Melancholy Rayne @melancholyrayne.bsky.social Dreaming in shadows & amber leaves 🍁 | Gothic tales, vintage frames, midnight thoughts | Finding magic in the melancholy ✨
@horhpodcast.bsky.social @horhpodcast.bsky.social Hollywood or History? Unpack fact vs. fiction in film. Great for teachers, trivia buffs, and history fans. New episodes every other week.
Available on Spotify, Apple, and YouTube
https://youtube.com/@hollywoodorhistorypodcast?si=gNOPQUnVXde2_NZz
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Jan Marc Morawe @janmarcmorawe.bsky.social Gender Scholar
Interests: (a)sexualities, health communication, masculinities, contraception/safer sex, repro health, climate crisis, IR, peace/conflict studies, utopias/dystopias, mental health, media, history, ...
https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7802-2721
Alex Davis @alexdavis1981.bsky.social Lecturer, workshopper and creative writing events organiser - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/alex-davis-events-17318878423
Lush @lush.com We believe in safer socials, kinder communities and Fresh Handmade Cosmetics. 🫧
Leaving the world Lusher than we found it.
Customer care: lush.com
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Postscript: www.pscript.app
Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
Máiréad Casey @maireadcasey.bsky.social Research interests: horror, gender, genre, sexuality onscreen, representations of sexual violence, demon possession
James Rendell @jamesrendell.bsky.social Lecturer in Creative Industries at University of South Wales. Researching media audiences, horror, film & TV, inclusivity & diversity. FHEA. He/Him. Transmedia Terrors in Post-TV Horror out now https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463726320/transmedia-terrors-in
International Gothic Association @igagoths.bsky.social The International Gothic Association is a large family of academic researchers, students, artists and writers with a shared interest in all things Gothic. www.globalgoth.org
Micah Castle 🎃 @micahcastle.com 🐺New book The Companions We Lose🐺 mybook.to/companion | Horror and weird fiction author. | Editor. | Drifting in the Void.
www.linktr.ee/micahcastle
♈️ Jason Behan ♉️ @jasonbehan.bsky.social Enjoying the North York Moors with my time allowed. 🖤
Xavier Aldana Reyes @xaldanareyes.bsky.social Reader in English Literature and Film •
International Gothic Association co-president (2022-2026) • Manchester #Gothic Centre founding member • #Horror Studies book series editor • Profile: https://tinyurl.com/2czvabnz
Antares Leask @drtares.bsky.social Pop culture (esp. Disney, horror, pop music, and cryptozoology), writing, reading, empowering others through education and training.
Rebecca Stone Gordon @meanlouise.bsky.social Coffee enthusiast. Gothic & eco-horror, Biocultural archaeology (mummies), Nuclear & Cold War culture. Audio stuff. Probably knitting.
Header: a S central FL swamp. trees, reflections in water, mist
Also @excavatinghorror.com
Not weird at all
Hollywood Memories @hollywoodmemories.bsky.social Emmy Noether Research Group "Hollywood Memories" based at Leibniz University Hannover, funded by @dfgpublic.bsky.social.
Hollywood movies | memories | generations | remakes | sequels | franchises
https://hollywood-memories.com/
Joana Jacob Ramalho @jori-saudade.bsky.social Lecturer (Teaching) at University College London | PhD in Film Studies | Aznavour fan with a love for classical musicals and all things dark and Gothicky.
The Horror and Her podcast @spookybiqch.bsky.social How horror stays with us, changes us, and becomes part of who we are.
Host @ems06 | women’s horror origin stories
https://linktr.ee/Thehorrorandher
Mostly horror. Mostly.
Angela Wright @angelawright1794.bsky.social Professor of Romantic Literature, University of Sheffield. Romanticism, Gothic, author and general co-ed of Ann Radcliffe for forthcoming Cambridge edition and gen co-ed of Cambridge Elements in the Gothic. PL AHRC project ‘Ann Radcliffe, Then and Now’
Helen Hanson 🗃️🎞️🎥🎬📚 @helenexeter.bsky.social Prof in Film History Uni of Exeter, UK | Research #FilmHistory, #WomenFilmmakers #Adaptation #FilmSound #FilmNoir. Books: Hollywood Soundscapes & Hollywood Heroines #FilmSky 🗃️🎥🎞️🎬
PI: @womensscreenwork.bsky.social
https://womensscreenwork.exeter.ac.uk/
The Irish Network for Gothic and Horror Studies @irishgothichorror.bsky.social An informal network for promoting the work of Gothic and horror scholars (whether they be affiliated or independent) and creative practitioners from throughout the island of Ireland.
