WSB is an online magazine that explores the horror genre as one of the most important cultural vehicles of our time.
Spec fic writer, reader, artist. Wrangles, variously: words, data, two small children. Loves history, New Weird, rats. 💖💜💙 A/member SFWA, HWA. Rep: @clgslr.bsky.social | w: www.chpearce.net | IG: c.h.pearce
Director of Content at www.whatsleepsbeneath.com (@whatsleepsbeneath.com)
(he/him)
I do science with fossils, X-rays and computers at the Unviersity of Manchester and Natural History Museum, UK.
russellgarwood.co.uk
writer: Nightscript, @DimShores.bsky.social @ThinkingHorror, @weirdfictionrev, film crit. @ patreon.com/ascannerburkely | mulchsack left. most likely to be mad online, class of 2000. he/him.
Artist, programmer, game preserver, mousedad
✅ Code for Shock Troops on Meta Quest.
▶️ gamebox.museum site & VR app
⏭️ Probably a VR dungeon crawler / thief-like.
Discord: michelmohr
📧 michel@michelmohr.me
UK Horror & Dark SFF hybrid [Canelo -> Penguin] author
HWA Affiliate Writer, BFS Member
ADHD. Welsh-Turkish 🏴🇹🇷. Queer/cis🏳️🌈. She/her.
Podcast: @eldritchgirlpod.bsky.social
Website/Newsletter: cmrosens.com
Visit Pagham-on-Sea: visitpaghamonsea.co.uk
PhD in Trauma, Popular Culture and Postmodernism. Published with Palgrave Macmillan. Illustrator. Horror, movies, TV, games, cats. #mutantfam she/her
Bot posting 4x daily from Sam Biddle's curated collection of US military slides from the Cold War era.
Main site: https://www.sambiddle.com/35mm-scans
Slides courtesy @sambiddle.com
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Fan site for the Nordic horror RPG by Free League. In the 19th-century, players investigate supernatural mysteries around folkloric creatures. It blends atmospheric storytelling, gothic themes, and rich lore, all powered by the Year Zero Engine.
Oxford historian, best-selling writer fiction & non-fiction, documentary maker, cat lover, vegetable grower, unrelenting optimist. Gotta lotta love to share.
Discover (or rediscover) this classic era of computer games box art.
2-3 images each day, most of the days!
Skull and Book Press, etc.
academic/freelance writer, on Gothic, Science Fiction. Next up: Graveyards: A History of Living with the Dead (October 2025).
Lady Literature Lecturer at Trinity College Dublin. Belfast based. Cat person. Expert on Sherlock, crime fiction, true crime, Victorian literature, and 19th century newspapers.
New book coming soon(ish)
Rep: Aevitas Creative UK
Official bsky account for the Trench Crusade skirmish game
https://linktr.ee/trenchcrusade
Academic researcher for all things horror focusing on interdisciplinary adaptation, gaming, and storytelling.
B.A TCD - M.A UCL
https://linktr.ee/thefloodflow
she/her
PhD Candidate | Luddite | Artificial Intelligence in Science Fiction | Space | Gothic | Cats |Writing | Bad Drawings in Ink
Assistant Prof: Medical Gothic/Horror, 18th/19th C Brit Lit, Health Hum, History of Med, Death Studies, Disability Studies | Amateur Artist and cemetery enthusiast
All opinions my own.
Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination: Morbid Anatomies (2022)
Lecturer in English. Gothic, horror, weird.
Father of daughters, health services leader, chair of school governors, academic Gothicist, literary interviewer, crime fiction lover, Doctor Who fan (he/him/his)
https://www.precariousgothic.com
1st gen Irish (Donegal/Sligo) settler in Canada. Author of obscure academic books and slightly less obscure OERs on Roman culture. Translator of, and far too fond of Cicero. She/her nó sí/í
Opinions my own
siobhanmcelduff.com
Working to protect and improve Edinburgh's river, for the benefit of wildlife and our community.
A healthy river cared for by its community
.sjb. is an artist, philosopher, and critic what edits the journal THINKING HORROR, the zine SOFT TEETH, and listens to things.
they/them.
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Lecturer in English @UCC // Horror scholar // Autor of Haunted States: An American Gothic Guide Book and Teen Witches: Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture
Deputy Head of Policy (Research) at The British Academy. Interested in all things research, development and innovation. C19th infrastructures nerd (former and forever). She/her. All views my own.
Publishing exceptional research since 1899.
Home to @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social, @oxunienl.bsky.social, @modlangopen.bsky.social, and @lupdistribution.bsky.social.
linktr.ee/livunipress
Professional nerd researching Gothic Fangirls and Families.
Disabled, Queer, Socialist.
Film & TV Studies Teaching Fellow interested in the gothic, theories of authorship, postmodernism, post-classical style & robots. Tony Scott evangelist (he/him/his)
Roving Archivist @senatehouselib.bsky.social
Formerly Superintendent, Special Collections Reading Rooms @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Opinions mine
Underemployed flâneuse sharing info about #Edinburgh beyond the castle ie overlooked, neglected, underappreciated, everyday & mundane treasures inc
- Graveyards
- Guerrilla Gardens
- Street Art
- Indie Retail
- Hidden Gems
she/her
Reader living with depression, cat lover, she/her. Canadian.
