Amanda Headlee @amandaheadlee.bsky.social Horror writer. Plant Mom. Dinosaur obsessed. 🦖🦕
Author of Till We Become Monsters.
THIS IS HOW A VILLAIN IS MADE is available now!
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Jim MacMillan (he/him) @jimmacmillan.com Journalist, educator and researcher. Student of peace and justice. CMAT superfan. Born in Boston. Shaped by 35 years in Philadelphia and one in Baghdad. Recently relocated to Cork. 🇮🇪
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S.P. Miskowski @spmiskowski.bsky.social writer (she/her)
Danielle Svetcov, LGR Literary Agency
#13MorbidMondays @morbidimagining.bsky.social Join Morbid Imagining in counting down to October with #13MorbidMondays, featuring weekly prompts and chat questions to showcase dark fiction, art, folklore, and other work inspired by death and dying, hosted by @braegrosz.com
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George Sandison @georgesandison.bsky.social Managing Editor @titanbooks.bsky.social. Ran multiple award-winning Unsung Stories. Writer: HINTERLANDS @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social. European (yes, still). Empathy, compassion & ice cream pls. He/Him.
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Eve Harms, Orph Understander @eveharms.com Exploitation/bizarro/horror authoress of books such as TRANSMUTED and CHASERS. Streaming with Bitter Karella at 10am PST every Weds.
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Justin King @justinkingdesigns.bsky.social Multidisciplinary artist concentrating in sculpture in St Louis!
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National Writers Union @nwu.org The National Writers Union fights for all freelance writers & media workers in the digital age. Media contact: comms@nwu.org
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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca Artist in progress. Living on Treaty 6 land. Art, science, space & politics (sorry about that) Dad to Samwise. Storms & stuff. He/him. No AI, No NFT. https://earthskyart.ca #art #painting #sciart #fod #biking
Harrison Mooney @harrisonmooney.bsky.social Author of INVISIBLE BOY, winner of the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, BITTERSWEET (spring 2027) and I JUST HAVE TO RACE ALL THESE GHOSTS (summer 2027). Host of @TheTyee podcast. East Vancouver.
Ellis Rosen @ellisjrosen.bsky.social Cartoonist for The New Yorker
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Kathy Palm @kathleenpalm.bsky.social MG horror writer. General weirdo. Find me running in the haunted cornfields. Author of The Nowhere Series from Undertaker Books (Middle Grade horror) HWA Chicago.
Creepy is fun.
ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com bugs and shrews, critters with booze
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Horror Writers Association @horrorwritersassoc.bsky.social Official Account of the Horror Writers Association. The oldest literary organization serving writers and publishing professionals around the world, dedicated to promoting dark literature and the interests of those who write it.
Christiane Knight @christianek.bsky.social AKA Xiane. Author. SFF. Baltimore Fae. Crohn's. ⊙⊝⊜. Queer. Musician. She/They. I spin spooky music and fuzzy fibers. I write characters that dare to hope. SFWA Member. Indie Ink Awards Finalist.
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Find my books at https://www.christianeknight.com
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Martin Shannon, Your Favorite Martin @martinshannon.bsky.social Rare book author of over 50 works you've never heard of who produces word processor-to-shelf, artisanal, organic, non-GMO horrific stories. Drafted, edited, and produced by free range humans. Hard to find, harder to put down.
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David Zinn @davidzinn.bsky.social Habitual doodler and street artist, wrangling ephemerality and finding uplift underfoot.
🧑🏻🦽➡️🦄 Eva Roslin (They/She) ⚨ 🍁 @evavroslin.bsky.social Disabled queer Dark Fantasy and Horror writer. Nonbinary (they/she). AuDHD. Canadian Hye with Iranian heritage. 🚫AI. Curator of books by day. Francophone with encylopedic knowledge of Vampire Diaries and Lestat. I curse in Québécois
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Canadian author of questionable taste. Words in New Edge Sword & Sorcery. Book reviewer. Expert on monsters. HWA. He/him
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Willow Nichols-Capra 🤎 @novellamenagerie.bsky.social Writer | Salem, MA | BIPOC & 🏳️🌈 | NEHW | HWA | 1816 and Boston Writers of Color Award Winner
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Blood+Honey, Horrific Scribes, Cosmic Horror Monthly, Gavagai, etc 🔽
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Saimi Hanma ⚔️ サイミ @saimihanma.bsky.social Author of 'The Naturalist at Home' and 'Nature Obscura'. Writer, artist, photographer. ND
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aka Kelly Brenner
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Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social Award-winning author of more than 20 books. Writes science fiction as Gareth L Powell and horror and mystery as GL Powell. Repped by Lucienne Diver.
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Ian @deathyboy.bsky.social Director of Barbatachtian.
Madeleine Mu 🇨🇦🏳️⚧️ @madeleinejessa.bsky.social Scribe, scribbler, musician, crossword enthusiast
Xennial trans woman living on Treaty Six territory
Dramatic subtlety of Groucho paired with the comic timing of Karl.
