Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social Politics (mainly UK and a bit of US), comedy and popular culture more generally.
Hear me on a radio near you blathering about Burnham or Farage. Probably.
Substack Political Sandbox here: https://substack.com/@politicalsandboxmark
ian kappos @nokappos.bsky.social ✍️ in Strange Horizons, ergot., Seize the Press, Cosmic Horror Monthly, etc. Forthcoming in: Chthonic Matter Quarterly
Co-creator: Los Suelos, CA (www.LosSuelos.com).
Instagram: @jung_carl
Death to false powerviolence//
Death to false weird fiction
Melissa Rea Author 📚📚📚 @melrea.bsky.social Four novels written. Fun sexy novels about strong women. https://www.amazon.com/stores/Melissa-Rea/author/B018EE5T5Y?ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true / @iquitcigs.bsky.social @jesspiperfanpage.bsky.social Team Site StL Mo 🚭
Exoplanet || subs open Sept 1st @exoplanetmag.com New digital magazine for experimental speculative short fiction. Stories that imagine new worlds and new ways to explore them.
First #submissions window: September 1 - 15, 2026
First issue: December 1, 2026
Edited by @patrickdlee.com
exoplanetmag.com
Weird Lit Mag @weirdlitmag.bsky.social A platform for the weird and boundless. We support freedom of expression, community engagement, and the open exchange of ideas.
https://linktr.ee/weirdlitmag
Blair - Menace - Literary Villainess @blaireverywhere.bsky.social Author of Sci-fi/Fantasy/Horror
Out now: THE CRIMSON MOUSE
Find all my stuff ➡️ http://bit.ly/2LicQd7
HWA/JRW Member
She/Her
Franco Amati @francoamati.bsky.social writer, poet, SFWA & Codex, ViableParadise 2024,
new collection WORK IS WORK out now: https://www.amazon.com/Work-Franco-Amati/dp/B0HCCQF9YP/
and for all published fiction visit francoamatiwrites.com
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com Release the bats
Reckoning @reckoningmag.bsky.social A journal of creative writing on environmental justice https://reckoning.press
Melissa Combs @melissacombs.bsky.social Resist 💙 Trad pub author, devel editor, avid reader, adjunct, MA in English & creative writing. I live to travel. Advocate for the blind. COLTS fan. Optimistic at heart. 💙 She/Her #author #reader #horrorlit #PNR #disability #blind #writing #Democracy
Narich Violetfathom @frengible.bsky.social I contain multitudes, today I am a stoned yet odd bedeviled hero with a soothing disrespect for authority
Goosebart @goosebumpsart.bsky.social 
Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net Michele Banks
Artist inspired by science
Friend to squirrels
https://www.etsy.com/shop/artologica/ 
Mick Garris @mickgarris.bsky.social BlueSky-a-verse for Master of Horror Mick Garris.
InkFoundry @inkfoundry.bsky.social InkFoundry is a speculative fiction aggregator developed to connect stories, authors, and readers.
www.inkfoundry.net
Nathaniel Swift @writernatswift.bsky.social Author of time travel stories BLUE SKIES (in The Accidental Time Travelers Collective Volume 1) and FROM NOW ON (Vol. 3). Working on PBs, MG Sci-fi, and haiku as @haikuformykids.bsky.social (he/him)
The Ray and Diana Harryhausen Foundation @rayharryhausen.bsky.social The Ray & Diana Harryhausen Foundation is a charitable Trust set up by Ray in 1986 (No. SC001419). Our primary aim is to protect Ray’s work and legacy. https://www.rayharryhausen.com
Pete Ward @phenryward.bsky.social Books, art, theatre, and telling people I liked the thing they made. Weird / Gothic short stories published or forthcoming in Cosmic Horror, Macabre, Frost Zone, Rat Bag and elsewhere. Editorial reader at Gavagai.
Android Press @press-android.bsky.social Science fiction, fantasy, and horror publisher. Our books have been finalists for the Nebula, Stoker, BSFA, British Fantasy, and Nommo Awards. https://thecookoutanthology.com/submission-guidelines
Kris Kosach 🦋 @kosach.bsky.social Tomorrow’s forecast: Bleak with a chance of fascism. ⛈️
••• --- •••
Music Director: klbp.org 🇺🇸
Token American: brumradio.com 🇬🇧 comments are my own.
