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.
Nova Scotia Museum @novascotiamuseum.bsky.social Telling Nova Scotia’s extraordinary stories.
Spooky Sunday @spookysunday.bsky.social Ghost-related posts every Sunday - words, art, folklore, popular culture, haunted places etc. Just use the #SpookySunday tag. All relevant contributions will be welcome and reposted. (Up to FOUR posts/reposts pp please). Run by @theghostmonk.bsky.social
Bat Conservation Trust @batconservation.bsky.social Bat squeaks by Joe and Andreia with occasional special guests! Posts are not endorsements. 🦇
www.linktr.ee/BatConservationTrust
The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social The BCDM is a virtual museum enjoying history, art and the natural world in the Midlands . All photos by the BCDM.
http://thebcdyingmuseum.blog
Victoria Chapman @mother-of-crows.bsky.social Here for Welsh folklore and witchery
Dr Tim Rideout @drtimrideout.bsky.social Father of daughters, health services leader, chair of school governors, academic Gothicist, literary interviewer, crime fiction lover, Doctor Who fan (he/him/his)
https://www.precariousgothic.com
Claire Louise Amias @clairelouiseamias.bsky.social Actor / Theatremaker. Playing E Nesbit in 'Haunted Shadows - The Gothic Tales of Edith Nesbit' on UK tour from 24 Oct to 13 Dec 2025.
Previous show 'The Masks of Aphra Behn'.
www.clairelouiseamias.co.uk
Represented by Leodis Talent.
British Online Archives (BOA) @boapublishing.bsky.social Our skilled team curate and digitise unique collections of primary sources that illuminate key historical concepts, events, and themes.
Treadwell's Books @treadwells-books.bsky.social Esoteric arts, great books, high culture, witchcraft, scholarship. Advanced degrees in the banned, the burned, the ridiculed.
Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers @legacy1984.bsky.social In print since 1984, Legacy is the only scholarly journal to focus specifically on American women’s writing, broadly defined, from the seventeenth through the mid-twentieth century. Tag us if you need a re-skeet!
Luna Press Publishing @lunapress.bsky.social Award Winning Small Press. SFF in Fiction and Academia. Est. 2015. Member of Publishing Scotland. https://www.lunapresspublishing.com
Julia O’Connell @juliajoyce.bsky.social Publicity Director at Penzler Publishers; Freelance editor; Book blogger at The Gothic Library. She/her ✡️📚
Dr Alan Montgomery @classicalalan.bsky.social Historian, artist, tour guide and FSAScot. A lover of legend and folklore.
Buy my art and my books here: https://linktr.ee/classicalalan
Annie Brassey @anniebrassey.bsky.social Victorian Traveller, Writer and Collector (1839-1887)
Andi Brooks @ghostlytales.bsky.social Andi Brooks spends his time in Tokyo writing ghostly tales, editing collections of vintage ghost stories, making experimental electronic music, watching classic horror movies, and reading gothic horror. https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Andi+Brooks&crid=1UE94SJUZ
A History of Dogs @ahistoryofdogs.bsky.social 📚🐕 Telling the stories of good dogs throughout history.
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
Chris Woodyard @chriswoodyard.bsky.social Author A is for Arsenic: An ABC of Victorian Death, The Victorian Book of the Dead, 10 books on ghostlore. Death, mourning, dress history, Forteana. No politics. Podcast: Boggart and Banshee
Blog: https://thevictorianbookofthedead.wordpress.com
The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social Enthusiast of British (mainly) ghostlore, folklore and vintage ghost and weird fiction. Collector of old magazines. Also keen on prehistoric monuments, old churches and suchlike. Am decidedly Q. All scans/photos my own (unless stated). Runs #SpookySunday
FolkloreThursday @folklorethursday.bsky.social #FolkloreThursday is a hashtag day for sharing folklore facts, and a website filled with articles! Founded by @deedeechainey.bsky.social & @willowwinsham.bsky.social. 
Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social Writer, editor, artist, folklorist. Winner of ten World Fantasy Awards, the Mythopoeic Award (for The Wood Wife), the Bram Stoker Award, and the SFWA Solstice Award. Wanderer of the deep, dark forest of story in language and paint.
Dartmoor, Devon, UK
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
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
Suzanne Daley @suzannedaley.bsky.social I'm a #nutritionist #herbalist #selfdefenceteacher #adventurer #vegan friend of animals & trees 🐺
Into #nature #books #tea #training #yoga #martialarts #ritual #peace #hiking the path less travelled, and being as far from the madding crowd as possible ☮
helen @hejparry.bsky.social children's writer, cat wrangler, time waster
A Scrap of Moss & Magick out 8 October 2026 with @dfbstoryhouse.bsky.social
pre-orders: https://tinyurl.com/4suv7bh9 | https://tinyurl.com/m9h8d2fe
cover art: Melissa Castrillón
British in Belgium
she/her
Dan Doody @doodydan.bsky.social Film Programmer | Curator, Seattle International Film Festival
Classic Horror | Gothic | Ghost Stories | Film Noir | TCM | Maigret
Like to pretend I can time travel to historic Seattle cinemas, #ThenShowing
letterboxd.com/dandoody/
📍Seattle, WA
Brendan C. Walsh @brendancwalsh.bsky.social Early Modern Intellectual Historian and Religious Scholar from Australia. Devotee of the Dark Arts: demonology and the supernatural in the 16th and 17th century Anglosphere.
https://brendancharleswals.wixsite.com/academic
Kevin Corstorphine @drkevcorstorphine.bsky.social Lecturer in English. Gothic, horror, weird.
Leslie Howard @lesliehoward.bsky.social An appreciation of the writer, producer, actor, director and war veteran.
KDS 📖 🎲 🎮 @kdsbooks.bsky.social Reader, gamer: Personal library of Classic SFF/Pulp/Gothic/Weird/Classic Crime/Noir/Kaiju/World SFF/Lost World Fiction. UK
No to AI. No DMs
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/127259529-kds
https://www.librarything.com/profile/KevDS
Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social Lecturer in c19th and c20th Literature. #Gothic #DeathStudies #Childhood
Assoc Editor @ Gothic Studies
Nachtdufter @nachtdufter.bsky.social Literaturwissenschaftlerin. Dr. phil.
Paperghosts collector. Nighttime gardener. New Romantic. Noticer. Nature methodised. Interested in the encounters of psychopathology and art.
Helen Kingstone @helenkingstone.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in 19thC literature at Royal Holloway, London.
I research how living memory becomes narrative history in novels, textbooks, oral history, panoramas, biography & via generations, including Digital Humanities
HP Bookcraft @hpbookcraft.bsky.social 38. She/they. Folklore, horror, hauntology. Master's in Gothic literature. Keeper of wayward books, editor, and thing that goes bump in the night.
James Machin @jfmachin.bsky.social Editor, proof reader, writer, researcher etc.
Recent books:
The Strange Stories of John Buchan (British Library Publishing, 2025)
The Stark Munro Letters by Arthur Conan Doyle (Edinburgh University Press, 2024)
Silvia Moreno-Garcia @silviamg.bsky.social Writer. THE BEWITCHING (2025), SEVENTH VEIL OF SALOME, MEXICAN GOTHIC, and others books. https://silviamoreno-garcia.com/
Yorkshire Wolds Weather @yorkswoldsweather.bsky.social Weather / nature lover , snow , ice and landscapes . Living on The Wolds Way. East Yorks
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.
Felix John Taylor @felixjrt.bsky.social Writer, librarian by day. Author of The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (Thames & Hudson) and a forthcoming Arthur Machen biography
Irregular blog posts at felixtaylor.org
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. 📚
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 D. Brawn @jasondbrawn.bsky.social A published horror author, collector, fanboy with an MA Gothic and a BA Film and Media. Vegetarian with AuDHD, who has completed three marathons. Halloween 🎃👻 is my favourite season.
