Michael Riches @michaelriches.bsky.social Assistant Professor of English, Appalachian State University | writing on California, African American literature, frontiers, crime fiction | straddling uncomfortably the intersection between Bartleby the Scrivener and Gonzo the Great
Houman Barekat @houmanbarekat.bsky.social ‘Après le déluge, moi’ - French flooding investigator
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Dark Talk @dark-talk.uk The official BlueSky account for the Dark Talk podcast.
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Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social Historian of US liberalism, Congress, and the C20th Democratic Party. Trade unionist. Lanyard class warrior.
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.
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Simone Blanford @simoneblandford.bsky.social 
Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social Time Machines. Temporality. Ecology. Robots. Education. Associate Professor of 19th century British Literature. 
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.
Douglas Dowland @profdgd.bsky.social Curious about affect in the contemporary US? Visit: https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5889/
Fear 2000 @fear2000.bsky.social A conference series once dedicated to contemporary horror cinema, 2016-2023 | #fear2000 🤖
Matthew Leggatt @matthewleggatt.bsky.social Senior Lecturer English and American Lit @ Winchester Uni: Lit & Film, utopia/dystopia, apocalypse, terror. Co-host Utopian and Dystopian Fictions podcast. D&D. Dog pics. Views own. He/Him
Adam Golub @adamgolub.bsky.social American Studies professor at Cal State Fullerton. Popular culture, true crime, monsters, music, creative work, the history of childhood. Writing a cultural history of the doppelgänger. Also a dad and a runner. https://www.everydayfictions.com/bio
Mike Muncer @mikemuncer.bsky.social Producer, editor, journalist. Host & creator of The Evolution of Horror podcast.
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Dr Hannah Murray @hlmurray.bsky.social Lecturer in English: C19 US & Oz Lit, racial transformation, white supremacy, the speculative.
Melbourne. she/her
‘Liminal Whiteness in Early US Fiction’ out in pbk now!
https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-liminal-whiteness-in-early-us-fiction.html
C19 Americanists @c19americanists.bsky.social C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists
C19 2026: Cincinnati, OH -- March 12-14
Theme: UNDERGROUND
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Myka Abramson @mykaabramson.bsky.social ‘Cartographies of Empire
The Road Novel and American Hegemony’ w/
@stanfordpress, 2025: https://www.sup.org/books/cartographies-empire?tab=1
Tracey @traceymos.bsky.social Museums, galleries, theatre, film, architecture, surfing. Pembrokeshire & Cardiff. Museum curator turned pub owner
Welsh National Theatre @welshnattheatre.bsky.social https://www.welshnationaltheatre.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
David Gaffney @ggaffa.bsky.social Writer, Arts Council manager, musician. Concrete Fields (Salt 2023) Out Of The Dark (Confingo 2021) graphic novel Rivers (Top Shelf 2021) www.davidgaffney.org
Luke Robert Mason @lukerobertmason.net ⏳ Futures Theorist
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Sharae Deckard @sharaerua.bsky.social UCD English. Marxist lit crit, postcolonial & world lit, env hums, world-ecology, sf/f, gothic, weird. Singer, gamer, addicted to open world RPGs, feminist, CC and still masking, immunosuppressed w/RA, cat-guardian. Saoirse Palestine!
Juan Meneses @dissentum.bsky.social Global + postcolonial + comp lit, theory; translator. Assoc. prof. Views/prons: his. Books (@uminnpress.bsky.social): Resisting Dialogue: Modern Fiction and the Future of Dissent / Ed. Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination
Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social Writer. Latest: Paris Fantastique from @confingopublishing.bsky.social and Finders, Keepers from @saltpublishing.com
Also runs @nightjarpress.bsky.social nightjarpress.weebly.com
Ria Cheyne @riacheyne.bsky.social Neurodiversity, disability, access, medical humanities, genre fiction. "Divergent Minds in the Archive" project PI.
Disability, Literature, Genre book (Liverpool UP, 2019) #OpenAccess at https://shorturl.at/5ykqk
Emily Coit @emilycoit.bsky.social Book history & literary history of the long nineteenth century. Teaching at UChicago. 
Society for the Study of the American Gothic @ssag.bsky.social Established in 2023 to promote and advance the study of the American Gothic through research, teaching, and publication.
Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social Don't hate the media - change the media. We're engaging with advertisers to make media hate unprofitable.
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Elizabeth Ammon @elizabethammon.bsky.social Cricket reporter at the Times and Sunday Times. Hockey player. Tea drinker. Vice President Sheff collegiate CC and Barnes CC. Single mum. Insomniac. These are my Personal views etc etc. I think that just about covers it all.
Rebekah King @rebekahking.bsky.social Writer/researcher https://www.rebekahkingwriter.com/
Articles on magic, theatre, horror etc here https://rebekahkingwriter.substack.com
Maitlis @maitlis.bsky.social Co host @thenewsagents .
