Gothiron @gothiron.bsky.social Graves, confusion, city wandering like a startled cow, complaining about work. A Noticer of Small Things. Can't be arsed about Ambridge or The Archers anymore. MDANT
Frank Cottrell-Boyce @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social Waterstone's UK Children's Laureate
Ideas lead to idols. Only wonder leads to truth.
Swinging a hammock on the Island of Brilliant podcast
https://islandofbrilliant.podbean.com/
Dan Lockton @danlockton.com Utrecht, NL + Norwich, UK
Prof of Design & Imagination, Norwich University of the Arts ⦿ Director, Institute for Sustainable Worlds https://sustainableworlds.org.uk ⦿ Design⸻imagination⸻climate⸻futures ⦿ http://imaginari.es ⦿ he/him ⦿ Not employer's views
The Dark Almanac @darkalmanac.bsky.social A calendar of Britain's dark corners: customs, hauntings, broadsides, séance-press reports
pfp/banner credit: Lewis Ashton
Jayce @jayceb.bsky.social They/them 🏳️🌈 Free Palestine 🇵🇸
https://boxd.it/a5mTX
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/
@cabinetstories.bsky.social @cabinetstories.bsky.social Cabinets of Curiosities. Stories in film, fiction and art
Big Bearded Bookseller @bigbeardedbookseller.com Expert Waterstones bookseller with a very big beard
Books read: 87/100
📚 Twisted Pike
📺 Lanterns
https://www.bigbeardedbookseller.com
https://www.ephemeral.co.uk
James Dalrymple @jamesewand.bsky.social Teaching/lecturing in France. Occasional academic.
Cinema, books, music, vintage television, podcasts (usually while cooking for the family), teaching, life in France etc.
Film reviews at: letterboxd.com/jamesewand/
Museum of Curiosities @curiositiesmuseum.bsky.social 🕯️ Monsieur Pompier’s Museum of Curiosities
🎪 35 Pembroke Street Lower — Dare to Enter?
🎟️ Tickets: https://museumofcuriosities.ie/tickets
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Crumpled Linen Press @crumpledlinenpress.com Beautiful facsimile manuscript editions of great literary works, annotated by world-leading scholars. www.crumpledlinenpress.com
Phil Norman @mrphilnorman.bsky.social There's no need to get all plums and prisms.
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
Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social Never forget to fear the kraken.
BBC EPG scheduler and spelling making righter-er. Doctor Who, Nigel Kneale, M.R. James etc. He/Him
Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social All-around genius working for peace, beauty, and intelligent thought.
IRL: professor of art history. Occasionally write things about Rubens. Also Dutch art, the Bruegel family, and Elizabethan visual culture.
Reader of many novels. DC & Amsterdam.
Alex Davis @alexdavis1981.bsky.social Lecturer, workshopper and creative writing events organiser - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/alex-davis-events-17318878423
RABlack Art @rablackart.bsky.social Art.
Anthony Oliveira @meakoopa.bsky.social international bestselling pervert • writer: DAYSPRING, AVENGERS ACADEMY, etc • film programmer • phd • any pronouns http://linktr.ee/meakoopa lycan sub scribe.
DAYSPRING - out now! dayspringbook.com
Tom De Ville @devilligan.bsky.social Writer-Director. Damned Andrew for R4, Lord of Misrule, NBC's Hannibal, Stan Lee's Lucky Man, Corvidae, Lexx, Urban Gothic, and other delicious morsels.