Professor of Modern British Literature and Culture, Trinity College Dublin. M. R. James, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle - and fountain pens.
We believe in books that promote positive change and enrich culture.
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https://linktr.ee/ManchesterUniversityPress
Editor, proof reader, writer, researcher etc.
Recent books:
The Strange Stories of John Buchan (British Library Publishing, 2025)
The Stark Munro Letters by Arthur Conan Doyle (Edinburgh University Press, 2024)
Doctor of Gothic Studies, specialising in masculinity, war and nation. Works in doctoral education and research culture. One half of The Ghoul Guides, spooky pop culture podcasting. She/Her.
'The Book Lover's (& Movie - Sept!) Quiz Book' (1 & 2) author. Book quiz host - The Betsey Trotwood (next one 17/03). Sales & marketing manager at British Library Publishing. All opinions my own! All quiz dates etc here - https://www.gpwigglesworth.co.uk/
Haunted Futures Conference, University College Cork 12th - 14th November 2025
I am the flogger of undead horses. Specifically Welsh, undead, yuletide ones that eat cake, toast and cider. Otherwise known as the mari lwyd! Everyone is welcome here!
🦇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
Independent Scholar reading contemporary literary theory & C21 Gothic 🖊📚💀👻
Hwæt we Gardena in geardagum,
þeodcyninga, þrym gefrunon,
hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon.
Retro tech, early web & vintage computing. 80s, 90s, 2000s nostalgia. Follow for daily posts.
Stone Club believes the journey is as important as the destination and encourages people to pause and think about place in new ways; connecting ancient sites through community and conversation.
stoneclub.rocks
#MDANT
Freaky Deaky Arty Speaky : http://ayeaye.uk
Arts PhD researcher at LJMU. 'The Uncertain Human : Agency and the Technological Gaze'.
Side Hustle: Antiquarian Book Seller on ebay
Visiting Lecturer in Film, Birmingham City University | Assoc. Editor, Quarterly Review of Film and Video | Assoc. Director, Cine-Excess | Your Local Gay™ 🌈 | He/Him
Lecturer of Media and Communications at the University of Sunderland. Researcher of Mutant Theory and monstrous bodies. https://mutanttheory.com/
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
Writer, Broadcaster, Paranormal Historian.
www.burialsandbeyond.com
The cultural feverdream that walks like a magazine. 2014-2017, 2025+
The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wastoids, dweebies, dickheads - they all adore us.
https://dirgemagazine.com/
Discord: https://discord.gg/CNR6KVAQSs
An imprint dedicated to reprinting weird and odd 'lost' books. First publication: THE RESURRECTION OF HIS GRACE (1899) by Campbell Rae-Brown.
Ex-Financial Times Assistant Editor. Ex-editor Scotland on Sunday. Author of 'Made in Manchester' and 'Northerners: A History'. 'These Isles' due Feb 2026.
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.
Shropshire
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Profile pic Ingrid Thulin in 𝘈𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘬𝘵𝘦𝘵 (𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘯, Ingmar Bergman 1957)
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British Library Publishing - bringing you the very best incredible classic literature, republished for readers new and old. Plus bold new non-fiction for everyone. 📚
Writing gothic fiction. Spending time in graveyards. Eating ice cream. Edinburgh. Writes crime as @alisonbelsham.bsky.social
Website: https://elisabethwolf.net/home
Outdoors enthusiast, dog lover; making music as HARSH R (harshr.com)
Children's horror doctor, rabbit film studies connoisseur and intermittent gremlin.
I can't see my DMs.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/author/catherine-lester/
We love books, dogs in bookshops, and customers who laugh at our jokes
The UK's foremost horror anthologist.
"An affable Scotsman" - The Observer.
AuDHD.
Got the morbs.
Buy me a coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/johnnymains
Medical Heritage Museum Curator at TCD, queer #deathpositive artist, childfree cat-lady, in Dublin, Ireland. Aspiring sociologist at UCD writing on death, mortality, & display.
🇵🇸 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 🐈⬛🪶📚📷💀🎨
https://www.evi-numen.com/
www.thanatography.com
Views, my own.
I come in peace.
Artist 🖼️, Cats 🐈⬛🐈, Audiobooks 📚🎧
Upcoming 2027: Solo Exhibition at Holocaust Museum Houston
www.LauraSpector.com
Gothic/Horror Film & Fiction Pedant (ghost stories, esp. M. R. James); Amateur Theatricals; Wastrel and Ne'er-Do-Well in the ‘Western Suburbs.’ Former Teacher. U of I, ‘91.
