Tina Morin @drtinamorin.bsky.social Assistant Dean of Research and Professor in English at the University of Limerick. Fan of all things Gothic. Views mine. She/her.
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
Jodie Passey @jodiepassey.bsky.social University of Sheffield | Lancaster University
Researcher of Gothic musicals, Brontë lover, K-pop fan, and drag enthusiast. I love MIKA so much. (she/her)
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
Sandie Mills @drsandramills.bsky.social Digital analyst | Gothicist | PhD on dolls & horror |
Amy Wilcockson @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social MHRA Research Fellow - 'The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley', Queen Mary University of London
Communications Officer - BARS
PhD on letters of Thomas Campbell
(she/her)
https://www.amywilcockson.com/
Adam Crymble @adamcrymble.bsky.social Associate Professor of Digital Humanities and author of 'Technology and the Historian' (Illinois, 2021).
Tom Stanger @tomasstanger.bsky.social Editor of The Gothic Revival magazine, paranormal investigator, autistic researcher on 19th century Gothic Literature & religion, lover of old horror films, also write some book reviews, take bad photos & other bits & bobs
https://linktr.ee/tomstanger
EHUNineteen @ehunineteen.bsky.social Research Centre for Nineteenth Century Studies at Edge Hill University
• Co-Directors:
@catherinequirk.bsky.social, @DrBeard79.bsky.social @DigiVictorian.bsky.social
Founding Co-Director: @VictorianMasc.bsky.social
• https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/ehu19/
Mars Nicolí @marsnicoli.bsky.social One of those queers.
PhD candidate on Trans Horror.
He/him ze/hir
British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social The British Association for Romantic Studies supports the study of #c18th and #c19th literature and culture.
https://www.bars.ac.uk/main/
Jennifer Alexandra @jennyalexandra.bsky.social Horror scholar, found footage researcher and genre fiction writer. Literary agent: @leepaigeobrien.bsky.social
James Parsons @parsonsfiction.bsky.social Author of horror, SF and more. The Woken Bones, Wilkford's Rakshasa, Northern Souls, Orbital Kin, Minerva Century. The Briggar Stone 2024, Anuci Press.
https://jameseparsons.wixsite.com/parsonsfiction
Geordie. 
Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social Scottish Literature, Regionalism, Romanticism, Enlightenment, Book History
Alexandra Gallant-Lee 🔜 SPX A3B @alexandragallant.com Ali “with an i”
Nature & Science Illustrator, Multi Award-Winning Cartoonist, Science Communicator & Designer, Sculptor, Comics, Zines, She/Her, Based in Boston
SPX 9/12-9/13
AlexandraGallant.com
frogby.bigcartel.com/
Alexandragallant.itch.io
Matthew McCormack @historymatt.bsky.social Historian of Georgian Britain, currently researching shoes. President of @BSECS.bsky.social. Views my own but not necessarily original.
Anna Burton @drannaburton.bsky.social Lecturer in English Literature| Interested in all things arboreal | Trees in C19 English Fiction (2021) | she/her
ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social ECF is an international, peer-reviewed quarterly devoted to the critical and historical investigation of literature and culture of 1660-1832. Editor Eugenia Zuroski, McMaster University. Posts by ECF editors; contact: ecf@mcmaster.ca.
Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social Historian of 18C/19C women, politics, sociability and cosmopolitanism. Frequently infuriated by politics. Reposting not necessarily a statement of personal beliefs.
