Talking Scared Horror Community
An evolving list of show guests, supporters and people I admire from the world of horror
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@talkscaredpod.bsky.social
@lucyrosecreates.bsky.social
• black cat owner and horror girlie • sunday times bestselling author/forbes 30 under 30 with no mystique • the lamb 🥩 @wnbooks @harperbooks • audhd / bi https://linktr.ee/lucyrosecreative She/they
@underratedskpod.bsky.social
My one-woman podcast - The Year of Underrated Stephen King - analyzes Underrated & Mainstream Stephen King Titles as well as explores the Constant Reader Community at Large! UnderratedSK@gmail.com
@katevanderborgh.bsky.social
Writer, musician, ghost hunter, greyhound servant. Looking for the strange and lovely, from Leytonstone to The North.
@nnedi.bsky.social
*THE* Naijamerican PhD-holding, World Fantasy, multi-Hugo, Nebula, Eisner Award-winning, New York Times bestselling rudimentary cyborg writer, nnedi.com
@drunkscribe.bsky.social
Writer of THE WOODKIN (CamCat). Amateur jello enthusiast. PNW Moss Creature. Plant Witch. Probably camping right now. He/him, please.
@tjoneswriter.bsky.social
Author: NIGHT OF THE LONG KNIVES MIDAS HEAVY OCEANS BURN THE PLANS TURN UP THE SUN ALMOST RUTH THE DARK SIDE OF THE ROOM CRITERIUM www.tylerjones.net
@cjtudor.bsky.social
Sunday Times bestselling author. Dog lover. Gin drinker. Tattoo enthusiast. New novel THE GATHERING out now: https://shor.by/CJTudor. THE BURNING GIRLS streaming on Netflix UK.
@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
@alanbaxter.bsky.social
Author of horror and weird fiction. Martial Artist. Britstralian. Whisky drinker. Dog lover. Metalhead. He/him. https://alanbaxter.com.au/contact/ (Banner image by Dean Rankine)
@lenavalencia.bsky.social
Author of MYSTERY LIGHTS: Stories (Tin House / Dead Ink Books 2024). Managing Editor / Director of Edu. Programming at One Story. Co-host of Ditmas Lit. https://linktr.ee/lenavalencia
@kaaronwarren.bsky.social
Reader, writer, podcaster at "Let the Cat In". Shirley Jackson Award Winner. Author of The Underhistory Slights Tide of Stone The Grief Hole World Fantasy and Stokercon GOH
@rebelsam94.bsky.social
A spoOoky writer😱dog dad🐕Rep’d by Claire Harris, PS Literary🥂HWA NY🌻Hudson Valley critter🍁Stoker Nom’d🩸THE POORLY MADE AND OTHER THINGS out now!🩸GALL😶🌫️WAY’S GOSPEL 09/16/2525 🐷🦇
@bingewriting.bsky.social
Bestselling author. "Provocative and surprisingly tender." — The New York Times I wrote EXTREMITY (Sept 2025), DISSOLUTION (2025), ASCENSION (2023) and PROFESSOR EVERYWHERE (2020). Rep: Greyhound Lit (UK) + UTA (US + film/tv) www.nicholasbinge.com
@authorkatm.bsky.social
Author of 👻 things, recently: THROUGH THE MIDNIGHT DOOR. Whiskey drinker. Hates feet.
@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/
@margaretatwood.bsky.social
Writer of this and that... www.margaretatwood.ca and margaretatwood.substack.com;I also have an Instagram account, though I don't know how to use it much, beyond posting pictures...
@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.
@danpoblocki.bsky.social
#1 NY Times Bestseller. MY BROTHER’S BUTT IS HAUNTED, TALES TO KEEP YOU UP AT NIGHT, MORE TALES TO KEEP YOU UP AT NIGHT, etc. Podcast is called OUR FIRST FEARS. HWA member. (Any pronoun.)
