Early modern/19th-cent. English literature, science and literature, landscape in literature, fantasy, horror and weird fiction.
Hub and Podcast for Film, Stories, Art: Fantasy, Folklore, Folk Horror, Magic-Realism, Mythology, Psychogeography
www.DreamSwarm.org
Created by filmmaker Andy Mark Simpson
Film photographer, darkroom dweller..
Based in Bristol UK ✌️
https://alexgrove.photography/
(He/Him)
Dan. Hobby photographer. Mostly urban decay, graffiti, a vague sense of isolation, graveyards, or birds on telegraph poles. Posts usually accompanied with a flippant attempt at comedy.
Kent, UK
Arts and culture journalist. Host of Tarot Interviews. Likes people with a sense of wonder. Dislikes coffee. Nottinghamshire, UK.
Website: https://finbarre.com
Email: bsky@finbarre.com
artist - painter, photographer - mainly megalithic and early Christian. Socialist, atheist, happily married and retired... cats dead
All paintings and photos are by me and copyright (except reposts).
https://www.tonyoneill.org/
Random views myne owne. Canadian. Seeker of #Hiraeth. A latter-day OOwl fancier (with a good dose of Wren-fancying too). MA in Folklore Studies. #KDrama Addict. Learning 中文. Spins woolly yarns & story threads
Lecturer ¦ feminist ¦ scribbler ¦ photoArtist ¦ tea drinker ¦ Mother ¦ Prints X @IWasHereArtfor1 IG @cybersaff_photoart. I may not answer DMs.
Poet, writer, editor, professor of Modern Literature & Creative Writing. Most recent poetry collection COME HERE TO THIS GATE (Carcanet, 2024). Co-editor of New Walk Editions. Views yours; likes/RTs=marriage proposals. OTBC🔰/COYP
Historian. Author. Associate Prof of Cultural History @uophistory.bsky.social C19th fantastical, supernatural folklore, Gothic cities & seas. Co-director of port.ac.uk/portcities The Perilous Deep: A Supernatural History of the Atlantic (Reaktion) out now.
Documentary Photographer.
The Edge of Ruin
Travelogue 2 - A thousand days of longing
The Land is Yellow, the Sky is Blue
Remnants
A wounded landscape - bearing witness to the Holocaust
The Last Stand
www.marcwilson.co.uk
https://linktr.ee/marcwilson
Citizen of Sheffield
Enthusiastic beer drinker
It's photos mainly..
Birley Spa Preservation Trust, formerly Friends of Birley Spa aka Schrodingers Oasis. Committed to saving Grade 2 Listed Victorian Bath House, Birley Spa for our Community, education, health and wellbeing, conserving nature and green space. Sheffield
Author. Represented by Kevin Pocklington @ The North Literary Agency. 'With a host of Furious Fancies, Whereof I am commander.
With a burning spear & a horse of air, To the wilderness I wander.' (Tom O' Bedlam) L.A.M.F
Award-winning photographer exploring landscape, architecture, and long journeys on foot. #ThePerimeterBook out now. Order, events & prints here: https://is.gd/P2BW67
All Things Early Modern Literature • Hon. Fellow at University of Melbourne • UKRI funded PhD from Durham • Bodies human/non • Angels • Marlowe • Milton • EM Encounters with the Islamic world •
Exploring the nature of ugliness.
I post all things ugly, old, run-down, worn out, kitsch and tacky. Finding beauty and charm in unusual places.
Located in Reykjavik.
🦉Folkloric books, folk music, gothic meanders
📚Indie Press 2025 Distinguished Favourite
🦌 Folk horror obsessed
🐉British Fantasy Soc London Event Org
🌊Books @brigidsgatepress
Inaugural issue coming March 2026. Details and subscription: https://crossroadsfolkhorror.my.canva.site/
Edited by @scaryasfolk.bsky.social and @theharvestmaid.bsky.social.
Sheffield-based poetry publisher with an ethos of craft, care and collaboration. Books, recordings, films, walks, performances. Editor: Brian Lewis.
https://longbarrowpress.com
Heritage & conservation professional & enthusiast, usually found exploring old places 😃
Curator of Properties for English Heritage, & freelance heritage consultant.
Studying p/t for PhD in lime finishes.
