AK Faulkner @ravenswordpress.com Your friendly local agender trauma merchant.
Bereaved and current Corgi parent. Cat chew-toy.
Visually impaired, posts may contain typos.
Any pronouns.
https://ravenswordpress.com/
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M.H.Urban - Horror Author @mhurban.bsky.social Just another indie author trying to come out of her hard drive. Horror, psychological thriller, dark fantasy... I like them like my coffee: strong and black. No AI, all my mistakes are human-made.
mhurban.com
Independent Historians Network (UK) @indyhistnetwork.bsky.social Set up by Emma Bastin, Lucy Jane Santos, Karen Averby and Kathryn Ferry the Independent Historians Network is for exactly what the name suggests! A network for those historians working outside academia. Join up now.
https://independenthistorians.org
Grimorio de bestias @grimoriobestias.bsky.social Aquí encontraréis criaturas fantásticas de todas las mitologías: bestias, monstruos, dragones, ángeles, demonios, yokai, espíritus...
Entrada nueva los jueves: https://grimoriodebestias.blogspot.com/
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#FolkloreThursday
#Mythology
#Creatures
RJT @lettersdirectory.bsky.social Independent researcher of various humanities writing poetry. Disabled. Johns Hopkins alum. Thinking about post-capitalism, post-violence, and etymology. https://www.tilley.earth/, https://www.letters.directory/, https://www.violencestudies.com
Paul Ryan O'Connor @paulryanoconnor.bsky.social Blogger & award-winning crime fiction author. MWA. Noir, pulp, monsters, fiction, jazz, writing, film, comics. Went by @LBoxGraveyard at that other place.
https://www.paulryanoconnor.com/stories
Diane Levin @dianelevin.bsky.social Boston Red Sox fan. Recovering lawyer. Squirrel enthusiast.
Kvervill @kvervill.bsky.social Lapsed artist, Norway. Spend my time making mead, wines and various ferments. Into photography, TTRPGs and growing hydroponic plants.
@profontography.bsky.social @profontography.bsky.social Ghost fiction, esp. MR James, Europe and Buster Keaton. 
Bournemouth University Archaeology and Anthropology @buarchanth.bsky.social Archaeology at Bournemouth University
Phil Hine @philh.bsky.social Occult Author, Researcher, Publisher, Lecturer.
https://enfolding.org/
Alex Davis @alexdavis1981.bsky.social Lecturer, workshopper and creative writing events organiser - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/alex-davis-events-17318878423
Emmerdale Insider @emmerdaleinsider.bsky.social All the latest news, spoilers, and recaps from Emmerdale - written by soap experts for the show’s biggest fans
Nick Miles @nickmiles.bsky.social Actor in Emmerdale, trying to be less furious, mostly furious. Patron of Sunflowers charity.
PindsvineSteve @pindsvinesteve.bsky.social Grumpy, archaeology dabbler!
Chris Green @seagreenmusic.bsky.social Wandering musician, sedentary composer. String-plucker, key-tickler, synth-botherer. Also one-half of GreenMatthews and one-third of The Warleggan Village Band.
linktr.ee/SeaGreenMusic
linktr.ee/GreenMatthews
linktr.ee/WarlegganVillageBand
Tim Thomas @timofnewbury.bsky.social European 🇪🇺
Newbury, Berkshire based - previously Lichfield, South London, Sheffield, Kent, Sussex.
Likes: travel eg Belgium; railways; art; music eg Americana; film eg Noir & beer.
🔸
Elsewhere: @timofnewbury
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Northern Horror Hub @northerhorrorhub.bsky.social Northern Horror Hub gathers writers, readers and thinkers drawn to the darkness. Explore all aspects of horror via our writing courses, retreats, conferences and events both online and in person. Watch this space for submissions to our upcoming zine.
Coffin Boffin @coffinboffin.bsky.social Dr Sam George, Open Graves Open Minds Project. Gothic Enchantment. Books on Vampires, Wolves, Fairies, Unruly Plants, Shadows. https://herts.academia.edu/SamGeorge
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.
