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David Allen Voyles @davidallenvoyles.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Got a little kickstarter project and just days away from the end. There are some cool rewards if you like #horror and #edgarallanpoe. The story imagines where Poe's nightmares could have originated. Take a look if you will: www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav... #indiewriter #historicalfiction #edgar

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David Allen Voyles @davidallenvoyles.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The Kickstarter campaign for the audiobook of EDGAR is live. Check it out! kickstarter.com/projects/davidallenvoyles/edgar-a-dark-ride-audio-experience

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Edgar: A Dark Ride Audio Experience

The Audiobook Version of the Novel Edgar: When Poe's Nightmares Began

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David Allen Voyles @davidallenvoyles.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

After the Fall, a magnificent short horror film based on a short story by Jeffrey Thomas is available on YouTube. Kudos to @pollyschattel.bsky.social and company for a deep, thought-provoking movie. youtu.be/DdYWHdbI39Y?...

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After The Fall | Award Winning Post Apocalyptic Short Film

YouTube video by Crafty Short Films

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David Allen Voyles @davidallenvoyles.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

So who know there was a rock band that made an album based on Poe’s writing well before Alan Parson’s Project did it? Not me. youtu.be/1OONaOuqvvI?...

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Glass Prism Feature on GEM 99and100

YouTube video by Mike Moran

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David Allen Voyles @davidallenvoyles.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

@bsky.app Since all the cool kids are doing it, I've published my first Substack article, a humorous (I think so, anyway) piece on summer. You can find it here: tinyurl.com/2z3y27xe

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David’s Substack | David Allen Voyles | Substack

My personal Substack. Click to read David’s Substack, by David Allen Voyles, a Substack publication. Launched 23 minutes ago.

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David Allen Voyles @davidallenvoyles.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

"If our leadership is unable to get us off the path that Germany followed, then we must change our leadership." My dad, Don Voyles, WWII vet, speaking at the NO KINGS rally in Beaufort, NC

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David Allen Voyles @davidallenvoyles.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Reminder: The May issue of Dark Cycles, a free newsletter for lovers of #horror, comes to those who have subscribed tomorrow morning. Download the free story to get on the list. tinyurl.com/4cndb2mt

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David Allen Voyles @davidallenvoyles.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Saturday I visited Gary Carden, renowned WNC storyteller and recorded another tale, this time a Jack tale, for his Blow the Tannery Whistle podcast. open.spotify.com/episode/6e3F...

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David Allen Voyles @davidallenvoyles.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

@bsky.app Tuesday is April Fools, but it's no joke that Dark Cycles will be available for #free in your inbox if you've subscribed. Just cool, dark fun! Click the link to download the free story and get on the free subscription email list. tinyurl.com/4cndb2mt

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David Allen Voyles @davidallenvoyles.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Can't wait to see our '72 Cadillac hearse back on the roads this fall. We don't own Lenore any more, but we'll be thrilled to see this beauty back in action, even if not for tours. #darkridetours #Halloween

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Sad Monster @dyre.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Spring's equinox brings delicate light, pouring around every curve to soothe her quaking bones. Heat, warm and sweet, should be bursting along rugged skin and teeming flesh. Yet she is starving, shaking, prickling. Her sigh puffs steam, boiling mountains, "blood will have to do." #HorrorWritersChat

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David Allen Voyles @davidallenvoyles.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

#HorrorWritersChat The spell to move into a younger body was to be cast in "a time of perfect balance." The equinox. She held her breath as she watched the blood-red candle flicker and expire, but smiled hearing her granddaughter's gasp in the adjacent room.

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Ange | Author A. M. Shilling @gunsmile.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

#HorrorWritersChat Since I tend to write (and read) cosmic horror, I enjoy all the creative possibilities found in a genre not limited by a human understanding of reality. Plus, I think it's fun to dive into the human psyche and how it's affected by the unknowable.

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Rosé Black (🍁🍂🍠🍎🍏🎃) @roseblack2222.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

#HorrorWritersChat It's hard to come up with a specific, but when I really get into that mindset, it almost feels like something has its eye on me.

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Anna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

I have a WIP in which the protagonist is in a subterranean cave, and she starts to hear tapping and bangs from above, but they're rhymical, like rudimentary music or a code. And imagining that did give me a chill, actually. #HorrorWritersChat

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David Allen Voyles @davidallenvoyles.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

#HorrorWritersChat Oh, wow. I just wrote about this in an interview asking "why do we like horror?" From that answer: "... the thrill of horror is enough to drive me to create stories that I hope will spook someone else, tales for a kindred spirit..."

