Dr Karen Smith🪴🕷🦇🐇🐈 💚🇮🇪🎶🎭📽️🎞💙😷💉🕯️🦋🌻 @karenapsmith.bsky.social Taught HE for over 25 years, Art School Dep Head/Film/Media scholar/programmer/cinemas/cult/horror/ gothic/folk horror/music/clubs/neighbourhoods/audiences/gentrification/Scala Cinema
UCL+KCL
Lived opposite Grenfell Tower over 20 years 💚 W10 to WKen London
Emma L. Davies @edgarallanhole.bsky.social horror author | bristol | ahrc funded phd | bog gothic 🌱
lb: https://boxd.it/455UF
Barbara Braid @dr-braid.bsky.social Period drama afficionado, mad for all things neo-Victorian and gothic
Korra Saqqara (Christa Angelios) @metamythica.bsky.social 💀 Studying the Gothic at MMU
📖 Literary Coach & Freelance Editor, MetaMythica Literary
🐧 Former Random Penguin; Columbia Publishing Course alum
Member: EFA, ACES, PEN
She/Her
#SWANAinPublishing #AmWriting #AmEditing #Folklore #Horror #SFF 👻
Opinions my own
@plummoonflower.bsky.social @plummoonflower.bsky.social 
Dustin Shattuck @dustinshattuck.bsky.social 
WILDsound Feedback Festival @wildsoundfestival.bsky.social Telling stories through film and conversation. WILDsound showcases the best of new films & screenplays from around the world in a daily film festival.
www.wildsound.ca
https://filmfreeway.com/WILDsoundFilmandWritingFestival
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
𝙰𝚗𝚍𝚢 𝙿𝚊𝚌𝚒𝚘𝚛𝚎𝚔 💀☕📚🍂🎨🐈⬛ @andy-paciorek.bsky.social ^◇^
“Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.”
~ Charles Baudelaire
Daru Mcaleece @darustoryteller.bsky.social Gothic-tinged feral storyteller, writer, artist, & Druid. Embracing the strange. He/They
See Haunted Voices @ hauntpublishing.com
Support: http://ko-fi.com/darustoryteller
Blueshit @losblueshit.bsky.social Underground band from Mexico.
Download music of Blueshit here:
https://theblueshit.bandcamp.com/
Come to our Whatsapp group to get our news: 👇👇
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Whitby Gothic @whitbygothic.bsky.social #Whitby #Goth #Gothic #GothicRock #Gothcore #GothicHorror #PostPunk #industrial #SynthPop #EBM #darkrock #darkwave #HammerHorror #Dracula V''''V #BramStoker #Folklore #Krampus #FolkHorror #Steampunk #Frankenstein #altrock #newwave : ste@8b-all.com
Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social English Language & Literature. Quondam Prof. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. 𝔄𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔦𝔠 𝔈𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔥. Editor, Shakespeare: New Voices. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
C.M. Rosens @cmrosens.com UK Horror & Dark SFF trad [Penguin Canelo] & indie author
HWA Affiliate Writer, BFS Member
ADHD. Welsh-Turkish 🏴🇹🇷. Queer/cis🏳️🌈. She/her.
Podcast: @eldritchgirlpod.bsky.social
Website/Newsletter: cmrosens.com
Visit Pagham-on-Sea: visitpaghamonsea.co.uk
jannon @jannste.bsky.social jannon at the old place
Wm. Schumacher @wmschumacher.bsky.social Gothic/Horror Film & Fiction Pedant (ghost stories, esp. M. R. James); Amateur Theatricals; Wastrel and Ne'er-Do-Well in the ‘Western Suburbs.’ Former Teacher. U of I and WPGU ‘91.
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Istari @midnightsunii.bsky.social whatever I fancy, gothic, horror, lit, movies, games..sharing bad art i make. not an artist, but it helps
‘I live the life of an aesthete’
Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social Horror Lex® (https://horrorlex.com) is the home of academic horror. Explore our huge research database of scholarly, thoughtful writings on horror films. #horror
Semper Anticus Press @semperanticuspress.bsky.social Indie publisher launching soon!
