Horror but make it good
A horror starter pack featuring majority BIPoC and Queer folks, as well as some other good eggs in the genre. lemme know if I've forgotten anyone
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@emnays.bsky.social
@lorekeating.bsky.social
Writer of fiction; Feeder of Birds; Bae of Fundy. Nova Scotia 🇨🇦 https://www.lorekeating.com/ Novella AGONY'S LODESTONE https://store.tenebrouspress.com/products/agonys-lodestone-print THE TRUEST SENSE https://a.co/d/9NSWZso She/Her
@silviamg.bsky.social
Writer. THE BEWITCHING (2025), SEVENTH VEIL OF SALOME, MEXICAN GOTHIC, and others books. https://silviamoreno-garcia.com/
@najpullen.bsky.social
Author of The Black Hunger, a queer gothic historical horror novel, out now on Orbit Books. Sometime historian, campfire guitarist, wreck diver pining for the Great Lake They Call Gitchee Gummee. Gay Yukoner. (He/Him)
@tkingfisher.com
Wrote some books, won some awards. Strong feelings about plants. She/her
@theandydavidson.bsky.social
Writes horror. Feeds cats. Author of THE HOLLOW KIND, THE BOATMAN’S DAUGHTER, IN THE VALLEY OF THE SUN, and future stuff.
@alyssaalessi.bsky.social
HWA•Spooktastic Book Fair•New England Izzy Hoffman Is Not A Witch 23’ 📚 Words in NoSleep Podcast & Cinnabar E-Zine https://linktr.ee/pagesinthegraveyard
@tananarivedue.bsky.social
Lifewriting Podcast - Exec Producer #HorrorNoire: A History of Black Horror, Writer: Twilight Zone. UCLA Lecturer. Vanity Fair. Author: American Book Award #BLM #blacksky She/Her - https://linktr.ee/tananarivedue
@gabino.bsky.social
Writer/reader/speaker/music lover/book reviewer (NPR, Locus, etc)/freelancer/photographer/PhD/New York Times horror columnist. Words in many places. I want to do all the things, so invite me! https://linktr.ee/gabinoiglesias
@paultremblay.bsky.social
Writer person. Horror Movie, A Head Full of Ghosts, The Cabin at the End of the World, The Pallbearers Club. Not actively planning the demise of John Langan. Eats too much cereal.
@sarahgailey.bsky.social
Author / Up to no good / theythem essays and recipes @ https://stone-soup.ghost.io/
@weredawgz.bsky.social
The Danny Lore of lycanthropic fame Awe-inspiringly humble Writer, nerd, husband to an awesome lady, @ndmedina.bsky.social They/them
@wiswell.bsky.social
Nebula Award & Locus Award winner. Novels: SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN (2024), WEARING THE LION (2025). Disabled. Ace/aro. He/him. https://linktr.ee/johnwiswell
@emilyhughes.bsky.social
Horror bitch. HORROR FOR WEENIES on sale now. Reviews etc in the NYTBR, Vulture, Slate, Reactor, & more. She/her. 🍉 readjumpscares.com
@bogboogie.bsky.social
Award winning court jester (writer) for comics, games and film. gameplay + narrative designer & creative director. Co-founded Perfect Garbage. making horrifying stuff. THE HOLLOWED NIGHT Issue #2 (Soon) theboglands.com
@ldlewiswrites.com
SFF writer/editor in Atlanta. Literary nonprofit person. Ignytes mother. Awards doer. Hugo Winner. Conrunner. Lego builder. Joy enthusiast. 77% Cake. Bi. Grumpy. She/her/chef. Read at Ldlewiswrites.com. 🏳️🌈 YEAR OF THE MER (Saga Press, 2026)
@aijiang.bsky.social
🇨🇳🇨🇦 || she/her || Changle -> Toronto ||Ignyte, Bram Stoker, Nebula Winner || Hugo, Astounding, Locus nominee || Odyssey ‘23 || BA,MSc || rep: UTA & The Tobias Literary Agency || A PALACE NEAR THE WIND (Titan Books ‘25) https://aijiang.carrd.co/
@wnwagner.bsky.social
Horror writer (GIRL IN THE CREEK due out 2025, Tor Nightfire); editor-in-chief of NIGHTMARE MAGAZINE, senior editor, LIGHTSPEED. Rep'd by Lane Heymont. 🏳️🌈 Portland, OR - plant nerd, foot traveler - she/her, they/them https://linktr.ee/wendynwagner
@sentencebender.bsky.social
Gay shit. Sometimes even award-winning gay shit. BLACKFISH CITY is an NEA 2025 Big Read book! Also ART OF STARVING; etc.
