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)
Dr Ami Nisa @ami-n.bsky.social Autism researcher at Swansea University | PhD in found-footage horror film
Máiréad Casey @maireadcasey.bsky.social Research interests: horror, gender, genre, sexuality onscreen, representations of sexual violence, demon possession
Katherine Lucia Prentice @katherineprentice.bsky.social Glasgow based horror nerd👻
Researching disability, witchcraft, decoloniality, & ecofeminism in LatAm and Celtic folk horror @ northumbria uni🧿
Tom Mason @tommason.bsky.social Newcastle University Film Theory and History
Surrealism, Hollywood, Horror, and Bond
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
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.
Screams By The Sea @screamsbythesea.bsky.social #ScreamsByTheSea | International Horror Film Festival
📍Bournemouth,UK
https://linktr.ee/screamsbythesea
Stephanie Ellis @stephellis.bsky.social Author, Elgin & Rhysling award-nominated poet, and reader.
Member BFS
https://stephanieellis.org/
Emerian Rich @emzbox.bsky.social Writer, Artist, Editor, Podcast Horror Host for HorrorAddicts.net 👻
Romance under Emmy Z. Madrigal ❤️
Emzbox.com
Linda D. Addison @nytebird45.bsky.social Writer of weird stuff, lover of Light! #BLM #blacksky She/Her - www.LindaAddisonWriter.com (author photo by Courtney Hartley)
Alma Katsu (pre-order INCARNATE now!) @almakatsu.bsky.social NYT bestselling novelist. Former intelligence professional, tech futurist.
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
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. Rep: Lane Heymont. Working on a new novel!
https://linktr.ee/christinogle
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/
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.
www.beverleylee.com
http://bio.site/beverleylee
Carol Gyzander @carolgyzander.bsky.social Stoker-nominated author, and editor of horror, weird fiction, science fiction - she/her
C.C. Winchester @ccwinchester.bsky.social Horror Writer
multiversedream.com
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
Valerie B. Williams @valwillwrite.bsky.social Writer of Dark Fiction and Twisty Tales. Latest novel "Darkroom Phantoms" releases 12/1/26. Owned by a Golden Retriever. Tea drinker. Politically left of center. https://linktr.ee/valeriebwilliams
Mary Rajotte @maryrajotte.bsky.social Ink-slinging ✒ insomniac w/a penchant for penning nightmarish tales of Gothic folk horror🦇 Frightmarish: a Gothic Litzine. Debut novel The Bone Key out now https://lnk.bio/maryrajotte 🇨🇦
Lee Murray @leemurraywriter.bsky.social ONZM. USA Today bestselling author, 5-time Bram Stoker Award winner, Shirley Jackson, and New Zealand Prime Minister's Award winner. Monster lover from Aotearoa. Represented by Becky LeJeune at Bond Literary.
Amy Grech @amygrech.bsky.social NYC-based prolific crime/horror author/poet. Active HWA Member. Alien Buddha Press published my poetry chapbook, A Shadow of Your Former Self. 2x Pushcart Prize nominee. SEO is my bread and butter. 🔪🩸
☕️ https://ko-fi.com/amygrech
💻 crimsonscreams.com
Diane Dooley @dianedooley.bsky.social Aging guttersnipe. Brit living in Vermont.
Published author of Science Fiction, Horror, Romance.
Interests: books, history, politics, tennis, music, poetry, travel, gardens.
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/dianedooley
Randee Dawn @randeedawn.com Author, “Tune in Tomorrow,” “We Interrupt This Program,” “The Only Song Worth Singing,” “Leave No Trace"
Journalist: Variety, LA Times, Today
AI-free forever
https://linktr.ee/RandeeDawn
Shantell Powell @shanmonster.bsky.social Author, artist, poet, & Indigiqueer swamp hag. Grew up on the land & off the grid. Writing in The Deadlands, Augur, Nightmare, Malahat Review, Fiddlehead, etc. Aurora finalist, optimistic nihilist & possible witch. No GenAI
shanmonster.dreamwidth.org
Melodie Bolt @melodiebolt.bsky.social Speculative poet. Dark urban fantasy writer. 
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/
Sara Jayne Townsend @sarajaynetownsend.bsky.social Horror and crime writer. Gamer and geek. Bass guitar player. Owned by cats. Lover of vintage frocks.
