Damon Romaro @damonromaro.bsky.social Author of dark romance, sci-fi, and horror, exploring obsession, fear, and the darker corners of human imagination.
Sage Tyrtle ๐จ๐ฆ @sagetyrtle.bsky.social Award-winning storyteller, writer, workshop facilitator. Taught 150+ workshops including Second City, Smokelong Quarterly, Clarion West. Stories published in Barrelhouse, Baltimore Review, Apex, Fractured Lit etc. www.tyrtle.com. #HumanMade
Martin Fischer @archiveofunread.bsky.social I write short stories that explore the space between memory and myth: quiet, eerie and unsettling fiction that lingers in the mind like fog after nightfall.
The Archive of the Unread:
https://www.archiveofunread.com
Concrete Nothing @concretenothing.bsky.social Mind contents correlator
#OSR
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๐ณ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ธ @horrorculturist.bsky.social Gothic gardening, goblincore, dark art, horror, weird music. ๐ฟ๐๐๐
Agnostic atheist. Nyctophile. AuDHD. Demi-Pan. They/them. | Contrary to internet lore, I am not lost, sorrowful, despairing, trapped, drowning, falling, or stuck in a maze. (You OK?)
Bookshelfie โญ๏ธ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
Joy Deva Baglio @joybaglio.bsky.social Speculative Writer: Fiction in One Story, Ploughshares, Tin House, Apex, etc. Yaddo Fellow. Founder of Pioneer Valley Writersโ Workshop. Rep'ed by Peter Steinberg. Novel in progress. Bagpiper.
https://linktr.ee/joy.deva.baglio
https://www.joybaglio.com/
Azonei @azonei.bsky.social Brit, relocated & naturalised in Australia.
Equally amused by highbrow discussion and lowbrow humour.
Lover of cats and chillies (not at the same time, that would be questionable)
Deakin the Owl @deakinowl.bsky.social Political nonsense acct. Big time bird fan
Bourbon Penn @bourbonpenn.bsky.social 
MARION @marion-writers.bsky.social MARION is a not-for-profit, member-driven literary organisation dedicated to championing the rights and interests of writers in the ACT region and beyond. Unceded Ngunnawal and Ngambri country.
MARION.ink
jeffreyford8 @jeffreyford8.bsky.social Writer of novels and stories. Lives in Ohio. 
Kathe Koja @kkoja.bsky.social Life is for joy. Writer & director & reader, fan of animals, democracy forever, let's dance and keep each other safe! She/her
Aaron Dries @aarondries.bsky.social Author/screenwriter โ Bram Stoker, Shirley Jackson, Australian Shadows, Ditmar award-nominated and Aurealis winner. DIRTY HEADS, CUT TO CARE, HOUSE OF SIGHS, A PLACE FOR SINNERS, THE FALLEN BOYS, and WHERE THE DEAD GO TO DIE. Repped by Annie Bomke.
Charles Rutheiser @charlesrutheiser.bsky.social Mad Social Scientist, phenomenographer and writer of gothic neo-noir thriller novel MYSTERIES OF THE GREAT CITY (2023) and non-fiction IMAGINEERING ATLANTA (1996). Baltimorean. All images mine except for repost or when noted
Maxim Peter Griffin @maximpetergriff.bsky.social look / draw / repeat - works nights - author / artist - flint / chalk etc 
Carol Ryles @carolryles.bsky.social Reader and writer of SF, Fantasy, Horror. Quilter, gardener, and keeper of frogs.
Davis Walden @daviswaldeniv.bsky.social Demonic Ryan Gosling | PDX ๐๏ธ| VFX Coord | SD: Nightlight, Victoriaโs Lift | Writer: NoSleep Podcast, Wicked Library, โSand Salt Blood,โ โBook of Queer Saints Vol. 2โ
David Niall Wilson @davidniallwilson.com Author, Publisher, some awards, USA Today bestseller. Wrangler of 12 cats & chinchilla, ex-Prez HWA, trivia not fact checked. Way left. Husband & father, I'm Crossroad Press! #startrek #stargate #WoD https://davidniallwilson.com #Pareidola #cats #horror
Jeremy Jenkins @jeremyjenkins.net Chocolatier. Also into photography, filmmaking, gardening, writing, and too many other thingsโฆ
Greater London ๐ฌ๐ง | AuDHD
Chocolate shop currently on summer break.
