Michael G. Williams 🏳️🌈 @mcmanlypants.bsky.social I write queer horror & sci fi. Gay, Appalachian native, infosec professional, 2020 Manly Wade Wellman winner, co-host of Arcane Carolinas. He/him. michaelgwilliamsbooks.com #BlackLivesMatter #TransLivesMatter #SFWA #HWA #LGBTQ #FuckICE
Mary Wyrd (she/her) @marywyrd.bsky.social Creative Virtual Assistant & Author Assistant - www.marywyrd.com
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Horror writer.
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The Ghost of Verne Gagne @ghostofvernegagne.bsky.social Author of books about Cosmic Mormon Horror, through the lens of halfwit dirtbags.
https://a.co/d/06Se1O3
Moth 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @embermoth.prismata.press they/them 🏳️⚧️ trans enby dyke. Autist. Author of trans stories living the creative life in Aotearoa 💕wife @sophiajt.com
No generative AI
https://neuroqueeries.podbean.com
https://rss.com/podcasts/galaxy-moth/
https://prismata-press.itch.io
prismata.press @prismata.press A trans owned and operated micro press based in New Zealand committed to telling passionate trans stories 🏳️⚧️
Transistance Press + Galaxy Moth Press = Prismata Press
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GHOST (in the Murder Club mines) @biteghost.bsky.social comic artist [BACKLASH & MURDER CLUB]✨ she/her, '94 🇺🇲🏳️🌈 ✨ 16+ my account's not for babies but also I'm not your mom ✨ NA's strongest bersercu
☆ Blu ☆ @blubat.bsky.social Akira B. • Editor • Creator of WildStar Press • Writer (Comics & Prose) • Cryptid • Ringo and Ignatz Award Nominated • ???
💫 https://blubat.biz
💫 wildstarpress.com
WildStar Press @wildstarpress.bsky.social Founded by Akira B.
WildStar Press is an indie publisher ready to share and elevate creative and diverse comics.
https://wildstarpress.com
Julie Kliegman @juliekliegman.com Copy editor @propublica.org. Author of FINDING RENÉE RICHARDS (2026), a biography, and MIND GAME (2024), about elite athlete mental health. Nonbinary ace. They/them.
www.juliekliegman.com
Barry Petchesky @barryp.bsky.social Deputy editor, Defector.com
Laura Rennert @ljrennert.bsky.social Executive literary agent at Andrea Brown Literary Agency. www.litagentlaurarennert.com
Sloane @sloanesloane.bsky.social ✑ Cartoonist, Artist and Writer
✑ Narrative Game Designer @magic.wizards.com
✑ Co-founder @cartoonist.coop
✑ Mixed indigenous māhū/2s living on Chinook land aka Portland, OR
https://sloanesloane.com/
Cat Fitzpatrick @catfitzpatrick.net all work and no play makes cat a dull girl
Typesetter & Editrix @littlepuss.net // Author of The Call-Out & THE DINNER PARTY: A BOOK ABOUT LOVE - OUT NOW
Alexis Clements @alexisclements.bsky.social Writer, filmmaker, hiker, camper, reader, maker and consumer of tasty eats.
Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social A daily literary website highlighting the best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and criticism.
https://linktr.ee/lithub_
Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social Author of I Want to Burn This Place Down
https://www.themarisreview.com/
https://www.mariskreizman.com/
Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social (he/him) journalist/author. trans guy who lives in the woods.
📝: The Believer, Cosmo, Eater, Esquire, The Cut, This American Life, etc.
📖: akomp.info (Scribner)
https://www.sandyernestallen.com
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social I am the host of Behind the Bastards and overlord of podcasts at Cool Zone Media
K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com Writer, cartoonist, editor. Hugo finalist. Very sweary. Half politics, half dog pics. She/her.
🖼️ kbspangler.com
🐨 agirlandherfed.com
🐲 sidequested.com
🎉 patreon.com/KBSpangler
✨ Rep by Bailey Tamayo • btamayo@sjga.com ✨
Todd S. Jordan @toddsjordan.bsky.social A horror writer and a sorry sack of guts.
THE FLESH I WANT coming 2027, Titan Books.
Agent: Julie Gourinchas, Bell Lomax Moreton.
Pre-order: www.linktr.ee/toddsjordan
Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social First Amendment rodeo clown. Policy Director at Free Speech Coalition, co-founder SWR Data, among other things. Personal account, all outrage / nonsense here is my own.
Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social Independent journalist covering tech, culture, and politics @spitfirenews.com. Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/kattenbarge
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Emji Saint Spero @homopathetic.bsky.social Transqueer writer, performance artist, and pervert living in Los Angeles
+ Programming Director at Poetic Research Bureau
+ Curator of Communicator Series
+ Author of disgust + almost any sh*t will do
+ 1/2 of UpMoon Station 🔊
saintspero.com
cece (has mouth, able to scream) @ceceradio.bsky.social currently screaming (they/them)
HOST of @callnow.show
@3cc.store pays my bills
creator of Chaser Nathan GPT Max, Pepito's Friend, License to Riff, THE MINDSET HOUR, and CALL NOW!
my posts about @chuuurls.bsky.social are real and i mean them
unpleasant broad @handle.invalid ☼ Catholic transsexual woman from internet past ☼ MA in Philosophy applying for PhD on Husserl's phenomenology and autism ☼ she/her ☼
Nijmegen, The Netherlands, European Union 🇪🇺🏳️⚧️🇳🇱
JayTheAnglican @anglicancanada.bsky.social I’m Canadian and Anglican from Ontario. Gay and lgbtq supportive. Anglican diocese of Toronto. Anglican Church of Canada. Views are my own. Recently moved to #Saskatoon
robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social critical theory, social & political philosophy @ fu berlin // center for social critique berlin
https://fu-berlin.academia.edu/RobinCelikates
https://criticaltheoryinberlin.de
https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-times
https://criticaltheoryconsortium.org
Emma Straub @emmastraub.bsky.social Novelist and bookseller. 
Rachel Yoder @rachelyoder.bsky.social the original Nightbitch, novelist, screenwriting prof at UIowa, WGA West
JohnFosterFic @jfoster.bsky.social I write horror and crime fiction, live in Brooklyn and love cooking and martial arts. My wife is the actress Linda Jones and our dog is half pit, half Dutch shepherd and all clown. Though I may wince, you really can choose any pizza toppings you like.
The King of Pain, John F.D. Taff @jfdt.bsky.social Horror author, multiple Stoker nominee and World Fantasy nominee of such books as DARK STARS, LITTLE BLACK SPOTS, ALL THE STARS DIE in Q3 2025 and the re-releases of THE END IN ALL BEGINNINGS and THE FEARING, all 3 from Bad Hand Books. Represented by me.
Erin Al-Mehairi, Editor & Author @erinalmehairi.bsky.social Published author & poet / Professional Editor for Hire, Journalist, PR Pro / BA Degrees in English, Journalism, History / Book News&Views / she•her / 🇬🇧🇺🇸🧿
https://hookofabook.wordpress.com/editing/
Jeff Yang @originalsp.in TheyCallUsBruce podcast w/AngryAsianMan: http://bit.ly/listen2TCUB; Guardian US & NPR PCHH; Threads/IG: @originalspin
Books: RISE—A Pop History of Asian America from the 90s to Now; The Golden Screen—The Movies That Made Asian America
Pic: thx @gregpak!
Lauren Groff @legroff.bsky.social Writer
Thunderstorm Books @thunderstormbooks.bsky.social Publisher of limited editions. www.thunderstormbooks.com
C. L. Polk @clpolk.com I write stuff. I knit stuff. I cook stuff. Ask me about my weird little books. https://www.clpolk.com/
Kwame Mbalia @kwamembalia.bsky.social Husband, father, writer, Publisher w/ FREEDOM FIRE.
Black By Popular Demand: https://kwamembalia.substack.com
Alex Segura @alexsegura.com New York Times and USA Today-bestselling/award-winning author of many comics and novels.
https://linktr.ee/alex_segura
V.Castro @vlatinalondon.bsky.social 2x Bram Stoker Award nominated author
Chicana
Aliens:Vasquez
Rebel Moon (Netflix)
The Haunting of Alejandra
Immortal Pleasures
Goddess of Filth
The Queen of The Cicadas
Rep Jessica Berg
vcastrostories.com
Bogi Takács / WE'RE HERE ToC announced! @bogiperson.bsky.social Writer, editor, critic, scholar. Lambda + Hugo winner. Hungarian / Jewish / agender / neuroatypical. E/em/eir/emself or they. טומטום. Intersex. 100% migráncs in Lawrence, Kansas. Metroidbrainia enjoyer. Opinions my own & do not represent anyone else
Clipping @clppng.bsky.social Diggs /// Hutson /// Snipes
DEAD CHANNEL SKY /// 03-14-2025 on @subpop.bsky.social
Excavating Horror @excavatinghorror.com Archaeology, Mummies & Museums in Horror Fiction & Media
https://excavatinghorror.com/
Lethe Press @lethepress.bsky.social Since 2001, Lethe Press has been publishing acclaimed queer and weird books. Our titles have won numerous Lambda Literary Awards, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the Mary Lynn Kotz Art-in-Literature Award. 
