General Witchfinders - The British Horror Podcast and Zine @generalwitch.bsky.social The British Horror Podcast and Zine
Britain… an ancient kingdom with cruelty and torment in its blood
Join Ross Jon and James as they tread where few dare
From Dracula to Damien Herbert to Hellraiser
www.generalwitchfinders.com
T.W. Burgess @manoghosts.bsky.social Writer. Passenger (2026), Creator of Ghoster, Photoghasts, The Eyrie. Author of Early Haunts, Mister Howl.
Rep : Entertainment 360
Mike Muncer @mikemuncer.bsky.social Producer, editor, journalist. Host & creator of The Evolution of Horror podcast.
✉️ mike@evolutionofhorror.com
🔗 mikemuncer.com
THE MOURNING PAPER @themourningpaper.bsky.social The UK’s premier goth magazine.
An independent publication exploring alternative culture, lifestyle, art and literature. 🏴
Www.themourningpaper.co.uk
Tmpmag@aol.com
Jason Heeley @jaseheeley.bsky.social Illustrator and eventual dust mote.
Spooky Isles @spookyisles.bsky.social UK & Ireland's Spookiest Horror and Paranormal Online Magazine
linktr.ee/spookyisles
Gav Cross @gavcross.bsky.social Storyteller, Theatre Maker, Idiot
(He/Him/They/Them) #ND #ADHD
linktr.ee/gavcross
John Reppion @johnreppion.bsky.social Knackered writer. Mr @leahmoore.bsky.social
Comics for DC, Dark Horse, 2000 AD etc, articles for Hellebore, Daily Grail, Fortean Times, etc, Weird Fiction... loads of stuff.
Haunted Book Club with @gavcross.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/haunted_bookclub
Ginger Coffee Creams of Horror @gnofhorror.com We put the "Ginger" in "Horror" 🔥
Book & movie reviews with a bite.
17 years strong. Still scared. Still reviewing.
👇 Dunk into our latest posts
https://gnofhorror.com/
Mislaid Books @mislaidbooks.bsky.social Small press publisher owned by Johnny Mains & Trevor Kennedy. Dedicated to reprinting lost and adrift fiction.
EMAIL: mislaidbooksAToutlookDOTcom
Johnny Mains @johnnymains.co.uk Horror anthologist. Co-founder of Mislaid Books.
AuDHD.
Buy Me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/johnnymains
Hannah Cooper @hannahcooper.bsky.social Archive TV viewer, writer, pint drinker: time you enjoy wasting is not wasted. Regular at @cathoderays.bsky.social
“general excellent taste”
“incredibly good company”
“very nice”
📺 http://visualmutterings.com
⏪️ https://backintimefortv.co.uk
Quinborne Community Centre @quinborne.bsky.social Quinborne Community Centre serves as a local hub that brings people together.
We are charity lead and funding is raised through room hire and donations.
Visit us at: www.quinbornecommunitycentre.co.uk
William Meikle @williammeikle.com Wee sweary Scottish writer, living in Canada, with 30+ novels and 300+ short stories in genre presses over the past 30+ years. Mostly at williammeikle.com ... mostly.
Helen Grant @helengrantsays.bsky.social Lives in Scotland & writes books. Order my new novella STEAL ME from Absinthe Books. Short story collection ATMOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES available from Swan River Press. Perthshire Gothic. M.R.James fiend. Represented by John Jarrold.
Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social Writer
- R Ramsey Campbell @ramseycampbell.bsky.social I write horror.
All In The Telling - The Ghost Story Network @allinthetelling.bsky.social Shining a lantern on the finest ghost story performers.
#ghoststories #gothic #horror #storytelling #folklore #folkhorror #weirdfiction
Will Maclean @willmac23.bsky.social Writer. New novel, Solace House, out NOW (UK) from Atlantic Books. Also responsible for The Apparition Phase, the comedy/drama High Strangeness, and co-writer/presenter of the podcast Broken Veil.
Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social Writer & highwayman.
Ladybird, Cunk, Wipe, Be Funny Or Die, Framley, Candidate band, Comfort Blanket, Broken Veil etc
https://ko-fi.com/gralefrit
AGENTS, website, links, bio etc: www.gralefrit.co.uk
PromoteHorror 🎃 @promotehorror.bsky.social Bringing creators of #horror & horror fans together for 14 years now! Our goal is to help #SpreadtheHorror through our promotions!
