Richard Cooper @richardhcooper.bsky.social Reads, writes, watches, gets increasingly leftwing as he gets older. I live in Battle, East Sussex. I’m 42. I try & write essays (on literature, film, TV drama, TV comedy) for my blog. I’m on the Spectrum. I have an MA. Socialism or barbarism.
Selin Gerlek @gerlex.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Technology and Politics, Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam #digital_citizenship@uva #empirical_ethics@ias #shapinginterfacesbetweenscienceandthepublic@uva
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Will Maclean @willmac23.bsky.social Writer. New novel, Solace House, out NOW (UK) from Atlantic Books. Also responsible for The Apparition Phase, the comedy/drama High Strangeness, and co-writer/presenter of the podcast Broken Veil.
Dr David Clarke @davidwclarke.bsky.social Folklorist and Journalist. Associate Professor, Sheffield Hallam University. Project lead, AHRC National Folklore Survey. Views expressed entirely my own. http://www.drdavidclarke.co.uk/
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Edinburgh Fortean Society @edinburghforteansociety.org.uk Oldest Fortean Society in Scotland.
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Philolithia@bsky.social @philolithia.bsky.social Prehistoric landscapes, skyscapes, cosmology, folklore & nature. Meirionnydd #StandingStones PhD researcher Bournemouth Uni. Cymraes dw i. (She/they).
The Folklore Library & Archive @folklorelibrary.bsky.social Registered Charity No: 1203418. Patrons: Michael Rosen, Joanne Harris.
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GREEN LUNG @greenlungband.bsky.social 𝔉𝔬𝔩𝔨𝔩𝔬𝔯𝔢, ℜ𝔦𝔣𝔣𝔰 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔏𝔢𝔤𝔢𝔫𝔡𝔰 𝔬𝔣 𝔅𝔯𝔦𝔱𝔞𝔦𝔫 👹
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Lunatraktors @lunatraktors.bsky.social Broken folk experimentalists. If you're into weird folk music with drums and drones you might like this: https://lunatraktors.bandcamp.com/
Geology Disco @geologydisco.bsky.social Music creator. Lover of folklore, horror, stones, occult, obscure.
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Gabe Moshenska @gabemoshenska.bsky.social I want Ken Railings to walk in here right now and say 'Pam Shortt's broken both her legs and I wanna dance with you’
Aly Fell @alyfell.bsky.social Drawerer. Cat. Ex Danger Mouse/Duckula animator. Graphic Novs: The Shadow Glass. A Trick of the Light. The Kissing Gate. Likes: Magick and spooks. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/DARKRISING
Ram Gulrajani Author 📚 @rockape65.bsky.social From suspense to soul-stirring stories I writes them all Love the arts, writing, painting, strumming my guitar & generally being creative. From Gibraltar originally Website: https://t.co/8gSEmJ7TCu Team Site @iquitcigs.bsky.social
Alex (Sandy) Tomlinson @alexillustrator.bsky.social Reclusive Illustrator; previously - editorial (Fortean Times etc), mid career - storyboards, concept art. Now it looks like I'm working with my old film friends to make comics/OGN. Also now painting big canvases. Autistic. 🚫NoAI
Thomas Swales @thomasswales.bsky.social Increasingly bitter disappointment. Makes up stories
John D'Alex Seodah @seodah.bsky.social Electronic doom disco dub.
Dr Jennie 🐝 (she/her) @jenruthbailey.bsky.social #HEinFE library lass, writer, wanderer, story slinger, benign menace to society. Refuse to outsource my intellect to generative AI.
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Jeff Evans @jeffevanswriter.bsky.social Beer, television, music, quizzing, not necessarily in that order. Author: The Penguin TV Companion, Rock & Pop on British TV (new edition September 2026), numerous books on beer; former editor of the Good Beer Guide; question writer for Mastermind.
The Cricklet Almanack @cricklet.live Simulated cricket under the watchful eye of the Wicker Man. Stats, folklore, occurrences. Follow live here: https://cricklet.live/
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Mostly Confused Intelligence @mostly-confuzed.bsky.social I have questions about all of you.
