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In collaboration with Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council, the Friends maintain this Grade II listed, significant cemetery; the final resting place of some 20,000 individuals. Location: Halifax, England.
https://www.listerlanecemetery.co.uk
Film and Media, University of Hertfordshire | John Akomfrah (BFI/Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Claire. Feral folklorist, museums worker & DHeritage researcher at the University of Hertfordshire exploring Pagan interactions with historic sacred sites. She/they. All views my own.
Sociology & History at University of Hertfordshire | FRHistS | SFHEA | Works on gender & crime in Britain & India. He/Him.
Writer, Crafter, Musician, Soup Enthusiast (she-her, 20s, UK)
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Haunted Shores: An interdisciplinary research network for scholars worldwide interested in coastal, nautical, littoral spaces in the Gothic #CoastalGothic
https://haunted-shores.com/
The academic journal of the International Gothic Association (www.globalgoth.org), published by Edinburgh University Press and edited by Emily Alder and Jamil Mustafa. Email gothiceditors@gmail.com
PhD in Dickensian robots & the uncanny | Dog mom | Ghostly & Stagey Special Collections Assistant @theul.bsky.social | Fledgling archivist | Avid crafter | Horror lover | Sondheim worshipper | 🏳️🌈 She/They | Views mine
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Publishing Wales and the World since 1922. 🏴 📚 Cymraeg:
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Writer, editor, comms manager • Founder/ editor @helleborezine.bsky.social (World Fantasy Awards and British Fantasy Awards finalist) • History, art, myth, mystery.
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Advisory board @ ETAP,penny bloods & dime novels, werewolves, global witches, ecoGothic, early-to-mid-Victorian Gothic, horror, ‘monstrous’ women, PhD from MMU, Salem, mind-body monism, biological and neurological studies.
www.nicoledittmer.com
English Language & Literature. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. Antifa. Archaic English. NEW BOOK: Woke Shakespeare. Erstwhile Prof. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
PhD Researcher in English and Teaching Assistant at the Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. My thesis focuses on oceanic horror and hybridity in Weird fiction of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Leverhulme Research Fellow HPS Leeds | Inaugural USC Carrollian Fellow | Tutor Oxford ContEd | Editor Lewis Carroll Review | Public Speaker | Polymath | Erdős–Bacon No 8 | https://linktr.ee/frankendodo
Digital analyst | Gothicist | PhD on dolls & horror |
Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research - the journal of #INCSA Peer-reviewed journal with general & themed issues representing all fields of study in the arts, social sciences, & sciences.
Website here: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/ranr20
An aspiring author inspired by 18th-century Gothic literature, magical realism, and high fantasy. Horror cinephile. I like to go to abandoned places & ruins just to vibe. She/Her. 🏴
Showcases research in long nineteenth-century studies. Housed in the School of English @ Manchester Metropolitan University.
Poet, professor, literary translator, new media artist, and writer of speculative fiction. M.F.A., Ph.D., HWA #horror #scifi #fantasy #booksky
Web: https://francescolevato.com/
Early Career Researcher ◇ Ecocriticism, Folk Horror, Monstrosity, David Rudkin, (eco)gothic ◇ 1/3 of @makingitwyrd.bsky.social
The International Gothic Association is a large family of academic researchers, students, artists and writers with a shared interest in all things Gothic. www.globalgoth.org
An informal network for promoting the work of Gothic and horror scholars (whether they be affiliated or independent) and creative practitioners from throughout the island of Ireland.
Early career researcher specialised in fairy tales and villainy | adaptations, reworkings, and retellings
British Library Publishing - bringing you the very best incredible classic literature, republished for readers new and old. Plus bold new non-fiction for everyone. 📚
Bluesky account of the British Association for Victorian Studies
A forum for everyone interested in #Victorian and #Neovictorian popular fiction and culture. Hosts VPFJ Journal and Third Sex and Short Story Reading Groups 📚https://victorianpopularfiction.org/
Senior Teaching Fellow in Medical Humanities/Teaching Fellow in History of Science & Medicine at Imperial College London - Headpress promo gal @headpress.com - Co-runner @medvintagevault.bsky.social - Fan of nasty films and nasty music - Bradford lass
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Birmingham, working on counterfactual depictions of prehistoric hominins in fin-de-siècle culture
Interested in 19th/early 20thC connections between myth, folklore, & evolutionary science 🧜🏻♀️
She/her
Professor of Literature, Sexuality and Visual Culture, Loughborough University; 19th-20thC literature (esp. poetry), genders/sexualities (esp. queer femininities), portraiture, photography, fashion & celebrity. She/her.
Professor of Contemporary Literature & Culture at Birkbeck, University of London. Executive Director of @openlibhums.org & @ojcollective.bsky.social. Utopia, mushrooms, trees, sci-fi, weird stuff, open access, higher ed.
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.
Nineteenth century scholar. Eternal ballet student and weightlifter. Reader and writer. Sometimes.