Archimedes, Hater of Lamps @hateslamps.bsky.social I’m Archimedes, Destroyer of Lamps, middle fur child of my mom. I guess I will also share this account with my brothers.
Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social https://www.bodegacats.nyc
Cats Doing Funny Cat Things @funnyfelines.bsky.social Welcome to Funny Felines! All about Cats Doing Funny Cat Things with Funny Cat Videos! You can also follow us on Youtube @funnyfelines1
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
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.
University of Exeter Centre for Victorian Studies @uniofexetercvs.bsky.social The Exeter Centre for Victorian Studies promotes interdisciplinary research and teaching in all aspects of nineteenth-century literature, culture and media.
Aimee Parkison @aimeeparkison.bsky.social Writing about Women, Human & Animal Rights. Wordsmith of Weird Fiction, Eco, Literary, Flash, Micros, Satire. Surreal Storyteller. Author, Professor, Editor, Creative Writing, Experimental Writing, Gender Studies, Collaborative www.aimeeparkison.com
Birds of the World | The Cornell Lab @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social Explore the remarkable diversity of birds with Birds of the World, the world's leading collection of avian life histories published by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in collaboration with a global editorial team of avian experts. birdsoftheworld.org.
Dr Alastair G Gunn @draggunn.bsky.social Astrophysicist/Science Journalist & Author/Victorian Ghost Story Researcher/Musician/Painter/Martial Artist/Associate Editor at Royal Astronomical Society
GreenWitch Tea @greenwitchtea.bsky.social Me: #herbalist #nutritionist #teacher #vegan #witch #forestwanderer 🌲
Into: #ritual #tea #yoga #learning #books #adventure #depth #animals 🦄
GreenWitch Tea: #organic #sustainable #fairtrade #handmade #joy #love 💚
Based: #Maleny #Australia 🌞
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org An organization dedicated to researching and teaching about newspapers, magazines, and serial print forms in Britain and its empire throughout the long nineteenth century.
The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social Online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas. Featuring 300+ essays — ✍️ submissions welcome. We also have a mighty fine prints shop.
https://publicdomainreview.org
Simonster @dracu1a.bsky.social The humanoid I control.
@gaskellsociety.bsky.social @gaskellsociety.bsky.social 
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
Fiona Handley @fionahandley.bsky.social PhD student at the University of Surrey - women travellers in the nineteenth century who used the polite science of botany in their journals and correspondence to create professional authority.
Mum to four grown up children 
BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social The British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies supports the study of the long #c18th. Check website for details. https://www.bsecs.org.uk/ 
Sara Zadrozny @drsarazadrozny.bsky.social Victorian fiction, female ageing, medicine and culture. Departmental Tutor at the University of Oxford, Oxford Lifelong Learning,
WillowWinsham @willowwinsham.bsky.social Author and historian, specialising in witchcraft, folklore and cats. Co-founder of #FolkloreThursday
The Story of Witches - Out Now
https://bit.ly/3PNy8yC
willowwinsham.com
Ailise Bulfin @ailise-bulfin.bsky.social Popular culture from 19thC to now: catastrophe | war | environment
ERC PI: Child Sexual Abuse in Fiction https://csa-in-fiction.com/ @csarepsprojectucd.bsky.social
Book: Gothic Invasions: Imperialism, War & Pop Fiction
https://people.ucd.ie/ailise.bulfin1
Conor Reid @cedreid.bsky.social Podcaster, Writer, Researcher. Podcasts: 'The Greatest Matter' (Victorian Gothic Audiodrama) and 'Words To That Effect' (Narrative storytelling show on popular fiction). Head of Podcasts at HeadStuff/The Podcast Studios.
Natural History Museum, London @nhm-london.bsky.social We’re the museum looking deeper into the Earth’s past to shape a new future where both people and planet thrive.
