M.H.Urban
@mhurban.bsky.social
Just another indie author trying to come out of her hard drive. Horror, thriller, dark fantasy... I like them like my coffee: strong and black. No AI, all my mistakes are human-made.
https://author.mhurban.com/
https://author.mhurban.com/
November 9, 2025 at 10:48 AM
The Devil Drinks Monsoons, by SueBird Sparrow
This book fascinated me. New Orleans is like a siren song, and I often get disappointed when I read stories set there. But not this time. (1/3)
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
#booksky 💙📚 #Thriller ⚡️📚 📚 #horrorbooks 🩸📚 #ARC #bookreview #AmReading
This book fascinated me. New Orleans is like a siren song, and I often get disappointed when I read stories set there. But not this time. (1/3)
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
#booksky 💙📚 #Thriller ⚡️📚 📚 #horrorbooks 🩸📚 #ARC #bookreview #AmReading
November 8, 2025 at 11:54 AM
The Devil Drinks Monsoons, by SueBird Sparrow
This book fascinated me. New Orleans is like a siren song, and I often get disappointed when I read stories set there. But not this time. (1/3)
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
#booksky 💙📚 #Thriller ⚡️📚 📚 #horrorbooks 🩸📚 #ARC #bookreview #AmReading
This book fascinated me. New Orleans is like a siren song, and I often get disappointed when I read stories set there. But not this time. (1/3)
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
#booksky 💙📚 #Thriller ⚡️📚 📚 #horrorbooks 🩸📚 #ARC #bookreview #AmReading
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The ghosts are carousing delightedly at another rich and varied #PhantomsFriday. Thank you to everyone for your contributions. It's goodnight from me. And it's goodnight from him (the one sitting beside me that you cannot see).
November 7, 2025 at 9:57 PM
The ghosts are carousing delightedly at another rich and varied #PhantomsFriday. Thank you to everyone for your contributions. It's goodnight from me. And it's goodnight from him (the one sitting beside me that you cannot see).
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#PhantomsFriday Fact of the Day
It’s the ghostly part of the year… 16% of people in England today say that they have had an extraordinary experience of some kind, including witnessing the presence of a ghost. Fascinatingly, almost one in five of those people have not shared that experience with anyone, not even family or friends.
November 7, 2025 at 8:49 PM
#PhantomsFriday Fact of the Day
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In Wabanaki #folklore, Swamp-woman is a ghost living in the swamp who lures her victims in with mournful cries, then kills them. In some versions she eats children.
🎨Herbert James Draper redbubble.com/people/forgo... #PhantomsFriday #art #giftidea #homedecor #interiordesign #mythology #wallart
🎨Herbert James Draper redbubble.com/people/forgo... #PhantomsFriday #art #giftidea #homedecor #interiordesign #mythology #wallart
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The Water Nymph by Herbert Draper, 1909 Please look in my shop for more work by Draper and his contemporaries.
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November 7, 2025 at 2:55 PM
In Wabanaki #folklore, Swamp-woman is a ghost living in the swamp who lures her victims in with mournful cries, then kills them. In some versions she eats children.
🎨Herbert James Draper redbubble.com/people/forgo... #PhantomsFriday #art #giftidea #homedecor #interiordesign #mythology #wallart
🎨Herbert James Draper redbubble.com/people/forgo... #PhantomsFriday #art #giftidea #homedecor #interiordesign #mythology #wallart
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According to some Flemish folktales, ghosts live in trees. In one story, nobody dared to go near a pile of rotten tree trunks because it was said to bite and chew. In another, you could only pass a particular tree if you made the sign of the cross first.
#PhantomsFriday
#PhantomsFriday
November 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
According to some Flemish folktales, ghosts live in trees. In one story, nobody dared to go near a pile of rotten tree trunks because it was said to bite and chew. In another, you could only pass a particular tree if you made the sign of the cross first.
#PhantomsFriday
#PhantomsFriday
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A flash fic of mine that #PhantomsFriday folks might enjoy 👇🏻
Its whispers are bad enough, of course. Its howls are bad enough. But not the worst. If you’ve listened to the wind, you know that there’s worse than when the wind only whispers to you, only howls at you.