Charlie Creed @charliecreed.bsky.social Writer from Bristol. Author of The Cat's Tales (@eandtbooks.bsky.social), and The Faery Rules: Forgotten Folklore for Living in Harmony with the Fae (Verbena Books)
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mona @monadreth.bsky.social Storyteller drawn to beauty and the wretched
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DreamSwarm @dreamswarm.bsky.social Hub and Podcast for Film, Stories, Art: Fantasy, Folklore, Folk Horror, Magic-Realism, Mythology, Psychogeography
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Marcus Baw @marcusbaw.com NHS General Hacktitioner GP, NHS IT, Software Dev
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Baz To The Bone @baztothebonecast.bsky.social Horror and cult film podcast with Baz Bishop. Deep dives, dark humor, and bad taste done properly. The kind of show your mother warned you about. Check it out at beacons.ai/baztothebonecast
Martin Fischer @archiveofunread.bsky.social I write short stories that explore the space between memory and myth: quiet, eerie and unsettling fiction that lingers in the mind like fog after nightfall.
The Archive of the Unread:
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Jacob Miller @jacobmiller26.bsky.social Writer and Academic. Hauntology, Marxist lit crit, world-ecology, and folk horror. Uni of York and UCD alumni.
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Website: https://endoftheline2026.wordpress.com/
Emo Philips @emophilips.bsky.social “Hilarious” — Eric Idle
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Jim MacMillan (he/him) @jimmacmillan.com Journalist, educator and social innovator. 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 🇮🇪
All In The Telling - The Ghost Story Network @allinthetelling.bsky.social Shining a lantern on the finest ghost story performers.
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Helga @helganr.bsky.social 💻 Psychological Thriller / Mystery / Horror Writer
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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
Xavier Aldana Reyes @xaldanareyes.bsky.social Reader in English Literature and Film •
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J. C. Jones @thejcjones.bsky.social Author of the best selling Louisa Moss detective series.
Ex-nightclub boss and, due to carelessness, owner of only half a lung.
Poems and Limericks daily.
Based in Hereford, UK.
Magnus Watt @magnuswatt.bsky.social Urban fantasy author from the Scottish Highlands, now in Boro
Soon Enough: A Thin Places Novel and
Stories about folklore, belonging, and things that live in the dark
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Finbarre Snarey @finbarre.com Arts and culture journalist. Host of Tarot Interviews and Tarot DMs. Founder of the British Tarot Archive. Likes people with a sense of wonder. Featured in The Guardian, Real Simple, Homes & Gardens & Daily Mirror.
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Manville Media llc @manvillemedia.bsky.social Creative development and producing for tv | film | streaming
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WriteStats @writestats.bsky.social Data-Driven Insights for Writers and Publishers.
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Your Story Match @dreamverseland.com Helping stories meet the readers they’re meant for.
A calm discovery space for authors who value alignment over noise.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social Chief Executive, The British Academy
Chair, Our World in Data
Board, National Audit Office
Visiting Professor in Practice, LSE
Visiting Professor, Kings College London
Fellow, Birkbeck College
Views my own
Jes Trudel 🇨🇦 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ @jestrudel.bsky.social Literary agent with The Rights Factory. Founder of WritingCommunity.ca. CLOSED TO QUERIES.
Tracy Spottiswoode @tracyfilmwales.bsky.social #Writer #director, #VR maker, #script dev, #filmmaker #animator, pigeon-hole resistance fighter. Lover of #folklore #scifi & niche Welsh stuff
Working freelance @FfilmCymruWales #Cymraes she/hi
Will post in #Welsh #Cymraeg from time to time
Stephen Hicks @stephenrhicks.bsky.social Social work academic at University of Manchester, Morgan Centre https://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgan-centre/ and Creativity, Health & Wellbeing Lead for Creative Manchester https://www.creative.manchester.ac.uk 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
Joelle McTigue 📷 @joellemctigue.bsky.social Artist examining memory as unstable matter shaped by movement, repetition, access, power, and erasure. Madrid. joellemctigue.com
Constant Reader @stephenkingcast.bsky.social stephenkingcast.podbean.com
Hallucinophonics @hallucinophonics.com Hallucinophonics exist at the nexus of consciousness and sound—crafting immersive soundscapes that challenge the boundaries between reality and reverie. http://hallucinophonics.com
Alex Ekins @alexekins.bsky.social Artist + Climber + Instructor + Coach. Dirt + Rock + Wood. Patagonia Pro.
