Darker Times @darkertimes.bsky.social A worker-owned horror culture magazine.
www.darkertimes.com
Jon @thelitcritguy.bsky.social writer.
phd in gothic literature. writing on horror, utopia, the gothic nightmare of capitalism
CAPITALISM A HORROR STORY out now, working on a new book about HOUSES
Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social They pay brisk money for this crap?
MAKE ME BETTER and NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH on sale now
Hellraiser, Eat the Rich, Echo Wife, Spread Me @ your local bookstore and comic shop
Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social “Zizek if he was a woman and loved sandwiches”
New Yorker staff writer, dept. of mastication
It’s always Free Palestine 🍉
Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social Film Critic (Film Comment, Reverse Shot, etc). GALECA.
Co-Author of CORPSES, FOOLS AND MONSTERS
Currently writing a book about TWIN PEAKS
Fitzcarraldo Editions @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social Independent publisher.
fitzcarraldoeditions.com
Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me Writer, Colombo. Wrote THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS (2023, Nebula, Ignyte, Crawford, and Locus awards) & RAKESFALL (2024, Le Guin Prize and Otherwise award.) https://vajra.me
Donyae Coles @okokno.bsky.social I'm a writer, artist. A brain inside of a pile of blankets. Also check out my book, Midnight Rooms!
Find me in these places: https://linktr.ee/okokno
Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social Indie press in Canada. World Fantasy Award, Shirley Jackson Award, HWA Specialty Press Award, and British Fantasy Award-winner. Endearingly weird. (Posts by Michael Kelly)
https://undertowpublications.com/
George Sandison @georgesandison.bsky.social Managing Editor @titanbooks.bsky.social. Ran multiple award-winning Unsung Stories. Writer: HINTERLANDS @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social. European (yes, still). Empathy, compassion & ice cream pls. He/Him.
AGENCY out now https://shorturl.at/iqPUx
andrew rivas @andrew-rivas.com BRAVE NEW WEIRD award winner;
author of EAT THE RICH,
A NICE PLACE FULL OF GOOD PEOPLE,
& MORE: andrew-rivas.com
Lilly Wachowski @lillywachowski.bsky.social Trans Giantess. 
Maggie Levin Derrickson @maggielevin.bsky.social writer • director • wgaw board member
Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social yassified RL Stine & bestselling horror author of The Dead of Summer, The Honeys. Also: Beholder, Reverie, Be Dazzled.
My cat's name is Haunted Little Girl.
https://www.ryanlasala.com/the-dead-of-summer/
M.M. Olivas @olivasthewriter.bsky.social Mara can't spell.
🏳️⚧️ 🇲🇽 Xicane futurist and horror writer, author of Sundown in San Ojuela. Ignyte finalist, longlister for Stokers. Clarion 22.
Stories at: olivasthewriter.wtf
Sundown available at: https://lanternfishpress.com/shop/sundown-in-san-ojuela
Alex Hofelich, PseudoPod @pseudopodalex.bsky.social Co-Editor of PseudoPod, Jury Coordinator and Co-Chair of the Bram Stoker Awards, former Co-Chair of the Atlanta Chapter of HWA
Bad Hand Books @badhandbooks.bsky.social You can do a lot with a bad hand. We're bringing you the best horror, dark fantasy, & crime fiction. Owned & operated by Bram Stoker Award and Shirley Jackson Award winner Doug Murano.
Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social Beyond the grace of God, a wanderer in the outer darkness.
Lambda Award winner, Locus Award finalist, Best-selling author of MANHUNT, CUCKOO, and BLACK FLAME, out now from Tor Nightfire, and CHIMERA, coming 2027
Profile pic by @theoboopis.bsky.social
Lambda Literary @lambdaliterary.org Lambda Literary, celebrating LGBTQ+ storytellers since 1985. Home of the Lammy Awards, Writers in Schools, the Emerging Writers Retreat for LGBTQ Voices, and the Lambda Literary Review.
lambdaliterary.org
lambdaliteraryreview.org
linktr.ee/lambdaliterary
Diversity in Horror (they/them) @diversityhorror.bsky.social I’m a queer, biracial, and neurodiverse enby. Diversity in Horror is my website where I review and promote fiction featuring and/or created by BIPOC, people with disabilities, and LGBTQIA+ folk. You can check it out here: https://diversityhorror.com/
Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social SFF writer—Year’s Best Canadian SFF, Fantasy Mag, THIS Mag. @SFWA. Banff Sci-fi ‘25. 6X Aurora Finalist. Ignyte Finalist. Loves fairy tales, comics, games, D&D.