Dean Italiano @deanitaliano.bsky.social I write stuff. I paint stuff. Sometimes I play piano, and a little song writing thrown in there. Married to G. Parent of twin boys... Busy.
Kevin T. Davis @kevintdavis.bsky.social ✍️ Sci-fi author & graphic designer
🌀 Building bridges between worlds
📖 The Dream Continuum - Part One (August 26th)
linktr.ee/kevintdavis.author
Darker Times @darkertimes.bsky.social A worker-owned horror culture magazine.
www.darkertimes.com
Kelli Dianne Rule @kdiannerule.bsky.social I'm an art school dropout from the 1990s. I write about Florida. It is a weird and cursed land. www.kellirule.com
RSLjnr @rsljnr.bsky.social (he/they)🌹AHRC-funded and researching (New) Weird & Ligotti @ Uni of Liverpool 🌹 work at ergot., CHM, Sans Press, Vastarien 🌹 the way in is the way out 🌹https://linktr.ee/RSLjnr
Eóin Murphy @ragemonki.bsky.social Horror writer/economist from Northern Ireland. Published in Tales of Occult Britain and NI, the First Five Minutes of the Apocalypse, Best Horror of the Year vol 14 and Uncertainties vol 5. Can be occasionally found at eoinmurphywriter.wordpress.com
Mike Mignola @mikemignola.bsky.social Artist-Writer-Creator of the Hellboy Universe or Mignolaverse etc...
Gary Budden @gary-budden.bsky.social Acquisitions editor @influxpress.bsky.social. (imprint of @diversionbooks.bsky.social)
Writer. London Incognita + Hollow Shores published by @deadinkbooks.bsky.social
From UK | Living in Brisbane Meanjin 🇦🇺
Davis Eastwood @davis-eastwood.bsky.social History, reading, writing, and role-playing games
He/Him
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
Emmie Christie @emmiechristie33.bsky.social Speculative fiction writer & narrator. Words in Flash Fiction Online, Haven Spec, and Small Wonders. Odyssey grad 2013. Codexian. She/her. Never used AI and never will. Monthly Newsletter: https://shorturl.at/BPJxo
Room40 // Lawrence English @room40.bsky.social Lawrence English//Room40 ... vibrating bodies with sound, philosopher of listening.
Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.eurosky.social Starving artist. Weird art. Cosmic horror.
No AI, just biological idiocy.
https://linktr.ee/andrea.bonazzi
Trailers From Hell @trailersfromhell.bsky.social Dedicated to celebrating classic, cult, and obscure films featuring commentary from renowned filmmakers, critics, and cinephiles.
www.trailersfromhell.com
Our podcast @moviesthatmademe.bsky.social can be heard everywhere!
https://moviesthatmademe.com
Z.F. Lang @zf-lang.bsky.social Writer of genre fiction. Possibly an eldritch being who's existence is anathema to this world, more likely just neurodivergent.
Too academic for normal life, too punk rock for academia.
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
Stephen Mark Rainey @markrainey.bsky.social Author/editor of scary fiction, graphic artist, geocacher, occasional musician & actor, perpetual old fart
Alan Ranta (ꜱᴏ ᴡʜᴀᴛ?) @alanranta.bsky.social Rants about things, usually music, sometimes for money. Bylines seen in PopMatters, Bandcamp, Georgia Straight and Exclaim! Longtime juror for the Polaris Prize and Juno Awards.
Mixes & Musings: https://linktr.ee/alanranta
ⓘ this user is woke
Tom Marcinko @tommarcinko.bsky.social He/him. Stories in Beneath Ceaseless Skies (forthcoming), Nature/Futures, Interzone, Rosebud, Triangulation, and elsewhere. tommarcinko.neocities.org/
Project Moonbase @projectmoonbase.com Project Moonbase - The Historic Sound of the Future | Unusual music show I
Podcast | Space cult. DJ Bongoboy & MC Zirconium
The Multiverse, Edinburgh
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Bruce H. McCosar @bmccosar.bsky.social Everything Specialist🧐Sole Survivor☹️Indigenous👍🏽Fedora 44 KDE💻Mint 22☘️Fan of acid jazz🎷epic metal🤘and latin folk🎸Former chemist⚛️teacher🎓and musician🎼Writes using LAMY🖋️Kate📕Markdown✅and pandoc🪄Todavía aprendo español🇪🇸Over 9000💥WNBA fan🏀
Rob Gotobed @robgotobed.bsky.social Stand-up philosopher, scribe, bongo drummer and professional time-traveller. (Once dated Anne Boleyn)
Amazon: bit.ly/4hA0B7W
Apple: http://bit.ly/3K6WdB9
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2992620/
@indarkwerisepod.bsky.social @indarkwerisepod.bsky.social All Things Dark, History, And True Crime. No Nonsense. No Banter. Just Easily Digestible Stories To Consume On Your Break.
