The John Rylands Library @thejohnrylands.bsky.social Promoting world-leading research using the unique special collections of The University of Manchester Library.
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Terrance Balazo @tbalazo.bsky.social Trivia Host and extreme Frasier fan.
Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social If there's something you hope will happen, well, maybe it will happen today.
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Glenn Sumi @glennsumi.bsky.social 25 yrs @ Toronto's NOW Magazine covering theatre (mostly), comedy, film. Now freelance. Star, Toronto Life, Globe, Variety. He/him. Blog: So Sumi, covering Toronto performing arts.
Kelly Therese @feministkelly.bsky.social Univ admin by day. Knitter & Podcaster by night. Feminist mom in Chicago always. Lover of mystery novels, espresso, sauv blanc & kittens. She/her.
Host, Unsung History. https://www.unsunghistorypodcast.com
Writing a transatlantic family history/memoir.
Toronto Tempo @tempobasketball.bsky.social Set the pace. Change the game.
The WNBA in Canada.
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Toronto Comic Arts Festival @torontocomics.bsky.social Official account for The Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF)!
TCAF returns June 6-7, 2026 at Toronto Metropolitan University’s Mattamy Athletic Centre.
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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social Poet. Speaker. Educator. Performer. Adult, YA, and Children's poetry. Occasionally picture books. Lots of posts about churches. Unapologetically trans (he/him) jayhulme.com
Push the Roll @pushtheroll.com Home of Push the Roll with Ross Bryant, the official The Magnus Archives Roleplaying Game actual play and Ain't Slayed Nobody. Call of Cthulhu and other TTRPGs. 🏆 Gold ENNIE, Golden Lobe, 8x Audioverse Award, EN World Actual Play Hall of Fame.
Ross Bryant @rossbryant.bsky.social 🌹Performer: Improvised Shakespeare Co. / Dropout / UCB
Writer: MST3K
Streamer: Glass Cannon Network / Push the Roll
Cartoonist
Actor on TV sometimes
Ben Nicholson-Smith @bnsbaseball.bsky.social we could talk about baseball.. 
Boak & Bailey (Jess & Ray) @boakandbailey.bsky.social In Bristol. Beer blogging in the UK since 2007. Also wrote some books about beer and pubs. Header image shows a detail from the cover of one. Won't repost if you don't use alt text. Find us at boakandbailey.com
Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social Writer. Reader. Sometimes funny. Author of WINTERSET HOLLOW (1st edition out of print, 2nd edition coming October 2026!) HOLLYWOODLAND coming 2027!
https://www.jonathanedwarddurham.com
https://jonathanedwarddurham.substack.com
Ilan Muskat @calculon.bsky.social "And then it was now; and then I don't know what happened." It's pronounced *sigh* like it looks. Maybe tomorrow. (He/him)
Surgent Studios @surgentstudios.bsky.social Makers of Tales of Kenzera: ZAU and DEAD TAKE. Now working on: FIXFORCE 🤖🔧🤖🔧🤖🔧🤖🔧🤖🔧🤖🔧
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Colin Gorrie @colingorrie.bsky.social English is weirder than you think. Every week I dig into the hidden history of everyday words: etymology, Old English, and the accidents that shaped how you speak. Linguistics PhD. deadlanguagesociety.com
Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social Asst Prof (Old English & Old Norse). Book TRANSLATING HELL (2026). Phil-lol-ogist, word-lover, pun-makar, collector of dictionaries, glamorer of grammar.
Hazel Mae @thehazelmae.bsky.social *TV Sports Broadcaster * Host * MLB International * Diamonds Are A Girl’s Best Friend *
#ChiefsKingdom
Ian MacIntyre @ianmmacintyre.bsky.social Aging nerd, Beaverton, etc
Can I Pet Your Dog? @kristineff.bsky.social Can we lock our accounts yet? I have some butt jokes I need to make. 
Tor Books @torbooks.bsky.social Publisher of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller and Suspense, and Other Speculative Fiction
Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social music ∙ geekery ∙ media and comms ∙ more random musings than you can handle ∙ DC vibe checks & street photography ∙ somehow has a PhD ∙ opinions all mine ∙ once called "the bus passenger" by People Magazine
Historica Canada @historicacanada.bsky.social Historica Canada is a charitable organization that offers educational programs in both official languages. / Historica Canada est un organisme de bienfaisance qui offre des programmes éducatifs dans les deux langues officielles.
Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social Professor of art history at Portland State University. Author of Artemisia Gentileschi: The Language of Painting (Yale University Press) and some other stuff. 2 parts Weltschmerz, 1 part vermouth
Sodajerker @sodajerker.bsky.social Our award-winning podcast, Sodajerker On Songwriting, features interviews with some of the world's most successful songwriters: http://sodajerker.com/podcast.
Jessica Roux @jessicasroux.bsky.social Illustrator, author, gardener
https://www.jessica-roux.com/links
Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social Medievalist, Paleographer, Codicologist, Voynichologist; Executive Director, @medievalacademy.bsky.social; Brown Univ. and Yale Univ. alum; PhD; Red Sox fan
Toronto Blue Jays @bluejaysbot.bsky.social Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Threads, Snapchat and TikTok: @BlueJays • Account run by @beastModeRocco.com
Norm Wilner @normwilner.bsky.social Consultant! Writer! Programmer! Host! SEMcast, SHINY THINGS, "former Toronto fest film picker" - The Hollywood Reporter. He/him. https://linktr.ee/normwilner
Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social Astronomer Royal for Scotland, Professor of Astrophysics, Edinburgh University. Author of How to Design a Universe. @astronomerroyal on insta (She/her)
Emily McGovern @emilyscartoons.bsky.social Cartoonist & author
Prints and comic booklets available here! 👉 http://emilyscartoons.myshopify.com
Jackman Humanities Institute @jhievents.bsky.social Interdisciplinary Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto | For info about Fellowships, funding opportunities, events and more, sign up for our newsletter http://eepurl.com/dhuDJv
Omar Rayyan @omarrayyanart.bsky.social Artist: Magic the Gathering, gallery work, commissions, and paint splashes resembling tipsy critters, among other Things.
Occasional wearer of shoes.
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Jason Cordova @jasoncordova.bsky.social (Any pronouns) Brindlewood Bae
Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social Science fiction. Fantasy. The universe. And related subjects.
https://beacons.ai/reactormag
History Ireland Magazine @historyireland.bsky.social Established in 1993, Ireland's premier history magazine.
Published bi-monthly.
Editor: Tommy Graham.
www.historyireland.com
A Wordwell Group publication.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social “Hilarious.” - Stephen Fry. “Made me laugh out loud.” - David Sedaris. “Very funny.” - Kate Atkinson. "Psychedelic." - The Guardian. “Not humerus at all.” - Amazon reviewer. https://www.tom-cox.com/
𝔄𝔩𝔢𝔵𝔞𝔫𝔡𝔢𝔯 𝔚𝔞𝔯𝔡 @alexanderward.bsky.social 
Rhiannon Giddens @rhiannongiddens.bsky.social New album, Hope Is the Thing with Feathers, out 9/18 on Nonesuch Records!
Julia Metzger @juliametzgerart.bsky.social Fantasy Enthusiast 🌿 No NFTs 🌿 No Ai 🌿Illustrator 🌿 MTG Artist 🌿 Art Educator 🌿 she/her
http://juliametzger.net/
@livesandletters.bsky.social @livesandletters.bsky.social 
Folger Shakespeare Library @folger.edu The world's largest Shakespeare collection - plus, home to Folger Theatre, Consort, Poetry, Exhibitions, Research, Education, and more!
University of Toronto @utoronto.ca Welcome to #UofT! Canada’s top university, and a catalyst for discovery, innovation, and progress. #UofTDefyGravity
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Keegan Matheson @keeganmatheson.bsky.social • Toronto Blue Jays reporter for MLB.com
• TSN 🎙️ 📺
• Author of "The Franchise: Toronto Blue Jays"
KJGoneAstray @kjgoneastray.bsky.social 
False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social Prints available here: https://store.falseknees.com/
Steve "Fascists are Horrible People" Tassie 🇨🇦 @tassie.bsky.social Board game lover, board game explainer, founder of the Board Game People www.thebgp.ca He/him. Cis-het-white, but extremely Left. Punch Nazis, UBI, BLM, ACAB, Trans rights are human rights, abortion is healthcare, tax billionaires out of existence.
@stegillian.bsky.social @stegillian.bsky.social 
@samtmack.bsky.social @samtmack.bsky.social 
Eerie Edinburgh @eerieedinburgh.bsky.social Author of the best selling Hidden Haunts books and Ghostly Tales of the NC500, and creator of the Eerie Edinburgh YouTube channel, where I explore Scotland’s haunted history.
Join me as I uncover the eerie side of Edinburgh and beyond.