Haley Newlin, Author @haleynewlin.bsky.social Horror Author of Take Your Turn, Teddy
Writer & Reviewer for Cemetery Dance 📕
Should be writing, probably watching Vincent Price movies 🍿
K.A. Wiggins (Kaie) @kaiewrites.bsky.social Canadian dark speculative author 🖤🇨🇦Words in: STRANGE HORIZONS, FANTASY, LIGHTSPEED, PULPHOUSE, FACTOR FOUR, NOSLEEP &more | @cwillbc.bsky.social president | CWC educator | #ecopunk #bodyhorror #monsters #gothic #dystopian #sff
https://kaie.space/tree
Rosé Black (Ready For Summer To Fall) @roseblack2222.bsky.social Writer of mostly horror/horror comedy here who goes by several different names, most notably Rosé or Rose. On Substack, I am @roseblack2222. Below you will find the link to my blog. Support if you can.
https://roseblack2222.blogspot.com/
Nicole M. Wolverton (she/her/hers) @nicolemwolverton.bsky.social Professionally unsettling | Philly-area writer of (mostly) horror & thrillers | MEAT SWEATS * MARCH 2027 | horror academic | scent-obsessed | nicolewolverton.com
Stacie Herrington @stacieherrington.bsky.social #Horror for people who laugh at funerals. Fiction, screenwriting, and scary #movie talk on The Podcast Compels You. Author of Dead Husband Energy.
linktr.ee/stacieherrington
stacieherrington.substack.com
http://thepodcastcompelsyou.com
Briana Morgan @brianamorganbooks.bsky.social ✍️ Writing horror for weird girls
🐅 HOW TO ESCAPE A TIGER CULT (Out 10/6)
💀 Reviewer @cemeterydancepub
💌 brianamorganbooks@gmail.com
🎃 Andy Cull 🎃 @andrewcull.bsky.social Horror scribbler. Writer and Director of The Possession of David O'Reilly. Author of Remains, Bones, and The Cockroach King. Co-editor of FOUND/2 📼 HWA member. Likes to give away books. He/him. Say NO to AI in art. Contact: https://linktr.ee/andrewcull
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
Encyclopocalypse Publications @encyclopub.bsky.social From original horror novels, movie novelizations, and resurrected horror paperbacks. We want to be on your bookshelf.
www.BuyHorrorBooks.com
www.encyclopocalypse.com
Sley House Publishing @sleyhouseeditor.bsky.social Indie Press. Publisher of genre fiction. Horror, Sci-Fi, Fantasy. Home to the annual Tales of Sley House Anthology
Adrienne Clark @adrienneclark.bsky.social Writer, editor, and horror fan freezing in the PNW.
Short stories in ‘His Soul’s Still Dancing’ and ‘Let the Weirdness In.’ Book reviews at Phantastiqa.com 
Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social Horror writer startled by most sounds. The Barre Incidents and Kill Radio (both genre-bendy Horror) available thru Malarkey Books.
My website: https://www.laurenbolger.com/
Jewish / Free Palestine
Backgrd image quote: “Helloooo? My water dish is empty!”
Amanda Headlee @amandaheadlee.bsky.social Horror writer. Plant Mom. Dinosaur obsessed. 🦖🦕
Author of Till We Become Monsters.
THIS IS HOW A VILLAIN IS MADE is available now!
https://linktr.ee/amandaheadlee
Tamika Thompson @tamikathompson.bsky.social Author | THE CURSE OF HESTER GARDENS (Erewhon/Kensington) & Next Generation Indie Book Award Winner, UNSHOD, CACKLING, and NAKED. she/her/hers
http:/mybook.to/hestergardens
Darrell Z. Grizzle @dzgrizzle.bsky.social Writer of Horror, Dark Fantasy, Crime Fiction. Queer Bear. Attending Professional at DragonCon. EpiscoBuddhist. Deadhead. Democratic Socialist. Fan of cats, coffeehouses, comics, Star Trek, Godzilla. NO KINGS.
🌈 🐻 📚☕️🐱💙
https://linktr.ee/dzgrizzle
HorrOrigins @horrorigins.com Horror, Sci-fi & Thriller Fest in Tucson, AZ ☀️🌵 | September 2026| #WhereHorrorIsBorn |
X, FB & IG: @HorrOrigins
Cat Eye Press @cateyepress.bsky.social Welcome to a new home for horror! Cat Eye Press is an indie horror press, aiming to celebrate horror’s subgenres and diversity.
