VampiresandtheVapors @vampiresandthevapors.com The Dark side of Paranormal Women's Fiction
Folk 'n' Hell @folknhell.bsky.social Three chums, one microphone, and a whole world of folk horror. The Folk n Hell podcast unearths delights from around the world and tries to agree if they're worth our (and your) time.
www.folknhell.com or wherever you get your podcasts
Folkloring Podcast @folkloringpodcast.bsky.social Welcome to 'Folkloring,' the podcast that invites you to actively engage with practical folklore in your daily life. Created by writer and folklore researcher Tracy Nicholas Find us online at: https://folkloringlife.com/ #folklore
Natalie Hopwood @nrhopwood.bsky.social Medievalist and Comics Historian
PhD Candidate working on an intertextual analysis of monster encounters with dragons, dwarfs, and the undead in Old Norse fantastical sagas at the University of Leeds
Hags & Hares @hagsandhares.bsky.social “You should never eat a hare in case it’s your grandmother.”
Irish folklore, customs & traditions for modern life.
Hags & Hares UG | Berlin
http://hagsandhares.com
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
Aqsa @aqsa-eram.bsky.social Researcher, Gothic
Juliana Finch @writeplayrepeat.bsky.social singer/songwriter, concert host, and drink slinger. HIS, REL, and folklore nerd. adoptee. dual citizen 🇮🇹. she/her. 🌈
ATL>AVL> Bull City.
I am writing you love notes.
https://bio.site/julianafinch
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
Mikki Brock @mikkibrock.bsky.social historian of religion, the supernatural, & gender in early modern Scotland | professor | views mine | she/her.
NSM Archaeology @nsmarchaeology.bsky.social A behind-the-scenes perspective on the Nova Scotia Museum’s Archaeology Collection – news, curious artifacts, and more.
Christian Nikolaus Opitz @poetereyetcetera.bsky.social Kunst, Literatur, alte Friedhöfe, so Sachen halt ...
Meistens Wien, manchmal Burgenland, manchmal London
Dr Sarah Wingrove @sazwingrove.bsky.social ECR @ Surrey Literature & Languages and Sociology, and freelance technical editor.
Queer pilgrimage practices, lesbian histories and their legacies. www.sarahwingrove.com
she/her 🏳️🌈
Banner courtesy of West Yorkshire Archive Service, SH:7/ML/E/26/1/003
Kate Louise Mathis @drmaudbailey.bsky.social Scottish European | #GreenYes | Academic | Lace knitter | Concrete enthusiast | Gaelic women's poetry | Celtic/Gaelic Revivals | Still acknowledging ongoing pandemic (She/her)
amy mcveigh @amymcveigh.bsky.social archive photographer by day, spooky lady by night
budding novelist and gothicist specialising in witches and folklore in Romantic literature
✨she/her✨
Ros Ballaster @ballasterros.bsky.social LitProf University of Oxford. Loves long serial fiction in all its forms.
Dr Georgia Toumara @georgiatoumara.bsky.social Early career researcher • PhD in English lit @UofGlasgow • Byronic legacy• C19th- early 20th travel literature • Gothic seascapes and blue humanities 🌊 • Classical reception and mythology 🏛️
Iman Sheeha (she/her) @drsheeha.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature at Brunel University of London
Andrew Screen @andrewscreenbskys.bsky.social Author of The Book of Beasts: Folklore, Popular Culture & Nigel Kneale's ATV Horror Series (Headpress 2023). SEN work by day. Words for Fortean Times, We Are Cult among others.
David Ibitson @arry-k-arry.bsky.social 'His office hours are poorly attended, because he teaches it right the first time.'
Folk Horror Revival 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social "Speak now, come now, rise now from the forest, from the furrows, from the field and live"
https://folkhorrorrevival.com/
#FolkloreAgainstFascism
No AI 🚫🤖
Posts by Richard Hing, views my own
Lauren Raye Snow @laurenrayesnow.bsky.social Artist. Maker of Graven Images.
World Fantasy & Chesley Award Finalist.