How Haunted? Podcast @howhauntedpod.bsky.social I'm Rob. A Geordie ghost hunter, author, and the host of the How Haunted? podcast 👻
www.how-haunted.com
https://how-haunted.dashery.com
Madeline @schneideremarks.bsky.social Davis Schneider fan first, Blue Jays fan second. I read Moneyball once
@haddyhamster.bsky.social @haddyhamster.bsky.social Podcast addict. Cat video-thusiast. Hoarder of chocolate. Always up to talk about TV. Eats pizza/burgers w fork & knife. (Mug in profile photo from soQuiet.org)
Jennifer LoveGrove @jenniferlovegrove.bsky.social Writer / Collager/ Novice Drummer / Reader / Music Nerd
Another Round Trivia @anotherroundtrivia.bsky.social Live Trivia!
Tuesdays at Fox & Fiddle Danforth (535 Danforth Ave)
Wednesdays at Sneaky Dee's (431 College Street)
Thursday on Twitch (www.twitch.tv/anotherroundtrivia)
Available for private/corporate events
Prof Janina Ramirez @drjaninaramirez.bsky.social Oxford historian, best-selling writer fiction & non-fiction, documentary maker, cat lover, vegetable grower, unrelenting optimist. https://lnk.to/LegendaPB
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
John Reppion @johnreppion.bsky.social Knackered writer. Mr @leahmoore.bsky.social
Comics for DC, Dark Horse, 2000 AD etc, articles for Hellebore, Daily Grail, Fortean Times, etc, Weird Fiction... loads of stuff.
Haunted Book Club with @gavcross.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/haunted_bookclub
Dr Icy Sedgwick @icysedgwick.bsky.social Host of the Fabulous Folklore podcast/blog. Researcher & writer for hire. Gothic author. Crafter. PhD in haunted house films.
Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social Strange fiction, weird history. Lost member of the PRB. Marfan syndrome. Will-o’-the-wisp. Victorians, folklore, bad medicine. THE OTHERS OF EDENWELL and CHEER THE SICK out now. Non-fiction in @helleborezine.bsky.social. 🦇🖋️🇬🇮
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
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
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
Essie Fox Writer @essiefox.bsky.social
Catherine: A retelling of Wuthering heights is my latest novel, exploring the classic book through the voice of Cathy's ghost.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Catherine-Retelling-Wuthering-Essie-Fox/dp/1917764421/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0
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
Skionar @skionar.bsky.social Roger Clarke. Author of A Natural History of Ghosts, published by Penguin Books (2012). Former writer for the Independent Newspaper, Sunday TimesUK, Sight & Sound. In it for the long haul with severe chronic illness, dealing with NHS on a weekly basis
Jon Dear @accordingtojond.bsky.social Writer on archive TV and film. Currently working on a book about the BBC’s A Ghost Story for Christmas. Produced The Quatermass Experiment (2023) and Children of The Stone Tape (2024). Podcasts on Nigel Kneale and Giallo.
Martyn Waites/CB Everett @martynwaites.bsky.social Writer. Crime. Horror. Doctor Who for Big Finish. Was once Tania Carver. New novel THE FINAL CHAPTER out now under the CB Everett name. Agent: James Wills at Watson Little. #MDANT and proud of it.
Johnny Mains @johnnymains.co.uk Horror anthologist.
AuDHD.
Buy Me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/johnnymains
Dan Coxon @dancoxon.bsky.social He/him. World Fantasy Award, Shirley Jackson Award and British Fantasy Awards winner (twice). Collection COME SING FOR THE HARROWING out now.
Andrew Screen @andrewscreenbskys.bsky.social Author of The Book of Beasts: Folklore, Popular Culture & Nigel Kneale's ATV Horror Series (Headpress 2023). SEN work by day. Words for Fortean Times, We Are Cult among others.
Fortean Times @forteantimes.bsky.social The journal of strange phenomena
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.
