Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social Writing and yelling. 
Rex Stephens @rexstephens.bsky.social Of cats and spooky stuff.
Becky LeJeune @beckylejeune.bsky.social Agent at Bond Literary Agency. Overall book junkie. Food nerd. Also, watches too much tv. All opinions my own :)
Rapture Publishing @rapturepublishing.bsky.social Small indie press publishing chapbooks written by the best horror authors working today
Rapturepublishing.com
Amber Chen @amberwrites88.bsky.social UK #1 bestselling YA author | OF JADE AND DRAGONS (Out Now, Penguin Teen) | Next up: THE BLOOD PHOENIX (17 Jun '25) | Rep: Laura Crockett | πΈπ¬ 
Cyrus Amelia Fisher @cyrusafisher.bsky.social horror writer, creepy crafter, chicken dad, not super online. find my work in Pseudopod, Cosmic Horror Monthly, Apex's Strange Machines, The Book of Queer Saints, and more. they/any. https://cyrusameliafisher.com/
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
Jo Kaplan @joannapary.bsky.social Author of IT WILL JUST BE US (2020) and WHEN THE NIGHT BELLS RING (2022). AKA Joanna Parypinski. Co-chair of HWA LA chapter. https://jo-kaplan.com/
Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com Writer, scientist, bug. she/her. #yeg. π¨π¦ π¬πΎ Winner of a Nebula, Locus, World Fantasy, Ignyte, and Aurora award! Rep: Michael Curry ππͺ² Tips for cat treats! https://ko-fi.com/premee
Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social makes things π³οΈβπ | RIVERS IN YOUR SKIN @press-android.bsky.social | EVERY DARK CLOUD @ghostorchidpress.com | Stonecoast MFA '21 | Rep: @laurenbajek.bsky.social | https://linktr.ee/mariscarp
Michael A. Reed @mike-cant-reed.bsky.social Teaching, writing, reading, dyslexia, and all things speculative fiction. Codex Writer. HWA associate. Co-editor at The Phantom Pulse Magazine.
ayida shonibar @ayidashonibar.bsky.social Writer of dark & wistful speculative fiction. Words in APEX, BAFFLING, SILK & SINEW (Bad Hand Books), NIGHT OF THE LIVING QUEERS (Wednesday Books), TRANSMOGRIFY! (Harper Teen), and more. Lambda Literary & Otherwise fellow.
π she / they
ayidashonibar.com
Simo @srinivassimo.bsky.social he/they π³οΈββ§οΈπ³οΈβπ
Spec fic + all things weird & queer. Stories in Fantasy, Strange Horizons, Tales & Feathers, khoreo & more. Lambda '25! http://srinivassimo.com
Larry Blamire @larryblamire.bsky.social Filmmaker, artist, writer and so much more. LOST SKELETON OF CADAVRA, DARK AND STORMY NIGHT, STEAM WARS, THE ADVENTURES OF BIG DAN FRATER.
Ronald Kelly @ronaldkelly.bsky.social Southern-Fried Horror Author. Zebra Books 1990-1996. Splatterpunk Award Winner. Author of Fear, Undertaker's Moon, Blood Kin, The Essential Sick Stuff, & Southern Fried & Horrified. Devoted husband, dad, and man of faith. He/Him
Joe R. Lansdale @joerlansdale.bsky.social Sugar on the Bones, a Hap & Leonard novel
Kasey Lansdale @kaseylansdale.bsky.social Here, but not here.
https://linktr.ee/kaseylansdale
Errick Nunnally @erricknunnally.bsky.social Graphic designer, author, artist, and some other shit probably.
Jessica Amanda Salmonson @paghat.bsky.social Author, mythologist, samurai and reptile fan
Vincent V. Cava @vincentvenacava.bsky.social 
James Sabata @jamessabata.com Author, Screenwriter, Podcaster, Tarantula lover
http://www.jamessabata.com
http://linktr.ee/JamesSabata
Zachary Ashford @zacharyashford.bsky.social Husband. Horror author. Educator. HWA member. TV/Film Rep: Alec Frankel at IAG. Check out my debut novel Polyphemus here: https://lnkj.in/p/polyphemus. Book me to speak at your school or writing event here: https://www.speakers-ink.com.au/speakers/zach
S. A. Bradley @sabradley.bsky.social This is the Bluesky home of author/podcaster/lecturer/"horrorvangelist" S.A. Bradley. Author of "Screaming for Pleasure: How Horror Makes You Happy and Healthy," creator of "Hellbent for Horror," and lecture "Monsters Are Metaphors." hellbentforhorror.com
Kel Byron π²ποΈ Author @kelbyronauthor.bsky.social Animal rescuer, chronically ill girlfail, and indie author of "A Lonely Broadcast" and other folk eco horrors π€
Kelbyron.com
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.
Sarah Fannon @sarahfannon.bsky.social Horror and speculative fiction writer in DC
||πππ|| she/her || working on my novel ||
Website: https://www.sarahfannon.com
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.
Myna Chang @mynachang.bsky.social Micro, flash, shorts, poetry. SFWA, SFPA. Editor, interviewer, blogger, contest/awards judge.
π« MicroVerse Recommended Reading
β‘Electric Sheep
https://mynachang.com
Eric Raglin @ericraglin1992.bsky.social Horror/Weird fiction writer and editor (The Writhing, Verdant End out NOW). Owner of Cursed Morsels Press. Anti-capitalist and anti-fascist. Minneapolis. He/Him
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/cursedmorsels
David Worn @worncassettes.bsky.social Horror writer. Tape hiss, TV static, and modem handshake sounds are my jam.
worncassettes.com
Chelsea Pumpkins @chelseapumpkins.bsky.social Author, editor, podcast host.
https://linktr.ee/chelseapumpkins
Christopher Hawkins @christopherhawkins.bsky.social Writer. Factotum. Master of tsundoku. HWA Chicagoland chapter co-chair.
Award-winning author of Suburban Monsters and Downpour.
https://www.christopher-hawkins.com
Bev Vincent @bevvincent.bsky.social Author of Stephen King: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life & Influences, The Road to the Dark Tower. Co-editor of Flight or Fright. Stoker/Edgar nominee.
Jacob Steven Mohr @jacobstevenmohr.bsky.social Author man. Film producer. Polar bear. DEAD LETTERS / BURY ME COLD & MORE LAST WORDS. Words in Cosmic Horror Monthly, Chthonic Matter Quarterly, Weird Horror, Tales to Terrify, and Best Horror Vol 15.
Lyz Mancini @lyzmancini.bsky.social Writer of the βgood for herβ genre
π: Repped by Victoria Marini, Highline Literary
π₯: Repped by Sean Berard, Untitled Entertainment
Was once described as βa vintage abandoned gas station.β β€οΈβπ₯
Taylor Grothe @taylorlgrothe.bsky.social Horror(omantasy) author π» HOLLOW (Peachtree Teen, Sept 30, 2025), THESE DREAMING SPIRES (Titan, Sept 2, 2025), LETHAL KISS (TOR Nightfire, Fall β26), MBT (Peachtree Teen, Spring '27) | MFA β24 | BLM | π | Rep: Victoria Marini
Rae Wilde @raewilde.bsky.social Author of Merciless Waters, I Do Not Apologize for My Position on Men, I Can Fix Her, & others
Rep Carleen Geisler
IG & TT
@_rae_wilde
Tyler Jones @tjoneswriter.bsky.social Author:
GO (Clash Books, 27)
NIGHT OF THE GLASS KNIVES (Shortwave Publishing, 27)
DEPTH CHARGE (Shortwave Publishing, 26)
ARSON BY DESIGN (Rapture Publishing, 26)
LONGSIGHT M40
MIDAS
HEAVY OCEANS
BURN THE PLANS
ALMOST RUTH
CRITERIUM
www.tylerjones.net
Nikki R Leigh @spinetinglers.bsky.social Horror author (Nikki R. Leigh), comic book letterer (Nikki Powers), pretty gay. ππ³οΈβπ 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
Octavia @octavia-cade.bsky.social New Zealand writer, PhD science communication! Seven time SJV winner. Author of The Stone WΔtΔ, The Impossible Resurrection of Grief, and You Are My Sunshine and Other Stories. Creative NZ's writer in residence in Berlin for 2026.