An Indifferent Penguin @daffodil2023.bsky.social Old Socialist
Green Party Member
Marathon Runner
Sarah K. Balstrup @skbalstrup.bsky.social Dark Fantasy Author | #SPFBO9 semi-finalist | ๐ THE WAY OF UNITY (2023), BLACK STREAM (2025) | Religious Studies | https://sarahkbalstrup.bigcartel.com/about-the-author | Here occasionally, also on X & Goodreads.
Alice In Wonderland @aliceinwonderworld.bsky.social Up cycler, artist, plushies, music masher, cottage/farm core craver, jewelry maker, fashion blogger, DragQuest, Honkai slave, FFXIV,VII, acnl, acnh, switch/ indie games!
Joshua Chaplinsky @jchaplinsky.bsky.social Author of 'Letters to the Purple Satin Killer', 'The Paradox Twins' & 'Kanye WestโReanimator.' LitReactor Managing Editor (2011-2023).
https://linktr.ee/joshuachaplinsky
Kat Hausler @kathausler.bsky.social #Author of #WhatIKnowAboutJuly, #Retrograde and more, translator, reader, (horror) movie fan and occasional screenwriter. She/her.
#writingcommunity #booksky
KatHausler.com
katsgotyourculture.blogspot.com
Jason Franks @jasonfranks.com Author: Bloody Waters | Faerie Apocalypse | Shadowmancy | X-Dimensional Assassin Zai
Comics writer: The Sixsmiths | Frankenstein Monstrance | The Phantom
https://linktr.ee/jasonfrankenstein
Meerkat Press @meerkatpress.bsky.social Award-winning Independent Publisher of great books! https://flow.page/meerkatpress
Pamela Jeffs @pamelajeffs.bsky.social Speculative Fiction Author and Interior Architect. Aurealis, Shadows and Ditmar Award winner๐
Hana Carolina @hanacarolina.bsky.social Creative Writer & Academic Researcher | 30s | she/her | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ ๐ช๐บ | Reviewer @ Strange Horizons | Fiction Editor @ Divinations Magazine | Debut Novella with Spaceboy Books, THE INESCAPABLE MARCH (2025)
https://readspaceboy.com/portfolio/the-inescapable-march/
Jo V. @jowolf2.bsky.social Foodie, baker, writer, a little of this-a little of that. ๐จ๐ฆ
David McDonald @sercamaris.bsky.social Mild mannered editor by day, wild eyed writer by night. Fablecroft. Clan Destine Press. Moonstone. Black Coat Press. Harper Collins. Marvel. SFWA. HWA. IAMTW. Not here for an echo chamber: followsโ endorsement.
Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social Some guy from Canberra. Writes a bit. Games a bit. Tries not to become infuriated with the state of the world or go outside. Likes dogs. Trans rights are human rights. Science doesn't care about your beliefs. ACAB. AWAWB.
Leife Shallcross @leioss.bsky.social Author of The Beast's Heart. Fairy tale tragic. Currently obsessed with knitting. Frequent cake, occasional F-bomb. She/her
Cat Sparks @catsparx.bsky.social Author, Artist, Activist.
Amie Kaufman @amiekaufman.bsky.social ๐ NYT and internationally bestselling author. (she/her)
๐ Out now: The Isles of the Gods
โ๐ผ Newsletter: amiekaufman.substack.com
marlee jane ward @marleejaneward.bsky.social Author & visual artist. Middle-aged goth aunt. My novella The Forgetting Navigations is available May, 2026 through Interstellar Flight Press.
linktr.ee/marleejaneward
Addie Ellicott @aciddropwriting.bsky.social Drinks tea. Hoards books. Scribbles things. 
Michael G. O'Connell @mocando.bsky.social Author/Illustrator from the Sunshine State. ๐ค๐ป
Southern Gothic/Horror
Now available chapbooks & other goodies. https://linktr.ee/mocando
In Tales to Terrify, Dracula Beyond Stoker, WAS, Raven Review, Mystery Trib. & more
๐ซDMs unless you already know me.