She was not in the habit of listening to the wind, so she didn’t know. (1/6)
She was not in the habit of listening to the wind, so she didn’t know. (1/6)
November 7, 2025 at 3:16 PM
A flash fic of mine that #PhantomsFriday folks might enjoy 👇🏻
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There are many examples of prehistoric barrows and tombs being haunted by men without their heads (see list below). Could they be #ghosts or folk memories of sacrifices linked to some ancient head cult? (It's a doubtful theory but all I could think of for #FolkyFriday !)
#PhantomsFriday #FolkHorror
#PhantomsFriday #FolkHorror
November 7, 2025 at 2:25 PM
There are many examples of prehistoric barrows and tombs being haunted by men without their heads (see list below). Could they be #ghosts or folk memories of sacrifices linked to some ancient head cult? (It's a doubtful theory but all I could think of for #FolkyFriday !)
#PhantomsFriday #FolkHorror
#PhantomsFriday #FolkHorror
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In 1909 The Strand Magazine ran an article, 'Crime And The Crystal', seriously stated that apparitions conjured up in crystal balls could solve crimes. This vision allegedly proved that the death of a Miss Mooney was not suicide but that she had been deliberately thrown off a train.
#PhantomsFriday
#PhantomsFriday
November 7, 2025 at 1:10 PM
In 1909 The Strand Magazine ran an article, 'Crime And The Crystal', seriously stated that apparitions conjured up in crystal balls could solve crimes. This vision allegedly proved that the death of a Miss Mooney was not suicide but that she had been deliberately thrown off a train.
#PhantomsFriday
#PhantomsFriday
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#WyrdWednesday The wicked Lady Howard is cursed to ride nightly over Dartmoor from Okehampton Castle to Launceston Castle in a black coach driven by headless coachman & preceded by a fire-breathing black hound. When the coach stops at a house it's a sign that someone living there will soon die.
November 7, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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#PhantomsFriday again of course tomorrow, a week after a splendid Hallowe'en Friday. Follow along on @phantomsfriday.bsky.social or better still, use the hashtag for your own #ghost posts: words, pictures, popular culture, #folklore and #legend & #haunted sites ancient or modern - anything ghostly!
November 6, 2025 at 3:05 PM
#PhantomsFriday again of course tomorrow, a week after a splendid Hallowe'en Friday. Follow along on @phantomsfriday.bsky.social or better still, use the hashtag for your own #ghost posts: words, pictures, popular culture, #folklore and #legend & #haunted sites ancient or modern - anything ghostly!
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East Suffolk is host to many Shucks, phantom hounds who bring a warning of immediate death to those who behold them.One is said to haunt two bridges over a stream in Mill Road, in the little village of Wisset, waiting for those who try to cross the water 🐾 #PhantomsFriday
November 7, 2025 at 7:44 AM
East Suffolk is host to many Shucks, phantom hounds who bring a warning of immediate death to those who behold them.One is said to haunt two bridges over a stream in Mill Road, in the little village of Wisset, waiting for those who try to cross the water 🐾 #PhantomsFriday
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In Salisbury Cathedral a member of the staff witnessed a glowing noose float over to the tomb of a medieval saint. Within this tomb had been hidden the body of an 18th century lord, hanged for various outrages, and who therefore should not have been buried in holy ground.
#PhantomsFriday #Wiltshire
#PhantomsFriday #Wiltshire
November 7, 2025 at 10:37 AM
In Salisbury Cathedral a member of the staff witnessed a glowing noose float over to the tomb of a medieval saint. Within this tomb had been hidden the body of an 18th century lord, hanged for various outrages, and who therefore should not have been buried in holy ground.
#PhantomsFriday #Wiltshire
#PhantomsFriday #Wiltshire
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"Ten minutes more of suspense. Then, again, loud, sudden, violent, the bell rang! We burst into the room. There he was, standing in the middle of the floor, rigid, petrified. He groaned in in a terrible, husky voice, 'Oh my God, I have seen it!' and fell down dead."
