Melissa Brooks @melissa-brooks.bsky.social A memoir writer, writing about my experiences and childhood as a form of personal therapy.
Manchester Review @manchesterreview.bsky.social The Manchester Review is an online literary journal that brings together the best of new international writing.
https://www.themanchesterreview.co.uk/
Strange Studies of Strange Stories @strangestudies.bsky.social Home of Strange Studies of Strange Stories and The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast!
http://Patreon.com/WitchHouseMedia
http://StrangeStudies.com
http://HPPodcraft.com
Doug Jones @actordougjones.bsky.social Yes, that same Doug Jones from Hocus Pocus, Hellboy, Pan’s Labyrinth, Shape Of Water, F4: Silver Surfer, Star Trek Discovery, What We Do In The Shadows cameo.com/actordougjones
sean s. n. murphy @seansnmurphy.ca (he/him) • editorial @ black press media
hello@seansnmurphy.ca • vancouver, bc
STUDIO STRZYGA @studiostrzyga.bsky.social ultra-comfortable. everyday punk.
by @samstrzyga
LGBTQ+ positive 🌈 anti-fascist 👁️
studiostrzyga.com
Rough Diamond Poetry @rough-diamond1.bsky.social Rough Diamond is an online and in print poetry journal. roughdiamondpoems@gmail.com
EIC - Charlotte Cosgrove
http://ko-fi.com/roughdiamond open for subs
Charlotte Cosgrove @charlottecosgrove.bsky.social Poet / Lecturer / Socialist / Wellbeing / Editor of Rough Diamond poetry journal
love writing, reading, cats, learning, and sitting down.
Timothy 💀🕯️ @doubtshrine.uk mystical participation ✢ imaginal wayfinding ✢ oracular gnosis
📜 doubtshrine.uk
Wordgathering @wordgathering.bsky.social Est. 2007. Biannual digital journal. #Disability #poetry #lit
EIC @DianeOctopod.bsky.social #BLM #CripLit #CripArts
#OpenAccess #OA
Wordgathering.syr.edu
The B'K Magazine @thebkmagazine.bsky.social The B’K is a quarterly art and lit magazine prioritizing traditionally marginalized creators, but open to all. Own voices only, please. Queer, Trans, ND, and POC led. Founded 2010.
Check our guidelines and submit: https://www.talbot-heindl.com/link-tree
Jack @maybeits-jack.bsky.social Hobby photographer and tofu enthusiast 📷🌱 26
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
Sean M Palfrey @imagomortisuk.bsky.social Multimedia artist from Lincoln, UK
www.imagomortis.co.uk
Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social Lecturer in Medieval English and AFY English Subject Lead (Ox) ¶ Author of BOOK CURSES for Bodleian Publishing ¶ Being critically creative @guildmedmak.bsky.social ¶ Liker of material texts, medieval folk horror, university access & print making ¶ She/her
Mark O Pilkington @markopilkington.bsky.social Co-director / publisher at Strange Attractor Press. Author of 'Mirage Men' and 'Far Out' – still writing after all these years. Electronic music maker with Teleplasmiste, Luminous Foundation & others. Co-producer, Acid Horse micro music festival.
Úna Hamilton Helle @uncashh.bsky.social Artist & practice-based PhD candidate with Royal Holloway University's Geography Dept. Creator of Becoming the Forest zine, curator at Legion Projects. Based in Oslo, sometimes London.
www.unahamiltonhelle.co.uk
tweet archive: https://x.com/UnaOsLondon 
Naomi Simone Borwein @nsborwein.bsky.social Horror scholar, PhD, HWA, CSFFA | Global Indigenous Horror (UPM, 2025) | Poetry Editor Orion’s Belt | Words in Future Fire, UtopiaSF, Space&Time, Lovecraftiana | EIC @katabaticcircus.bsky.social co-EIC @angrygablepress.bsky.social
yesandMissHavthisham @steenyswank.bsky.social Movie collector for ~39 yrs: Pre-Code love. Dead--but I'm not dead yet--language familiarity. Demi-horticulturalist. Car-free commuting since 1977; internal combustion is loud. Forever masker. Will write Alt Text for food.- N 🇺🇸 @n976wow.bsky.social
Daniella @daniellamelendezr.bsky.social Baldness enthusiast // Surrealism and Storytelling
I do paintings, drawings and printmaking, currently planning my first solo exhibition and trying out wood carving again
Zoë Chan @zoechan.bsky.social In limbo. In between places. On the periphery. On the foreshore. Perambulator. About place. Lettering and ghost/neon sign fiend. Folk. Macabre.
https://linktr.ee/Zoe.Chan
Grey Malkin @grizzelgreedigut.bsky.social Folk horror, cats, mist, cheesy chips.
