Hauntology - Starter Pack
Curated list of Hauntology scholars, spectral practitioners, and those interested in haunting literature, music, film, cultural memory, and the academic eerie.
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@audioontology.bsky.social
@kimhalliday.bsky.social
I pluck music from out of the air, and leave it laying about, often on other people’s films. Noises and stuff at www.kimhalliday.com. Latest release at https://kimhalliday.bandcamp.com/album/dream Rep: @rangermusicagency.bsky.social
@jezconolly.bsky.social
A writer, not a fighter Books: The Thing | Dead of Night | Seconds Essays: Routledge Companion to Folk Horror | Scarred for Life volume 3 Horror fiction writer COMING IN 2025: CAPTURE SPIRAL Aberdeen dweller He/Him https://linktr.ee/jezconolly
@temporalboundary.bsky.social
Editor at Temporal Boundary Press (Undefined Boundary: The Journal of Psychick Albion, Waiting For You: A Detectorists Zine, Man is the Animal: A Coil Zine).
@pippagoldschmidt.bsky.social
Hybrid sci-art ex-astronomer now-author. Writes fiction, poems, essays, reviews. Latest two are 'Schrödinger’s Wife (and other possibilities)' from Goldsmiths Press/Gold SF, and 'Night Vision' from Broken Sleep Books. https://www.pippagoldschmidt.co.uk
@richardhcooper.bsky.social
Reads, writes, watches, gets increasingly leftwing as he gets older. I live in Battle, East Sussex. I’m 41. I try & write essays (on literature, film, TV drama, TV comedy) for my blog. I have an MA. I’m on the Spectrum. Socialism or barbarism.
@michaelshallcross.bsky.social
Literature scholar (c.1800-present) by background, uni admin person by necessity. Still doing research - see pinned thread for info on my current project, 'Inscribing Pandemonium'. Also posting about music, culture, politics, random nonsense.
@gerlex.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Technology and Politics, Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam #digital_citizenship@uva #empirical_ethics@ias #shapinginterfacesbetweenscienceandthepublic@uva #open_science@ophen.org #medical_ethics@uniw/h
@casperpottle.bsky.social
Bearded bibliophile. Libertarian Socialist. Birder. George Blake's jailbreak. Ban the Bomb. Bradford via North Wales and North London. "The Useful Idiot of Bradford" - Alastair Stewart
@tenille.bsky.social
Bookseller. PhD candidate in creative writing. Critical AI, LLMs and time perception. Co-editor @sudojournal.bsky.social. Co-host @editsannotations.bsky.social. She/her.
@auntiethetical.bsky.social
Elderly 🇨🇦 autodidact; writer; philosopher. Two dogs (WGSD, Chihuahua/Papillon); two cats (classic brown tabby, dark tortie); floating through the BlueSky dispensing pithy(?) comments…
@soelvkre.bsky.social
Horror nerd and creator of horrible music about horrible things. A giant centipede in the shape of a human. https://soelvkre.bandcamp.com/
@cmrosens.com
UK Horror & Dark SFF hybrid author - Canelo Horror (2024) & indie ADHD. Welsh-Turkish 🏴🇹🇷. Queer/cis🏳️🌈. She/her. Podcast: @eldritchgirlpod.bsky.social Website/Newsletter: cmrosens.com Visit Pagham-on-Sea: visitpaghamonsea.co.uk
@wesleygrafwald.bsky.social
Germanist, Dancist, Screenist, and Figure Skate-ist; Lecturer @ANUslll; Book: Dancing with the Modernist City (U Michigan Press) https://researchportalplus.anu.edu.au/en/persons/wesley-lim https://anu-au.academia.edu/WesleyLim
@hankg.bsky.social
phd from stanford in media theory. academic+industry researcher of digital technologies. ex robot operator. they/them. https://hankgerba.com
@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
@patfio.bsky.social
writer, critic, and theorist; games and literature; lecturer in media arts and design at the university of chicago; he/him/his; www.patf.io
@lucastosborne.bsky.social
Industrial Policy, Money, Monopolies, Public Utilities, Tech Platforms, PhD @UCBerkeley, JD @VanderbiltLaw, MPP @TheHellerSchool
@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)
@afwilson.bsky.social
Undisciplined academic. Currently writing about inland mermaids, wetlands, politics, nationalism, and the environment. Sociology|Criminology|Folklore. Regular human, too. In spite of the current profile pic not much of a beer drinker.
