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Daniel Grey @djrgrey.bsky.social Sociology & History at University of Hertfordshire | FRHistS | SFHEA | Works on gender & crime in Britain & India. He/Him.
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Haunted Shores @hauntedshores.bsky.social Haunted Shores: An interdisciplinary research network for scholars worldwide interested in coastal, nautical, littoral spaces in the Gothic #CoastalGothic
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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
Dr Liz Savage @drlizsavage.bsky.social PhD in Dickensian robots & the uncanny | Dog mom | Ghostly & Stagey Special Collections Assistant @theul.bsky.social | Fledgling archivist | Avid crafter | Horror lover | Sondheim worshipper | 🏳️🌈 She/They | Views mine
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Maria J Pérez Cuervo @mjpcuervo.com Writer, editor, comms manager • Founder/ editor @helleborezine.bsky.social (World Fantasy Awards and British Fantasy Awards finalist) • History, art, myth, mystery.
Bristol, UK.
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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.
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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
Fredrik Blanc @fredrikblanc.bsky.social PhD Researcher in English and Teaching Assistant at the Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. My thesis focuses on oceanic horror and hybridity in Weird fiction of the 20th and 21st centuries.
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
Sandie Mills @drsandramills.bsky.social Digital analyst | Gothicist | PhD on dolls & horror |
Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research Journal @advancesjournal.bsky.social Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research - the journal of #INCSA Peer-reviewed journal with general & themed issues representing all fields of study in the arts, social sciences, & sciences.
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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. 🏴
Long Nineteenth-Century Network @ Manchester Met @l19cmanmet.bsky.social Showcases research in long nineteenth-century studies. Housed in the School of English @ Manchester Metropolitan University.
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
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Cyberflaneurs @cyberflaneurs.bsky.social 
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
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
The Irish Network for Gothic and Horror Studies @irishgothichorror.bsky.social An informal network for promoting the work of Gothic and horror scholars (whether they be affiliated or independent) and creative practitioners from throughout the island of Ireland.
Dr Silvia E Storti @silviaelisa22.bsky.social Early career researcher specialised in fairy tales and villainy | adaptations, reworkings, and retellings
BLPublishing @blpublishing.bsky.social British Library Publishing - bringing you the very best incredible classic literature, republished for readers new and old. Plus bold new non-fiction for everyone. 📚
Helena Ifill @helenaifill.bsky.social 
BAVS @bavs-uk.bsky.social Bluesky account of the British Association for Victorian Studies
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/
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 - Co-runner @medvintagevault.bsky.social - Fan of nasty films and nasty music - Bradford lass
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
Sarah Parker @profsarahparker.bsky.social Professor of Literature, Sexuality and Visual Culture, Loughborough University; 19th-20thC literature (esp. poetry), genders/sexualities (esp. queer femininities), portraiture, photography, fashion & celebrity. She/her.
Professor Caroline Edwards @theblochian.bsky.social Professor of Contemporary Literature & Culture at Birkbeck, University of London. Executive Director of @openlibhums.org & @ojcollective.bsky.social. Utopia, mushrooms, trees, sci-fi, weird stuff, open access, higher ed.
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.
Aqsa @aqsa-eram.bsky.social Researcher, Gothic
Dr Kate Newey @dr-kate-newey.bsky.social Nineteenth century scholar. Eternal ballet student and weightlifter. Reader and writer. Sometimes.
Dr Janette Leaf @janetteleaf.bsky.social Honorary Research Fellow: Birkbeck, Uni of London. 2023-2026. Weird cats, Cultural Entomology; Victorianism; Hypnotic Gothic; Egyptomania; Redheads; Shop Girls; Pre Raphaelite Art; Ghost Ships; Neo-Victorianism. Co-editor BL Insect Weird anthology.- 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)
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 ✨
Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social Educator
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Anywhere near Books, Music and Films
#SurfaceStudies
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Marielle Birks @mariellebirks.com MA in Victorian Studies, Birkbeck
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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
Kennedy Dragt @kennedydragt.bsky.social lichen lover, PhD candidate and FNRS research fellow
@UCLouvain_be
religion, eco-spirituality, climate change literature
Jamie Gorrod @jamiegorrod.bsky.social he/him • MA English Literature student
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 Farah Nada | فرح @farahanada.bsky.social Mostly Egyptian
Reader | Writer | Editor
Space | Movement | Modernism
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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'.
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Lauren Hope @laurensanderson.bsky.social MSc Literature and Modernity @ UoE | Gothic lit, feminism, med hums, and food narratives 🐈⬛ | Freelance writer
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.
Hannah Scott @drhannahlscott.bsky.social Researcher | France, popular culture, music, dance, theatre, book enthusiast | Scribbler of children's stories | Embroiderer
Peter Ray Allison ➡️ Tabletop Scotland @peterallison.net Husband, father, writer, journalist and podcaster.
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✍️ Articles in BBC, Guardian, Independent and others
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Rock-A-Bi Amy @amurana.bsky.social she/her queer and spooky nerd, forgive spam as I leave the bird app + meta hellholes
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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.
Erin Harrington @ladyhorrors.bsky.social NZ film academic, arts critic & frock enthusiast. Cultural omnivore, bad at sports. Feminist horror deep dive WOMEN, MONSTROSITY AND HORROR FILM @routledge. Ōtautahi arts writing at flatcityfieldnotes.com. She/her/Dr. My views. 