• Walking artist doing everything the slow way
• I make drawings and artefacts in reaction to the landscape and folk culture of southern Britain as I get to know it on my Friday Walk
• www.maninthewoods.co.uk
Author A is for Arsenic: An ABC of Victorian Death, The Victorian Book of the Dead, 10 books on ghostlore. Death, mourning, dress history, Forteana. No politics. Podcast: Boggart and Banshee
Blog: https://thevictorianbookofthedead.wordpress.com
Ghost-related posts every Friday. Extracts from ghostly stories; artwork; poetry; folklore; haunted places, accounts of hauntings - all will be welcome! Please use hashtag #PhantomsFriday for reposts and to join the feed. Run by @theghostmonk.bsky.social
Doctor of Folk Horror & Wyrd TV | Centre for Contemporary Legend | President-elect of ISCLR | National Folklore Survey | Dracula Returns to Derby | The Cryptkicker Five | All views my own (she/her) https://linktr.ee/dr.diane.rodgers
Media lecturer: UK TV history, telefantasy, historical dramas. At Queen’s University Belfast.
There is no such a thing as
artistic photography
In photography, like in all things,
there are people who can see
and others who cannot even look.
Nadar
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I am the flogger of undead horses. Specifically Welsh, undead, yuletide ones that eat cake, toast and cider. Otherwise known as the mari lwyd! Everyone is welcome here!
Freelance video editor. Nebraskan/East Anglian, so possibly inclined towards flat lands. Once hosted a radio show about cinema, but now mainly take photos using prisms or pinholes.
A stones throw from Cambridge.
Books: The Thing | Dead of Night | Seconds
Essays: Routledge Companion to Folk Horror | Horrifying Children | Bride of Frankenstein | Scarred for Life
Memoir: Capture Spiral
Miniplay: Adam and Yves
Horror fiction writer
He/Him
https://linktr.ee/jezconolly
Writer: 'Anton Walbrook' (2020) 'Joseph Pike' (2018) & 'A Carnal Medium' (2012), photohistorian, archivist of Middle East collections at Exeter University, runs the Digital Archive of the Middle East (https://dame.exeter.ac.uk/), collector & bibliophile
Photography, Drums 📷🥁
johnmaher.co.uk
The Paranormal Database is a ongoing project to quantitatively document as many locations with paranormal associations as possible in the UK and beyond...
old, grey and grumpy
Slightly less grumpy now I've pivoted from software to photography. Studying Photography at University of Suffolk
https://andrewkeedle.com
https://apkeedle.leaflet.pub/
Exploring the folklore and folk life of Warwickshire. I can also be found at @hilaryrsparkes.bsky.social
Mostly then and now pictures of the Steel City , occasional personal views on music, life and dogs 🐕
lingering on decaying street corners
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she/her
Sheffield
Folklorist and Journalist. Associate Professor, Sheffield Hallam University. Project lead, AHRC National Folklore Survey. Views expressed entirely my own. http://www.drdavidclarke.co.uk/
Blog: https://drclarke.substack.com/
PhD at the University of Exeter on conjoined twins in literature and film. Disability studies, embodiment.
Currently working at Medify.
Chronically ill. Poet. Enjoys film photography and crafting. Nerd. Views own.
Artist and Illustrator, Folklore explorer, lover of History and the Macabre
Writer, photographer, cyanotypist. Undergoing cosmic rearrangement. https://chrisroutledge.pictures
~ Laura ~
Watercolor, ink, mixed media, photography
Bearing witness to the climate crisis
Celebrating the natural world
Happily existing outside the mainstream 🦉🌘
Professor
Views my own
Housemate of The Imp-ress (There may be cats)
No AI here, ever.
A flibbertigibbet, a will-o‘-the-wisp, a clown
Host of the Fabulous Folklore podcast/blog. Researcher & writer for hire. Gothic author. Crafter. PhD in haunted house films.
Someone said there’d be cake. Writer, originally Chicawgowan, living in Oyreland for the craic. Older - and stronger - than dirt.
Writer of dreamlike fiction | she/her | www.ivyivyivyivy.com
‘The seen and the unseen’ is my collection of eleven short supernatural and folk horror stories. Please consider buying: https://amzn.eu/d/08DmGP7U
Book cover and design by Ray Newman. Foreword by Jamie Evans. Buy their brilliant books!