How Haunted? Podcast @howhauntedpod.bsky.social I'm Rob. A Geordie ghost hunter, author, and the host of the How Haunted? podcast 👻
www.how-haunted.com
https://how-haunted.dashery.com
Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social We believe in books that promote positive change and enrich culture.
Sign up to the MUP newsletter & receive 30% off all orders.
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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk Antiquity is a bimonthly review of world archaeology edited by Professor Robin Skeates. Please be aware that we sometimes share relevant images of human remains. https://antiquity.ac.uk/
Sarah J Miles @sarahjomiles.bsky.social Librarian by day, Ghoul by night
Nicholas Jackson @njj4.bsky.social mathematician, depressive, neurodivergent, agnostic, European, SF fan, ancestor. (he/him/his).
Assistant Professor in Maths and Economics at the University of Warwick.
Mastodon: @njj4@mathstodon.xyz
Instagram: dr.nicholas.jackson
Sam Garvan @garvansam.bsky.social Poet. Reader. Plums, raspberries, apricots. Recently in Asymptote, New Welsh Review, Finished Creatures, Cyphers. Troubadour Prize. Jt runner-up Keats-Shelley prize. He/him.
Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social Poet. #ReadMorePoetry Collections: Crown of Eggshell, In the Shadow of Gods @BookWormSat w/ Signe Maene. Literature, art, myth, folklore, the gothic. Left wing. 🇪🇺 She/her 🌈🏳️⚧️ Ally https://linktr.ee/rachel_deering
https://ko-fi.com/kofisupporter68929
The Wild Hunt News @thewildhunt.bsky.social Daily news for Pagans, Wiccans, Witches, and Heathens by journalists who are polytheists. Plus weekly columns and editorials! Visit our website https://www.wildhunt.org
National Trust Archaeology @nattrustarch.bsky.social Sharing information about archaeology at National Trust places across England, Wales and Northern Ireland
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
National Folklore Survey for England @nfsengland.bsky.social UKRI AHRC funded project based at the Centre for Contemporary Legend, Sheffield Hallam University nationalfolkloresurvey.co.uk
The Folklore Library & Archive @folklorelibrary.bsky.social Registered Charity No: 1203418. Patrons: Michael Rosen, Joanne Harris.
Preserving traditional heritage and folklore materials for the future, and delivering these through open access. Focus on at-risk heritage.
Online at www.folklorelibrary.com
LichfieldLore @lichfieldlore.bsky.social Lover of curiosities, legends & languages. Searching for stories in Staffordshire & beyond. The weird one from @lichdiscovered. Website: lichfieldlore.co.uk
Sheffield Folk Guide @sheffieldfolkguide.bsky.social A guide to folk music and dance events in and near Sheffield by @KathyBarnes. Please see www.sheffieldfolkguide.org.uk. A non-commercial information sharing service.
Butser Ancient Farm @butserancientfarm.co.uk Learning about the past by recreating it! Experimental archaeology, traditional crafts, reenactments & more. Hampshire, UK. https://bio.site/butserancientfarm
@thebotmakes.bsky.social @thebotmakes.bsky.social Sometime maker, wannabe musician, kinda coder, fan of the strange
Fortean Times @forteantimes.bsky.social The journal of strange phenomena
The Cricklet Almanack @cricklet.live Simulated cricket under the watchful eye of the Wicker Man. Stats, folklore, occurrences. Follow live here: https://cricklet.live/
Mika Paananen @painmike1.bsky.social Author of 'Harmsleave'. History Fan and Old Aircraft Enthusiast. Belligerent Bookshelf. Typing Curmudgeon CorrectBird Style. Slightly Anglophile. NO unsolicited CHAT.