Formerly @bbcNewsnight - interviews with Prince Andrew Donald Trump Bill Clinton Mark Zuckerberg etc etc .
John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social Political sketch-writer for the Guardian. Author. Latest book out now 'Taking the Lead: A Dog at Number 10'.
Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Investigative journalist. Ex-Guardian/Observer. Now co-founder brand new all-women journalist collective, www.thenerve.news. Tech justice stuff: www.the-citizens.com. Personal newsletter: www.broligarchy.substack.com
Will Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social Multi-award winning journalist and author based in Cardiff.
I conduct investigative journalism and help people better understand Wales/Cymru.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social A reader-funded newspaper that truly sits outside the established system and answers only to the public.
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Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social Guardian writer, but one time I said something inflammatory to the US right & they called me a Diseased Pitmommy. So that's what I go by now 
David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social Broadcaster, author, journalist, dad, grandpa, heroic Substacker to be found at davidaaronovitch.substack.com. Recovering tweeter
Hugo Rifkind @hugorifkind.bsky.social Writing in The Times Thursday and Saturday, talking on Times Radio Monday-Thursday. Also, other things. Latest novel, Rabbits, found here: https://amzn.eu/d/hUQTsSW
Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social Co founder @Byline.com and @BylineTimes.bsky.social. “Destructive British media” according to the Kremlin. Six nominations for sanctions from their Mofo MFA! An Oscar record
Tim Shipman @shippersunbound.bsky.social Chief Political Commentator, Sunday Times. Author of All Out War, Fall Out and Out (coming soon)
Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org Evidence. Action. Hope.
CEO @pimlicat.bsky.social
Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social EX Editor, the Guardian/ prospect magazine. The New World. ARusbridger.com/ Speaking: karen@chartwellspeakers.com.
Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social Politics Professor, University of Manchester. Sky News Elections Analyst
Author of "The British General Election of 2024" & "Brexitland". All takes are mine only.
"The Swingometer", is here: https://swingometer.substack.com/
https://www.robertford.net/
Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social Guardian columnist & writer, author of Half a Wife, sometimes on telly/Guardian Politics Weekly podcast. No, I didn't write the headline. Event host & speaker https://www.specialistspeakers.com/?p=2705 
Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social Words and smiles.Partridge,Thick of It,Veep,Death of Stalin, Dr Strangelove Taskmaster,Podcast #StrongMessageHere. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m0024cp6?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile Patron of Child Poverty Action Group, @cpaguk.bsky.social.
Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling author. FRSL. FRHistS. WTF. #Empireworld #EmpireLand #TheBoyWithTheTopknot #MarriageMaterial. New book on George Michael, Tonight the Music Seems So Loud, published by Picador, out now. https://shorturl.at/qhPlJ
Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social Lawyer, Filmmaker, Big Issue top 100 Changemaker 2024, CEO CAMPAIGN FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE https://www.cfsj.co.uk/
Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social Socialist, antifascist, writer in various places, geriatric millennial, GQ's 9th Worst Dressed Man in 2016. He/him. YouTube channel http://bit.ly/33iARb3 🏳️🌈
Alastair Campbell @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social Writer, strategist, co-presenter the U.K. No1 podcast The Rest Is Politics … love Britain hate Brexit, loved Twitter loathe Musk n Trump 
John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com Columnist and chief data reporter the Financial Times | Stories, stats & scatterplots | john.burn-murdoch@ft.com
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social #1 Sunday Times bestselling author, because apparently that matters. New Statesman, New World, Oh God What Now, The Newsletter of (Not Quite) Everything, Paper Cuts (RIP). Londoner. *Not* an American.
James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social Broadcaster @lbc.co.uk
Author: https://www.waterstones.com/book/how-they-broke-britain/james-obrien/9780753560365
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/
John Carpenter @thehorrormaster.bsky.social Filmmaker and Composer
Theofficialjohncarpenter.com
@stormkingcomics.bsky.social
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com Release the bats
Ruth-Anne @handle.invalid Gothic, Ecology and Theology in 19th century literature
AHRC-funded PhD Candidate at Warwick University
She/They 📚🏳️🌈🐶
Sean Fulton @seanfulton.bsky.social Folkestone / Watford
Watford FC, Buffalo Bills, Sausage dogs
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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com your horror nonna
dr / filmmaker / film critic / author of 10 books on cult, horror + exploitation cinema
in Venice award-winning doc CHAIN REACTIONS + Shudder's 1000 WOMEN IN HORROR based on my book
Naarm/Australia
she/her
https://horrornonna.com
British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social We’re the national library of the UK.
