Barbara Braid
Period drama afficionado, mad for all things neo-Victorian and gothic
@finleyfreibert.bsky.social
LGBTQ+ Film & Media Historian. Media Studies Assistant Professor. PhD in Visual Studies. Research Areas: Film Studies & Film History; Media Industries; Bisexual, Trans, Gay, & Queer History; Distribution & Exhibition; Archives; Horror Studies. They/Them.
@johnjjohnston.bsky.social
Egyptology, Classics, reception, and cultural history. Chair - gentlefuries.bsky.social Ambassador - issegyptomania.bsky.social BSFA Award finalist 2013 Agents: Max Edwards - @AppleTreeLit Nigel Hetherington - @Pastpreservers London & Glasgow
@vickybrewster.bsky.social
✏️Copy & developmental editor, & indexer 👻Gothic, horror & sci-fi academic 🧑🏫 Occasional lecturer & support at Swansea U 🏳️🌈Asexual-agender-panromantic
@benspky.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Seattle University. Author of The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life available from UC Press here: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520342347/the-celluloid-specimen
@kristamitchell.bsky.social
Musicology Ph.D. Candidate. Librarian. Horror Genre Lover.
@swoodard7326.bsky.social
Film Editor @DrunkMonkeysWeb | American West, Horror & Giallo Scholar | PhD Candidate @UTArlington | Writer | https://linktr.ee/swoodard7326
@xanthepajarillo.bsky.social
🇺🇸🇵🇭 Filmmaker, PhD Student at University of Birmingham UK 🇬🇧 🖊 Fangoria, Bloody Disgusting 🎤 Kindergeist Podcast 🎓 USC, CalArts, USAF Veteran
@dullboy237.bsky.social
Professor (film and lit), co-director of International Cinema at BYU, series editor Icons of Horror (Indiana UP). Love and support the marginalized. 🏳️🌈 he/him #horrorsky
@brisblakhorrorclub.bsky.social
Exploring all things Horror through a Black/BIPOC Diasporic lens LGBTQ+ Friendly www.bristolblackhorrorclub.com
@drstevejones.bsky.social
Lead of the Horror Studies Research Group, Northumbria University drstevejones.co.uk
@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
@dalegothic96.bsky.social
Professor of Gothic literature mainly posting about books, cake, horses and my cat Dickens.
@mutanttheorist.bsky.social
Lecturer of Media and Communications at the University of Sunderland. Researcher of Mutant Theory and monstrous bodies.
@nsborwein.bsky.social
Horror scholar, poet, PhD, HWA, Co-EIC @angrygablepress.bsky.social, EIC Katabatic Circus, Global Indigenous Horror (@upmississippi.bsky.social, 2025). Words in Utopia Science Fiction, Space & Time, Lovecraftiana, and more
@helengrantsays.bsky.social
Lives in Scotland & writes books. Latest novel JUMP CUT published by Fledgling Press. Short story collection ATMOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES available from Swan River Press. Perthshire Gothic. M.R.James fiend. Represented by Fraser Ross Associates.
@kjsoar.bsky.social
PhD. Senior lecturer in Archaeology. Writer for Hellebore. Co-editor of 'Strange Relics' with Dr. Amara Thornton (Handheld Press). Editor 'Circles of Stone' and 'Return of the Ancients' (British Library Tales of the Weird). She/her. I have a dog.
@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
@joanpassey.bsky.social
BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker | English Lecturer | UCU Rep | Haunted Shores Network | Victorian environments, coasts & seascapes 🌊 | Queer ecologies 🍄 | Gothic 👻 | she/they 🏳️🌈 https://joanpassey.co.uk/
@janiceflux.bsky.social
Scholar of Horror, the Gothic, Science Fiction, especially Shirley Jackson, zombies, pop lit.
@icysedgwick.bsky.social
Host of the Fabulous Folklore podcast/blog. Researcher & writer for hire. Dark fantasy & Gothic author. Crafter. PhD in haunted house films.
@melissae.bsky.social
PhD in Victorian lit. Editor/researcher/lecturer. Women’s ghost stories & the supernatural. Lots of posts about books. And ghosts. And Margery Lawrence. E. Nesbit's The House of Silence, Ghost Stories, 1887-1920 out now with Handheld Press.
@kristofsmeyers.bsky.social
natural + supernatural histories 1750-2000 🗃️ | editor + essays Dutch Review of Books | RAAF (2022) | WOLF (2023) | SUPERNATURAL BODIES (2024) | EXORCISM (2025) | PERFORMING ANIMAL MAGNETISM (2026)
@momoshaty.bsky.social
Genre Lecturer, Writer, Journo & Prod, EIC of @nighttidemag.bsky.social: Diverse Horror Perspectives, Host of From Inside the House Pod, Member of Nyx Horror, 13 Minutes of Horror for SHUDDER NY-er in London https://nighttidemag.com/ http://momoshaty.com
@theharvestmaid.bsky.social
Writer/Editor. Horror obsessive. Loves to talk books, movies, music, and booze. Formerly in Seoul. She/her Check out my folk horror blog here: https://theharvestmaidsrevenge.com/
@jenniferschell16.bsky.social
UAF English Professor, Ecogothic Aficionado, Cetacean Enthusiast, Canine Therapy Human. I write about species extinction, Arctic ecosystems, more-than-human organisms, and blue humanities. Ocean obsessed! Fairbanks, AK. Views my own.