@professeurmartell.bsky.social
French Literature professor. He, his, him. (If you google me I’m going to find out through academiadotedu) https://lyon.academia.edu/JamesMartell
@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
@evelynkoch.bsky.social
PostDoc in English Literature at University of Marburg. Early modern/19th-cent. literature, science and literature, landscape in literature, fantasy, horror and weird fiction.
@nonwayne.bsky.social
Literary critic in a library. Scholarly publishing, egoism, manifestos, and modernism. My book, The Ego Made Manifest, is available from Bloomsbury. Views my own and mostly on the other one. https://x.com/NonwayneWayne?t=8_wAuQkxi3mzXY2lgoWUbQ&s=09
@aandres.bsky.social
AHRC-funded PhD candidate, University of Leeds' School of English (attention in the contemporary stream of consciousness novel) | EN-ES/ES-EN translator.
@florencesn.bsky.social
Video game archaeologist + game dev// PhD on archaeogaming as game preservation + procgen// Prev: Story Tech @gutefabrik.bsky.social, Planning Archaeologist at Museum of London Archaeology they/them 💾 florencesmithnicholls.com
@jenniferashby.bsky.social
Modernist & avant-garde visionary aesthetics | Writing PhD on Mina Loy & spirituality @eui-history.bsky.social Florence, Italy | Outgoing PG Rep @modernistudies.bsky.social | Organiser Mapping Mina Loy Studies
@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
@therourke.net
the machine is the garden Goldsmiths based digital media theory art • currently researching AI slop and aphantasia • machinemachine.net
@freereed59.net
Teacher Education. History. Trad music. #HistoryEducation #TeacherEducation #UKteaching #SSChat #ContraDancing 📒🕰🎓🗺 No DMs unless we talk irl. https://intheoryandinpractice.wordpress.com/2023/04/11/and-then-the-bell-rang/ https://linktr.ee/Freereed59
@rchrdbkr.bsky.social
Composer based in Ceredigion, Wales, UK. Professor at Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London. Own views here. Weithiau yn Gymraeg. Profile photo: Claire Shovelton Artist website: https://rchrdbkr.com/
@olimould.bsky.social
Academic at large, but lectures in human geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. linktr.ee/olimould Researches anti-capitalism & cities. Christianarchist. Toffeeman. Interested in scifi, films, architecture, music and t-shirts.
@repeaterbooks.bsky.social
@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
@thestatichand.bsky.social
a blurry jpeg of a person. Artist, Producer, Researcher, etc Bleeps, Glitches and Redistribution www.garyjcgaryjc.com
@scarredforlife.bsky.social
A trilogy of books and a podcast about the dark pop culture of the 1970s and 1980s. From public information films to nuclear war. Buy our books: linktr.ee/scarredforlife Listen to our podcast: pod.link/1706291698 Contact: ste1bro@hotmail.co.uk
@brightnysalor.bsky.social
Captured by wonder. Anthropology, NRMs, 日本, mythopoetics, genre, joy, hauntology, lim lit. RPG author and theorist, 3D artist, neurodiverse, cognitive anarchist. He/they. Totoro is my power animal!