NetworkOnAir @networkonair.bsky.social 
Emma Merkling @emmamerkling.bsky.social Lecturer (Assist. Prof.) in British Art @manchester.ac.uk | c19 Horror/Occultism @cncsi.bsky.social | Co-Host @drawingbloodpod.bsky.social | Writing & teaching c19 British art & science | Victorian ecologies, bodies, occultisms, subjectivity | they/she 👻🔮
Eric Orchard @inkybat.bsky.social Illustrator
Kjipuktuk
Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/ericorchard?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator
g.j.hilton @hltn.bsky.social historian of scenography
interests: the material, manufacture & manufacturers of spectacle (intermezzi, machines, festivals, feasts, fireworks); history of magnificence from below
before I was ill: choreographer, production designer, theatrical engineer
The Film Canary @thefilmcanary.bsky.social He/him. Going into cinematic depths to see what's safe. Currently raising money for Crisis, PCRF, and AKT. https://gvwhl.com/F0WFP
John Hornor Jacobs @johnhornor.bsky.social Author of The Night That Finds Us All, A Lush and Seething Hell, Murder Ballads
Shirley Jackson, Bram Stoker, World Fantasy Award Finalist
CLOSED TO BLURB REQUESTS, for now at least
website: http://www.johnhornor.com
Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social Writer, archaeologist, wild swimmer, wild gardener. New book ECHOLANDS -A JOURNEY IN SEARCH OF BOUDICA out now from @Hodderbooks.bsky.social https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/duncan-mackay/echolands/9781399714143/ Rep. Jim Gill at Felicity Bryan Associates
Sapphire Goss @sapphiregoss.bsky.social Light Sensitive Materials
sapphiregoss.com
Dead Ink Books @deadinkbooks.bsky.social Independent publisher of bold new fiction and non-fiction, based in Liverpool
https://linktr.ee/deadinkbooks
Cinema Strikes Back @cinemastrikesback.bsky.social Movie reviews, news and interviews since 2004. We particularly love the unusual and absurd – kung fu, giallo, Czech New Wave, etc.
Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/tVcR
Julian Singleton 🎃 @juliansingleton.bsky.social CODA. Bi/Polyam. 👻🎃
🍅-Approved
📝 @cinapse.bsky.social / Austin Film Critics / GALECA / Rue Morgue / Nighttide
📀🎙️ Arrow + Imprint
❤️ Equitable 🎬🎞️ Access.
Doing OK so far.
Opinions my own.
Professional inquiries: juliansingletonfilm@gmail
ReelStreets @reelstreets.bsky.social ReelStreets brings together more than 53,000 comparison images of #filmlocations appearing in over 3500 productions from the last 125 years of #cinema
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
Pam Wishbow @pamwishbow.bsky.social Illustration, zines, fortunes, playing with metal sometimes
Seattle
Pamwishbow.com
Will Tullett @willtullett.bsky.social He/him. Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at University of York. Books on 'Smell in Eighteenth-Century England' and 'Smell and the Past'. Sniff: A History of Smells out 8th September #smellhistory #smellstudies #sensoryhistory
Kooks @coupleofkooks.bsky.social Kooks • they / them • PhD • illustrator
coupleofkooks.myportfolio.com
"I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things"
Dan Doody @doodydan.bsky.social Film Programmer | Curator, Seattle International Film Festival
Classic Horror | Gothic | Ghost Stories | Film Noir | TCM | Maigret
Like to pretend I can time travel to historic Seattle cinemas, #ThenShowing
letterboxd.com/dandoody/
📍Seattle, WA
Coy Hall @coyhall.bsky.social Author of horror, crime, & sci-fi. Professor of History. Great Pyrenees obsessed. Italian movie completist. Anti-A.I.
My books: https://linktr.ee/CoyHallBooks
Anni Jyn @annijyn.com she/her
erotica + horror artist
all arts + info visit annijyn.com
i ship worldwide from a tiny village in england
💌 annijyn@gmail.com
🍯 https://ko-fi.com/annijyn#
🎁 https://throne.com/annijyn
Steven Sloss 🛸 @stevensloss.bsky.social Kaiju guy, writer, presenter, curator, and Austin Powers appreciator. Author of BFI Film Classics: Godzilla, coming from Bloomsbury in 2027 📖
Dr Dan O’Brien @drdan.bsky.social Historian of undertakers and funerals in Eighteenth Century England. Researching the trade and their goods. Visiting Research Fellow at CDAS, University of Bath.
Associate Fellow of Royal Historical Society
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
Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social FT Architecture and Design critic. Author of ‘On the Street: In-Between Architecture’. Jeez. Another platform. @financialtimes.com
Rev. Rory Castle Jones @rorycastlejones.bsky.social ❤️ Duw, cariad yw • God is love ❤️
✝️ Unitarian Christian
🌈 LGBTQ+ inclusive
⛪️ Minister, Gellionnen Chapel
🙏 University chaplain
🏴 Cwm Tawe, Cymru
⛰️ Swansea Valley, Wales
BOGLUDDITE @brucemackay.bsky.social Painter, Printmaker, Illustrator, Creative Director & Sculptor.
