M.H.Urban - Horror Author

@mhurban.bsky.social

Just another indie author trying to come out of her hard drive. Horror, psychological thriller, dark fantasy... I like them like my coffee: strong and black. No AI, all my mistakes are human-made.
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Today's cemetery names: Bourqui, Brust, Caraway, Draisey, Helliker, Longstreth, Minchinton, Monnington, Saturley, Titley and, of course, Gertie Fish. “...carried away from darkness into everlasting light.” #CemeteryNames

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In Irish folklore, the Aos Sí are supernatural beings associated with ancient mounds and the Otherworld. People sometimes called them the Good People or Fair Folk rather than speaking of them disrespectfully. When your neighbors might curse your cattle, politeness matters. #MythologyMonday

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Known as “Mississippi’s Most Haunted House,” the grounds of McRaven in Vicksburg served as a Confederate campsite and field hospital. At least five people have died inside McRaven. The remains of 11, likely Confederate soldiers, are buried on the property. Mary Elizabeth Howard,

#SpookySunday

A two-story yellow house with a white wraparound porch, decorative columns, dark shutters, and a front door, surrounded by tall, leafy trees.
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Sloss Furnaces in Birmingham, Alabama

This 19th-century iron-producing blast furnace is famous for industrial tragedies, including 47 recorded worker deaths and the legend of a cruel graveyard-shift foreman named James Wormwood.

#SpookySunday

An aerial night view of the Sloss Furnaces industrial site, featuring illuminated rust-colored blast furnaces against a dark city skyline background.
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The Tide Mill at Woodbridge in Suffolk is reputed to be haunted. Visitors have reported the sound of footsteps or a solitary figure standing by the sluice gates.The haunting is linked to a fatal accident on December 6, 1870 involving the young miller,William Bacon.
#SpookySunday

Looking out onto the Deben…Interior of the mill, upper floor…
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For reasons explained below, I’ve gone over the border today:
Lady Tanfield was said to ride over Burford’s rooftops in a fiery chariot. In the 18th C she became such a nuisance it took up to 12 priests to catch her spirit in a bottle which was then deposited in the Windrush🧵
#SpookySunday

Old buildings, at a guess medieval or early Tudor, on Burford high street
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