Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social They/Them
Author of A Dream of Saints
I thirst trap award winning authors
patreon.com/doriandawes
D. Matthew Urban @breathinghead.bsky.social weird fiction person • TX → NY • stories here and there • SHAKY PICTURES OF VANISHED FACES out now from Cursed Morsels Press! • he/him • https://dmatthewurban.com
Mark @mutantcircuit.bsky.social Novelist, lumpenacademic. Zero-quadrant monster noir.
Look, a book: http://bit.ly/3ZXjpGZ
Remo Nassutti @remo-nassutti.bsky.social Author of Blue Raspberry.
Chris Hutton - TTRPG Insider @newsnerd.bsky.social I'm a 33-year-old journalist obsessed with religion, technology, and other topics. I run a newsletter about TTRPGs. My views are my own.
https://www.ttrpginsider.news
Email me with tips, scoops at ttrpg.insidernews@gmail.com.
Jennifer Jeanne McArdle @mcardlejeanne.bsky.social Work in animal conservation
Short fic author/editor with work in A&N Press, Interzone, Tenebrous, Agita, LSQ, Sentinel Creatives, Baubles from Bones, Hyphenpunk, Mythaxis, All Worlds Wayfarer, + more
https://jenniferjeannemcardle.blogspot.com
Kallidora Rho @kallidorarho.bsky.social or Kallie | She/Her | 30 | UK | Erotic Horror/Mind Control Writer | Trans Dyke | Forever Yuriposting | 🔞
Read WARHOUND
https://ko-fi.com/kallidorarho
Links ⬇️
https://bio.mechsploit.me/to/@kallidorarho
Mo Drammeh 🦇 @curmudgeondotcom.bsky.social They/them. Horror writer. Author of WHERE THE CRYPTIDS FLED. 2022 Maine Person of the Year. Telling Room alum. 2024 Maine Lit Fest Fellow.
Link to my stuff here: https://linktr.ee/MLDrammeh
Olga Ravn @olgaravn.bsky.social a writer
M. Jane Worma @mjaneworma.bsky.social Emerging queer horror writer with a taste for horrible things. Southwestern in NYC. OF BEASTS out 2025 @CLASHBooks
Helen Nde @hm-nde.bsky.social https://mythologicalafricans.substack.com/
PseudoPod 🎙️ @pseudopod.org The oldest short-fiction horror podcast. We have always lived in the tower. We/they/them 🦑 Co-Editors: Kat Day & Alex Hofelich | Host: Alasdair Stuart | Asst Eds: Scott Campbell & Joshua Tuttle | Audio: Chelsea Davis & Graeme Dunlop 🎙️ PseudoPod.org
Lethe Press @lethepress.bsky.social Since 2001, Lethe Press has been publishing acclaimed queer and weird books. Our titles have won numerous Lambda Literary Awards, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the Mary Lynn Kotz Art-in-Literature Award. 
Saga Press Books @sagapressbooks.bsky.social The science fiction, fantasy, horror, and speculative fiction imprint of @SimonandSchuster 
Graveside Press @gravesidepress.bsky.social A small horror press who thinks everyone should be given a fair chance to be published.
Infested Publishing @infestedpublishing.bsky.social Working-class press.
Horror/sci-fi/Weirdness 🐀🖤🐁
Linktr.ee/InfestedPub
Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social Coffee House Press is an independent nonprofit publishing house based in Minneapolis. Literature forever.
Word Horde @wordhorde.bsky.social A publisher of award-winning horror, fantasy, and science fiction. Find us at www.wordhorde.com
Cat Eye Press @cateyepress.bsky.social Welcome to a new home for horror! Cat Eye Press is an indie horror press, aiming to celebrate horror’s subgenres and diversity.
