Barbara Braid
Period drama afficionado, mad for all things neo-Victorian and gothic
@ghostdancer.bsky.social
Author..husband.. grumpy old man, Grandad who is soon to retire and looking forward to it!!
@jacobbabb.bsky.social
Writing professor, horror reader, mandolin player. I publish about writing program administration, writing pedagogy, and horror film and literature.
@laurenwrites.bsky.social
📝Writer, editor, proofreader, coach & mentor 👻Writes the dark stuff 😈TWF EIC at Horror Tree 📣Publicity at British Fantasy Society 🤘Founder, Society of Ink Slingers 🔮Curator, Writing the Occult 👩💻Day job: Content marketing & community management 🇦🇺in🇬🇧
@stepforddaughter.bsky.social
Feminist horror scholar, author of Stepford Daughters: Weapons for Feminists in Contemporary Horror and What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Professor of English at MJC, editor of Horror Studies and Blind Field journals, lover of mutual aid.
@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)
@brianjfanelli.bsky.social
Writer. Associate Professor of English. #HWA member. Contributor for HorrorBuzz and 1428 Elm. Words also in Signal Horizon Magazine, Horror Homeroom, Bright Lights Film Journal. Still poeting at times, too.
@rainbowzen.bsky.social
Happily married mother of two, reader, progressive, eccentric.
@drylandfish.bsky.social
Backwoods generalist. Grower and builder of things. Plant nerd. Broadcaster, journalist, wannabe author. Quiet but friendly. Occasionally has something to say.
@lynsey1707.bsky.social
Interests: Walking, Nature, Animals, Folklore, Horror, Hauntology, Pylons, ancient sites. Vegan, Woke, living in Cornwall with hubby Phil and rescue Spaniel Hattie. I’m the owner of The Hum From The Hill My website is: www.thehumfromthehill.co.uk
@elizadearnley.bsky.social
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
@shedtronic.bsky.social
One half of The Horses of the Gods. Sound designer and maker. Lecturer in Game Design by day. horsesofthegods.bsky.social #shedtronics #maker https://linktr.ee/shedtronic
@jenwrenarm.bsky.social
Folklore and spooky obsessed, tree hugging daughter of the Goddess. Creating art and ceramics as 'Wrenfolk'. Middle aged Rock Chick, Folky and Morris WAG. https://www.instagram.com/wrenfolkceramics/profilecard/?igsh=ZHgwbjQ4aGlicDU1
@alessandrapino.bsky.social
Food historian, author, podcaster, lover of the supernatural & all things horror. www.alessandrapino.com
@momcilodragophd.bsky.social
Comparative Literature teacher in Wisconsin. I study zombies, eco-horror, trauma, Gothic, the 80s, technology, stardom, and other assorted weird and wonderful things in literature, film, art & pop culture.
@ravenbait.bsky.social
Synaesthetic specfic writer living in NE Scotland, originally from Fife. Scientist, bike herder, former husky wrangler, dice hoarder. Someone's imaginary friend. They/them/she/her. BSFA Orbit Shorts dogsbody. Find my stuff: https://www.ravenbait.com/work
@ogomproject.bsky.social
Vampires, werewolves, fairies in culture. All narratives of the fantastic, the folkloric, and the magical, emphasising the sense of Gothic as enchantment. www.opengravesopenminds.com
@andreakitta.bsky.social
Folklorist, professor, author, horror enthusiast. I study the intersections of legend, conspiracy theory, and medicine and the supernatural.
@phronk.bsky.social
It’s Phronk. Brain scientist, horror author, etc. #LdnOnt http://www.Phronk.com He him
@danieljsheppard.bsky.social
Visiting Lecturer in Film, Birmingham City University | Assoc. Editor, Quarterly Review of Film and Video | Assoc. Director, Cine-Excess | Your Local Gay™ 🌈 | He/Him
@karlbell.bsky.social
Associate Prof in Cultural History @uophistory.bsky.social Historian. Author. C19th fantastical, supernatural folklore, Gothic cities & seas. Co-director of port.ac.uk/portcities. New book: The Perilous Deep: A Supernatural History of the Atlantic (2025)
@sepgohardani.bsky.social
(Never-ending) PhD on adaptations of Lovecraftian horror. Have written some things in the past for The Escapist, The Quietus and FilmHounds Magazine among others. He/him
@coyhall.bsky.social
Author of horror, crime, & sci-fi. History professor. Great Pyrenees obsessed. Movie & book obsessed. He/Him. coyhall.com scythianwolf.com
@hstblues.bsky.social
Literature Correspondent for The Folklore Podcast. HWA Member. Writer. Book reviewer. DM if you'd like me to review your book or be on the show.
