Padraic Maroney @abookbypadraic.bsky.social Author of Escaping Death: Behind the scenes of Final Destination & It All Began With A Scream.
Award-winning marketer, former marathoner. I think I’m fun.
https://linktr.ee/padraicmaroney
Dr Ann Kennedy Smith @akennedysmith.bsky.social Writing about books and 19th-20thc women's history in 'Cambridge Ladies' Dining Society' on Substack: https://akennedysmith.substack.com
Essays & reviews also in TLS, Slightly Foxed, ODNB & History Today etc
Timothy J. White @whitetimothyj.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, Xavier University
Irish Politics, Northern Ireland, the Irish Diaspora in the US, Political Culture, US Foreign Policy, and the Politics of War and Peace
Currently working on power transition theory in Northern Ireland
Marianna Dudley @dudleymarianna.bsky.social Environmental historian. Author of ‘Electric Wind: An Energy History of Modern Britain’ https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182937/
Co-Ed of Environmental Humanities journal.
Dr Karen Smith🪴🕷🦇🐇🐈 💚🇮🇪🎶🎭📽️🎞💙😷💉🕯️🦋🌻 @karenapsmith.bsky.social Taught HE for over 25 years, Art School Dep Head/Film/Media scholar/programmer/cinemas/cult/horror/ gothic/folk horror/music/clubs/neighbourhoods/audiences/gentrification/Scala Cinema
UCL+KCL
Lived opposite Grenfell Tower over 20 years 💚 W10 to WKen London
Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social Politics (mainly UK and a bit of US), comedy and popular culture more generally.
Hear me on a radio near you blathering about Burnham or Farage. Probably.
Political Sandbox here: https://substack.com/@politicalsandboxmark
Jonathan Newell @edweirdian.bsky.social Weird fiction, fantasy cartography, monsters, roleplaying games. Games credits include Genial Jack, work on Dolmenwood. Two time gold ENNIE winner. He/him.
patreon.com/c/beardeddevil
https://bearded-devil.com/
Coffin Boffin @coffinboffin.bsky.social Dr Sam George, Open Graves Open Minds Project. Gothic Enchantment. Books on Vampires, Wolves, Fairies, Unruly Plants, Shadows. https://herts.academia.edu/SamGeorge
Daniel Pietersen @pietersender.bsky.social 
will-o'-the-wisp @willothewisp.bsky.social Final Fantasy • Persona • Pokémon • Power Rangers
Sci-Fi • Star Trek • Star Wars • Super Sentai • Tokusatsu
Math/Physics/Art
(He/Him) This account is for geek stuff, my art account is:
@miguelmarsmars.bsky.social
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
JamesTheBalladeer @jamestheballadeer.bsky.social Writer across genres. Reviewer. Comic-book lover. Selenophile. Cryptid enthusiast. Librarian-adjacent.
Town & Train, Canuck horror novel & Fear Itself collection (Lethe Press).🩷💜💙🌈🍀
lethepressbooks.com/product-page/fear-itself
jameskmoran.blogspot.com
Katherine Lucia Prentice @katherineprentice.bsky.social Glasgow based horror nerd👻
Researching disability, witchcraft, decoloniality, & ecofeminism in LatAm and Celtic folk horror @ northumbria uni🧿
Joanna Bourke @joannabourke.bsky.social Historian curious about violence, the emotions, and what it means to be human. Currently writing a book on Women and Wine! See joannabourke.com
Dr. Karen Kelsky@Professor Is In @professorisin.bsky.social I talk about the accelerating implosion of academia, and advice on how to navigate it, maybe even break free of it. 2nd edition of the book coming in 2025!!
I also really, really like rabbits. 🏳️🌈✡️🍉
Mark Coakley @markcoakley.bsky.social #book #writer in #HamOnt #Ontario #Canada
True crime - Hidden Harvest; Tip & Trade; Faces of Fraud
Romance/horror novel - Murder Bugs
Norse epic - The Saga of Halfdan the Black
History of psychedelic therapy - Shroom Boom
markcoakleybooks.com
Skionar @skionar.bsky.social Roger Clarke. Author of A Natural History of Ghosts, published by Penguin Books (2012). Former writer for the Independent Newspaper, Sunday TimesUK, Sight & Sound. In it for the long haul with severe chronic illness, dealing with NHS on a weekly basis
Kennys Bookshop & Art Gallery @kennysbookshop.bsky.social Independent bookshop and art gallery in Galway, Ireland. Free delivery in Ireland and we ship worldwide. New, used and rare books.
www.kennys.ie | www.thekennygallery.ie
Lisa Grimm @lisagrimm.com DAM nerd. Nat'l Library of Ireland Board. USian in Dublin. Beer judge & podcaster @beerladiespod & blog @weirdodublinpubs. Ex-archaeologist/archivist. Runner. Theatre nerd. Whovian. Transit enthusiast. Geek mom to cats/humans. She/her. lisagrimm.com
MoLI – Museum of Literature Ireland @molimuseum.bsky.social Where Irish writing comes alive.
https://linktr.ee/molimuseum
Severin Films @severinfilms.bsky.social Entertainment with Sharp Edges. Creating, rescuing, and releasing the world’s most provocative cinema since 2006.
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Books Upstairs @booksupstairs.bsky.social Dublin’s Oldest Independent Bookshop | D’Olier St, Dublin 2
Bookshop open Mon-Sat 10-6; Sun 1-5
Café open Tues-Sat 10.30-4.30; Closed Sunday & Monday
Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social Patreon.com/robinince for blog posts and podcasts
Friends of the Merril Collection @merrilfriends.bsky.social A volunteer organization to support and promote the Merril Collection of SciFi, Speculation, and Fantasy, a public access collection in Toronto.
https://friendsofmerril.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. 📚
Love Horror @lovehorror.bsky.social Love Horror is one of the longest running independent horror film review sites in the UK.
Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social Writer! TV: Yellowjackets. Novel: Woodworking (out now). Podcasts: Arden. Journalism: Vox, A.V. Club, NYT, etc. Like a large language model but for my formative trauma. Newsletter here: https://episodes.ghost.io/
Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social Professor of Modern English @ucc.ie | Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Secretary @ria.ie | Irish Romanticism: a Literary History @universitypress.cambridge.org
https://research.ucc.ie/en/persons/claire-connolly/
Irish Committee of Historical Sciences - ICHS @irishhistorians.bsky.social The Irish Committee of Historical Sciences is the national committee for history in Ireland.
Further details: http://www.historians.ie/
Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social Issue 2: The Devil Has the Best Tunes is due out in October. Online shop reopens late September.
Edited by @scaryasfolk.bsky.social and @theharvestmaid.bsky.social.
Horror Land @thehorrorland.bsky.social The Home of Horror Entertianment!
www.horror.land
Matt Denny @mattdenny.bsky.social Film & TV Studies Teaching Fellow interested in the gothic, theories of authorship, postmodernism, post-classical style & robots. Tony Scott evangelist (he/him/his)
Jim MacMillan (he/him) @jimmacmillan.com Journalist, educator and researcher. Student of peace and justice. CMAT superfan. Born in Boston. Shaped by 35 years in Philadelphia and one in Baghdad. Relocated to Cork last spring. Signal: JRM.353 · JimMacMillan.com · Pax et Lux · #SpeirGorm 🇮🇪
Richard Gadz, horror writer @frankenwriter.bsky.social Award-winning author, ace neurodivergent and keen amateur idiot. Lives in Bristol but spends most of his time in a world of his own.
Also at www.richardgadz.co.uk + Facebook, Instagram, YouTube
fia deerwasp @deerwasp.bsky.social fia, they/theirs, white
mean dyke disability extremist
antiblackness must be destroyed
free palestine free turtle island
Rex Burrows @improbablerex.bsky.social Writer, biologist, various other things. Stories in Cosmic Horror Monthly, Weird Horror Magazine, Supernatural Tales, Horror Library, etc.
RexBurrows.com
Jason Bentsman @jasonbentsman.bsky.social Wayfaring Writer & Photographer
// Debut photobook out now from 89Books Italy ➨
limited signed copies ➨ www.tinyurl.com/WhichCannotBeSeen
// Bklyn Review, Offing, LitroMagUK, Mercurius, Tiny Mcules, AmBystander, MTL Review, HAD, Amstdm Qtrly, FStop, et al
Elizabeth O’Connell-Thompson @eotwrites.bsky.social One of those poets.
Senior editor @rhinopoetry.bsky.social
Views are my own, and maybe a bit like yours.
https://linktr.ee/EOTwrites
Perp Culture @perpculture.bsky.social Are you a ‘true crime’ fiction buff? But uneasy about the genre & what it can do? │ Perp Culture, a mixed format podcast from @srwride.bsky.social, explores the history & ethics of adapting historical crime cases │ perpculture.co.uk
All In The Telling - The Ghost Story Network @allinthetelling.bsky.social Shining a lantern on the finest ghost story performers.
#ghoststories #gothic #horror #storytelling #folklore #folkhorror #weirdfiction
ciara @ciaraoc.bsky.social MA student in literature and publishing at university of galway. editorial lead of ROPES literary journal issue 34. just here to skulk on the edges of academia circles and talk myself into doing a phd 🫶🏻
Emily Jeffers Johnson @emilyjjohnson.bsky.social Interested in culture, nature, books, architecture, music | works at Trinity College Dublin | PhD in Digital Humanities and Literature
John Connolly @jconnollybooks.bsky.social Writer, friend to dogs, booksellers, and wine merchants. Charlie Parker returns in A RIVER RED WITH BLOOD, May 5 (Australia/NZ), May 7 (Ireland/UK), and June 2 (US/Canada)
Nina Antonia @ninaantonia13.bsky.social Author. Represented by Kevin Pocklington @ The North Literary Agency. 'With a host of Furious Fancies, Whereof I am commander.
With a burning spear & a horse of air, To the wilderness I wander.' (Tom O' Bedlam) L.A.M.F
Ruth Barber @ruthbarber.bsky.social Lawyer and Author. Lover of weird tales.
@joycecaroloates.bsky.social @joycecaroloates.bsky.social 
Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.eurosky.social Starving artist. Weird art. Cosmic horror.
No AI, just biological idiocy.
https://linktr.ee/andrea.bonazzi
Leah Moore @leahmoore.bsky.social Comic writer. Artist. Mum.
Jessica Hagy @thisisindexed.com I draw connections between things.
John Kenny @johnkenny13.bsky.social Poetry: New Irish Writing, Live Encounters, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, The Madrid Review, Flare, The High Window, Poem Alone, Poems for Protest, Smashing Times, StepAway Magazine.
Fiction: The Galway Review, Revival, Emerald Eye, Albedo One.
Mike Mignola @mikemignola.bsky.social Artist-Writer-Creator of the Hellboy Universe or Mignolaverse etc...
David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social the sea is completely written for me
https://www.transitbooks.org/books/darker
Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social Historian, occasional anthropologist, working on disability, race and Empire; histories of public health. Eternal immigrant, writer, teacher. Indifferent cook. There will be many dogs on this feed. Luddite, yes, in the best way.
Lives with epilepsy.
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
Irish Film Institute @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social The Home of Film in Ireland.
A historic 3-screen cinema in the heart of Temple Bar, with Ireland's only 70mm projector 🎞
Visit http://ifi.ie + watch online via http://ifiarchiveplayer.ie and https://www.ifihome.ie
Charity Number: 20021429
Xavier Aldana Reyes @xaldanareyes.bsky.social Reader in English Literature and Film •
International Gothic Association co-president (2022-2026) • Manchester #Gothic Centre founding member • #Horror Studies book series editor • Profile: https://tinyurl.com/2czvabnz
Eddie Selover @eddieselover.bsky.social Author, storyteller, TED speaker, coach. My bio of Basil Rathbone is coming from UPK in 2027. Love the arts, spiritual seeking, touching grass. Dislike fascism, late-stage capitalism, monosexism, orthodoxy (they're all the same thing). 🍸♊️🦄
Laura Rattray @drlaurarattray.bsky.social Reader in American Literature, University of Glasgow. All things Edith Wharton, US women's writing, modernism, 1930s, Transatlantic Literary Women
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/
flywheel_unbiased. @winter5302.bsky.social PHD QP Lockheed Martin. Celtic Author Winter Breshna #Delftholland NLD RUSSIAN. Civil Engineer Auburn Ravine, CA SINGLE. tumblr.com/wintercharliebreshna. https://breshna.livejournal.com https://medium.com/@wintercharliebreshna
PS: Political Science & Politics @pspolisci.bsky.social PS: Political Science & Politics is the journal of record for the discipline. Email: ps@apsanet.org. Co-editors: Lina Benabdallah, Justin Esarey, Peter Siavelis, Betina Wilkinson. apsanet.org/ps
Constant Reader @stephenkingcast.bsky.social stephenkingcast.podbean.com
Cliff Jones Jr. @cliffjones.bsky.social Author/editor of dreampunk and weird SFFH fiction: DRECK (2023), MIRRORMAZE (2020), SOMNISCOPE (2024), THE LASTING LANDS (2027). Watty winner, Imadjinn finalist, linguist, artist, coder, neurodivergent, INFP-T, 4w5, Scorpio, he/him. CliffJonesJr.com
Rodger Citron @rodgerdcitron.bsky.social Associate Dean and Professor, Touro Law Center. Civil Procedure, Administrative Law, Judicial Biography & Legal History. American Studies Major. Born and grew up in Pittsburgh, PA. 
History: The Journal of the Historical Association @hisjournalha.bsky.social BlueSky account for History: The Journal of the Historical Association. Academic history journal published by Wiley; editorial team based at Northumbria University. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1468229X
The Fright Writer @thefrightwriter.bsky.social The pen is mightier than the machete
Trilogies of Terror @3xterror.bsky.social Victorian Gothic crime thrillers: procedural grit, psychological stakes, occasionally graphic. Bingeable trilogies. ⤵
https://linktr.ee/trilogiesofterror
Stephen O'Neill @oneillsb.bsky.social Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955 (Liverpool University Press, April 2026)
Andy Aydın-Aitchison @andy8chi.bsky.social Criminologist. Former Lada driver. Atrocity crimes | democracy | police | Bosnia & Herzegovina | ex-Yu | family history | other people's cats... (he/him)
Idle hands draw social theorists poorly on a digital egg.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7463-1302
Kat Chzhen @katchzhen.bsky.social Associate Professor at @tcddublin.bsky.social | Acting Head of @tcdsociology.bsky.social | child wellbeing, education, mental health, poverty, inequality | Formerly UNICEF, Nuffield College | Member of @learnineq.bsky.social https://learnineq.eu/
Spectacular Optical Media @spectacularoptical.bsky.social Canadian small press publisher of film + pop culture books, developer/producer/distributor of independent film. Owned by @kierlajanisse.bsky.social
www.spectacularoptical.com
IFI Horrorthon @horrorthon-fest.bsky.social Dublin's premier horror film festival since 1998. Bringing the best the genre has to offer to the hallowed grounds of the Irish Film Institute.
Oct 23th-27th 2025
Tickets at https://ifi.ie/horrorthon/ or in person from the IFI Box Office.
Sarah Wride @srwride.bsky.social Historian of culture & ideas | hows, whys, & effects of writing & making c18th+ | now: political activism's role in framing practice; ethics of reimagining historical homicides | @york.ac.uk, @ihr.bsky.social, & in the wild | shop window 👉 sarahwride.co.uk
Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social post45 poetry, small press publishing, print culture, history of arts funding | Faculty in English @ U of Iowa | co-director of @nysnetwork.bsky.social | editor of books w/ Fonograf, City Lights, & Nightboat | book with Columbia UP | nicksturm.com
WILDsound Feedback Festival @wildsoundfestival.bsky.social Telling stories through film and conversation. WILDsound showcases the best of new films & screenplays from around the world in a daily film festival.
www.wildsound.ca
https://filmfreeway.com/WILDsoundFilmandWritingFestival
@cultauthor.bsky.social @cultauthor.bsky.social 
Eilís Smyth @eilissmyth.bsky.social W.B. Yeats Fellow in Irish Literature @ The Keough-Naughton Institute, Notre Dame | Writing about the politics of performing Shakespeare at Dublin’s Theatre Royal, Smock Alley in 17c-18c and all things Smock Alley promptbooks
@janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social 
Georgina Laragy @geolug.bsky.social Historian @Trinity College Dublin and Dublin Cemeteries Trust / Glasnevin Cemetery since 2015. Researching 19th and 20th century Irish history especially death, burial and poverty. Also Public History
Lorna Carson @lornacarson.bsky.social Applied linguist, Dublin. Likes to be busy & likes doing nothing in equal measures.
Alexandra Day @alexandradays.bsky.social Provost's Award PhD researcher in Trinity College Dublin - interested in early Soviet politics, international law, and political trials.
VOICES OF WOMEN IN EARLY MODERN IRELAND @voicestcd.bsky.social ERC Advanced Grant Project at Trinity College Dublin
PI Jane Ohlmeyer. Harnessing #knowledgegraph, #semanticweb and #AI technologies to tell the hidden stories of women in #earlymodern Ireland voicesproject.ie
Clare Moriarty @quiteclare.bsky.social History and Philosophy of Maths and Science, and philosophy of parenthood. Mariah-Carey/Denis-Irwin-admirer. UCD Philosophy & National Library of Ireland
-she- 🏊♀️
Ramblings &c. : claremoriarty.com
Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social Associate Professor of eighteenth century Irish History, co- director Trinity Colonial Legacies Project. All views my own and not of those my employer.
Ciarán Wallace @cwallacedublin.bsky.social Historian of Urban 19-20th c. Ireland/UK.
Director @VirtualTreasury
Views are all my own.
Peter Crooks @petercrooks.bsky.social Medieval Historian, Trinity College Dublin (@historytcd.bsky.social) | Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland (@virtualtreasury.bsky.social) | Member IMC (@irishmanuscripts.bsky.social) |Lapsed violist 𝄡 |
Digging sentences, in archives, in gardens.
Caitlin White @caitwhite.bsky.social Irish Public Historian ▪︎ Feminist ▪︎ Book enthusiast ▪︎ Interested in monuments, memory, democracy & education ▪︎ Research Fellow at Trinity College, Dublin ▪︎ Living in a castle ▪︎
Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies at TCD @langslitscultures.bsky.social Celebrating 250 years of Modern Languages (1776-2026)
Events programme: https://www.tcd.ie/langs-lits-cultures/languages-250/
#Languages250
TCD Social Sciences & Philosophy @tcdschoolssp.bsky.social Trinity College Dublin's 3rd largest School • @tcdeconomics.bsky.social • @tcdphilosophy.bsky.social • @tcdpoliticalsci.bsky.social • @tcdsociology.bsky.social • @cephie.bsky.social • @conflictresearch.bsky.social • @trisstcd.bsky.social
- L Lorcan McEvoy @lmcevoy.bsky.social PhD in History from @tcddublin | Historian in Residence for Children @DCCCC | History Lead @museumofchildhood | humanitarianism, childhood, migration, postwar Europe
John Shirley @johnshirley2024.bsky.social Writer of books, scripts, lyrics. Bram Stoker Award for Black Butterflies; Spur Award for Gunmetal Mountain. Newest sf novels: SubOrbital 7, Stormland. New novel: The Silver Revolver. Writer: The Crow. Deep Space 9 et al. Science! https://john-shirley.com
Kevin Corstorphine @drkevcorstorphine.bsky.social Lecturer in English. Gothic, horror, weird.
Dr. Chase A. Thompson @chaseathompson.bsky.social Podcaster, Historian, Writer, living in Salinas, California. Check out the Interesting Pod: https://pod.link/1826088946. Doctoral degree in counseling, pursuing a history PhD. I love hiking, mystery reading, & eating cereal in perilously unhealthy volumes.
Charlotte Goodge @charlottegoodge.bsky.social “Data Travels” Postdoc @UCC 🧳 2025-26 Visiting ECR Fellow @thejohnrylands 📚 Researching women writers, travel and ecologies of the labouring class c.1750-1850 🍃 Long-standing interest in the intersectionality of fatness “pre BMI” 💊
𝕰𝔦𝖑𝔢𝖊𝔫 𝔐. 𝕳𝔲𝖓𝔱 @eileenmhunt.bsky.social 𝔐𝖎𝔩𝖉-𝖒𝔞𝖓𝔫𝖊𝔯𝖊𝔡 𝔭𝖔𝔩𝖎𝔱𝖎𝔠𝖆𝔩 𝔱𝖍𝔢𝖔𝔯𝖎𝔰𝖙 𝖆𝔫𝖉 𝖋𝔬𝖗𝔪𝖊𝔯 𝔞𝖙𝔥𝖑𝔢𝖙𝔢 𝔬𝖋 𝖘𝔬𝖒𝔢 𝔯𝖊𝔫𝖔𝔴𝖓.
2024-27 NEH Scholarly Editions project leader—Creating an integrated standard edition of #Wollstonecraft’s ‘Rights of Men’ and ‘Rights of Woman’ for OUP.
Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com Welcoming media and government (and everyone else!) to Bluesky.
Formerly of The Atlantic, Boston Review.
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Elizabeth Fraser @elizabethfr.bsky.social Assistant Commissioning Editor for
Literary Studies, Edinburgh University Press
Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social Performer, writer, speechifier, pub landlady, gender discombobulist
National Fucking Treasure
Ireland
Agent: Aoife Rice : pantibliss@gmail.com