Music Here 👇🏻
https://robertchristopher.bandcamp.com/
Podcast Here👇🏻
https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/in-darkness-we-rise--5918193
WriteStats @writestats.bsky.social Data-Driven Insights for Writers and Publishers.
https://writestats.com/
Bernice M. Murphy @murphgothic.bsky.social Professor in Popular Literature with a focus on American horror and Gothic narratives & the work of Shirley Jackson. Views own.
Katabatic Circus @katabaticcircus.bsky.social an anthology of speculative poetics
https://duotrope.com/anthology/katabatic-circus-36036
[open to submissions for volume 3]
EIC @nsborwein.bsky.social
fia deerwasp @deerwasp.bsky.social fia, they/theirs, white
mean dyke disability extremist
antiblackness must be destroyed
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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
BOARDS OF CANADA @boardsofcanada.bsky.social 
@metastellar.bsky.social @metastellar.bsky.social 
PAUL FINCH @paulfinchauthor.bsky.social Best selling novelist, Sunday Times Top 10, specialising in thrillers, crime, horror and full-on historical action/adventure.
https://paulfinch-writer.blogspot.com/
Limnetic Villains @limneticvillains.bsky.social Music and art from Ireland: https://limneticvillains.bandcamp.com
The Cosmic Background @thecosmicbgr.bsky.social 🚀 SF/F Magazine
👻Flash Fiction + Poetry
👁️Closed for Submissions
📒 Stories are Free to read NOW
Editor Sam Asher https://bsky.app/profile/samasherwriter.bsky.social
https://www.thecosmicbackground.com
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Martin Fischer @archiveofunread.bsky.social I write short stories that explore the space between memory and myth: quiet, eerie and unsettling fiction that lingers in the mind like fog after nightfall.
The Archive of the Unread:
https://www.archiveofunread.com
Dead Ink Books @deadinkbooks.bsky.social Independent publisher of bold new fiction and non-fiction, based in Liverpool
https://linktr.ee/deadinkbooks
Alex Grecian @alexgrecian.bsky.social NYT & USA Today bestseller. I don't have a lot of hot takes. Feel free to preorder my next book anyway. https://alexgrecian.substack.com
L. A. Wibberley @lawibberley.bsky.social Canadian. She/her/physiotherapist/storyteller, lover of dogs, snow, coffee & magic in no particular order. Magical realism, WF, Horror & spec fiction. Work in Bram Stoker & Aurora nominated anthologies
Rep: @NaomisLitPix @Bookendslit
A. H. Davison 🇨🇦 @ahdavison.bsky.social 🛸 Science Fiction Author & Cat Lady (she/her) 🐈⬛🐈⬛
Fuelled by tea and spite 🫖☕
Bi / Neurodivergent 🏳️🌈
Quill Hollow 🦔
I love chatting writing process 📝
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Tamika Thompson @tamikathompson.bsky.social Author | THE CURSE OF HESTER GARDENS (Erewhon/Kensington) & Next Generation Indie Book Award Winner, UNSHOD, CACKLING, and NAKED. she/her/hers
http:/mybook.to/hestergardens
The Village with All of the Flash Writers @heyflashvillage.bsky.social The VILLAGE 🏘 is a place where the world 🌍 feels a tiny bit smaller. Founded by SMOKELONG for the Global Flash Community
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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social Icelandic writer.
The Night Guest // Dead Weight // Down Where Monsters Dwell coming in March 2027!
Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social SFF book blogger, sports pluralist (mostly Vols, Canes, and Courage, some USA, O’s, Dockers, Ravens, Valencia CF), Dad x3. 
S.M. Carter (Sheldon) @sheldoncarter.bsky.social New here!