Main site: www.book-shelfie.com/submissions
semperanticuspress@gmail.com
Friends of Lister Lane Cemetery (KAVS) @listerlanecem.bsky.social In collaboration with Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council, the Friends maintain this Grade II listed, significant cemetery; the final resting place of some 20,000 individuals. Location: Halifax, England.
https://www.listerlanecemetery.co.uk
As per my last epitaph... @thelighthouseghost.bsky.social 
Daily Submittable Deadlines @submittabledaily.bsky.social Best writing and poetry festivals to submit to each day on submittable.
https://wildsoundwritingfestival.submittable.com/projects
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
Jason B. Bernard [aka Jason Wallis-Bernard] @jasonbbernard.bsky.social Conceptual Artist: www.jasonbbernard.com. Also founding member of industrial / experimental act: skull:axis. Medical Antique fanatic / Writer / Amsterdam born and co-founder of @medvintagevault.bsky.social
Dr. Billie Gavurin @bgavurin.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Birmingham, working on counterfactual depictions of prehistoric hominins in fin-de-siècle culture
Interested in 19th/early 20thC connections between myth, folklore, & evolutionary science 🧜🏻♀️
She/her
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
Daniel Grey @djrgrey.bsky.social Sociology & History at University of Hertfordshire | FRHistS | SFHEA | Works on gender & crime in Britain & India. He/Him.
Dr Franziska Kohlt @frankendodo.bsky.social Historian& Sociologist of Science at KCL | Historical Climatology & Glaciology | Former Inaugural USC Carrollian Fellow | Tutor Oxford ContEd | Keynote Speaker, Alice in Wonderland Expert & Polymath | Erdős–Bacon No 8 | https://linktr.ee/frankendodo
Victorian Popular Fiction Association @vpfa.bsky.social A forum for everyone interested in #Victorian and #Neovictorian popular fiction and culture. Hosts VPFJ Journal and Third Sex and Short Story Reading Groups 📚https://victorianpopularfiction.org/
Marek Kohn @marekkohn.bsky.social Writer: science, society, diversity, identity. Latest book: The Stories Old Towns Tell. Latest revised book: Dope Girls. No srach.
marekkohn.info
Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social Senior Teaching Fellow in Medical Humanities/Teaching Fellow in History of Science & Medicine at Imperial College London - Headpress promo gal @headpress.com - Fan of nasty films and nasty music - Bradford lass
Craig Ian Mann @craigimann.bsky.social Full-time home video producer, part-time writer and sometimes documentary filmmaker | letterboxd.com/craigimann | chasmfilms.co.uk | 📺 📼 📀
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.
Dr Scarlett Butchers @scarlettbutchers1.bsky.social Early Career Researcher ◇ Ecocriticism, Folk Horror, Monstrosity, David Rudkin, (eco)gothic, C20th British theatre ◇ I run @makingitwyrd.bsky.social
Maria J Pérez Cuervo @mjpcuervo.com Writer, editor • Founder/ editor @helleborezine.bsky.social (World Fantasy Awards and British Fantasy Awards finalist) • History, art, myth, mystery.
Bristol, UK.
👩🏻 mjpcuervo.com
📖 helleborezine.com
Francesco Levato @levato.bsky.social Poet, professor, literary translator, new media artist, and writer of speculative fiction. M.F.A., Ph.D., HWA, SFWA #horror #scifi #fantasy #booksky
Web: https://francescolevato.com/
Mark Bould @markbould.bsky.social Professor of Film, Literature and Poor Life Choices. Full-time duck chaperone. Part-time author of things about films and books.