- Rhoda Broughton
#PhantomsFriday
- Rhoda Broughton
#PhantomsFriday
November 7, 2025 at 11:50 AM
"Ten minutes more of suspense. Then, again, loud, sudden, violent, the bell rang! We burst into the room. There he was, standing in the middle of the floor, rigid, petrified. He groaned in in a terrible, husky voice, 'Oh my God, I have seen it!' and fell down dead."
- Rhoda Broughton
#PhantomsFriday
- Rhoda Broughton
#PhantomsFriday
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Conisbrough Castle, although seemingly quiet these days, has had many spectral encounters. They were also one of the few English Heritage sites to provide a very long list of phenomena!
#phantomsfriday #ghosts #hauntings
#phantomsfriday #ghosts #hauntings
November 7, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Conisbrough Castle, although seemingly quiet these days, has had many spectral encounters. They were also one of the few English Heritage sites to provide a very long list of phenomena!
#phantomsfriday #ghosts #hauntings
#phantomsfriday #ghosts #hauntings
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If you are near water around #Japan's Obon festival (usually in August) & see mist on the water don't wait for it to get closer! It might be a "funayūrei" or ghost ship, full of resentful drowned sailors and ready for you to join them. #PhantomsFriday #ghosts #hauntings #paranormal 🖼️ M. Mayer
November 7, 2025 at 12:17 PM
If you are near water around #Japan's Obon festival (usually in August) & see mist on the water don't wait for it to get closer! It might be a "funayūrei" or ghost ship, full of resentful drowned sailors and ready for you to join them. #PhantomsFriday #ghosts #hauntings #paranormal 🖼️ M. Mayer
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"Grim grinning ghosts come out to socialize!"
Concept art of Disneyland's Haunted Mansion attraction by Marc Davis for #PhantomsFriday.
Concept art of Disneyland's Haunted Mansion attraction by Marc Davis for #PhantomsFriday.
November 7, 2025 at 12:26 PM
"Grim grinning ghosts come out to socialize!"
Concept art of Disneyland's Haunted Mansion attraction by Marc Davis for #PhantomsFriday.
Concept art of Disneyland's Haunted Mansion attraction by Marc Davis for #PhantomsFriday.
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In #Truro #Cornwall is the wonderfully named SqueezeGuts Alley! It's believed to be haunted by the #ghost of Stephen H. Treffry, who died on Friday 20th December 1787 at 27 from burns & the impact of a fall from the first floor window of his home in SG Alley. #PhantomsFriday #hauntings
November 7, 2025 at 12:36 PM
In #Truro #Cornwall is the wonderfully named SqueezeGuts Alley! It's believed to be haunted by the #ghost of Stephen H. Treffry, who died on Friday 20th December 1787 at 27 from burns & the impact of a fall from the first floor window of his home in SG Alley. #PhantomsFriday #hauntings
Before becoming the Reina Sofía National Museum of Contemporary Art in 1990, this building and its location were steeped in legends and gruesome stories. The museum shows all the signs of a haunted building. (1/3)
#PhantomsFriday #FolkyFriday #folklore #horror #ghosts #ParanormalSky #HorrorWriter
#PhantomsFriday #FolkyFriday #folklore #horror #ghosts #ParanormalSky #HorrorWriter
November 7, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Before becoming the Reina Sofía National Museum of Contemporary Art in 1990, this building and its location were steeped in legends and gruesome stories. The museum shows all the signs of a haunted building. (1/3)
#PhantomsFriday #FolkyFriday #folklore #horror #ghosts #ParanormalSky #HorrorWriter
#PhantomsFriday #FolkyFriday #folklore #horror #ghosts #ParanormalSky #HorrorWriter
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This was fun! Thanks #HorrorWritersChat for darkening my afternoon in all the best ways. If you'd like to see more of my dark side, check out my collection or the anthologies that include my work: dangerouswhenbored.com/collections/...