Hussani Abdulrahim @hussani14.bsky.social Writer, writer, writer, writer...
Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com Shirley Jackson Award-nominated EIC of @tenebrouspress.bsky.socialβ¬. Dark specfic writer, Romanian folklore nerd, optimistic nihilist.
she/her
WHISPERWOOD out now
THE NIGHT SHIP out now
TATRATEA coming Oct 2026
https://linktr.ee/AlexWoodroe
Teagan Olivia Sturmer @teagansturmer.bsky.social writer of romance, the macabre, and angry girls | words in @shortwavebooks | Rep'd @kissedbyink | librarian | chronically ill and anxious | she/her
Ute Orgassa @uteorgassa.bsky.social Author, playwright, strange human being.
https://www.uteorgassa.com/
Member of https://www.penandpier.com
Nick Kolakowski @nkolakowski.bsky.social Author of "Where the Bones Lieβ (Datura, March 2025) and other grim delights. Shamus-, Derringer-, Anthony-nominated. Cats, snark, crime, horror.
https://linktr.ee/nickkolakowski
Christi Nogle @christinogle.bsky.social Bram Stoker Winning first novel, BEULAH. Work in Apex, Strange Horizons, PseudoPod, 3LBE, etc. Three Collections from Flame Tree Press. Rep: Lane Heymont. Working on a new novel!
https://linktr.ee/christinogle
Alex Ebenstein @alexebenstein.bsky.social Michigander. Horror writer. Three novellas, CURSE CORVUS, MELON HEAD MAYHEM (Shortwave Publishing), and REANIMATED REX out now. he/him
alexebenstein.com
Stephen Mark Rainey @markrainey.bsky.social Author/editor of scary fiction, graphic artist, geocacher, occasional musician & actor, perpetual old fart
Emma E. Murray @emmaemurray.bsky.social Award-winning horror writer. She/her. π©·ππ
Rep: literaryclara.bsky.social
πSeafoam Shallows (2028 Shortwave)
πCrushing Snails
πWhen the Devil
π§The Drowning Machine and Other Obsessions
π©ΈShoot Me in the Face on a Beautiful Day
Website: EmmaEMurray.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
Annie Neugebauer @annieneugebauer.bsky.social Author. 2x Bram Stoker Award finalist. Lit: Alec Shane, Writers House. Film: Sean Berard, Untitled Entertainment.
YOU HAVE TO LET THEM BLEED
THE EXTRA
THE OTHER 6/9/26
THE SPARE 3/9/27
ONCE THE DARKNESS COMES
novella TBA
https://annieneugebauer.com/
Alan Lastufka @alandistro.bsky.social Editor of OBSOLESCENCE. Award-winning author of FACE THE NIGHT. Founder of small press Shortwave Publishing. HWA Active Member. SFWA Full Member.
UnderbellyBooks @underbellybooks.bsky.social Indie publisher that explores the dark underbelly of fiction. Currently closed to submissions.
Kris V. Bernard @kristinarabbit.bsky.social Writer, Reader, Tattooed Animal Mom/Ally
Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com Author of IN THE END, NOTHING; FRIDAY NIGHT MASSACRE; MASS HYSTERIA. Book reviewer, movie hoarder. He/Him. Reviewer at FanFiAddict.com.
Fuck AI. Fuck Trump.
Website: http://www.michaelpatrickhicks.com
Books: books2read.com/michaelpatrickhicks
The King of Pain, John F.D. Taff @jfdt.bsky.social Horror author, multiple Stoker nominee and World Fantasy nominee of such books as DARK STARS, LITTLE BLACK SPOTS, ALL THE STARS DIE in Q3 2025 and the re-releases of THE END IN ALL BEGINNINGS and THE FEARING, all 3 from Bad Hand Books. Represented by me.