-Author: To Steal the Sun (23) & Aardehn Awakening (mid 26).
-Developer/Prez: DE (Warframe & Soulframe)
-Podcaster: The War with Art.
Also: Collecting books, Metal music, Hiking/Camping.
Say no to birds
https://linktr.ee/smcarter
Seán Padraic Birnie @seanbirnie.bsky.social seanbirnie.com
https://undertowpublications.com/shop/i-would-haunt-you-if-i-could
Short stories in ergot, Weird Horror, Interzone, Remains & elsewhere
me/cfs
Matt Simon @mattsimon.bsky.social cinema | Los Angeles | democracy, solidarity, climate & environmental justice | quick-read horror newsletter drops every Tuesday | subscribe here: www.deadofnightletter.com
Adventitious. @adventitiouswords.bsky.social Do you know which way to go?
www.adventitious.net
https://www.patreon.com/c/AdventitiousStories
Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social World Fantasy, Nebula, Ignyte, Locus & Shirley Jackson Award-winning speculative publisher. Baffling Magazine & novellas & anthos & queer 📚. Editor: dave ring.
Malcolm Timperley @malcolmtimperley.bsky.social Scotland-based writer and teller of unsettling tales (horror & comedy, the two closest genres), heritage railway signaller, photographer, recovering psychiatrist, international man of mystery. Bio available on request (Terms & Conditions apply).
Marc Ruvolo @marcruvolo.bsky.social Writer of weird horror living in Portland, OR. Maximum Queercore. Founded Chicago's Bucket O' Blood Books. NOVELLAS: SLOE (Unnerving Books), PIETIES (Slashic Horror Press). WASTE GROUND (Slashic Horror Press). He/him. AI=BLOCK.
Odin Meadows @odinmeadows.bsky.social author of weird horror and strange speculative fiction (and poetry). odinmeadows.com
Mike A. Rhodes @mikearhodes.bsky.social Mostly writing, ice hockey and bad jokes. Former player for the Sheffield Steelkings. Horror, SF&F fiction and hockey non-fiction in a few outlets
Marc Criley @marcc.bsky.social I write short SFF stories & drabbles (https://kickin-the-darkness.com) and am a member of Codex and SFWA. Follow me for SF, Alabama (esp Huntsville), and democracy.
BTW, AI slop is gross and "an insult to humanity."
https://nobodywantsyouraislop.com
tommyspoon @tommyspoon.bsky.social https://www.tommyspoon.net/
Writer, actor, dancer, geek living near PDX.
"I hope your words are working for you!"
#horror #writing
Diana Dima @dianadima.com writes things | stories in Strange Horizons, khōréō, The Deadlands and others | she/her
www.dianadima.com
Jenny @jennyhart2001.bsky.social Writes a bit, reads a bit. Wanders around a lot.
CB Droege (Manawaker) @cbdroege.bsky.social Word Artist (Author / Voice actor). EiC - Manawaker Studio
INFJ-A
Demiguy. He/them. Polyam.
Patreon: patreon.com/manawaker
Webstore: payhip.com/Manawaker
Everything: cbdroege.taplink.ws
Dr Tiffani Angus @tiffaniangus.bsky.social Multi awards-shortlisted SFFH & non-fic author. Editor & typesetter. SPEC FIC FOR NEWBIES 3 now in the wild! https://linktr.ee/tiffaniangusauthor Leftie, feminist, ex academic, ally, anti-AI. she/her. Now 🇬🇧 was 🇺🇸
FANGORIA @fangoria.bsky.social First in Fright since 1979, FANGORIA is a collectible magazine, a podcast network, and an entertainment studio.
FANGORIA.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
Whisper House Press (Steve Capone, Jr.) @whisperhousepress.bsky.social Editor in Chief & Publisher, Whisper House Press.
Award-Winning Writer & Screenwriter.
Educator since ‘08.
Trained ethicist.
#booksky #HWA #Horrorsky #WritingCommunity #IBPA #WhisperHousePress
https://linktr.ee/stevecaponejr
TJ Price @eerieyore.bsky.social Words in service to the eerie & uncanny. Author of The Disappearance of Tom Nero. Editor. tjpricewrites.com
Suzy Eynon @suzyeynon.bsky.social Writer. Terrestrial from Malarkey Books, Being Seen from Ethel. Managing ed long fiction Variant https://malarkeybooks.com/terrestrial
http://suzyeynon.com/
Mathematician Records @mathematicianrecords.com Experimental & Psychedelic music since 2012.