@lorasenf.bsky.social
Writer. Wife. Twin momma. Bram Stoker Award Winner. THE CLACKITY THE NIGHTHOUSE KEEPER THE LONELIEST PLACE THE LOSTING FOUNTAIN PENNIES (fall 2025) LoraSenfAuthor@gmail.com * LoraSenf.com
@isabelcanas.bsky.social
Your friendly neighborhood horromance evangelist. Out now: THE HACIENDA & VAMPIRES OF EL NORTE. Up next: THE POSSESSION OF ALBA DÍAZ | Clarion West and Odyssey alum | Bram Stoker & Locus Award nominee | UChicago PhD https://www.isabelcanas.com/
@scumbelievable.bsky.social
Beyond the grace of God, a wanderer in the outer darkness. Best-selling author of MANHUNT and CUCKOO, out now from Tor Nightfire, and BLACK FLAME, coming 2025
@markstay.bsky.social
Author, screenwriter and podcaster. https://markstaywrites.com/all-the-links/
@unexplained.bsky.social
Haunting story-based podcast about strange and mysterious 'real-life' events. iTunes Best of 2016. 75+ Million streams. Book available at http://amzn.to/2Nc55ay
@caitlinstarling.com
Award-winning and bestselling author of THE LUMINOUS DEAD, THE DEATH OF JANE LAWRENCE, LAST TO LEAVE THE ROOM, and others. She/her.
@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
NYT bestselling author of the Southern Reach series, including Absolution. Repped by Joe Veltre at Gersh. Gigs: The Tuesday Agency. he/him
@danielletrussoni.bsky.social
NYT and internationally bestselling author #Angelology and #ThePuzzleMaster #ThePuzzleBox
@angelaslatter.bsky.social
AKA AG Slatter. All The Murmuring Bones, The Path of Thorns, The Briar Book of the Dead, The Crimson Road @TitanBooks. Some Awards. Hellboy Universe. PhD.
@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.
@andrewpyper.bsky.social
Novelist. Author of The Residence, The Demonologist, Lost Girls. Also writes under pen name Mason Coile: WILLIAM (2024), EXILES (2025).
@colindickey.com
Writer of books, most recently Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy. Also Ghostland, The Unidentified, Afterlives of the Saints, Cranioklepty. He/him.
@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.
@hooklings.bsky.social
Reader, writer, crocheter, chihuahua wrangler, aspiring author, sometime line editor. I live with complex endometriosis. I <3 The Locked Tomb 🦴 The Poppy War 🔥 Arcane 🦈 Captive Prince! 💎 X-Files since way back. 🛸 Hannibal 🔪
@wildhuntbooks.bsky.social
Independent publisher. South East London. Publishing director: Ariell Cacciola @ariellcacciola.bsky.social 🖤🌈https://www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk/bookshop
@kaileepedersen.bsky.social
SACRIFICIAL ANIMALS (St. Martin’s + Titan '24) PASTORALE (Burnside Review '25) writer/opera singer/swe | 🏳️🌈🇨🇳 adoptee | she/her rep: Paul Lucas @ Janklow & Nesbit kaileepedersen.com
@thatscarylarry.bsky.social
The least famous author you've never heard of. Freelance copywriter and HWA member. (Made the Stoker preliminary ballot in 2020/2022.) The Space Between, debut collection, out now. The Eris Ridge Trail, debut novella, out March 2025. thatscarylarry.com
@alexctelander.bsky.social
(He/Him) Horror writer. Creator/writer of Ostium Podcast and Circé Podcast. Cohost Me & Virgil: A Genesis Brother’s Podcast. Love Stephen King, Stephen Graham Jones, Josh Mallerman, all horror, the Expanse, Genesis, Phil Collins, Mike Oldfield, Pink Floyd.
@igotbigbooks.bsky.social
Hello, I'm that vampire that reads. 🇬🇧 Professional book pervert. Reviews in Scream Horror Magazine. #BookSky Horror/Fantasy/Romance/Thriller I say weird and unsettling things, let's be friends. instagram: @thevampireslibrary
@brianmcwriter.bsky.social
WGA Screenwriter. HWA Author. 🎞️⛓️ CURSE OF THE REAPER 🌲🔨 CANDY CAIN KILLS 🙏🪓 CANDY CAIN KILLS AGAIN 🧘🏻♀️🩸 BREATHE IN, BLEED OUT (9/2/25)
@renbolger.bsky.social
Horror writer startled by most sounds. Kill Radio out now with Malarkey Books. The Barre Incidents out Oct 2025! My website: https://www.laurenbolger.com/ Jewish 🇵🇸
@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
@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.