William David Maxwell @emersynlaughs.bsky.social Novelist, poet, lover of all things nature and a life filled with passion. 40s. All poetry posted is my original work.
All rights reserved.
Mike! @mijolar.bsky.social He/Him
J Brooke @jbrookewrites.bsky.social Writer | Editor | Filmmaker
Author of: I Can Tell You The Version That Will Make You Take My Side (Driftwood Press, 2026)
Book Reviews Editor: The Rumpus
Poetry Editor: Trans Poetics Archive
Jbrookewrites.com
Bryn's Sounds and Zounds @brynschurman.bsky.social Author, composer, sound designer, voice actor, and wrecking-ball on the dance floor.
Caustic Reverie, Sumptus Ignis, TheForgotton and a few other music projects. My 1st novel is Further Complications. PVK2, NMRIH.
He/Him.
https://brynschurman.com/blog/
John Browne Ayes @ayesart80.bsky.social Published Author, genealogist, historian,8 photographer, visual artist, Juan Ponce de Leon reenactor, actor for historical documentary.
Received Certificate of Congressional recognition for History and Genealogy
copyright πππππππ80.@ππππ.ππππππ
Brian S. Converse @briansconverse.bsky.social Author, Veteran, Father
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Poetry
Support Independent Film
Opinions are mine. DMs are closed.
https://books2read.com/b/mgOe5v
Jendia Gammon @jendiagammon.bsky.social βJen-DEE-aβ
Producer | Science Writer | Author | Editor | Artist
CEO and Editor-in-Chief of @starsandsabers.bsky.social.
Also J. Dianne Dotson.
https://jendiagammon.com
πLA
Wayland Smith @waylandsmith.bsky.social 
Laura Blackwell @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social Shirley Jackson Award-winning writer, manic pixie night hag. Copy editor, Hugo-nommed @thedeadlands.com. Cohost @storyhour.bsky.social. Website/newsletter: pronouncedlahra.com. HWA, SFWA. BLM. She/her. Photo: Jodi Foucher. Rep: @alexbrownwrites.bsky.social
Alexis Brooks de Vita @alexisbrooksdevita.bsky.social PhD Comp Lit African/Diaspora & Women in English, French, Italian, Spanish. Author of 1855 Murder Case: Missouri vs. Celia; Mythatypes; Burning Streams, Blood of Angels, Chain Dance; Left Hand of the Moon; Translator - Dante's Inferno: A Wanderer in Hell
Strange Wilds Press - BOREAL is here! @strangewildspress.bsky.social Tiny Maine Horror Press. BOREAL - Feb. 25th | Vulpine Curse - Apr. 30th |EIC @katsilvaauthor.bsky.social. Website: www.katherinesilvaauthor.com/strange-wilds-press
Order BOREAL: https://books2read.com/u/470Rq8
Sonora Taylor @sonorataylor.bsky.social Black Lives Matter. Award-winning author. Board member: Scares That Care . She/her. Latest release: Split Scream Vol. 8: Cursed Places. Visit me at sonorawrites.com
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
Erin Brown @babblewocky.bsky.social Spec Fic Author. SFWA. Voodoonaut. Words in FIYAH Mag, Nightmare Mag, Baffling, Fantasy Mag, The Deadlands, EscapePod, Haven, Skull & Laurel, Psychopomp. A watched plot never thickens. http://ebrownwrites.com
Fauwxx @luridtendencies.bsky.social Avid Reader. Book Reviewer. Artist & Horror Enthusiast π©Έπ π I read mostly Horror, Splatterpunk, Transgressive Horror, Weird Lit and Thrillers
π https://ko-fi.com/fauwxx
veritysalter @veritysalter.bsky.social Yorkshire, I love reading, travel, home and my dogs
Claire Dunscombe @claire-dunscombe.bsky.social Author, analyst, escaped archaeologist
Angel Scanlon @darkangel80.bsky.social She/her * Book dragon * Lover of all dark things *
"Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black & deep desires"~W.S.