Alistair Fruish @fruishfruish.bsky.social Producer/ Writer
working in prisons for 20+ years
http://fruishon.co.uk/
THE SENTENCE read by Daniel Copeland
One sentence
46,000 one syllable words
https://fruishon.co.uk/the-sentence-listen/
Dr Lauren B @gothicbookworm.bsky.social 🦇Haunts museums, bookshops, and the Gothic
🎨 ‘Mummy Brown’ Paint Project/research
🪲PhD on Travel & the Body, perception & treatment of mummified remains in 19t C
📖Mummified Narratives & Egyptomania
📝 Rider Haggard
Blazing Minds @blazingminds.bsky.social Official BlueSky account for Multi-award winning entertainment website founded by Karen Woodham with a passion for movies, theatre, events, photography and geek stuff since 2008.
🌐 blazingminds.co.uk
🔗 blazingminds.bio.link
☕ coff.ee/blazingminds
Kerry Hadley-Pryce @kerryhp.bsky.social Earthling. Writer (Salt Publishing, Fictive Dream, The Incubator), Runner, Walker, Psychogeographer, owned by Border Collie and Welsh Sheepdog, PhD in Creative Writing
International Gothic Association @igagoths.bsky.social The International Gothic Association is a large family of academic researchers, students, artists and writers with a shared interest in all things Gothic. www.globalgoth.org
Clare Hammond @clarehammondpiano.bsky.social Concert pianist. "Exudes the air of someone who sprinkles her morning cereal with iron filings." (The Times)
Elle Jackson-Codling @bookish-fish.bsky.social UK secondary school librarian, former Carnegie Medals judge (2022-23), and bunny owner
Louisa Steel @lhsteel.bsky.social Relationship Manager, Libraries SE, Arts Council England. Adviser, Essex Book Festival. Cats and cocktails. Views expressed here are personal and not that of Arts Council England.
Lara Marshall @laramarshall.bsky.social Bibliophile, library-lover, braille-student and cat-lady. Fond of hyphens and interrobangs. Treasurer for Share the Vision @ReadingSight and Libraries Engagement Manager @RNIB ❤️
Libraries Hacked @librarieshacked.bsky.social Libraries Hacked is a project to promote open data, to help libraries publish their data, and to showcase projects using library data. And dogs in libraries.
Tweets by Dave.
Bluesky @bsky.app official Bluesky account (check username👆)
Bugs, feature requests, feedback: support@bsky.app
Prison Reading Groups @prg-uk.bsky.social Prison Reading Groups is part of charity, Give a Book. We supply books to over 110 reading groups in over 80 prisons.
The Film Canary @thefilmcanary.bsky.social He/him. Going into cinematic depths to see what's safe. Currently raising money for Crisis, The Palestine Children's Relief Fund, and akt (The Albert Kennedy Trust). https://gvwhl.com/F0WFP
The Independent Horror Society @indiehorrorsoc.bsky.social We bring together all fans of #horror, and share the best horror films & projects that YOU have created.
(Formerly The London Horror Society)
Nash @ericnash.bsky.social Writer. (he/him) #Gothic, #ghosts, body and folk #horror are my bag. Words in Dark Moon Books, CreepyPod, Coffin Bell Journal, and others. CORPSE ROAD BLUES out now! 📚🩸📚💙 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
https://linktr.ee/eric_nash
Chris Naylor @chrisnaylor.bsky.social I’m a British actor and artist. I play Harry Sullivan for Big Finish, and I love to paint and draw the heroes of my youth…
Big Bearded Spookseller @bigbeardedbookseller.com I’ve got a beard, I sell books
Books read: 92/100
📚 The Mystery at Odd-Doings House
📺
https://www.bigbeardedbookseller.com
https://ko-fi.com/bigbeardedbookseller
https://linktr.ee/bigbeardedbookseller
Give a Book @giveabookorg.bsky.social Give a Book is a charity dedicated to promoting books and the pleasure of reading in the hardest places. Our main work is in prisons and disadvantaged schools.
Stephen Kelman @stephenkelman.bsky.social Author of the novels Pigeon English (Booker Prize shortlist, AQA GCSE set text) and Man on Fire. New stuff on the way.
Richard Usher @richardausher.bsky.social 🎙️#VoiceOverArtist * 🎭#Actor * 📖#Storyteller
Represented by Wozniak Management @wozmanagement
🎭 http://spotlight.com/4619-4507-4363
🛜Website:
www.richardusher.co.uk
EMMA DARK 🎬 @emmadark.bsky.social Award-Winning Film Director | Pro Filmmaker & Photographer | Actress | Award-Nominated Writer 🏆🎬
https://linktr.ee/emmadarkofficial
X: @emdarkofficial
Lawrie Brewster @lawriebrewster.bsky.social I'm a Scottish Film Producer leading a crusade to build the world's first open access Horror Film Studio called the... British Horror Studio! https://www.patreon.com/c/britishhorrorstudio
Hidden Britain @hiddenbritain.bsky.social Handmade signs, prints, music & books inspired by British Folk Horror and unsettling TV, film & literature. Based in The Black Country, England.
https://linktr.ee/hiddenbritain
Robert Valentine @mrrobvalentine.bsky.social Hack for hire.
robertvalentine.net
@profontography.bsky.social @profontography.bsky.social Ghost fiction, esp. MR James, Europe and Buster Keaton. 