@chrisdbroughton.bsky.social @chrisdbroughton.bsky.social Will write for food.
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/chris-broughton
Also on Instagram, where I'm more active (and popular):
https://www.instagram.com/chrisdbroughton/
Adam Z. Robinson @adamzed.bsky.social Writer and actor
Theatre co: The Book of Darkness & Light (https://bsky.app/profile/tbodal.bsky.social).
Host: @ghoststorybookclub.bsky.social
https://www.adamzrobinson.com
https://linktr.ee/tbodal #horror #ghoststories
Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social Patreon.com/robinince for blog posts and podcasts
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
The Heartwood Institute @heartwood9.bsky.social Home of The Heartwood Institute and associated projects.
Gavin @gabhaincelt.bsky.social Irish in England. Celtic. Music obsessive. Bibliophile. No Pasaran.
Harry Steele 🖖 @onlymanwhocan.bsky.social Guilty pleasure, writer and co-host of the Games On Film podcast. Could do better but chooses not to. Likes: #StarTrek, #JamesBond, #Horror, Being Silly, Bad Movies | He/Him
Working on my first horror novel
https://letterboxd.com/OnlyManWhoCan/
Callum James @callum-james.bsky.social Callum James: poet, writer and bookseller.
'The South Downs. Paths of the Dead' (Broken Sleep Books)
Queer. Story. Landscape. Magic.
museo_ghosts @noahangell.bsky.social Artist / Author of Ghosts of the British Museum, a narrative non-fiction work about the BM's many ghosts. Currently completing a film. Wayfaring North Carolinian. Literary rep: Zoe Ross at United Agents. https://linktr.ee/ghostsofthebritishmuseum
Helen Cornish @helenhmc.bsky.social PhD. Anthropologist: ethnographies of history, contemporary witchcraft historicities, magic, micromuseums.
Co-founder @NAoHH-EASA.bsky.social
https://goldsmiths.academia.edu/HelenCornish, Anthropology
Oli Mould @olimould.bsky.social He/him. Academic at large, but lectures in human geography at Royal Holloway, University of London.
linktr.ee/olimould
Researches anti-capitalism & cities. Christianarchist. Toffeeman. Interested in scifi, films, architecture, music and t-shirts.
Dr. Nick Literski @drnickliterski.bsky.social Assistant Professor and Associate Chair of Depth Psychology and Creativity at Pacifica Graduate Institute, Jungian scholar, professional spiritual guide, ceremonial magician, and collector of rare esoteric books. Host of The Reflective Soul Podcast.
Charlene Elsby @charleneelsby.bsky.social Books at Weirdpunk, House of Vlad, Apocalypse Party, Clash Books, Merigold Independent.
Inside the Castle @incastellated.bsky.social Publishing Literature in the Expanded Field / Behind the Facade, More of the Same / Incipit 2014 / Our books are available through Asterism: https://asterismbooks.com/publisher/inside-the-castle
Ian Hartley @ianhartley.bsky.social Consultant, Writer, Composer, Director, Artist, Activist. Opinions offered on any subject. Here is a Song and Film Clip that I created, from a different time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kvrDj5S8N4&t=1s
Temple ov Saturn @templeovsaturn.bsky.social The hum of the Sacred as sonic + visual allegories for making the two into one, the inner as the outer ▲ Art / Music / Video by Joan Pope aka
@sexdeathrebirth
Zach Hazard Vaupen @emo-sludge.com 🕸️ https://emo-sludge.com
Freelance illustrator and hideous game designer available for work.