Lily Mulholland @handle.invalid Australian writer, rapscallion, bourbon drinker.
PTSD + Fibromyalgia + Migraine warrior.
She/her. Love is love.
๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ Free Mum Hugger
Living on Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country
Find me on Instagram or at www.lilymulholland.com.au
Paige B @pagsbelfield.bsky.social An Australian publishing in the area of foreign rights. Also a part-time spec-fic event organiser
The Hunting of the Snark @snarkhunt.bsky.social Mainly about Henry Holiday's illustrations to Lewis Carrollโs "The Hunting of the Snark"
by @goetzkluge.bsky.social
โป My Snark blog since 2017: https://snrk.de
โป SNARK! card game: @snark.games
โป Ambiguous Snark: @finger-in-his-hair.bsky.social
Brent McGregor @brentmcgregor.bsky.social Brent is a Sydney-based horror author and member of the AHWA. A book nerd and dad, he enjoys spinning tales of terror and make-believe. https://linktr.ee/brentmcgregor
Carl Brandon Society @carlbrandon.bsky.social The Carl Brandon Society is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to issues of race & ethnicity in speculative fiction
Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social Locus Magazine: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror. The Guide to the World's Imagination.
https://locusmag.com
linktr.ee/locusmagazine
Martha Wells @marthawells.com SF/F Writer - The Books of the Raksura, The Murderbot Diaries, Witch King, Queen Demon, and more. Nebula and Hugo Award winner. NYT and Sunday Times Bestseller. (She/her) Agent: Jennifer Jackson
Garth Nix @garthnix.bsky.social Author. Many books, including SABRIEL, the five other Old Kingdom novels; THE LEFT-HANDED BOOKSELLERS OF LONDON and sequels; THE KEYS TO THE KINGDOM series, lots more. And stories. Adult SF/horror MASSIF out Sept 2026. www.garthnix.com
Nikki R Leigh @spinetinglers.bsky.social Horror author (Nikki R. Leigh), comic book letterer (Nikki Powers), pretty gay. ๐๐ณ๏ธโ๐ Horror books and movies. AKA @spinetinglers on IG. she/her
https://linktr.ee/spinetinglershorror?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=01cd9b40-1664-4d40-a408-8f4f5
Kirstyn McDermott @fearofemeralds.bsky.social Australian author of contemporary gothic, horror and fairy tales. Owned by two cats. Drinks too much gin, or maybe not enough. Current status: exhausted.
she/her
www.kirstynmcdermott.com
Cameron Trost @camerontrost.bsky.social Cameron Trost is an author of mystery, suspense, post-apocalyptic, and horror fiction. He's best known for his puzzles featuring Oscar Tremont, Investigator of the Strange and Inexplicable.
Black Beacon Books @blackbeaconbooks.bsky.social Black Beacon Books publishes gripping mystery, suspense, horror, post-apocalyptic, ghost stories, and steampunk fiction. blackbeaconbooks.com
Marty Young @martydyoung.bsky.social Award winning writer, editor, and sometimes ghost hunter. Also has a screw loose...
Come find me at: www.martyyoung.com 
Old Growth Forest @mikkenavia.bsky.social I read books. GenX. Viking. New England. โ๏ธ ๐บ๐ธ ๐ฉ๐ฐ
Georgina Ballantine @georginaballantine.bsky.social Counsellor. Writer. Gamer. She/her.
Fan of fluffsome felines, freaky fables, and forgotten folklore.
Sean Wright ๐ฆ๐บ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธโฟ @sbwrightpoet.bsky.social Teacher Librarian | Disabled |Social Democrat | Prokopton of Stoic Phil. | Poet | Ditmar Winner | Living on Narungga Land | Born on Yolgnu country|He/Him | https://ko-fi.com/sbwright|@sbwright linktr.ee/sbwright
Ronnie Smart @ronniesmart.bsky.social Scottish-born Kiwi Writer of Dark Weird Horror, Poetry, and Flash Fiction. Nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Currently writing a dark fantasy novel.
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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.
