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Thea O'Ryan Files @theaoryanfiles.bsky.social Thea O'Ryan is a Canadian writer with a love for all things horror. She went on a road trip to the Bruce Peninsula in 2014 and has not been seen since.
She is, however, still frequently heard.
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Bob Mayer @bobmayer.bsky.social NYT bestselling author in multiple genres. West Point grad. Special Forces disabled veteran. Science & empathy over ignorance & hate. 1 day at a time. Be nice. Bronx born, now on Maggie's Farm www.bobmayer.com
Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org Taco Bell Quarterly is The World's Most Prestigious Literary Magazine. Unaffiliated with Daddy Taco. We publish the boundaries of cease and desist. tacobellquarterly.org
FANGORIA @fangoria.bsky.social First in Fright since 1979, FANGORIA is a collectible magazine, a podcast network, and an entertainment studio.
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Rob Cameron @brklyndragon.bsky.social Teacher. Linguist. Writer | Nebula Finalist DAYDREAMER | BSFWriters | Rep by Barry Goldblatt | Afro 🌞 Punk & Dragons | Pronouns: is/was/will be | https://linktr.ee/cpr.words
Jack Wright @jackwrightauthor.com Horror author from the North of England. Reyt Spooky.
Stories of grief, folklore, and the things that move when they shouldn’t.
Duskfield Pines — ???
Anna’s Veil — ???
https://ko-fi.com/jackwrightauthor
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Dishsoap Quarterly @dishsoapquart.bsky.social Uncool & nerdy lit mag that's way too into dish-cleaning products. New piece every Tuesday. Subs always open!
https://dishsoap-quarterly.com 🫧
The Scares That Shaped Us @scaresshapedus.bsky.social A podcast from @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social about horror writers and the stories that made them. New episodes every Wednesday!
Night Shades ⏾ @nightshadesmag.bsky.social 🛸 500 Word Speculative Stories. $0.15/word. nightshadesmag.com
Dan Weaver @supernaturalfeat.com A writer and artist and programmer and sweatshirt.
supernaturalfeat.com
Paul Tremblay @paultremblay.bsky.social Writer person. Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep, Horror Movie, Another, A Head Full of Ghosts, The Cabin at the End of the World, The Pallbearers Club. F*ck AI
Bookshop.org @bookshop.org A better way to buy books online where every purchase supports local bookstores ☀️📚
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Third Estate Books @thirdestatebooks.bsky.social Radical Indie Horror Press. EIC: Aquino Loayza. Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité. We don’t want cake, we want blood.
Luke Spooner Artist / Carrion House @lukespoonerartist.bsky.social Artist and illustrator.
Originals and prints:
https://artwork500.co.uk/product-category/artists/luke-spooner/
Illustration Portfolio:
www.carrionhouse.com
Marc Zammit @marczammit.bsky.social Director🎬 | Producer 🎥| Actor 🎭 CEO Aptitude Films, Skylark Vision.
Homeless Ashes, Witch, JITTERS
Em @erratawrites.bsky.social they/them
writer & poet 🌲 reader & researcher
https://erratawrites.wordpress.com/
I'm a simple finch; I see paid submission calls or other opportunities to connect with the lit scene, I reskeet.
J.R. Bale @jrbale.bsky.social Author, Father, Professor, MBA, Photographer, Concerned Human in NJ.
I support fellow writers.
www.JRBale.com
I do not respond to DMs.
Nash @ericnash.bsky.social Writer. (he/him) #Gothic, #ghosts, body and folk #horror are my bag. Words in Dark Moon Books, CreepyPod, Coffin Bell Journal, and others. CORPSE ROAD BLUES out now! 📚🩸📚💙 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
https://linktr.ee/eric_nash
Horrific Scribblings @horrificscribs.bsky.social 🩸 Provocative. Scary. Strange.
Independent Publisher of Transgressive Dark Fiction.
📚 Books • Anthologies • Horrific Scribes
Anthony Addis @anthonyaddis.bsky.social I used to write, read and live in Cairo, KL, Jakarta and Riyadh. Now I do all that in Lichfield while placating two Indonesian streetcats.
My novel 'Do Not Keep Silent' is available on Amazon.
anthonyaddis.co.uk
Wen Wen @muteddragon.bsky.social Chinese American short fiction writer in the Rumpus, Cast of Wonders, Apex & more
WenWenWrites.com
She/her. Codex, SFWA Flight Crew, Viable Paradise, Brave New Weird. Fast talker from the Bronx.