(he/him)
TTRPG | COMICS | VIDEO GAMES | ALBUM ART | MOVIE POSTERS | WHATEVER
◉●○•° @cosmoecology.bsky.social [ researcher • artist • food forester ]
✸☆ entangledecologies.net ☆✸
“𝙼𝚎𝚗 𝚏𝚎𝚊𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚋𝚕𝚊𝚍𝚎 𝚋𝚎𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚖 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚐𝚎𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚑 𝚋𝚎𝚗𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚑 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚖..” — 𝙰𝚗𝚒𝚜𝚜𝚢
Black Lodge Cult @blacklodgecult.bsky.social Capturing frames from TWIN PEAKS ▽ (Almost) All pictures belongs to David Lynch & Mark Frost / https://buymeacoffee.com/blacklodgecult / Letterboxd https://boxd.it/Cuxr / Horror / Movies / Things / Discord: discord.gg/PZrNX4mcWV 
A Whole Damn Town! @im.a.whole.damn.town Images of people, places, scenes and things from Twin Peaks.
Orbis Tertius Press @orbistertiuspress.bsky.social Canadian publisher of innovative and challenging works. OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS. Orbistertiuspress.ca
Red Sky At Night / Joanne Sheppard @redskyatnight.bsky.social Curious ghoul.
‘This confused worker’ - the Daily Mail
‘On the short side, dressed in black’ - my dad
CAUTION: May contain the Devil.
#COYS
Nicky Melville @nickymelville.bsky.social 'avant-radge' | Power Cuts (zimZalla) | sounding ... out (Essence Press) | Imperative Commands (Dostoyevsky Wannabe) | Decade of Cu t s (Blue Diode Press) | ABBODIES & ABBODIES COLD (Sad Press) + Fuck This 🎧
http://fuckthis1.bandcamp.com
Sorcha Ní Fhlainn @sorchanf.bsky.social Reader in Film Studies & American Studies @ Manchester Met Uni. Researcher in Pop Culture, Gothic, C Nolan, Horror, Vampires, & Time Travel. Writes books and lives in a 1980s time warp.
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)
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
Andy Thatcher @andythatcher.bsky.social Filmmaker, writer and researcher with a thing about commons and spooky stuff
𝙰𝚗𝚍𝚢 𝙿𝚊𝚌𝚒𝚘𝚛𝚎𝚔 💀☕📚🍂🎨🐈⬛ @andy-paciorek.bsky.social ^◇^
“Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.”
~ Charles Baudelaire
Anna McFarlane @mariettarosetta.bsky.social Lecturer in Fantasy Literature at Glasgow Uni. Working on speculative fiction, representations of reproduction, medical humanities. Series editor Palgrave SFF: A New Canon. Twin Peaks/Blindboy obsessive.
https://glasgow.academia.edu/AnnaMcFarlane
Richard O'Brien @notrockyhorror.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Creative Writing at Northumbria University and lapsed early modernist. Working on poetry, novels, & a music memoir/podcast about the Mountain Goats: thirtyyearslater.substack.com. I make music as Groundbird, groundbird.bandcamp.com.
Dr Chloe Duckworth @chloeduckworth.bsky.social Archaeologist, lecturer, author. About to embark on a new adventure (but no idea what it is yet!). She/her.
The Dundee Review @dundeegothic.bsky.social A twenty-first-century literary magazine for original gothic, terror, horror and fantasy fiction: dundeereview.com
Nacho Faerna @nfaerna.bsky.social Tomándome mis placeres en serio / Taking my pleasure seriously
https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0264977/
Yvette Tan @yvettetan.bsky.social Horror writer | Paranormal enthusiast
yvettetan.com
Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social Professor, Archaeology, University of Glasgow, the Urban Prehistorian, and Keeper of Hookland’s Stones. Glasgow’s Archaeologist in Residence (self-appointed)
Daniel McGachey @daniel-mcgachey.bsky.social Writer of comics since 1989, plus radio drama, articles, TV, animation, comedy, mystery, and ghost stories. Occasional illustrator and designer.
Joseph @joecam79.bsky.social Music, old and new. Literature, book blogs and reviews. History and folklore. Sacred and profane. Some Gothic stuff.
endsoftheword.blogspot.com
Ben Willbond @benwillbond.bsky.social Yes it’s The Captain off of Ghosts. Screenwriter and you know the rest.
www.benwillbond.com
https://instagram.com/benjaminwillbond
Dr Alan Montgomery @classicalalan.bsky.social Historian, artist, tour guide and FSAScot. A lover of legend and folklore.