Helen List 🌻🌿 @helenlist.bsky.social Academic in Manchester, at a School of English. Environmental issues, Arts and Humanities and Crafts. A quiet page.
Dan Owen @danowen.bsky.social ✍️ Editor @framerated.co.uk
🎙️ Co-host @vampirevideos.co.uk • Also, ‘Recrypted: A Tales From The Crypt Podcast’ https://www.podpage.com/recrypted/
📌 https://linktr.ee/danowen
Hugh McStay @angryscotsman81.bsky.social Horror Writer - Thuggish Itch, Madness Heart Press, Hellbound Books, Splatter Ink Pub - Co-host of @vampvideos & @podcast616 - Staff Writer for @LondonHorrorSoc
https://linktr.ee/hughmcstay
𝐕𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨𝐬 @vampirevideos.co.uk 🦇 A podcast sinking its fangs into a century of vampire cinema… one bite at a time. ⚰️ www.vampirevideos.co.uk
🎙️Hosts: @danowen.bsky.social • @angryscotsman81.bsky.social
Ailish Brassil @ailishb.bsky.social PhD candidate in English @ UCC 👩🏻💻📖
DCU Alumna. 👩🏻🎓
Postgrad Officer - Irish Society for the Study of Children’s Literature.
Reviewer/book admin for Children’s Books Ireland. 📚
Fan Studies Network @fanstudies.bsky.social Bringing Fan Studies scholars together since 2012.
https://fanstudies.org/
https://www.instagram.com/fanstudies
Author Nancy Schumann @bookswithbite.bsky.social Nancy is a writer of dark fiction & academic texts. Nancy’s particular interest, both in fiction and academically, are female vampires.
Take A Bite and other publications are available via www.bookswithbite.in
Dr Emrah Atasoy @atasoyemrah.bsky.social IASH Research Fellow and EFI Affiliate at the University of Edinburgh. Associate Fellow at the Uni of Warwick. Assoc Prof of Anglophone Literature and Culture. Former researcher at Harvard, Oxford, and Penn State Universities. RTs/likes not endorsements.
Dr Rhys Steven Jones @rhysteven.bsky.social asst prof film, media & culture @UvA_Amsterdam | historical materialism - critical theory - horror cinema - pop culture | he/him
Eldonedwards @eldonedwards.bsky.social I am a business researcher. I am also very interested in artificial intelligence and business and education and medicine. Also, I am very interested in popular culture and music. I strive to live a simple healthy life. DTM and CBI.Score counselor.
Dr Rebecca Williams @augustaquarius.bsky.social Associate Professor / Creative Industries R&I Lead @ University of South Wales. @fanstudies.bsky.social Board Member. Transmedia Tourism • Theme Parks • Disney • Participatory Cultures • Media Endings
💻 https://linktr.ee/drrebeccawilliams
Korra Saqqara (Christa Angelios) @metamythica.bsky.social 💀 Studying the Gothic at MMU
📖 Literary Coach & Freelance Editor, MetaMythica Literary
🐧 Former Random Penguin; Columbia Publishing Course alum
Member: EFA, ACES, PEN
She/Her
#SWANAinPublishing #AmWriting #AmEditing #Folklore #Horror #SFF 👻
Opinions my own
Transnational Spaces in Contemporary Cinema @spacescinema.bsky.social Official account of the research project 'Performing Space / Spatializing Performance: Space and Performance in 21st Century Cinema' at the University of Zaragoza
https://transnationalspacesinthecinema.wordpress.com/
https://shorturl.at/ws9S8
Sandie Mills @drsandramills.bsky.social Digital analyst | Gothicist | PhD on dolls & horror |
Tiffany Knoell, Ph.D. @tlknoell.bsky.social Professional nerd. Occasional time traveler. Co-host of Silent Film Fridays on Stream.place. Associate Teaching Professor and historian at the intersection of media and culture. Views are my own, not those of my employer.
Sheri Cole @sherikate.bsky.social Just another Philly chick who loves pop, feminism and culture. Nonprofit executive but opinions are my own. 
Darren Elliott-Smith @drdesmith.bsky.social Queer Horror Doctor/Academic, cat-daddy, weathered Husband and general pop, Gothic and trash culture enthusiast...Programme Director of Gender Studies @Univ of Stirling.
https://queerhorrordoc.wixsite.com/queerhorrordoc
Dr Cat Conway @demoisellechaton.bsky.social ORD-LHR. 🇺🇸🇬🇧 PhD. Immigrant. Poet (Broken Sleep Books), journalista (The i Paper, Guardian, The Sun), spooky scholar.🦇 Mean bihexual. Cis. 🏳️🌈🫶🏻🏳️⚧️ ND parent.🩼 UK Labour; Hillary/Kamala Dem. 🇪🇺Forever European.
Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social Believe in yourself! Work hard, never give up & anything's possible! OR: Kick back, relax & aim low: You'll never be disappointed...😜
Will Kitchen @willkitchen.bsky.social Associate Lecturer, AUB | Non-Executive Director, Workers Policy Project | Author of 4 books with Bloomsbury & EUP
Gábor Gergely @ggergely.bsky.social [gɑːbɔːr gɛrgɛj] Associate Professor of Film | Photo of Simplon Cinema courtesy of Fortepan/Preisich Family
I refuse to consent to any use of any text by me or any image of or by me in the training of or in interaction with any AI applications.
Slasher Film | Horror Movie @slasherfilm2024.bsky.social WATCH THE TEASER TRAILER NOW on YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/ebbrwb6f (Warning: 18+)
Movie coming soon. Calling all #HORROR fans.
#horrorcommunity
Ottawa, ON, Canada 🇨🇦
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André Francisco @andreffrancisco.bsky.social PhD student | School of Arts and Humanities - ULisboa | Researcher at ULICES https://ulices.letras.ulisboa.pt/ | Book/Film Reviews Editor https://messengersfromthestars.letras.ulisboa.pt/journal| Film Noir, Landscape and Cinema / Tv Series.
Ryan Reynolds @vancityreynolds.bsky.social owner: Aviation Gin - Mint Mobile - Maximum Effort - Wrexham AFC
Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social I make movies. I watch movies. I love movies.
Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social Facebook Beef
The New York Times @nytimes.com We seek the truth and help people understand the world. Not a subscriber? Your first month is now free in our app. https://nytimes.onelink.me/Xpht/zbx4nci9
Florian Stadtler 🦀 @flostadt.bsky.social Associate Prof at Bristol Uni, researching British South Asian history, film, literature and Indian popular cinema; world lit and postcolonial studies | trustee Wasafiri magazine | love all things theatre 🎭 |black cat magnet 🐈⬛
Penelopebabs @penelopebabs.bsky.social Work in geoscience. Studying for my master's in international relations and global communications at Manchester Met. Interested in feminist expression in horror films, cats, travel and food.
Sharae Deckard @sharaerua.bsky.social UCD English. Marxist lit crit, postcolonial & world lit, env hums, world-ecology, sf/f, gothic, weird. Singer, gamer, addicted to open world RPGs, feminist, CC and still masking, immunosuppressed w/RA, cat-guardian. Saoirse Palestine!
Heidi Backes @heidibackes1.bsky.social Prof of Spanish lit and cultural history / Gothic fiction / Fascism / Memory & Trauma Studies / Author of SPECTRAL SPAIN (U of Wales Press, 2024), FASCIST FEMALE GOTHIC (Jan. 2027, UWP)
Jason D. Brawn @jasondbrawn.bsky.social A published horror author, collector, fanboy with an MA Gothic and a BA Film and Media. Vegetarian with AuDHD, who has completed three marathons. Halloween 🎃👻 is my favourite season.
Wm. Schumacher @wmschumacher.bsky.social Gothic/Horror Film & Fiction Pedant (ghost stories, esp. M. R. James); Amateur Theatricals; Wastrel and Ne'er-Do-Well in the ‘Western Suburbs.’ Former Teacher. U of I and WPGU ‘91.
𝕵𝖊𝖘𝖘𝖎𝖈𝖆 @spectradisorder.bsky.social She/Her | Cambridge Poet based in Lincoln| Folklorist | Occasional Taxidermist | Selenophile | Little Slice of Dark Wonder
martha shearer @marthashearer.bsky.social asst prof in film studies. post-2008 film/tv + real estate • nyc + hollywood musical • musicals at the margins • women and new hollywood. she/her
https://letterboxd.com/pauseforthejet/
Jacqueline V Woroniec @svgarloathe.bsky.social Last year PhD candidate at University of Szczecin, researching the devil in popular culture 🤍
Cultura Popularis @culturapopularis.bsky.social A student organisation focused on the study of popular culture at the Department of Humanities, University of Szczecin, Poland 🎬🎤🎮📺🛜📖
Barnaby Taylor @barnabyftaylor.bsky.social Author and Academic
Reader in Esoteric Ephemera at The St. Leonard’s Institute
Steenbeck - 'Beyond Reason lies the Ritual of Self'
The British New Wave (MUP)
VIRO series http://bit.ly/VIRO1
Terminal Transit coming soon
Barbara Braid @dr-braid.bsky.social Period drama afficionado, mad for all things neo-Victorian and gothic
Karl Bell @karlbell.bsky.social Historian. Author. Associate Prof of Cultural History @uophistory.bsky.social C19th fantastical, supernatural folklore, Gothic cities & seas. Co-director of port.ac.uk/portcities The Perilous Deep: A Supernatural History of the Atlantic (Reaktion) out now.