Dr Sally Holloway @sallyholloway.bsky.social Historian of emotions, gender, visual & material culture researching ❤️ & 💔 | Author of The Game of Love in Georgian England: https://tinyurl.com/nz7wkwah | AHRC Research, Development & Engagement Fellow at the University of Warwick
Dr Rachel Bynoth @rachelbynoth.bsky.social Historian of 18th/19th c. Family, lifecycle, gender, emotion esp. anxiety, distant comms and politics. Bath Spa Senior Lecturer. PhD: PM George Canning and family’s letters/anxiety https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/our-people/rachel-bynoth/
Chelsea Phillips (she/her) @chelseaphillips.bsky.social Spanish Tragedy evangelist | dramaturg, full prof, theatre historian (18thc, celebrity, & Shakespeare) | 📚Carrying All Before Her (2022) | opinions mine
https://spanishtragedy.villanova.edu
https://udpress.udel.edu/book-title/carrying-all-before-her/
Dr Rita J. Dashwood @rjdashwood.bsky.social Literary Scholar and Historian of the 18th and 19th Centuries | FWO Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at Ghent University, The Heiress: Women, Property and Economics | Author of Women and Property Ownership in Jane Austen + Reading the Romantic Ridiculous
Fahime Serhatti, PhD @fahimeserhatti.bsky.social Postdoc @METU_ODTU Turkey | Assis. Prof. @UniYuksek | Eighteenth-Century English Literature | Daniel Defoe | Trauma Fiction | Narrative Studies | Literature and Medicine | @bibliophilescompass | bibliophilescompass.blogspot.com
Daniel Johnson @danjohnsonhymns.bsky.social Theology and Worship Studies programme leader at London School of Theology. Researching evangelical hymns, slavery, and abolition. Infrequent guitarist. Views mine
Emily Brand @emilybrand.bsky.social Historian of the long 18thC, editor, genealogist.
📚 Book: The Fall of the House of Byron
📝 Writing about: Marie Antoinette’s ladies
Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social Hopeless Romanticist, childless cat dad, and coffee addict (he/him)
Solving real word problems
Dr Kirstin Mills @kirstinmills.bsky.social The #Gothic; #18thC - #19thC literature & sciences of the mind, occult & supernatural; digital Gothic 👻
Associate Professor & Director: Master of Research, Faculty of Arts, MQU, Sydney
Co-Editor: ANCR & INCSA Book Series
She/Her
https://kirstinmills.com
The Death Studies Podcast @deathstudiespod.bsky.social Podcast providing a platform for the diversity of voices in, around and contributing to the academic field of Death Studies. Hosted by Dr Bethan Michael-Fox & Dr Renske Visser
TheDeathStudiesPodcast.com
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 Corrina Readioff @fierengraw.bsky.social Literary detective & long 18th-centuryist. Honorary Research Associate at the University of Liverpool.
Currently working on early modern whales
She/her
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/people/corrina-readioff#tabbed-content
https://18thcparatext.wordpress
Ruth-Anne @ruthannereads.bsky.social Gothic, Ecology and Theology in 19th century literature
AHRC-funded PhD Candidate at Warwick University
She/They 📚🏳️🌈🐶
Alex @drspider666.bsky.social Confirmed bachelor. Writing about queer & disability representation. Only watching anything for the queer-coded villains. Opinions my own.
Émilie Oléron Evans @bringyourownsun.bsky.social Excessive educator at Queen Mary University of London | Historiography of Art: women art historians, art history in/and translation
Free Palestine 🍉
Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social Associate Prof: Gothic/Horror, 18th/19th C Brit Lit, Health Hum, History of Med, Death Studies, Disability Studies | Amateur Artist and cemetery enthusiast
I do not use AI for anything, professionally or personally. All opinions my own.
Kate Harvey @harveygothick.bsky.social Apprentice Monsterologist, Gothic academic and bibliophile. Passion for dance, music, nature and cocktails. Sunsponge Goth. She/her. Co-founder of the Macabre Danse research project (#BalletGothic)
Dr. Kell Richards @imkellyrichards.bsky.social Independent scholar // death, gender, and comics // writer @ wwac & shelfdust // book reviews editor @ mortality journal // they/she
Dr Nuits de Young @nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social Historian/art historian (12C & 18C esp), lover of Old Roses, literature, art, music, pigeons & other cute creatures! Trans-inclusive egalitarian #FBPE #UKEUFriend #Aspie
GilchristHeritage at the Other Place. Posts in personal capacity.
