Spectres, Hauntings & Horrors
Spectres, Hauntings & Horrors is a new book series published by Bloomsbury, edited by Prof Robert Edgar, Prof Dawn Keetley & Dr Adam J Smith.
@onceandfuturefest.bsky.social
Ten days of folklore, folk culture, and folk horror unleashed across the arts. 18th-27th April, 2025 - Brighton, UK 🖤🗡️🖤
@andy-paciorek.bsky.social
Now it's dark... art. writing. books. reverie. ♏︎ ^◇^ ghosts & dreams ~ eros/thanatos ~ uncanny ~ noir ~ morbid curiosity/curiosa ~ saturnity ~ liminality ~ beautiful-grotesque ~ floating worlds & nocturnes ~ celluloid/cathode rays ~ feline familiars
@vagariesofmine.bsky.social
Art, reading, writing, the thoughts from my head, folklore, folk horror, the macabre, the uncanny, the absurd. ADHD. Alt text enjoyer. Trans Rights Are Human Rights. They/them. Kate.
@chloehanks23.bsky.social
26 year old poet based in York. Winner of the V Press Prize for Poetry in 2020. PhD @ YSJ. Co-host for Howlers Spoken Word Open Mic & Board Member for York Lit Fest. (Adulteress, Querencia Press 2023)
@enanou.bsky.social
Digital marketer. 💻 Author of fiction, fantasy, and sci-fi. 📚 Editor, book reviewer, and beta reader. 🧠 Neurodivergent.
@kathleenh42.bsky.social
Adjunct professor, specialist in Gothic literature and media, usually pretty sleep-deprived. Bully your university library into buying a copy of “Religious Horror and the Ecogothic”.
@inkytitch.bsky.social
Author, poet and theatre practitioner. Writer of Sea Invisible about life with invisible disability. Blogging through 70 years of books and creepy houses. She/Her
@wesleygoatley.bsky.social
Critical artist + researcher. Analysing AI's impact on climate, art, and technopolitics. PhD in critical tech & art. Programme Director of Interaction Design and Visual Communication at University of the Arts London. http://lnk.bio/wesleygoatley
@gsvoss.bsky.social
Big machines. Politics/technology/art/writing. Author: SYSTEMS ULTRA: MAKING SENSE OF TECHNOLOGY IN A COMPLEX WORLD (Verso 2024). linktr.ee/gsvoss
@wolvendamien.bsky.social
Read threads Asst. Professor of Philosophy & Data Sci. Degrees in: Science, Technology, & Society; Philosophy; Religious Studies Working on: Algorithms, "AI," Human Knowledge & Values, Marginalized Lived Experiences, Occult Beliefs, Pop Culture He/Him/His
@ndkane.bsky.social
Curator of Digital Design at V&A. Trustee - The National Videogame Museum. Advisory board, Society for Computers and Law. Curator - Design and Disability, opening June 2025. she/they ndkane.com IM SORRY ILL FIX IT
@mariajuko.bsky.social
18th/19th ct and self-help lit, Neo-Victorian, adaptation studies, biofiction, and teacher (Eng/Bio) in Potsdam (Germany), she/her
@anna-orridge.bsky.social
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, May 2025 Author website: https://annaorridge.com/ (thanks to @sonorataylor.bsky.social)
@manylittlewords.bsky.social
Bram Stoker & British Fantasy Award nominated author, illustrator and podcaster from Bristol, UK. Books: ROOTS OF MY FEARS, Titan 2025 ITCH! Hodder & Stoughton 2025 FIRST DATE, Datura Books 2026 HAPPY HOUR, Shortwave 2026 Also NoSleep Podcast.
@hagmask.bsky.social
Writing around & about folklore, the gothic, and disability. Haglet. Probably listening to Joanna Newsom. 🪺
@curtisfrye.com
Online course developer, writer and speaker. My company, Technology and Society, is the primary sponsor of London Seaward FC (Tier 4 English Women's National League). techsoc.com.
@amalexathorn.bsky.social
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
@catgrimm.bsky.social
German teaching prof 👩🏫 who likes cats, corgis, reading, and stationery. I have a little youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@thegrimmreader3649
@friendlyfiendish.bsky.social
Telly writer, story editor and geek. This is my account for the geeky stuff, especially TTRPGs. You may know me from my other roleplaying accounts, @FriendlyFiend on Mastodon, GeorgeP on assorted Discords, or from telly things I write/story edit.
@drdjohnston.bsky.social
Media lecturer: UK TV history, telefantasy, historical dramas. At Queen’s University Belfast.
@lizgloyn.bsky.social
Reader at the Classics dept at Royal Holloway; mater; CofE ordinand; comms for RHUL UCU; feminist. Sharing my thoughts, not those of my employer. She/her. #TinyJoys creator.
