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.
Mars Nicolí @marsnicoli.bsky.social One of those queers.
PhD candidate on Trans Horror.
He/him ze/hir
Renee Ruin (she/her) @reneeruin.bsky.social Writer. Blogger. Melophile. Poet. Horror/Sci-fi fiend. Podcaster. Cinephile. Mental Health Ambassador. Anti-social socialite.
Melb/Naarm, Aus.
BSocSc (Psychology, Sociology), BA (Hons)
https://linktr.ee/reneeruin
Katherine Lucia Prentice @katherineprentice.bsky.social Glasgow based horror nerd👻
Researching disability, witchcraft, decoloniality, & ecofeminism in LatAm and Celtic folk horror @ northumbria uni🧿
Shudder @shudder.com Stream the best in horror, thriller, and supernatural. So good, it's scary.
Jamie Graham @jamie-graham.bsky.social Film journalist. Empire, Sunday Times Culture, Saturday Review, SFX.
Letterboxd @letterboxd.social 🧡💚💙 A global community of film lovers. Share your taste in movies via our free apps for iOS, Android, Apple TV, and on the web. https://letterboxd.com
Arrow Video @arrowvideo.bsky.social Distributor of classic, world, cult, horror cinema on Blu-ray & UHD.
💿: bit.ly/3oFfoXK
EOH Network @evolutionofhorror.bsky.social A podcast network that explores cult film & TV history.
The Evolution of Horror | Hammer Time | Journey Through Sci-Fi | Carry On Up The Podcast | The Detective & The Log Lady
Access:Horror @accesshorror.bsky.social A film festival and industry summit celebrating disability, genre, and all that’s good in the world.
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
Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca SocialMediaLab.ca
- News, analysis & views by @philipmai.com re: the politics of tech, social media, AI, immigration, democracy, mis/disinfo, war & propaganda. Explore our suite of social media tools for public interest research: socialmedialab.ca/apps/
Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com I’m on my way. https://www.stephengrahamjones.com
Máiréad Casey @maireadcasey.bsky.social Research interests: horror, gender, genre, sexuality onscreen, representations of sexual violence, demon possession
Gothic Studies @gothicstudies.bsky.social The academic journal of the International Gothic Association (www.globalgoth.org), published by Edinburgh University Press and edited by Emily Alder and Jamil Mustafa. Email gothiceditors@gmail.com
Sorcha Ní Fhlainn @sorchanf.bsky.social Reader in Film Studies & American Studies @ Manchester Met Uni. Researcher in Pop Culture, Gothic, C Nolan, Horror, Vampires, & Time Travel. Writes books and lives in a 1980s time warp.
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.
Catherine Spooner @catherinespooner.bsky.social Academic and creative writer | Professor of Literature and Culture, Lancaster University | all things Gothic | fashion | folk horror | she/her
Professor Horror @professorhorror.bsky.social At Professor Horror, we don't just watch horror: we live it, study it, and celebrate it. Run by writers, critics, and scholars who've made horror both a passion and a career, our mission is to explore the genre in all its bloody brillance.
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
Bread & Water Printshop @breadwaterprints.bsky.social Breadandwaterprintshop.com
One woman printshop.
99% irony 1% painful sincerity
📧info@breadandwaterprintshop.com
PGH, PA
Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Seattle University. Author of The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life available from UC Press here:
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520342347/the-celluloid-specimen
Dr Harriet Fletcher @harrietfletcher.bsky.social Writer & academic | Senior Lecturer in Media & Communication @ ARU | 💀⭐ #GothicCelebrity (Bloomsbury) | pop culture | horror | feminism | bimbo-ologist 💅 | she/her | https://linktr.ee/harrietfletcher
Into Film Cymru @intofilmcymru.bsky.social The core Into Film programme is free for UK state schools, colleges and other youth settings, thanks to support from the BFI, awarding National Lottery good cause funding, and through other key funders including Cinema First and Northern Ireland Screen.