Joshua Gamon @lovecraft13.bsky.social #Author | #Gamer | My fantasy horror graphic novel, "Evermore: Sleepy Hollow," is out now | https://shorturl.at/3PAdf | EdinburghUni alumnus | Anglophile | www.joshuagamon.com
Julene Tripp Weaver @trippweavpoet.bsky.social Poet—latest book: "Slow Now with Clear Skies." Writer. Herbalist—Green Witch. Therapist. Systemic or Family Constellation. Health Artist. #WOMPO https://www.julenetrippweaver.com
Willow Nichols-Capra 🤎 @novellamenagerie.bsky.social Writer | Salem, MA | BIPOC & 🏳️🌈 | NEHW | 1816 and Boston Writers of Color Award Winner |
Assist. Editor: Drabblecast |Reader: Moonday Mag | Cinephile |
Blood+Honey, Gavagai, Cosmic Horror Monthly, etc 🔽
https://linktr.ee/WillowNicholsCapra
Sadie Hartmann (Mother Horror) @sadiehartmann.bsky.social Co-Owner of Night Worms. Bram Stoker Award winner of 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered. New book: 2025
https://linktr.ee/sadiehartmann
Chelsea G. Summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social I like to write about terrible men, horrible things, and unlikeable women. Somehow my book is a bestseller. Repped by Kent D. Wolf at Neon Literary.
Cynthia Pelayo @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social Bram Stoker Award–winning author | MFA, PhD English(c) | IT CAME FROM NEVERLAND, June 9 | SOMETHING FOLLOWED US HOME, Sept 29 | Rep-Lane Heymont | cynthiapelayo.com
Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr. ✶✶✶✶ @tvayyyy.bsky.social Writer. Mackinac Bands of Chippewa and Ottawa Indians. Born & raised in Chicago.
Sacred Smokes, Sacred City, Sacred Folks. Pour One for the Devil. Never Whistle at Night. The El.
Back for Blood: NWAN Pt. II 8/12
Books and more here: theodorevanalst.com
👻Michael J. Riser𖤐🧊❌👑 @michaeljriser.com Editor, author of horror & religious trauma. Former editorial Screen Rant, Goomba Stomp, managing editor AOG. Secretary of Sacramento HWA. 怖い話の作者。（日本語OK)(he/him)
pfp: smiling man with beard and mustache
banner: devil statue in a garden
Phantasmagoria @jamielnathan.bsky.social PNW Storyteller & Bookwyrm 💙📚 She/Her
Loves the spooky & fantastical
Published in: Inner Worlds|Luna Station Quarterly|Pulp Asylum|
A Midnight Kind of Place|Horrific Scribblings
Robert Kluver @robertkluver.bsky.social Horror novelist & proofreader. Avid fiction reader.
robertkluver.net
Brom @geraldbrom.bsky.social Bestselling author and artist of all things rotten. www.BromArt.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
Alison Rumfitt (preorder BRAINWYRMS thanks) @hangsawoman.bsky.social Confrontational and yet quite friendly author. Books: TELL ME I'M WORTHLESS (out now) and BRAINWYRMS (coming October 10th)
Shane Hawk @shanehawk.com 🪶 Cheyenne & Arapaho
📥 Editor at Counterpoint Press
📚 NEVER WHISTLE AT NIGHT series
👤 Rep: Rachel Letofsky
shanehawk.com
Sarah Day 🖋️🦊 @sarahday.org Author, libertine, virago. Amateur shepherdess. 🌈 She/her. HWA.
Dark fantasy novella GREYHOWLER available from Underland Press: bit.ly/greyhowler
Corey Farrenkopf @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social Writer / Librarian
Work in Electric Literature, the Deadlands, Strange Horizons, Nightmare, etc
Repped by Marie Lamba of Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency.
Novel: Living in Cemeteries
Collection: Haunted Ecologies
CoreyFarrenkopf.com
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. 🏳️🌈
www.lucysnyder.com
Rep: @jord4nhill.bsky.social
Cats, aquariums and terrariums
Alma Katsu (pre-order INCARNATE now!) @almakatsu.bsky.social NYT bestselling novelist. Former intelligence professional, tech futurist.
Angela Sylvaine @angelasylvaine.bsky.social Horror & thriller author & reader. HWA. Cheerful goth. Bi. She/her. No AI!
Bram Stoker Award nominee
Horror comedy FROST BITE & COLD SNAP
Collection THE DEAD SPOT
Mall slasher CHOPPING SPREE
https://linktr.ee/angelasylvaine
S.H. Cooper @pippinacious.bsky.social Author of horror and wholesome. Voice actress.