Working on a debut MG graphic novel.
(she/they)
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Likes himself some of those #movies and #videogames too.
Also facial hair enthusiast.
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social Weather and climate scientist focused on extreme events like floods, droughts, & wildfires on a warming planet. www.weatherwest.com
Robin Knabel - Inky Bones Press @robinknabel.bsky.social Horror author, editor, coffee addict, indie publisher/owner of Inky Bones Press.
Talking Scared Podcast @talkscaredpod.bsky.social A podcast of conversations with the biggest names in horror writing. Find out where your favourite scary stories came from.
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Jeremy C. Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson Award nominated author of THE MERRY DREDGERS and BEDFELLOW and THE ATROCITIES. FAMILIAR out now! Fabric artist. Butler for cats. They/them
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The Shirley Jackson Awards @sjacksonawards.bsky.social For outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the fantastic.
Liv “Leev” Rainey-Smith @livraineysmith.bsky.social 2025 World Fantasy Award Best Artist
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Enjoyer of weird fiction and horror.
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Bel Canto Books @belcantobooks.bsky.social Filipina founded indie bookstore with 3 Long Beach CA locations. 📚💗☕️ More at belcantobooks.net
Ginger Nuts of Horror @gnofhorror.com We put the "Ginger" in "Horror" 🔥
Book & movie reviews with a bite.
17 years strong. Still scared. Still reviewing.
👇 Dunk into our latest posts
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Stars and Sabers @starsandsabers.bsky.social Publisher. CLOSED TO SUBMISSIONS. CEO and Editor-in-Chief: @jendiagammon.bsky.social. Staff: @garethlpowell.bsky.social @authorhelengj.bsky.social @scarlettralgee.bsky.social @denniskcrosby.bsky.social @kcgrifant.bsky.social starsandsabers.com
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Matt Blairstone @mattblairstone.bsky.social Publisher/Founder @tenebrouspress.bsky.social
Shirley Jackson Award-nommed editor.
Illustrator of slimy things.
Comix devotee.
Guitar & vox for Cult Racer.
Thou shalt worship no god but Rock.
He/him
Portland OR
Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com Shirley Jackson Award-nominated EIC of @tenebrouspress.bsky.social. Dark specfic writer, Romanian folklore nerd, optimistic nihilist.
she/her
WHISPERWOOD out now
THE NIGHT SHIP out now
TATRATEA coming Oct 2026
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Beverley Lee @beverleylee.bsky.social ♱ Character-driven. Atmospheric, creeping dread & broken boys a speciality.
♱ Breaking your heart with horror since 2016
♱ Editing Project Sea 🌊
♱ Ally 🏳️🌈
♱ No AI ever.
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Amanda Makepeace (ᏣᏁᎾ) ❤️🔥 @amandamakepeace.bsky.social Chesley Award winner. Pencil artist of nature, magic and lore. If I'm not in the studio I might be wandering in the woods.
🪶| Demi | she/her
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Samantha Bryant | She/her @samanthabwriter.bsky.social Samantha Bryant is a multigenre author, best known for her Menopausal Superhero series of novels through Falstaff Books. WFWA, HWA. http://dangerouswhenbored.com
Crone Girls Press @cronegirlspress.bsky.social Crone Girls Press is an indie horror micropress. Come to the shadows, we have good books!
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Dim Shores @dimshores.bsky.social Micropress publisher of weird fiction. Cat enthusiast. Abyss gazer, void screamer. No ICE, no KKK, no fascist USA. Also no AI. Trans rights are human rights. Billionaires should not exist. He/him. dimshores.com
SACosby @blacktopkid.bsky.social Writer, whiskey drinker and cat dad
SZ Estavillo @szestavilloauthor.com Crime Thriller Author | The Serpent Series |@OliverHeberBooks | MA: TV, Radio & Film | Multi-Genre Reader
The Serpent’s Bridge (📚1)
The Serpent Woman (📚2)
Twilight of the Serpent (📚3)
The Serpent’s Order (📚4)
amazon.com/dp/B0CW6KP433
Ian Boothby @ianboothby.bsky.social Writer, cartoonist, comedian. Washington Post and New Yorker cartoons, MAD Magazine, Futurama comics, Sparks! series of books, Frostbite, Exorsisters, Mannequin on the Moon and full time Canadian.
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erin morgenstern @erinmorgenstern.bsky.social Author of The Night Circus (2011) & The Starless Sea (2019), creator of The Phantomwise Tarot (2022). she/her. Ask me about my cat. https://linktr.ee/erinmorgenstern
Prison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social An independent national nonprofit initiative that trains incarcerated writers in the tools of journalism and publishes their stories.
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Little Ghosts Books @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social Your Queer Spooky Bookstore x Small Press.
“A Good Story Will Haunt You”
👻🖤📚
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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.bsky.social Pen name for an autistic/ace indie writer & digital artist, introvert, worried soul, they/she. 🚫NO A/I!