Website: cateyepress.com
Links: https://bio.site/cateyepress
CLASH Books @clashbooks.bsky.social Big Indie Establishment Mom & Pop Press in Troy, NY Publishing Beach Reads from Hell. Skeets by Christoph Paul.
Raven Lyn Clemens @ravenlynclemens.bsky.social i make comics and art (they/them, 29) https://linktr.ee/ravenlynclemens
Jeanne Thornton @jeannethornton.bsky.social trying! jeannethornton.com, patreon.com/jwthornton
Davey Davis @daveydavis.bsky.social novelist and writer. read my newsletter on sex & sensation at itsdavid.substack.com
Shannon Liao @shannonliao.bsky.social Writer and editor. bylines at New York Times, Vulture, IGN, Esquire, Scientific American and more. ex-WaPo and CNN
shannonliao.substack.com for bespoke games journalism delivered to your inbox
healthy diet food groups @hdfoodgroups.bsky.social decent competitive splatoon team (blopwher | zyf | eevee | stan)
clip stuff courtesy of thyme
https://www.youtube.com/@hdfg_spl
dave ring @davering.bsky.social writer. publisher at Neon Hemlock. anthologist. co-editor of Baffling. shirley jackson award winner. lambda, locus & ignyte award finalist. he/him.
Riverqueer Leatherwork @butchsystm.bsky.social Leatherwork & SM
Riverqueer.com
Alexander C. Kaufman @alexckaufman.bsky.social Correspondent @heatmap.news, covering energy, security, and climate | Contact: www.alexanderckaufman.com | kaufman.nyc | Signal: Kaufman.11
Clay McLeod Chapman @claymcleod.bsky.social Books. Comic books. YA/middlegrade books. Film/TV. Podcasts. You can visit me at www.claymcleodchapman.com
Emmett Nahil @emnays.bsky.social Narrative Director/Cofounder @ Perfect Garbage 🔪 making Grave Seasons
✦ FROM THE BELLY ✦ LET ME OUT
Lit Rep: Tamara Kawar ✦ Film/TV: Sean Berard, Grandview
www.emmettnahil.com
Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social Doing what I dreamed of since I was a kid.
Books: Lone Women, The Changeling, The Ballad of Black Tom, The Devil in Silver.
TV: The Changeling (EP), The Terror: Devil in Silver (Creator, Showrunner)
Comics: Destroyer, Eve, Sabretooth, Black Panther
Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social Nebula, Aurora, WFA finalist, Ignyte Co Founder
"SKIN THIEF STORIES" Neon Hemlock. COUNTESS out now ECW Press. Goth, plant grower, music enthusiast. She/They, Queer, 🇹🇹 🇨🇦 rep by Michael Curry. Banner: Matt Griffin
suzanpalumbo.carrd.co
Lesbian Death Bed: The Bed that Eats Pussy (pro orph) @bitterkarella.bsky.social Midnight Society founder. Genderfluid transvestite goblin 🏳️⚧️👺 He/She/They. Reppd by @literaryfey http://www.bitterkarella.com | Out now: Split Scream 5, Moonflow. Soon: Quaint Folk
🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social Make horror gay AF, Stoker Award winner
out now: THIS MOVIE DOESN'T END THE WAY WE WANT
Oct 27: SHE ISN'T HERSELF TONIGHT
she/her; rep: Lane Heymont
haileypiper.com
Mo Moshaty @momoshaty.bsky.social Genre Lecturer, Writer, Journo & Prod, EIC of @nighttidemag.bsky.social: Diverse Horror Perspectives, Host of From Inside the House Pod, Member of Nyx Horror, 13 Minutes of Horror for SHUDDER
NY-er in London
https://nighttidemag.com/
http://momoshaty.com
David Demchuk 👻 (he/him) 📚 @daviddemchuk.com Nightmares for sale. 🏳️🌈🇨🇦 Sunburst winner; Giller Prize, Amazon, Aurora & Shirley Jackson nominee. The Stone Garden. The Butcher’s Daughter. RED X. The Bone Mother. Gay/Queer. Cis. Old. No AI. https://daviddemchuk.com
Nino Cipri @ninocipri.bsky.social Writer, cat dad, wife guy, cryptid. Author of DEAD GIRLS DON'T DREAM (2024), DEFEKT (2021), FINNA (2020), and HOMESICK (2019).