I'm better in writing. Florida HWA. Profile pic by MoonPendent13. Header by CarrionHouse.
Craig Clevenger @craigclevenger.bsky.social Writer. Library staffer. I do all my own stunts. "The Contortionist's Handbook" and "Mother Howl" from Datura Books.
C.J. Dotson @cj-dotson.bsky.social Generally cheerful, scaredy-cat horror-lover & horror author. THE CUT is available now! THESE FAMILIAR WALLS coming 4/14/26
https://read.macmillan.com/lp/these-familiar-walls-9781250336583/
rep: Chris Bucci
member HWA | #PitchWars 2020
bi, she/her
Eryn McCee @erynmccee.bsky.social Writes dragons. Eats metaphor. Occasionally human.
British soul, German soil, haunted playlist.
#HorrorWritersChat co-host
https://Linktr.ee/Eryn.mcconnell
James Wright @jameswrights.bsky.social Librarian & Indie Author of genre satire. Known for having a visual style & unique characters, as well as snappy dialogue. If only I was like that in real life!
Check out my works in the links👇!
https://linktr.ee/jameswritessurprisingly
🎃 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
M.H. Law @itsmhlaw.bsky.social ✒️Author of Latcher
✨Maker of spooky things✨
🔮The witch behind the dark synth pop solo project, Melsie
🎤Front woman of Skullgorg.
https://phoenixcuriosities.com
Francesco Levato @levato.bsky.social Poet, professor, literary translator, new media artist, and writer of speculative fiction. M.F.A., Ph.D., HWA, SFWA #horror #scifi #fantasy #booksky
Web: https://francescolevato.com/
Marc Ruvolo @marcruvolo.bsky.social Writer of weird horror living in Portland, OR. Maximum Queercore. Founded Chicago's Bucket O' Blood Books. NOVELLAS: SLOE (Unnerving Books), PIETIES (Slashic Horror Press). WASTE GROUND (Slashic Horror Press). He/him. AI=BLOCK.
Rebecca Karas @rebeccakaras.bsky.social poet & weird fiction writer. probably thinking about Tetris. she/they
https://linktr.ee/rebecca.karas
☥ 𝔗𝔞𝔩𝔦 𝔊𝔯𝔞𝔳𝔢𝔰 ☥ @wishiwozacat.bsky.social 🇵🇸🏳️⚧️ • Pro-SW
🩸Lesbian vampire from outer space
🩸Writer of horror/dark fantasy; professional Tarot reader
🩸Bassist [at]altamarmusicmx
Catch me on Exposed Bone Magazine Vol 3 🖤: https://www.exposedbonemag.com/product-page/vol-iii
Yolanda Sfetsos @yolandasfetsos.bsky.social Writer. Reader. Horror freak. Bibliophile. She/her.
Books: FALLEN DESTINY, MELANCHOLY DELUSIONS, ONLY DARKNESS, NUMB...
TV/Film Rep: Alec Frankel at IAG.
Website: https://www.yolandasfetsos.com/
ABSOLUTELY NO GEN AI!!
Kristy Gardner - Queer Sci-Fi & Horror Author @kristygardner.bsky.social Bi writer & reader of much SFF ★ THE STARS IN THEIR EYES ★ THE DARKEST STARS ★ THE STARS INSIDE US ★ She/Her 🏳️🌈🖤🌟
https://kristygardner.com/links
Stephen Howard @stejhoward.bsky.social Writer of fantasy, sci-fi & horror fiction. I’m kind of a small deal. he/him
https://linktr.ee/stejhoward
Noor Lovelace @noorlovelace.bsky.social Horror author surviving on books, metal, and pomegranate tea. Living that ~rare condition~ life with grace and attitude. Published at Gavagai [ she/her ]
Gavagai 🐰: @noorlovelace
Come fall in love with a new song. #noorsplaylist
🇪🇬🇦🇹🇺🇸
🩷💜💙
Paul Michael Anderson @paulmanderson.bsky.social Writer
thenothingspace.net
R.L. Meza @rlmeza.bsky.social Author of OUR LOVE WILL DEVOUR US. Spec fic in Clarkesworld, Nightmare, CHM. Artist. Gamer. 4 cats in a trench coat. Vegan. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
he,him
NO A I
rlmeza.com
Madeleine Swann @madeleineswann.bsky.social She/her. Psychedelic flapper who writes weird things
http://madeleineswann.com/
FREE CYOA billpurnell.com/story-site/
Reality But More Fun kindle, audiobook and paperback https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CW1H1964
Books2Read books2read.com/u/bWYDk7
Sarah Stubbs @sarahstubbssays.bsky.social She/Her. Gastro Horror Expert. FF Lover. @ChattFilmFest.org Community Manager. Half of Final Girls Feast. Creator #100HorrorMoviesIn92Days Challenge. Editorial Lead at Horrorverse. 🏳️🌈
https://linktr.ee/sarahstubbssays
Rae is creating✒️ @raewrites.bsky.social Author (horror, sci-fi fantasy, pnr/romance, thriller, CNF) Editor, Poet, Ghostwriter-for-hire, and Reviewer. Parent,CPTSD, Fun, Taken 🫶 38 NO AI Email: raelliswrites@gmail.com
Ally @allyoutthere.bsky.social (She/Her) Horror Author. Cryptid Enthusiast.