@iameeadams.bsky.social
Storyteller of all things dark. Author of JACKAL and ONE OF YOU. Updates only https://linktr.ee/iameeadams
@almakatsu.bsky.social
Novelist. Former intelligence professional, tech futurist. My next horror novel, FIEND, comes out 9/16/25
@adamcesare.bsky.social
Horror Enthusiast. Bram Stoker Award-winning author. CLOWN IN A CORNFIELD, VIDEO NIGHT, DEAD MALL, and more. Please buy a book. https://linktr.ee/adamcesare
@craigengler.bsky.social
Former GM of Shudder at AMC Networks. Creator of Z Nation TV series. Occasional movie writer. Dad.
@scribeofhades.bsky.social
Writer/Artist 🦋THE REDEMPTION OF MORGAN BRIGHT 🩸THE PHLEBOTOMIST 🛸STRINGERS 🪓short fic @ link 🪓 art @ link 🪓 Rep Sara Megibow 🪓 SFWA 🪓 HWA Linktr.ee/chrispanatier
@agathaandrews.bsky.social
Writer who lurks in old cemeteries and libraries. Host of the She Wore Black Podcast Rep: Jill Marr at Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency Active HWA member
@timmcgregor.bsky.social
Author, occasional doofus, Wasps in the Ice Cream, Lure, Taboo in Four Colors, Hearts Strange and Dreadful, the Spookshow series.
@verityholloway.bsky.social
Strange fiction, weird history. Lost member of the PRB. Marfan syndrome. Will-o’-the-wisp. Victorians, folklore, bad medicine. THE OTHERS OF EDENWELL and CHEER THE SICK out now.
@rossjefferyauthor.bsky.social
Bram Stoker & 3x Splatterpunk Nominated Author | #HWA Active Member | HARVESTING THE NIGHTMARE FIELDS | THE DEVIL’S POCKETBOOK | I DIED TOO, BUT THEY HAVEN’T BURIED ME YET | Film/TV @alec_frankel at IAG Website | https://writer
@jrjisprobable.bsky.social
THE LOOP, ENTROPY IN BLOOM, IN THE RIVER, SKULLCRACK CITY, ALL THE WRONG IDEAS Repped by Mollie Glick (Literary) and Jon Cassir (Book-to-Film) at CAA.
@allymalinenko.bsky.social
She/her 🏳️🌈 @Horrorwriters #SpookyMG Rep'd by @renarossner. GHOST GIRL, the Bram Stoker nominated THIS APPEARING HOUSE. Upcoming:THE OTHER MARCH SISTERS (25) BROKEN DOLLS (25)
@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
@michaelwehunt.bsky.social
Literary horror in the woods. Life assembled from found footage. Crawford & Shirley Jackson Award Nominee. Greener Pastures, The Inconsolables. Debut novel The October Film Haunt 9/30/25 from St. Martin's Press.
@jonathanjanz.bsky.social
Author of Veil, Marla, and Children of the Dark. Repped for TV & Film by Ryan Lewis. Lit Agent Lane Heymont.
@erikatwurth.bsky.social
Writer. Prof. Ghost Kat. 📚WhiteHorse TheHauntingofRoom904. NYT editors & GMA buzz pick. IndieNext. Target & BOTM. Apache/Chickasaw/Cherokee descent.
@vlatinalondon.bsky.social
2x Bram Stoker Award nominated author Chicana Aliens:Vasquez Rebel Moon (Netflix) The Haunting of Alejandra Immortal Pleasures Goddess of Filth The Queen of The Cicadas Rep-Beth Marshea/Ladderbird vcastrostories.com
@finejuli.bsky.social
Wrote MADDALENA AND THE DARK (Flatiron), THE UPSTAIRS HOUSE and WHAT SHOULD BE WILD (Harper). The witch from next door.