Publisher @augursociety — Augur, Tales & Feathers, Augur Books.
Contact @ www.kerrycbyrne.com
The FOLD @thefoldcanada.bsky.social Updates on the Festival of Literary Diversity, FOLD Kids Book Fest, Into the FOLD podcast, and all year-round events supporting underrepresented Canadian authors.
Canadian Science Fiction & Fantasy Association @csffa.bsky.social We are a non-profit dedicated to celebrating the best in Canadian speculative fiction. Run by a volunteer board, CSFFA facilitates the annual Prix Aurora Awards & administers the Canadian SF Hall of Fame: www.csffa.ca
Managed by @kalinstacey.bsky.social
Kathy Palm @kathleenpalm.bsky.social MG horror writer. General weirdo. Find me running in the haunted cornfields. Author of The Nowhere Series from Undertaker Books (Middle Grade horror) HWA Chicago.
Creepy is fun.
Michael Bettendorf @beardedbetts.bsky.social Writer. Eater of Books. Lover of Comics. Library Tech. Drummer. Burrito enthusiast. He/Him husband.
Author of TRVE CVLT, Midwestern Chrome (2026), Help! I Can't Stop Shitting Snakes (2027).
www.michaelbettendorfwrites.com.
Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social Irish dilettante and horror writer in Berlin.
Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com best-selling & award-winning comics idiot, beautiful giantess // buy SIMPLICITY on sale now // mattielubchansky.com // @nogodsnomayors.com // temporalculturewar.com // bass faithvoid.bandcamp.com // she
Atria Books @atriabooks.bsky.social We're probably on your bookshelf.
Get our books here >> simonandschuster.com
Jenny Kiefer @jennykiefer.com Horror writer and owner of Butcher Cabin Books in Louisville, Kentucky. Author of THIS WRETCHED VALLEY & CRAFTING FOR SINNERS (Oct 25). Bram Stoker Nominee.
Fuck fascists & AI
Vince Liaguno @vinceliaguno.bsky.social Award-winning writer, anthologist, editor, critic, and an occasional poet. Healthcare administrator by day, pop culture enthusiast by night. My jam: books, slasher films, and Jamie Lee Curtis. Member: HWA, ITW, and NBCC. 
Mercedes M. Yardley @missmurdermercedes.bsky.social Bram Stoker Award-Winning author, dark fantasist, family girl, artist, cupcake baker.
Rebecca Cuthbert @rebeccacuthbert.bsky.social Feminist horror, dark poetry, strange tales. EIC of Undertaker Books. Rep'd by Tobias Literary Agency. More at linktr.ee/rebeccacuthbertwrites.
Scott Edelman @scottedelman.bsky.social Scott Edelman is a Stoker Award-nominated writer and Hugo Award-nominated editor of science fiction, fantasy & horror, as well as the host of the Hugo Award-nominated Eating the Fantastic podcast! (He/Him)
Barnes & Noble @barnesandnoble.com 📚Book lover & whatnot📚
BarnesandNoble.com
Darius Jones @dariusjones.bsky.social Habitual writer. Cubicle poet. Transcendental Horror, Cosmic Horror, Dark Fantasy. Member: HWA, SFWA, SFPA. He/him. dariusjoneswriter.com
Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social Scottish SFFH Author | Shirley Jackson Award & BFA Finalist | Latest: LIMELIGHT, Shortwave, DARK CRESCENT, Luna Press | Words in Apex, Analog, Weird Tales, & more | Rep: Michael Mungiello InkWell, Film/TV: Sean Berard https://linktr.ee/lyndseycroal
Ben Monroe @benmonroe.com “Just a man” — Billy Shakespeare
I write stuff that nobody reads. www.BenMonroe.com
He/him
Andrew Joseph White 🏴🏳️⚧️ @ajwhiteauthor.bsky.social #1 bestselling author, trans autistic monster boy • out now: YOU WEREN'T MEANT TO BE HUMAN • up next: YOU’RE NO BETTER • he/him • andrewjosephwhite.com • mostly crossposting
DB Powell @dbpowell.bsky.social She/they. 🇨🇦 FR<>EN translator. Wannabe writer. Animal lover. Wrestling fan. Reading challenge creator. Night owl. Yeet genAI into the sun.