@zacthompson.bsky.social
writer / film programmer / forest ghoul. INTO THE UNBEING, CEMETERY KIDS DON'T DIE Previously: Alien: Romulus, The Body Trade, Blow Away, X-Men, Ka-Zar, The Dregs. www.zacthompsonwriter.com
@eveharms.com
I’m Eve, a horror/bizarro/exploitation writer based in LA, author of TRANSMUTED. I also make zines, apps and whatever else I feel like 🤡. Follow for updates on my work, jokes, cool stuff, insights, shitposts (she/her) 🏳️⚧️🕎 🍉 🪬 https://eveharms.com/links/
@tiffmorris.bsky.social
Horror/Sff writer. L’nu’skw (Mi'kmaw). She/her. Bi cis anarchafeminist. Free Palestine 🇵🇸 Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will. Books: 🩸Carnalis (2025) 🌿 Green Fuse Burning 💀 Elegies of Rotting Stars 📧 Rep by Jo Ramsay at Transatlantic Agency
@ericlarocca.bsky.social
(He/They) 3x Bram Stoker Award finalist and Splatterpunk Award-winning Author | AT DARK, I BECOME LOATHSOME OUT NOW | Lit Rep: Priya Doraswamy Official website: ericlarocca.com Profile picture by Jessica Hayworth
@horrorsong.blog
Joe Koch writes literary horror and surrealist trash. Website: horrorsong.blog The Wingspan of Severed Hands Invaginies https://www.clashbooks.com/new-products-2/joe-koch-invaginies-preorder The Couvade Convulsive The Shipwreck of the Cerberus
@valhal.bsky.social
(Mostly) Horror Illustrator/Creator/Comic Artist 👉FINGER GUNS👈 🔪THE SLASHER'S APPRENTICE 🔪 ✨EMAIL: fishmas1@gmail.com✨ 💉 He/Him trans dude 💉
@shanehawk.com
History teacher. Horror writer/editor. Girl dad. San Diego. ANOKA. NEVER WHISTLE AT NIGHT series. THE LAND HAS SPOKEN. Rep: Rachel Letofsky at Transatlantic. ShaneHawk.com
@thomasha.bsky.social
Writer || UNCERTAIN SONS AND OTHER STORIES (2025) Undertow || Nebula, Ignyte, Hugo, Locus, & Shirley Jackson Nominee || Best American SFF. Brave New Weird. Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror || Korean/Irish hapa. Father o' three. He/him. thomashawrites.com
@laurelhightower.bsky.social
Horror loving mom. Author of that mothman book, BELOW. Also WHISPERS IN THE DARK, CROSSROADS, EVERY WOMAN KNOWS THIS, SILENT KEY, SPIRIT COVEN, and THE DAY OF THE DOOR
@barkmouchard.bsky.social
they/them. I write comics. IT TOOK LUKE, LEAF PEEPERS. Sonic the Hedgehog. tiny dog mom. hardcore punk & horror. law student. // rep: Maeve MacLysaght @ Aevitas Creative //
@mbmcandrews.bsky.social
EIC at Dread Central Director of Bystanders (out now on VOD) Cohost of the Scarred For Life podcast GALECA and OAFFC member Found footage defender Always searching for Mothman
@natcassidy.bsky.social
TV actor. Musician. Horror writer (MARY: AN AWAKENING OF TERROR; NESTLINGS; REST STOP). Next up: WHEN THE WOLF COMES HOME, April 22, 2025, Tor Nightfire. (he/him)
@brackenmacleod.bsky.social
Recovering lawyer. Author of STRANDED, COME TO DUST, & CLOSING COSTS. A new collection, LET NOT YOUR SORROW DIE, is coming in 2025 from Bad Hand Books! Represented by Howard Morhaim at http://morhaimliterary.com He/Him
@coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social
Writer / Librarian. HWA. Work in Electric Literature, the Deadlands, Strange Horizons, Nightmare Magazine, etc… Repped by Marie Lamba of Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency. Novel: Living in Cemeteries Collection: Haunted Ecologies CoreyFarrenkopf.com
@sofiaajram.bsky.social
Queer horror writer 🏳️⚧️ all pronouns Jewelry designer & metalsmith sofiazakia.com Editor of Bury Your Gays: An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror Coup de Grâce 🚇 (Titan Books) out now! https://linktr.ee/sofiaajram
@lindsaykingmiller.bsky.social