Posting personal work, experiments & weak jokes. Bad ideas man. He/Him
www.badmanifesto.co.za
www.inprnt.com/profile/brucemackay
Black Dragon Press @blackdragonpress.co.uk Un-Popular Culture Art
Illuminations @illuminations.bsky.social Producer of arts docs, screen performance; posts by John Wyver, Professor of the Arts on Screen, Univ of Westminster; expect broadcasting history, esp early TV, theatre, film, visual art
Images: Magic Rays of Light / de Stael, Le Saladier (detail), ‘54
Lucas Peverill @lucaspeverillart.bsky.social Independent Freelance #Illustrator💊
Clients: ARROW VIDEO. Lionsgate Limited, 101 FILMS. DARK HORSE COMICS. 88 Films. Umbrella Entertainment. Netflix. Vinegar Syndrome.
Art: http://lucaspeverillart.com/
Email: lucaspeverillart@gmail.com
Thea Sabin @theasabin.bsky.social Author, Wicca for Beginners. I write about birds, bats, folklore, history, art, archaeology, things spooky and spiritual, monsters, and VERY bad movies. Ideal day is a hike with my sassy parrot to a Neolithic stone circle for a picnic that includes cheese.
Canadian International Pictures @cipictures.bsky.social From arthouse to Canuxploitation, CIP is devoted to resurrecting vital, distinctive, and overlooked triumphs of Canadian cinema. https://www.canadian-international.com/
C.M. Rosens @cmrosens.com UK Horror & Dark SFF trad [Penguin Canelo] & indie author
HWA Affiliate Writer, BFS Member
ADHD. Welsh-Turkish 🏴🇹🇷. Queer/cis🏳️🌈. She/her.
Podcast: @eldritchgirlpod.bsky.social
Website/Newsletter: cmrosens.com
Visit Pagham-on-Sea: visitpaghamonsea.co.uk
Laura E. Hall @lauraehall.bsky.social Mysteries, puzzles, adventures. I make games, write books & preserve immersive history. PDX. They/she
Immersipedia coming soon 📖
PLANNING YOUR ESCAPE (Simon & Schuster), KATAMARI DAMACY (Boss Fight Books)
✨ lauraehall.com
🔎 cfia.org
🎙️ secretlives.games
Dr Nuits de Young @nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social Historian/art historian (12C & 18C esp), lover of Old Roses, literature, art, music, pigeons & other cute creatures! Trans-inclusive egalitarian #FBPE #UKEUFriend #Aspie
GilchristHeritage at the Other Place. Posts in personal capacity.
She/They
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
Paul Whitelaw @paulwhitelaw.bsky.social Pop culturist. Credits include The Big Issue, Classic Pop, Classic Rock, Doctor Who Magazine, Radio Times, The Scotsman. Co-creator of the So Disappointed podcast. Black cat enabler.
paulbwhitelaw.blogspot.com
Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social Writer, editor, artist, folklorist. Winner of ten World Fantasy Awards, the Mythopoeic Award (for The Wood Wife), the Bram Stoker Award, and the SFWA Solstice Award. Wanderer of the deep, dark forest of story in language and paint.
Dartmoor, Devon, UK
Nucleus Films @nucleusfilms.bsky.social London based boutique blu-ray releasing and extras production.
Marc Morris and Jake West.
Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social Author: Men at War - Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945 on British masculinity, sexuality & the cultural memory of WWII on W&N Books/Orion. First 📖 Out of the Woods, 2019. Co-founder: The Quietus. My stuff: https://linktr.ee/luketurner ⚒️🏳️🌈
Graham Pilling @gp-armyofcats.bsky.social www.armyofcats.com
Graphic artist, Designer & Printmaker.
Fell runner & Cyclist.
Yorkshire, UK.
Chris @staggerlee42.bsky.social Love cinema, literature, music and art. Write occasionally about cinema. Married with two kids. Originally from Greater Manchester/Cheshire. Now based in Northern Ireland. Teacher of History and Politics. Degree, PGCE and MA Ed from University of Durham.
JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social Book lover, film lover, art lover, wine lover. I write about books at JacquiWine's Journal. https://linktr.ee/jacquiwine
The Dispatch @birminghamdispatch.bsky.social Birmingham's new quality newspaper: sending local stories to your inbox. Always looking for new writers & new stories.
Justin LaLiberty @jlalibs.bsky.social Film archivist, programmer, writer, collector etc
Director of Operations at OCN Distribution, Curator of Cinématographe, Producer at Vinegar Syndrome
Words at Screen Slate and Letterboxd, mostly
https://letterboxd.com/jlalibs/
Paul Burley @paulburley.bsky.social Designs things, tries to doodle, fails at sleeping, will die for cats, wants to eat Japan, quite a dork. Repeat forever. Also @paulburleyffs on other places.
📍 Manchester, England
🌐 https://linktr.ee/paulburley
QueenHare @queenhare.bsky.social Artist, bookseller, folklore, linocuts, design, mask making, bookbinding, in Ipswich, Suffolk
Jamie @vanjpes.bsky.social Tired enthusiast. Mostly here to post about old television shows, films, comedy, books, and horror.
Rambles and tangents on culture here: https://arowofopengraves.co.uk/
Guy Davis @guydavisart.bsky.social Concept Designer / Production Designer for Film, Television and Video Games including Frankenstein, The Buried Giant, Pinocchio, Nightmare Alley, Alone in the Dark, Diablo 4, Pacific Rim, Steven Universe. Creator of The Marquis
Synapse Films @synapsefilms.bsky.social Movies to feed your mind since 1998!
Will Perkins @williamhperkins.bsky.social Frankie’s Dad • CCO @wearecontinue.bsky.social • Producer @gamelegendsdoc.bsky.social • Publisher @thatshelf.com • Formerly Art of the Title
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
Sarah Makes People Watch Things! @torsodapop.bsky.social I don’t want to alarm you, but something very sinister is going on here…
teacher / giallo enthusiast / general reprobate
Tomás Hijo @tomashijo.bsky.social Legendary prints, books and tarot decks. (Tarot del Toro, Lord of the Rings tarot, Labyrinth, Dark Crystal, Nigthmare Alley...).
Plenty Wenlock @plentywenlock.bsky.social Tiny homespun record label and publisher based on the Powys/Shropshire border (UK).
Music, pictures and words by Eric Loveland Heath, Dr. Jack Hunter and others.
https://plentywenlockrecords.bandcamp.com / https://plentywenlockpress.bigcartel.com
William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.social Award-winning film critic for The Wrap. Co-host of The Critically Acclaimed Network. LAFCA. CCA. GALECA. Ace. He/Him. 🎃
Mondo Macabro @mondomacabro.bsky.social The Wildside of World Cinema! 
PAUL CONWAY @doomcube.bsky.social Art Director and CEO of Spooky Doorway Games. @spookydoorway.com, developers of The Darkside Detective and The Séance of Blake Manor
#GameDev #indieDev #IrishGameDev
Galway, Ireland 🇮🇪
spookydoorway.com
Rob Tyers @thexclaim6.bsky.social Leeds. Project Manager. Band member. Ex-zine author. 📚 and records. Punk. Cinema. Old stones. Medieval churches. The Long Sixties. Modernism. Weird fiction. Noir…JG Ballard. Otto Dix. Sandy Denny. Harold Pinter…You get the idea
Pete Ward @phenryward.bsky.social Books, art, theatre, and telling people I liked the thing they made. Weird / Gothic short stories published or forthcoming in Cosmic Horror, Macabre, Frost Zone, Rat Bag and elsewhere. Editorial reader at Gavagai.
Matt Round @mattround.com Making the web more fun with vole.wtf 🐹⁉️ @vole.wtf
https://mattround.com
Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social Poet. #ReadMorePoetry Collections: Crown of Eggshell, In the Shadow of Gods @BookWormSat w/ Signe Maene. Literature, art, myth, folklore, the gothic. Left wing. 🇪🇺 She/her 🌈🏳️⚧️ Ally https://linktr.ee/rachel_deering
https://ko-fi.com/kofisupporter68929
Bob Marshall @bobmarshall.co.uk Architectural illustrator / 3D reconstruction artist. Edinburgh, Scotland. #Blender3D Pro. https://bobmarshall.co.uk
GPWigglesworth @gpwigglesworth.bsky.social 'The Book Lover's (& Movie) Quiz Book' (1 & 2) author. Book quiz host - The Betsey Trotwood (next one 15/09). Sales & marketing manager at British Library Publishing. All opinions my own! All quiz dates etc here - https://www.gpwigglesworth.co.uk/
Marc Wilson @marcwilson.co.uk Documentary Photographer.