Cristina Santos @drcristinasantos.bsky.social PhD🧛♀️Researches female monsters & monstrous women🧙🏼♀️
📝 Latin American testimony
📕Untaming Girlhoods: Storytelling Female Adolescence | Unbecoming Female Monsters: Witches, Vampires and Virgins
🦇 Leah Richards 🦇 @plaguedr-richards.bsky.social ☠️ "an aging, deeply unlikeable woman who never had kids," a kitchen witch, and a cat fancier; she/her
☠️ horror & gothic scholar, professor, editor of Supernatural Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Art, Media, and Culture, supernaturalstudies.com
Peter Ray Allison ➡️ Edge-Lit @peterallison.net Husband, father, writer, podcaster and vampire.
🧛♀️ Co-founder of @MythicEchoes.bsky.social
🎲 Editor for @geekpride.bsky.social
✍️ Articles in BBC, Guardian, Independent and others
🎙️Occasionally on BBC Radio
🧬 They/them
📌 Derby, UK
🔗 www.peterallison.net
Hilary Baudelaire @hilarybaudelaire.bsky.social Writer, Crafter, Musician, Soup Enthusiast (she-her, 20s, UK)
Current WIP 3k/120k words
prettylittlelyres and ambridge-autumn on tumblr
Horror Underground Film Festival @horrorfilmfestival.bsky.social Various options to submit to the Festival. A HYBRID model. Cinema screenings for audience feedback video.Blog and podcast interviews. And bonus Virtual screening (optional!).
https://filmfreeway.com/horrorunderground
https://festivalforhorror.comi
Karen Graham @kartook.bsky.social PhD in myth, religious studies, and fantasy fiction. Expertise on Wicked, fairy tales, and transmedial adaptation. 1/3 of the Danse Macabre project on gothic dance. QA and Acreditations Manager in HE. Mum of 2 kids with additional needs.
Hannah Scott @drhannahlscott.bsky.social Researcher | France, popular culture, music, dance, theatre, book enthusiast | Scribbler of children's stories | Embroiderer
Amy Jacobs @lysaacer.bsky.social Pop Culture Theorist, Horror Studies SAE, Comics & Horror Scholar, English Professor.
Horror SIG Co-Chair, SCMS, HWA Member,
Founding Member, SSAG.
Feminist, Freedom Fighter. #RestrictedRebel #RestrictedRebelRealTimeReads
Peace, Progress, Purpose.
Marielle Bouleau @mariellewrites.bsky.social Blue Fox Comics I Fox Red Comics I Blue Fox Tabletop
Writer, Game Designer, Publisher
@bluefoxcomics.com I @bluefoxtabletop.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/mariellebouleau
Ed Allison @edallison.bsky.social He/him. Interested in machine learning, virtual reality, philosophy, roleplaying (larp and tabletop), history, stories…. If you think ‘woke’ is an insult, we are not going to get on. Slava Ukraini.
Lauren Hope @laurensanderson.bsky.social MSc Literature and Modernity @ UoE | Gothic lit, feminism, med hums, and food narratives 🐈⬛ | Freelance writer
Dr Farah Nada | فرح @farahanada.bsky.social Mostly Egyptian
Reader | Writer | Editor
Space | Movement | Modernism
Phd from @exeter.ac.uk
Secretary of @bowensociety.bsky.social
Part-time Professor @uottawa.ca
Amy Beddows @amybeddows.bsky.social Trauma therapist, horror fan, writer. Tired.
The best episode of The X-Files? S2, Ep.14: 'Die Hand Die Verletzt'.
Tickets to my Fringe show available now! http://bit.ly/42jWs1m
Dr Georgia Toumara @georgiatoumara.bsky.social Early career researcher • PhD in English lit @UofGlasgow • Byronic legacy• C19th- early 20th travel literature • Gothic seascapes and blue humanities 🌊 • Classical reception and mythology 🏛️
Dr Joan Passey @joanpassey.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English / Gothic / queer ecologies / coasts and seascapes / Shirley Jackson
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
ali maloney @alimaloney.bsky.social pleasing taste, some monsterism
Likes: decadent food, witchy ritual, noisy music, 80s horror on VHS, woodland walks, RPGs, David Lynch, Jan Švankmajer, industrial-strength performance art / physical theatre, books.