Author, horror nerd, queer mom. She/her. ASK A QUEER CHICK (Plume, 2016), THE Z WORD (Quirk, 2024), THIS IS MY BODY (Quirk, 2025). https://www.lindsaykingmiller.com/
@pauladashe.bsky.social
Award winning author of WE ARE HERE TO HURT EACH OTHER. Developmental editor. Hellraiser obsessive. Queen of Martyrs. She/her. 🏳️🌈 ✊🏽. Opinions = mine alone. Rep: Lane Heymont https://linktr.ee/pauladashe
@leemandelo.bsky.social
phd in gender studies - writer of books (gay southern gothic Summer Sons + t4t appalachian historical The Woods All Black + forthcoming anthology Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity)- he/him
@toddkeisling.com
Horror writer & designer. Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of DEVIL’S CREEK, SCANLINES, & more. Rep: Becky LeJeune | Bond Literary Agency. He/him. http://linktr.ee/tkeisling
@missdefying.bsky.social
horror writer. IGNYTE and World Fantasy Award winner. producer of NIGHTLIGHT (horror written by Black writers) & producer/writer of Afflicted horror thriller audio drama (Lovecraft Country meets True Blood) toniaransom.com
@wickedjamison.bsky.social
award-winning author of I FEED HER TO THE BEAST duology ✨ bio.link/wickedjamison they/them
@lyndseycroal.bsky.social
Scottish SFFH Author, words in Apex, Analog, Weird Tales, & more | BFA Finalist | Latest book: LIMELIGHT, Shortwave | Next: DARK CRESCENT, Luna Press | Lit Rep: Michael Mungiello InkWell, Film/TV: Sean Berard, Untitled Ent. https://linktr.ee/lyndseycroal
@joshuathehull.bsky.social
Screenwriter - GLORIOUS (Shudder) Author - UNDEREXPOSED (ABRAMS Books), MOUTH (Tenebrous Press) 8114 (CLASH Books, August 26th, 2025 - preorder TODAY)
@tjbentonwalker.com
Bestselling & Award-Winning Author | BLOOD DEBTS, BLOOD JUSTICE, THE WHITE GUY DIES FIRST, & ALEX WISE | #Gaymer 🏳️🌈🎮 https://linktr.ee/tjbentonwalker
@rjacksonjoseph.bsky.social
Award winning, Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson awards nominated writer/professor/editor. She/Her. Literary representation: Natasha Mihell, at The Rights Factory
@nadiabulkin.bsky.social
Horror writer (SHE SAID DESTROY, RED SKIES IN THE MORNING, ISSUES WITH AUTHORITY forthcoming from Ghoulish). Co-editor of WHY DIDN'T YOU JUST LEAVE. 📍 DC, raised in Jakarta/Nebraska, she/her ♠️💜 https://linktr.ee/nadiabulkin
@aarondries.bsky.social
Author/screenwriter — Bram Stoker, Shirley Jackson, Australian Shadows, Ditmar award-nominated and Aurealis winner. DIRTY HEADS, CUT TO CARE, HOUSE OF SIGHS, A PLACE FOR SINNERS, THE FALLEN BOYS, and WHERE THE DEAD GO TO DIE. Repped by Annie Bomke.
@anovelescape.bsky.social
Shirley Jackon Award-nom author of BOUND FEET (CGM), IT'S ONLY A GAME (Bloomsbury), and DEMON SONG (Titan '25). Stories/essays in Clarkesworld, Apex, PseudoPod, & more. Rep'd by Jen Azantian. She/her. www.kelseayu.com
@ashiamonet.bsky.social
essayist. novelist: NECROGENESIS (Del Rey, 2026), ALL THESE SUNKEN SOULS. if it’s darkness we’re having, let it be extravagant. rep: @EmilyKaitlinnn
@erikatwurth.bsky.social
Writer. Prof. Ghost Kat. 📚WhiteHorse TheHauntingofRoom904. NYT editors & GMA buzz pick. IndieNext. Target & BOTM. Apache/Chickasaw/Cherokee descent.
@comptonwrites.bsky.social
Horror author: The Spite House & Devils Kill Devils Podcaster: Healthy Fears. /. Behind Your Face There is a Place
@gaylydreadful.bsky.social
🍅 approved critic. Cohost Dread Central's Rondo Award-nominated Scarred for Life Podcast. Contributor to Second Sight and Vinegar Syndrome Blu Ray Releases. Owner Gayly Dreadful. GALECA member. He/Him. Omaha based.
