooky lino prints and things you can buy if you want...
📍Black Country (middle of the UK)
https://linktr.ee/SlipperyJack
PseudoPod 🎙️ @pseudopod.org The oldest short-fiction horror podcast. We have always lived in the tower. We/they/them 🦑 Co-Editors: Kat Day & Alex Hofelich | Host: Alasdair Stuart | Asst Eds: Scott Campbell & Joshua Tuttle | Audio: Chelsea Davis & Graeme Dunlop 🎙️ PseudoPod.org
Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social Award-Winning Publisher of New Weird Horror + More, via Portland, OR & Transilvania, Romania.
@AlexWoodroe.com, Editor in Chief.
@MattBlairstone.bsky.social, Publisher.
SUPPORT INDIE. Hail the Tenebrous Cult🖤☠️
https://linktr.ee/TenebrousPress
Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com Magazine of speculative fiction; stories of horror, wonder, and the weird since 1999. https://3lobedmag.com
ergot. @ergot.bsky.social https://www.ergot.press/
: Innovative literary horror and weird fiction :
: New work each Friday :
: Submissions OPEN :
: A paying venue :
: Merch https://www.teepublic.com/user/ergot :
: Edited by https://bsky.app/profile/perfidiousscript.bsky.social :
Ann VanderMeer @annvandermeer.bsky.social Editor, anthologist, writer, poet (because of Linda Addison), former feeder woman to Neo (who was the one).
(she/her)
#ProtectTransKids
#LoveIsLove
Weird Fiction Quarterly @weirdfictionquarterly.com A community writing project from authors publishing weird flash fiction 4 times a year.
Check out our Starter Packs to follow WFQ authors and artists.
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, M.Sc. @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.
Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com I’m on my way. https://www.stephengrahamjones.com
Emma Weird Wiltshire @weird-wiltshire.bsky.social 🌲🧚👻 Writer of strange & unusual tales. Ghosts, folklore & history from Wiltshire and beyond. Earth & nature lover. 👻🧚🌲 ☕ www.weird-wiltshire.co.uk
Arthur Mandal @arthurmandal.bsky.social Brit/US writer of uncanny fiction. Best Small Fictions 2025. Over 40 stories in The Barcelona Review, LITRO, Southeast Review, The Forge, The Los Angeles Review and others. @nightjarpress Based in Eugene, Oregon (but grew up in UK). www.arthurmandal.com
Justine Gardner @jbgrumpstone.bsky.social 🖊Word creature. 🪶Birb person.
Basically just an old* fart-in-a-bottle left on a dusty shelf somewhere in Brooklyn, NY.
*Old enough to know that being anti-fascist is 👍.
website: www.grumpstonegazette.com
linktree: https://linktr.ee/justine.gardner
Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social Our online shop will reopen in September.
Issue 2: The Devil Has the Best Tunes is due out in October.
Edited by @scaryasfolk.bsky.social and @theharvestmaid.bsky.social.
First Novel Prize @firstnovelprize.bsky.social Writing competition for unpublished and independently published novelists. Entries close on the 31st of May. Judged by Sally Williamson (Transworld) and Hayley Steed (Janklow & Nesbit). Organised by the Literary Studio. Bloomsbury, London
firstnovel.co.uk
James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social Surrounded by yowling, nebulous forms. Writer: Smack The Pony, Green Wing, Piglets, my first novel Pagans now available in paperback: https://www.waterstones.com/book/pagans/james-alistair-henry/2928377365622
National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social Last November top UK experts briefed leaders on the latest science to galvanise genuine emergency action on the climate & nature. The film version of this landmark event launched 7.04.26.