Associate Dean and Professor, University of Dundee & General Editor of The Oxford Complete Works of Mary Shelley (Oxford University Press, tbc) (https://linktr.ee/profdanielcook)
Leverhulme Research Fellow HPS Leeds | Inaugural USC Carrollian Fellow | Tutor Oxford ContEd | Editor Lewis Carroll Review | Public Speaker | Polymath | Erdős–Bacon No 8 | https://linktr.ee/frankendodo
Historian of archaeology, Co-Investigator of Beyond Notability @beyondnotables.bsky.social, Co-Editor (with Dr Katy Soar), Strange Relics (Handheld Press, 2022). Website: https://www.amarathornton.com/; Agent: @agentbal.bsky.social @mmagency.bsky.social
Assistant Prof of History | Prison Educator | South Asia, Death, Digital Humanities, Heritage, Maps, Medicine | she/her
Folklorist and Writer,
Rooted in Shropshire's History and Lore. 🌳
Writer of 'The Best Of Men' -A Shropshire folk horror 🦇
- Currently working on a book about The Devil in Shropshire Folklore
Bi, ND, & slightly obsessed with Stardew Valley. Fueled by 🧀 🥨 & corgi fur.
🏳️🌈BLM
Managing/Flash Editor at @apexmag.bsky.social.
Creator/EiC of @crepuscularmag.bsky.social
Rep: Jen Azantian/Azantian Lit
https://linktr.ee/rebeccaetreasure
SCBWI/HWA
Historian | Communist ✊| Catholic | Internationalist | Writer | NB Queer (They/He) | Spooky Left | Co-host of Left Page & Here Be Media podcasts
Clumsy. Inordinately fond of cheese. Get a library card and use it.
Tallish, bookish Londoner.
Gothic/folk horror novel, set in Victorian London, "Unquiet": https://titanbooks.com/71432-unquiet/
Weird queer short fiction, "Lost in the Archives": http://tinyurl.com/saxey22
They/them.
Writer; editor. Admirer of pylon towers. Keen on islands. Gloucestershire. She/her.
I am a wizard. My alchemy lab:
strangefireandfumery.com
Artist, writer, naturalist, photographer and wonderer. Enchanted by the natural world but angered by our treatment of it. Always happier outside. Often found gazing at the sky.
Website: www.kerrieanngardner.co.uk
Digital analyst | Gothicist | PhD on dolls & horror |
Proud Celt and supporter of Scottish Independence; avid reader; love Nature and the outdoors; can out-stubborn a Beagle.
Edinburgh based zine of folklore and Forteana.
Sometimes weird, always antifascist.
https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/sjlyall
Birkbeck PhD - writing on SF & Jack Womack. Teaching at UNE.
Stoker Award-nominated horror author.
rep: Oli Munson
she/they, bi, polyam, vegan, a bit witchy, very crafty
Trans rights are human rights
End the genocide in Gaza 🍉
Posting from Greenwich, London
www.allywilkes.com
Media lecturer: UK TV history, telefantasy, historical dramas. At Queen’s University Belfast.
Textile Artist: anatomical, microbiological & botanical ♥️🧠🧫. Science meets art. MSc Public Health. Caernarfon/Edinburgh
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
👩🏻🏫Tutoring English @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social
✍️Co-writing book for @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social
📚Research Deputy @cncsi.bsky.social
🦇Co-host @GothicaUob.bsky.social
👋🏼ECR Rep @bavs-uk.bsky.social
👻 Summoned to the Séance @britishlibrary.bsky.social
Books, graveyards, churches, history, weird stuff.
Never Bullshit
I challenge any and every one who wants to kick my ass to a debate .
https://www.patreon.com/dril
https://www.instagram.com/dril
https://linktr.ee/drilreal
Horror scholar, PhD, HWA, CSFFA. Global Indigenous Horror (UPM, 2025) | poetry reader Orion’s Belt | Words in The Future Fire, Utopia SF, Space & Time, Lovecraftiana, etc | co-eic @angrygablepress.bsky.social eic @katabaticcircus.bsky.social
Artist + writer. Poetry! Folklore! Feminism! Medical Humanities! Art! The Gothic! ‘90s Music! Zines! The occult! Collage! Books! Ginger cats! More art! Sylvia Plath! Aesthetics! Tarot! Cake! Bit more art, maybe!
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/BirnamWoodPrints
Illustrator, Printmaker and Arts Facilitator.
Portfolio - https://matpringle.co.uk
Shop - https://matpringleillustration.bigcartel.com/
Senior lecturer in Archaeology @uniwinchester.bsky.social.
Writer for Hellebore. Editor 'Strange Relics' with Dr. Amara Thornton (Handheld Press), 'Circles of Stone' & 'Return of the Ancients' (British Library Tales of the Weird). She/her.
I have a dog.
Coffee enthusiast. Gothicist. Biocultural archaeologist - history of anatomy & museums, forensic anthro, mummies, Nuclear Culture
Writes about archaeology horror, mummy films, Scooby-Doo
Also @excavatinghorror.com
Not weird at all
Professional recluse, circumspect lone ranger, sessional academic, Goth, phone photographer, cat person. Revising a vampire novel. Online since 1992. Diversity rocks. And you may call me G.
