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.
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.
Ahad Taqizadeh @ahadtaqizadeh.bsky.social Victorianist, Victorian Novel📚, Bodies, Gothic Fiction 🧟♂️🧟♀️ Researching the Gothic body in late Victorian fiction
Sad Bastard @sadbastard.bsky.social Here to kick a dent in the universe and have it kick a dent in me. he/him/el
Mata Haggis-Burridge @matahb.bsky.social Writer of video games, horror, and more. Professor of video games, bi/pan, they/he, visibility still matters.
@miriamrose85.bsky.social @miriamrose85.bsky.social 3rd year creative writing student. Horror and psychological thriller fan.
Yeri Martinez-Vallejo @yerivallejo.bsky.social Founder, Realms Media | Psychological thriller & horror filmmaker | Character-driven genre cinema | Bellgrave 2026
Derek Johnston @drdjohnston.bsky.social Media lecturer: UK TV history, telefantasy, historical dramas. At Queen’s University Belfast.
Siân Pearce @sianp.bsky.social Public law solicitor, horror researcher.
"Gary Sherman's Nemesis" (Abertoir, 2023)
https://linktr.ee/SianP
Adam Murray @admagnetic77.bsky.social All things Horror/Dystopian Fiction/Genre Cinema "A Cosmic Perspective"...
Matthew Cooper @mcooperk.bsky.social PhD student in the UK, researching gender, monstrosity and the supernatural in Japanese (and Mexican!) literature. Horror and the Gothic in Japan.
Irish, Queer, Hopeful.
Kind is cool!
EN/ES/日本語 OK
Briony Kidd @brionykidd.bsky.social Film & theatre maker, PhD candidate, film programmer.
Against: fascism, corporate rule, AI boosting, cynicism. For: old movies, ideas for the future & pretzels.
Tasmanian & citizen of the world.
Sam Dubois @surveillancesam.bsky.social They/them. PhD researcher at Birmingham City University. Writes about the fun stuff: surveillance, torture, and depressingly 2000s horror films.
Northumbria University Library @northumbrialibrary.bsky.social Welcome to Northumbria Library! We're here to give you library news, updates, spotlights on resources, and more!
Monitored 9am-4pm Mon-Fri.
Opening hours: https://library.northumbria.ac.uk/opening-hours
Library website: https://library.northumbria.ac.uk
Sid Fiore Branca @sidbranca.bsky.social i make & study moving images, the pervert’s medium 🎭🩸 📹 they/them. Montréal & Chicago. phd researcher into horror, experimental 🎞️ & 📼 , cinema depictions of stage performance, & the history of clowns in film. director of https://quietinthehouse.com
Máiréad Casey @maireadcasey.bsky.social Research interests: horror, gender, genre, sexuality onscreen, representations of sexual violence, demon possession
Simon Bacon @baconetti.bsky.social Author, film critic, and editor of all things Gothicky.
Elana Gomel @mor1233.bsky.social I am a writer. I have lived in 5 countries (including one that no longer exists), written 6 novels, and 160 stories (more, actually, but who’s counting?). And when I am not writing fantasy and horror, I am writing about fantasy and horror written by others
Erin Wiegand @erinwiegand.bsky.social Film programmer, independent scholar, book editor. One half of @cinemaniapresents.bsky.social
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/
Eugen Bacon @genni.bsky.social African Australian author, editor. Winner: Solstice, Ignyte British Fantasy, Locus Awards. Finalist Shirley Jackson, PK Dick, World Fantasy Award. Twice Otherwise honoree for exciting work in speculative fiction. eugenbacon.com
Rep: Bieke van Aggelen
Tom Ue @tomue.bsky.social Public historian, editor, & literary critic. Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Popular Film & Television. Associate Editor, The Complete Letters of Henry James @ctrhjstudies.bsky.social @univnebpress.bsky.social.
James Reich @jamesreich.bsky.social Writer, Research Psychologist, Existentialist, Friend to Cats. Author of SKINSHIP, THE MOTH FOR THE STAR, WILHELM REICH VERSUS THE FLYING SAUCERS etc.
