𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 | The Tower, The Moon, The Gun 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸 @horrorculturist.bsky.social Gothic gardening, goblincore, dark art, horror, weird music. 🌿🍁🍂🎃
Agnostic atheist. Nyctophile. AuDHD. Demi-Pan. They/them. | Contrary to internet lore, I am not lost, sorrowful, despairing, trapped, drowning, falling, or stuck in a maze. (You OK?)
Sustainable AI Futures @sustainableai.bsky.social Can there be Sustainable AI Futures? Our project takes an interdisciplinary approach to AI and the environment, across Bath Spa, Sussex, Goldsmiths, UCD & UvA, & funded by UKRI. Sustainable AI Futures is a BRAID Responsible AI Demonstrator.
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.
S.K. @sksapiano.bsky.social Writer and obsessive horror fan 🌈 Working on a PhD about the intersections between hygiene and queer themes in spectacle horror 🎃 Formerly at Collider 🌱
Siân Pearce @sianp.bsky.social Public law solicitor, horror researcher.
"Gary Sherman's Nemesis" (Abertoir, 2023)
https://linktr.ee/SianP
@horhpodcast.bsky.social @horhpodcast.bsky.social Hollywood or History? Unpack fact vs. fiction in film. Great for teachers, trivia buffs, and history fans. New episodes every other week.
Available on Spotify, Apple, and YouTube
https://youtube.com/@hollywoodorhistorypodcast?si=gNOPQUnVXde2_NZz
Ethan A. Kirchner (Meidas Ethie) 🦋🏳️🌈 (he/him/his) @ethankirchner.bsky.social 31. Artist, animator, writer, director, producer, voice actor, Democrat, autistic, bisexual, and BIPOC lover. Twitter refugee. Founder of KirchnerMation Studios Group, PBC.
No Scams! No MAGA! No Bots! #AntiTrump #Resist #ProWoke #Antifa #NotByAI
Thea O'Ryan Files @theaoryanfiles.bsky.social Thea O'Ryan is a Canadian writer with a love for all things horror. She went on a road trip to the Bruce Peninsula in 2014 and has not been seen since.
She is, however, still frequently heard.
https://www.theaoryanfiles.co.uk/
💗💜💙
🖤🩶🤍💜
Cymru/Canada
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
Flex Fish Games @flexfishgames.bsky.social Artist Matthew king and programmer Rami Bukhari, teaming up to develop nostalgic hand-drawn 2D games.
Sarah B @horror-scholar.bsky.social PhD student at Northumbria Uni, lover of horror films, and sessional lecturer in film at LJMU/ BCU. I spend a lot of time on trains.
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
Tom Mason @tommason.bsky.social Newcastle University Film Theory and History
Surrealism, Hollywood, Horror, and Bond
Katherine Lucia Prentice @katherineprentice.bsky.social Glasgow based horror nerd👻
Researching disability, witchcraft, decoloniality, & ecofeminism in LatAm and Celtic folk horror @ northumbria uni🧿
Máiréad Casey @maireadcasey.bsky.social Research interests: horror, gender, genre, sexuality onscreen, representations of sexual violence, demon possession
Dr Ami Nisa @ami-n.bsky.social Autism researcher at Swansea University | PhD in found-footage horror film
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)
Adam Murray @admagnetic77.bsky.social All things Horror/Dystopian Fiction/Genre Cinema "A Cosmic Perspective"...
Xanthe Pajarillo @xanthepajarillo.bsky.social 🇺🇸🇵🇭 Film Director doing a PhD in Horror
🐁 The Feral Academic
🎬 In Post: Kids Make Horror
📍 Birmingham UK 🔁 LA
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.
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
Peter Ray Allison ➡️ Tabletop Scotland @peterallison.net Husband, father, writer, journalist and podcaster.
🧛♀️ 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
Mekleid @mekleid.bsky.social Mekleid.de ist eine vertrauenswürdige Marke für Brautkleider und Abendmode. Ob es um Design, Qualität oder Service geht, sie haben ein sehr hohes Maß an Professionalität bewiesen. 
