Sacred Parasite @sacredparasite.bsky.social Publisher
Books Made in Berlin since 2023
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Profile Books @profilebooks.bsky.social Independent publisher of inventive books, fearless writing and powerful voices. Our authors include Mary Beard, Shoshana Zuboff and Francis Fukuyama.
Viper Books @viperbooks.bsky.social Books with bite: crime, thrillers mysterious fiction | British Book Awards Imprint of the Year 2022, CWA Publisher of the Year 2023.
Souvenir Press @souvenirpress.bsky.social Independent publisher of books for a healthier, happier, more interesting life. An imprint of award-winning Profile Books.
Serpent's Tail @serpents-tail.bsky.social Lighting up our readers' minds and opening spaces for them to think differently. Bringing you brilliant, award-winning new and classic fiction and non-fiction.
Ida Keogh @idakeogh.bsky.social Neurospicy and queer BSFA and British Fantasy Award winning SFF author and occasional mermaid. Equality and Diversity Officer for the British Science Fiction Association. Foodie SFF collection 'Taste' out April 2027!! she/her
https://tinyurl.com/idasbooks
Dr Tiffani Angus @tiffaniangus.bsky.social Multi awards-shortlisted SFFH & non-fic author. Editor & typesetter. SPEC FIC FOR NEWBIES 3 now in the wild! https://linktr.ee/tiffaniangusauthor Leftie, feminist, ex academic, ally, anti-AI. she/her. Now 🇬🇧 was 🇺🇸
Rhiannon Grist | HOME SICK out now! 🪓🐑 @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social Word Person | BFA winner | Best of British SciFi '19, '20 & '23 | THE QUEEN OF THE HIGH FIELDS (Luna Press) | HOME SICK (2026, Solaris) | She/Her | https://linktr.ee/rhiannon.grist
HOME SICK out now: https://geni.us/homesick
E.M. Faulds / Beth or Taxes / Not em faulds @emfaulds.com Award-winning Scottish science fiction & fantasy writer. Podcastle, Strange Horizons, Shoreline of Infinity, ParSec, Best of British SF. More: emfaulds.com NEW HANDLE, bethkesh will still work.
#scruffyGarden
Runs @bibliotta.bsky.social
Shona Kinsella @shonak.bsky.social Scottish fantasy and horror author. Chair of the British Fantasy Society. Avid Reader. Vaguely gothic. She/her www.shonakinsella.com
Anna Clark @annaclark.bsky.social Writer of speculative fiction, welder of ships, and artist of dragons.
Stories in Diabolical Plots, Factor Four, and Flash Fiction Online.
She/they
annaclarkswritings.com
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
Alex Grecian @alexgrecian.bsky.social NYT & USA Today bestseller. I don't have a lot of hot takes. Feel free to preorder my next book anyway. https://alexgrecian.substack.com
The Arthur C. Clarke Award @clarkeaward.bsky.social The Arthur C. Clarke Award science fiction book of the year.
clarkeaward.com
Jane Johnson @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social Writer (Secrets of the Bees; Black Crescent, White Hare, Sea Gate, Tenth Gift etc), publisher (GRRM, Hobb, Feist, Lawrence, Heartfield, Kaner, ex Tolkien), allotmenteer. History. Morocco/Cornwall. Covid is airborne 💙📚 #Writing #Books
David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social Triple threat:
Journalism: www.authory.com/davidbarnett
Books: www.amazon.co.uk/stores/author/B0034PY7ZW
Comics: leagueofcomicgeeks.com/people/16810/david-barnett/comics
Agent: Laura Williams, Greene & Heaton greeneheaton.co.uk/clients/david-m-barnett
Dan Hanks @danhanks.bsky.social Editor. Author of THE WAY UP IS DEATH (Jan 2025), SWASHBUCKLERS and CAPTAIN MOXLEY & THE EMBERS OF THE EMPIRE. Vegan. He/him.