Dr. Dina Pedro (she/her) @mrsdreadful.bsky.social Assistant Prof. at Universitat de València (Spain). Neo-Victorian, gender studies & medical humanities. Vampires 🦇 🧛♀️ & potatoes 🥔🥔Secretary at @popmec_research
Dr. Bruna Foletto Lucas @drfolettolucas.bsky.social Early career researcher focused on horror film and gender studies
AndreahWooodward @andreahwoodward.bsky.social Book nerd, coffee enthusiast, & PhD student, researching coerced reproduction in horror fiction. Prefers dogs to humans. 
Stacey Abbott @profsaabbott.bsky.social Professor of Film and Television, Northumbria University. Horror scholar and writer. Author of Celluloid Vampires, Undead Apocalypse, TV Horror, BFI Classic on Near Dark. Canadian in the UK but forever Canadian. she/her.
Julia Leyda (she/her) @julia-leyda.northsky.social jaded academic | new Norwegian | chronically ill | ace woke pinko SJW | surviving mainly on film, TV, SFF novels
- doesn't suffer fools
- gleefully uses block function
- mastodon https://hcommons.social/@julia
- movies https://letterboxd.com/jleyda
@docsbrown.bsky.social @docsbrown.bsky.social Film historian, early cinema specialist, horror scholar, Constant Reader, Westie lover
The Midnight Wiki @themidnight.wiki Your 100% unofficial and ad-free source for everything The Midnight!
Proudly sponsored by Comtek and Pizza Zone.
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Marc Olivier @dullboy237.bsky.social Professor (film and lit), series editor Icons of Horror (Indiana UP). Love and support the marginalized. 🏳️🌈 he/him #horrorsky
Sean Woodard @swoodard7326.bsky.social American West, Horror & Giallo Scholar | PhD Candidate | Writer | https://linktr.ee/swoodard7326
Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Seattle University. Author of The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life available from UC Press here:
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520342347/the-celluloid-specimen
Eric Gary Anderson @ericgaryanderson.bsky.social Your home for Undead Studies. Literature professor & director of grad studies in English at George Mason, where I teach NAIS, southern lit, horror/gothic lit, etc. Cat dad to Thena, Coraline, and Jackson Gray. Drinker of coffee. He/him/👻
Adam Daniel @realtopekapeople.com Writer / Director / Producer. Lecturer in Communication/Film @ WSU. Horror scholar. ‘Affective Intensities and Evolving Horror Forms’ from EUP. He/Him.
Nicholas Diak @nickdiak.com Pop culture scholar of peplum, Italian films, industrial music, horror studies, and other odd subjects. Tiki and cocktails, mid-century and pinups. Co-host of H.P. Lovecast Podcast. He/Him. nickdiak.com. Glendale, AZ.
Brontë Schiltz @bronteschiltz.bsky.social 🖊: @bigissue.com @bigissuenorth.bsky.social 👻 PhD on the BBC’s Televisual Gothic @manmetuni.bsky.social 👩💼 Members Coordinator @igagoths.bsky.social
Melissa Edmundson @melissae.bsky.social PhD in Victorian lit. Editor/researcher/lecturer. Women’s ghost stories & the supernatural. Lots of posts about books. And ghosts. And Margery Lawrence.
Violet Hunt’s The Tiger Skin and Other Tales of the Uneasy out now with The British Library.
Dr Icy Sedgwick @icysedgwick.bsky.social Host of the Fabulous Folklore podcast/blog. Researcher & writer for hire. Gothic author. Crafter. PhD in haunted house films.
Dr Janice Deitner @janiceflux.bsky.social Scholar of Shirley Jackson and periodical culture, funded by Research Ireland. Research interests include periodicals, Horror, the Gothic, Science Fiction, popular culture in general, zombie bites in narrative and popular discourse. Opinions my own.
Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca Professor, English/Gender & Women’s Studies Dalhousie. He/him. Speaking only for myself (sometimes not even!)
The Broadview Anthology of Science Fiction: https://broadviewpress.com/product/the-broadview-anthology-of-science-fiction/
http://jasonhaslam.ca
Dr Joan Passey @joanpassey.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English / Gothic / queer ecologies / coasts and seascapes / Shirley Jackson
Dr Stephanie Farnsworth-Meek @mutanttheorist.bsky.social Lecturer of Media and Communications at the University of Sunderland. Researcher of Mutant Theory and monstrous bodies. https://stephaniefarnsworth.co.uk
Dale Townshend @dalegothic96.bsky.social Professor of Gothic literature mainly posting about books, cake, horses and my cat Dickens.