Website: cateyepress.com
Links: https://bio.site/cateyepress
Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social Science fiction. Fantasy. The universe. And related subjects.
https://beacons.ai/reactormag
Valancourt Books @valancourtbooks.bsky.social Indie/horror/LGBT/classics. 2021 HWA Specialty Press Award. 'Valancourt's publications may be just what you're looking for.' - Michael Dirda, Washington Post
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/
Swan River Press @swanriverpress.bsky.social Independent press dedicated to literature of the gothic, fantastic, strange, and supernatural. Æon House, Dublin, Ireland. Posts by Brian J. Showers. www.swanriverpress.ie
Subterranean Press @subpress.bsky.social Subterranean Press creates readable art, publishing luxurious specialty, limited editions and groundbreaking original works in the science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres. Dispatches from the warehouse and other news. http://linktr.ee/subterraneanpress
Encyclopocalypse Publications @encyclopub.bsky.social From original horror novels, movie novelizations, and resurrected horror paperbacks. We want to be on your bookshelf.
www.BuyHorrorBooks.com
www.encyclopocalypse.com
Shortwave Publishing @shortwavebooks.bsky.social Shortwave is an indie horror/sci-fi press. Our books are distributed worldwide by Simon & Schuster. Founded and run by @alandistro.bsky.social (active HWA member, full SFWA member).
Our full catalog: https://shortwavepublishing.com/
Richard Newby @richardlnewby.bsky.social Writer. Here for positivity. Movies. Comics, Games, Horror. Fangoria THR TIME Vulture. Book: We Make Monsters Here. https://www.amazon.com/Make-Monsters-Here-Richard-Newby/dp/B08WZH8Q35/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=2X23U6JJN8LMJ&keywords=we+make+monsters+here&qid=1
Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social Doing what I dreamed of since I was a kid.
Books: Lone Women, The Changeling, The Ballad of Black Tom, The Devil in Silver.
TV: The Changeling (EP), The Terror: Devil in Silver (Creator, Showrunner)
Comics: Destroyer, Eve, Sabretooth, Black Panther
Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social Your favourite independent, genrefluid fiction publisher, bringing you the very best in SF, F & WTF!?
IG/X: @angryrobotbooks
National Book Critics Circle @bookcritics.bsky.social Honoring outstanding writing and fostering a national conversation about reading, criticism, and literature since 1974.
bookcritics.org
Degenhardt @veilandhollow.bsky.social Powerviolence Metal Noise Hip-Hop and whatever else I enjoy
This channel is stoutly antifascist, anti-imperialist and absolutely anti any queer- or transphobia.
Yes, genocide is bad.
Yari @beneviolence.bsky.social Yari. 29. They/them. 21+ only
Your local queer transmasc agender nightmare & EMT/EMD/FF.
Writing, art, games, crafts, music.
beneviolent.carrd.co
Christopher Stevenson @chrisstevenson.bsky.social Born in TX, raised in FL and PA. Splits time between DC and WV.
Librarian. PT old man. FT Struggling Writer.
Part toddler, part cowboy. Baba Yaga fan boy.
https://linktr.ee/christopherstevenson
C.J. Subko @cjsubko.bsky.social Writer of SFFH. Snarkwitch. Psych PhD. Approachable goth. Artomancer.
Words in Small Wonders, Penumbric, The Deadlands, Skull & Laurel
Member of HWA, SFWA, Codex
www.cjsubko.com
https://cjsubko.beehiiv.com
Matthew Jaffe @mrj81.bsky.social 
Hazel Zorn @hazelzorn.bsky.social Writer and oil painter. "No Excuses for AI Art" in Blood Knife. Fiction in Dark Matter INK, Cosmic Horror Monthly. REEF MIND out now from Tenebrous Press. She/Her hazelzorn.com
Jack LaRoche 🐺 @coyotespeaks.bsky.social Just looking for hope wherever I can and wondering what the fuck. QAA
https://jacklaroche.com
Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social Author: IN THE SIGHT; EX-MEMBERS; POLITICAL SIGN; REEL; TRANSITORY. Next up: KILL LIST (Bloomsbury Academic)
NBCC Board. Freelance writer. Coffee drinker.
https://linktr.ee/tobiascarroll
P.L. McMillan @authorplm.bsky.social 🦇 Author, Artist, Creator. 🦇
🍷 SISTERS OF THE CRIMSON VINE 🍷
☄️ WHAT REMAINS WHEN THE STARS BURN OUT ☄️
Co-host of the Dead Languages Podcast
https://linktr.ee/AuthorPLM
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
Theodore Hill (he/him) @probablyharmless.bsky.social Writer of (mostly) horror. Also trans, queer, polyam, and Jewish. theodorehill.weebly.com for contact info, publication credits, and super strange testimonials. Co-Editor @dielaughingmag.bsky.social / Wario of @cassandradaucus.bsky.social
Bryan Holm @holmbry.bsky.social MN Horror Author - Short stories: Sinister Smile Press, Eerie River Publishing, Strange Wilds Press, Dead Sky Publishing. Satanic Static out now from Anuci Press.
www.bryanholm.com
Linktr.ee/holmbry
Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social Irish dilettante and horror writer in Berlin.