R.J. Huneke @rj.rjhuneke.com I'm an author of SFF, Thrillers, Comics, Poetry & ANTS WAKING ๐| Co-Founder of DoubleEdgedPress.com | EIC @ TheForgottenFiction.com magazine | He/him/ally ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ | #neurodivergent #AuDHD | New Yorker in Portugal ๐ต๐น https://linktr.ee/rj_huneke
Rob Edmunds @robedmunds.bsky.social I'm a writer of three novels, the most recent about the conflict in Burma during World War II. My previous two novels are both about the ancient Numidian King Masinissa, set during the Second Punic War. ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ
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https://linktr.ee/robedmunds
Becca Gomez Farrell @becca.gomezfarrell.com Author of fictions and strong leisure-time opinions. My Wings Rising epic fantasy duology is from Meerkat Press. I also write horror, funny sci-fi, and maybe essays soon. Food & Drink Blog @ TheGourmez.com. ๐Bay Area, CA
ANDREW @andrewbach.bsky.social SFF novels
hi-fi stereo reviews in The Absolute Sound
full time indie romance author
reddit fiction as /u/speculative--fiction
stories on www.thesprawl.com
Joe X Young @joexyoung.bsky.social I have created an Indie Horror Author Community resource website that will help you to succeed as authors, and help readers to find you.
https://joexyoung.com/welcome-home/
Mig Considine @migsommar.bsky.social ๐ฟ a druid and an author by night | sm/pr girlie by day | games, pop culture & horror | she/her
๐ These Tainted Things out now
https://linktr.ee/migsommar
Leah Lore @lshurte.bsky.social Fantasy/SF author. Equestrian working on my USDF bronze. Nature enthusiast. Wannabe beach bum stuck in Ohio. She/her
Currently querying!
Dark Matter Zine @darkmatterzine.bsky.social DMZ reviews stories in various mediums and interviews creatives. Iโm trying to get back into it but itโs been a hard year. Latest interview: Raelke Grimmer, debut YA neurodivergent author who wrote a neurodivergent protag. DMZ content is free. 
Brandon Grafius @bgrafius.bsky.social Bible and horror scholar, associate professor and dean. Recent book: https://www.broadleafbooks.com/store/product/9781506481623/Lurking-Under-the-Surface. Words at Salon, Sojourners, and Tor.com.
Hounds of the Matskervilles @pepperdrop.bsky.social I got two amazing dogs. They're terrorists
I do nothing but promote it well
He/him, ace
discord: pepperdrop
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Allison Wyss (But the abyss... It's still in my heart.) @allisonwyss.bsky.social I donโt think Iโve been lost. she/her
And a book(!): SPLENDID ANATOMIES (Shirley Jackson Award Finalist, 2022)
https://www.allisonwyss.com
tait vigesaa @taitvigesaa.bsky.social writer/layabout. horror/sci-fi/weird. infrequent songwriter.
Chris Mason @chrismason.bsky.social Scribbler, warbler, cat wrangler.
Natalie @nataliehall.bsky.social Salutations ๐ธ
Iโve done stuff for things and I like to be vague about it
Artist with a tattoo machine for 12 years
Los Angeles
https://www.nataliehallart.com/
https://www.nataliehallart.com/tattoocontact
OhNoNatalie & NatalieTattoos on IG
C. Christopher Hart @cchinoregon.bsky.social This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this... Oregon! Creator, writer, and actor on podcast audio drama Exoplanetary. 26th Century style icon. Dog and Cat person. {he/him}
Keith Rosson @keithrosson.bsky.social Writer, arteest, blindish, kinda punk. Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award. FEVER HOUSE, THE DEVIL BY NAME, COFFIN MOON, more. CRONE coming 9/26. Repped by Chad Luibl, Janklow & Nesbit. CLOSED FOR BLURBS, SORRY.
Jeremy Hepler @jeremyhepler.bsky.social Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of The Boulevard Monster, Cricket Hunters, and Sunray Alice. Book fiend. Proud dad. Grateful husband.
Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu Nomad of the Time Streams.
Wet Plate Photographer
Pyrotechnical Wizard of Doom
Sardonicus.eu
Rusty Barnes @rustybarnes23.bsky.social poet and novelist
http://www.linktr.ee/rustybarnes23
Brendan M. Allen @saintamish.bsky.social Senior Editor at Comicon.com. Catch him on The Collectors' Desk podcast. Talks about comics and cystic fibrosis and monsters a lot. The "M" stands for aMish.