The Edge of Ruin
Travelogue 2 - A thousand days of longing
The Land is Yellow, the Sky is Blue
Remnants
A wounded landscape - bearing witness to the Holocaust
The Last Stand
www.marcwilson.co.uk
https://linktr.ee/marcwilson
Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social Chris Coates, purveyor of niche drivel: https://substack.com/@oddthisday
Friends of Lister Lane Cemetery (KAVS) @listerlanecem.bsky.social In collaboration with Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council, the Friends maintain this Grade II listed, significant cemetery; the final resting place of some 20,000 individuals. Location: Halifax, England.
https://www.listerlanecemetery.co.uk
Streettrash @streettrash.bsky.social Musician. Songwriter. Cinephile. Gamer. Guitarist in No Devotion https://open.spotify.com/artist/4nyfrMLBht2ELwY68gaLhZ?si=KBr6pmN4SBuxOnGKDilTWQ
Letterboxd- https://boxd.it/2X2ZH
Annemarieke Willemsen @amwillemsen.bsky.social A medieval art historian & archaeologist @ Rijksmuseum van Oudheden Leiden, Dr, FSA, loves Rome & Roma, birds & books, proprietor of the Rose & Parrot 🐺📚🦤
"History is an illusion caused by the passing of time" (Douglas AdAms)
Phelim O’Neill @phelimoneill.bsky.social Now available on Bluesky.
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
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
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
London Fortean Society @forteanlondon.bsky.social Strange and wonderful events since 2011
Paranormal, psychic, folkloric, fortean events.
Sharing the oddest London-based news.
John Freeman @johnfreeman.bsky.social Publisher, downthetubes.net | Linktree: https://linktr.ee/johnfsfreeman | Comics, feature writer, editor. Credits inc. Doctor Who Magazine, Overkill, Star Trek Magazine
Daniel Carpenter @dancarpenter.bsky.social Commissioning editor at Titan Books. Debut collection HUNTING BY THE RIVER out now from Black Shuck Books.
https://linktr.ee/dancarpenter85
Scholars of the Peak @scholarspeak.bsky.social District Synth Bureau. High Peak Broadcast Unit. Album: March 2026. If you blip, bleep or beep then lace up your hiking boots 🥾
https://thescholarsofthepeak.bandcamp.com
Wayside & Woodland Recordings LTD @waysideandwoodlandrecordings.bandcamp.com Staffordshire based independent record label, est 2006. CDs, CDrs, tapes, vinyl, photobooks & prints. Edgeland music.
Home to epic45, Birds In The Brickwork, The Toy Library, My Autumn Empire, The Balloonist etc
LCC municipal @lccmunicipal.bsky.social London County Council, Greater London Council, pre- and post-1965 boroughs in London (+ occasional forays outside of the capital). Municipal stuff from the past that lives on today. Oh, and new towns, shopping centres, infrastructure etc.
lccmunicipal.com
Stone Tape Simulacrum @stonesimulacrum.bsky.social Phil Clarke, Cottingley.
Radiographer specialising in CT. Wannabe doom god with a love for music, photography, folkore and the occult. Will occasionally release music on https://thestonetapesimulacrum.bandcamp.com/
No AI.
Shannon Stamey @wsstamey.bsky.social Circa 1977.
Professional freelance traditional artist and illustrator. Golden Age, fantasy, horror, pulp, film.
Human playlist. French fry enthusiast.
COMMISSIONS OPEN. No AI.
Feel free to DM for work inquiries.
Travis Stevens @travisstevens.bsky.social Filmmaker: JODOROWSKY'S DUNE, CHEAP THRILLS, STARRY EYES, WE ARE STILL HERE, BUSTER'S MAL HEART, 68 KILL, MOHAWK, GIRL ON THE THIRD FLOOR, JAKOB’S WIFE, A WOUNDED FAWN & BOORMAN AND THE DEVIL.