Alexandra Sokoloff @alexsokoloff.bsky.social Thriller Award-winning author/screenwriter: The Huntress Moon thrillers, Screenwriting Tricks for Authors. California liberal repatriated to Scotland. Feminist. Ally. Traveler. Accidental historian.
Geneve Flynn @geneveflynn.bsky.social Horror author, editor, and poet. Two-time Bram Stoker Award-winner. Shirley Jackson, Aurealis, and Australasian Shadows Award winner. Co-editor of Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women
M.M. MacLeod @lenemacleod.bsky.social Quiet Horror/Dark Fiction author Lene MacLeod
ON THIS DARK OCCASION - collection Autumn, 2026
FRINGES of GREY-collection https://books2read.com/u/4NVxA9
eic @frostzonestories.bsky.social
👻🎸🎵👽💀🎥🍁🇨🇦
https://linktr.ee/lenemacleod
C.C. Winchester @ccwinchester.bsky.social Horror Writer
multiversedream.com
Pixie Bruner @pixieb.bsky.social Horror Bibliophile and Bibliophage. Historian/Writer. Bad Poet. INFJ all my life, unfortunately. Introvert. Cancer Cervivor. Cat Person. 
Lauren Elise (L. E.) Daniels @ledaniels.bsky.social bram stoker/shirley jackson/aurealis/ditmar/australasian shadows awards finalist
editor/author/poet
active hwa, ahwa, iped
american in australia
Catherine McCarthy @catherinemccarthy.bsky.social Welsh author of dark fiction and roamer of ancient paths.
Words in Haven Spec, Dark Matter, Gamut Mag and other strange places.
Find me @ https://cmccarthywriter.substack.com/
J. Lincoln Fenn @jlincolnfenn.bsky.social Author of THE NIGHTMARCHERS, POE, and DEAD SOULS which was called 'wickedly entertaining' by the NYT. Owned by the cutest chihuahua on planet Earth. #horror #HWA
Emerian Rich @emzbox.bsky.social Writer, Artist, Editor, Podcast Horror Host for HorrorAddicts.net 👻
Romance under Emmy Z. Madrigal ❤️
Emzbox.com
Justine Gardner @jbgrumpstone.bsky.social 🖊Word creature. 🪶Birb person.
Basically just an old* fart-in-a-bottle left on a dusty shelf somewhere in Brooklyn, NY.
*Old enough to know that being anti-fascist is 👍.
website: www.grumpstonegazette.com
linktree: https://linktr.ee/justine.gardner
Christi Nogle @christinogle.bsky.social Bram Stoker Winning first novel, BEULAH. Work in Apex, Strange Horizons, PseudoPod, 3LBE, etc. Three Collections from Flame Tree Press.
https://linktr.ee/christinogle
Erin Al-Mehairi, Editor & Author @erinalmehairi.bsky.social Published author & poet / Professional Editor for Hire, Journalist, PR Pro / BA Degrees in English, Journalism, History / Book News&Views / she•her / 🇬🇧🇺🇸🧿
https://hookofabook.wordpress.com/editing/
Ole Christian Solbakken @olesol.bsky.social Ledelse, endring, omstilling, økonomisk bærekraft, kjønn og inkludering, samt prioritere egentid og selfcare og agile strategier. Mulighetsrom! Utviser dårlig dømmekraft, men har gode effektivitetsforbedringer
Alison Armstrong @aarmstrongauthor.bsky.social Author of Revenance, Toxicosis, Dark Visitations, and Consorting with the Shadow: Phantasms and the Dark Side of Female Consciousness. My short stories and poems have been featured in several horror anthologies. HWA member.
Kerry E.B. Black @kerryebblack.bsky.social Teller of Tales Fanciful & True Short story collections: Herd of Nightmares, Carousel of Nightmares, Fairy Herds & Mythscapes, Nightmares on holiday; YA Paranormal Thrillers: Awakening at Equinox & Spring of Spirits.Wolves at Bay. Poetic Nightmares.
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.