Codie Crowley 🍂🪦💋 @spiritbored.bsky.social author of hotgirl horror books
https://bio.site/codiecrowley
Sarah 🏳️🌈 Dreadfully Queer @dreadfullyqueer.bsky.social They/them 👻 Avid connoisseur of queer horror 🏳️⚧️ Organizer of the Dreadfully Queer Book Club in Salem, MA 📍 WIP: A weird, sapphic supernatural novella 👁️
Elliott Gish @elliottgish.bsky.social TT, LL. Writer, librarian, too many freckles, not enough sleep. Debut novel GREY DOG available now. She/her. https://linktr.ee/elliottgish
Charlie @chumboy.bsky.social Transmitting the only thoughts I can
Horror & Speculative Fiction • Historian • NYC
🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈| IG : chumboy.charlie| he/him
Violet James McMaster @violetjmcmaster.bsky.social Bookseller & Events Coordinator @ Big Blue Marble Bookstore
Reviewer @inavioletnature (IG) & @violetjamesmcmaster on Substack
https://linktr.ee/violetjamesmcmaster
Aquino Loayza 🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🦋🦋 @aquinoauthor.bsky.social Degenerate Queer Poly Punk Weirdo who writes Existentialist Horror, love my Pug and The Celtics, and my partners (in that order (?) )
Mallison Ick @allisonmick.bsky.social fart noise maker (mouth and butt)
HUMBOLDT CUT 🌲🪓 out now
DIVE 🩸🎤 out Nov 2026
DARK WAVES 🖤🌊 out Jan 2027
horror/comedy/animation writer. she/they making sicko shit.
Books repped by JJBaker
Anim repped by SamGoff
https://linktr.ee/allison.mick
Erica Waters @ericawatersbooks.bsky.social Author of queer Southern horror, Bram Stoker winner, New England transplant. Latest: ALL THAT CONSUMES US. Rep: Lauren Spieller/Folio
ericawaters.com
ellie (e. m.) roy @emroy.bsky.social writer of weird things. 26. maine. she/they. queer. and other words.
🍂 LET THE WOODS KEEP OUR BODIES (10.10.23, Ghoulish Books) 🍂
🩸BLOODLETTING GO (06.02.206)🩸
Daphne Fama @daphnefama.bsky.social Writer, author, researcher.
🌺 A DEADLY BLOOMING🌺
MARCH 9, '27 US & UK RELEASE
UK & US Release March 9
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)
dori lumpkin 🩸 (they/them) @dorilumpkin.bsky.social Horror/Spec Writer • Queer • ANTENORA out now • Words: The Deeps, Demons & Death Drops, etc. • (they/them, 26)
L.P. Hernandez @lphernandez.bsky.social Horror author. MBA. Air Force officer. Publisher. Co-owner of Sobelo Books. Metalhead. Robust. Enchanting. Read me in Cemetery Gates, Dark Matter, a truck stop between Lubbock and Amarillo. Client of Becky LeJeune. Punch Nazis. I love you.
Tanya Pell @tanyapell.bsky.social 💀Bram Stoker nominated author
😴 narcolepsy
🩷💜💙she/her
A DARKNESS RATHER BLACKER (Gallery ‘27)
THIS B JUST WON’T DIE! (Gallery ‘26)
HER WICKED ROOTS
CICADA
Rep’d by Marcy Posner
tamara jerée 🖤 @tamarajeree.com author of lesbian paranormal & gothic fantasy | represented by Bethany Weaver | they/them
www.tamarajeree.com
art by @northyme.com
Emma E. Murray @emmaemurray.bsky.social Award-winning horror writer. She/her. 🩷💜💙
Rep: literaryclara.bsky.social
🌊Seafoam Shallows (2028 Shortwave)
🐌Crushing Snails
😈When the Devil
💧The Drowning Machine and Other Obsessions
🩸Shoot Me in the Face on a Beautiful Day
Website: EmmaEMurray.com
Donyae Coles @okokno.bsky.social I'm a writer, artist. A brain inside of a pile of blankets. Also check out my books, Midnight Rooms and The Sunken The Adored!
Repped by Lane Heymont, Tobias Lit. Agency
Find me in these places: https://linktr.ee/okokno
J.A.W. McCarthy @jawmccarthy.bsky.social 2x Bram Stoker & 2x Shirley Jackson Award finalist. Author of SLEEP ALONE and SOMETIMES WE’RE CRUEL. Stories: Best Horror of the Year Vol 13, PseudoPod, Vastarien, The Dark, more. Cat & lipstick enthusiast. She/Jen. Rep: Lane Heymont. jawmccarthy.com
xero gravity (she/her) @xghorror.bsky.social nyc media personality. scary movie sista 🤘🏽| Blerdy Massacre Pod 🎙️| words: AFROPUNK, Dread Central, Horror Press LLC + more |🍅-approved | ✉️: xghorror@gmail.com