She/They
Dr Amanda Dillon @oddityofwings.bsky.social SFF, gothic, time&gender&history, Victoriana. Time travelling women historians are my jam.
UEA History, sometimes UEA LDC. FHEA, Expat PA/VA. Wrangler of academics, books, & words. Sometime flutist. #wiasn Views own; she/her.
Dr. Anya H-vdL @anyahvdl.bsky.social Lecturer in Eng Lit; 📚 'Monstrous Textualities', 'Posthuman Gothic', 'Writing Romantic Climate Change'. Probably on a train right now. Still masking. She/they/whatever.
NearlyKnowledgeable @g0blinegg.bsky.social Amy
𖦹 Folklorist & Writer 𖦹
Ghostlore ● Witchcraft ● Devil Folklore
Rooted in Shropshire History & Lore 💀
Writer of 'The Best Of Men' -A Shropshire folk horror 🦇
Caterina Liberace @caterinaliberace.bsky.social PhD researcher in cultural geography at UCL; architectures and landscapes of gothic horror. I love cats and douglas fir trees 🌲🏔️🏔️
Kristy Strange @strangescholar.bsky.social 🇨🇦🏴
📚 PhD Researcher at University of Westminster // MLitt in Gothic Studies
🌿 Researching ecoGothic and the climate crisis in women’s speculative fiction
🎓 First gen & non-trad student
🎗️ Advocate for accessibility in academia
SelineSigil @selinesigil.bsky.social Arts, spiritual, folklore, occult...the weird, the wonderful, the web of life
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!
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. 
Melissa Raines McCauley @drmcraines.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Liverpool; interested in literature and psychology, crime fiction, horror, film and television adaptations, and Victorian realism (yes, I'm a little all over the place); dog mom; views my own; she/her
Dr Stephen Curtis @earlymodernhorror.bsky.social Part time lecturer, full time anxious wreck. Writing a/the book on Early Modern Horror. Also research videogames and contemporary Horror. Reviewer for TheSixthAxis.com
Evan Hayles Gledhill @gothicbodies.bsky.social Professional nerd researching Gothic Fangirls and Families.
Disabled, Queer, Socialist. They/them
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.
Catherine Spooner @catherinespooner.bsky.social Academic and creative writer | Professor of Literature and Culture, Lancaster University | all things Gothic | fashion | folk horror | she/her
Simon Bacon @baconetti.bsky.social Author, film critic, and editor of all things Gothicky.
Chloe Campbell @chloec.bsky.social PhD student 📚 Researching witch-wives, mid-century witches, and Suburban Gothic in lit, film & TV 🔮🪄 Commissioning Editor in academic publishing 📖 she/her🌛
Madeline Potter @madelinepotter.bsky.social Theological Monsters (University of Wales Press), The Roma (The Bodley Head/Harper Collins, 2025) | 19thC Gothic
Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social Cat sitter. Gothic lit and theology. Romance studies. Byron studies. Runs 'Romancing the Gothic'. Writes queer little stories.
Bethany Keats @bethanykeats.bsky.social Writer ✍️ Reader 📚 Artist 📷 Dancer 🩰 cyclist 🚲
Also: languages
PhD: gothic literature, family history
Geelong ✈️ Townsville (sometimes 🇫🇷)
co-editor @sudojournal.bsky.social
co-host @editsannotations.bsky.social
Tim G @tim-g.bsky.social Movies (Often Classic), history, tabletop/miniatures games, all things Gothic, etc
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
Graham🐝 @grahamthings.bsky.social Retired special ed teacher. Fascinated by the weird, the beautiful and the extreme especially in Horror cinema. Love all things Gothic. Indie Horror, Physical Media, Cats, Vegetarian, Fledgling Birdwatcher…
Letterboxd… https://boxd.it/L4Zx
The Ghoul Guides @ghoulguides.bsky.social A multimedia project exploring all things spooky, ghoulish and Gothic from academic researchers @laurenjnixon.bsky.social and @mazgoing.bsky.social. Podcast: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ghoulguides | Website: theghoulguides.wordpress.com 
JaneySays @janeysays.bsky.social End all kings. Eat the rich.
