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Writer and producer. Out now: David Whitaker in an Exciting Adventure with Television, a biography of the first story editor of Doctor Who. Currently working on a biography of Terrance Dicks. www.simonguerrier.com
Daydreamer. Writer. Producer. Editor. Magpie. ADHD & Autistic. Producer of discs at Arrow Video. Friend to some, oddball to others.
Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror/Comics, reviews and comment.
http://geekchocolate.co.uk/
Chris Coates, purveyor of niche drivel: https://oddthisday.substack.com/ https://linktr.ee/oddthisday
Weird/SFF/crime writer. RUNNING THE TRAIN, THE HOWL OF THE EARTH, NO CASTLES, & more. Occasional essayist. He/Him.
“Drums, drums in the deep…”
costak.wordpress.com
🔞 He/They/Xe. Dark fiction for the gays and the goths, horror and fantasy perfectly blended. Father of Malice and famed cannibal pervert. Regrettably British. 🔞
Swindon based independent bookshop, visit us online or in person! bertsbooks.co.uk - or 54 Godwin Court, Swindon, SN1 4BB
Email us on bert@bertsbooks.co.uk
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Not here much 🇮🇪 Writer Hagstone | Constellations | This Woman’s Work (with Kim Gordon) | Agent: Peter Straus at RCW | Newsletter: momentsofrecognition.substack.com
petrajohanaponcarova.com | Research, poetry & translation between Gaelic, Czech & English | Rannsachadh, bàrdachd & eadar-theangachadh eadar Gàidhlig, Seicis & Beurla
Book lover & intermittent blogger. Hobby photographer, cat owning, holiday loving space nerd.
Official account of all things Malachi Whitaker, Yorkshire author, b. Bradford (1895-1976). Moderated by Whitaker's Literary Executor, Valerie Waterhouse (PhD researcher, Salford University. Winner of Biographers Intl Org Kitty Kelley Fellowship, 2025)
Archivist and manuscripts curator. Research on Anglo-German cultural relations and literary networks.
Photography - Art - Literature - Women’s Photo History - Bookbinding - Printing - Women Artists - Gardening - Walking
Living on the moors in Northumberland with family, animals & camera.
Reviews of classic and more modern crime fiction, celebrating the Golden Age. https://whodunnitwhisperings.substack.com/
Writer from Manchester. LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD, my biography of Muriel Spark, out 9 April in UK / 9 June in US (pre-order at the link below!) 🐈⬛
https://lnk.to/LikeaCatLovesaBird
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Latest news updates and reviews from the British Fantasy Society Community. Home to readers, writers, artists and gamers. Love SFFH? Come join us! www.britishfantasysociety.org
Writer, teacher, person in New Hampshire
Books from Black Lawrence, Bloomsbury Academic, punctum, Third Man, Lethe.
Horror fiction, modernism, pedagogy, Open Access, general weirdness...
https://matthewcheney.net
Screenwriter, ADHD, Indian cook, Sat morning Cartoon voice, Lifelong Dem, 5th Gen San Franciscan, Uklulelist, Clio winner, Los Angeles radio vet, film dubber, 2xcancer survivor, 🐕♥️, found as kathygori. My cooking substack: https://kathygori.substack.com
Author, journalist, hero, dad, sleepy etc. He/him. Cambridge, UK. Please buy my books There's No Such Thing As A Silly Question and Become A Genius In A Year, both out now and great. Go on.
mikerampton.com / interestingskull.beehiiv.com
Illustrator, Printmaker and Arts Facilitator.
Portfolio - https://matpringle.co.uk
Shop - https://matpringleillustration.bigcartel.com/
damn girl that looks yummy as fuck. what’s your email address?
