Conor Reid
Podcaster, Writer, Researcher. Podcasts: 'The Greatest Matter' (Victorian Gothic Audiodrama) and 'Words To That Effect' (Narrative storytelling show on popular fiction). Head of Podcasts at HeadStuff/The Podcast Studios.
@memizon.bsky.social
They were strange days—curious dream-like days—and they followed each other silently, like shadows over grain fields. Edith Allonby, The Fulfilment, 1905.
@orphicastrology.bsky.social
𓁛 𝔭𝔬𝔩𝔶𝔤𝔩𝔬𝔱•𝔡𝔦𝔳𝔦𝔫𝔢𝔯•𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔰𝔱•𝔟𝔬𝔡𝔶 𝔴𝔬𝔯𝔨𝔢𝔯 𓁞 𐌈 𝔠𝔬𝔫𝔱𝔢𝔪𝔭𝔩𝔞𝔱𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔪𝔶𝔰𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔦𝔢𝔰 Φ ☿ 𝔞𝔰𝔱𝔯𝔬𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔶, 𝔬𝔫𝔢𝔦𝔯𝔬𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔶, 𝔤𝔢𝔬𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔶 ♄ .𖥔 ݁ ˖𝔥𝔢𝔩𝔩𝔢𝔫𝔦𝔰𝔱𝔦𝔠 .𖥔 ݁ ˖𝔭𝔢𝔯𝔰𝔦𝔞𝔫𝔞𝔱𝔢 .𖥔 ݁ ˖𝔧𝔶𝔬𝔱𝔦𝔰𝔥 .𖥔 ݁ ˖ 📍𝔬𝔲𝔦𝔡𝔞𝔥, 𝔡𝔞𝔥𝔬𝔪𝔢𝔶 linktr.ee/orphicastrology
@lizlehfeldt.bsky.social
Professor of History; author of Religious Women in Golden Age Spain; historian of #earlymodern nuns; journal co-editor; higher ed consultant; runner, gardener, needlepointer; home is Cleveland, Madrid, Atlanta email me: llehfeldt at gmail dot com
@drnickliterski.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Depth Psychology and Creativity at Pacifica Graduate Institute, Jungian scholar, professional spiritual guide, ceremonial magician, and collector of rare esoteric books. Host of The Reflective Soul Podcast.
@alexcarabine.bsky.social
🗝️𝐎𝐯𝐞𝐫-𝐃𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐅𝐥𝐞𝐚 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭 𝐅𝐞𝐦𝐦𝐞 𝐅𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐞 🗝️𝐏𝐡𝐃: 𝐄𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐧 𝐆𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐜 𝐋𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 🗝️𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠: 𝐏𝐫𝐞-𝐑𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐚𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐇𝐚𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐏𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐭 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐥 Dark Aesthetic, She/Her, views my own
@angelawright1794.bsky.social
Professor of Romantic Literature, University of Sheffield. Romanticism, Gothic, author and general co-ed of Ann Radcliffe for forthcoming Cambridge edition and gen co-ed of Cambridge Elements in the Gothic. PL AHRC project ‘Ann Radcliffe, Then and Now’
@profdanielcook.bsky.social
Associate Dean & Professor, University of Dundee (https://linktr.ee/profdanielcook)
@mazgoing.bsky.social
Research Associate at the University of Sheffield. Researches Gothic and Horror with a focus on religion. 1/2 of the Ghoul Guides 🕵️ IGA Web Officer 👻 Loves cats, tea and metal. she/her
@joanpassey.bsky.social
BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker | English Lecturer | UCU Rep | Haunted Shores Network | Victorian environments, coasts & seascapes 🌊 | Queer ecologies 🍄 | Gothic 👻 | she/they 🏳️🌈 linktr.ee/JoanPassey
@billbloodyhughes.bsky.social
Cat lover. 18C scholar on the dialogue and novel. Gothic fairies, vampires and paranormal romance; co-organiser Open Graves, Open Minds Project @ogomproject.bsky.social https://hcommons.org/members/billhughes/ www.opengravesopenminds.com
@gothicacademic.bsky.social
🇨🇦🏴 📚 PhD Student at University of Westminster // MLitt in Gothic Studies 🌿 Researching ecofem, hauntology, & the climate crisis in speculative fiction 🎓 First gen & non-trad student 🎗️ Advocate for accessibility in academia
@gothicbodies.bsky.social
Professional nerd researching Gothic Fangirls and Families. Disabled, Queer, Socialist.