The Modern Counterculture.
Proudly Anti-Fascist | Proudly Anti-Ai.
https://www.mathematicianrecords.com https://mathematicianrecords.bandcamp.com
https://www.youtube.com/@mathematicianRecords
A Scanner Blackhatly @ascannerburkely.bsky.social writer: Nightscript, @DimShores.bsky.social @ThinkingHorror, @weirdfictionrev, film crit. @ patreon.com/ascannerburkely | mulchsack left. most likely to be mad online, class of 2000. he/him.
Dave Jeffery @davebjeffery.bsky.social Bram Stoker Award, British Fantasy Award and Bridport Prize finalist. Creator of 'a Quiet APOCALYPSE'. Anthologist at Flame Tree Press.
I do not use generative AI in my work; nor do I support its use in the arts.
https://www.davejefferyauthor.com/
British Science Fiction Association @bsfa.bsky.social The British Science Fiction Association. Est 1958. Publisher of Vector, Focus, and the BSFA Review. Join us at http://bsfa.co.uk/join-the-bsfa
David Perlmutter @davidperlmutter.bsky.social Canadian white male autistic writer. Author of America 'Toons In: A History of Television Animation and The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Also author of speculative fiction, superhero fiction and anthropomorphic ("furry") fiction.
J.R. Andrews @jrobertandrews.bsky.social Wordsmith whose final boss is social media.
Find me in @shortwavebooks.bsky.social | @ergot.bsky.social | @bruisermag.com
Wherever good times are had :3
Folded Space, an Audio Science Fiction Anthology @foldedspace.bsky.social An audio science fiction anthology curated by the editor of Tales to Terrify, showcasing short-form science fiction from voices across the spectrum of human existence. Each season invites listeners to explore the universe, one story at a time.
Orion's Belt magazine @orionsbeltmagazine.bsky.social We publish experimental literary speculative fiction, poetry, reviews & translations. Read us at http://orions-belt.net. Support us at http://patreon.com/orionsbeltmag. EiC: @gessicasakamoto.bsky.social
Carpe Librum Bookstore and Art Gallery @carpelibrum.bsky.social Baltimore-based indie bookstore. Currently online until we get a new space for the bookstore. Generally won't DM people, unless maybe you're a publisher and we need info to stock your books.
https://carpelibrumbaltimore.com/
Melody E. McIntyre @melodyemcintyre.bsky.social Canadian writer of short, speculative fiction. Also a Legal Assistant, Martial Artist, Classicist, Pet owner, and Time-traveller. She/They.
https://linktr.ee/melodyemcintyre
Rebecca Karas @rebeccakaras.bsky.social poet & weird fiction writer. probably thinking about Tetris. she/they
https://linktr.ee/rebecca.karas
Nerds of a Feather @nerdsofafeather.bsky.social a Hugo and Ignyte Award-winning fanzine covering fantasy, science fiction, video games, comics, cult movies, and other realms of nerddom since 2012.
http://www.nerds-feather.com/
Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social Bram Stoker Award-winning horror bitch. Co-founder, Darker Times. Writer, critic, listmaker. HORROR FOR WEENIES on sale now. Reviews etc in the NYTBR, Reactor, Vulture, Slate, & more. She/her. 🍉
readjumpscares.com
darkertimes.com
TinyTalesDaily @tinytalesdaily.bsky.social 📖 Story dealer on duty serving fresh plots daily
https://tinytalesdaily.com
also on https://www.instagram.com/tinytalesdaily365/
biomespec.bsky.social @biomespec.bsky.social TOP TEN Fiction Podcast
Scifi/Fantasy/Weird Fic -- bringing incredible fiction to life
Listen on: https://rss.com/podcasts/biomespec/?listen-on=true
Submit your work at: https://biomespec.wordpress.com/submissions/
Emily @emilymarie82.bsky.social Reader. Wife. Mum. She/ Her. Interested in music, films, horror and books (so many books) 🖤
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️+ Ally
Kay Vaindal @kayv.bsky.social Baltimore | weird fiction writer 🏆 | scientist by day | find me at the bottom of the Chesapeake | find my stories at link below:
https://kayvaindal.com/