Dim comments is just bad English...🇫🇮
painmike.com harmsleave.com
Fotoodyseja @fotoodyseja.bsky.social Journalist, photography and travel enthusiast, blogger https://fotoodyseja.blogspot.com/ 
Andrea @bekkatron.bsky.social Professional overthinker 🤭
Coffee-powered human ☕
Trying to make the internet a little nicer
Keith Kahn-Harris @keithkahnharris.bsky.social Author. Sociologist. Senior Research Fellow at Institute for Jewish Policy Research and Senior Lecturer at Leo Baeck College but here in a personal capacity. Interested in metal, Jews and much else. https://linktr.ee/keithkahnharris
David Nugent-Malone @dsjnugentmalone.bsky.social The Kingfisher Craft Studio Workshop is a creative hub for art, poetry, and prose; based in Blanefield, Stirlingshire. There will be book reviews and gardening thoughts too...
@draganox.bsky.social @draganox.bsky.social 
Danny Robins @dannyrobins.bsky.social #UncannyAutumn is nearly here…👻🍂🛸 Tickets are on sale NOW at uncannylive.com for the online screening of the Uncanny Live tour on the 25 September!
Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social Politics (mainly UK and a bit of US), comedy and popular culture more generally.
Hear me on a radio near you blathering about Burnham or Farage. Probably.
Political Sandbox here: https://substack.com/@politicalsandboxmark
Chad Lewis @chadlewis.bsky.social Author, researcher, and lecturer on topics of the strange and unusual. 
DracoHarry🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧👻🏴☠️ @athen4.bsky.social Stop targeting Muslims!
Thinking of all the victims and firefighters
Still remember watching it, I was 22
Horrific
I support the firefighters
Architects & Engineers
So many died
👩🚒 😞 💔
True Heroes
Still Riding
Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social Genealogist & Family Historian for 22 years.
AGRA Associate, Wakefield, West Yorks
Pharos Intermediate & Advanced Certificate
One Place Study: St. John's Square, Wakefield
www.ancestralenquiries.co.uk
#FamilyHistory
#Genealogy
#LocalHistory
#Yorkshire
Dr Karen Smith🪴🕷🦇🐇🐈 💚🇮🇪🎶🎭📽️🎞💙😷💉🕯️🦋🌻 @karenapsmith.bsky.social Taught HE for over 25 years, Art School Dep Head/Film/Media scholar/programmer/cinemas/cult/horror/ gothic/folk horror/music/clubs/neighbourhoods/audiences/gentrification/Scala Cinema
UCL+KCL
Lived opposite Grenfell Tower over 20 years 💚 W10 to WKen London
@buggystoof.bsky.social @buggystoof.bsky.social Making buggy stuff.
Dr Hazel Perry @historyhaze1.bsky.social Historian of trades union councils. Other interests folklore, prehistory, archaeology, cats. Also researching 84 Sanitary Section (WWI). East Anglia,UK. #skystorian ❤️
Mainly Museums @mainlymuseums.bsky.social A personal take on museums big and small from contributors across the globe.
Jussi @finnfolklorist.bsky.social I am interested in myths, legends and folklore. I don't' like nazis, tankies or Russia.
I am mostly active on here on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays.
A. E. Daly @aedaly.bsky.social Writer of spec and weird fiction. Comics, cameras, SF & retro nerd.
Scottish Book Trust New Writer, Kelpies shortlist, Bath Children's Novel Award. Some milestones came & went, now I'm older, gloomier and trying to work out what's next. She/her.
The Dark Almanac @darkalmanac.bsky.social A calendar of Britain's dark corners: customs, hauntings, broadsides, séance-press reports
pfp/banner credit: Lewis Ashton
weird menace and excessive bloodletting @gemmafiles.bsky.social a preliminary sketch of a crone. Aspergerian mom of an autistic son. I wrote Experimental Film and literally 100+ short stories. Out now: Little Horn, a collection, from Shortwave Publishing. I sing, make jewelry and doodle pretty monsters.
Ida Tolgensbakk @idatolgensbakk.bsky.social Folklorist at Norsk Folkemuseum, Oslo, Norway. Migration history, folklore, childlore, netlore. She/her.
ida.tolgensbakk@norskfolkemuseum.no
Mikey Rockstar @mikey-rockstar.bsky.social Manufacturing quality dreamcatchers since 1994. Cats b4 @‘s. Living on Kaurna lands.