@megenjm.bsky.social
@horrorlex.bsky.social
Horror Lex® (https://horrorlex.com) is the home of academic horror. Explore our huge research database of scholarly, thoughtful writings on horror films. #horror
@madelinepotter.bsky.social
ECR Teaching & Research Fellow 19th century @LLCatEdinburgh | @CN_CSI |Theological Monsters (UWP), The Roma (The Bodley Head/Harper Collins, 2025) | 19thC Gothic
@dreframss.bsky.social
Historian of occultism and science, Victorianist, anthropologist, associate professor at the University of Copenhagen, and bass player. Lover of classic videogames. 🎮 Views own. (https://www.eframserashriar.com)
@janetteleaf.bsky.social
Honorary Research Fellow: Birkbeck, Uni of London. 2024/25. Cultural Entomology; Victorianism; Gothic; Egyptomania; Redheads; Pre Raphaelite Art; Ghost Ships; Neo-Victorianism. Co-editor BL Insect Weird anthology.
@laurenjnixon.bsky.social
Doctor of Gothic Studies, specialising in masculinity, war and nation. One half of The Ghoul Guides, spooky pop culture podcasting. Semi-retired magical girl. She/Her.
@drdarrengray.bsky.social
Researcher in Literature, Film and Cultural Studies | The Gothic, Horror, Technology, Disability | Currently writing ‘Horror and Disability’ for the University of Wales Press Horror Studies series. Proudly neurodivergent (ADHD)
@jasonhaslam.ca
McCulloch Professor, Dalhousie English and Gender & Women’s Studies, focussing on Science Fiction, the Gothic, & Prison Studies. I take pictures of birds for reasons that are beyond me. He/him
@drmatthewthompson.bsky.social
Academic. PhD on historical reconstructions of the Whitechapel Murders. Writes about toxic masculinity, Neo-Victorianism and historical reconstruction. Currently researching the vampire in interactive media.
@drreznicek.bsky.social
Health Humanities at University of Minnesota, Health, Illness, Disability, and Citizenship in 18th/19thC British and Irish literature. Must love dogs. https://experts.umn.edu/en/persons/matthew-reznicek
@janiceflux.bsky.social
Scholar of Horror, the Gothic, Science Fiction, especially Shirley Jackson, zombies, general pop lit.
@kristofsmeyers.bsky.social
natural + supernatural histories 1750-2000 🗃️ | editor + essays Dutch Review of Books | RAAF (2022) | WOLF (2023) | SUPERNATURAL BODIES (2024) | EXORCISM (2025) | PERFORMING MAGNETISM (2026)
@victorianmasc.bsky.social
James Murray Beattie Lecturer in Victorian Lit | University of Glasgow | Co-founder @EHUNineteen.bsky.social Research Centre | #Classics | #Gothic lit | Author: Ancient Rome & Victorian Masculinity (OUP, 2019). FRHistS. She/her. #c19th
@icysedgwick.bsky.social
Host of the Fabulous Folklore podcast/blog. Researcher & writer for hire. Dark fantasy & Gothic author. Crafter. PhD in haunted house films.
@tatiana1979.bsky.social
PhD candidate at the University of the Basque Country, Spain. I am researching Patrick McGrath's Gothic Fiction. MLitt in the Gothic Imagination at the University of Stirling, Scotland. Published by Luna Press Publishing. Posts in English and in Spanish.
@susannegruss.bsky.social
English lit prof @uni-bamberg.de | pirate/collaborator/witch | law&lit-geek | 🍄 | reviews ed. Shakespeare JB | gen.ed. gender forum Cologne | assoc.ed. Neo-Victorian Studies | mum | colour-lover | doodler | she/her https://www.wonderlink.de/@susannegruss
@mjpcuervo.bsky.social
Writer, editor, comms manager • Founder/ editor @helleborezine.bsky.social (World Fantasy Awards and British Fantasy Awards finalist) • History, art, myth, mystery. 👩🏻 mjpcuervo.com/portfolio-page 📖 helleborezine.com
@edgarallanhole.bsky.social
ahrc funded env hums phd researcher | bath spa and bristol | folk horror and haunted landscapes in literature and film 🌱 lb: https://boxd.it/455UF
@wbonikowski.bsky.social
Suffolk U. English prof. Fiction writer. Academic writing on war trauma, psychoanalysis, Shirley Jackson, fairy tales, and more.