Stephanie Cotela @stephaniecotela.bsky.social Art Historian & Author writing spooky mysteries for children & crime thrillers for adults. 👻📚 @scbwi_british_isles @mslexia & @thesocietyofauthors https://linktr.ee/stephaniecotela- F Farrah Freibert @ffreibert.bsky.social She/Her. LGBTQ+ Film & Media Historian. Media Studies Assistant Professor. PhD in Visual Studies. Research Areas: Film Studies & Film History; Media Industries; Bisexual, Trans, Gay, & Queer History; Distribution & Exhibition; Archives; Horror Studies.
John J Johnston @johnjjohnston.bsky.social Egyptology, Classics, reception, and cultural history.
Chair - gentlefuries.bsky.social
Ambassador - issegyptomania.bsky.social
BSFA Award finalist 2013
Agents:
Max Edwards - @AppleTreeLit
Nigel Hetherington - @Pastpreservers
London & Glasgow
Vicky Brewster (they/them) @vickybrewster.bsky.social ✏️Copy & developmental editor, & indexer
👻Gothic, horror & sci-fi academic
🧑🏫 Occasional lecturer & support at Swansea U
🏳️🌈Asexual-agender-panromantic
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
Krista Mitchell @kristamitchell.bsky.social Musicology Ph.D. Candidate. Librarian. Horror Genre Lover.
Sean Woodard @swoodard7326.bsky.social American West, Horror & Giallo Scholar | PhD Candidate | Writer | https://linktr.ee/swoodard7326
Marc Olivier @dullboy237.bsky.social Professor (film and lit), series editor Icons of Horror (Indiana UP). Love and support the marginalized. 🏳️🌈 he/him #horrorsky
Bristol Black Horror Club UK @brisblakhorrorclub.bsky.social Exploring all things Horror through a Black/BIPOC Diasporic lens
LGBTQ+ Friendly
www.bristolblackhorrorclub.com
Dale Townshend @dalegothic96.bsky.social Professor of Gothic literature mainly posting about books, cake, horses and my cat Dickens.
Dr Stephanie Farnsworth-Meek @mutanttheorist.bsky.social Lecturer of Media and Communications at the University of Sunderland. Researcher of Mutant Theory and monstrous bodies. https://stephaniefarnsworth.co.uk
Naomi Simone Borwein @nsborwein.bsky.social Horror scholar, PhD, HWA, CSFFA | Global Indigenous Horror (UPM, 2025) | Poetry Editor Orion’s Belt | Words in Future Fire, UtopiaSF, Space&Time, Lovecraftiana | EIC @katabaticcircus.bsky.social co-EIC @angrygablepress.bsky.social
Helen Grant @helengrantsays.bsky.social Lives in Scotland & writes books. Order my new novella STEAL ME from Absinthe Books. Short story collection ATMOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES available from Swan River Press. Perthshire Gothic. M.R.James fiend. Represented by John Jarrold.
Katy Soar @kjsoar.bsky.social PhD. Senior lecturer in Archaeology @uniwinchester.bsky.social.
Writer for Hellebore. Editor 'Strange Relics' with Dr. Amara Thornton (Handheld Press), 'Circles of Stone' & 'Return of the Ancients' (BL Tales of the Weird). She/her.
I have a dog.
Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca Professor, English/Gender & Women’s Studies Dalhousie. He/him. Speaking only for myself (sometimes not even!)
The Broadview Anthology of Science Fiction: https://broadviewpress.com/product/the-broadview-anthology-of-science-fiction/
http://jasonhaslam.ca
Dr Joan Passey @joanpassey.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English / Gothic / queer ecologies / coasts and seascapes / Shirley Jackson
Dr Janice Deitner @janiceflux.bsky.social Scholar of Shirley Jackson and periodical culture, funded by Research Ireland. Research interests include periodicals, Horror, the Gothic, Science Fiction, popular culture in general, zombie bites in narrative and popular discourse. Opinions my own.
NearlyKnowledgeable @g0blinegg.bsky.social Amy
𖦹 Folklorist & Writer 𖦹
Ghostlore ● Witchcraft ● Devil Folklore
Rooted in Shropshire History & Lore 💀
Writer of 'The Best Of Men' -A Shropshire folk horror 🦇
Melissa Edmundson @melissae.bsky.social PhD in Victorian lit. Editor/researcher/lecturer. Women’s ghost stories & the supernatural. Lots of posts about books. And ghosts. And Margery Lawrence.