@brianmatthews2407.bsky.social @brianmatthews2407.bsky.social 
Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social A daily literary website highlighting the best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and criticism.
https://linktr.ee/lithub_
Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
Summer Scares @summerscares.bsky.social A reading program designed to introduce new horror authors to readers & to help librarians with horror RA. Titles include adult, YA, & MG. Time to get scared!
Sam J Miller @sentencebender.bsky.social Award-winning, best-selling queer sci-fi & horror novels & stories. Banned in Florida; stolen by AI. Serializing JUPITER RUINS EVERYTHING. https://linktr.ee/samjmiller
CJ Leede @ceejthemoment.bsky.social Americana Psycho❤️🔥🏜️🐺🏔️🪐🖖🏻
USA Today bestselling author of MAEVE FLY, AMERICAN RAPTURE, & HEADLIGHTS
Alyssa🖤 @alyssaalessi.bsky.social HWA•Spooktastic Book Fair•New England
Izzy Hoffman Is Not A Witch 23’ 📚
Words in NoSleep Podcast & Cinnabar E-Zine
https://linktr.ee/pagesinthegraveyard
John Langan @johnlangan.bsky.social Writer. All monsters, all the time. Filthy liberal.
Matt Ramsey @onenerdyopinion.bsky.social Huge nerd. I love books and people who love books, D&D, Horror, SciFi, Boardgames... Basically if the thing you're thinking of is nerdy, I probably love it. Dog and cat dad to Spike & Dandruff. He/Him
https://linktr.ee/OneNerdyOpinion
💙 Rachel Bolton 👀 @raebolt.bsky.social Be the deranged vintage housewife they fear. Stoker Nom’d. Apex Magazine, WWAC, Scriptophobic, and more. HWA Affiliate. rachelmbolton.wordpress.com
She/Her
Ally Ally Oxenfree @allymalinenko.bsky.social She/her 🏳️🌈 @Horrorwriters #SpookyMG Rep'd by @renarossner. GHOST GIRL, the Bram Stoker nominated THIS APPEARING HOUSE, THE OTHER MARCH SISTERS and Stephen King endorsed BROKEN DOLLS
Terrified State @terrifiedstate.bsky.social Welcome to Terrified State
Where the Love of the #Horror genre is shown daily. Art work, reviews, views and terrifying experiences.
By Hugh
Engaged to a beautiful woman named Dawna
In Arizona
Letterboxd~ https://boxd.it/1Yeo7
The ARC Party @thearcparty.com Your first look at upcoming books!
Hear authors talk about their upcoming releases, and plan your TBR! Find out how to pre-order, and when authors are doing signed orders! Learn about book events and tours!
https://linktr.ee/arcparty
Alma Katsu (pre-order INCARNATE now!) @almakatsu.bsky.social NYT bestselling novelist. Former intelligence professional, tech futurist.
Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social Stoker nominated horror writer; editor of NIGHTMARE MAGAZINE. Rep'd by Lane Heymont. 🏳️🌈
Portland, OR - plant nerd, foot traveler - she/her, they/them
https://linktr.ee/wendynwagner
Melody E. McIntyre @melodyemcintyre.bsky.social Canadian writer of short, speculative fiction. Also a Legal Assistant, Martial Artist, Classicist, Pet owner, and Time-traveller. She/They.
https://linktr.ee/melodyemcintyre
HWA Ontario @hwaontario.bsky.social Horror Writers Association
Ontario Chapter
#horrorwriters #HWAOntario
Third Estate Books @thirdestatebooks.bsky.social Radical Indie Horror Press. EIC: Aquino Loayza. Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité. We don’t want cake, we want blood.