Lily ᓚᘏᗢ @smolspacebean.bsky.social show me that I'm everywhere and get me home for tea
she/her ✨ screenwriter ✨ vienna
Gavin Beinart-Smollan @beismo.bsky.social Public and digital historian. PhD candidate at NYU. Writing about Yiddish family letters and the Lithuanian Jewish diaspora. Very amateur genealogist.
Ruth-Anne @handle.invalid Gothic, Ecology and Theology in 19th century literature
AHRC-funded PhD Candidate at Warwick University
She/They 📚🏳️🌈🐶
Toby Venables @tobyvenables.bsky.social Co-creator/co-writer of #BAFTA winning #HisHouse. Fixer of broken things. Sometimes stories. Sometimes shelves.
For story/script fixing, go here: https://www.nightmarescenar.io
J M Black 🏳️🌈🎧✨ @jmblacksounds.bsky.social Jon | Dialogue/Sound Editor | Films, Podcasts, Theatre (oh my!) | Sometimes Writer | Currently doing: sound design (film) | he/him | jblack2798@gmail.com
Dr Rosemary 'Rosy' Alexander-Jones @rosemaryaj.bsky.social Teaching Fellow (Inquiry and Research Skills) at Warwick University. Specialisms include heritage media, historical filming locations and understanding authenticity in heritage media.
GaMaYo - next GaMaYo 26th November 2026 @gamayo.bsky.social FREE network for 1300+ game makers across The North and beyond Apply to join on https://discord.com/invite/y52sj4yMGn or on Facebook - managed by @gamerepublic.bsky.social
Alex Wegman 🚲🎧🇬🇧🇦🇺 @ajwegsound.bsky.social Sound, bicycles, radio, coffee, stories, conversation, the outdoors.
Formerly sound for BBC, ITV, Network Ten, IMG.
Teaches audio and tv production.
Doctoral research on critical listening.
Also loves old maps and random music stuff.
Valerie Estelle Frankel📚👩🏫🌌🎲🎮🏰📜🧷🧛🏻♂️🦇🎭✡️✍️🧙🏻🎃 @valeriefrankel.bsky.social 👨🎓Professor, 📚author of 100 books on drwho💫starwars✨outlander #sfwa🚀 #scbwi #kidlit Cali https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B004KMCLQK pitch me on #academic #Jewish #sff https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/series/jewish-science-fiction-and-fantasy/
Dr. Bruna Foletto Lucas @drfolettolucas.bsky.social Early career researcher focused on horror film and gender studies
Slasher Film | Horror Movie @slasherfilm2024.bsky.social WATCH THE TEASER TRAILER NOW on YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/ebbrwb6f (Warning: 18+)
Movie coming soon. Calling all #HORROR fans.
#horrorcommunity
Ottawa, ON, Canada 🇨🇦
Instagram: https://tinyurl.com/yf2e6vr8
FB page: https://tinyurl.com/mwwrf68e
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
Paul Davis @kesslerboy.bsky.social Filmmaker. Blumhouse/Hulu’s Into the Dark - The Body (2018) & Uncanny Annie (2019). Once played a Wookiee in Star Wars. Parapsychology nerd.
https://linktr.ee/kesslerboy
Dr Joan Passey @joanpassey.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English / Gothic / queer ecologies / coasts and seascapes / Shirley Jackson- 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.
Steve Jones @drstevejones.bsky.social Lead of the Horror Studies Research Group, Northumbria University. Known for research on extreme horror, philosophy, pornography, and the slasher subgenre.
drstevejones.co.uk
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
Stacey Abbott @profsaabbott.bsky.social Professor of Film and Television, Northumbria University. Horror scholar and writer. Author of Celluloid Vampires, Undead Apocalypse, TV Horror, BFI Classic on Near Dark. Canadian in the UK but forever Canadian. she/her.
Lynn Huggins-Cooper @hugginscooper.bsky.social Horror maven. Co-host of Northern Horror Hub. Thanatologist. Creative Writing lecturer at Falmouth. Author. She/her, ADHD. Views all mine...mine I say!
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.