Find a screening near you
https://www.nebriefing.org/screening-map
Wendy Waring @wendywaring.bsky.social writer, editor, prof, traductrice
Queer ecofiction novel forthcoming @Stelliform.press: The Hunger of Those Who Built It
🌹 grew up in the Hammer, raising rabble world-wide 🌹
she | they | dr 🇨🇦 🏳️🌈 🇦🇺 🇫🇷
Queen's | UofT | ISTI | Clarion
Shonna White @shonnathewhite.bsky.social Author, artist, gamer & GIANT GEEK (she/her) 🇨🇦
LOST INFERNAL - COMING AUGUST 2026
Lostinfernal.com
Tortured soul behind the writer's resource
@descriptionary.bsky.social | descriptionary.wordpress.com
Brown Hound Press @brownhoundpress.bsky.social A small press in Lexington, KY that publishes offbeat mystery, dark humor, southern gothic & literary fiction. A free story each week! We pay authors.
brownhoundpress.com
Watson @captainpaul007.bsky.social Master Mariner, Marine Conservationist, Environmentalist, Writer and Poet
Melanie Atkinson @melatkinsonauthor.bsky.social Horror author, writing group enthusiast, TV fiend and sentient blancmange. 
WillowWinsham @willowwinsham.bsky.social Author and historian, specialising in witchcraft, folklore and cats. Co-founder of #FolkloreThursday
The Story of Witches - Out Now
https://bit.ly/3PNy8yC
willowwinsham.com
Malcolm Schofield @malcschofield.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Psychology. Researching paranormal and conspiracy beliefs. Council member, Society for Psychical Research.
Corinne Pollard @corinnepwriter.bsky.social Disabled writer of dark fantasy, horror, and sci-fi. Horror Tree Reviewer. Lover of metal music, graveyards and dusty libraries.
https://corinnepollard.wordpress.com/
https://linktr.ee/corinnepollard
The Folklore Podcast @folklorepod.bsky.social Official account of The Folklore Podcast. 2 million downloads worldwide. Created by folklorist and author Mark Norman. Find us online at http://www.thefolklorepodcast.com
Film/TV rep: Past Preservers Author for various publishers
Will Maclean @willmac23.bsky.social Writer. New novel, Solace House, out NOW (UK) from Atlantic Books. Also responsible for The Apparition Phase, the comedy/drama High Strangeness, and co-writer/presenter of the podcast Broken Veil.
Alex Davis @alexdavis1981.bsky.social Lecturer, workshopper and creative writing events organiser - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/alex-davis-events-17318878423
Chris Lackey @chrislackey.bsky.social Co-Host of Strange Studies of Strange Stories and Rachel Watches Star Trek!
Strange Studies of Strange Stories @strangestudies.bsky.social Home of Strange Studies of Strange Stories and The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast!
http://Patreon.com/WitchHouseMedia
http://StrangeStudies.com
http://HPPodcraft.com
Chad Fifer @chadfifer.bsky.social Podcast host, rocker and monster-about-town.
patreon.com/witchhousemedia chadfifer.bandcamp.com
strangestudies.com hppodcraft.com pitchblackmanor.com
Salt Books @saltpublishing.com One of the UK's leading indie publishers. High-impact fiction and brand-led non-fiction. Beautiful books you won’t forget. Available in all good bookshops.
The Ghost Story Book Club @ghoststorybookclub.bsky.social The Ghost Story Book Club podcast. Join host Adam Z. Robinson @adamzed.bsky.social as he discusses classic ghost stories with special guests. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!
Adam Z. Robinson @adamzed.bsky.social Writer and actor
Theatre co: The Book of Darkness & Light (https://bsky.app/profile/tbodal.bsky.social).
Host: @ghoststorybookclub.bsky.social
https://www.adamzrobinson.com
https://linktr.ee/tbodal #horror #ghoststories
Manchester Review @manchesterreview.bsky.social The Manchester Review is an online literary journal that brings together the best of new international writing.
https://www.themanchesterreview.co.uk/
Newcastle Green Party @nclgreenparty.bsky.social Published and promoted on behalf of the Green Party, at PO Box 78066, London, SE16 9GQ.
The Fiction Desk @thefictiondesk.com We’ve been publishing anthologies of new short fiction since 2010. Based in Scotland.