Horror Makes Us Happy @horrormakesushappy.com We (lightly) psychologically profile creators in the horror biz to uncover the REAL reasons people love horror. https://linktr.ee/horrormakesushappy
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.
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
junkyard ambrose @caninebrainz.bsky.social he/it. rabid transsexual Chernobyl zombie dog. neo-impressionist schizoliterature for a hundred failed apocalypses
evidence locker: caninebrainz.neocities.org
FREE PALESTINE 🍉
Sofia Ajram @sofiaajram.bsky.social Bram Stoker Award-winning writer. Metalsmith.
Books: Coup de Grâce (Titan Books), Bury Your Gays: An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror (Ghoulish)
www.sofiaajram.com
https://sofiaajram.substack.com
Rain Corbyn (They/Them) @raincorbyn.bsky.social Writer and narrator of queer horror and smut. Words w Tractor Beam, Tenebrous, Lethe in 2026. Rain Corbyn’s Body of Work out now! If I block you it’s probably because of the AI.
🇵🇸🏳️⚧️
https://haruspex-audio.com/
linktr.ee/raincorbyn
Ghoulish Books @ghoulish.bsky.social https://ghoulish.rip
Weirdo transgressive horror fiction for perverts. Based in Minneapolis.
s.j. bagley @heksenhaus.bsky.social .sjb. is an artist, philosopher, and critic what edits the journal THINKING HORROR, the zine SOFT TEETH, and listens to things.
they/them.
.∅.
Kristina • Truborn Press @nwreader.bsky.social 💀EIC at Truborn Press
💀Horror Enthusiast in the PNW
💀Book Lover/Reviewer
www.trubornpress.com
Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social host of Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff. Co-owner of Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness. Latest book is The Immortal Choir Holds Every Voice. she/they
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
Nadia Bulkin @nadiabulkin.bsky.social Horror writer (SHE SAID DESTROY, RED SKIES IN THE MORNING, ISSUES WITH AUTHORITY). Co-editor of WHY DIDN'T YOU JUST LEAVE.
📍 DC, raised in Jakarta/Nebraska, she/her ♠️💜
https://linktr.ee/nadiabulkin
Orrin Grey @orringrey.com Orrin Grey uses hypnosis to turn his victims into those rubber monster finger puppets. He also writes spooky books.
orringrey.com
Simon Strantzas @strantzas.bsky.social Author of BURNT BLACK SUNS. Editor of AICKMAN'S HEIRS. Finalist for four Shirley Jackson Awards, two British Fantasy Awards, and the World Fantasy Award. Probably won’t follow you back.
🌎 https://strantzas.com
📘 OTHER SIDES: https://tinyurl.com/2ektv9ty
LC von Hessen 𓆙 💀 @lcvonhessen.bsky.social Writer of horror, weird fiction, and assorted unpleasantness. Performer/artist/creep. History nerd. Cat person. They/them. 🔞 Anti-genAI.
lcvonhessen[at]gmail[dot]com
Paula D. Ashe @pauladashe.bsky.social Award winning author of WE ARE HERE TO HURT EACH OTHER. Developmental editor. Hellraiser obsessive. Queen of Martyrs. She/her. 🏳️🌈 ✊🏽. Opinions = mine alone. Rep: Lane Heymont
https://linktr.ee/pauladashe
AGA Wilmot @agawilmot.bsky.social Author (lit, horror, surrealism), editor, professor, communications professional. Represented by K2 Literary. Ace, nonbinary trans woman—they/she. 🏳️⚧️
"Withered," ECW Press Spring 2024
http://agawilmot.ca
https://k2literary.com/authors/aga-wilmot/
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.