Honorary Research Fellow: Birkbeck, Uni of London. 2023-2026. Weird cats, Cultural Entomology; Victorianism; Hypnotic Gothic; Egyptomania; Redheads; Shop Girls; Pre Raphaelite Art; Ghost Ships; Neo-Victorianism. Co-editor BL Insect Weird anthology.
Queer/crip scholar of freaks and monsters in pop culture and politics, here to talk about history, literary theory, and cats.
They/them or xe/xen/xens pronouns.
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)
Gothic and Fantasy fiction enthusiast | Writer at queercrossroads.co.uk | Queer Creative / Witch / D&D Forever DM
Author, pagan, AuDHD, Gothic Studies MA, poet, tarot, vinyl collector, fairy tales/folklore, horror, languages
She/her. Scotland/Yorkshire ✨
Educator
Passionate about Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI)
Anywhere near Books, Music and Films
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Part-time MA student in Victorian Studies at Birkbeck
Writer, Game Designer, Publisher
Blue Fox Comics I Fox Red Comics I Blue Fox Tabletop
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Coffee enthusiast. Gothicist. Biocultural archaeologist - history of anatomy & museums, forensic anthro, mummies, Nuclear Culture
Writes about archaeology horror, mummy films, Scooby-Doo
Also @excavatinghorror.com
Not weird at all
lichen lover, PhD candidate and FNRS research fellow
@UCLouvain_be
religion, eco-spirituality, climate change literature
he/him • MA English Literature student
Early career researcher • PhD in English lit @UofGlasgow • Byronic legacy• C19th-20th travel literature • Gothic seascapes and blue humanities 🌊 • Classical reception and mythology 🏛️
Mostly Egyptian
Reader | Writer | Editor
Space | Movement | Modernism
Secretary @bowensociety
Trauma therapist, horror fan, writer. Tired.
The best episode of The X-Files? S2, Ep.14: 'Die Hand Die Verletzt'.
Profile pic is Alice Palmer from 'Lake Mungo'.
MSc Literature and Modernity @ UoE | Gothic lit, feminism, med hums, and food narratives 🐈⬛ | Freelance writer
Pop Culture Theorist, Horror Studies SAE, Comics & Horror Scholar, English Professor.
Horror SIG Co-Chair, SCMS, HWA Member,
Founding Member, SSAG.
Feminist, Freedom Fighter. #RestrictedRebel #RestrictedRebelRealTimeReads
Peace, Progress, Purpose.
Researcher | France, popular culture, music, dance, theatre, book enthusiast | Scribbler of children's stories | Embroiderer
Husband, father, writer, journalist and podcaster.
🧛♀️ Co-founder of @MythicEchoes.bsky.social
🎲 Editor for @geekpride.bsky.social
✍️ Articles in BBC, Guardian, Independent and others
🎙️Occasionally on BBC Radio
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📌 Derby, UK
🔗 www.peterallison.net
she/her queer and spooky nerd, forgive spam as I leave the bird app + meta hellholes
This is my NSFW account. Family and minors DNI! go to @justplainamy.bsky.social for SFW mundane life updates
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Professor of Film, Literature and Poor Life Choices. Full-time duck chaperone. Part-time author of things about films and books.
NZ film academic, arts critic & frock enthusiast. Cultural omnivore, bad at sports. Feminist horror deep dive WOMEN, MONSTROSITY AND HORROR FILM @routledge. Ōtautahi arts writing at flatcityfieldnotes.com. She/her/Dr. My views.
Freelance Wondermonger & Heritage Manager at the Pankhurst Centre. Author of a book about Hannah Beswick, the Manchester Mummy.
My alter ego is Hannah Kate (North Manchester FM).
PhD🧛♀️Researches female monsters & monstrous women🧙🏼♀️
📝 Latin American testimony
📕Untaming Girlhoods: Storytelling Female Adolescence | Unbecoming Female Monsters: Witches, Vampires and Virgins
☠️ "an aging, deeply unlikeable woman who never had kids," a kitchen witch, and a cat fancier; she/her
☠️ horror & gothic scholar, professor, editor of Supernatural Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Art, Media, and Culture, supernaturalstudies.com
Writer & academic | Senior Lecturer in Media & Communication @ ARU | 💀⭐ #GothicCelebrity (Bloomsbury) | pop culture | horror | feminism | bimbo-ologist 💅 | she/her | https://linktr.ee/harrietfletcher
James Murray Beattie Lecturer in Victorian Lit | University of Glasgow | Co-founder @EHUNineteen.bsky.social Research Centre | #Classics | #Gothic lit | Author: Ancient Rome & Victorian Masculinity (OUP, 2019). FRHistS. She/her. #c19th
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Celebrating indie horror and more, blending hidden gems with mainstream classics. Your hub for all things spooky and spine-chilling!