Emma Stott @stottemma.bsky.social Lead Practitioner of English, Author of Speedy Reading (John Catt) and Jimi Hendrix On Track; The Zombies On Track (Sonicbond). Love On Track out now.
LoreWrites @lorewrites.bsky.social 
Jamie Gorrod @jamiegorrod.bsky.social he/him • MA English Literature student
Dr. Melanie A Marotta @melanieamarotta.bsky.social Visiting Instructor, English at Georgia Southern University | Monograph: African American Female Heroes: 21st c YA Neo-Slave Narrative #upmiss | Researching YA and Women's Horror | VP of Carson McCullers Society
@unconscionablehack.bsky.social @unconscionablehack.bsky.social 
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
Núria Molines-Galarza @nuriamolines.bsky.social Prof. d'Estudis Anglesos i Traducció (Universitat de València). Traductora de llibres. Directora de la revista Asparkía. || Lecturer of English Studies&Translation (UV). Literary Translator. Editor-in-chief of Asparkía.
www.nuriamolines.com
Nathan needs to put down the phone @feralharp.bsky.social I live in the borders between. Total nerd & crackpot. Musician (electric harp, synth, etc.) interested in too many things: food, drink, nature, astronomy, history, languages, anthro-archaeo-paleontologies, movies (SFF-horror-comedy-arthouse), books, etc.!
Kelsey Josephson @kelseyjosephson.com Author of strange steampunk and reinvented fairy tales. 💖⚙️📚
she/her
Member of SFWA and ALLi
www.kelseyjosephson.com
https://news.kelseyjosephson.com/
Mel 🍂🍄 @thequietplace.bsky.social Folklore • Fantasy books • Goth flowers • Gardening • Theme parks • History nerd/writer • Sometimes plays Zelda or Kingdom Hearts • Married • She/Her • Bi • Neurodivergent • 🔮🌱🎢⚰️🖤 http://www.instagram.com/_thequietplace
Ailish Brassil @ailishb.bsky.social PhD candidate in English @ UCC 👩🏻💻📖
DCU Alumna. 👩🏻🎓
Postgrad Officer - Irish Society for the Study of Children’s Literature.
Reviewer/book admin for Children’s Books Ireland. 📚
Juliet Wilson (Crafty Green Poet) @craftygreenpoet.bsky.social Adult Education Tutor, Poet, Short Story writer, Wildlife Surveyor, Conservation Volunteer. Edinburgh, Scotland
Blog: http://craftygreenpoet.blogspot.com
Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/CraftyGreenMagpie
Substack: https://craftygreenpoet.substack.com
Kennedy Dragt @kennedydragt.bsky.social lichen lover, PhD candidate and FNRS research fellow
@UCLouvain_be
religion, eco-spirituality, climate change literature
Rebecca Stone Gordon @meanlouise.bsky.social Coffee enthusiast. Gothic & eco-horror, Biocultural archaeology (mummies), Nuclear & Cold War culture. Audio stuff. Probably knitting.
Header: a S central FL swamp. trees, reflections in water, mist
Also @excavatinghorror.com
Not weird at all
Jodyth @jodyth.bsky.social I find the world a curious place. Sometimes an amazing place. As a librarian, I like to look things up. 
Marielle Birks @mariellebirks.com MA in Victorian Studies, Birkbeck
Writer, Game Designer, Publisher
Blue Fox Comics I Fox Red Comics I Blue Fox Tabletop
https://linktr.ee/mariellebirks
@bluefoxcomics.com I @bluefoxtabletop.bsky.social
Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social Educator
Passionate about Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI)
Anywhere near Books, Music and Films
#SurfaceStudies
#Soil_Imaginaries
Adores Snails 🐌
My personal views - not my employer's
Reposts &c not endorsements
S A Adetoro @saadetoro.bsky.social Writer
Spec fic | Gothic | Folklore | Romance
Fuelled by Rage & Whimsy
She/They/Òun
https://linktr.ee/SAAdetoro?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=a97496d6-7661-4656-940
Dorian @sin-de-siecle.bsky.social Outraged optimist, folk musician and nerd. Intermittent dabbler in historical fashion. Chronically ill. He/him.