Lecturer in Medieval English and AFY English Subject Lead (Ox) ¶ Author of BOOK CURSES for Bodleian Publishing ¶ Being creatively critical @guildmedmak.bsky.social ¶ Liker of university access, folk horror & print making ¶ She/her
Header: BL, Egerton 1121
They/them. Overthinker. Reads things, writes things. BAD LANGUAGE out now with Peninsula Press 🐉 THE WORD FOR WORLD (co-ed) out now with @silver-press.bsky.social 🌳 Website & newsletter: somayer.net. Won't age-verify so no DMs.
"The Anechoic Chamber & other weird tales" (Salt) is out now! Author of several novels, most recently "The Last Blade Priest" (Angry Robot), which won best novel at the 2023 Kitschies. Its sequel, "The Dead Man's Empire", coming 2026. He/him
Independent booksellers
Ross on Wye, Monmouth, Leominster, Cheltenham, Malvern, Hereford
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DAM nerd. Nat'l Library of Ireland Board. USian in Dublin. Beer judge & podcaster @beerladiespod & blog @weirdodublinpubs. Ex-archaeologist/archivist. Runner. Theatre nerd. Whovian. Transit enthusiast. Geek mom to cats/humans. She/her. lisagrimm.com
Books, books, books, coffee, and my Clark. 🐶
https://www.carosbookcase.com
https://linktr.ee/carosbookcase
PhD in Victorian lit. Editor/researcher/lecturer. Women’s ghost stories & the supernatural. Lots of posts about books. And ghosts. And Margery Lawrence.
Violet Hunt’s The Tiger Skin and Other Tales of the Uneasy out now with The British Library.
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
Writer/researcher https://www.rebekahkingwriter.com/
Articles on magic, theatre, horror etc here https://rebekahkingwriter.substack.com
Historian of art & ideas, Cambridge
FSA FRHistS. Sometimes on the radio.
📕 The Story of Tudor Art out now
views own 🥦👻🎻
https://www.christinajfaraday.com/
Books to inform, entertain and inspire 📚
🎁Gift & humour
🌿Self-help & wellness
🗺️Travel & nature
Find more here: http://linktr.ee/summersdale
Honorary Research Fellow: Birkbeck, Uni of London. 2023-2026. Weird cats, Cultural Entomology; Victorianism; Hypnotic Gothic; Egyptomania; Redheads; Shop Girls; Pre Raphaelite Art; Ghost Ships; Neo-Victorianism. Co-editor BL Insect Weird anthology.
https://hodgsoniana.wordpress.com
Bluesky account for Hodgsoniana, a blog about the life and works of author William Hope Hodgson.
Posts by @shin-mc.bsky.social
#WilliamHopeHodgson #WeirdFiction #WeirdLit #CosmicHorror #Horror #Fantasy
Bestselling author of THEY KNEW, HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, THE VIEW FROM FLYOVER COUNTRY and THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP.
https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/
Editor on the 'Gaslight Sherlock Holmes' series, 'Professor Challenger: New Worlds, Lost Places' and 'Beyond Rue Morgue' anthologies. Mostly, I just like to read... but will rage about Canadian politics as a federal Liberal and AB NDP supporter in Calgary.
Lecturer in c19th and c20th Literature. #Gothic #DeathStudies #Childhood
Assoc Editor @ Gothic Studies
Senior Lecturer in English / Gothic / queer ecologies / coasts and seascapes / Shirley Jackson
Lecturer in Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University. NIGHT TERRORS (Icon 2022). GHOSTED (Bloomsbury Sigma 2025). Writes about ghosts, the paranormal and spooky sleep. Represented by Donald Winchester at Watson, Little.
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)
Professional scribe and illuminator. Written 14 books and made a DVD on the subjects. Co-Director and Chief Judge of the Stanford Calligraphy Collection.
Sharing all things Aiken...books, thoughts, memories...
https://www.joanaiken.com/
A quarterly magazine and daily updated website about rare books and collecting
Londoner and writer on classical music. Interested in the arts, history, nature, reading, coffee, vegetarian food, and active travel infrastructure.