Violet Hunt’s The Tiger Skin and Other Tales of the Uneasy out now with The British Library.
Mo Moshaty @momoshaty.bsky.social Genre Lecturer, Writer, Journo & Prod, EIC of @nighttidemag.bsky.social: Diverse Horror Perspectives, Host of From Inside the House Pod, Member of Nyx Horror, 13 Minutes of Horror for SHUDDER
NY-er in London
https://nighttidemag.com/
http://momoshaty.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/
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.
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
Nicholas Diak @nickdiak.com Pop culture scholar of peplum, Italian films, industrial music, horror studies, and other odd subjects. Tiki and cocktails, mid-century and pinups. Co-host of H.P. Lovecast Podcast. He/Him. nickdiak.com. Glendale, AZ.
Sasha Ravitch ☄️ @sasharavitch.bsky.social writer & educator & academic.
cthulhu(s)cene queen.
hwa; codex.
banff writer residency '25.
words in strange horizons, ergot., cosmic horror monthly, & more.
co-founder antilogos press.
pioneered a field of posthuman witchcraft.
Adam Daniel @realtopekapeople.com Writer / Director / Producer. Lecturer in Communication/Film @ WSU. Horror scholar. ‘Affective Intensities and Evolving Horror Forms’ from EUP. He/Him.
obiwanishinaabe @obiwanishinaabe.bsky.social White Earth Anishinaabe. Quilter. Beader. Teacher. Musician. PhD. Latest article: http://journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php/transmotion/article/view/395 #zombies
Eric Gary Anderson @ericgaryanderson.bsky.social Your home for Undead Studies. Literature professor & director of grad studies in English at George Mason, where I teach NAIS, southern lit, horror/gothic lit, etc. Cat dad to Thena, Coraline, and Jackson Gray. Drinker of coffee. He/him/👻
Alia Volz @aliavolzzz.bsky.social Author of NBCC finalist HOME BAKED: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco. Nonfiction ghost story forthcoming with Avid Reader (Simon & Schuster). Freelance editor based in Portugal.
DeAnna Monique @deannamonique.bsky.social 💕Ordained Womanist Afrofuturist Afropessimist... Asst. Professor of Africana & Religion @ U of A.💜of Black Religion, Horror, and Spec. Fict and Film.
HP Bookcraft @hpbookcraft.bsky.social 38. She/they. Folklore, horror, hauntology. Master's in Gothic literature. Keeper of wayward books, editor, and thing that goes bump in the night.
Ruth Heholt @ruthheholt.bsky.social Prof of literature and culture. Gothic, crime, masculinity, ghosts. Lead of the Dark Economies Scholarly Association (dESA). Editor Rvenantjournal.com
Kate DeJonge @katedejonge.bsky.social -Canadian horror author
-Gen X with late diagnosed AuDHD (explains a LOT)
-Review journalist for Grimoire of Horror
-Proud ally of the Rainbow Mafia
-Fan of bullet points
-Definitely NOT a meth head babysitter
technomalinche @technomalinche.bsky.social Inauthentic Ethnic. Practical Radical. Class Traitor. Feminist Fatale. Postcolonial Cyborg. Queer Sympathizer. Migrant Professor. Malcontent. Mutant.
Nikki @midnightpanacea.bsky.social auDHD
📸 photographer
Airbuds: https://i.airbuds.fm/midnightpanacea/k202by3N6K
Matthew Thompson @drmatthewthompson.bsky.social Academic. PhD on historical reconstructions of the Whitechapel Murders. Writes about toxic masculinity, Neo-Victorianism and historical reconstruction. Currently researching the vampire in interactive media. He/Him
Edie @edieop.bsky.social Fine arts, illustration, vampire research, the weird, the uncanny and the haunted.
In league with Broken Frontier.
Salem Saberhagen @gothimposter.bsky.social Haunted Nonbinary Writer.
Award-winning Fake Goth. 30s, they/them
I write about horror, games, the occult, tabletop, anime, and post dumb shit.