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
Kate Egan @kte75.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Northumbria University. Co-Investigator, AHRC Youth & Horror network. Co-editor of Hidden Horror Histories book series. Lover of horror and British cinema, cats and strong tea. She/her.
Natalja Saint-Germain @nataljastgermain.bsky.social I am the spooks🧛🏻♀️🍷
non-fiction, translation, dark lore, art, music & weird niche stuff
I run #dailyspooklore & #swampsunday (feel free to join me).
Also, I often post about vamps #vampiresweekly
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.
Todd Spence @toddspence.bsky.social Screenwriter
WME/Untitled ⌨️
...and pop culture illustrator.
Prints & Originals in stock: https://tinyurl.com/2mv3f54f
DM to purchase (ask about commissions)
https://www.instagram.com/midnight_video/
Fully Digital Future @fullydigitalfuture.bsky.social Your apocalypse buddy! Art, music, news, and links related to science, entertainment, technology, science fiction, and the looming cyberpunk apocalypse.
AI is dangerous. The future is frightening. But I'm hopeful and full of love for all humans.
Simon Bacon @baconetti.bsky.social Author, film critic, and editor of all things Gothicky.
Radi Nikolov @radinikolovfilm.bsky.social Writer/director | 'Doubt buys the whiskey', 'Hearse buddies', 'Deadly scare', 'Caught on tape'
Festival director at "Screams By The Sea" 👻
https://rnikolov.co.uk/
@andalemiamor.bsky.social @andalemiamor.bsky.social 
James Macaronas @jmacaronas.bsky.social Paranormal investigator. He/him. Naarm/Melbourne.
PhD - the psychedelic experience in sci-fi.
Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.
Free Palestine.
Fuck gen AI.
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
Aurora Fearnley @aurorafearnley.bsky.social Director/Actor/Writer
#invisibledisability 🦓 Access Coordinator ♿️ Broadcast HotShot 2023
#BAFTA Connect BIFA 🎬 Springboard and voter
Berlinale Talents alumna
Doctor Who: Matryoshka at Big Finish
LittleNorthernLight.com
Cecil Castellucci @misscecil.bsky.social Author Comics, Novels and Librettos. Currently in Canada.
Loves Comets.
she/her/they
https://linktr.ee/Seaskull
Nicholas Belardes @nicholasbelardes.bsky.social Writes horror, Chicano fiction | TEN SLEEP and THE DEADING now available | sad and angry for America | MFA
https://linktr.ee/nicholasbelardes
Kate Abbott @kateabbott.bsky.social Teacher, writer, and admirer of tropical plants and tiki birds. Author of YA novel DISNEYLANDERS. I don't know what I'm doing, but I'm excited to be here. she/her
Jaime Parker Stickle @jaimeparkerstickle.bsky.social Author—Vicious Cycle, Professor, Podcast Producer, Basic
www.jaimeparkerstickle.com
Jeph Meyers @jephm.bsky.social Filmmaker/Screenwriter/Short stories/Pyrokinetic (shh, it's a secret). Former journalist, film critic, microbiologist, artistic director. http://imdb.com/name/nm159
Wendy @wendyduren.bsky.social feminist, political junkie, occasional writer, ucla bruin, serial comma enthusiast 
Elizabeth Crane @elizabethcrane.bsky.social dog mom
Senta Scarborough @sentascar.bsky.social ETSU journalism professor. Screenwriter. Journalist. Kundalini yoga teacher. she/they
Heather Riccio @heatherriccio.bsky.social Author. Yogi. Traveler. Lover of words.
Dr Sarah Libman @sarahlibman.bsky.social [aka Sarah Marr]
intellectual flâneuse
studying: MA Contemporary Photography at Central Saint Martins
author: "All the Perverse Angels" (rep Felicity Bryan Assoc.)
MD Alternative National Treasure
hauntology, folk horror, electronic music, retrotech, art…
Maggie Downs @maggiedowns.bsky.social Author of BRAVER THAN YOU THINK and the forthcoming 50 THINGS TO DO BEFORE YOU’RE FIVE. Really good at traveling and coffee-ing.
Yennie @yenniecheung.bsky.social