IT CAME FROM THE TREES
WEDNESDAY: BOOK OF OUTCASTS
MYSTERY JAMES DIGS HER OWN GRAVE
DOWN CAME THE SPIDERS
Rep'd by Paige Terlip at Starling Literary + Media
https://linktr.ee/onedarkally
S.C. Parris 🖤🦇🩸 | MLIS @scparris.com THE DARK WORLD Series. (2016-2023) 🖤🦇🩸
WiP: SINNER SHARPE 🧛🏿♂️ & THE BLOODY EMPIRE 🗡️🩸🏰✨🏹
Archivist - MLIS. 📜
Streamer - 👩🏾💻
scparris.com 🕸️
twitch.tv/writingvampires🦇
scparrisbooks@gmail.com 📧
L. M. Meehan @lisaverse.bsky.social Writer, photographer, lifelong horror fan.
https://www.lmmeehan.com/
Beverley Lee @beverleylee.bsky.social ♱ I write atmospheric horror/creeping dread/haunted broken boys - sometimes altogether!
♱ Lover of male vampires kissing and all the Feels.
♱ Ally 🏳️🌈
♱ No AI ever.
www.beverleylee.com
http://bio.site/beverleylee
A. A. Rubin @thesurrealari.bsky.social Writer, author, poet, teacher…cosmic cain. Member SFWA and HWA. He/him.
Words in Pseudopod, Trollbreath, Ahoy Comics, others. #amquerying
https://www.flowcode.com/page/aarubin
StaticShepherd @staticshepherd.bsky.social Lvl 37. They/Them. Queer and Disabled. Cyberpunk. P.L.U.R.
https://thestaticroom.neocities.org/
Shaun Aitcheson @shaunaitcheson.bsky.social Indie Developer/Director @ Cloak and Dagger Games • The Excavation of Hob's Barrow (BAFTA longlisted), Sumatra: Fate of Yandi, Football Game and more • Working on ???
UK based/NZ born • Folk horror nut • He/Him
https://linktr.ee/cloakanddaggergames
Chris DiLeo @authordileo.bsky.social Reader. Writer. Teacher.
He/Him. ANTI-AI.
vanessa maki @theblackbuffy.bsky.social blerd, bi (she/her), horror & anime weirdo, writer/critic, author of "girlhouse", artist, aew sicko, contributor for @butwhytho.net etc, mentally & chronically ill, audhd
find my portfolio here: https://www.clippings.me/vanessamaki
Aaron Vehling @aaronvehling.com Journalist in law, music, film, etc. Currently: Legal news pub. Also, Publisher/EIC/Words: Vehlinggo.com. Past: Stuff in City Pages (RIP), Bloody Disgusting, Dread Central, and several newspapers. Rosendale, NY, via NYC via Minneapolis.
Jennifer Cröw @writerjencrow.bsky.social She/her. Poet and fiction writer in the realms of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. 100% human-made words. Published in Uncanny, Asimov's, Analog, and others. 2023 Rhysling Award winner. Hockey fan, crocheter, and bibliophile. Occasional DM and gamer.
KC Davard @kcdavard.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Writer of ghost stories. Lover of puns. Fan of all things paranormal. Pretty sure my pet is a Muppet-Gremlin-dog hybrid.
#Spoonie: Fibromyalgia & other chronic conditions. ND. She/her (but they/them is ok too)
https://kcdavard.wordpress.com/
Helen Whistberry @whistberry.bsky.social Pen name for an autistic/ace indie writer & digital artist, introvert, worried soul, they/she. 🚫NO A/I!
