Steven Patchett
Engineer, Husband, Father. Writer in the Northeast of England. Anti-AI. Kindness matters.
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@hellohistoria.bsky.social
BBC award-winning Social Historian ✍️ Death, Wales & Psychiatry 💀 Glamorgan County Lunatic Asylum 🧠 Workhouses | Poor Law | Lunacy 🧠 🥇BBC History Extra '30 under 30' 📚 📍Cardiff | views are my own • she/her 🔗 www.linktr.ee/louvainrees
@weird-wiltshire.bsky.social
🌲🧚👻 Writer of strange & unusual tales. Ghosts, folklore & history from Wiltshire and beyond. Earth & nature lover. 👻🧚🌲 ☕ www.weird-wiltshire.co.uk
@robertedgar.bsky.social
Professor of Writing and Popular Culture, York St John University. Scriptwriting, Music Memoir, Hauntology, Folk Horror.
@shaunaitcheson.bsky.social
Indie adventure game developer - created The Excavation of Hob's Barrow, Sumatra: Fate of Yandi, Football Game and more, with Cloak and Dagger Games (cloakanddaggerg.bsky.social) UK based/NZ born. Folk horror nut. https://linktr.ee/cloakanddaggergames
@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.
@wihtlore.uk
Tales and Folklore based around the ancient magics and cunning of the Wihtlore. Welcome new followers, thank you for joining me. I tell tales, I speak lies, this is like breathing for me. Don’t come to me for truth today, for it maybe a lie tomorrow.
@folkloretodmorden.bsky.social
Arts, Film, Talks, Crafts, Library, Archive, Museum, Research, Education, Workshops, Exhibitions, Storytelling, Conferences, Local Folk History. Generally warm, welcoming and inclusive space to hang out in. With tea room too. Open Wed-Sat. Events Sat.
@wjlamb.bsky.social
PhD researcher at University of Cambridge looking into Weird Ecologies in 70s British television. VERY open to any good gothic/nature/tv/ghost story suggestions
@carlydraws.bsky.social
Carly A-F Illustrator & author. Freelance enquiries: carly@carlydraws.com Kidlit Agent: Anna Olswanger anna@olswangerliterary.com Newsletter, prints, all links: http://linktr.ee/carlydraws Click #art or #kidlitart for artwork or follow my custom feeds!
@folkaround.bsky.social
Folklore & History Enthusiast Curator of Hidden West Yorkshire for the BBC https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p0hzw9dt?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
@matpringle.bsky.social
Illustrator, Printmaker and Arts Facilitator Portfolio - https://matpringle.co.uk Shop - https://matpringleillustration.bigcartel.com/
@specificityarchives.com
Filmmaker Author | SPSFC Quarter-finalist. Sloth on the run www.specificityarchives.com
@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)
@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
@neilwilliamson.bsky.social
Words and music. Glasgow, Scotland he/him https://linktr.ee/neilwilliamson 📚 Latest thing: The Packet (part 3) in ParSec #13 https://tinyurl.com/3hah8dsc 📚 Next thing: The Cold Case in Absolute Zero anthology
@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
@chapmanbookman.bsky.social
I help authors/indie presses publish non-fiction books. Editor of 3 British history magazines, including northernearth.co.uk (folklore, archaeology, psychogeography, landscape). Writer, walker, ambulomancer, neoantiquarian. andrewchapman.info
@ruthheholt.bsky.social
Prof of literature and culture. Gothic, crime, masculinity, ghosts. Lead of the Dark Economies Scholarly Association (dESA). Editor Rvenantjournal.com
@tcparker.bsky.social
Weird, (Neuro)Queer, Here 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ rights, always. 🤖 GenAI, never 1/2 of Nefarious Bat Press. Writer: HUMMINGBIRD, SALTBLOOD, TRADWIFE PhD in media & politics, so old it's gathering dust. Rage as deep as the abyss Books at: https://tinyurl.com/mr2rd9bj
@jpwarchaeology.bsky.social
Award-winning buildings archaeologist. FSA. Mediaeval buildings mythbuster. Castles. Old pubs. Theatre. Alan Garner. Cats. Live music. Ex-roadie. Triskele Heritage https://triskeleheritage.com Based in Nottingham, UK
@folkmagicman.bsky.social
Researcher of strange things found in walls and under floors since 1999... FSA. Author of Magical House Protection & Bredon Hill. Guitar player! www.apotropaios.co.uk
@mariastrutz.bsky.social
Artist, printmaker, sculptor, translator of various subjects. Foxes, owls, stones and bones I have an online store for some of my limited edition linocuts https://www.maria-strutz.co.uk/
@sarahcoomer.bsky.social
Edinburgh-based artist/illustrator. Folio Society Book Illustration Award 2022 Shortlist. Heraldic artist for the Lyon Court. Rep’d by Lorna Hemingway at @belllomaxmoreton.bsky.social Linktree: https://linktr.ee/sarahcoomer
@talesofbritireland.bsky.social
A podcast telling myths, legends and folklore of Britain and Ireland in no particular order, made by Graeme. Find it on all good (and evil) podcast aggregators. www.talesofbritainandireland.com
@bronteschiltz.bsky.social
Writer & journalist. PhD on Britain’s Televisual Gothic 👻 Big on The Divine Comedy and fun
@smaugish.bsky.social
Final year PhD candidate in English Literature @ Lancaster University. Researching asexuality in fin-de-siecle ghost and Weird fiction. Big ol goff.