James Bailey @drjamesbailey.bsky.social Writer from Manchester. LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD, my biography of Muriel Spark, out now! 🐈⬛
https://lnk.to/LikeaCatLovesaBird
Instagram.com/drjamesbailey
Rossiter Books @rossiterbooks.bsky.social Independent booksellers
Cheltenham, Hereford, Ledbury, Leominster, Malvern, Monmouth and Ross-on-Wye
https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/rossiterbooks
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Lucy Banks @lucybanks.bsky.social Programme Manager @ASCEL. Advocate for libraries. Author of stories: Caged Little Birds, The Depths, Dr Ribero etc.. (Sandstone, Bloodhound Books, Chicago Review Press). Full-time book-monster and #folkhorror obsessive. All views are my own.
It's Strange Up North @strangeupnorth.bsky.social 1 night
15 authors
A whole lot of fun
strangeupnorth.co.uk
Rye 🪲 @ryelynn.bsky.social 🐌 they/them
🧠 AuDHD
🎲 Magic the gathering
🎮 Fromsoft, Silent Hill, RDR2, TLOU
✏️ Mountainview MFA at SNHU
📖 Indie bookseller & writer
🔭 writing a #bloodymary fic against my will
🦖 icon @ferafel.bsky.social
Death Sentence @deathsentencepod.bsky.social A podcast about books for people who don't like books or capitalism but who do like death metal, featuring @tallesteden.bsky.social, @garethwatkins.bsky.social and @pyramidmaster.bsky.social.
https://soundcloud.com/death-sentence-pod
Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social Writing in the New Statesman, Liberal Currents, New Socialist, Tribune, Vulture, Aftermath. Host of Death Sentence podcast.
Matthew Christopher @matthewchristopher.bsky.social Debut novel: THE FEDORA. Movie nerd.
I’ll bring home the turkey if you bring home the bacon.
Rep’d @jjbker.bsky.social of Bell Lomax Moreton
Max Gruff @maximilliangruff.bsky.social Royal college of art graduate, querying my first novel, also working on new WIP
Ronnie Turner @ronnieturner8702.bsky.social Author of Small Fires (27/02/25) + So Pretty. Waterstones Lead Bookseller. Wanderer. Nerd. Lover of words.
Shelley Trower @shelleytrower.bsky.social Writer & Professor Emerit (Roehampton), research facilitator & peer supporter for Survivors' Voices. Cornwall.
& see e.g. https://linktr.ee/shelleytrower
Tim Hannigan @timhannigan.bsky.social Writer from Cornwall: #TheGraniteKingdom, #TheTravelWritingTribe, #ThePathlessLand (forthcoming), Indonesian history; academic stuff on travel writing. Teaches Writing & Literature at ATU Sligo.
Bookish Scifi & Fantasy @bookishsff.bsky.social Posting Science Fiction, Fantasy, Geekery, bookshop life, occasional cats.
Expert Bookseller at Waterstones Ipswich and/or Bury Arc.
(Views mine, not representative of Waterstones)
Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com Writer, game designer, artist | Making SIGNET CITY | WISHLIST NOW - https://bit.ly/SC-Steam
Creator of Citizen Sleeper series + In Other Waters | editor Heterotopias | IndieCade, GDCA winner | Hugo, BAFTA, IGF, DICE + TGA nominee | PhD | they/them |
Matthew Shaw @matthewmshaw.bsky.social Artist. Author, co-founder of @the_stone_club
🌿🪨articles for @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social
@resurgencetrust.bsky.social
@tgomagazine.bsky.social
#MDANT
Mark Jenkin @marghjenkin.bsky.social Writer/Director of BAFTA winning BAIT, BIFA winning ENYS MEN, and upcoming ROSE OF NEVADA. Repped by SAYLE SCREEN(UK) & WME(USA).
Enquiries: matthew@saylescreen.com
Rebecca Mae @rebeccamaewrites.bsky.social Writer ✏️ Reader 📚 Tutor 📝 Cat Mama x 3 🐈 Bona Fide Martian 👽
🏳️🌈
neanderthal paganism @milbel.bsky.social Writing about the origins of religious thought, prehistoric ritualism, mythology, and pre/perinatal psychology.
Articles here ➡️ milbel.com
Alice Skelton @aliceeskelton.bsky.social Lecturer in Developmental Psychology, University of Sussex
Co-Lead Sussex Baby Lab
Currently working on visual diet (head cams), simulations of baby vision, cognition after nature/urban scene exposure, development of aesthetic preference & biophilia 
SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social Dedicated to bringing the best flash narratives to the web, by widely published authors or those new to the craft. Est.2003. Paying up to $150. www.smokelong.com. No Trump supporters. Follow also @heyflashvillage.bsky.social
Katy Soar @kjsoar.bsky.social PhD. Senior lecturer in Archaeology @uniwinchester.bsky.social.