Reeljadironfilm (Faisal Al-Jadir) @TIFF51 @reeljadironfilm.bsky.social Iraqi-Canadian. Cinephile. Film journalist (@filminquiry). Writer. Copywriter. Occasional filmmaker. 🍉🇵🇸
(Tkaronto/Abu Dhabi)
https://www.filminquiry.com/author/faisal-al-jadir/
Dark Talk @dark-talk.uk The official BlueSky account for the Dark Talk podcast.
• https://dark-talk.uk
• https://patreon.com/DarkTalkPod
University Press Sales Bot @unipresssalesbot.bsky.social 
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
World Central Kitchen @wck.org WCK immediately prepares & serves fresh, nourishing meals to communities impacted by natural disasters and during humanitarian crises. #ChefsForTheWorld
Learn more: linktr.ee/wckitchen
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
Thriller/Suspense Film Festival @thrillersuspense.bsky.social Entering its 10th year, this festival is a showcase of Thriller/Suspense Films & Screenplays from around the world, using the popular audience feedback video.
https://filmfreeway.com/ThrillerSuspenseFestival
https://thrillersuspensefestival.com
Hollywood Memories @hollywoodmemories.bsky.social Emmy Noether Research Group "Hollywood Memories" based at Leibniz University Hannover, funded by @dfgpublic.bsky.social.
Hollywood movies | memories | generations | remakes | sequels | franchises
https://hollywood-memories.com/
Kathleen Loock @kathleenloock.bsky.social American studies and media studies | Leibniz University Hannover, Germany | New book: Hollywood Remaking: How Film Remakes, Sequels, and Prequels Shape Industry and Culture (UC Press, 2024) | Emmy Noether Research Group: Hollywood Memories
International Gothic Association @igagoths.bsky.social The International Gothic Association is a large family of academic researchers, students, artists and writers with a shared interest in all things Gothic. www.globalgoth.org
Sharai Bohannon (She/Her) @sharai.bsky.social Blerd Queen sponsored by spite
@blerdymassacre.bsky.social & @nightmarefierce.bsky.social
Co-EIC at Horror Movie Blog &
Head Writer at NightTide Magazine
Contributor at Fangoria, Neon Splatter, HorrorBuzz
RT-approved, OAFFC, Cherrypicker
Miranda Davies/Emmerson @mirandaemmerson.bsky.social Novelist (4th Estate); dramatist (BBC TV/Radio); and academic looking at British national identities, myth narratives & women's boxing. Welsh Agatha Christie coming to R4 12/10/26. 🏴🏴🇫🇷🇵🇱
Lisa Ellen @lisa-ellen.bsky.social ☠️editor. writer. faculty. genre film lover☠️
Sofia Brizio @sofiabrizio.bsky.social PhD in Media Diversity at BCU. Alumna and ex TA @cujournmedcul.bsky.social 🎓| I write, edit and translate books 📚✨✒️| Disability rights activist. Occasional Paraswimmer| ♿️🇮🇹🏴🏳️🌈
Watershed @wshed.bsky.social Cultural cinema, talent development and creative technology in Bristol.
Supported using public funding by Arts Council England.
Robin R. Means Coleman, PhD @robinmeanscoleman.bsky.social Scholar. Author. Visual stenographer.
Horror Noire. The Black Guy Dies First. The Oxford Handbook of Black Horror.
Richard O'Brien @notrockyhorror.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Creative Writing at Northumbria University and lapsed early modernist. Working on poetry, novels, & a music memoir/podcast about the Mountain Goats: thirtyyearslater.substack.com. I make music as Groundbird, groundbird.bandcamp.com.
John Angus Spencer-Barnes 🏳️🌈 @johnbarnes.org Freelance who reads the news on BBC Radio 5 Live & all 40 BBC local radio stations from MediaCityUK in sunny Salford.
Bewhiskered ex-academic historian, folkie, morris dancer & geek.
Bellman of the City of Preston.
Husband of @davespenceruk.bsky.social.
🏳️🌈Brendan Agnew🏳️⚧️ @blcagnew.bsky.social Writer of Things, local n'er-do-well at cinapse.co, co-host of "Make Me Watch It," and Keeper of the Very Bad Dad Jokes. He/Him.