Bloke & sometime Illustrator (I illustrated The Woman in Black by Susan Hill, published by Vintage Classics).
Banner:Toby Jones in The Detectorists, a sign reads “ring pulls through the ages”
Bradford
nicktankard.co.uk Prints, Originals and Portfolio.
Writer. Uncanny Landscapes podcast. Belbury Poly - The Path. Obsolete Spells. Chanctonbury Rings. The Old Weird Albion. https://linktr.ee/oldweirdalbion
Small press devoted to #FolkHorror, #folklore, #magic and the #occult in Britain. World Fantasy Awards and British Fantasy Awards finalist. Founder/editor: @mjpcuervo.bsky.social.
🌍 Now shipping worldwide from
www.helleborezine.com
Enthusiast of British (mainly) ghostlore, folklore and vintage ghost and weird fiction. Collector of old magazines. Also keen on prehistoric monuments, old churches and suchlike. Am decidedly Q. All scans/photos my own (unless stated). Runs #PhantomsFriday
https://www.kanatsiev.com
Landscapes, cityscapes
Silent escapes
Portraits of nature
British Photographer with a love of the dark and the macabre🦇, shooting on vintage cameras and lenses mainly - I love the solid clunk of Cold War era cameras 📷
Not interested in politics, or religion - if that's your bag, then don't follow me.
Fell in love with a football ground. Takes photos, occasionally publishes books, frequently wonders why...
Stones, fields, rain, tea, terraces, crisps and terrible football.
Retired from the commercial photography world. Currently in the amateur photography world.
Awful cameras with sometimes even worse film.
Printmaker. Hiker. Reader of history.
www.jamesrohan.com
Most of my photos at https://www.flickr.com/photos/jimrohan/
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Film and digital photography
A bit of a photo diary.
He/him. From Bridgwater, in Bristol. Writer, editor, content designer. Ghost stories, films. No alt text = no repost. Not here for politics. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/raynewman Header: my book Intervals of Darkness https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DDR8X9QY
The British Horror Podcast
Britain… an ancient kingdom with cruelty and torment in its blood
Join Ross Jon and James as they tread where few dare
From Dracula to Damien Herbert to Hellraiser
The General Witchfinders podcast and zine
generalwitchfinders.com
Michael Smith. Author, printmaker, translator & illustrator of medieval romances. Whimsy, art. Published by Wilton Square Books. PhD research University of York. Follows the Blackburn Rovers. All photos mine unless on shared posts www.mythicalbritain.co.uk
Strange and wonderful events since 2011
Paranormal, psychic, folkloric, fortean events.
Sharing the oddest London-based news.
Scottish photographer with a cat, 8 dogs and 3 wonderful kids :)
Kit bag: Nikon Z8 I 85mm f1.2 | 100 - 400 VR S | 105mm Macro | 40mm f2 | Gitzo Carbon Fibre with Benro S8 Pro Fluid Head
Fujifilm X100VI
Sci Fi obsessed.
Writer and lecturer on esoterica. Author of: Secret Wisdom (Arcturus, 2021), Magic and Witchcraft, An Illustrated History (Arcturus, 2022). I lurk rather than post.
dead internet theory enthusiast.
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Adventures in a historic landscape. Dark tales and photography from Northern Britain. #Scotland #NorthernBritain #Galloway #history #legend #folklore
A collection of photographs showcasing generally bleak industrial and city street scenes discovered while aimlessly drifting around the urban environment.
#Psychogeography #Wandering #Abandoned #Liminal #UrbanExploration #StreetPhotography
Photography, art, history, archaeology, classic cars/bikes and random other stuff. Not here for politics, or to chat. All photos mine except reposts.
Scottish writer/editor. Queer AF. Terrible workaholic.