Buy my art and my books here: https://linktr.ee/classicalalan
Andrew Chapman @chapmanbookman.bsky.social I help authors/indie presses publish non-fiction books. Also editor of various magazines, including northernearth.co.uk (folklore, archaeology, psychogeography, landscape). Writer, walker, ambulomancer, neoantiquarian.
andrewchapman.info
Joanne Ella Parsons @joparsons.bsky.social Associate Professor of Popular Literature and Culture at Falmouth University
Han O'Flanagan (they/he) @smaugish.bsky.social Final year PhD candidate in English Literature @ Lancaster University. Researching asexuality in fin-de-siecle ghost and Weird fiction. Big ol goff. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Finlay J Beatson @fjbeatson.bsky.social University of Dundee PhD studying sexual perversion in Gothic Lit | Dracula enthusiast 🦇 | 🏳️🌈🏴
He/Him
William Lamb @witticaltheory.bsky.social PhD researcher at University of Cambridge looking into Weird Ecologies in 70s British television. VERY open to any good gothic/nature/tv/ghost story suggestions
https://linktr.ee/witticaltheory
Claire Nolan @drclairenolan.bsky.social Researcher, archaeologist, heritage & wellbeing, social & ecocultural value of archaeology, prehistory/deep time heritage, landscape………..
Web: https://ucc-ie.academia.edu/ClaireNolan
Neil Williamson @neilwilliamson.bsky.social Words and music. Glasgow, Scotland
he/him https://linktr.ee/neilwilliamson
LATEST 📚 Hand-Me-Downs (short story collection) https://bit.ly/4fhuSt9
🎶Extinction Event (album) http://bit.ly/4w4EKMC
NEXT 📚 ???
Saorfhlaith Burton @drfloraposte.bsky.social Lecturer at RGU; Ethnograper and sociologist. I write and research on hauntings, ghosts, graveyards, the wilderness, and other sundry death things.
Horror Archaeologist 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @horrorarchy.bsky.social I work in the museum field and love horror movies. I am liberal and know that the earth is round, we've been to the moon, evolution is a fact and vaccines save lives. NO DMs! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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 + more • Working on a new thing
UK based/NZ born • Folk horror nut • He/Him
https://linktr.ee/cloakanddaggergames
Ruth Heholt @ruthheholt.bsky.social Prof of literature and culture. Gothic, crime, masculinity, ghosts. Lead of the Dark Economies Scholarly Association (dESA). Editor Rvenantjournal.com
Gemma Amor @manylittlewords.bsky.social Bram Stoker, Shirley Jackson & British Fantasy Award nominated author, illustrator from Bristol, UK.
ROOTS OF MY FEARS, Titan 2025
ITCH! Hodder & Stoughton 2025
FIRST DATE, Datura Books 2026
HAPPY HOUR, Shortwave 2026
NoSleep Podcast.
particle_person @particlep.bsky.social Science lover. Fond of old books, old houses, New England, long walks, booze and ginger. I take ultraviolet and infrared photos for art and analysis. 📷💻 (?/?)
Emma Johnson-Rivard @blackcattales.bsky.social Doctoral student. Writer of weird poetry and queer horror. Works in Strange Horizons, Coffin Bell, Brooklyn Review, Tales to Terrify, and others.
https://linktr.ee/blackcattales
James Wright @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social Award-winning buildings archaeologist. FSA. Mediaeval mythbuster. Castles. Old pubs. Theatre. Alan Garner. Cats. Live music. Ex-roadie.
Triskele Heritage
https://triskeleheritage.com
Based in Nottingham, UK
Javier Prado Coronel @javiertprado.bsky.social ✒ Autor. Ilustrador. Guionista. Investigo y divulgo sobre mitos, folklore y leyendas de España
📕'Monstruos ibéricos', 'Breve viaje por la España de las brujas'
📍 Madrid-Sevilla
✉ JavierTprado@gmail.com
https://linktr.ee/javierprado
Apotropaios @folkmagicman.bsky.social Researcher of strange things found in walls and under floors since 1999... FSA. Author of Magical House Protection & Bredon Hill. Guitar player!
www.apotropaios.co.uk
Rebekah King @rebekahking.bsky.social Writer/researcher https://www.rebekahkingwriter.com/
Articles on magic, theatre, horror etc here https://rebekahkingwriter.substack.com
Natalja Saint-Germain @nataljastgermain.bsky.social I am the spooks🧛🏻♀️🍷
non-fiction, translation, dark lore, art, music & weird niche stuff
I run #dailyspooklore & #swampsunday (feel free to join me).