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 (?) )
👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻 @pauljessup.com Award winning writer of creepy stuff. Glass House, Skinless Man Counts to Five, Daughter of the Wormwood Star, Suicide Music, & Cancer Eats the Heart out now. Rustbelt Gothic coming Oct 2026. Creator of the game Bad Writer
website: https://pauljessup.com
Joe Butler @writelikeashark.bsky.social Weird/Curio/Sci-Fi/Horror writer, novelist, & creator of the Haunted Hotel Project. Founder/editor/cover artist for @TLDRpress. Imperfect Creatures published by Diachroneity Books, OUT NOW! (He/Him)
www.writelikeashark.com
William Britner @wbritner.bsky.social An aging man, happy husband, confirmed agnostic, and struggling writer with questionable talent.
Rhonda J. Garcia aka RJ Joseph @rjacksonjoseph.bsky.social Bram Stoker Award winning, Shirley Jackson award nominated writer/professor/editor. She/Her. Literary representation: Natasha Mihell, at The Rights Factory
Kristy Park Kulski @garnetonwinter.bsky.social Bram Stoker Award winning editor & author ❀ CRACKS coming spring '27 ❀ SILK & SINEW ❀ feminist, historian, veteran, Korean-Polish-et-al hapa ❀ (she/her) ❀
Rep: @laneheymont.bsky.social @danaiwrites.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/garnetonwinter
Lee Murray @leemurraywriter.bsky.social ONZM. USA Today bestselling author, 5-time Bram Stoker Award winner, Shirley Jackson, and New Zealand Prime Minister's Award winner. Monster lover from Aotearoa. Represented by Becky LeJeune at Bond Literary.
fwarg @fwarg.bsky.social working on my phd in english/often yearning for california/works on cream city review!
https://linktr.ee/fwarg
Marguerite/Peg Turley @margueriteturl2.bsky.social Nature photographer and horror book lover who moonlights as a bookseller at Lahaska Bookshop.
Instagram @pegt
Twitter MargueriteTurl2
https://linktr.ee/margueriteturley
Jen @ladyjenpool.bsky.social Librarian. Voracious reader and knitter. Oxford comma. Awkward panda. Deadpool stan. Daria-esque. 
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com Release the bats
emily wilson is right @riverssolomon.bsky.social half boy/half milf. (non-degenerates, do not interact)
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.
Laird Barron @lairdbarron.bsky.social A dog of the house
Mainly updates; occasional commentary
Catch me at my Patreon: Realms of Old Leech https://www.patreon.com/lairdbarron/about
Banner art: Chuck Killorin.
Andy Mitton @andymitton.bsky.social Filmmaker, Composer.
Movies:
The Harbinger, The Witch in the Window, Yellowbrickroad, We Go On
Musicals:
Me…Jane: The Dreams & Adventures of Young Jane Goodall, The Gift of Nothing
Su J Sokol (xe, xyr) @cycling2asylum.bsky.social Writer of speculative and interstitial fiction; social rights activist, VP 2024; Cycling to Asylum/Les lignes invisible (longlisted for the Sunburst ), Run J Run, Zee, Invisible Line and Five Points on an Invisible Line🌈
Kristen Tracy @kristentracy.bsky.social Poet, mom, bear safety expert, married to Brian Evenson. I know a lot about beavers, U-boats, barn owls, and Al Capone. Grew up near Yellowstone Park. Helped restore the gardens on Alcatraz. www.kristentracy.com
Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net 🏳️⚧️🇵🇷 Senior Clinical Instructor, Harvard Law Cyberlaw Clinic. Gender & Tech. Views = my own. She/Her.
Read my work at thedissident.news
Inquiries: alejandracaraballo.com/contact
Brian Evenson @brianevenson.bsky.social Short story writer, novelist, television writer. Married to the excellent Kristen Tracy.
