Jeff Fields McCormack
Ph.D. Student at East Texas A&M University. Active reader and researcher of all things horror, popular culture, and Writing Center studies.
@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
@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.
@janiceflux.bsky.social
Scholar of Horror, the Gothic, Science Fiction, especially Shirley Jackson, zombies, general pop lit.
@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
@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
@swoodard7326.bsky.social
Film Editor @DrunkMonkeysWeb | American West, Horror & Giallo Scholar | PhD Candidate @UTArlington | Writer | https://linktr.ee/swoodard7326
@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
@nataljastgermain.bsky.social
I am the spooks🧛🏻♀️🍷PhD candidate, horror writer, multilingual translator, senior lecturer, annoying folklorist. 🔎 Researching the ethics and legal regulations of AI #researchingAI&beyond #dailyspooklore #swampsunday #vampiresweekly #thesevenofwands
@kte75.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Northumbria University. Co-Investigator, AHRC Youth & Horror network. Co-editor of Hidden Horror Histories book series. Lover of horror and British cinema, cats and strong tea. She/her.
@stephgraves.bsky.social
Professor, reader, horror nerd, trash goblin. I study intersections of rhetoric and horror, queer rhetorics, & the Gothic / Southern Gothic, film, & TV. #academia #rhetoric #horror #gothic #mutantfam
@elwinhofman.bsky.social
Historian | Crime, emotions, sexuality & self 18-20C | Assistant Professor & MSCA fellow Cultural History Utrecht University | Latest books: The Business of Pleasure | Trials of the Self
@chadlewis.bsky.social
Author, researcher, and lecturer on topics of the strange and unusual.
@whimsicalmuse.bsky.social
Theatre actor, bookstore connoisseur, winter lover, October devotee, cat rescuer, macaron maker, educator, explorer of cobblestone streets, and Oxford comma enthusiast.
@kevinleenelson.bsky.social
Author, folklorist, adventurer, warlock, & psychogeographer. Co-author of the Back Roads Lore series, a deep dive into America's dark folklore, urban legends, and peculiar traditions.
@backroadslore.bsky.social
Back Roads Lore is a semiannual publication featuring articles on America's dark folklore, urban legends, cryptid sightings, fortean mysteries, and peculiar traditions.
@raynewman.bsky.social
He/him. Bristol. Writer, editor, content designer. Ghost stories and films. No alt text = no repost. I'm not here for politics. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/raynewman Header is my book Intervals of Darkness https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DDR8X9QY
@drfolettolucas.bsky.social
Early career researcher focused on horror film and gender studies
@drfrancisyoung.bsky.social
Historian of religion and belief | folklorist | Balticist | indexer | Lay Canon @stedscath.bsky.social | series editor for @cambridgeup.bsky.social
@drstevejones.bsky.social
Lead of the Horror Studies Research Group, Northumbria University. Known for research on extreme horror, philosophy, pornography, and the slasher subgenre. drstevejones.co.uk
@mythcrafts.bsky.social
We are Mythologists who also love folklore, history, pop culture and anything weird and unusual. Mythcrafts.com
@saracharles.bsky.social
Medieval manuscript practitioner, bringing the manuscript making process to life. Author of The Medieval Scriptorium. Cat lady. www.teachingmanuscripts.com PhD in medieval martyrologies. Editor of Historical Research journal.
@bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
Amazing collections and breath-taking libraries. Facilitating research at the University of Oxford. Readers: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk Visitors: visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
@liber-ray.bsky.social
Archivist at Lincoln College, Oxford and Support Officer for Academic Engagement at Bodleian Libraries 📖 Medievalist 📜 I like big books and cannot lie! (she/her) 📕
@craigyboyt.bsky.social
Writer, Editor and Lycanthropologist (Seriously). NUFC sado-masochist. PhD on Folklore, Werewolves and 19thC UK Gothic. Research interests: #Monsters #Folklore & #Gothic Website: MonstrousFolklore.com
@lincolngothic1.bsky.social
PGR students based in Lincoln, UK. Interested in all things Gothic 👻 Check out our blog! https://lincolngothicgroup.wordpress.com/ Artwork credit: Albert Zuwala
@jendeavour.bsky.social
Lecturer in c19th and c20th Literature at Uni of Warwick. #Gothic #DeathStudies #Childhood Assoc Editor @ Gothic Studies
@poestudies.bsky.social
Peer-reviewed journal published by Johns Hopkins UP. Cultural & material contexts that shaped the production & reception of Edgar Allan Poe's work. https://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/poe-studies-history-theory-interpretation
@vickybrewster.bsky.social
✏️Copy & developmental editor, & indexer 👻Gothic, horror & sci-fi academic 🧑🏫 Occasional lecturer & support at Swansea U 🏳️🌈Asexual-agender-panromantic
@folklorepod.bsky.social
Official account of The Folklore Podcast. 2 million downloads worldwide. Created by folklorist and author Mark Norman. Find us online at http://www.thefolklorepodcast.com Film/TV rep: Past Preservers Author for various publishers
@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
@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.
@icysedgwick.bsky.social
Host of the Fabulous Folklore podcast/blog. Researcher & writer for hire. Dark fantasy & Gothic author. Crafter. PhD in haunted house films.
@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)
@murphgothic.bsky.social
Professor in Popular Literature at Trinity College Dublin with a focus on American horror and Gothic narratives & Shirley Jackson. Out now: 'The California Gothic in Fiction and Film'. Views own.
@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
@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.
@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
@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
@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
@romgothsam.bsky.social
Gothic lit and theology. Gothic romance. Queer Gothic. Teaching Fellow in Romanticism. Runs 'Romancing the Gothic'.
@catherinespooner.bsky.social
Academic and creative writer | Professor of Literature and Culture, Lancaster University | all things Gothic | fashion | folk horror | she/her
@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’
@kirstinmills.bsky.social
The #Gothic; #18thC - #19thC literature & sciences of the mind, occult & supernatural; digital Gothic 👻 Senior Lecturer & Director: Master of Research, Faculty of Arts, MQU, Sydney Co-Editor: ANCR & INCSA Book Series She/Her https://kirstinmills.com
@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
@g0blinegg.bsky.social
Amy - Part-time Goblin 🐸 Folklorist researching the Folklore and Ghostlore of Shropshire 👻 Teacher of Religious Studies Writer of 'The Best Of Men' -A Shropshire folk horror 🦇 - Currently working on a book about The Devil in Shropshire Folklore