Also, I often post about vamps #vampiresweekly
James_AL_Downs @magiclantern.bsky.social Writer: 'Anton Walbrook' (2020) 'Joseph Pike' (2018) & 'A Carnal Medium' (2012), photohistorian, archivist of Middle East collections at Exeter University, runs the Digital Archive of the Middle East (https://dame.exeter.ac.uk/), collector & bibliophile
Andrew Smith @andysheff.bsky.social Professor of Nineteenth-Century English Literature at the University of Sheffield. Most recent book is 'Dickens and the Gothic' (CUP), currently writing a book on 'Vegetarian Gothic' (CUP).
Alex A. Pagliuca @alexpagliuca.bsky.social Writer. Film lover. Horror evangelist. Anti-fascist. Night owl. Misfit toy. Pragmatic idealist, and skeptic at the same time. Autistic. AI is for suckers. All I want is to be an honest man and a good writer.
Dr Karen F. Pierce @darklecat.bsky.social Cataloguing librarian, author, independent researcher, artist, pagan; lover of stone circles, folklore, myth, cats, books & European social dance.
Currently writing a book on the folklore of burial chambers/cromlechs in Wales.
Beth Lewis @bethlewis.bsky.social Writer of all things crime, thriller, historical, weird & wonderful. The Wolf Road, Origins of Iris, THE RUSH (June 10th 2025) She/her.
Rep: David Headley at DHH.
http://bethlewis.co.uk
emily @memilies.bsky.social one of those new york city lesbians who is also into vampires. perennially upset about the french revolution. engaged in the erotics of cold war gamesmanship.
𝕵𝖔𝖗𝖉𝖆𝖓 𝕬𝖈𝖔𝖘𝖙𝖆 @jordanacosta.co 🇬🇧/🇵🇭 Speculative fiction writer and Creative Director at @unseenhistories.com – rep'd by @jjbker.bsky.social.
jordanacosta.co
Lucy Sullivan @lucysullivan.bsky.social Comic Artist/Writer (UK) • BARKING | SHELTER | BLACK HAMMER short | The Thing With Feathers [2025] | DOT Wild Fictions | Razorblades & more
Rep’d by James at The BKS
Coming soon- MOTHERS RUIN (Avery Hill)
https://bio.site/LucySullivan
Paul D Coombs @pauldcoombs.bsky.social I write dark fiction where monsters are metaphors, beauty meets tragedy. No answers, just reflections.
Cure fan.
Debut novel - The Great Orme
Short story collection - For Strangers Only
Find me here: www.pauldcoombs.com
Sam @eachtotheirown.bsky.social Metal music, horror films, philosophy, gaming, D&D, graphic design. Work in academic publishing.
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
London Fortean Society @forteanlondon.bsky.social Strange and wonderful events since 2011
Paranormal, psychic, folkloric, fortean events.
Sharing the oddest London-based news.
Nepenthe Press @nepenthepress.bsky.social Fine Press Publisher of Horror, Weird Fiction & Gothic Literature
Illustrated, Limited & deluxe editions.
Based in North Yorkshire, UK
www.nepenthepress.co.uk
Jamey Berk @jamesberk.bsky.social Writing my first novel - a contemporary fantasy all about deconstruction, generational trauma, and finding the story you're meant to write.
Storytelling, horror, literature, collecting vinyl, immersive theater, deconstruction, and the paranormal.
Jack Jewers @jackjewers.bsky.social Filmmaker & writer. inVerse - six films about Shakespeare, out now. Debut novel, The Lost Diary of Samuel Pepys, also out now. The Winter Queen coming soon. Very partial to a roast potato. www.jackjewers.com
Barry P. @barrycinematic.bsky.social Proprietor of the eclectic and marginally coherent film blog Cinematic Catharsis https://cinematiccatharsis.blogspot.com/ (He/Him) Buy Me a Coffee: http://bmc.link/barrycinemg
It's an Urban Legend @ulskeets.bsky.social Reposting interesting comments on modern folklore. Urban myths, rumors, legends, hoaxes, misconceptions, and apocryphal anecdotes.
I’m the friend of your friend.
North Carolina, United States