Hannah Priest @shewolfmanc.bsky.social Freelance Wondermonger & Heritage Manager at the Pankhurst Centre. Author of a book about Hannah Beswick, the Manchester Mummy.
My alter ego is Hannah Kate (North Manchester FM).
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
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
Dr Laura Eastlake @victorianmasc.bsky.social James Murray Beattie Lecturer in Victorian Lit | University of Glasgow | Co-founder @EHUNineteen.bsky.social Research Centre | #Classics | #Gothic lit | Author: Ancient Rome & Victorian Masculinity (OUP, 2019). FRHistS. She/her. #c19th
Horror Homeroom @horrorhomeroom.bsky.social 👻 We take horror seriously so you don't have to! 🔪
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Indie Horror Central @indiehorrorcentral.bsky.social Celebrating indie horror and more, blending hidden gems with mainstream classics. Your hub for all things spooky and spine-chilling!
Craig Ian Mann @craigimann.bsky.social Full-time home video producer, part-time writer and sometimes documentary filmmaker | letterboxd.com/craigimann | chasmfilms.co.uk | 📺 📼 📀
Darren Elliott-Smith @drdesmith.bsky.social Queer Horror Doctor/Academic, cat-daddy, weathered Husband and general pop, Gothic and trash culture enthusiast...Programme Director of Gender Studies @Univ of Stirling.
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Edinburgh University Press @edinburghup.bsky.social Edinburgh University Press is the premier Scottish publisher of academic books and journals in the humanities and social sciences. edinburghuniversitypress.com
Dr. Shauna Louise Caffrey @witchstorian.bsky.social Cultural Historian & Musicologist |
PhD in Witchcraft, Music & Magic |
Bog Thing & Forest Wanderer | Gothic & Horror Enthusiast
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Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock @cypheractive.bsky.social I am professor of English at Central Michigan University, president of the Society for the Study of the American Gothic, and editor of American Gothic Studies. I am also the host of DJ cypher's Dark Nation Radio and the Psychobilly Family Power Hour.
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
Mimi Manyin @mimimanyin.bsky.social Writer. Musician. Editor | 📚 Ploughshares, Witness, Michigan Quarterly Review, Meridian, Greensboro Review etc. | 🎓MVICW Fellow, Sewanee Scholar | mimimanyin.com
Renee Fox @cookiegoth.bsky.social Vampires, mummies, things that come back to life; anything with chocolate chips. Associate professor of literature, co-director of the Dickens Project, co-director of the Center for Monster Studies at UCSC
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
Freya Marske @freyamarske.bsky.social Writer, ice skater, gin drinker. She/her 🏳️🌈. THE LAST BINDING trilogy, SWORDCROSSED, CINDER HOUSE out now. BODIES OF MAGIC out September 2026.
Deborah Lee-Talbot @colourfulhistories.bsky.social Social historian. Devoted to archives, including their social histories. Easily distracted by women's history, local politics (Oceania), and methodologies.
TLDR: Geek.
www.colourfulhistories.com.au
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
Marlene @moliveiradev.bsky.social Software developer, accidental researcher, #AnneListerCodeBreaker, and Head of Personal Pampering for Miss A-, the black lab. Might play with cameras and old papers, if left to my own devices.
https://www.packedwithpotential.org/
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.
Jimmy Packham @jfpackham.bsky.social Researching and writing about literature of the sea and the gothic: mostly coastly, the seabed and deep ocean, blue hums, and gothic voices. Co-runs the Haunted Shores network. Senior Lecturer at University of Birmingham.
Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social 👩🏻🏫 Leverhulme Early Career Fellow @sheffielduni.bsky.social
✍️ Influenza book @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social
📚Research Rep @cncsi.bsky.social
🦇Co-host @GothicaUob.bsky.social
👋🏼ECR Rep @bavs-uk.bsky.social
👻 Summoned to the Séance @britishlibrary.bsky.social
Madeline Potter @madelinepotter.bsky.social Theological Monsters (University of Wales Press), The Roma (The Bodley Head/Harper Collins, 2025) | 19thC Gothic
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
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
Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social academic/freelance writer, on Gothic, Horror film, Science Fiction. Latest: Graveyards: A History of Living with the Dead (2025). Next 2 books: a taxonomy of the undead and a biography of H P Lovecraft
GOTHICA 🦇 @gothicauob.bsky.social A spooky network interested in exploring all aspects of the Gothic at @unibirmingham.
Co-run by @katrinajan.bsky.social, @dremilyvincent.bsky.social.
Blog: https://uobgothica.wordpress.com/past-sessions/
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
Cat Irving @anatomicalcat.bsky.social Human Remains Conservator at Surgeons’ Hall. Snake charmer. Beagle feeder. All-round general necromancer
Emily Alder @emilyalder.bsky.social 
Dr Joan Passey @joanpassey.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English / Gothic / queer ecologies / coasts and seascapes / Shirley Jackson
Suzie Edge @suzieedge.bsky.social Medical doctor turned writer. Gory tales of human bodies in history and dead king juice.
Books, TikToks, photographs and films.
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.
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