@tiffaniangus.bsky.social
Multi awards-shortlisted SFFH & non-fic author. Editor & typesetter. SPEC FIC FOR NEWBIES 3 coming 2026! https://linktr.ee/tiffaniangusauthor Leftie, feminist, ex academic, ally, anti-AI. she/her. Now 🇬🇧 was 🇺🇸
@marshallsmoore.bsky.social
Southern (American) writer academic gay guy living in Cornwall by way of Hong Kong and Korea. Immigrant. Recovering publisher. NCSSM87. I write books and essays and things. Horror-adjacent. Had a very excellent cat until recently. Hello. 🏳️🌈🇭🇰
@nicolemwolverton.bsky.social
Philly-area writer of (mostly) horror & thrillers, including A MISFORTUNE OF LAKE MONSTERS (7.24) | HWA, SFWA, Codex | avowed monkeywrench | horror academic | nicolewolverton.com
@jburning.com
Writer (Hand-Held Hell, Confluence of Cult), musician (Gathering of October Ghouls), composer (The Bad Man), runner, budding cyclist, cook, dad (human & doxie), horror and animal lover.
@jendeavour.bsky.social
Lecturer in c19th and c20th Literature at Uni of Warwick. #Gothic #DeathStudies #Childhood Assoc Editor @ Gothic Studies
@barbarafranchi.bsky.social
Contemporary literature scholar, feminist, wannabe eco-criticist. Career Development Fellow in Postcolonial and World Literatures at Durham University. she/her
@irinadumitrescu.bsky.social
Writer and professor of medieval literature. I'm a columnist at the TLS, sometimes co-host a podcast with Mary Wellesley at the LRB, and am one of the editors of @creativecritical.bsky.social. irinadumitrescu.com
@frankendodo.bsky.social
Leverhulme Research Fellow HPS Leeds | Inaugural USC Carrollian Fellow | Tutor Oxford ContEd | Formerly York SATSU & DPhil Oxford EnFac | Editor Lewis Carroll Review | Erdős–Bacon No 8 | Polymath | #scicomm #envhist #histmed
@academicmeeple.bsky.social
Geek, crafter, cat minion. PhD researcher at Northumbria University - Cross-dressing and 'Transgression' in the neo-Victorian city. They/Them
@ncbs.bsky.social
Interim professor of English literature | cloud aficionado | committed to the Environmental Humanities | associate editor of Neo-Victorian Studies | looking for permanent employment | mum | she/her
@cferguson.bsky.social
Professor of English, specialising in Esotericism Studies,Victorian Literature, and History of Spiritualism & Occultism. Fan of Indian cinema and all things horror related. Based in Glasgow
@marlenatronicke.bsky.social
British literary and cultural studies @University of Münster. Shakespearean, (neo-)Victorianist, theatre enthusiast. she/her.🦖
@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.
@laurence-talairach.bsky.social
Professor of Victorian Literature & Culture | Hist. of med & science | Natural history museums & collections | Literature & Science |Gothic studies | Children's lit
@bronteschiltz.bsky.social
Writer & journalist. PhD on Britain’s Televisual Gothic 👻 Big on The Divine Comedy and fun
@armelleparey.bsky.social
Professor in contemporary English literature, university of Caen Normandie.
@drangelabuckley.bsky.social
Crime historian and author. Victorian crime, police detectives and history of forensic science. New book: The Bermondsey Murder. Rep Past Preservers. Also languages, literature, genealogy and travel. CWA Chapter convenor http://drangelabuckley.substack.com