@kevinchabot.bsky.social
Former academic; current academic advisor; sometimes writer, film programmer. PhD, Cinema Studies, University of Toronto. New book, POETICS OF THE PARANORMAL out now!
@nickdiak.com
Pop culture scholar of peplum, Italian films, industrial music, horror studies, and other odd subjects. Tiki and cocktails, mid-century and pinups. Co-host of H.P. Lovecast Podcast. He/Him. nickdiak.com. Glendale, AZ.
@sasharavitch.bsky.social
posthumanist gothic 🛸 posthuman witchcraft weird writing, weirder thinking, weirdest living. HWA, Codex. antilogos press coming spring 2025.
@realtopekapeople.com
Writer / Director / Producer. Associate Lecturer in Communication @ WSU. Horror scholar. ‘Affective Intensities and Evolving Horror Forms’ from EUP. He/Him.
@obiwanishinaabe.bsky.social
White Earth Anishinaabe. Quilter. Beader. Teacher. Musician. PhD. Latest article: http://journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php/transmotion/article/view/395 #zombies
@ericgaryanderson.bsky.social
Your home for Undead Studies. Literature professor & director of grad studies in English at George Mason, where I teach NAIS, southern lit, horror/gothic lit, etc. Cat dad to Thena, Coraline, and Jackson Gray. Drinker of coffee. He/him/👻
@aliavolzzz.bsky.social
Author of NBCC finalist HOME BAKED: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco. Nonfiction ghost story forthcoming with Avid Reader (Simon & Schuster). Freelance editor based in Portugal.
@deannamonique.bsky.social
💕Ordained Womanist Afrofuturist Afropessimist... Asst. Professor of Africana & Religion @ U of A.💜of Black Religion, Horror, and Spec. Fict and Film.
@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.
@katedejonge.bsky.social
-Canadian horror author -Gen X with late diagnosed AuDHD (explains a LOT) -Review journalist for Grimoire of Horror -Proud ally of the Rainbow Mafia -Fan of bullet points -Definitely NOT a meth head babysitter
@technomalinche.bsky.social
Inauthentic Ethnic. Practical Radical. Class Traitor. Feminist Fatale. Postcolonial Cyborg. Queer Sympathizer. Migrant Professor. Malcontent. Mutant.
@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)
@midnightpanacea.bsky.social
🦇· ⋆˖⁺‧₊☽𝖍𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗 𝖈𝖔𝖓𝖓𝖔𝖎𝖘𝖘𝖊𝖚𝖗☾ ₊‧⁺˖⋆ ·🦇 spacehey.com/xheavensnightx Airbuds: https://i.airbuds.fm/midnightpanacea/k202by3N6K
@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.
@jenniferjtcooke.bsky.social
Horror film & game PhD researcher with the worst taste in movies that you’ll ever see. @ Newcastle University 💜
@gothimposter.bsky.social
Haunted Nonbinary Writer. Award-winning Fake Goth. 30s, they/them I write about horror, games, the occult, tabletop, anime, and post dumb shit.
@mistahg.bsky.social
Blurring the lines between the landscapes of Folk Horror, Hauntology and the Urban Wyrd. Taking in films, literature, music, art and performance.
@profsaabbott.bsky.social
Professor of Film and Television, Northumbria University. Horror scholar and writer. Author of Celluloid Vampires, Undead Apocalypse, TV Horror, BFI Classic on Near Dark. Canadian in the UK but forever Canadian. she/her.
@crowmama9.bsky.social
Artist and bibliophile inspired by the darker side of folklore, myth and magic. Animal and nature lover, folk horror, horror in general, ghosts, forteana, history.
@drfolettolucas.bsky.social
Early career researcher focused on horror film and gender studies
@miskatonicihs.bsky.social
Horror film history, theory, and production school since 2010 - Tickets for our Autumn classes - https://linktr.ee/miskldn We are @donnerpartyofone.bsky.social (Online) & @joshsaco.bsky.social (UK) With assistance from a bunch of legends
@ashleyrsmith.bsky.social
PhD in Screen Cultures from Northwestern | Writing on horror, culture & race | Academic Consultant at Cut-Throat Women Digital Humanities Database | True crime & media trash lover | Opinions are mine | Formerly @thehorrorfemme on Twitter
@pennystressful.bsky.social
Advisory board @ ETAP, Adj@DelVal,penny bloods & dime novels, werewolves, global witches, ecoGothic, early-to-mid-Victorian Gothic, horror, ‘monstrous’ women, PhD from MMU, Salem, mind-body monism, biological and neurological studies. www.nicoledittmer.com