Make Me Watch It:
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brendanagnew
RSS Feed:
https://anchor.fm/s/e7947db0/podcast/rss
James Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social Screenwriter: @RidleyScottCG, @GaumontTV #BAFTA / @RocliffeForum Winner.
https://james-topham.com
SciFrights Podcast @scifrightspod.bsky.social SciFrights – a movie discussion podcast from the Interzone where horror meets science fiction. Hosted by Liam Dunn and Dr Lindsay Hallam. First episode launches 26/02/25
Find podcast here: https://rss.com/podcasts/scifrights/1902074/
Alex A. Pagliuca @alexpagliuca.bsky.social Writer. Film lover. Horror evangelist. Anti-fascist. Night owl. Misfit toy. Pragmatic idealist, and skeptic at the same time. Autistic. AI is for suckers. All I want is to be an honest man and a good writer.
Digital Inclusion Wales | Cynhwysiant Digidol Cymru @diwcdc.bsky.social Prosiect cynhwysiant digidol Llywodraeth Cymru, wedi'i ddarparu gan
@cwmpas.bsky.social / Welsh Government digital inclusion project, delivered by @cwmpas.bsky.social
Stephen Hicks @stephenrhicks.bsky.social Social work academic at University of Manchester, Morgan Centre https://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgan-centre/ and Creativity, Health & Wellbeing Lead for Creative Manchester https://www.creative.manchester.ac.uk 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
Sight and Sound magazine @sightsoundmag.bsky.social Established in 1932. Published by the British Film Institute. Home of the once-a-decade Greatest Films of All Time poll
Follow us on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sightsoundmag
(s)crawl literary magazine @scrawlmagazine.bsky.social » issue no. 02 coming 10.30.26
» horror focused lit mag amplifying voices marginalized within the genre
» we publish short fiction & poetry by LGBTQIA+, neurodivergent, BIPOC, disabled, and gender-diverse writers
» subs currently closed
🔗 scrawlmag.com
Ali H. Alhamad @alihamaduk.bsky.social Journalist. MCJ (BA) from USW. Cardiff.
Eli Dolliver @elidolliver.bsky.social PhD candidate in Horror Cinema and Folklore at St John's College Cambridge 🎥🐉 🎃
And after that I WILL find a way to academicise both Below Deck and all the animated Barbie movies
(She/her)
Dr Kingsley Marshall @kingsleymarshall.bsky.social Film production/Academic. #TheLandDemandsBlood #HowlsavlaGwav #TheBirdwatcherFilm https://linktr.ee/myskatonic #RoseofNevada #PrinceofWhales #EnysMen #Backwoods #LongWayBack @myskatonic.bsky.social https://uk.linkedin.com/in/kingsleymarshall
Paul Booth @pbooth81.bsky.social Teacher, writer, dog-lover, reader, board gamer, tv watcher, Doctor Who enabler; annoyingly optimistic.
New Doctor Who Big Finish author: check out my Short Trips "Ahead of Time" coming out April 2025
Organization for Transformative Works @transformativeworks.org The Organization for Transformative Works (OTW) is a non-profit organization established by fans to serve the interests of fans by providing access to and preserving the history of fanworks and fan culture in its myriad forms.
Catherine Knight Steele @steelecat717.bsky.social Author - Digital Black Feminism
Associate Professor @UMD
I wonder if I'll ever get to talk about my reality shows here 😔
Vikki Godwin @vikkigodwin.bsky.social Fan studies scholar. I write about costuming, customizing, collecting, and more. Editor of Journal of Fandom Studies. Fan Studies Area co-Chair for PCA.