M.M. MacLeod @lenemacleod.bsky.social Quiet Horror/Dark Fiction author (aka Lene MacLeod, Mar 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
Victoria Nations @victorianations.bsky.social Florida horror writer & biologist. Gothic horror & monsters with emotional baggage. 📚🩸📚🏳️🌈 💙@Mdnight_Society & #Netherworld 4ever. HWA/SFPA/SFWA. She/her.
https://linktr.ee/VictoriaNations
Yolanda Sfetsos @yolandasfetsos.bsky.social Writer. Reader. Horror freak. Bibliophile. She/her.
Books: FALLEN DESTINY, MELANCHOLY DELUSIONS, ONLY DARKNESS, NUMB...
TV/Film Rep: Alec Frankel at IAG.
Website: https://www.yolandasfetsos.com/
ABSOLUTELY NO GEN AI!!
Denise Dumars (aka Dyana Aset) @dyanaaset.bsky.social Writer, leftist, pagan.
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.
Suzie Lockhart (Sue Ann Marie) @suzie-sam2.bsky.social Mom, author, poet, editor and multimedia artist. Associate Member of the HWA.
Rebecca Cuthbert @rebeccacuthbert.bsky.social Feminist horror, dark poetry, strange tales. EIC of Undertaker Books. Rep'd by Tobias Literary Agency. More at linktr.ee/rebeccacuthbertwrites.
Lisa Morton @lisamorton.bsky.social Writer, bookseller, Halloween expert, paranormal historian, L.A. woman
Pixie Bruner @pixieb.bsky.social Horror Bibliophile and Bibliophage. Historian/Writer. Bad Poet. INFJ all my life, unfortunately. Introvert. Cancer Cervivor. Cat Person. 
Michelle Renee Lane @michellereneelane.bsky.social Writer. Bram Stoker Award Finalist. Narrative junkie. Vampire enthusiast.
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
Donna Lynch @donnalynch.bsky.social Ego Likeness
Stoker Award-nominated horror poet & author
Spoken Word artist
Supreme at Garbage Witch
TM for Stoneburner
Art Rep for Steven Archer
Travel photographer
egolikenessband.com
Nicole M. Wolverton (she/her/hers) @nicolemwolverton.bsky.social Professionally unsettling | Philly-area writer of (mostly) horror & thrillers | MEAT SWEATS * MARCH 2027 | HWA, SFWA, SCBWI, Codex | horror academic | scent-obsessed | nicolewolverton.com
Morgan Sylvia @morgansylvia.bsky.social Aquarius. Metalhead. Coffee Addict. Work in progress. I write horror, sff, poetry, and audio dramas. Occasionally dabble in metal journalism. Objects in mirror are not as they appear. 
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.
Marianne Halbert @halbertfiction.bsky.social 🕯️📖👀 Author of quiet horror (including my collection “Cold Comforts” and PseudoPod Ep. 776). From central Indiana. Behavioral health crisis intervention team program development. 💚 Empathy enthusiast. Wife/mom/grandma. Mom to a gray kitty named Theo. 🐈⬛
Tamara Thorne @tamarathorne.bsky.social Scary story purveyor, lover of cats, ghosts, puns, spooky stuff, and Monty Python.
Vanessa Reid @vhreid.bsky.social writer, mother, teacher, black cat enthusiast
@catherinejo.bsky.social @catherinejo.bsky.social 
L. Marie Wood @lmariewood.bsky.social Award-winning horror author, screenwriter, educator & essayist
| Ph.D., MFA | Founder, Speculative Fiction Academy | VP HWA | member, HWA, SFWA, SFPA, RWA, MWA | Rep: TheTobiasAgency
redheadrites @ruthannjagge.bsky.social Writes dark speculative and fantasy fiction with sass and class. Gothy-cowgirl, lives on a cattle ranch in Texas. HWA/BFA
Alice @amloweecey.bsky.social Writer, singer, musician, mom. Former nun. Come to the dark side. I bake really good cookies.
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
Angela Yuriko Smith @angelayurikosmith.bsky.social Two-time Bram Stoker Award–winning author. Former HWA president. Publisher of Space and Time. Publishing consultant helping writers build sustainable creative careers rooted in art, not arson. Writes Authortunities on Substack.
Marie O’Regan @marieoregan.bsky.social Writer, editor of anthologies, managing editor of Absinthe Books, PS Publishing’s novella imprint. Married to @paulkane.bsky.social Fuelled by tea.