Producer for Eureka & Chasm Films, sometimes writer and documentary filmmaker | author of Phases of the Moon: A Cultural History of the Werewolf Film | producer of Survivors: The Spectre of Threads | 📼 📀
Queer Horror Doctor/Academic, cat-daddy, weathered Husband and general pop, Gothic and trash culture enthusiast...Programme Director of Gender Studies @Univ of Stirling.
https://queerhorrordoc.wixsite.com/queerhorrordoc
Edinburgh University Press is the premier Scottish publisher of academic books and journals in the humanities and social sciences. edinburghuniversitypress.com
Cultural Historian & Musicologist |
PhD in Witchcraft, Music & Magic |
Bog Thing & Forest Wanderer | Gothic & Horror Enthusiast
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I am professor of English at Central Michigan University, president of the Society for the Study of the American Gothic, and editor of American Gothic Studies. I am also the host of DJ cypher's Dark Nation Radio and the Psychobilly Family Power Hour.
Various options to submit to the Festival. A HYBRID model. Cinema screenings for audience feedback video.Blog and podcast interviews. And bonus Virtual screening (optional!).
https://filmfreeway.com/horrorunderground
https://festivalforhorror.comi
Writer. Musician. Editor | 📚 Ploughshares, Witness, Michigan Quarterly Review, Meridian, Greensboro Review etc. | 🎓MVICW Fellow, Sewanee Scholar | mimimanyin.com
Vampires, mummies, things that come back to life; anything with chocolate chips. Associate professor of literature, co-director of the Dickens Project, co-director of the Center for Monster Studies at UCSC
Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor, English & Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies at William & Mary | Monograph: African American Female Heroes: 21st c YA Neo-Slave Narrative #upmiss | Researching YA and Women's Horror | She
Writer, ice skater, gin drinker. She/her 🏳️🌈. THE LAST BINDING trilogy, SWORDCROSSED, CINDER HOUSE out now. BODIES OF MAGIC out September 2026.
Social historian. Devoted to archives, including their social histories. Easily distracted by women's history, local politics (Oceania), and methodologies.
TLDR: Geek.
www.colourfulhistories.com.au
UK Horror & Dark SFF hybrid [Canelo -> Penguin] author
HWA Affiliate Writer, BFS Member
ADHD. Welsh-Turkish 🏴🇹🇷. Queer/cis🏳️🌈. She/her.
Podcast: @eldritchgirlpod.bsky.social
Website/Newsletter: cmrosens.com
Visit Pagham-on-Sea: visitpaghamonsea.co.uk
Software developer, accidental researcher, #AnneListerCodeBreaker, and Head of Personal Pampering for Miss A-, the black lab. Might play with cameras and old papers, if left to my own devices.
https://www.packedwithpotential.org/
Host of the Fabulous Folklore podcast/blog. Researcher & writer for hire. Gothic author. Crafter. PhD in haunted house films.
Researching and writing about literature of the sea and the gothic: mostly coastly, the seabed and deep ocean, blue hums, and gothic voices. Co-runs the Haunted Shores network. Senior Lecturer at University of Birmingham.
👩🏻🏫Tutoring English @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social
✍️Co-writing book for @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social
📚Research Deputy @cncsi.bsky.social
🦇Co-host @GothicaUob.bsky.social
👋🏼ECR Rep @bavs-uk.bsky.social
👻 Summoned to the Séance @britishlibrary.bsky.social
ECR Teaching & Research Fellow 19th century @LLCatEdinburgh | @CN_CSI |Theological Monsters (UWP), The Roma (The Bodley Head/Harper Collins, 2025) | 19thC Gothic
🖊: @bigissue.com @bigissuenorth.bsky.social 👻 PhD on the BBC’s Televisual Gothic @manmetuni.bsky.social 👩💼 Members Coordinator @igagoths.bsky.social
Prof of literature and culture. Gothic, crime, masculinity, ghosts. Lead of the Dark Economies Scholarly Association (dESA). Editor Rvenantjournal.com
academic/freelance writer, on Gothic, Science Fiction. Next up: Graveyards: A History of Living with the Dead (October 2025).
A spooky network interested in exploring all aspects of the Gothic at @unibirmingham.
Co-run by @katrinajan.bsky.social, @dremilyvincent.bsky.social & Ross Conway.
Blog: https://uobgothica.wordpress.com/past-sessions/
The Horror Studies Research Group at Northumbria University (UK): the Home of Horror Studies
horrorstudies.com
#horrorNU
Human Remains Conservator at Surgeons’ Hall. Snake charmer. Beagle feeder. All-round general necromancer
Senior Lecturer in English / Gothic / queer ecologies / coasts and seascapes / Shirley Jackson
Medical doctor turned writer. Gory tales of human bodies in history and dead king juice.
Books, TikToks, photographs and films.
PhD in myth, religious studies, and fantasy fiction. Expertise on Wicked, fairy tales, and transmedial adaptation. 1/3 of the Danse Macabre project on gothic dance. QA and Acreditations Manager in HE. Mum of 2 kids with additional needs.
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