Writer for Hellebore. Editor 'Strange Relics' with Dr. Amara Thornton (Handheld Press), 'Circles of Stone' & 'Return of the Ancients' (BL Tales of the Weird). She/her.
I have a dog.
Nat Doig @weirdinthewade.bsky.social I’ve an award winning podcast about all that’s weird and a little off kilter in the town of Biggleswade and Bedfordshire. History with a pinch of the paranormal, folklore & urban legends. I also like cake, cats, beating bosses and disability rights.
Talis Kimberley🇪🇺 @taliskimberley.bsky.social Songwriter/Performer/Wordsmith. Doggerel, Limericks. She/her. Folklore, yarncraft, pagan. Antifa, trans rights, organ doner, European. Made of stories. No AI. www.talis.net & YouTube. Will sing for supper & £. Re-enchantment is resistance.
Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social Illustrator, performer, walker of the hills at dusk, lunatic. Hooklander.
Pro EU, anti fascist. https://thomassbrown.com/ Store here https://thomas-brown-1.sumupstore.com/ and also here https://www.redbubble.com/people/TattercatStudio/shop
@dartmoorrocks.bsky.social @dartmoorrocks.bsky.social 30+ years of adventures on the Moor.
Marc C. Green @owillowwaly.bsky.social Painter and digital illustrator of haunted landscapes and folklore. Nature lover. No AI trash. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
LichfieldLore @lichfieldlore.bsky.social Lover of curiosities, legends & languages. Searching for stories in Staffordshire & beyond. The weird one from @lichdiscovered. Website: lichfieldlore.co.uk
Alex Stone @alexstone1.bsky.social Bit of writing. Bit of dealing in decorative arts. Food. Music. Poetry. Books. Foraging. Ceramics. Art. Folk stuff. Ducks. Cheshire.
Karl Sinfield - Folk Music @karlsinfield.bsky.social Folk music, author/editor/owner of Sing Yonder books & albums. Links.sindesign.co.uk
Bob Fischer @bobfischer.bsky.social Writer and mumbler. Haunted Generation, Fortean Times, Electronic Sound, Doctor Who Magazine, Shindig, Mulgrave Audio, Wiffle Lever To Full, Scarred For Life and Summer Winos. Summat to do innit
The Folklore Podcast @folklorepod.bsky.social Official account of The Folklore Podcast. 2 million downloads worldwide. Created by folklorist and author Mark Norman. Find us online at http://www.thefolklorepodcast.com
Film/TV rep: Past Preservers Author for various publishers
Folklore of Scotland @folklorescotland.bsky.social A book of Scottish folklore by Ayrshire-born Druid and Bard, Stephen G. Rae. Available in print and ebook. Published by The FolkLore Press.
Enigma Morris @enigmamorris.bsky.social All inclusive Border Morris side from South Somerset founded in 2014.
Wild Moon Morris @wild-moon-morris.bsky.social Wild Moon Morris are a new mixed border side from Glastonbury in Somerset, England. Our dances are based on local Folklore and legend. We look forward to dancing for you, or with you.
Shrewsbury Morris Dancers @shrewsmorris.bsky.social A friendly #Morris dance team from Shrewsbury, England. We’re fun and we follow positive, hopeful people. 👉No DMs or Llamas please👈 (well, maybe Llamas) 😊 Also still at the other place. Posts by Graydon. We’re 50 this year! shrewsburymorris.co.uk
Abingdon Traditional Morris Dancers @abingdonmorrisatmd.bsky.social 
morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social History, folklore, music, archaeology, books, Guardian reader. Castle botherer and humanist church crawler. Retired railwayman. Morris dancer and Mummers player. And trees. Lots of trees.