Website: http://rayedraws.com
IG: http://instagram.com/laurenrayesnow
Maebh Long @maebhlong.bsky.social Eamon Cleary Chair of Irish Studies, U. Otago | President International Flann O’Brien Society & ISAANZ | PI Marsden Project ‘Modern Immunity’ | co-author w/ Matthew Hayward of The Rise of Pacific Literature: Decolonisation, Radical Campuses and Modernism
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
🌍 Now shipping worldwide from
www.helleborezine.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
Brian Eno News @dark-shark.bsky.social Brian Eno news, updates + related articles from the archives of More Dark Than Shark
https://www.moredarkthanshark.org
FOLKLORIST DALVA LAMMINMÄKI @dalvalamminmaki.bsky.social FOLKLORIST |SAUNA CULTURE🍃
PhD RESEARCHER @uniuef
🧹FOLK healing, rituals, magic&mythology
🎓Väitöskirjatutkija/Saunakulttuuri
📧 Contact lamminmakidalva@gmail.com
WikiVictorian @wikivictorian.bsky.social Sharing random stuff from 1800 to 1920s: fashion, stories, art, and a compilation of faces and cultures that coexisted then ✨
Liv @livlingborn.bsky.social A coven of three - me, myself and I.
Posts in English and Swedish.
Artist, book lover, cat slave - with a fondness for vintage horror, gothic literature and folklore. 
Liz Gotauco @cosbrarian.bsky.social Author, Librarian, & storyteller. READ MY DEBUT BOOK F*cked Up Fairy Tales from WW Norton! Recovering TikTokker. Rhode Islander. Filipina. Headshot by Brittanny Taylor.
Dr Cat Conway @demoisellechaton.bsky.social ORD-LHR. 🇺🇸🇬🇧 PhD. Immigrant. Poet (Broken Sleep Books), journalista (The i Paper, Guardian, The Sun), spooky scholar.🦇 Mean bihexual. Cis. 🏳️🌈🫶🏻🏳️⚧️ ND parent.🩼 UK Labour; Hillary/Kamala Dem. 🇪🇺Forever European.
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.
Korra Saqqara (Christa Angelios) @metamythica.bsky.social 💀 Studying the Gothic at MMU
📖 Literary Coach & Freelance Editor, MetaMythica Literary
🐧 Former Random Penguin; Columbia Publishing Course alum
Member: EFA, ACES, PEN
She/Her
#SWANAinPublishing #AmWriting #AmEditing #Folklore #Horror #SFF 👻
Opinions my own
Özge Lena @lenaozge.bsky.social Internationally published poet | Oxford Climate Society | Catapoetics | Catastrocene | LENORA
www.ozgelena.com & www.lenoralatin.org
Julia @chiaroscuro1897.bsky.social Poet | Writer | Freelance Art Historian
UK https://juliabiggs1.wixsite.com/juliabiggs
Pamphlet available from Salò Press: https://www.salopress.com/store/nasty-objects-julia-biggs/
Pauline Briand @petrichoeur.bsky.social Journaliste spécialisée en écologie et autrice. Le Loup de Valberg, mon premier livre, se trouve aux Éditions Goutte d'Or.
https://editionsgouttedor.com/catalogue/le-loup-de-valberg/
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
Sandie Mills @drsandramills.bsky.social Digital analyst | Gothicist | PhD on dolls & horror |
Dr Claire Collins @medpreg.bsky.social Medievalist: pregnancy & childbirth / social history / medicine / magic / folklore | Work: @folkloresociety.bsky.social & @uniofreading.bsky.social | She/they |
Huck Kahng @huckwrites.bsky.social Fantasy Writer ✍️
Mythology & History Enthusiast 🐉
Exploring Korean Legends 🇰🇷
Living in Canada 🇨🇦
SFWA member
Huckkahng.substack.com/about
Dr. Shauna Louise Caffrey @witchstorian.bsky.social Cultural Historian & Musicologist |
PhD in Witchcraft, Music & Magic |
Bog Thing & Forest Wanderer | Gothic & Horror Enthusiast
🇮🇪🇵🇸🏳️🌈
Drs. Mark Beumer @markbeumer.bsky.social Historian of Medicine | PhD-Candidate Charles University, First Faculty of Medicine, Institute for History of Medicine and Foreign Languages | Voorzitter @medhistoddemoulin.bsky.social | Directeur @kleiohistoria.bsky.social
Gareth Evans @garethhevans.bsky.social Writer on the rich area of plants, medicine and poets.
"Unrivalled knowledge of the medical botany of Keats's time."
On a long wandering within an alarming post-Covid body.
Website: www.garethhevans.com
Kerria @kerria.bsky.social Mystery and Folklore. TBA: Folkish Podcast. KerriaSeabrooke.com Host: #BookChatWeekly & #BookologyThursday #SCBWI #SINC @bookcat.bsky.social
The Folklore Society @folkloresociety.bsky.social Based in London, The Folklore Society has been collecting, studying, publishing and promoting the study of folklore in all its forms since 1878. Visit our website: https://folklore-society.com
Dr Ami Nisa @ami-n.bsky.social Autism researcher at Swansea University | PhD in found-footage horror film
Dr ShinyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social A Shiny Goth! Literary and horny. English PhD in Dallas. The Gothic, Victorians, Feminism, Foucault.