Mark H. Harris @markhharris.bsky.social Stoker-nominated author of The Black Guy Dies First. Creator of BlackHorrorMovies.com. Contributor to Oxford Handbook of Black Horror Film. Appears in Horror Noire. Rotten Tomatoes certified. OFCS member. He/him. 99% on Wordle. MarkHHarris.com
Dr Ami Nisa @ami-n.bsky.social Autism researcher at Swansea University | PhD in found-footage horror film
Severn Screen @severnscreen.bsky.social Wales based film and TV production company. Projects include AR Y FFIN/MUDTOWN, STEELTOWN MURDERS, HIDDEN, THE PEMBROKESHIRE MURDERS, MR. BURTON, APOSTLE and HAVOC
Once Upon A VHS - 80s and 90s Fantasy Podcast @onceuponavhs.bsky.social Podcast on a queer & neverending quest through 80s & 90s fantasy films. Nostalgia & nightmares with Michael and Callum 📼🐉🏳️🌈🧚♂️🏳️⚧️🦄
linktr.ee/onceuponavhs
KBZ Film @kbzfilm.bsky.social KBZ is the Internet's largest collection of film subgenre and microgenre lists. We feature subgenre and microgenre lists for most films made since 1970.
Website: https://kneelbeforezod.io
YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@KBZFilm
Jasper Sharp @jaspersharp.bsky.social Movies and mushrooms. Writer, film critic, Japanese film lover, amateur mycologist, co-director of CREEPING GARDEN and J-HORROR VIRUS and author of a few books. https://jaspersharp.squarespace.com
Brian Ruh @brianruh.bsky.social Independent scholar (that's what they call it when academia doesn't want you), PhD in communication and culture, occasional writer, always looking for a new project. I wrote a book on Mamoru Oshii’s films.
Aaron Gerow @dengerow.bsky.social Prof of Film and Media Studies and East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale. Scholar of Japanese and other East Asian film and media (TV, manga, etc.). Likes rakugo, cats, and cycling. Views are my own. イェール大学教授、日本と他の東アジア映画とメディアの研究者。落語、猫と自転車。
Nippon Connection Film Festival @nipponconnection.com Nippon Connection – June 8 - June 13, 2027 // 27th Nippon Connection Film Festival // Frankfurt am Main, Germany // http://tinyurl.com/nc-impressum
Association for Asian Studies @asianstudies.org The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) is dedicated to the advancement of the field of Asian Studies through international exchange, networking, publications, research support, and career development.
NYX Horror Collective @nyxhorror.bsky.social Women-led #horror content. Fdrs. of #13MinutesofHorror on Shudder. Nyx Horror Fellowship for Stowe Story Labs. Diversifying horror since 2019. Co-founders: Melody Cooper, Kelly Krause, Core Members: Lisa Kröger and Mo Moshaty
https://www.nyxhorror.com
Christina Newland @christinalefou.bsky.social ~old hollywood, crime films, boxing, italian cinema, glamour & beauty ~
Sky Arts talking head. Empire Mag contrib editor. Writing: i Newspaper, the Atlantic, Criterion, BBC, Rolling Stone.
'SOFIA COPPOLA: AN UNOFFICIAL GUIDE'Greenfinch/Quercus 2025.
FILMHOUNDS Magazine @filmhounds.co.uk Available in print from filmhounds.co.uk/magazine
Horror Critics Association UK @horrorcritics.org.uk The Horror Critics Association - An association for those who live and breathe horror, celebrating cinema’s darkest corners.
http://horrorcritics.org.uk
Sign-Up: http://horrorcritics.org.uk/join
@filmcritics.org.uk for more info
Huck Magazine @huckmag.com Sport • Music • Rebellion
Ellen E Jones @ellenejones.bsky.social Journalist and broadcaster (Guardian, Observer, Empire, Esquire, Elle etc) Author of 'SCREEN DEEP: How film and TV can solve racism and save the world'(Faber, 2024, linktr.ee/Screen_Deep); Co-host of SCREENSHOT on BBC Radio 4 and wherever you get your pods
David Jenkins @daveyjenkins.bsky.social LWLies editor. david at tcolondon dot com
Ella Kemp @ellakemp.bsky.social Can't spell verklempt without Kemp. Editorial Lead (UK & Europe) @letterboxd.social | Photographer & broadcaster everywhere else | She/her
Variety @variety.com The business of entertainment.
DMovies @dmovies.bsky.social your platform for thought-provoking cinema
John Carpenter @thehorrormaster.bsky.social Filmmaker and Composer
Theofficialjohncarpenter.com
@stormkingcomics.bsky.social
Sony Music Soundtracks @sonysoundtracks.bsky.social An official channel dedicated to film, TV series & video game soundtrack releases 🎬🎧.