Recs be havin' ya @recs-be.bsky.social Into vinyl records, films, cats, tattoos, craft projects and keeping house plants alive. Bit nerdy, bit goth.. Writings are own. Opinions are own. No AI.
Aether @queercrossroads.bsky.social Gothic and Fantasy fiction enthusiast | Writer at queercrossroads.co.uk | Queer Creative / Witch / D&D Forever DM
Heather Blanchard @heatherblanchard.bsky.social Author, pagan, AuDHD, Gothic Studies MA, poet, tarot, vinyl collector, fairy tales/folklore, horror, languages
She/her. Scotland/Yorkshire ✨
Erin @erinmck96.bsky.social Archivist | Currently at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland | HistMed 🧪🩻| Swimmer | Reader | 🇨🇦/🇮🇪/🏴 | ARA Ireland Campaigns Officer | Views my own ✨ She/Her
Pippin Lenoir 🦇✍🏻 @pippinlenoir.bsky.social An aspiring author inspired by 18th-century Gothic literature, magical realism, and high fantasy. Horror cinephile. I like to go to abandoned places & ruins just to vibe. She/Her. 🏴
Dr. John P. Irish @jpirish.bsky.social Sapere aude!
2+2=4
Educator, researcher, philosopher, and SMU Mustang! Everything Fitz-James O'Brien, the Irish "Poe" #gothic, #horror, #fantasy, #scifi, #19C, #americanlit
🐴⬆️✌️💙❤️
Julia @chiaroscuro1897.bsky.social Poet | Writer | Freelance Art Historian
UK https://juliabiggs1.wixsite.com/juliabiggs
Pamphlet available from Salò Press: https://www.salopress.com/store/nasty-objects-julia-biggs/
Lauren Pearl Holmes @lpearlholmes.bsky.social 📚 PhD candidate @salforduni.bsky.social
📜 17th c. transatlantic Puritan religious writing/sermons
🌍 EDI, Outreach, Widening Participation
🤱🏻 Mum
🦓 EDS
♀️ She/her
Views my own etc
https://linktr.ee/lpearl_holmes
Captain Seagull @captainseagull.bsky.social Captain Seagull, formerly known as Pirate Seagull. I have been promoted 🏴☠️🫡🏳️🌈
Mimi Manyin @mimimanyin.bsky.social Writer. Musician. Editor | 📚 Ploughshares, Witness, Michigan Quarterly Review, Meridian, Greensboro Review etc. | 🎓MVICW Fellow, Sewanee Scholar | mimimanyin.com- D drDara.bsky.social @drdara.bsky.social
Dr. Katya Vrtis @purplezebrav.bsky.social Queer/crip scholar of freaks and monsters in pop culture and politics, here to talk about history, literary theory, and cats.
They/them or xe/xen/xens pronouns.
Dr Darren Gray @drdarrengray.bsky.social Researcher in Literature, Film and Cultural Studies | The Gothic, Horror, Technology, Disability | Currently writing ‘Horror and Disability’ for the University of Wales Press Horror Studies series.
Proudly neurodivergent (ADHD)
Kailash Kiwi @kailash-kiwi.bsky.social I’m a Kiwi in Aotearoa who watches US politics as a hobby. Kind of concerned right now to be fair. 💣🚀🍊☢️
🌻🇺🇦🌻
Heidi Backes @heidibackes1.bsky.social Prof of Spanish lit and cultural history / Gothic fiction / Fascism / Memory & Trauma Studies / Author of SPECTRAL SPAIN (U of Wales Press, 2024), FASCIST FEMALE GOTHIC (Jan. 2027, UWP)