Paul Watson @lazaruscorporation.co.uk Artist | Hastings, UK | He/him | Grand Council of #Hookland | https://www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/
DeeDeeChainey @deedeechainey.bsky.social Storyteller. Heritage botherer. @culturalfutureshub.bsky.social & @folklorethursday.bsky.social founder; #TreasuryOfFolklore author. #XR and #UX enthusiast. https://linktr.ee/deedeechainey 🇲🇹 🇮🇹 🇬🇧
Catherine Spooner @catherinespooner.bsky.social Academic and creative writer | Professor of Literature and Culture, Lancaster University | all things Gothic | fashion | folk horror | she/her
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
Dr Diane A Rodgers @dianearodgers.bsky.social Doctor of Folk Horror & Wyrd TV | tinyurl.com/WyrdTV | Centre for Contemporary Legend | President of ISCLR | National Folklore Survey | Derby Dracula | The CK5 band | All views my own (she/her) https://linktr.ee/dr.diane.rodgers
Elijah John @elijohn.bsky.social Illustrator/artist conjuring sublime horrors for publishers of the creepy and weird.
www.elijohnart.co.uk Art Director @nepenthepress
Folk Horror Revival 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social "Speak now, come now, rise now from the forest, from the furrows, from the field and live"
https://folkhorrorrevival.com/
#FolkloreAgainstFascism
No AI 🚫🤖
Posts by Richard Hing, views my own
Justin Hopper @oldweirdalbion.bsky.social Writer. Uncanny Landscapes podcast. Belbury Poly - The Path. Obsolete Spells. Chanctonbury Rings. The Old Weird Albion. https://linktr.ee/oldweirdalbion
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
Sarah-Jayne Farrer @sjfarrer.bsky.social Writer/Creator of Arcane Oddities | Founder of EDGEWAYS | Grand Council of #Hookland | 42 | She/Her | Salt Hag |Tremoribus Subterraneis |
https://linktr.ee/SarahJayneFarrer
Hidden Britain @hiddenbritain.bsky.social Handmade signs, prints, music & books inspired by British Folk Horror and unsettling TV, film & literature. Based in The Black Country, England.
https://linktr.ee/hiddenbritain
EDGEWAYS @edgeways.bsky.social Exploring paths less taken, forgotten stairwells of history and unanswered questions of art, science and magic. Soror Shenanigator @sjfarrer at the helm.
Zoom Gatherings. Every Sat @ 20:00 GMT
https://linktr.ee/Edgeways_Gatherings
Catherine Gogerty @catherinegogerty.bsky.social Artist and Illustrator, Folklore explorer, lover of History and the Macabre
Sam Harvey @samharvey.bsky.social Filmmaker. Feminist. Fanboy. Human rights for ALL. Often found playing disco records and obsessing over old horror movies. Spiritually grounded & generally excitable.
Bristol UK. He/him. 🏳️🌈
FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸
Creative work: https://quietthunderfilms.com
Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social Lecturer in c19th and c20th Literature. #Gothic #DeathStudies #Childhood
Assoc Editor @ Gothic Studies
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
Unquiet Arcadian @unquietarcadian.bsky.social Printmaker, and some other things.
Dr Frazer Lee @frazerlee.bsky.social Reader in Creative Writing, PhD, FHEA. Edgar Allan Poe Gothic Filmmaker Award Winner (The Stay), Bram Stoker Award Finalist ‘Best 1st Novel’ (The Lamplighters). #thecure obsessive, 47 gigs so far. Repped: Betty-Anne Crawford NY USA.
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
Gemma Amor @manylittlewords.bsky.social Bram Stoker, Shirley Jackson & British Fantasy Award nominated author, illustrator from Bristol, UK.
ROOTS OF MY FEARS, Titan 2025
ITCH! Hodder & Stoughton 2025
FIRST DATE, Datura Books 2026
HAPPY HOUR, Shortwave 2026
NoSleep Podcast.
Robert Edgar @robertedgar.bsky.social Writer and Academic. Professor of Writing and Popular Culture, York St John University. Scriptwriting, Music Memoir, Hauntology, Folk Horror, Science-Fiction
Shaun Aitcheson @shaunaitcheson.bsky.social Indie Developer/Director @ Cloak and Dagger Games • The Excavation of Hob's Barrow (BAFTA longlisted), Sumatra: Fate of Yandi, Football Game and more • Working on TBA
UK based/NZ born • Folk horror nut • He/Him
https://linktr.ee/cloakanddaggergames
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.
Tales of Wihtlore @wihtlore.uk Welcome new followers, thank you for joining me. I tell tales, I speak lies, this is like breathing for me.
Don’t come to me for truth today, for it maybe a lie tomorrow. #NoAI #Folklore #FolkloreAgainstFascism
Folklore Centre Todmorden @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social Arts, Film, Talks, Crafts, Library, Archive, Museum, Research, Education, Workshops, Exhibitions, Storytelling, Conferences, Local Folk History.
Currently hibernating except for events.
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
Folk Around And Find Out @folkaround.bsky.social Folklore & History Enthusiast
Curator of Hidden West Yorkshire for the BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p0hzw9dt?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile