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LC von Hessen 𓆙 💀 @lcvonhessen.bsky.social Writer of horror, weird fiction, and assorted unpleasantness. Performer/artist/creep. History nerd. Cat person. They/them. 🔞 Anti-genAI.
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Skin Head Wig @skinheadwig.bsky.social Rubber hat for bald head make?
Bowel loosening low end, recalling the glory days of Slam-A-Ham Records. sometimes a sketch comedian.
Tadd Adcox @inauthenticity.bsky.social work in X-R-A-Y, 3:AM, Granta, n+1, forthcoming in Iowa Review // website jamestaddadcox.com, editor @alwayscrashing.bsky.social // ENNIE award winner, apparently? https://store.possibleworldsgames.com/product/tacklebox
S.D. Stewart @sd-stewart.bsky.social Flying the flag of futility
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Victor Sweetser @vsweetser.bsky.social "Occupant" with New Line Cinema. Fiction in Saturday Mourning Television, Carnival of Terror, ergot., LampLight, and on Patreon. Anti AI.
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Douglas Hackle @douglashackle.bsky.social Author of Zoltergeist the Poltergeist, TERROR MANNEQUIN, The Ballad of TERROR TINY TIM, Clown Tear Junkies, and other bizarre books.
Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social Anti-Zionist Free Palestine Ukraine Solidarity Anti-Racist Anti-Carceral Abolitionist Anti-Genocide Anti-Colonial Anti-War Anti-Imperialist Intersectional Feminist Queer LGBTQI+ Green Eco-Socialist People Planet Peace Interfaith Seeker of Beloved Community
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Not that one, the other one @theotherjustin.bsky.social I was born near one body of water.
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Richard Thomas @richardthomas.bsky.social Writer, editor, teacher, publisher. Bram Stoker, Shirley Jackson, Thriller Award finalist. Best Horror 11 & 17. he/him
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(This account is one big TW for self-harm, gender dysphoria, and mental illness)
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Mark Bouchard @barkmouchard.bsky.social they/them. i write comics. THE ARRANGEMENT, IT TOOK LUKE, BUSINESS AS USUAL. Sonic the Hedgehog. tiny dog mom. hardcore punk & horror. lawyer. views my own. // mark @ bouchards . net // rep: Maeve MacLysaght @ Aevitas Creative //
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Yri H @yrioona.bsky.social (like 'eerie') 36, she/ze
trill symbiont and SF writer (strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fiction/nights-and-weekends-in-the-shoggoth-loop/)
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Lucy A. Snyder @lucyasnyder.bsky.social SISTER, MAIDEN, MONSTER (Tor Nightfire, Titan). 5 Bram Stoker Awards. Shirley Jackson finalist. Work in Strange Horizons, Nightmare, Asimov's, Pseudopod, etc. Clarion grad. 🏳️🌈
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Hilton Ariel Ruiz @hiltonarielruiz.bsky.social Filmmaker behind The Amityville Lost Tape & Zombie with a Shotgun - @zombiewithashotgun.bsky.social
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Rick Claypool @rickclaypool.bsky.social writing weird sad stories, foraging wild fungi, researching terrible things corporations do
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M. Lopes da Silva @mlopesdasilva.bsky.social Nonbinary trans masc + bisexual author. Artist. Poet. Critic. I write California horror and everything else. Polyam Fool/Magician (They/He)
Joshua Chaplinsky @jchaplinsky.bsky.social Author of 'Letters to the Purple Satin Killer', 'The Paradox Twins' & 'Kanye West—Reanimator.' LitReactor Managing Editor (2011-2023).
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fia deerwasp @deerwasp.bsky.social fia, they/theirs, white
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Samuel M. Moss @perfidiousscript.bsky.social Novel: 'The Veldt Institute' (Double--Negative, 2025) https://asterismbooks.com/product/the-veldt-institute-samuel-m-moss
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Caleb Bethea (they/them) @calebbethea.bsky.social Author of DISCO MURDER CITY and Fever Clowns | Dirty South Enby Punk | No AI
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D. Matthew Urban @breathinghead.bsky.social weird fiction person • TX → NY • stories here and there • SHAKY PICTURES OF VANISHED FACES out now from Cursed Morsels Press! • he/him • https://dmatthewurban.com
Jeremy Robert Johnson @jrjisprobable.bsky.social THE LOOP, ENTROPY IN BLOOM, IN THE RIVER, SKULLCRACK CITY, ALL THE WRONG IDEAS
Repped by Mollie Glick (Literary) and Jon Cassir (Book-to-Film) at CAA.
S.P. Miskowski @spmiskowski.bsky.social writer (she/her)
Danielle Svetcov, LGR Literary Agency
Jan Stinchcomb @janstinchcomb.bsky.social Author of Verushka (JournalStone), The Blood Trail (Red Bird Chapbooks) & stories in many places (Gamut, Bourbon Penn, Tales to Terrify, Wigleaf, hex, etc.)
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Dim Shores @dimshores.bsky.social Micropress publisher of weird fiction. Cat enthusiast. Abyss gazer, void screamer. No ICE, no KKK, no fascist USA. Also no AI. Trans rights are human rights. Billionaires should not exist. He/him. dimshores.com
Keith Rosson @keithrosson.bsky.social Writer, arteest, blindish, kinda punk. Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award. FEVER HOUSE, THE DEVIL BY NAME, COFFIN MOON, more. CRONE coming 9/26. Repped by Chad Luibl, Janklow & Nesbit. CLOSED FOR BLURBS, SORRY.
Michael Tichy @emptywrites.bsky.social “Writing is a marathon you’re allowed to get drunk during” - Kurosawa
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A.C. Wise @acwise.bsky.social Author and reviewer. Stoker and Sunburst Award winner. Nebula, World Fantasy, Stoker, Locus, Shirley Jackson, British Fantasy, Lamba, and Ignyte finalist. She/her. www.acwise.net. https://linktr.ee/acwise
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Craig Clevenger @craigclevenger.bsky.social Writer. Library staffer. I do all my own stunts. "The Contortionist's Handbook" and "Mother Howl" from Datura Books.
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Rebecca Summerling (she/her) @rlsummerling.bsky.social Writer and reader of the strange.
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Seán Padraic Birnie @seanbirnie.bsky.social seanbirnie.com
https://undertowpublications.com/shop/i-would-haunt-you-if-i-could
Short stories in ergot, Weird Horror, Interzone, Remains & elsewhere
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Odin Meadows @odinmeadows.bsky.social author of weird horror and strange speculative fiction (and poetry). odinmeadows.com
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Elizabeth Baines @elizabethbaines.bsky.social Writer of short stories, novels, plays.
http://www.elizabethbaines.co.uk
Latest publication: Five Different Stories About One Thing (Confingo). https://www.confingopublishing.uk/product-page/five-different-stories-about-one-thing-by-elizabeth-baines
Mick Manhattan 'The Scene Snob' @thescenesnobs.bsky.social Roads?! Where we're going, we don't need roads.
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