PhD student in Creative Writing. Cinema Worms podcast co-host. She/they
Repped: @lzats.bsky.social (literary) Kim Yau at Echo Lake (film/TV)
Bae: @pegasusunder.bsky.social
www.lindzmcleod.co.uk
Philosopher of Science. Interested in measurement, technology, data ethics, and social change. Enjoys games, sci fi, cats. She/her
Creator of @scarfolk.bsky.social. "This guy, who apparently saw the future" - Edward Snowden. Running an ASD/ADHD operating system.
https://www.richardlittler.com
Author of Upon A White Horse: Journeys In Ancient Britain & Ireland. Also, Steeple Chasing: Around Britain By Church, & A Tomb With A View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards. Substack: https://smallfinds.substack.com
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 the podcast: pod.link/1706291698
Contact: ste1bro@hotmail.co.uk
Based in London, The Folklore Society has been collecting, studying, publishing and promoting the study of folklore in all its forms since 1878. Visit our website: https://folklore-society.com
Cartographer, writer, artist, long distance walker, DJ, fell runner
UK artist. Painting my life on earth, sometimes writing about it. I like to take photos. I love tarot. I believe in equality and kindness. 3 years Sober.
#EastCoastKin member.
#art #artist #acrylicpainter jackgreenwoodart.com
She paints, she draws, she rarely talks about herself in the third person. Stone botherer. Oil painter. Costume maker. No AI. No DMs.
Historic site photographer, podcaster, wild camping YouTuber, Heathrow's IT Operations Manager. Scared of fish.
Handmade signs, prints, music & books inspired by British Folk Horror and unsettling TV, film & literature. Based in The Black Country, England.
https://linktr.ee/hiddenbritain
Photographer of architecture and moody scenes
https://ko-fi.com/rosannab88
Photographer
landscapes, abandonment, urbex and unusual finds.
Writer/Creator of Arcane Oddities | Founder of EDGEWAYS | Grand Council of #Hookland | 42 | She/Her | Salt Hag |Tremoribus Subterraneis |
https://linktr.ee/SarahJayneFarrer
Photography, Music, Horror fan, reads Sci-Fi and Fantasy.
All photos mine apart from reposts. UK Middle Lands.
A Friend of #EastCoastKin - Arts Collective
“Remember when you were young?
You shone like the Sun...” - Pink Floyd
Archaeologist, Mekon, Drinker
Sawston via Devon and Dartford
Light Sensitive Materials
sapphiregoss.com
past: circus performer; historian of science; librarian; grantmaker; chief data & evaluation officer at NEH.
present: dad; resident scholar at dartmouth; chief technology officer at the library of virginia.
personal account.
https://scottbot.github.io
Making film photos to document urban landscapes, passing stories forward through time.
Blog: photieplace.wordpress
flickr: Stig Starr
No consent given for any of the content contained herein to be copied (scraped) and used for any purpose whatsoever
Photography, architecture, cars
UK based fine artist. Painter (mostly). Dog person (obviously). Abandoned/derelict building enthusiast. Wayfarer. Visionary. Procrastinator.
No NFTs. No AI.
http://www.leemadgwick.co.uk
leemadgwickart on instagram
Doing comms for community action. Recovering museum professional. Sometime historian of vaccination. Life in Gloucestershire. Attempting to navigate a hopeful path amidst the chaos. Personal account, own views. He/him.
owengower.co.uk
Artist, writer, sweetheart, battleaxe, she/her
Novels This Is Yesterday & Birding with Corsair Books
Rep: Becky Thomas at Lewinsohn Literary
Chair of The Adamson Collection Trust: work created in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital during the C20th
Sometime amateur photographer.
Fen dweller in the frozen eastern wasteland of Cambridgeshire.
Link to my website.
https://jevoncarey.myportfolio.com/
Medieval historian (esp. kingship, religion, saints, King John & Thomas Becket). Mature students & lifelong learning. Carer. Occasional gardener. He/him. 🌈 Ace, Genderfluid
Edinburgh-based artist/illustrator. Folio Society Book Illustration Award 2022 Shortlist. Heraldic artist for the Lyon Court. Rep’d by Paul Moreton at @belllomaxmoreton.bsky.social Linktree: https://linktr.ee/sarahcoomer
Storyteller. Heritage botherer. @culturalfutureshub.bsky.social & @folklorethursday.bsky.social founder; #TreasuryOfFolklore author. #XR and #UX enthusiast. https://linktr.ee/deedeechainey 🇲🇹🇬🇧
Author and historian, specialising in witchcraft, folklore and cats. Co-founder of #FolkloreThursday
The Story of Witches - Out Now
https://bit.ly/3PNy8yC
willowwinsham.com
'dust in the air suspended,
marks the place where a story ended'
Find me at http://www.simonknott.co.uk
Also available on X/Twitter. All photos mine.