@unheimlichmanvr.bsky.social
Stoker Award-nominated horror author. rep: Oli Munson she/they, bi, polyam, vegan, a bit witchy, very crafty Posting from Greenwich, London Books etc: https://linktr.ee/allywilkes
@lormaggot.bsky.social
(giz·luh·sn) 34 • they/he goop lord • 🇨🇦 wrote INSIDE OUT, edited BOUND IN FLESH THE FLESH OF THE SEA w/ Shelley Lavigne 1/3 member of GOOP TROOP SUNLIGHT MAGGOT PRINCE current hyperfixation re4r SOON - COSMIC DYKE PATROL
@lcvonhessen.bsky.social
Writer of horror, weird fiction, and assorted unpleasantness. Performer/artist/creep. History nerd. Cat person. They/them. 🔞 No genAI. lcvonhessen[at]gmail[dot]com
@jennykiefer.com
Horror writer and owner of Butcher Cabin Books in Louisville, Kentucky. Author of THIS WRETCHED VALLEY & CRAFTING FOR SINNERS (Oct 25). Bram Stoker Nominee. Fuck fascists & AI
@ericraglin1992.bsky.social
Horror/Weird fiction writer of Nightmare Yearnings, Extinction Hymns, & Lonesome Pyres (currently out of print). Owner of Cursed Morsels Press. Anti-capitalist and anti-fascist. He/Him Linktree: https://linktr.ee/cursedmorsels
@ardenpowell.bsky.social
Queer SFF author + artist, they/them 🇨🇦 Flos Magicae, The Carnelian King, Faerie Hounds, The Bayou. March 2025: Flesh & Bone Patreon: https://patreon.com/ArdenPowell Site: https://ardenpowell.mailerpage.io Newsletter: http://subscribepage.io/ardenpowell
@nuzo.bsky.social
Writer of African Speculative Fiction. https://linktr.ee/nuzoonoh
@xghorror.bsky.social
nyc media personality. scary movie sista 🤘🏽| Blerdy Massacre Pod 🎙️| words: AFROPUNK, Dread Central, Horror Press LLC + more |🍅-approved | ✉️: xghorror@gmail.com
@jawmccarthy.bsky.social
2x Bram Stoker & 2x Shirley Jackson Award finalist. Author of SLEEP ALONE and SOMETIMES WE’RE CRUEL. Stories: Best Horror of the Year Vol 13, PseudoPod, Vastarien, Split Scream 3, more. Cat & lipstick enthusiast. She/Jen. Rep: Lane Heymont. jawmccarthy.com
@okokno.bsky.social
I'm a writer, artist. A brain inside of a pile of blankets. Also check out my book, Midnight Rooms! Find me in these places: https://linktr.ee/okokno
@emmaemurray.bsky.social
Award-winning horror writer. She/her. 🩷💜💙 Rep: literaryclara.bsky.social 🐌Crushing Snails 😈When the Devil 💧The Drowning Machine and Other Obsessions 🩸Shoot Me in the Face on a Beautiful Day (8/26/25) Website: EmmaEMurray.com
@tamarajeree.com
indie author of lesbian paranormal romance & gothic horror | bookseller by day | represented by Bethany Weaver | www.tamarajeree.com | they/them art by @northyme.com
@tanyapell.bsky.social
📚author💀HWA😴 narcolepsy 🩷💜💙she/her. 👀 (Gallery, ‘26) HER WICKED ROOTS (Gallery, ‘25) CICADA (Shortwave, ‘24) Rep’d by Marcy Posner @ Folio & Folio Jr. Film rep Rich Green
@lphernandez.bsky.social
Horror author. Active HWA. MBA. Air Force officer. Publisher. Co-owner of Sobelo Books. Metalhead. Robust. Enchanting. Read me in Cemetery Gates, Dark Matter, a truck stop between Lubbock and Amarillo. Client of Becky LeJeune. Punch Nazis. I love you.