November 5, 2025 at 8:37 PM
This was fun! Thanks #HorrorWritersChat for darkening my afternoon in all the best ways. If you'd like to see more of my dark side, check out my collection or the anthologies that include my work: dangerouswhenbored.com/collections/...
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Thanks for a most enlightening and potentially cosmic lab at #HorrorWritersChat!
Here’s a reflection I wrote on my thesis/WIP “AROMANTIC FRANKENSTEIN.” My blog also contains semi-spiritual, aroace reflections on cult classics.
worrydollsandfloatinglights.wordpress.com/2025/03/02/w...
Here’s a reflection I wrote on my thesis/WIP “AROMANTIC FRANKENSTEIN.” My blog also contains semi-spiritual, aroace reflections on cult classics.
worrydollsandfloatinglights.wordpress.com/2025/03/02/w...
November 5, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Thanks for a most enlightening and potentially cosmic lab at #HorrorWritersChat!
Here’s a reflection I wrote on my thesis/WIP “AROMANTIC FRANKENSTEIN.” My blog also contains semi-spiritual, aroace reflections on cult classics.
worrydollsandfloatinglights.wordpress.com/2025/03/02/w...
Here’s a reflection I wrote on my thesis/WIP “AROMANTIC FRANKENSTEIN.” My blog also contains semi-spiritual, aroace reflections on cult classics.
worrydollsandfloatinglights.wordpress.com/2025/03/02/w...
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#HorrorWritersChat
Thanks Gree, this was fun!
For those interested in books described as "Like Encanto but with more gore", which blend modern family drama with cosmic horror and dark humour, try my novel THIRTEENTH, out now with Canelo Horror!
Links to my books: cmrosens-fiction.carrd.co
Thanks Gree, this was fun!
For those interested in books described as "Like Encanto but with more gore", which blend modern family drama with cosmic horror and dark humour, try my novel THIRTEENTH, out now with Canelo Horror!
Links to my books: cmrosens-fiction.carrd.co
November 5, 2025 at 8:31 PM
#HorrorWritersChat
Thanks Gree, this was fun!
For those interested in books described as "Like Encanto but with more gore", which blend modern family drama with cosmic horror and dark humour, try my novel THIRTEENTH, out now with Canelo Horror!
Links to my books: cmrosens-fiction.carrd.co
Thanks Gree, this was fun!
For those interested in books described as "Like Encanto but with more gore", which blend modern family drama with cosmic horror and dark humour, try my novel THIRTEENTH, out now with Canelo Horror!
Links to my books: cmrosens-fiction.carrd.co
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One of my contributions to the cosmic horror subgenre is OUT OF CURIOSITY AND HUNGER, despite the superficial sense that the monster is known and can be understood.
www.amazon.com/Out-Curiosit...
#HorrorWritersChat
www.amazon.com/Out-Curiosit...
#HorrorWritersChat
November 5, 2025 at 8:33 PM
One of my contributions to the cosmic horror subgenre is OUT OF CURIOSITY AND HUNGER, despite the superficial sense that the monster is known and can be understood.
www.amazon.com/Out-Curiosit...
#HorrorWritersChat
www.amazon.com/Out-Curiosit...
#HorrorWritersChat
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Thanks for the chat today, Gree! It was a lot of fun.
Right now, I'm promoting the preorder for my new book Autumnborn: a.co/d/3nikDC9
If anyone is interested, I have it priced at .99 until launch!
#HorrorWritersChat
Right now, I'm promoting the preorder for my new book Autumnborn: a.co/d/3nikDC9
If anyone is interested, I have it priced at .99 until launch!
#HorrorWritersChat
November 5, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Thanks for the chat today, Gree! It was a lot of fun.
Right now, I'm promoting the preorder for my new book Autumnborn: a.co/d/3nikDC9
If anyone is interested, I have it priced at .99 until launch!
#HorrorWritersChat
Right now, I'm promoting the preorder for my new book Autumnborn: a.co/d/3nikDC9
If anyone is interested, I have it priced at .99 until launch!
#HorrorWritersChat