Rick Claypool @rickclaypool.bsky.social writing weird sad stories, foraging wild fungi, researching terrible things corporations do
Matthew M. Bartlett @mattmbartlett.bsky.social Writer
Jon Padgett @grimscribepress.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief of Thomas Ligotti Online and Grimscribe Press. Ligotti narrator for Penguin Random House Audio. Author of THE SECRET OF VENTRILOQUISM. he/him.
Emma J. Gibbon @emmajgibbon.bsky.social "Shirley Jackson meets Johnny Rotten" - NPR. Award-winning author of Dark Blood Comes from the Feet. Represented by Caitlin Mahony at WME. She/They.
John Langan @johnlangan.bsky.social Writer. All monsters, all the time. Filthy liberal.
Carson Winter @carsonwinter.bsky.social Author, punker, raw nerve. PORTRAITS OF DECAY out now. Co-host of the Dead Languages Podcast. Social media at CHM. https://linktr.ee/CarsonWinter
J.A.W. McCarthy @jawmccarthy.bsky.social 2x Bram Stoker & 2x Shirley Jackson Award finalist. Author of SLEEP ALONE and SOMETIMES WE’RE CRUEL. Stories: Best Horror of the Year Vol 13, PseudoPod, Vastarien, Split Scream 3, more. Cat & lipstick enthusiast. She/Jen. Rep: Lane Heymont. jawmccarthy.com
Coy Hall @coyhall.bsky.social Author of horror, crime, & sci-fi. History professor. Great Pyrenees obsessed. Italian movie completist. Anti-A.I.
My books: https://linktr.ee/CoyHallBooks
Jessica Leonard @jessicaleonard.bsky.social Horror writer. Author of ANTIOCH and CONJURING THE WITCH. Feminist Whirlwind. Doing my best. She/Her
https://linktr.ee/jleonardhorror
Joshua Hull @joshuathehull.bsky.social Screenwriter - GLORIOUS (Shudder)
Author - UNDEREXPOSED (ABRAMS Books), MOUTH (Tenebrous Press) 8114 (CLASH Books, August 26th, 2025 - preorder TODAY)
Lesbian Death Bed: The Bed that Eats Pussy (pro orph) @bitterkarella.bsky.social Midnight Society founder. Genderfluid transvestite goblin 🏳️⚧️👺 He/She/They. Reppd by @literaryfey http://www.bitterkarella.com | Out now: Split Scream 5, Moonflow. Soon: Quaint Folk
Polly Schattel @pollyschattel.bsky.social Writer • Filmmaker • Partner • Parent • 🏳️⚧️ • THE OCCULTISTS • SHADOWDAYS • 8:59:29 • CRATER GIRL • Books, woods, guitars, critters & coffee • Trans rights = Human rights • HWA • AVL • I follow writers • Fix your hearts or die • pollyschattel.com
E (ov the Affalochee realm) @taurean-sunflowr.bsky.social Appalachian forest nymph turned swamp witch Ⓥ 🌱 Listener, Reader, Horror/Fantasy Writer, Home Chef, Physical Media Collector, Insufferably Cringe Lover of Life
Chloe Spencer Is Working On Fever @heyitschloespencer.bsky.social Filmmaker & FEVERrpg dev. HAUNTING MELODY OUT OCT 1st. She/her. Bi🌈 https://linktr.ee/chloespencer 
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
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.
Jonathan Raab @spookhouse.bsky.social Hack horror writer
DARKVOID DEATHSHIP | VAMPYRVANIA RPG | THE MAUSOLEUM OF GORE | EUROSCHLOCK NIGHTMARES
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🪱💀mindy💀🪱 [exorcism bondage era] @garbagesauce.bsky.social she/her. 38. bookseller, helpline worker, publicity ghoul & assistant editor @ ghoulish books, reviewer @ the sinister scoop, very delicate tenderhearted crybaby, slime gargoyle.
Sliced Up Press @sliceduppress.bsky.social Queer-run indie horror micropress, publishing anthologies since 2020. Firmly anti-AI.
Find us at sliceduppress.com
SATURDAY MOURNING TELEVISION coming 31st August! Preorder here: https://books2read.com/u/bP2v9A
Joe bielecki @noisemakerjoe.bsky.social Host of Writing The Rapids. Author of Tired. Fatherhood enjoyer.
🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social Make horror gay AF, Stoker Award winner
out now: NO GODS FOR DROWNING
Sept 15: THIS MOVIE DOESN'T END THE WAY WE WANT
she/her; rep: Lane Heymont
haileypiper.com
Xochilt Avila @xavilawrites.bsky.social They/Them | Indie Author | Slush @cateyepress.bsky.social
My debut novella MARIPOSA releases Feb 2027 with https://www.lmhpub.com/
Icon by (my husband) @harboretum.bsky.social
https://xochiltavilaauthor.com/
Justin Benson @justinhbenson.bsky.social Make stuff with my friend
@aaronmoorhead.bsky.social: RESOLUTION, SPRING, THE ENDLESS, SYNCHRONIC, TWILIGHT ZONE, ARCHIVE 81, MOON KNIGHT, LOKI, SOMETHING IN THE DIRT, DAREDEVIL…
Aaron Moorhead @aaronmoorhead.bsky.social Resolution 🎞️🏚️
Spring 💕🐙
The Endless 👬🌕🌕🌙
Synchronic 💊🤝
Something in the Dirt ❔👽
The Twilight Zone 🐙❄️
Archive 81 📹🔥
Moon Knight 🌙⚔️
Loki ४😈
Rebecca Jones-Howe @rebeccajoneshowe.bsky.social i have a book called ENDING IN ASHES that you can buy if you wanna give your modern dystopian reality some gothic flair.
http://rebeccajoneshowe.com
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
Tim Murr @timmurr.bsky.social Writer, artist, publisher. I like my music heavy, slow, and sad. Author of Thirsty and Miserable: A Critical Analysis of the Music of Black Flag, Dead Kids Don’t Ride Bikes, Summer’s Venomous Kiss, and more.
https://stroosterbooks.bigcartel.com
Justin Burning @jburning.com Writer (Panels of the Profane (WIP); Hand-Held Hell (2023)), musician (Gathering of October Ghouls), composer (The Bad Man), runner, cyclist, cook, dad (human & doxie), horror and animal lover.
jburning.bigcartel.com
jburning.bandcamp.com
Violet James McMaster @violetjmcmaster.bsky.social Bookseller & Events Coordinator @ Big Blue Marble Bookstore
Reviewer @inavioletnature (IG) & @violetjamesmcmaster on Substack
https://linktr.ee/violetjamesmcmaster
Oliver Brackenbury @obrackenbury.bsky.social https://www.patreon.com/soimwritinganovel
Author / Screenwriter / NESS Magazine Editor and head of Brackenbury Books. Podcast Host: So I'm Writing a Novel, Unknown Worlds of the Merril Collection. (He/Him)
Aaron Dries @aarondries.bsky.social Author/screenwriter — 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.
Maria Abrams @mariaabrams.bsky.social Mystery author. CO / NJ. 🖤 DEATH IN THE DOWNLINE out now! | Rep: Lane Heymont
Chris LaMartina @chrislamartina.bsky.social Support yer boy over at www.WNUFhalloweenspecial.com
Creator, WNUF Halloween Special & sequel, the Out There Halloween Mega Tape. Drummer in Beach Creeper. Part time werewolf.
All opinions are my own (and probably embarrassing). 
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
Dim Shores @dimshores.bsky.social Micropress publisher of weird fiction. Cat enthusiast. Abyss gazer, void screamer. No ICE, no KKK, no fascist USA. Also no AI. Trans rights are human rights. Billionaires should not exist. He/him. dimshores.com
Tiffany Michelle Brown (she/her) @tmbwrites.bsky.social Author of How Lovely to Be a Woman: Stories and Poems. Co-host of the Horror in the Margins podcast. Whisky enthusiast. Foodie. Wifey. Dancer. www.tmbwrites.com
Weird Providence @weirdpvd.bsky.social The new face of Lovecraft Arts & Sciences Council. Keep Providence weird.
weirdprovidence.com
Mike Phillips @phikemillips.bsky.social From Beyond Press EIC, shitposter, reader, music listener, writer, in approximately that order. Human sized piñata stuffed with cheese and anxiety. he/him