Metalabel @metalabel.bsky.social A new operating system for creative people
https://www.metalabel.com
David Frankel @daveyfrankel.bsky.social Prize-dodging writer of stories. Here despite popular demand. 'Forgetting is How We Survive' pub'd Saltpublishing.bsky.social . Shortlisted @edgehillprize.bsky.social. Chapbooks @nightjarpress.bsky.social & @salopress.bsky.social .
www.davidfrankel..co.uk
Banshee Press @bansheepress.bsky.social lit mag & small press | supported by the Arts Council of Ireland | issue 21 (spring/summer 2026) out now | latest book: Render by Billy Ramsell | https://bansheepress.org/
Daniel Carpenter @dancarpenter.bsky.social Commissioning editor at Titan Books. Debut collection HUNTING BY THE RIVER out now from Black Shuck Books.
https://linktr.ee/dancarpenter85
Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social He/him. From Bridgwater, in Bristol. Writer, content designer. Ghost stories, films. No alt text = no repost. Not here for politics. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/raynewman Header: my book Thin Places in Hard Concrete https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DC5PL7T4
generalsheenanigans @sheenalouisef.bsky.social 🇳🇴🇵🇭
Momster of Elsebub, Sindre & #SookieTheFarmCat living in the arse-end of Norway.
-I mostly post about (horror)books and cats. Sometimes I review the odd read.
-🚫DMs unless we know each other
Charlie Hughes @charliehughes77.bsky.social Horror writer. UK. Stories in Best Horror of the Year, Vols 15 & 16
Full list of published and new stories here 👇
charliehugheswriting.blogspot.com
Swan River Press @swanriverpress.bsky.social Independent press dedicated to literature of the gothic, fantastic, strange, and supernatural. Æon House, Dublin, Ireland. Posts by Brian J. Showers. www.swanriverpress.ie
Granta @grantamag.bsky.social The Magazine of New Writing.
https://granta.com/
Nightjar Press @nightjarpress.bsky.social Single short story chapbooks since 2009. Uncanny, dark, experimental. Manchester/London. Editor @nicholasroyle.bsky.social. Design @johnoakey.bsky.social.
A.C. Wise @acwise.bsky.social Author and reviewer. Stoker and Sunburst Award winner. Nebula, World Fantasy, Stoker, Locus, Shirley Jackson, British Fantasy, Lamba, and Ignyte finalist. She/her. www.acwise.net. https://linktr.ee/acwise
Finn Cotton @finncotton.bsky.social Editorial Director for Crime & Thriller at Transworld Books, part of Penguin Random House 🐧🏠📚 All views my own
Jon Courtenay Grimwood @joncg.bsky.social Maltese born, Edinburgh novelist. ASD. Lapsed journalist. PhD St Andrews. Writes as Jonathan Grimwood, Jack G & Jon Courtenay G. Owns cat that’s a drug addict.
he/him
‘Triumphant…’ FT
http://jonathangrimwood.com
http://jackgrimwood.com
http://j-cg.co.uk
Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social Writer. New novel is THE PROOF OF MY INNOCENCE. Previous titles include WHAT A CARVE UP!, THE ROTTERS' CLUB, MIDDLE ENGLAND, MR WILDER AND ME ...
https://linktr.ee/coelinks
Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social Award-winning powerhouse publisher of SF 🚀 Fantasy 🧜♂️ Spec Fic ✨, and Horror 🧟 Part of Profile Books 📚 https://linktr.ee/solarisbooks
Dead Ink Books @deadinkbooks.bsky.social Independent publisher of bold new fiction and non-fiction, based in Liverpool
https://linktr.ee/deadinkbooks
Wild Hunt Books @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social Independent publisher.
Leeds.