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
Jon @thelitcritguy.bsky.social writer.
phd in gothic literature. writing on horror, utopia, the gothic nightmare of capitalism
CAPITALISM A HORROR STORY out now, working on a new book about HOUSES
Bobby Smith @bobbysmith86.bsky.social I’m a socially engaged art and theatre practitioner and associate professor of theatre at the University of Warwick and can also be found going dizzy at a potters wheel
David Coates @davidjcoates.bsky.social Cultural historian and Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick. Researching theatre in the long nineteenth century and queer theatre histories. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Regular theatre, exhibition and museum visitor. Chocoholic 🍫
Rich Bream @richbream82.bsky.social In love with Manchester United since '88 🇾🇪
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
Jonathan Freedland @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social Guardian columnist. Presenter: BBC R4's The Long View, the Guardian's Politics Weekly America and Unholy, alongside Yonit Levi. Author: THE TRAITORS CIRCLE
Matt Chorley @mattchorley.bsky.social 📻BBC Radio 5 Live weekdays 2pm-4pm
🇺🇸Americanswers Mondays BBC Sounds
🎤Stand-up shows coming in 2025
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social Journalist. Author. Podcaster. Liberal extremist.
Beth Rigby @bethrigby.bsky.social Political Editor, Presenter and Podcaster, Sky News. RTS Political Journalist of the Year. Electoral Dysfunction podcast out every Friday 
George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief and co-founder, @ArguablyMag.bsky.social
Subscribe on Substack: Arguably.uk
Sophy Ridge @sophyridge.bsky.social Lead Politics Presenter, Sky News
Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social Political columnist, The Guardian
Author, Politics, A Survivor's Guide
Website: https://rafaelbehr.com/
Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social Political Editor of Byline Times and Online Editor of BylineTimes.com. Lobby journalist in the House of Commons. 📩Adam@bylinetimes.com
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Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social Political Editor, The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/pippacrerar
Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social Academic in Hove.
Roxanne Douglas @roxannedouglas.bsky.social Assistant Prof at IAS University of Warwick. World-Literatures, Feminism, Arab Feminism, Gothic, Apocalypses. Women in World-Literature organiser. She/her.
John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social Guardian. Free Substack pieces at maybeimamazed.substack.com Plus music writing in MOJO. Maybe I'm Amazed, my new memoir about autism & music, out now. Order here https://linktr.ee/maybeimamazed
Simon During @simoncd.bsky.social Bookish married English professor, living between Brisbane and Berlin. Interested in way too much, reads indiscriminately, and, cant seem to help myself, has opinions on pretty much everything.
Historic Cricket Pictures @picturesporting.bsky.social A mix of rare, unusual, spectacular, personal, and historic pictures from the earliest days of cricket to modern times
Lorna French @lornafr.bsky.social Alfred Fagon Award 2016 & 2006. Pearson writer-in-residence. #revmix #WriteNowLive 2018 #15Heroines The Desert. Lover of Portlandia, Motherland, Parks and Rec and Blackish
Helen Wheatley (she/her) @helenwheatley.bsky.social Academic Director of Warwick Institute of Engagement, Professor of Film and Television, Co-Founder of the Centre for Television Histories and mum of three teenagers and three cats
Hellebore @helleborezine.bsky.social Small press devoted to #FolkHorror, #folklore, #magic and the #occult in Britain. World Fantasy Awards and British Fantasy Awards finalist. Founder/editor: @mjpcuervo.com
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social Daniel Nichanian. Editor in chief of @boltsmag.org (follow us!). Elections, (local) politics, voting rights, criminal justice, and drag race.
Liz Barry @lizbaz.bsky.social Prof of literature at University of Warwick. Medical humanities, age studies, modernism, Samuel Beckett. Middle age shaped by lockdown: chickens, cold swimming, over-excited gig-going. 
David Pattie @davidpattie.bsky.social Teaches Drama at University of Birmingham. Scot. And unfeasibly tall.
Written about Beckett, UK theatre, popular music, Eno, Kraftwerk, Velvets, Talking Heads, and why gigs look the way they do. 
Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social BBC Russia Editor, Moscow
Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social Historian: White Flight; New Suburban History; Fog of War; One Nation Under God; Fault Lines; Voter Suppression; Myth America. CAMPAIGN TRAILS: campaign-trails.ghost.io
Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Harvard, Author of, among other books, Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings:An American Controversy,The Hemingses of Monticello,, Vernon Can Read: A Memoir with Vernon Jordan, On Juneteenth
Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social Prof of Amer Lit & Studies. Dad to 2 amazing young men. Married. We the People: http://tinyurl.com/yyhxjktb; Of Thee I Sing: http://tinyurl.com/y6hsozjx. #ScholarSunday guru. https://blackwhiteandread.com he/him
Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social I teach American history at Cambridge. Views/opinions strictly personal. Content 40% political, 30% historical, 30% cat photos but ratio under constant review
American Historical Association @historians.org The American Historical Association is the largest professional organization serving historians in all fields and all professions.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social Historian of early US politics & culture; howl re: democracy—a lot. Last book: The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress & the Road to Civil War. Owned by Newbie the History Bird & Rosie the Resistance Bird.
https://www.youtube.com/@joannefreeman1755
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
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