@jdj.bsky.social
Writer. Seeing Through the World (2019), Fragments of an Integral Future: Essays on Time, Ecology and a New World View (2025). Editor-in-chief @ Mutations Journal. PhD student in Philosophy. http://www.mutations.blog
@willmort.bsky.social
the well-known lurker; a human, unbroken; Man of Kent; recovering Old Ashfordian. very good at standing on one leg in the middle of a field. between dun august oaks is man a fish? Masto: mastodonapp.uk/@WillMort
@dilettante-oji.bsky.social
-wife guy in a gay way -any pronouns -always the dilettante, never the tante oji -likes virtual worlds, hauntology, rats -old computers/retrotech, games new and old -sick af lol -never flirting! just enthusiastic - https://ko-fi.com/puckwashere
@hauntologywitch.bsky.social
A witch, or perhaps a Goddess, said to be both undead and heterophobic. An eerie temporal echo of post-capitalist desiring in the form of a gender maxxing Incoherent-Extrapolated-Volition [IEV] model Hyperintelligence.
@thebrutalartist.bsky.social
Interests include but not limited to: pen and ink architecture illustration, 70s hauntology, folklore, witchcraft & occult, number stations, SSTV, coffee, Newcastle/Sunderland history (as in the places, NOT football), and waffling, a lot.
@frannicus.bsky.social
your friend with the rhetoric professor of haunted doll-ogy (doll hauntology) (actually a really beleaguered small town department chair, send help) aka tesseractive on other platforms e/em pronouns In a small voice: also wrestling
@grailseeker.bsky.social
Recumbent tri(c)k(st)er. Interests: myth, legend, folklore, symbolism, spirit of place, hauntology, psychogeography, environmental art, ecospirituality, apophenia, weirdness, forteana, metaphysics, neurodivergence.
@parkerbrennon.bsky.social
Queer filmmaker (non-binary/they) 🌈 Horror fan 🖤 'Hauntology' is now free to watch on Tubi. Blu-rays are on Amazon.
@lostdiarist.bsky.social
Professional Alter Ego. Manc. Psychogeography, deep maps, hauntology, zines, games, music, art, photography, sci-fi, & horror—& any gubbins that sheds new light on old places. (He/him) Was LostDiarist & MrBlipvert on the Bird Site. GPA, NJ, & VT
@sumayakassim.bsky.social
writer of fiction and essays, prose editor at Middleground Magazine, the museum will not be decolonised! Hauntology, horror and heritage... she/her
@weirdwalk.bsky.social
Publishing zines and books, curating events, walking in circles… https://shop.weirdwalk.co.uk
@12hrfoundation.bsky.social
Polly Hulse / Jez Butler ... radiophonic / analogue electronics / musique concrète / library music / hauntology Website: https://www.twelvehourfoundation.co.uk/ Shop: https://thetwelvehourfoundation.bandcamp.com/
@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.
@crazyblue.bsky.social
Lecturer in #GameStudies at University of Plymouth. PhD on Hauntological Videogame Form (2023) Transnational Education Lead: Digital Design. Researcher focusing on nostalgia, hauntology, & videogame form. www.relativenostalgia.com www.about.me/sweeting
@christianwilken.bsky.social
Research Associate @hhu.de Author of “Reading Lovecraft in the Anthropocene“ PhD Anglophone Literature, MA Comparative Studies, BA Japanology Hauntology, Metaphysics, Anthropocene, OOO
@elementaladam.bsky.social
Chief Reviews Editor, Journal for 18th-Century Studies (JECS). 18th-Century Co-Editor, Literature Compass. Interests: #18C Print Culture, esp Satire & Periodicals. Podcast: http://anchor.fm/satire-no-more (@talkaboutsatire.bsky.com)
@robertedgar.bsky.social
Professor of Writing and Popular Culture, York St John University. Scriptwriting, Music Memoir, Hauntology, Folk Horror.
@audioontology.bsky.social
ambient metaphysics | radical aesthetics | sontology | poetics of resonance | drone monism | aural hermeneutics |postphenomenology | auditioning https://lahri.leeds.ac.uk/profiles/jamie-stephenson/ ORCID: 0009-0002-8211-6586