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Séamus Bellamy @seamusb.bsky.social Folklorist. Author of two books (with more on the way).
- Journalist. Folklorist. Author.
- Former senior editor, USA Today
- Took filthy lucre from The New York Times, Travel & Leisure, Pathos and The Globe & Mail.
Becky D @bexdou.bsky.social Knitter, writer, reader, tea drinker and lover of green. She/her.
James Kneale @jameskneale.bsky.social Cultural/historical geographer at ucl working on drink/temperance, insurance, literary geographies, sf/fantastic/horror, &c. He/him.
Author of Temperance Lives: Life Assurance, Drink and Medicine in Britain, 1840-1918 (Bloomsbury 2026)
Katherine Greenwood @drkatherinelucyg.bsky.social Lecturer in Publishing & Creative Industries at York St John University. Researches class in contemporary British literature and publishing. Ex-editor and festival organiser.
Shane D. Keene @mothfrenzy.bsky.social Elgin and Dwarf Stars nominated poet, musician, rock and roll maniac, podcaster, filterless pisser-offer. Producer and host of the Ink Heist podcast with co-host Rich Duncan. Coauthor of THE BALLAD OF MASON GOREY with Stephanie Ellis.
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Shona Ray @shonaraywrites.bsky.social Writer of gothic/horror/weird. Jericho Friday Night Live SL 2024. Thinker, wanderer, ex-anthropologist. London lawyer in my spare time. #amwriting #books #art #pwme
writerharrison @harrisonwriter.bsky.social 🍁 #Canadian - #Author - #Poet 🍁
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I try to write in ways that feed both the mind and soul. ♊ & #GenX #stationaryaddict
💫 Creator of imagined worlds 💫
Dark Talk @dark-talk.uk The official BlueSky account for the Dark Talk podcast.
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Patrick J Doody @patrickjdoody.bsky.social 4x Emmy Nom Show Runner - Editor - WGA Awards committee member - Actor Awards producer - AMPAS writer - 1997 Dadeland Mall Johnny Rockets Employee of The Year
Thomas Fayne @thomasfayne.com 
Amanda Mason @amandajanemason.bsky.social Writer. THE WAYWARD GIRLS (2019) THE HIDING PLACE (2021) THE DARK (October 2026)
Mik Duffy. @mikduffy.bsky.social Irish person. Filmmaker. Film Educator. Will explain the art and praxis of cinema for food.
He/Him Sé/é
Bob Fry @bobfry.bsky.social Overly fond of oolite, stars, folklore, photography, beetroot, fossils & other old things (& The Fall).
All photographs my own, unless stated or reposted. Not the light! Not the light!
IS IT BIN DAY?
Fraser Denholm @fraserdenholm.bsky.social Scottish Writer/Director
Quarterfinalist 2021 @goldenscriptnet, @screencrafting
Semi-finalist @FilmarkethubTV Pilot 2021
Currently doing an MLitt in Creative Writing at Strathclyde Uni.
www.fraserdenholm.com
Field System @field-system.bsky.social Gallery and shop in Ashburton, Devon, UK. Folk / esoteric / Dartmoor focused.
Thu - Mon, 10am - 5pm (Sun 10am - 4pm)
13 West St, Ashburton, TQ13 7DT
info@fieldsystem.co.uk
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Angeline Morrison @angelcakepie2.bsky.social Feral folk singer, lover of stone circles, ancestral voices, folk tales, the wyrd and the eerie.