MISERDEN MORRIS @miserdenmorris.bsky.social A mixed Cotswold Morris Dancing side practicing Tuesdays at Stroud Old Town Hall, come and join us!
https://www.miserdenmorris.com/
Saddleworth Women's Morris and Clog @swmandc.bsky.social Northwest Morris side based in Saddleworth. Contact us also on saddleworthwomensmorrisclog@gmail.com
The Hoodeners @hoodening.org.uk Centuries of traditional folk drama with the Hooden Horse of East Kent; still never knowingly over-rehearsed.
The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social Exploring the folklore and folk life of Warwickshire. I can also be found at @hilaryrsparkes.bsky.social
Elizabeth Dearnley @elizadearnley.bsky.social Folklorist, writer, Lecturer in Creative Writing at Edinburgh Napier. FEARSOME FAIRIES, HAUNTED YORKSHIRE etc. (British Library), THE FAIRY SPOTTER’S GUIDE (Welbeck). Fairy tales / horror / weird and eerie 🦇 Rep’d https://www.philippasitters.co.uk. She/her
Jack @jackalopeart.bsky.social Illustration, printmaking & pamplets - Right Villainous Chapbooks
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/RightVillainousCo
Hedley Thorne @hedleythorne.bsky.social Historic site photographer, podcaster, wild camping YouTuber, Heathrow's IT Operations Manager. Scared of fish.
Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social Bloke & sometime Illustrator (I illustrated The Woman in Black by Susan Hill, published by Vintage Classics).
Banner:Toby Jones in The Detectorists, a sign reads “ring pulls through the ages”
Bradford
nicktankard.co.uk Prints, Originals and Portfolio.
Owen Davies @odavies9.bsky.social Historian and Folklorist. Writes books on witches, magic, ghosts, religion, popular medicine, and folklore.
Sarah Coomer @sarahcoomer.bsky.social Edinburgh-based artist/illustrator. Folio Society Book Illustration Award 2022 Shortlist. Heraldic artist for the Lyon Court. Rep’d by Paul Moreton at @belllomaxmoreton.bsky.social Linktree: https://linktr.ee/sarahcoomer
Mark S. Williamson @spaceshipmark.bsky.social Musician, educator, filmmaker. Landscape drones and scrapes. Old stones.
Children's music workshops with the Primitive Percussion Youth Orchestra.
Deep in the valley, Todmorden.
#MDANT
https://linktr.ee/spaceship_mark
Sam Sweeney @samsweeney.bsky.social Fiddle player with Bellowhead and Leveret. NYFE Artistic Director 2016-19. BBC Folk Musician Of The Year 2015. Folkophobe. Inadvisably vocal with my opinions.
Folk Around And Find Out @folkaround.bsky.social Folklore & History Enthusiast
Curator of Hidden West Yorkshire for the BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p0hzw9dt?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
The Wayfarer 🗿 🛵 🎩 @the-wayfarer.bsky.social Proud Somerset Pagan, Morris dancer, Scooterist, photographer, and magazine writer, Folkloreist, Yeovil Town FC.
Francine @francibambi.bsky.social All cuttle and no fish.
Co-host of The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret. Writing and art and stuff, too.
The Local Mythstorian @elilewislycett.bsky.social Eli Lewis-Lycett is an independent folklorist and history writer from Cheshire - described by the BBC as “one of the definitive voices on Cheshire and Staffordshire folklore."
Visit thelocalmythstorian.com
Museum of Magic, Fortune-telling & Witchcraft @museum-mfw.bsky.social Witchcraft Museum, Witch Walking Tours and Tarot readings in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Directed by Ash William Mills
Website: www.museummfw.com
Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social Wading around at the confluence of arts / nature / culture since 2007
Regular posts at caughtbytheriver.net 🐟 Irregular printed matter, record releases & events via rivertones.bandcamp.com and our Friday newsletter
Catherine Gogerty @catherinegogerty.bsky.social Artist and Illustrator, Folklore explorer, lover of History and the Macabre
Sheffield Folk Guide @sheffieldfolkguide.bsky.social A guide to folk music and dance events in and near Sheffield by @KathyBarnes. Please see www.sheffieldfolkguide.org.uk. A non-commercial information sharing service.