Rex Burrows @improbablerex.bsky.social Writer, biologist, various other things. Stories in Cosmic Horror Monthly, Weird Horror Magazine, Supernatural Tales, Horror Library, etc.
RexBurrows.com
Pedro Iniguez @pedroiniguez.bsky.social Bram Stoker, Elgin, and Dwarf Stars Award-winning Horror/SF writer. Rhysling finalist, Pushcart nominee.
THE BUILD-A-MONSTER WORKSHOP (Out Now!)
ECHOES AND EMBERS (Out Now!)
THE FIB (Out Now!)
Repped by Peter Steinberg, UTA
www.pedroiniguez.com
Carina Bissett @carinabissett.bsky.social 
J.D. Buffington @jdbuffington.com โBullies need victims. But victims donโt need bullies.โ
โA.R. Moxon
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Wizard of the Wavering Place
@s8cpublications.northsky.social
Anti-Gen AI
Trans & Womenโs Rights Are Human Rights
Author of Horror & SF, HWA
https://linktr.ee/JD.Buffington
LC von Hessen ๐ ๐ @lcvonhessen.bsky.social Writer of horror, weird fiction, and assorted unpleasantness. Performer/artist/creep. History nerd. Cat person. They/them. ๐ Anti-genAI.
lcvonhessen[at]gmail[dot]com
Dan Chaon @danchaon.bsky.social Novelist and short story writer.
Signed/personalized copies of my books here: https://www.macsbacks.com/dan-chaon
Jonathan Janz @jonathanjanz.bsky.social Author of VEIL, MARLA, and CHILDREN OF THE DARK. Repped for Film & TV by Adam Kolbrenner. Lit Agent Lane Heymont.
L.P. Hernandez @lphernandez.bsky.social Horror author. MBA. Air Force officer. Publisher. Co-owner of Sobelo Books. Metalhead. Robust. Enchanting. Read me in Cemetery Gates, Dark Matter, a truck stop between Lubbock and Amarillo. Client of Becky LeJeune. Punch Nazis. I love you.
๐ปMichael J. Riser๐ค๐งโ๐ @michaeljriser.com Editor, author of horror & religious trauma. Former editorial Screen Rant, Goomba Stomp, managing editor AOG. Secretary of Sacramento HWA. ๆใ่ฉฑใฎไฝ่
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pfp: smiling man with beard and mustache
banner: devil statue in a garden
Dan Coxon @dancoxon.bsky.social He/him. World Fantasy Award, Shirley Jackson Award and British Fantasy Awards winner (twice). Collection COME SING FOR THE HARROWING out now.
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.
Kurt Fawver @kfawver.bsky.social Writer (We are Happy, We are Doomed; The Dissolution of Small Worlds; Forever, in Pieces)
Shirley Jackson Award winner
Bram Stoker nominee
English PhD
Trapped on a hamster wheel in this simulated universe- H @handle.invalid @handle.invalid
doungjai gam @djai76.bsky.social author of glass slipper dreams, shattered
cats, crafting, cheese, lattes, horror
she/her
Books in the Freezer Podcast @booksinthefreezer.bsky.social Horror book recommendation podcast
Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social USA Today bestselling horror noveler (MARY; NESTLINGS; REST STOP; WHEN THE WOLF COMES HOME). TV actor. Musician. Out now: I KNOW A PLACE, May 5, 2026, Shortwave Books. (he/him)
Sam Rebelein @rebelsam94.bsky.social A spoOoky writer๐ฑdog dad๐Repโd by Claire Harris, PS Literary๐ฅHWA NY๐ปHudson Valley critter๐Stoker Nomโd๐ฉธTHE POORLY MADE AND OTHER THINGS๐ฉธGALL๐ถโ๐ซ๏ธWAYโS GOSPEL ๐ท๐ฆ
Michael Bailey @nettirw.bsky.social Writer / Editor / Publisher
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
Rep: Bieke van Aggelen
Louise Zedda-Sampson @louisezed.bsky.social Writer, researcher, editor and crafter.
Website: www.louisezeddasampson.com.au