Mistah G @mistahg.bsky.social Blurring the lines between the landscapes of Folk Horror, Hauntology and the Urban Wyrd. Taking in films, literature, music, art and performance.
Kendall Phillips @krp.bsky.social Author of NO ONE CAN SAVE US. Horror, films, rhetoric. Views expressed are my own.
https://www.kendallrphillips.com
Jane Barnett @crowmama9.bsky.social Artist and bibliophile inspired by the darker side of folklore, myth and magic. Animal and nature lover, folk horror, horror in general, ghosts, forteana, history.
Dr. Bruna Foletto Lucas @drfolettolucas.bsky.social Early career researcher focused on horror film and gender studies
Ashley R. Smith-Campbell @ashleyrsmith.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Screen Studies at Ithaca College | PhD in Screen Cultures from Northwestern | Writing on horror, culture, race, and gender | True crime & media trash lover | Opinions are mine | Formerly @thehorrorfemme on Twitter
Nicole C. Dittmer @pennystressful.bsky.social Advisory board @ ETAP,penny bloods & dime novels, werewolves, global witches, ecoGothic, early-to-mid-Victorian Gothic, horror, ‘monstrous’ women, PhD from MMU, Salem, mind-body monism, biological and neurological studies.
www.nicoledittmer.com
Tony Bradbury @ghostdancer.bsky.social Author..husband.. grumpy old man, Grandad who is soon to retire and looking forward to it!!
Jacob Babb @jacobbabb.bsky.social Writing professor, horror reader, mandolin player. I publish about writing program administration, writing pedagogy, and horror film and literature.
Lauren (LJ) McMenemy @laurenwrites.bsky.social 👻Writes the dark stuff
📣Online content ed @ British Fantasy Society
🤘Founder/mentor/coach/author promo, Society of Ink Slingers
🔮Events curator, Writing the Occult
🔪Former editor, TWF @ HorrorTree.com
👩💻Day job: Content & community
🇦🇺in🇬🇧
🤓Curious/exhausted
@lanatalani.bsky.social @lanatalani.bsky.social 
Jo Isaacson @stepforddaughter.bsky.social Feminist horror scholar, author of Stepford Daughters: Weapons for Feminists in Contemporary Horror, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, and Sisters, Professor of English at MJC, editor of Horror Studies and Blind Field journals, lover of mutual aid.
Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social Associate Prof: Gothic/Horror, 18th/19th C Brit Lit, Health Hum, History of Med, Death Studies, Disability Studies | Amateur Artist and cemetery enthusiast
I do not use AI for anything, professionally or personally. All opinions my own.
Brian Fanelli @brianjfanelli.bsky.social Writer I Associate Professor of English I #HWA Member I Co-founder and Co-editor of The Horror Lounge (@thehorrorlounge.bsky.social).
www.thehorrorlounge.com
Miranda Anderson @rainbowzen.bsky.social Happily married mother of two, reader, progressive, eccentric. 
Mark Oxbrow @markoxbrow.bsky.social Author, storyteller and ghost writer
@templepiskunowicz.bsky.social @templepiskunowicz.bsky.social Autistic adult human female. Labour voter, nurse, vegetarian, hates tories, loves dogs
DryLandFish @drylandfish.bsky.social Backwoods generalist. Grower and builder of things. Plant nerd. Broadcaster, journalist, wannabe author. Quiet but friendly. Occasionally has something to say.
Linz Higginson🌱 @lynsey1707.bsky.social Interests: Walking, Nature, Animals, Folklore, Horror, Hauntology, ancient sites, Hannibal.
Vegan🌱, woke, living in Cornwall with hubby Phil and rescue Spaniel Hattie.