Blog: corymbus.co.uk
Writer, librarian by day. Literary history of the Order of the Golden Dawn out soon, published by Thames & Hudson
Irregular blog posts at felixtaylor.org
Imperial College London Library news and events. We reply Mon-Fri 9.30-5.30. Report an incident on 07725 159853. Chat with us at imperial.libanswers.com
A podcast of conversations with the biggest names in horror writing. Find out where your favourite scary stories came from.
https://pod.link/1530064310
You can reach me at talkingscaredpod@gmail.com
Senior Content Manager, Academic Journals, Cambridge University Press | PhD, University of Edinburgh | Historian of Religion in Mediterranean Antiquity & Production Editor for Humanities Research | She/Her
Writes and podcasts about films, usually cult thrillers and horror. Likes movies, music, reading, drawing. My work can be found at: https://linktr.ee/JohnnyRestall
medievalist, medievalism-is, lover of things Norse and northern. #author
Folklorist, writer, Lecturer in Creative Writing at Edinburgh Napier University. Editor of DEADLY DOLLS and FEARSOME FAIRIES (British Library). Fairy tales / horror / interactive stories / weird and eerie 🦇 Rep’d https://www.philippasitters.co.uk. She/her
My blog: https://paulasimoesblog.wordpress.com/
Mastodon: @paulasimoes.ciberlandia.pt
Digital Humanities; Public Domain; Open Access; History, Heritage, Creativity & New Media, Free & Open Source Software. Books 📚
A paperback series of original horror fiction, edited by Ian Talbot Taylor and Andrew Llewellyn
Food and Culinary Historian, Cook, Researcher, Writer. Specialising in the ancient world c.3000BCE - 476CE. Dabbling in Neolithic, Chalcolithic, EBA, and Medieval. Founder of www.myhistoricaltable.com
An independent bookshop for Barnsley, UK. Eclectic ranges of fiction and non-fiction for all ages.
Welcome, book lovers!
Probably rereading Woolf’s The Waves or listening to the Backlisted podcast. Also a fan of Sam Shepard, Kerouac, Dickens, Steinbeck, du Maurier, Willy Vlautin, Donna Tartt, film noir, Twin Peaks, Columbo & folklore. Portland, OR
Historian of religion and belief | folklorist | Balticist | indexer | lay canon @stedscath.bsky.social | series editor for @universitypress.cambridge.org
We’re the national library of the UK.
Literature, myth, folklore • Stories of the Stones: Imagining Prehistory in Britain, Ireland, & Brittany • Pan: the Great God’s Modern Return • Poems in NewPoetry.ca, The South Shore Review, and The Ekphrastic Review • Professor of English • /|\
Bram Stoker & 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.
Book lover, film watcher, food maker, image taker
flip-flop is my nature
https://www.bigbeardedbookseller.uk
https://ko-fi.com/bigbeardedbookseller
At the heart of the book trade since 1858📚
News, charts, previews and more, online & in print. Buyer's Guides, conferences & The British Book Awards (Nibbies)✨
Fiction: The London Magazine, The Forge, Lunate, Epoque Press, elsewhere
Best of the Net 2024 finalist
Deputy Production Editor: Irish Examiner
Cork via New York
Professor of Modern British Literature and Culture, Trinity College Dublin. M. R. James, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle - and fountain pens.
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.
Book lover. Tea drinker. Personal account.
Careful reader, thoughtful writer, nature-lover, garden-potterer, history-dabbler. Distracted by birds. 🐦⬛
theunhurriedreader.substack.com
@the_unhurried_reader on Instagram (yes, I know that's confusing).
#InvisibleIllnessVisibleLives
#Nordlichtberaubt
Books, Toys, Games: Personal library of SFF/Pulp/Gothic/Weird/Classic Crime/Kaiju/Translated/non-western SF/Lost Worlds. UK
No to AI. No DMs
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https://www.librarything.com/profile/KevDS
"I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself."