The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social We explore the history of the English countryside and its people. Chaotic Good.
https://merl.reading.ac.uk/
Tim Downie @timdownie.bsky.social Actor. Writer. Moustache. Ambassador for The Flying Seagull Project, Blue Sky Autism Project & The Sick Children’s Trust. Agents: Independent Talent & Lip Service Voices. https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/475535/rituals-by-downie-tim/9781529980387
Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival @theharvestmaid.bsky.social Writer/Editor. Co-founder @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social. Folk horror obsessive. Loves to talk books, movies, music, and booze. She/her
Blog:
https://theharvestmaidsrevenge.com/
The Shropshire Witches Podcast 🦇 @shropwitchespod.bsky.social History, witches, folklore, hauntings, and all things superstitious, Shropshire and beyond 🔮
Alix Chidley-Uttley and Amy Boucher. 🐸🐈⬛🦇
Folk&Horror Phenomena @folkphenomena.bsky.social Philosophy, SW and Education guy. Reviews of gigs, albums and theatre in the folk world. Considers all horror media. Writes with an emphasis on experiential feel and wonder. Sheffield based, also on Youtube and 1/3 of "3 Men and a Whisky".
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
Kelly Holmes 👻 @kellydirector.bsky.social Director. Writer. Rejection Racoon. Goth Kitten Owner. Maker Of Horror Films...Runs Around In Graveyards. Probably A Witch. Def A Ghost 👻
Mat Pringle @matpringle.bsky.social Illustrator, Printmaker and Arts Facilitator.
Portfolio - https://matpringle.co.uk
Shop - https://matpringleillustration.bigcartel.com/
Victoria Clough @ladyvictoriart.bsky.social Historian and Artist
https://ladyvictori.art/
Fawnlorn @fawnlorn.bsky.social • Artist from the Lake District, England. • Inspired by folklore and nature. 🌿 www.fawnlorn.com
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)
The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social The BCDM is a virtual museum enjoying history, art and the natural world in the Midlands . All photos by the BCDM.
http://thebcdyingmuseum.blog
Folk Horror Magpie 🌬️ @folkhorrormagpie.bsky.social 🌾Collecting trinkets & curios of the folk horror genre.
Folklore, oral tradition, rituals & festivals, psychogeography, forteana, revivalism & the occult🌾
Alias Hollie Starling
https://smarturl.it/TheBleedingTree
Scarfolk @scarfolk.bsky.social Scarfolk is a town called Scarfolk. For more information please re-read.
Dr Diane A Rodgers @dianearodgers.bsky.social Doctor of Folk Horror & Wyrd TV | tinyurl.com/WyrdTV | Centre for Contemporary Legend | President of ISCLR | National Folklore Survey | Derby Dracula | The CK5 band | All views my own (she/her) https://linktr.ee/dr.diane.rodgers
Dr Delyth Badder @folklorewales.com Welsh folklorist • Author • Honorary Research Fellow, Amgueddfa Cymru • Antiquarian book collector • Rheibio'n Gymraeg • The Folklore of Wales: Ghosts (2023) • Represented by jonathanclowes.co.uk
folklorewales.com
London Fortean Society @forteanlondon.bsky.social Strange and wonderful events since 2011
Paranormal, psychic, folkloric, fortean events.
Sharing the oddest London-based news.
Fortean Times @forteantimes.bsky.social The journal of strange phenomena
Tales of Britain and Ireland @talesofbritireland.bsky.social A podcast telling myths, legends and folklore of Britain and Ireland in no particular order, made by Graeme.
Find it on all good (and evil) podcast aggregators.
www.talesofbritainandireland.com
Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social Historian of religion and belief | folklorist | Balticist | indexer | lay canon @stedscath.bsky.social | series editor for @universitypress.cambridge.org
B O T C tattoo @botctattoo.bsky.social I hail from the pastoral/industrial depths of the English Midlands, I live in Belfast and I work at Skullduggery Tatú where I make tattoos and artwork inspired by the folk psychedelia of these haunted islands.
For bookings email botctattoo@gmail.com
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
Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social He/him. Bristol. Writer, content designer. No alt text = no repost. Not here for politics. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/raynewman Header: Thin Places in Hard Concrete https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DC5PL7T4 Agent: https://blakefriedmann.co.uk/ray-newman
Right to Roam @righttoroam.bsky.social Campaigning to unlock access to nature in England & Wales. 🥾🌿🔓
get in touch: hello@righttoroam.org.uk
resources and links: https://linktr.ee/right2roam