@hlmurray.bsky.social
Researching and teaching C19 US & Australian Lit, speculative genres, white supremacy, in Melbourne. she/her ‘Liminal Whiteness in Early US Fiction’ out in pbk now! https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-liminal-whiteness-in-early-us-fiction.html
@franzpotter.bsky.social
Professor & Gothic chapbook enthusiast. Gothic publishing, bibliography & book history. Obsessed with Sarah Wilkinson's biography. All views are my own.
@lkremmel.bsky.social
Assistant Professor: Gothic/Horror, 18th/19th C Brit Lit, Health Humanities, History of Medicine, Death Studies, Disability Studies | Amateur Artist and cemetery enthusiast Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination: Morbid Anatomies (2022)
@elpatterson.bsky.social
AHRC funded PhD student at the University of Sheffield, researching monstrous reproduction in long 19th-century British Gothic. She/Her.
@emmamerkling.bsky.social
Lecturer in British Art at the University of Manchester | Research Deputy @cncsi.bsky.social | Co-Host of @drawingbloodpod.bsky.social | Writing & teaching c19 British art and science | Victorian ecologies, bodies, occultisms, subjectivity | she/they
@drfloraposte.bsky.social
Lecturer in Criminology at RGU; Visiting Lecturer at Newcastle Sociology. I write and research on hauntings, ghosts, graveyards, the wilderness, and other sundry death things. Book forthcoming with MUP.
@joparsons.bsky.social
Researching #bonktastic #bonkbusters Senior Lecturer Falmouth Uni @EdinburghUP.bsky.social Series ed: #Gender and the #Body, and #19thC and #NeoVictorian Cultures Co-Ed #13CornishGhostStories #TalesoftheWeird #DoomedRomances #histsex
@plaguedr-richards.bsky.social
☠️ "an aging, deeply unlikeable woman who never had kids," a kitchen witch, and a cat fancier; she/her ☠️ horror & gothic scholar, professor, editor of Supernatural Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Art, Media, and Culture, supernaturalstudies.com
@lauradavidel.bsky.social
Interested in vampires, witches, and ghosts. Ph.D. thesis: Monstrosity, Liminality and Queerness in Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles. Probably away taking pictures 📷
@heidibackes1.bsky.social
Prof of Spanish lit and cultural history / Gothic fiction / Fascism / Memory & Trauma Studies / Monograph SPECTRAL SPAIN out now with U of Wales Press (2024) / Currently working on Fascist Female Gothic
@joshuagooch.bsky.social
English prof: lit, theory, film Capitalism Hates You: Marxism and the New Horror Film (U Minnesota Press, coming March 2025) https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517917975/capitalism-hates-you/ Once interviewed Wesley Willis he, him
@hpbookcraft.bsky.social
36. She/they. Folklore, horror, hauntology. Master's in Gothic literature. Keeper of wayward books, editor, and thing that goes bump in the night.
@barbarafranchi.bsky.social
Contemporary literature scholar, feminist, wannabe eco-criticist. Career Development Fellow in Postcolonial and World Literatures at Durham University. she/her
@iheartsmarties.bsky.social
An American Psychoanalyst in London. Future PhD student at MMU researching psychoanalysis, trauma, and the Gothic. meghankelley-lcsw.com
@jorunnjoiner.bsky.social
PhD in English literature from Lund University, studying cultural memory and portrayals of the ancient Scandinavian past in British Romanticism. Occasional artist.
@fjbeatson.bsky.social
University of Dundee PhD studying sexual perversion in Gothic Lit | Dracula enthusiast 🦇 | 🏳️🌈🏴 He/Him
@heleninwords.bsky.social
PhD Candidate, Dalhousie - American Gothic - Mobility Studies - we are here and it is now
@john-stone.bsky.social
Diasporic book history; English print in 18th-century Spain; translation history; Joni Mitchell; baking. English Studies, Universitat de Barcelona. https://ub.academia.edu/JohnStone #18thC #bookhistory