Links to all my books, art, and book reviews can be found at https://www.helenwhistberry.com/
Mike Spry @mikespry.bsky.social Writer/Poet. Words in the Toronto Star, FLOOD, Indiewire, MTV CA, National Post, McSweeney’s IT, TSN, Washington Sq. Review, and elsewhere + a few books.
I write about TV/film/music/culture @ Narrative Electric Co.: https://mikespry.substack.com
Sley House Presents @sleyhousepresents.bsky.social Sley House Presents is a podcast about literature, with in-depth reviews, author interviews, and occasional audio fiction. Account managed by Trevor W.
Bad Hand Books @badhandbooks.bsky.social You can do a lot with a bad hand. We're bringing you the best horror, dark fantasy, & crime fiction. Owned & operated by Bram Stoker Award and Shirley Jackson Award winner Doug Murano.
Jendia Gammon @jendiagammon.bsky.social “Jen-DEE-a”
Creative Instructor | Producer | STEM Communications | Artist | Author
GODFESTATION (Out Now) | THE DAWN OF DUSK AND TWILIGHT (Preorder)
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Also J. Dianne Dotson.
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I’ve done stuff for things and I like to be vague about it
Artist with a tattoo machine for 12 years
Los Angeles
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Sistah Scifi @sistahscifi.bsky.social 1st Black owned book store in the US focused on Science Fiction and Fantasy as validated by the ABA
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Gibson's Bookstore @gibsonsbookstore.bsky.social Concord, NH. Indie Bookstore. Est. 1898.
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Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore @mystgalaxybooks.bsky.social Fantasy, Science Fiction, Young Adult, Mystery, Horror & more!
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J.D. Buffington @jdbuffington.com “Bullies need victims. But victims don’t need bullies.”
—A.R. Moxon
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Wizard of the Wavering Place
@s8cpublications.bsky.social
Anti-Gen AI
Trans & Women’s Rights Are Human Rights
Author of Horror and Science Fiction, HWA
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L.C. Marino @lcmarino.bsky.social Author of thrills, suspense, and horror fiction. Cofounder and publisher at Sobelo Books. Bookseller at Spineless Reads. Host of The Suspense is Killing Me podcast. www.lucasmarinowrites.com
Shortwave Publishing @shortwavebooks.bsky.social Shortwave is an indie horror/sci-fi press. Our books are distributed worldwide by Simon & Schuster. Founded and run by @alandistro.bsky.social (active HWA member, full SFWA member).
Our full catalog: https://shortwavepublishing.com/
Green Apple Books @greenapplebooks.bsky.social Independent bookstore in San Francisco since 1967.
Our Sunset location is @booksonthepark.bsky.social
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Libro.fm @libro.fm 🎧 The audiobook company that shares profits with independent bookshops
💗 Certified B Corp
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
Novel Nightmares @novelnightmares.bsky.social A Virtual Horror Book Club.
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Victoria Rose Richards @aerialembroidery.bsky.social I make aerial embroidery landscapes 🧵✈ Queer, autistic and obsessed with green! They/them or other neutral pronouns are preferred. All my current and previous work is on my site: https://linktr.ee/aerialembroidery
Julene Tripp Weaver @trippweavpoet.bsky.social Poet—latest book: "Slow Now with Clear Skies." Writer. Herbalist—Green Witch. Therapist. Systemic or Family Constellation. Health Artist. #WOMPO https://www.julenetrippweaver.com
@1weirddogmom.bsky.social @1weirddogmom.bsky.social I’m weird and so is my dog. Schadenfreude enthusiast. Constant Reader. Here (mostly) for the fictional horror. 🦇 And the occasional apocalyptic tourism (thanks Chuck). Art by StinaMarie.
Big Bearded Bookseller @bigbeardedbookseller.com Expert bookseller with a very big beard
Books read: 83/100
📚 Art On My Mind
📺 The World's Finest Assassin Gets Reincarnated in Another World as an Aristocrat
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http://www.ephemeral.co.uk
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🖤☠️
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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social All Kinds of Weird 👽 literary magazine and book company publishing strange, surreal, shocking, beautiful sff & horror. 100% organic, no AI 🚫
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@crossroadpress.bsky.social @crossroadpress.bsky.social Publisher of Horror, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Mysteries, Thrillers, Military adventure, parapsychology, biographies, childrens books and so much more. In business for over 15 years. 3000 plus titles, hundreds of authors from #CliveBarker to new voices.
Robert Fael @robertfael.bsky.social Storyteller. Aging Biker. Adoptive Spaniard. Trying to sample one of everything before the inevitable. Links to books and stuff at https://linktr.ee/robertfael
Infested Publishing @infestedpublishing.bsky.social Working-class press.
Horror/sci-fi/Weirdness 🐀🖤🐁
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Lynne Hansen Art @lynnehansenart.bsky.social Illustrator. Horrorista.
Weird Tales Cover Artist.