@elissafield.bsky.social
Lit noir novels + flash | SmokeLong Submission Ed | Stories in/coming SmokeLong, Reckon Review, HAD, Hypertext, Ghost Parachute, Monkeybicycle, Citron Review, Peatsmoke, CRAFT, Conjunctions ++ | IG FB elissalaurenfield.com
@williammeikle.com
Wee sweary Scotsman, living in Canada, with 30+ novels and 300+ short stories in genre presses over the past 30+ years. Mostly at williammeikle.com ... mostly.
@anythingmaureen.bsky.social
Writer, #ActuallyAutistic, legally blind. Former journalist/editor. Dutch. Disability and mental health advocate. ❤️ books, music, crafting. #WritingCommunity
@jamestatehill.bsky.social
Memoir: Blind Man's Bluff (W.W. Norton, NYT Editors' Choice); Novel: Academy Gothic (Nilsen Prize for a First Novel); Editor of The Writer's Chronicle and Monkeybicycle; native of WV; agent: Eric Smith; still mostly living in 1986 jamestatehill.com
@megpokrass.bsky.social
Dzanc Books Author. Best Microfiction Series Founder. Electric Lit, Flash Fiction America (Norton) Best Small Fictions 2023. Scotland
@samanthaslk.bsky.social
Lover of the Strange and Unusual, Noir, Gothic, Folklore, Horror, Retro. Short Fiction published with the Strand, and Brigid's Gate Press. Co-host #BookologyThursday and founder of #31DaysOfHaunting.
@bolognawhisperer.bsky.social
“Only minds as functionally insane as ours could survive here.” https://www.instagram.com/nightmarishobscenity/profilecard/?igsh=YjczZnd4NTljMDQz
@mattjbliss.bsky.social
Speculative Fiction Writer | Reader | Probably thinking about food or looking for used books at a thrift store flow.page/mattbliss
@sasharavitch.bsky.social
posthumanist gothic 🛸 posthuman witchcraft weird writing, weirder thinking, weirdest living. HWA, Codex. antilogos press coming spring 2025.
@harryboxley.bsky.social
Screenwriter - Popeye’s Revenge, Cinderella’s Curse, Mouseboat Massacre, Fairest of Them All harrybloodyboxley.blogspot.com
@perzijski50.bsky.social
Croatian indie multi-genre author. 19 books published in Amazon. My publisher is Red Cape Publishing. No DM. https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B076PBWSTK https://youtube.com/@kristinagallo3441?si=YA5YcLP84rUyUrLR https://ironlady39.blogspot.com/
@dmowerywrites.bsky.social
Writer of things dark, odd, beautiful, etc. What’s fear without an occasional laugh? Horror, literary, fantasy, and thriller lover. Father, husband, dog dad, musician, and constructioneer by day. danielmowerywrites.com
@afterdinnerconversation.com
Philosophy | Ethics Short Story Literary Fiction Publisher. Top 10 (Chill Subs) LitMag 2023-2024, books, & podcasts. $ subscriptions (& Patreon) pay writers. Links: https://bio.site/afterdinner
@adamhulse.bsky.social
Girl Dad 🖤 Northern. Writer of working-class dystopia - Below Economic Thresholds, The Growth, The Forgotten War, Not a Good Fit At This Time. https://linktr.ee/adamhulseauthor
@pawheeler.bsky.social
Writer of the fantastical, reader, world traveler, damned good cook, lover of good food and good wine, Bettie Page fan. Penning my 6th novel. Experiencing a massive, fun blast with this one!
@pauldcoombs.bsky.social
I write dark fiction where monsters are metaphors, beauty meets tragedy, and the line between right and wrong blurs. No answers, just reflections. Cure fan. Debut novel - The Great Orme, released October 2024 Find me here: www.pauldcoombs.com
@heidimarjamaki.bsky.social
I write creepy things 🖤 Associate Fiction Editor at @okaydonkey.bsky.social https://www.heidimarjamaki.com
@stejhoward.bsky.social
Writer, drinker, meandering thinker. THIS HOUSE ISN’T HAUNTED BUT WE ARE, coming April 2025 from Wild Hunt Books. he/him https://linktr.ee/stejhoward
@howsweetthewords.bsky.social
They/them Trans, disabled, neurodivergent, mixed-race Committing expansively queer, often dark, speculative short fiction Living in both Tampa and Seattle Links: https://linktr.ee/howsweetthewords icon: Amelie Lavender