Wandering. Wondering. Freelancing. Often acquiring and editing SFFH for Angry Robot Books. Live in Edinburgh. Views my own and independent of my employers. Photos my own unless otherwise etc.
Managing Editor @titanbooks.bsky.social. Ran multiple award-winning Unsung Stories. Writer: HINTERLANDS @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social. European (yes, still). Empathy, compassion & ice cream pls.
AGENCY out 11th Feb https://shorturl.at/iqPUx
Small but mighty, award-winning indpendent bookshop in the heart of Edinburgh's lovely Bruntsfield area
https://www.edinburghbookshop.com/
indie bookshop in Sydenham, SE London | open since 1966
| new books | second hand books | children's books | gifts |
Mon-Sat 9:30-5 Sun 12-4 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Crime novelist and book hunter, fascinated by detective fiction's heritage as well as its present and future. Latest novel, Hemlock Bay. Diamond Dagger, two Edgar awards, President and archivist of the Detection Club. Do You Write Under Your Own Name? blog
book blogger, short fiction writer, (armchair) traveler, migratory bird 📚
📍Edinburgh, Scotland
📖 https://alexandracristie.com
Climate crisis, books, corvids and the shakily cheerful evasion of despair. Shabby w/o the chic.
Eco-horror novella PHENGARIS out with @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social
Author website: https://annaorridge.com/ (thanks to @sonorataylor.bsky.social)
she/her
Curator of Contemporary Literary Archives at the British Library. Co-curator of Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination exhibition. Loves literature, Doctor Who, the Beatles, Marilyn Monroe and anything spooky.
"Speak now, come now, rise now from the forest, from the furrows, from the field and live"
https://folkhorrorrevival.com/
#FolkloreAgainstFascism
Posts by Richard Hing, views my own
Stuckinabook.com, Tea or Books? podcast
Books, cats, Jesus, Neighbours
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
Reads books, sell books, buys books, knits, grumbles a bit, cooks a bit.
We love books, dogs in bookshops, and customers who laugh at our jokes
Est. by Sam Read in 1887. Award-winning small bookshop in the Lake District. Posts from @likewinterblue.bsky.social and @pollyrowena.bsky.social Insta: samreadbookseller Browse a selection from our virtual shelves: www.samreadbooks.co.uk
Reader, Europhile, gardener, stargazer, painter, foolish fashionista, determined optimist, lifelong vegetarian & Olympian daydreamer
Birmingham UK based book lover, former blogger, fan of 20th century women writers. Rheumatoid arthritis warrior. TV binger, jigsaw addict. Here mainly for the book talk. 📚📚
Publishing zines and books, curating events, walking in circles…
https://shop.weirdwalk.co.uk
Writer, editor, artist, folklorist. Winner of ten World Fantasy Awards, the Mythopoeic Award (for The Wood Wife), the Bram Stoker Award, and the SFWA Solstice Award. Wanderer of the deep, dark forest of story in language and paint.
Dartmoor, Devon, UK
The magazine for explorers of strange worlds & new horizons! Say hi press@wyrd.science
Made in Belgium. Published in the UK. Read Everywhere.
https://linktr.ee/wyrdscience
#RPG #TTRPG #Wargames #Boardgames #Fantasy #SciFi #Comics #CoolShit
Based in London, The Folklore Society has been collecting, studying, publishing and promoting the study of folklore in all its forms since 1878. Visit our website: https://folklore-society.com
Will write for food.
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/chris-broughton
Also on Instagram, where I'm more active (and popular):
https://www.instagram.com/chrisdbroughton/
Publishing commentator. Founder of Meet The Booktokers, As Seen On Booktok, and The Empowered Author. Trying to disrupt book publishing for 15+ years. Not easy.
Seasonal reader, Comyns head, spinsterlit, midcentury women writers, heritage publishing and secondhand bookshopping #spinsterseptember 🇮🇪 Dublin