We run The Hum From The Hill - the world of wyrd!
www.thehumfromthehill.co.uk
Elizabeth Dearnley @elizadearnley.bsky.social Folklorist, writer, Lecturer in Creative Writing at Edinburgh Napier. FEARSOME FAIRIES, HAUNTED YORKSHIRE etc. (British Library), THE FAIRY SPOTTER’S GUIDE (Welbeck). Fairy tales / horror / weird and eerie 🦇 Rep’d https://www.philippasitters.co.uk. She/her
Shedtronic @shedtronic.bsky.social One half of The Horses of the Gods. Sound designer and maker. https://bsky.app/profile/horsesofthegods.bsky.social #shedtronics #maker #solarpunk
https://linktr.ee/shedtronic
Jen Armstrong @jenwrenarm.bsky.social Folklore and spooky obsessed, tree hugging daughter of the Goddess. Creating art and ceramics as 'Wrenfolk'. Middle aged Rock Chick, Folky and Morris WAG.
https://www.instagram.com/wrenfolkceramics/profilecard/?igsh=ZHgwbjQ4aGlicDU1
@gfh68.bsky.social @gfh68.bsky.social 
Dr_Alessandra_P @alessandrapino.bsky.social Food historian, author, podcaster, lover of the supernatural & all things horror. www.alessandrapino.com
Momcilovic Drago @momcilodragophd.bsky.social Comparative Literature teacher in Wisconsin. I study zombies, eco-horror, trauma, Gothic, the 80s, technology, stardom, and other assorted weird and wonderful things in literature, film, art & pop culture.
Sam Fleming @ravenbait.bsky.social Synaesthetic specfic writer living in NE Scotland, originally from Fife. Scientist, bike herder, former husky wrangler, dice hoarder. Someone's imaginary friend. They/them/she/her.
BSFA Orbit Shorts dogsbody.
Find my stuff: https://www.ravenbait.com/work
Dr Bill Hughes (William the Bloody) @billbloodyhughes.bsky.social Cat lover. 18C scholar on the dialogue and novel. Gothic fairies, vampires and paranormal romance; co-organiser Open Graves, Open Minds Project @ogomproject.bsky.social
https://hcommons.org/members/billhughes/
www.opengravesopenminds.com
OGOM Project @ogomproject.bsky.social Vampires, werewolves, fairies in culture. All narratives of the fantastic, the folkloric, and the magical, emphasising the sense of Gothic as enchantment.
www.opengravesopenminds.com
Dr. Andrea Kitta @andreakitta.bsky.social Folklorist, professor, author, horror enthusiast. I study the intersections of legend, conspiracy theory, and medicine and the supernatural. All opinions are mine as a private citizen.
Phronk @phronk.bsky.social It’s Phronk. Brain scientist, horror author, etc.
#LdnOnt
http://www.Phronk.com
He him
@docsbrown.bsky.social @docsbrown.bsky.social Film historian, early cinema specialist, horror scholar, Constant Reader, Westie lover
Karl Bell @karlbell.bsky.social Historian. Author. Associate Prof of Cultural History @uophistory.bsky.social C19th fantastical, supernatural folklore, Gothic cities & seas. Co-director of port.ac.uk/portcities The Perilous Deep: A Supernatural History of the Atlantic (Reaktion) out now.
@sebdoubinsky.bsky.social @sebdoubinsky.bsky.social Lo-fi dystopian, noir and horror fiction writer, minor poet, reluctant academic and staunch anarchist.
"Tax the robots and A.I. as regular employees."
Sep Gohardani @sepgohardani.bsky.social (Never-ending) PhD on adaptations of Lovecraftian horror. Have written some things in the past for The Escapist, The Quietus and FilmHounds Magazine among others. He/him
Coy Hall @coyhall.bsky.social Author of horror, crime, & sci-fi. Professor of History. Great Pyrenees obsessed. Italian movie completist. Anti-A.I.
My books: https://linktr.ee/CoyHallBooks
Jack LaRoche 🐺 @coyotespeaks.bsky.social Listen to "Raising Hell" on CursedMedia.Net
Just looking for hope wherever I can and wondering what the fuck. QAA Co-Host
https://jacklaroche.com
jacklaroche.19 on Signal
@pagangill.bsky.social @pagangill.bsky.social 
@alguerrero.bsky.social @alguerrero.bsky.social 
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 🇺🇸
Marshall Moore @marshallsmoore.bsky.social Southern (American) writer academic gay guy living in West Sussex. Immigrant. Recovering publisher. NCSSM87. I write books and essays and things. Horror-adjacent. Neurodivergent. Hello. 🏳️🌈🇭🇰