Gothic Advent
All the spectral contributors to Gothic Advent -- Sharing their dark and creepy stories for the darkest time of the year
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@wihtlore.uk
@moonponysophia.bsky.social
Middle aged LGBT goth girl from London. Likes dogs, ponies, wine, mediaeval archaeology, horror lit, collects ruins art. Politics junkie.
@swampsunday.bsky.social
#SwampSunday is a hosted hashtag dedicated to aesthetics and folklore of waterbodies 🌾🐍🌾 Throughout the week, we also share and repost our love for forests #dontgointothewoods Founded by @nataljastgermain.bsky.social
@alexanderhay.bsky.social
Writer of weird fiction. Querying away. Dank Goblin. NUJ member. That's definitely me in the profile photo. www.alexanderhay.co.uk https://alexanderhayauthor.substack.com/ https://mastodon.social/@alexanderhay https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1965-9764
@joecam79.bsky.social
Music, old and new. Literature, book blogs and reviews. History and folklore. Sacred and profane. Some Gothic stuff. endsoftheword.blogspot.com
@skionar.bsky.social
Roger Clarke. Author of A Natural History of Ghosts, published by Penguin Books (2012). Former writer for the Independent Newspaper UK, Sight & Sound. In it for the long haul with chronic ill health, colitis from childhood, CPTSD and 12 other conditions.
@toffph.bsky.social
anthologist of Victorian Christmas ghost stories local historian and gravestone conservationist H. C. Dodge & shape poem collector http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/20841298.Christopher_Philippo/blog https://www.findagrave.com/user/profile/477914
@dreamswarm.bsky.social
Hub and Podcast for Film, Stories, Art: Fantasy, Folklore, Folk Horror, Magic-Realism, Mythology, Psychogeography www.DreamSwarm.org Created by filmmaker Andy Mark Simpson
@bunikanovel.com
Bluesky account for the Gothic vampire novel "Bunika" by S. B. L. Grant, writer and PhD researcher. Currently looking for agents & publishers 🖤 No AI writing. Art and photography by me. DMs open. London / Bratislava. 🩸 www.bunikanovel.com 🩸
@crshelidon.bsky.social
Construction professional, comics lover & videogames player, writing quirky Gothic and Fantasy. She/her. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/crshelidon Blog: https://www.shelidon.it
@misplacedkygirl.bsky.social
Public folklorist and educator. Proud advocate for health care consumers. I love storytelling, supernatural folklore, horror films, art, music, cats, pop culture, and my kid.
@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
@folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social
"Speak now, come now, rise now from the forest, from the furrows, from the field and live" https://folkhorrorrevival.com/ #FolkloreAgainstFascism Posts by Richard Hing, views my own
@yidneth.bsky.social
PRISCILLA HERNANDEZ on SPOTIFY : Singer songwriter / Fantasy Music, Art, Folklore & Nature. 🔗🎵🎹🌿 (spotify, youtube, patreon...)▶️ linktr.ee/yidneth
@cosbrarian.bsky.social
Librarian and storyteller. MY DEBUT BOOK: F*cked Up Fairy Tales from WW Norton is available for preorder!. Watch the series that inspired it on my video socials! About to lose my audience of 545K on TikTok. Rhode Islander. (Photos by Brittanny Taylor)
@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
@victoriangoth.bsky.social
Victorian Goth 🦇🖤🦇 I enjoy Art, Crafts, Sewing, Embroidery, Gardening, Baking, Reading, Whitby, Gothic Rock, Victorian era History, All things dark and gothic. In a relationship with @kieranmtaylor.bsky.social
@ladyliminal.bsky.social
Prehistorian & Contemporary Archaeologist. Practises Make Places: Artists’ Responses to ‘Prehistoric’ Monuments - Manchester Metropolitan University & English Heritage. Surprised, but very proud #MDANT Neurodivergent person
@livlingborn.bsky.social
A coven of three - me, myself and I. Posts in English and Swedish. Artist, book lover, cat slave - with a fondness for vintage horror, gothic literature and folklore.
@drdarrengray.bsky.social
Researcher in Literature, Film and Cultural Studies | The Gothic, Horror, Technology, Disability | Currently writing ‘Horror and Disability’ for the University of Wales Press Horror Studies series. Proudly neurodivergent (ADHD)
@manigarm.bsky.social
Anthropologist 👣 • Ethnographer of Shaligrams 🐚 and Robot Religion 🤖 • Novelist of "The Way By" 🦄 • TTRPG Storyteller ✨ • (Genderqueer 🤷♀️ She/They)
@forgottenbeauty.bsky.social
A dark leopard of the moon #writing #fairytales #folklore #myths #art #books vintage #illustrations Nerdtastic writerly cat-loving garden witch ☪✨
@hugginscooper.bsky.social
Horror maven. Thanatologist. SCBWI regional organiser NE. ‘Writing Know-How’ Editor for SCBWI. Creative Writing lecturer at Falmouth. Author. She/her, ADHD. Views all mine...mine I say!
@chriswoodyard.bsky.social
Author A is for Arsenic: An ABC of Victorian Death, The Victorian Book of the Dead, 10 books on ghosts in Ohio and elsewhere. Death, mourning, costume, ghosts, Forteana. Podcast: Boggart and Banshee https://thevictorianbookofthedead.wordpress.com: Blog
@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.