Link to full videos, music & more here ↓
https://linkin.bio/sonymusicsoundtracks/
Imprint Films @imprintfilms.bsky.social Limited Edition deluxe Blu-ray & 4K UHD releases of long-requested & previously unreleased films! 🎬
linktr.ee/imprintfilms
Third Window Films @thirdwindowfilms.com One of the leading distributors of Japanese cinema
https://linktr.ee/thirdwindowfilms
Radiance Films @filmsradiance.bsky.social Independent distribution company releasing classic films on Blu-ray in US/CA/UK/IE | https://www.radiancefilms.co.uk/
Cory Barker 🆗 @corybarker.bsky.social Media studies researcher, Penn State professor, past and future television blogger.
Horror Studies Research Group @ Northumbria @horrorstudies.bsky.social The Horror Studies Research Group at Northumbria University (UK): the Home of Horror Studies
horrorstudies.com
#horrorNU
Bloomsbury Books UK @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social We make books! An independent publishing house with authors who have won the Nobel, Pulitzer and Booker Prizes. ✨📚
Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team Rudolph (Rudy) Fraser ⁂
CEO & Founder, building virtual 3rd places
[ @blackskyweb.xyz ][ blacksky.community ]
@mozilla.org Fellow 🦊
prev. @harvard.edu Fellow
🏴☠️ [ wethepeople.nyc ]
Board @pactcollective.xyz
TSC @lexicon.community
Black crypto-anarchy Ⓐ
13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social imdb.me/DanielMartin
Award winning FX artist. Azrael, Tarot, Banshees of Inisherin, Infinity Pool, DASHCAM, Possessor, Host, Color Out of Space, Lords of Chaos, High Rise etc. former c-host Arrow Video Pod.
Sophie G. Einwächter @einwaechter.bsky.social post-doctoral researcher @ Philipps-Universität Marburg researching scholarly cultures and media. Journal co-editor: Fandom | Cultures | Research & Demokratie gegen Menschenfeindlichkeit. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0851-8379
@docsbrown.bsky.social @docsbrown.bsky.social Film historian, early cinema specialist, horror scholar, Constant Reader, Westie lover
Derek Johnston @drdjohnston.bsky.social Media lecturer: UK TV history, telefantasy, historical dramas. At Queen’s University Belfast.
Stacey Abbott @profsaabbott.bsky.social Professor of Film and Television, Northumbria University. Horror scholar and writer. Author of Celluloid Vampires, Undead Apocalypse, TV Horror, BFI Classic on Near Dark. Canadian in the UK but forever Canadian. she/her.
Sonia Livingstone @sonialivingstone.bsky.social LSE prof @MediaLSE | Director of #DigitalFutures4Children | Researches children's digital experiences and rights | Interested in evidence to inform policy | s.livingstone@lse.ac.uk | Stay in touch at http://eepurl.com/cEUi05
Steve Jones @drstevejones.bsky.social Lead of the Horror Studies Research Group, Northumbria University. Known for research on extreme horror, philosophy, pornography, and the slasher subgenre.
drstevejones.co.uk
Lynn Huggins-Cooper @hugginscooper.bsky.social Horror maven. Co-host of Northern Horror Hub. Thanatologist. Creative Writing lecturer at Falmouth. Author. She/her, ADHD. Views all mine...mine I say!
Stephen Cushion @stephencushion.bsky.social Professor of journalism & political communication at Cardiff University & night time 🚖 for my kids
Mel Stanfill @melstanfill.bsky.social Professor, UCF T&T and English. Opinions mine. Bringing Foucault to fandom since 2006.
Transformative Works and Cultures @journal.transformativeworks.org Transformative Works and Cultures (TWC) is an international, peer-reviewed journal published by the Organization for Transformative Works.
Ben Litherland @benlitherland.bsky.social Popular culture and politics.
Sometimes academic who writes about those things.
Co-hosts Ill Effects, good podcast about bad media influence https://open.spotify.com/show/0QotQZhgYQOsjCvGMefNjl?si=zRsbRad6SZO
Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social I make movies. I watch movies. I love movies.