Links to all my books, art, and book reviews can be found at https://www.helenwhistberry.com/
Craig Wallwork @craigwallwork.bsky.social British author of the Tom Nolan horror thriller series, as well as Human Tenderloin, The Skin We Feel Most Comfortable In, and The Instruction Manual to Being a Vampire (2026). Horror and movie geek. https://boxd.it/49GAl
Sonora Taylor @sonorataylor.bsky.social Black Lives Matter. Award-winning author. Board member: Scares That Care . She/her. Latest release: Split Scream Vol. 8: Cursed Places. Visit me at sonorawrites.com
Lizzette Monroe 🔞 @eroticallyinclined.org Erotica hobbyist with a penchant for writing broken people.
Join our Discord and connect with fellow erotica authors over a shared love of spicy writing! (And to drool over each other's cooking/baking pictures.)
https://www.eroticallyinclined.org/
🏳️🌈 Kimberly L Piper Writes Queer Shit 🏳️🌈 @klpwrites.bsky.social Bisexual Enby|Queer| Indie Writer of Fantasy & Horror|Mental Illness|Sober 3-25-24|Married May 4th|She/They| Neuro🌶️|Sugar cookies|Gender affirming care saves lives| Muppet Stan|The Wiz is life|Pineapple on pizza|Team Buffy #klpwritespromotesindies 🏝️🏰📚♌️🏳️🌈🌺🌞
Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social Author of horror and weird fiction. Martial Artist. Whisky drinker. Dog lover.
He/him.
Trans rights are human rights.
Fuck AI.
https://alanbaxter.com.au/contact/
Hellbound Media - Folk Horror Comic Kickstarter @hellboundmedia.bsky.social Comics. Films. Prose. Independent UK creators, account run by Mark & Matt. Horror, SF, & Dark Fantasy Media.
https://www.etsy.com/shop/HellboundMediaStore
http://kck.st/4vUqINf
Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com Writer of 100% human-generated stuff. He/Him. ITW and HWA member. Opinions my own. Rep’d by Dr. Uwe Stender at Triada US: @uwestenderphd.bsky.social
My stuff: caseystegman.com/fiction
p gutierrez 🌱 @suddenlyquiet.bsky.social some writing, some images
◼️ https://petergutierrez.net ◼️
(deleting daily)
Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social Multimodal af. Collective Gravities, Every Galaxy a Circle, Patterns of Orbit, Escaping the Body, & more
Co-EIC of @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social
www.chloenclark.com
Cover image: raspberry danishes
Profile photo: a river heron
Iain CM Gray @iaincmgray.bsky.social Writer of stuff, player of music, reader of classics and zombie books. Family, cat and cigar lover. In recovery from drug and alcohol addictions.
Find my books on Amazon or iaincmgray.com
Find my music on YouTube @The Broadband Busker
#Arsenal #Morton
John J Johnston @johnjjohnston.bsky.social Egyptology, Classics, reception, and cultural history.
Chair - gentlefuries.bsky.social
Ambassador - issegyptomania.bsky.social
BSFA Award finalist 2013
Agents:
Max Edwards - @AppleTreeLit
Nigel Hetherington - @Pastpreservers
London & Glasgow
Mason @masonhawthorne.bsky.social Alleged writer; horror, gothic, weird. Queer. Aussie.
Tumblr: https://masonhawthorne.tumblr.com
My novella The White Ribband: https://books2read.com/u/m297KR
The White Ribband on Itch: https://masonhawthorne.itch.io/the-white-ribband
Liam Quane 🏳️🌈 📖 @specificityarchives.com Filmmaker
Author | SPSFC Quarter-finalist
Comic writer
Sloth on the run
www.liamquane.com
Holly Kybett Smith @kybettie.bsky.social Queer femme horror writer. Intersectional feminist. MA Victorian Gothic. Chronically ill. Occasional performance poet. The 'Ky' rhymes with 👁️. (she/her/it/its) 🖤
Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social SFFH author with shorts in Escape Pod, Fireside Fiction, & more.
Somewhere in the middle of the Venn diagram of silly and scary. Dabbler in too many hobbies. ND. She/her.
https://allisonmulder.wordpress.com/welcome/what-i-write/
AC Cross @aaronccross.bsky.social Author of Where Blood Runs Gold, The Boddicker Letters, and Zoo. Doctor but not that kind. Raconteur. Darn good cook. 100% undiluted awesome. Amateur memelord and shitposter.
www.aaronccross.com
Theo M | Sometimes Writer @theodoremercer.bsky.social I write books (when I finally have the time to do so). Currently, I do not have that time.
Also, fuck AI
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.)
janstinchcomb.com