Photic sneezer
Griff @smallchunkpickle.bsky.social Worn out Oolite modder and air fryer chips enthusiast
Alex Heron @heronalex.bsky.social Short-story writer. Very fond of marzipan, chocolate, sherry trifle. Chekhov. The idea of a parrot.
@mstattsyrup.bsky.social @mstattsyrup.bsky.social 
Andy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social North Yorkshire Councillor for Aire Valley. Green Party. Columnist for Yorkshire Post. Write for Yorkshire bylines. Former Head of Young People's Learning for Yorkshire and the Humber
Elissa Noves @elissanoves.bsky.social Full time carer (the economically inactive kind). Interested in #SEND and patient safety.
Angela @a-ngela.bsky.social Cares about the planet, Quaker leanings, aspiring artist, interested in history, proudly woke.
AshOfTheShire @ashbayliss.bsky.social Heavy Metal Hobbit 🤘🏻LOTR, gardening, nature, folklore and the weirder side of life
Robot Townie @daverobinson3.bsky.social Loompress.com sells my books "Sweeney on-the-Fringe" and "Sweeney in-Effable."
American living in a village in Portugal with his family and his collection of repetitive mistakes.
Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social Sometimes I do graphic design stuff for telly and film. Other times I make spooky lino prints and things you can buy if you want...
📍Black Country (middle of the UK)
https://linktr.ee/SlipperyJack
Arno’s Archive @maga-zin.bsky.social I post an eclectic mix of history, art, architecture, aviation/aerospace, design, literature, erotica, occultism, and more.
Male, already in his 40ies 😬, engineer, writer, historian and editor and happily together with a lovely goddess.
No chat/DM.
Adrian Parker @instonesbelly.bsky.social Bigfoot enthusiast, pylon appreciator, megalithomaniac
Kirk Murphy @kirkmurphy.bsky.social "We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable - but then, so did the divine right of kings" Ursula K LeGuin
"The Nazis changed but they never went away" Chumba
"He sees the bright and hollow sky" my people
"Cuddle us" my kitties
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
Reeljadironfilm (Faisal Al-Jadir) @reeljadironfilm.bsky.social Iraqi-Canadian. Cinephile. Film journalist (@filminquiry). Writer. Copywriter. Occasional filmmaker. 🍉🇵🇸
(Tkaronto/Abu Dhabi)
https://www.filminquiry.com/author/faisal-al-jadir/
Dr Jennie 🐝 (she/her) @jenruthbailey.bsky.social #HEinFE library lass, writer, wanderer, story slinger, benign menace to society. Refuse to outsource my intellect to generative AI.
Looking for fun, creative workshops? Hit me up: https://www.jenbee.me.uk
Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social Americanist Military Historian & Genocide Scholar.
Kean University History Adjunct.
Expat Twitterstorian. Skystorian.
Cancer Survivor. He/Him.
https://linktr.ee/deckofcarterhistory
Erin Green 🖖 @erin-o-green.bsky.social A bookish, menopausal, gardening misanthrope — she/her
I know the world’s on fire in the US and I’m doing my bit as best I can, but I also can’t absorb all the bile. Star Trek & Books are keeping me alive.
Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social Surprised historian, not surprised eels.
Doctor of medieval things. Talkin’ eels, history, and maps. Spaniel mourner. Alt-text artist.
I draw custom maps and artwork on commission:
https://surprisedeelmaps.com/
Support me here: patreon.com/SurprisedEel
Brothers Dimm Podcast @brothersdimm.bsky.social In the early 1800s, the Brothers Grimm collected & recorded German folk tales, launching what's now known as the modern fairy tale. Join Philippe, Mike, and guests as they explore one story at a time with humor, history, and digressions at every turn.
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.
mashka @susminervamdocet.bsky.social 👩🏼 they/them or she/her, 38 y.o. from the Balkans
• 📚 enjoyer of all things #language and #literature
• 🐖 admirer of #animals, #plants and #nature
• 🐱 caretaker of #cats #adoptdontshop
• 🌱 powered by plants
• ✊🏼 antifascist & anticapitalist
𝐖𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐲𝐧 @westynwitches.bsky.social 🕷️🕸️🌹»»—𝐖✨𝐖—►🕯️🌙🌿
Anna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social Books, corvids and the shakily cheerful evasion of despair. PHENGARIS
@nefariousbatpress.bsky.social PARCH MARKS out with @GoldSF.bsky.social in Sept 26.