Jon Dear @accordingtojond.bsky.social Writer on archive TV and film. Currently working on a book about the BBC’s A Ghost Story for Christmas. Produced The Quatermass Experiment (2023) and Children of The Stone Tape (2024). Podcasts on Nigel Kneale and Giallo.
GOTHICA 🦇 @gothicauob.bsky.social A spooky network interested in exploring all aspects of the Gothic at @unibirmingham.
Co-run by @katrinajan.bsky.social, @dremilyvincent.bsky.social.
Blog: https://uobgothica.wordpress.com/past-sessions/
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
James Swanton @jamescswanton.bsky.social Actor in Apartment 7A, Inside No. 9, Tarot, The First Omen, Lot No. 249, Stopmotion, DASHCAM, Host, Frankenstein's Creature. Much Dickens on stage. Spooky.
The Book of Darkness & Light @tbodal.bsky.social Ghost Stories on Stage
Touring 2025:
DEEPEST FEARS (Sept 2026 - Jan 2027)
A CHRISTMAS CAROL (Dec 2026)
Linktree:
https://linktr.ee/tbodal
Storyteller & Writer:
https://bsky.app/profile/adamzed.bsky.social
David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social Triple threat:
Journalism: www.authory.com/davidbarnett
Books: www.amazon.co.uk/stores/author/B0034PY7ZW
Comics: leagueofcomicgeeks.com/people/16810/david-barnett/comics
Agent: Laura Williams, Greene & Heaton greeneheaton.co.uk/clients/david-m-barnett
The Folklore Podcast @folklorepod.bsky.social Official account of The Folklore Podcast. 2 million downloads worldwide. Created by folklorist and author Mark Norman. Find us online at http://www.thefolklorepodcast.com
Film/TV rep: Past Preservers Author for various publishers
Skionar @skionar.bsky.social Roger Clarke. Author of A Natural History of Ghosts, published by Penguin Books (2012). Former writer for the Independent Newspaper, Sunday TimesUK, Sight & Sound. In it for the long haul with severe chronic illness, dealing with NHS on a weekly basis
Claire Louise Amias @clairelouiseamias.bsky.social Actor / Theatremaker. Playing E Nesbit in 'Haunted Shadows - The Gothic Tales of Edith Nesbit' on UK tour from 24 Oct to 13 Dec 2025.
Previous show 'The Masks of Aphra Behn'.
www.clairelouiseamias.co.uk
Represented by Leodis Talent.
Alex Davis @alexdavis1981.bsky.social Lecturer, workshopper and creative writing events organiser - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/alex-davis-events-17318878423
The Ghost Story Book Club @ghoststorybookclub.bsky.social The Ghost Story Book Club podcast. Join host Adam Z. Robinson @adamzed.bsky.social as he discusses classic ghost stories with special guests. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!
Rebekah King @rebekahking.bsky.social Writer/researcher https://www.rebekahkingwriter.com/
Articles on magic, theatre, horror etc here https://rebekahkingwriter.substack.com
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
David Kendall @manwithbooks.bsky.social Big Issue #changemaker, Co-director of Penned Up https://pennedup.org.uk/ - a literary festival curated with people in prison for people in prison.
Stephen Graves @stephengraves.co.uk Special Projects Editor at Decrypt, director of short films (The Dead of Winter, @frightfest.bsky.social @screamfest.bsky.social alumnus), player of D&D, painter of little Warhammer/MESBG men. @stephengraves on Twitter.
Phantasmagoria @jamielnathan.bsky.social PNW Storyteller & Bookwyrm 💙📚 She/Her
Loves the spooky & fantastical
All stories human crafted by me.
Stories in: Inner Worlds, LSQ, Pulp Asylum, A Midnight Kind of Place, Horrific Scribes
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
Simon J. Ballard @simonjballard.bsky.social Co-writer of 'Edgelands of Fear' horror short story collection with David Huckvale, contributor to The BHF Books of Horror Stories, non-fiction writer for We Belong Dead, The Dark Side, Infinity, Cinema of the 70s/80s.