The Shropshire Witches Podcast 🦇 @shropwitchespod.bsky.social History, witches, folklore, hauntings, and all things superstitious, Shropshire and beyond 🔮
Alix Chidley-Uttley and Amy Boucher. 🐸🐈⬛🦇
Dale Townshend @dalegothic96.bsky.social Professor of Gothic literature mainly posting about books, cake, horses and my cat Dickens.
Wyatt Bonikowski @wbonikowski.bsky.social Suffolk U. English prof. Book: Shell Shock and the Modernist Imagination. Essays on Shirley Jackson, fairy tales, psychoanalysis. Fiction writer.
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)
tori @toridoki.bsky.social class & literature | deputy editor @logicallyfacts.com | views my own | neurodivergent
Jon Stone @shotscarecrow.bsky.social Undercover skeleton. 💀 Writer/researcher/lecturer. Ludokinetic/interactive poetry 🃏, collaborative and amalgamatic writing. Editor at @SidekickBooks. 📚 He/him.
www.gojonstonego.com
Matthew Thompson @drmatthewthompson.bsky.social Academic. PhD on historical reconstructions of the Whitechapel Murders. Writes about toxic masculinity, Neo-Victorianism and historical reconstruction. Currently researching the vampire in interactive media. He/Him
Laura @lleigha.bsky.social Illegitimi non carborundum
University of Wales Press @uniwalespress.bsky.social Publishing Wales and the World since 1922. 🏴 📚 Cymraeg:
@gwasgprifcymru.bsky.social
🔗 www.uwp.co.uk
Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com Historian of storytellers.
18th century to today & beyond.
J.W.Liles Prof of English
Words: Polygon (RIP), LARB, etc
Next book: THE ACTUAL HISTORY OF ACTUAL PLAY (MIT)
(#TTRPG digital storytelling performance)
(free) patreon.com/ecfriedman
Dr Jodie Marley 🔮 @jodielmarley.bsky.social William Blake's Mysticism, Palgrave • Scottish Romanticism • Incoming 2026-7 VRF, Durham University • 2025 VRF, University of Glasgow • Gender, Spirituality & Prophecy • she/her • email: jodie.l.marley@gmail.com
G. H. Finn @ghfinn.bsky.social Author (Fiction & Nonfiction). Writes "Curious Forgotten Lore" https://bsky.app/profile/curious-lore.bsky.social & a mythmash of speculative fiction. Tweets on #Folklore, #Forteana & All Things #Wyrd & Wunderful
Wendy Fall @wendyfall.bsky.social PhD in 19th C gothic fiction. She/her. Displaced scholar working full-time in state government (public health). Theater and music performer. Adjunct professor. Ally.
𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 | The Tower, The Moon, The Gun 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸 @horrorculturist.bsky.social Gothic gardening, goblincore, dark art, horror, weird music. 🌿🍁🍂🎃
Agnostic atheist. Nyctophile. AuDHD. Demi-Pan. They/them. | Contrary to internet lore, I am not lost, sorrowful, despairing, trapped, drowning, falling, or stuck in a maze. (You OK?)
Talk About Satire @talkaboutsatire.bsky.social Home of Smith & Waugh Talk About Satire, the internet's No. 2 favourite ongoing monthly podcast involving the idea of satire (Feedspot, 2025).
Listen: https://t.co/Dwf8Yo79F3
Rebecca Stone Gordon @meanlouise.bsky.social Coffee enthusiast. Gothic & eco-horror, Biocultural archaeology (mummies), Nuclear & Cold War culture. Audio stuff. Probably knitting.
Header: a S central FL swamp. trees, reflections in water, mist
Also @excavatinghorror.com
Not weird at all
Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social Celtic Revivals and Imperial Cultures. Research Fellow at University of Wales (CAWCS) on C18th/19th travel in Wales, Scotland, and India. Cymrawd Oddi Cartref
Book: 'Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain' (2025), Francis Jones Prize Winner
He/They/Fo/Nhw
David Evans-Powell @davidep82.bsky.social Theatre, horror, Doctor Who, Eurovision, history, arts, old British TV and film. Loves the kitsch and the weird. Mini schnauzer dad 🏳️🌈 Trans rights are human rights.
Co-host of Rambling Through Eternity:
https://shorturl.at/S5Iuw
Insta: @davidevanspowell
Grail Seeker @grailseeker.bsky.social Recumbent tri(c)k(st)er. Interests: myth, legend, folklore, symbolism, spirit of place, hauntology, psychogeography, environmental art, ecospirituality, apophenia, weirdness, forteana, metaphysics, mythopoeia, neurodivergence.