“Imagine if Broadcast’s Trish Keenan had been kidnapped at birth by The Copper Family and raised on a diet of Angela Carter’s folk tales” (KLOFmag)
Orla Breslin @stitchlily.eurosky.social Designer/Maker/Organiser, a lot of humanities, and sometimes digital too. Sí/í she/her
Let's get the Occupied Terrorites Bill passed!! 🇵🇸🇱🇧
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Corca Dhuibhne, Ireland. 🇮🇪
Claribella @claribella.bsky.social Books. Cats. Tea. In no particular order. Not your Angel in the House.
Cyberflaneurs @cyberflaneurs.bsky.social 
Michael Egan @northernashes.bsky.social Writer of speculative fiction. Sunday Times Book of the Year, Carnegie Nominee.
Oliver Sharpe @sharpe-writing.bsky.social Author of LITTLE KINGDOMS, a fantasy for age 11+, find it now on Amazon.
I also post the AI Literary Zeitgeist daily and the Literary Beatdown every Saturday.
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E. D. Jones (he/him), author and weirdmaster of Write Sinister @sinister42.bsky.social Weird fiction, fantasy, and horror writer, and occasional dragon, living in interesting times. SFWA Associate member. https://writesinister.substack.com/
WoodPig Press @woodpigpress.bsky.social WoodPig Press is an independent micro-press specialising in speculative fiction and non-fiction. We are a loose collective of creative freelancers who share a belief that humans are more than machines, and there’s more to life than money.
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Matthew King @matthewkingart.bsky.social Artist & Author of Don't get Blood in my House books2read.com/matthewking
Likes Character Design, Gamedev, 90’s, Cooking, Sharpies, Beetles, Raccoons, Wrestling, The FGC, Baki, Capcom, Boardgames, DDR
dogyard @dogyardmag.com Just a mag chasin’ tales.
We accept all types of work from all (leashed) walks of life: poetry, fiction, essay, art, nonfiction, and more.
Read & Submit 👇
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Nazaret Ranea @nazaretranea.bsky.social Poet. Scotland’s Next Generation Young Makar. My debut collection, Nettles, is out now! 🇪🇸🏴
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@pkhit.bsky.social @pkhit.bsky.social Brains. Synths. Folk Horror. Comfort food. Sofas. Those sorts of things.
Phelim Kelly, London @phelimkellycom.bsky.social 😍: 🇪🇺 HowToEnjoy.eu
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Thirteen Bridges Review @thirteenbridges.bsky.social Thirteen Bridges Review is a Literary Arts Journal produced by the Department of English and Philosophy at Auburn University at Montgomery. Our mission is to publish work that is as exciting as it is groundbreaking.
https://www.thirteenbridgesreview.com
Paul Scott Canavan @paulscottcanavan.com 🏴 Creative director at GRIMOIRE
🌙 Making Pale Tides, the witch TTRPG
⚔️ Art for Silent Hill: Townfall, MTG, D&D, Black Library, Axis Animation (Destiny 2, Guild Wars 2), Disney etccc
🔗 https://linktr.ee/PaulScottCanavan
Iain @iainmspillane.com Comic books, Folk Horror, Kosmische/Krautrock and staying in.
Big breath....and I'm ace. That felt good getting it out in the open, tbh
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Sam Skelt @samskelt.bsky.social Anarchist | Journalist | Metalhead | Nerd
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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.
English Studies @englishstudies.bsky.social Peer-reviewed journal focusing on Literature, Language and Culture of English-speaking world, eight issues a year, founded in 1919, published by @tandfresearch.bsky.social
Tempest Teapot ❌ 👑 🐸 @tempestteapot.bsky.social Tempest Teapot: energy coiled in small space
Epic Fantasy novel Demon’s Bargain
#AmQuerying #F #R #YA #A
Kahyla Tamrin faces a demon’s bargain where all the options are bad: fight with soul-destroying magic or lose her family, her beloved, and her life.