@comptonwrites.bsky.social
Horror author: The Spite House & Devils Kill Devils Podcaster: Healthy Fears. /. Behind Your Face There is a Place
@pfracassi.bsky.social
Author w/ Nightfire, Orbit, Clash, Lethe… • THE AUTUMN SPRINGS RETIREMENT HOME MASSACRE • THE THIRD RULE OF TIME TRAVEL • NO ONE IS SAFE! • BOYS IN THE VALLEY • GOTHIC • A CHILD ALONE WITH STRANGERS www.pfracassi.com/books (Header art by Chris Nurse)
@catrionaward.bsky.social
USA Today bestselling author of LOOKING GLASS SOUND 🪞💀🪞, THE LAST HOUSE ON NEEDLESS STREET, SUNDIAL & more Rep @jennysavill1 & @RStrausAgency Film/TV @mldean_& @unitedtalent
@gemmafiles.bsky.social
a preliminary sketch of a crone. Aspergerian mom of an autistic son. I wrote Experimental Film and literally 100+ short stories. coming soon: Little Horn, a collection, from Shortwave Publishing. I sing, make jewelry and doodle pretty monsters.
@joshuathehull.bsky.social
Screenwriter - GLORIOUS (Shudder) Author - UNDEREXPOSED (ABRAMS Books), MOUTH (Tenebrous Press) 8114 (CLASH Books, August 26th, 2025 - preorder TODAY)
@saderotica.bsky.social
literary catgirl | author of Deliver Me, Gag Reflex, Nudes, & Animals Eat Each Other | phd candidate at university of glasgow | editor @thecreativeindependent.com 🌀 “i’m the bigger dog only for now.” —peter christopher 🐇linktr.ee/ellenash
@bobpastorella.com
Co-host of the This Is Horror podcast. Author of MOJO RISING and THEY’RE WATCHING (with Michael David Wilson). My vampire novel, THE SMALL HOURS, releases in 2025. https://ghoulish.rip/product/the-small-hours/ patreon.com/BobPastorella
@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)
@rachelharrison.bsky.social
Friendly Ghost 👻 Author of The Return, Cackle, Such Sharp Teeth, Bad Dolls, Black Sheep, So Thirsty & PLAY NICE 9.9.25🖤
@igreggreene.bsky.social
I love horror in all its fictional forms! My occasional podcast Chthonica is on YouTube & Apple Podcasts. I’m in Nashville, TN. AKA +The Blessorcist+
@keithrosson.bsky.social
Writer, arteest, blindish, kinda punk. Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award. FEVER HOUSE/THE DEVIL BY NAME duology out now via Random House. COFFIN MOON coming Fall ‘25. Repped by Chad Luibl, Janklow & Nesbit.
@titanbooks.bsky.social
Leading independent publisher of Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror, Crime, Pop Culture, Movie/TV tie-ins & much more 📚 Also, @hardcasecrime.bsky.social
@timlebbon.bsky.social
New York Times bestselling writer of novels, screenplays, audio dramas, computer games. Father, husband, triathlete. Loves real ale, cake, countryside. Love is the fing. Be kind. AMONG THE LIVING out now.
@cynthiapelayo.bsky.social
Bram Stoker Award & Int’l Latino Book Award winning author| VANISHING DAUGHTERS, Thomas & Mercer| GHOSTS OF WHERE WE ARE FROM, Atria/Primero Sueño| LOTERÍA & CHICAGO SAGA, Hachette| School of the Art Institute MFAW, PhD English candidate | Rep-Lane Heymont
@thekingcast.bsky.social
A very important Stephen King podcast hosted by Scott Wampler and Eric Vespe, via the FANGORIA Podcast Network. Patreon: www.patreon.com/TheKingcast
@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
@alexwoodroe.com
Shirley Jackson Award-nominated EIC of @tenebrouspress.bsky.social. Dark specfic writer, Romanian folklore nerd, way too into concept albums, food, botany, and creepy movies. Optimistic nihilist. Wrote🌲WHISPERWOOD https://linktr.ee/AlexWoodroe
@claymcleod.bsky.social
Books. Comic books. YA/middlegrade books. Film/TV. Podcasts. You can visit me at www.claymcleodchapman.com
@sadiehartmann.bsky.social
Co-Owner of Night Worms. Bram Stoker Award winner of 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered. New book: 2025 https://linktr.ee/sadiehartmann
@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
@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
@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
@bymattruff.bsky.social
Author of Lovecraft Country, Fool on the Hill, Bad Monkeys, and various other novels. https://www.bymattruff.com
@hangsawoman.bsky.social
Confrontational and yet quite friendly author. Books: TELL ME I'M WORTHLESS (out now) and BRAINWYRMS (coming October 10th)