Represented by @megdavis.bsky.social of https://ki-agency.co.uk/
marieoregan.net
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.
REDillon @redillon.bsky.social 
Lily ᓚᘏᗢ @smolspacebean.bsky.social show me that I'm everywhere and get me home for tea
she/her ✨ screenwriter ✨ vienna
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.
Black Shuck Books @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social World Fantasy Award-winning publisher
www.blackshuckbooks.co.uk
Karen Rose @roseyk.bsky.social Award-winning audio creator Director Sweet Talk Productions #TheLovecraftInvestigations #AldrichKemp #EndOfTransmission #SeaLonging
Julian Simpson @juliansimpson.bsky.social Writer-director. Aldrich Kemp, Lovecraft Investigations etc.
Married to @maybeitwasutah.bsky.social
Main site: https://www.cartoongravity.com/
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.
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
British Fantasy Society @britfantasysoc.bsky.social Latest news updates and reviews from the British Fantasy Society Community. Home to readers, writers, artists and gamers. Love SFFH? Come join us! www.britishfantasysociety.org
First Ten Pages Programme: https://british-fantasy-society.vercel.app/welcome
BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social We are the Arts & Humanities Research Council programme working to enable a healthy Responsible AI ecosystem in the UK.
You can also keep up to date via our newsletter: https://braiduk.org/#newsletter
OGOM Project @ogomproject.bsky.social Vampires, werewolves, fairies in culture. All narratives of the fantastic, the folkloric, and the magical, emphasising the sense of Gothic as enchantment.
www.opengravesopenminds.com
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
Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies @miskatonicihs.bsky.social Horror film history, theory, and production school since 2010 - Online & In person in London, UK
Upcoming events and archives miskatonicinstitute.com
Always accepting submissions via our contact page
Dr. Bruna Foletto Lucas @drfolettolucas.bsky.social Early career researcher focused on horror film and gender studies
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.
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
Sasha Ravitch ☄️ @sasharavitch.bsky.social writer & educator & academic.
cthulhu(s)cene queen.
hwa; codex.
banff writer residency '25.
words in strange horizons, ergot., cosmic horror monthly, & more.
co-founder antilogos press.
pioneered a field of posthuman witchcraft.
Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social Cat sitter. Gothic lit and theology. Romance studies. Byron studies. Runs 'Romancing the Gothic'. Writes queer little stories.
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.
Dr Joan Passey @joanpassey.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English / Gothic / queer ecologies / coasts and seascapes / Shirley Jackson
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.
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
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
Marc Olivier @dullboy237.bsky.social Professor (film and lit), series editor Icons of Horror (Indiana UP). Love and support the marginalized. 🏳️🌈 he/him #horrorsky
Vicky Brewster (they/them) @handle.invalid ✏️Copy & developmental editor, & indexer
👻Gothic, horror & sci-fi academic
🧑🏫 Occasional lecturer & support at Swansea U
🏳️🌈Asexual-agender-panromantic- 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.
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
Tom Ue @tomue.bsky.social Public historian, editor, & literary critic. Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Popular Film & Television. Associate Editor, The Complete Letters of Henry James @ctrhjstudies.bsky.social @univnebpress.bsky.social.
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
Dave Jeffery @davebjeffery.bsky.social Bram Stoker Award, British Fantasy Award and Bridport Prize finalist. Creator of 'a Quiet APOCALYPSE'. Anthologist at Flame Tree Press.
I do not use generative AI in my work; nor do I support its use in the arts.
https://www.davejefferyauthor.com/
Erin Wiegand @erinwiegand.bsky.social Film programmer, independent scholar, book editor. One half of @cinemaniapresents.bsky.social
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.
Simon Bacon @baconetti.bsky.social Author, film critic, and editor of all things Gothicky.
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!
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/
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
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…
Jaime Parker Stickle @jaimeparkerstickle.bsky.social Author—Vicious Cycle, Professor, Podcast Producer, Basic
www.jaimeparkerstickle.com
Xach F. @misterwixard.bsky.social Knower of things. Doer of stuff. Literary type human. Shades & Shadows will be returning!
Reluctant occupant of a human meat Gundam.
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
Wendy @wendyduren.bsky.social feminist, political junkie, occasional writer, ucla bruin, serial comma enthusiast 
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