@whimsyqueen.bsky.social
Grad Student • Horror/Spec Writer • Queer • ANTENORA out now • Words: The Deeps, Demons & Death Drops, etc. • (they/them, 25)
@peculiaritea.bsky.social
NYT bestselling Allston rat/author | MY DEAREST DARKEST, THIS DELICIOUS DEATH, and PRACTICAL RULES FOR CURSED WITCHES | they/she | opinions are my own
@mlopesdasilva.bsky.social
Nonbinary trans masc + bisexual author. Artist. Poet. Critic. Scientific illustration student. I write California horror and everything else. Polyam Fool/Magician (She/They/He)
@daphnefama.bsky.social
The awkward goth that used to sit in the back of your class. Repped by Dorian Maffe. House of Monstrous Women (August 12). ✨ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/207767929-house-of-monstrous-women
@emroy.bsky.social
writer of weird things. 25. maine. she/they. queer. and other words. 🍂 LET THE WOODS KEEP OUR BODIES (10.10.23, Ghoulish Books) 🍂
@ericawatersbooks.bsky.social
Author of queer Southern horror, Bram Stoker winner, New England transplant. Latest: ALL THAT CONSUMES US. Rep: Lauren Spieller/Folio they/she ericawaters.com
@allisonmick.bsky.social
fart noise maker (mouth and butt) HUMBOLDT CUT 🌲🪓 out in 2026 horror/comedy/animation writer. she/they making sicko shit. Books repped by JJBaker at BLM Agency Anim repped by SamGoff at Fourth Wall Mgmt allison-mick.com
@aquinoauthor.bsky.social
Degenerate Queer Poly Punk Weirdo who writes Existentialist Horror, love my Pug and The Celtics, and my partners (in that order (?) )
@violetjmcmaster.bsky.social
Bookseller & Events Coordinator @ Big Blue Marble Bookstore Reviewer @inavioletnature (IG) & @violetjamesmcmaster on Substack https://linktr.ee/violetjamesmcmaster
@chumboy.bsky.social
Transmitting the only thoughts I can Horror & Speculative Fiction • Historian • NYC Editor of Writer's RedEye subscribepage.io/zKlXnV 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈| IG : chumboy.charlie| he/him
@elliottgish.bsky.social
TT, LL. Writer, librarian, too many freckles, not enough sleep. Debut novel GREY DOG available now. She/her. https://linktr.ee/elliottgish
@dreadfullyqueer.bsky.social
They/them 👻 Avid connoisseur of queer horror 🏳️⚧️ Organizer of the Dreadfully Queer Book Club in Salem, MA 📍 WIP: A weird, sapphic supernatural novella 👁️
@spiritbored.bsky.social
author of HERE LIES A VENGEFUL BITCH 🍂🪦💋 (out now!) and BODY COUNT 🍬🎡🔪 (coming june 2026)
@ninocipri.bsky.social
Writer, cat dad, wife guy, cryptid. Author of DEAD GIRLS DON'T DREAM (2024), DEFEKT (2021), FINNA (2020), and HOMESICK (2019).
@daviddemchuk.com
Fine writing for foul minds. 🏳️🌈🇨🇦 Sunburst winner; Giller Prize, Amazon, Aurora & Shirley Jackson nominee. The Butcher’s Daughter. RED X. The Bone Mother. Gay/Queer. Cis. Old. #NSFW. https://linktr.ee/ddemchuk
@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
@haileypiperfights.bsky.social
Make horror gay AF, Stoker Award winner Aug 12: A GAME IN YELLOW Sept 16: TEENAGE GIRLS CAN BE DEMONS she/her; rep: Lane Heymont haileypiper.com
@bitterkarella.bsky.social
Midnight Society founder. Genderfluid transvestite goblin 🏳️⚧️👺 He/Her, She/Him. Three (3) x Hugo Nominee. Reppd by @jjbker & @literaryfey http://www.bitterkarella.com | Out now: Split Scream 5 (Tenebrous Press), Soon: Moonflow (Orbit)
@sillysyntax.bsky.social
Nebula, Aurora, WFA finalist, Ignyte Co Founder "SKIN THIEF STORIES" Neon Hemlock. COUNTESS out now ECW Press. Goth, plant grower, music enthusiast. She/They, Queer, 🇹🇹 🇨🇦 rep by Michael Curry. Banner: Matt Griffin suzanpalumbo.carrd.co
@victorlavalle.bsky.social
Doing what I dreamed of since I was a kid. Books: Lone Women, The Changeling, The Ballad of Black Tom, The Devil in Silver, Big Machine & more. TV: The Changeling (EP), The Terror: Devil in Silver (Creator, Showrunner) Comics: Destroyer, Eve, Sabretooth
@emnays.bsky.social
writer in the further regions of experience ✦ Narrative Director/Cofounder @ Perfect Garbage ✦ FROM THE BELLY out now ✦ LET ME OUT Oni Press Lit Rep: Tamara Kawar ✦ Film/TV: Sean Berard, Grandview www.emmettnahil.com