Publishing director: Ariell Cacciola @ariellcacciola.bsky.social
🖤🌈https://www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk/bookshop
Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social Publishing independently since 1929.
linktr.ee/faberbooks
Atlantic Books @atlanticbooks.bsky.social Independent British publisher of literary fiction and non-fiction. Also the home of imprints Corvus Books, Allen & Unwin UK, and Grove Press UK.
Sign up for our newsletter: https://atlantic-books.co.uk/
Influx Press @influxpress.bsky.social Award-winning independent publisher.
PARADISE by Ben Tufnell OUT NOW
Join our Mailing List: eepurl.com/dgPEDH
Contact: hello@influxpress.com
Canongate @canongate.co.uk Publisher. Always independent.
https://canongate.co.uk
Orenda Books @orendabooks.bsky.social Indie publisher of bold, unforgettable international fiction, half in translation. Shortlisted IPG Best Newcomer 2015/16. CWA Crime & Mystery Publisher of the Year 2020. Nibbies Finalist Small Press of the Year. Visit us at www.orendabooks.co.uk.
Northodox Press 📖 @northodoxpress.bsky.social Indie Publisher of historical fiction, championing authors and stories based in Northern England and Scotland. SUBMISSIONS CLOSED
Saraband Books @saraband-books.bsky.social Award-winning independent publisher of distinctive, unforgettable fiction and outstanding non-fiction.
Visit our website https://saraband.net/ 
Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English speaking world.
Beach Beth 🌊 @beachbeth1.bsky.social My retirement project is helping keep the Firth of Clyde clean. The Clyde is a beautiful inland sea with porpoises, dolphins, seals, sometimes whales, and migratory seabirds like gannets #beachclean #FirthofClyde #CowalPeninsula #Argyll #Scotland
Cameron L. Summers @cameronlsummers.bsky.social Adjunct instructor in English and one of the writers at Broken Hands Media. 
Radio Saturday @radiosaturday.bsky.social They/he. Variously, Theo deRoth, Edgar Mason, Charles-Elizabeth Boyles. Reading, writing, fiber arts. No fun ever. Part of brokenhandsmedia.com
Jack Wright @jackwrightauthor.com Horror author from the North of England. Reyt Spooky.
Stories of grief, folklore, and the things that move when they shouldn’t.
Duskfield Pines — ???
Anna’s Veil — ???
https://ko-fi.com/jackwrightauthor
https://buymeacoffee.com/jackwright
Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social Writer & highwayman.
Ladybird, Cunk, Wipe, Be Funny Or Die, Framley, Candidate band, Comfort Blanket, Broken Veil etc
https://ko-fi.com/gralefrit
AGENTS, website, links, bio etc: www.gralefrit.co.uk
Emily Rinkema @emilyrinkema.bsky.social Writer of short things. Reader of all things flash. Dog lover. Words in SLQ, XRAY, Flash Frog, Variant Lit, Fictive Dream, Pithead Chapel, Wigleaf. Winner of 2024 Lascaux Prize & Cambridge Prize. She/her https://www.emilyrinkema.com/
Jan Kaneen. Northern Writer Granny. PhD student at York St John @jankaneen1.bsky.social Award-winning writer, blogs https://jankaneen.com/ '23 Bath NiF winner, SL Rubery Award & First Pages Prize '24 Flash & Short story collection, Hostile Environments on sale https://www.northodox.co.uk/product-page/hostile-environments-paperback
Neil Ainger @craftbeardmackem.bsky.social Gig going, theatre loving, craft beer drinking, Tex-Mex-fancying writer from Sunderland. Writes for NARC. magazine.
https://linktr.ee/craftbeardmackem
Kerry Andrew @drkerryandrew.bsky.social Author & Musician (they/them)
3rd novel WE ARE TOGETHER BECAUSE @AtlanticBooks | You Are Wolf (folk)
| Edinburgh Short Story Award 2024 winner | 4 British Composer Awards | linktr.ee/kerry.andrew 🌈 🦊
Jenn Ashworth @jennashworth.bsky.social Writer, reader, hiker https://linktr.ee/jenn_ashworth