Author website: https://annaorridge.com/ (thanks to @sonorataylor.bsky.social)
she/her
@misternatural.bsky.social @misternatural.bsky.social "Who needs TV, when I've got T-Rex!" (David Bowie) Will Follow Back unless you're Reform, Maga, etc. Veggie 40+ years. Fuck Trump, Musk, Farage, Netanyahu & Putin. Now a Greens supporter. Rock on folks!
#FBPE #StopArmingIsrael #IStandWithUkraine
Michael Morrison @michaelmorrison.bsky.social Movies, music, books, soccer, and whatever else catches my interest
Los Angeles
GeorginaP @georginawalking.bsky.social #FreePalestine #Walking #Environment Retired RN Politically Homeless
Joanne Koski @twigski.bsky.social Knitter, bike rider, tea drinker
Paul Bulmer @paulsbabble121.bsky.social Quantity Surveying by day
Stoic Bachelor GenX
Leicestershire, UK
Blog: paulsbabble.wordpress.com
History, knowledge, Pinterest, Wikipedia, spreadsheets, facts, Gemini, historical fiction, blogging, cooperation, kindness.
Mel Roxby-Mackey @archaeoborders.bsky.social Archaeologist of borders, working on the Anglo-Cymric borderland and its folklore, digital humanist. Trustee, Offa's Dyke Association. All ops very much my own. archaeoborders.wordpress.com
Jedi Tanker 🐸📎🚫👑 🇺🇲🤙🏽🇵🇭🇵🇹 @jeditanker19k.bsky.social Drove both | AA&PI | GenX
619🟤🟡/808/253
🏬🪖🏰⛺️📦⚽️🦺🚍
I follow all kinds of people, so I can learn new things every day. High strangeness 👻👽🐉
The 🌎 isn't ⬛ & ⬜️, it's many shades of gray.
Man is an animal, completely dependent on its natural environment ~Vogl
Michael Bully @bleakchesneywold.bsky.social Based in Worthing, West Sussex, England. #Victorian History/ #Secondempire enthusiast, Listen to #Classicalmusic & #TheFall, Also love #TheArchers
This is the bluesky account for 19th century blog
https://bleakchesneywold.blogspot.com/
Dorian Grey @truedoriangrey.bsky.social No portrait in my attic. Husband, Dad. Untutored enthusiast of art/photography, music, travel, watching cricket 🏏 on the telly, dabbler in oil painting. All photos I post are my own. 🇬🇧 🇺🇸
@zeldabizarre.bsky.social @zeldabizarre.bsky.social Married Elder Goth. Frequently seen in San Francisco.😍🖼️ 🎥 📚 🎶 🤘🐈⬛🐕🦔🦇🕷️🦉-#Live Deliciously - see you in the shadows. I make dolls & weird stuff. 🚫 MAGA, extremists of any kind. Don’t be an asshole ok?
@laurasfdweller.bsky.social @laurasfdweller.bsky.social Pro-Democracy, Anti-Fascist, LGBTQIA+ Ally. Pro Due Process. Close the camps!
PhenoMinal @phenominalp.bsky.social Digital Herder. Aspiring Leamingtonian but always a New Yorker at heart. Bibliophile, lexicon lover, RPG gamer, experimental gastronomer.
The Midnight Slipper @themidnightslipper.bsky.social Home of the Midnight Slipper podcast
https://open.spotify.com/show/6KqrLUYY7qAGI6pW8N0eDL
Waxikena @nightdancerschild.bsky.social Ghost Dancer, Dress maker, Dream Walker, Keeper of the Lodge, Medicine Woman, White Buffalo Cow Society.
Water is Life. We are all Related. Survive with Community, Humor, Dance, Music & Art.
It’s never too late to start the day over.