Paul Farrell 🎃 @paulisgreat2000.bsky.social Bylines: Bloody Disgusting, StudioCanal, HorrorHound Magazine, Dead Ringers
Podcasts: Dead Ringers, Scream Addicts: Hammer Pub
You know, I like horror movies and stuff.
Stuff I’ve written! : https://bloody-disgusting.com/author/paul-farrell/
AM_Marini @annamartamarini.bsky.social Humboldt Research Fellow at JFKI FU Berlin | CDA&visual media | heritage/borderlands, ethnoracial violence, exclusionary/national identities | horror/gothic mediascapes, ocular uncanny and dental angst | annamartamarini.com
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.
Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social Rabbi/award-winning author.
🌱 Ancient tools for healing + justice: LifeIsASacredText.com
(Always! 100% human-authored + NAZI-FREE!):
New 📚 On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World.
💥 Collective liberation or bust.
she/her
Journal of Gods and Monsters @jgodsmonsters.bsky.social The Journal of Gods and Monsters is a peer-reviewed, open access journal that seeks to explore the connections between the sacred and the monstrous. Find us at https://godsandmonsters-ojs-txstate.tdl.org/godsandmonsters/
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)
Dr Kathleen Hudson (she/her) @kathleenh42.bsky.social Adjunct professor, specialist in Gothic literature and media, usually pretty sleep-deprived. Bully your university library into buying a copy of “Religious Horror and the Ecogothic”.
Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social Independent journalist.
Send tips via Signal: 202-510-1268.
Join my newsletter 👇👇👇
kenklippenstein.substack.com
John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social Horror scholar, fan of transgressive media, won't shut up about pop culture. Doctor of slasher films, exploitation media, and cultural masculinities
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
Angela Wright @angelawright1794.bsky.social Professor of Romantic Literature, University of Sheffield. Romanticism, Gothic, author and general co-ed of Ann Radcliffe for forthcoming Cambridge edition and gen co-ed of Cambridge Elements in the Gothic. PL AHRC project ‘Ann Radcliffe, Then and Now’
dr nicole 🕷️🕸️ @nicolehamilton.bsky.social academic in lit and film 📚 YA lit/horror films/queer rep 🩷🤍🧡 | sharon stone enthusiast and real housewives aficionado 📺 she/they 
Dr. Joe Ondrak @theondrakguy.bsky.social Cultural intelligence, OSINT & digital policy ¦ human-digital flows; digital narratology; semantic threats; cognitohazards; extremism ¦ PhD on horror; creepypasta; digital fictions & how they shape our collective online experience.
Doctor Willian Perpétuo Busch @buschwillian.bsky.social Ph.D in History - Universidade Federal do Paraná - Brazil
Research: History of Science Fiction in United States.
Topics: American Literature; Fan Studies; History of Education.
Focus: History of Ideas
Professor of Philosophy.
Contact: willpbusch@gmail.co
Alexia Mandla Ainsworth 🦇 @alexiamandla.bsky.social PhD Student at Stanford | Studying the literature, theatre, and games of the (very) long early modern period | Gothicist | Shakespeare+ | she/her
Scott Drebit @sdrebit.bsky.social My book A CUT BELOW: A CELEBRATION OF B HORROR MOVIES, 1950s to 1970s, is available everywhere from McFarland Publishing. Also: Daily Dead and Corpse Club podcast.