Richard A. Kirk @richardakirk.bsky.social Artist | Illustrator | Author of The Lost Machine, Necessary Monsters, Tailor of Echoes, Magpies Ladder.
Jeff Macfee @jmacfee.bsky.social Begrudgingly here which applies not just here. Despite my bad attitude order THE CONTEST, out now. Rep: @lisarodgers.bsky.social https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/774517/the-contest-by-jeff-macfee/
Tom Adams @downtheline.bsky.social
Formerly @BergenStComics
@hannaween15.bsky.social @hannaween15.bsky.social I like to talk about stuff.
ABOLISH THE CRIMINAL PUNISHMENT SYSTEM. ABOLISH ICE.
DM me for knitted Creature Commissions!
haley | IG: @spoonie.reads @spooniereads.bsky.social (they/them) book reviewer, gender studies scholar, educator. free palestine.
i'd love to read + review your books! i only accept physical ARCs due to disabilities. email me here: haley.strassburger@gmail.com
ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/spooniereads/goal?g=27
Billy Don Loper @bloperfiction.bsky.social Writer/Mississippian/Being Composed of Pure Static
billyloperhistory.com
BEYOND THE RUINED NIGHTS out now.
Todd Luchik @todd-luchik.bsky.social Author, crime fiction and horror fan, Twitter refugee, Chicagoan.
Toddluchik.com
CJ Stockton @cjstockton.bsky.social Writer. Emo cowboy. Chaotic.
www.cjstockton.substack.com
George Kamsika @gkamsika.bsky.social British Asian. She/They. SFF Author.
www.kamsika.com
Sam Araya @arayaart.bsky.social Award winning illustration.
Paraguay.
Beyond is where I learn.
Clients: Tor, Callidor Editions, Simon & Schuster, WoTC, Orbit Books, Suntup Editions.
https://linktr.ee/samaray
Peter Rosch @peterrosch.bsky.social author of WHAT THE DEAD CAN DO / FUTURE SKINNY / MY DEAD FRIEND SARAH / rep'd by @elizcopps at @confluencelit
jben @jben1900.bsky.social Nope. Unless you are an animal-centric account or an art/humor/media account, go away. The shop is closed. No DMs, please.
β§Kweeny Toddβ§ @kweenytodd.monsterden.xyz π α²α’ααΎαα¨αΎ ααΊα¨ααα±
18+/Trans-Demon-Werewitch-Drag Monster From Hell π¨π¦/ Horrorfiend/LGBTQIA+/Disabled/Multi Media Rebel Artist.
Linktree: linktr.ee/kweenytodd
Owner of Marrow Minded Crafts π¨: https://ko-fi.com/kweenytodd
Juli @okcryptid.bsky.social she/her | former writer-designer at ZOS on ESO | mostly post about what I'm reading | mostly repost jokes and fanart |
Anna Rubio @aemrubio.bsky.social Screaming Firehawk, Trekkie, Flamenca, Mama y Yaya, Bowie Forever, USA/EspaΓ±a
Tom Cody @realtomcody.bsky.social Former schlockmeister. Hoarder of Movie Posters. Prog Rock fan. On tour with Ellen Aim & The Attackers.
Irish @nakedirish.com Dumb ass
Master Exploder @energyvampire.bsky.social Records, movies, books, and fishing. Boring people to death, one at a time. #MutantFam #GratefulDead #WidespreadPanic #Grindhouse #BookSkyπ©Έππ #Filmsky π½
Jenn @iworshipseitan.bsky.social vegetarian who loves horror, dogs, true crime, seasonal decor, and long walks with Willow
ππ«π€π’π©π ππ’π―π’π·πΉ @aesinthium.bsky.social Β·β±Artist Β· Goth Β· She/Her Β·βΒ· Horror Β· Books Β· Gamingβ°Β·
Steven Gomzi πππ @stevengomzi.bsky.social Reader, cat butler, dog lover, and book collector. Fantasy, weird fiction, horror, comics, crime fiction and film. Husband, and father of two awesome kids. Can usually be found lost in a forest or lost in the stacks at some used bookstore.πππ