Steve Jones @drstevejones.bsky.social Lead of the Horror Studies Research Group, Northumbria University. Known for research on extreme horror, philosophy, pornography, and the slasher subgenre.
drstevejones.co.uk
Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social Horror Lex® (https://horrorlex.com) is the home of academic horror. Explore our huge research database of scholarly, thoughtful writings on horror films. #horror
Xanthe Pajarillo @xanthepajarillo.bsky.social 🇺🇸🇵🇭 Film Director doing a PhD in Horror
🐁 The Feral Academic
🎬 In Post: Kids Make Horror
📍 Birmingham UK 🔁 LA
Bristol Black Horror Club UK @brisblakhorrorclub.bsky.social Exploring all things Horror through a Black/BIPOC Diasporic lens
LGBTQ+ Friendly
www.bristolblackhorrorclub.com
Vicky Brewster (they/them) @vickybrewster.bsky.social ✏️Copy & developmental editor, & indexer
👻Gothic, horror & sci-fi academic
🧑🏫 Occasional lecturer & support at Swansea U
🏳️🌈Asexual-agender-panromantic
Eugen Bacon @genni.bsky.social African Australian author, editor. Winner: Solstice, Ignyte British Fantasy, Locus Awards. Finalist Shirley Jackson, PK Dick, World Fantasy Award. Twice Otherwise honoree for exciting work in speculative fiction. eugenbacon.com
Dave Jeffery @davebjeffery.bsky.social Bram Stoker Award, British Fantasy Award and Bridport Prize finalist. Creator of 'a Quiet APOCALYPSE'. Anthologist at Flame Tree Press.
I do not use generative AI in my work; nor do I support its use in the arts.
https://www.davejefferyauthor.com/
Erin Wiegand @erinwiegand.bsky.social Film programmer, independent scholar, book editor. One half of @cinemaniapresents.bsky.social
Kate Egan @kte75.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Northumbria University. Co-Investigator, AHRC Youth & Horror network. Co-editor of Hidden Horror Histories book series. Lover of horror and British cinema, cats and strong tea. She/her.
University of Wales Press @uniwalespress.bsky.social Publishing Wales and the World since 1922. 🏴 📚 Cymraeg:
@gwasgprifcymru.bsky.social
🔗 www.uwp.co.uk
Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social 👩🏻🏫 Leverhulme Early Career Fellow @sheffielduni.bsky.social
✍️ Influenza book @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social
📚Research Rep @cncsi.bsky.social
🦇Co-host @GothicaUob.bsky.social
👋🏼ECR Rep @bavs-uk.bsky.social
👻 Summoned to the Séance @britishlibrary.bsky.social
Laura Mayne @laurajm.bsky.social Media historian, fashion hobbyist, flailing enthusiast. Consistently inconsistent. 
Dr Janette Leaf @janetteleaf.bsky.social Honorary Research Fellow: Birkbeck, Uni of London. 2023-2026. Weird cats, Cultural Entomology; Victorianism; Hypnotic Gothic; Egyptomania; Redheads; Shop Girls; Pre Raphaelite Art; Ghost Ships; Neo-Victorianism. Co-editor BL Insect Weird anthology.
Weeping Bank @weepingbank.bsky.social The acclaimed ghost storytelling experience, bridging the gap between page and stage
Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social academic/freelance writer, on Gothic, Horror film, Science Fiction. Latest: Graveyards: A History of Living with the Dead (2025). Next 2 books: a taxonomy of the undead and a biography of H P Lovecraft
Adam Sleper @adamsleper.bsky.social Dad, hubby, writer. Illinois artist grants, Chicago Writers Assoc, Horror Writers Assoc, Page/AFF finalist, PEN Emerging Writers. Black List 8+. Shakespeare/R.E.M.
USMNT/Huskers/Red Sox.
Rep: Mark Gottlieb@Trident
www.adamsleper.com
AdamSleper.substack.com
Patricia McCarroll @pmc19.bsky.social Organisational storytelling, folklore, urban fantasy, and of course, Staffies
Cristina Santos @drcristinasantos.bsky.social PhD🧛♀️Researches female monsters & monstrous women🧙🏼♀️
📝 Latin American testimony
📕Untaming Girlhoods: Storytelling Female Adolescence | Unbecoming Female Monsters: Witches, Vampires and Virgins