@henryrothwell.bsky.social
Lapsed archaeologist. Entranced by ponds. Chooser of images at rathergoodart.bsky.social. Curious Notes collected here - https://notesforthecurious.com/ Grave Goods podcast here - https://gravegoodspodcast.com/
@northages.bsky.social
Early medieval northern Britain, taking in Picts, Gaels, Britons, Angles and Norse. Feast days, on this day, place-names, archaeology news and book releases. Posts by Dundonian bookworm Craig. https://northages.wordpress.com/
@ianmcque.bsky.social
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ianmcque/mileships-a-narrative-art-book-by-ian-mcque
@ramblingidiot.bsky.social
Folk this, folk that, go and folk yourself. Runs a printmaking business with his printmaker wife.
@thelastgenxer76.bsky.social
Horror loving weirdo with an attraction towards the strange and unusual, I'm also the most introverted extrovert you'll probably ever meet 🔗 https://letterboxd.com/thelastgenxer76
@antoniarachelward.com
Author of dreamy and unsettling things. New novella ONDINE’S CURSE coming Feb 2025. EIC @ghostorchidpress.com https://antoniarachelward.com
@andreabonazzi.bsky.social
Starving artist. Weird art. Cosmic horror. https://linktr.ee/andrea.bonazzi
@alicevernon10.bsky.social
Lecturer in Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University. NIGHT TERRORS (Icon 2022). GHOSTED (Bloomsbury Sigma 2025). Writes about ghosts, parapsychology and spooky sleep. Represented by Donald Winchester at Watson, Little.
@projectmoonbase.com
Project Moonbase - The Historic Sound of the Future | Unusual music show I Podcast | Space cult. DJ Bongoboy & MC Zirconium The Multiverse, Edinburgh https://www.projectmoonbase.com/archives/9654
@thedeadhistory.bsky.social
Uncovering the forgotten stories behind haunted places & urban legends. Authentically spooky since 2007.
@srivas.bsky.social
All photos are taken by me except repost. FOTOS SÓ MÓBIL / PHOTOS BY MOBILE Procrastinando, dáme preguiza mudala bío. https://t.me/Abixaira 📌 A Estrada, Galicia 🛰
@lowqualityfacts.bsky.social
Low Quality Facts written in arguably lower quality handwriting. https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts
@roykesey.bsky.social
Some things I do: write (Jonathan Cape/Random House, Residenz Verlag, Dzanc), translate (Soho Press, Serpent’s Tail), read, bind, photograph. All photos mine unless otherwise noted. Ideal job: walking around looking at stuff. Profile tintype by Amy Güth.
@hilariousreference.bsky.social
renegade filmmaker, maverick writer, tranquil individual. a bizarre and ironic edge she/her https://hilariousreference.video.blog/
@thescrvnr.bsky.social
forever assistant professor | film + modern literature + sound studies | music: amelia courthouse | footfalls records
@alishagrauso.bsky.social
Features Editor & Writer | Frustrated nature gal in a media drone's body | Pittsburgh sports, literature, history, politics, the weird & dark, ADHD, practicing druid, nature & conservation | Views mine | You can find me among the trees 🌿🌲
@drbibliomane.bsky.social
She/her, 1st gen, Canadian who's at Harvard but isn't OF Harvard-posts mainly about books (w/ cats & flowers thrown in for good measure). Now writing an itty-bitty book that aims to be a literary & media history of scrap. Website: https://deidrelynch.org
@audioontology.bsky.social
ambient metaphysics | radical aesthetics | sontology | poetics of resonance | drone monism | aural hermeneutics |postphenomenology | auditioning https://lahri.leeds.ac.uk/profiles/jamie-stephenson/ ORCID: 0009-0002-8211-6586
@lpcprof.bsky.social
Law and humanities/legal history/media and entertainment law/freedom of speech/privacy law/EU/AI. The Media Method '19; Law and Magic '10. Law and Magic II underway. Personal account.
@tkedmunds.bsky.social
Academic focusing on employee engagement, entrepreneurship, fun, play, pedagogy, and more. One of the authors of "Ludic Pedagogy: A Seriously Fun Way to Teach and Learn." Eager idea-chaser, for better or worse.
@wbonikowski.bsky.social
Suffolk U. English prof. Fiction writer. Academic writing on war trauma, psychoanalysis, Shirley Jackson, fairy tales, and more.
@johnnyrestall.bsky.social
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
@tomhoughton.bsky.social
Coffee fuelled Senior Media Editor for Nature (Not the comedian). Previously of The Sunday Times. Views my own.
@lhaasis.bsky.social
Senior Researcher | German Maritime Museum Leibniz Institute for Maritime History Former Research Coordinator | Prize Papers Lecturer Early Modern History & Games | Oldenburg University Founder Gamelab Oldenburg | Games in School
@librarykilleen.bsky.social