Ananda Lima @anandalima.bsky.social Author of CRAFT: STORIES I WROTE FOR THE DEVIL forthcoming @torbooks in 2024 (available for pre-order)
& MOTHER/LAND (Black Lawrence Press)
Rep: Sarah Bowlin (Aevitas)
Work in the American Poetry Review, Poets.org, Kenyon Review Online, Gulf Coast +
Jeff Strand @jeffstrand.bsky.social Bram Stoker Award-winning author of gobs of books, mostly horror/comedy. FUN TIMES AT THE BLOODBATH - July 2026! WGA screenwriter. Bridgett Nelson’s scorching hot boyfriend. https://linktr.ee/jeffstrandauthor
Tim McGregor @timmcgregor.bsky.social Author, occasional doofus, Wasps in the Ice Cream, Lure, Taboo in Four Colors, Hearts Strange and Dreadful, the Spookshow series.
Jordan @lil0wl.bsky.social Outfit updates, random thoughts and random thots. Queer, fantasy land. Actor, Dancer, hard worker. Let’s talk books, anime, art, and being thirsty.
Rex Stephens @rexstephens.bsky.social Of cats and spooky stuff.
Andrew Robertson @andrewawesome.bsky.social 💀 Queer. Horror Writer and Micro-Reviews. Bass for The Blackouts. 💀 My novella, Pressed, and my solo collection, InhuMANities, are available now!
sara “THE RED SACRAMENT” hinkley @boneysoups.bsky.social books: THE RED SACRAMENT, my debut novel, is out now!
Also costume design: ACD/shopper on The Off Weeks, Law and Order: SVU, Law and Order: Organized Crime, Monsterland & more!
USA 829 IATSE, lit rep Isabel Kaufman. she/her
T.E. Grau @tegrau.bsky.social Shirley Jackson/Bram Stoker-nominated author, screenwriter, and producer. I AM THE RIVER, THEY DON'T COME HOME ANYMORE, THE NAMELESS DARK, THE MISSION. Repped by Kim Yau (film/TV – LA) at Echo Lake Management and Katelyn Dougherty (Lit - NYC) at Paradigm.
Titan Books @titanbooks.bsky.social Leading independent publisher of Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror, Crime, Pop Culture, Movie/TV tie-ins & much more 📚 Also, @hardcasecrime.bsky.social
Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com Independent LGBTQ+ journalist, mom, D&D DM. Tips: http://ko-fi.com/erininthemorn // Booking: http://erinreedwrites.com // Venmo erin888
Bylines @TheGuardian.com, @advocate.com, @xtramagazine.com
Subscribe to support my journalism www.erininthemorning.com
Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social Author of Lessons in Magic and Disaster about a woman who teaches her mother how to do magic — and uncovers a queer scandal hidden in a 300 year old book. Writing Star Trek: Zero Point for IDW Comics.
Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social he/him
writer of stories and such
professional bookman for Rough Draft Bar & Books
contributing editor at Literary Hub
occasional guitarist and singer
Ann VanderMeer @annvandermeer.bsky.social Editor, anthologist, writer, poet (because of Linda Addison), former feeder woman to Neo (who was the one).
(she/her)
#ProtectTransKids
#LoveIsLove
weird menace and excessive bloodletting @gemmafiles.bsky.social a preliminary sketch of a crone. Aspergerian mom of an autistic son. I wrote Experimental Film and literally 100+ short stories. Out now: Little Horn, a collection, from Shortwave Publishing. I sing, make jewelry and doodle pretty monsters.
e.c. barrett @ecbarrett.bsky.social writer, teacher, printmaker, literary critic. former reviews editor for Reckoning. they/she. ecbarrett.com
Avi Henriques 🩸 @legalizegoblins.bsky.social He/him gay trans guy, lead editor at Paizo (Pathfinder and Starfinder), vampire enthusiast, union member, zinemaker. May contain bears. Views are my own. #aviarts for art of bears.
Header is Vampyr II by Edvard Munch
https://legalizegoblins.carrd.co/
C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social Lvl 50 Writer of Wrongs. SINISTER 1 & 2. DOCTOR STRANGE. THE BLACK PHONE 1 & 2. THE GORGE. V/H/S/85. SEA OF RUST. DAY ZERO. WE ARE WHERE THE NIGHTMARES GO. Six books, seven movies. Podcaster with JUNKFOOD CINEMA. Frogman. Tio do Churrasco. Misfit toy.