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
Dr Emma Probett @emmaprobett.bsky.social PhD in Victorian Studies. Currently writing a book about Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, and the novel of manners. They/Them
linktr.ee/emmaprobett
centrevictorian.bsky.social @centrevictorian.bsky.social The UK's oldest Centre for Victorian Studies based at the University of Leicester. Follow to stay up to date with the community!
Our next event: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/cssahevents/1581232
Find us: linktr.ee/centreforvictorianstudies
Nicole C. Dittmer @pennystressful.bsky.social Advisory board @ ETAP,penny bloods & dime novels, werewolves, global witches, ecoGothic, early-to-mid-Victorian Gothic, horror, ‘monstrous’ women, PhD from MMU, Salem, mind-body monism, biological and neurological studies.
www.nicoledittmer.com
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/ 
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.
Dr Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social Chief Reviews Editor, Journal for 18th-Century Studies (JECS).
Interests: #18C Print Culture, esp Satire & Periodicals.
Podcast: http://anchor.fm/satire-no-more (@talkaboutsatire.bsky.com)
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
Simon Bacon @baconetti.bsky.social Author, film critic, and editor of all things Gothicky.
Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social Hopeless Romanticist, childless cat dad, and coffee addict (he/him)
Solving real word problems
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/
Alex Goody @alex-goody.bsky.social Academic, killjoy feminist, dog owner, mum to neurodivergent kids; working in modernist studies, sf and speculative fiction, technology studies, poetry
Anise, Occult P.I., Stakin' the Forsaken @twigbelly.bsky.social Now that I'm undead, I have a life / Somehow Writing and Liveblogging It, Everyday / Somehow Also Liveblogging All of Dark Shadows, Not Every Day / Cult Film / Mouthy Jerk Rescue Aid Society / Gigarageous / She/Her / 🔞 / 🏳️🌈 / AO3 @ SentinelSaber
Dr Laura Eastlake @victorianmasc.bsky.social James Murray Beattie Lecturer in Victorian Lit | University of Glasgow | Co-founder @EHUNineteen.bsky.social Research Centre | #Classics | #Gothic lit | Author: Ancient Rome & Victorian Masculinity (OUP, 2019). FRHistS. She/her. #c19th
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)
Douglas Small @drdouglassmall.bsky.social Drug Historian. Author of ‘Cocaine, Literature, and Culture, 1876-1930’. Histories of Victorian medicine & science. #c19th #medhums
he/him 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Website: https://douglassmall.com
Catherine Spooner @catherinespooner.bsky.social Academic and creative writer | Professor of Literature and Culture, Lancaster University | all things Gothic | fashion | folk horror | she/her
Paul Watson @lazaruscorporation.co.uk Artist | Hastings, UK | He/him | Grand Council of #Hookland | https://www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/
Henry Bartholomew @henrybartholomew.bsky.social Teacher, scholar, editor; PhD, FHEA; Academic Skills Lecturer at GBS. Interested in the Gothic, the weird, ghost stories, objects, Speculative Realism, Algernon Blackwood 🌲 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Henry-Bartholomew
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🌛
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
Jane Ford @janeford.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English Studies, Teesside University. Interests: fin-de-siecle literature; women’s writing; socialist writing and print culture; the Gothic; literary representations of insects.
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
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 🦇
Dr Evelyn Koch @evelynkoch.bsky.social Early modern/19th-cent. English literature, science and literature, landscape in literature, fantasy, horror and weird fiction.
Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social Nonfiction about weird fiction at Seize the Press, Strange Horizons, Interzone, Los Angeles Review of Books, Nightmare, and Ancillary Review of Books, where I am also an editor. Also jazz, metal, leftism. he/him
https://doomsdayer.wordpress.com/writings/
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
Ruth-Anne @handle.invalid Gothic, Ecology and Theology in 19th century literature
AHRC-funded PhD Candidate at Warwick University
She/They 📚🏳️🌈🐶
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.
What is life without Books?! @wherearethebooks.bsky.social Promoting #OpenScience practises (in the Arab States) & #LordByron (everywhere else). Ravenous bibliophage lurking in the desert (with cats)
Chief Academic Officer, Knowledge E | Director, The Byron Society | Director, Forum for Open Research | BARS Exec
Dr Bill Hughes (William the Bloody) @billbloodyhughes.bsky.social Cat lover. 18C scholar on the dialogue and novel. Gothic fairies, vampires and paranormal romance; co-organiser Open Graves, Open Minds Project @ogomproject.bsky.social
https://hcommons.org/members/billhughes/
www.opengravesopenminds.com