Protecting the planet, it’s in our nature. 🌍
@missscarlett2024.bsky.social @missscarlett2024.bsky.social Life-long voracious bookworm; into UK/Australian true ghosts & hauntings, horror fiction & vintage UK/Japanese horror movies; Japanese & Korean culture/food. Also French chateaux!
Susanna Ashton @susannaashton.bsky.social #C19 AmLit. Author: A Plausible Man. the True Story of the Man who Inspired Uncle Tom's Cabin -with The New Press. Exploring fugitivity, life writing, narratives of enslavement and freedom. I speak for myself - not my employer
Tanya Kirk @tanyakirk.bsky.social Librarian at St John’s College, University of Cambridge. Curated a Fantasy exhibition at the British Library. Views my own. She/her
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.
Website here: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/ranr20
Sandie Mills @drsandramills.bsky.social Digital analyst | Gothicist | PhD on dolls & horror |
Michèle Mendelssohn @mendelight.bsky.social Armchair cosmopolitan & literature professor @ox.ac.uk @engfac.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk • MAKING OSCAR WILDE book https://rb.gy/hjps64 • MAKING HISTORY exhibition http://makinghistory.magd.ox.ac.uk
🦇Shell🦇 @lotnumber249.bsky.social Michelle Keeley-Adamson - Historian & Writer. (She/Her)
When I'm not haunting the necropolis you can find me reading, writing, drawing or listening to Vincent Price radio plays.
ISSE Co-Chair
Mark Enser @ensermark.bsky.social Yorkshire based freelance writer, TES columnist, author of books and school support person.
Ex-HMI and national geography lead
Once a teacher
Wanderer of hills, wonderer of everything else.
Posting on Education, Folklore, Dungeons & Dragons and music.
Haunted Shores @hauntedshores.bsky.social Haunted Shores: An interdisciplinary research network for scholars worldwide interested in coastal, nautical, littoral spaces in the Gothic #CoastalGothic
https://haunted-shores.com/
Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social Fragments of life in messages from old postcards, curated by Tom Jackson. BOOK: http://amzn.to/34rIDhp POD: http://Apple.co/2xNqQ8D AGENT: http://morgangreencreatives.com
Rebekah King @rebekahking.bsky.social Writer/researcher https://www.rebekahkingwriter.com/
Articles on magic, theatre, horror etc here https://rebekahkingwriter.substack.com
George The Station Cat @george-station-cat.bsky.social My name is George. I am the senior mouse catcher and I “work” at Stourbridge Junction railway station. *not all quotes are my own- but quoted with love
Cat Burton @gothbosscat.bsky.social 🎮 Games Industry Consultant & Podcast Host
👩🏻💼 Work with me: https://www.gothboss.co.uk
curious ordinary @curiousordinary.bsky.social ▪️Folklore▪️Myth▪️Magic▪️Art▪️
Sharing Japanese and supernatural folklore, mythology, yokai, culture and art. Also love books, cats, crows and trees.
http://linktr.ee/curiousordinary
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
The English Association @englishassociation.bsky.social Founded in 1906 to support, promote, and celebrate the discipline of English Studies (registered charity 1124890). www.englishassociation.ac.uk/join-us/
University of Stirling Archives @unistirarchives.bsky.social News, events and activities related to the collections held in the University of Stirling Archives.
Find out more at:
https://libguides.stir.ac.uk/archives
Scottish Poetry Library @byleaveswelive.bsky.social The Scottish Poetry Library is Scotland's number one poetry resource both online and in bricks and mortar. We're at 5 Crichton's Close, Edinburgh and we're open to the public Monday-Thursday 10am-3pm. Our online HQ is www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk
Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social Lecturer in Medieval English and AFY English Subject Lead (Ox) ¶ Author of BOOK CURSES for Bodleian Publishing ¶ Being critically creative @guildmedmak.bsky.social ¶ Liker of material texts, medieval folk horror, university access & print making ¶ She/her
Professor Marion Gibson @witchesetc.bsky.social Author of Witchland (coming 2026) and Witchcraft: A History in 13 Trials. History, folklore, books, archives.
Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social Illustrations and genuine replies from the Girl’s Own Paper 1880-1899. (‘Girls’ at the time meant roughly age 15 to 29 years). Working back to the 33,000 followers I had in the other place! Caption contest every Sunday at 18:00 GMT
Sara Sheridan @sarasheridan.bsky.social Writer. Mapped Scotland according to women's history. Also writes novels. Over-enthusiastic. She/her. YES. Insta:@sarasheridanwriter X: @sarasheridan All links: https://linktr.ee/sarasheridanwriter
Catherine Rose Maw @realityandreverie.bsky.social 18th/19th C. Literature and History: Poetry, Nature, Science, Medicine, and Emotion 🌿✨
Lover of Romanticism, Fantasy, Folklore, and the Gothic 🖤🥀
Jennifer Ashby @jenniferashby.bsky.social Modernist & avant-garde visionary aesthetics | Writing PhD on Mina Loy & spirituality @eui-history.bsky.social Florence, Italy | Organiser Mapping Mina Loy Studies I Past PG Rep @modernistudies.bsky.social
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)
University of London Press @uolpress.bsky.social Opening up humanities research.
Passionate advocates for the humanities, we are a collaborative, non-profit and predominantly open access publishing partner to researchers and institutions, creating award-winning scholarly books.
https://uolpress.co.uk
Helena 🏝️ HELULV Ullmark @helenaullmark.bsky.social Byggnadsvård. Ost. Trädgård. Gamla träd. Havet. Kor. Gamla vägar. Äpplen. Hästar. Får. Päron. Introvert ciderciceron som gillar umgänge. Because… //cider-apples-old trees-cows-landscape history-cheese-regenerative agriculture-etc
Twitter@elfvabjer
Jade Scott @huntingrebels.bsky.social Mary, Queen of Scots | Annas Keith | Lady Anne Percy | PI AHRC Scottish Women Letter-Writers 1480-1625 @ UofGlasgow History |
https://www.waterstones.com/book/captive-queen/dr-jade-scott/9781789296464
Also: dogs, horses, books
Diana Spencer @dianajspencer.bsky.social Dean of Liberal Arts & Natural Sciences, Birmingham (UK), Professor of Classics; When not at work, I'm home in Dublin (or Italy) 🇮🇪 🇪🇺
Personal account. Also @dianajspencer@mastodon.ie, @dianajspencer
Judearoo @judearoo.bsky.social Also here.
Irish gal abroad. Interested in books and general tomfoolery
Thomas Ruys Smith @thomasruyssmith.com Prof of Lit and Culture, mostly nineteenth century. Coming soon: 🎅 🔎 Searching for Santa Claus: An Anthology of the Poems, Stories and Illustrations That Shaped an American Icon. Writing a book about Mark Twain & London.
http://www.thomasruyssmith.com
David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social Triple threat:
Journalism: www.authory.com/davidbarnett
Books: www.amazon.co.uk/stores/author/B0034PY7ZW
Comics: leagueofcomicgeeks.com/people/16810/david-barnett/comics
Agent: Laura Williams, Greene & Heaton greeneheaton.co.uk/clients/david-m-barnett
Dr Alice Crossley @alicecrossley.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, English Literature (University of Lincoln).
Ageing in Victorian lit; 19th- century paper ephemera; valentines; material/visual cultures; history of emotions; masculinity studies; Japanese fiction | FRHistS. FHEA.
- Own views -
Royal Holloway Centre for Victorian Studies @rhul-cvs.bsky.social Account of the internationally recognised Centre for Victorian Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London. Co-directed by @helenkingstone.bsky.social, Izzy Barrett-Lally and Heathcliff Newman
David Finkelstein @finkelsteind.bsky.social Business & Cultural Historian, personal capacity blurbs. Co-Editor, The Edinburgh Companion to British Colonial Periodicals, https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edinburgh-companion-to-british-colonial-periodicals.html