FUCK A.I. Rep: Darlene Chan of the Linda Chester Agency
Email: drebitscott@gmail.com
Kate Robertson @kate-robertson.bsky.social Not that kind of Dr. Lapsed Art Historian, part-time author/critic, full-time film lover. Current work: horror; women cannibals on screen; Australian art 1890-1914. 
Eddie Falvey @eddiefalvey.bsky.social Dr of Film Studies | Director of Chasm Films | Author of Re-Animator (LUP, 2021) | Editor of The Cinema of Yorgos Lanthimos (Bloomsbury, 2022) | He/him
Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social Historian: of American religion/irreligion by training; of science & conspiracy by trade
dumb jokes about smart things and smart jokes about dumb things
Podcast research/factcheck: SNAFU with Ed Helms; The Reason We're All Still Here; My Fugitive, more
Kieran Foster @kfoster.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Film and Screen Studies at University of Nottingham. ‘Hammer Goes to Hell’ out now! EUP: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-hammer-goes-to-hell.html
Dr Lauren Nixon @laurenjnixon.bsky.social Doctor of Gothic Studies, specialising in masculinity, war and nation. Works in doctoral education and research culture. One half of The Ghoul Guides, spooky pop culture podcasting. She/Her.
Clare Stainthorp @claregs.bsky.social University-Policy Engagement & ARIs at UPEN/UCL ∣ Impact at the RCA ∣ Researches Victorian literature, social history, freethought periodicals ∣ Book: Constance Naden: Scientist, Philosopher, Poet ∣ she/her
https://clarestainthorp.wordpress.com/
Alice Haylett Bryan @ahbryan.bsky.social Lecturer in Film History at Queen Mary University of London. Currently researching sexual rights and US horror. Also: French horror cinema, motherhood and/in horror, global horror production 
Fan Studies Network @fanstudies.bsky.social Bringing Fan Studies scholars together since 2012.
https://fanstudies.org/
https://www.instagram.com/fanstudies
Dr Rebecca Williams @augustaquarius.bsky.social Associate Professor / Creative Industries R&I Lead @ University of South Wales. @fanstudies.bsky.social Board Member. Transmedia Tourism • Theme Parks • Disney • Participatory Cultures • Media Endings
💻 https://linktr.ee/drrebeccawilliams
James Rendell @jamesrendell.bsky.social Lecturer in Creative Industries at University of South Wales. Researching media audiences, horror, film & TV, inclusivity & diversity. FHEA. He/Him. Transmedia Terrors in Post-TV Horror out now https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463726320/transmedia-terrors-in
Heather Macumber @heathermacumber.bsky.social PhD/Hebrew Bible. Associate Professor of Biblical Studies. Obsessed with all things monsters, Revelation, biblical art & exilic narratives. she/her
Chris Cooke @chriscooke.bsky.social A sort of film person/Mayhem Film Festival mayhemfilmfestival.com
Emily Marlow @emarlow.bsky.social 📚🎨✍️ Curator, writer, salaryman 🌈🏳️⚧️✌🏻
• BA, MA, M.Phil: Religion, sexuality & masculinity. (Film, videogames, MVs, art.)
• The Lester Bangs of BL.
• Portfolio: https://www.emilymarlow.co.uk/
Chris Stewardson @chrisstewardson.bsky.social I write about monster films.
my book on GHIDORAH, THE THREE-HEADED MONSTER (1964) is out now.
profile pic by Yuji Kaida. can’t read DMs here I’m afraid.
Nikkita Hamar @nikkitah.bsky.social PhD student in extreme cinema/Gaspar Noé
Enya mixtape on cassette
Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social Subscribe:
disruptionist.com
youtube.com/mattbinder
Fear 2000 @fear2000.bsky.social A conference series once dedicated to contemporary horror cinema, 2016-2023 | #fear2000 🤖
Craig Ian Mann @craigimann.bsky.social Full-time home video producer, part-time writer and sometimes documentary filmmaker | letterboxd.com/craigimann | chasmfilms.co.uk | 📺 📼 📀