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David Allen Voyles @davidallenvoyles.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

#HorrorWritersChat An isolated town in a winter storm suffers from an unknown power that is killing the residents in ways that reference Christmas carols. The scene in which the deputy discovers his family has been killed was nearly too much. from "The 13th Day of Christmas"

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Jez Conolly @jezconolly.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

#HorrorWritersChat Jez. “Their voices, in these spaces. Gone. Winked out. Now, there was just the ricochet you only get from an emptied room, with fittings and furniture gone, accentuating the absence. The vacant moment after the pinking farewell of a lightbulb that has blown in that instant.”

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David Allen Voyles @davidallenvoyles.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

#HorrorWritersChat Having to cheat for the line to make sense. "I hate everything about that family group picture...How we pretended that we all liked each other and that we had not just buried Alton in the garden." From "Memento Mori", a short story collection I have yet to publish.

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David Allen Voyles @davidallenvoyles.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

#HorrorWritersChat "Dream sequences are bad and cheesy." Dreams may be easily overdone or done poorly, but they can still be effective.

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David Allen Voyles @davidallenvoyles.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

#HorrorWritersChat As a boring ol' planner, I have to have backstory, even if it's not revealed in the story. It helps me know the characters better. But in regard to the plot, I keep it mysterious. The reader can have questions at the end and that's ok. Preferred even.

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David Allen Voyles @davidallenvoyles.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

#HorrorWritersChat Horror can absolutely exist for its own sake. Totally fine with that. But having said that, I do find morality comes into play in my stories. Bad things happen to good people, but its how those good people react that makes them interesting to me. Also, it's fun creating evil!

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David Allen Voyles @davidallenvoyles.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Hi, #HorrorWritersChat I write supernatural and cosmic horror. I've been in the writing doldrums for a year but FINALLY committing to the idea that my last novel will have two sequels. The three books will span Edgar Allan Poe's life with fictionalized, spooky ideas from his stories. First is done.

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David Allen Voyles @davidallenvoyles.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

My choice would be Elmira Royster (who really was Edgar Allan Poe's girlfriend at 15) because she is brave, resourceful, and much more likely to kick ass than Edgar's other friend, Robert. (I'll cheat and say Edgar, himself, too, 'cause, of course.)

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David Allen Voyles @davidallenvoyles.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

#HorrorWritersChat David Allen Voyles here, first time poster. I write supernatural and cosmic horror. Here's the first line from my novel EDGAR about 15-yr-old Edgar Allan Poe: "The eyes in the chiseled skull looking back at Edgar felt as empty as his heart."

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David Allen Voyles @davidallenvoyles.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

David Allen Voyles here, first time poster in this group. I write supernatural and cosmic horror. Here's the opening sentence from my novel about 15-yr-old Edgar Allan Poe: "The eyes in the chiseled skull looking back at Edgar felt as empty as his heart."

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David Allen Voyles @davidallenvoyles.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Gary Carden has dealt with hearing loss throughout much of his life, and he explores it in his typical light but thoughtful style in his story The Man Who Wouldn't Listen which you can listen to (ironic right?) here: creators.spotify.com/pod/show/dav...

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The Man Who Wouldn't Listen by Blow the Tannery Whistle

This piece from Gary's collection of tales ("Mason Jars in the Flood and Other Stories") recorded in 2020 captures his trademark blend of humor and pathos as Roger, the main character, deals with hear...

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David Allen Voyles @davidallenvoyles.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Would you shoot a short horror flick here? Yeah, us too. One day we’ll show it to ya.

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David Allen Voyles @davidallenvoyles.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

A very different monthly newsletter. Short horror movie, VERY short horror story, and…other stuff. Go to davidallenvoyles.com to download a free story and get on the list so it will be in your email box Wednesday.

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David Allen Voyles @davidallenvoyles.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

What if Edgar Allan Poe’s scariest stories were inspired by events that happened to him one summer when he was fifteen? #Edgar Available on Amazon

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David Allen Voyles @davidallenvoyles.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Time for my annual rant before the day is over. Might make you chuckle. davidallenvoyles.com/february-11-...

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February 11: Why I Hate Valentine’s Day – Horror Author David Allen Voyles

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David Allen Voyles @davidallenvoyles.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

A good day in Asheville, NC yesterday! Take the message to the streets, people. STOP TRUMP’s mass deportations, eradication of USAID, and destruction of our democracy. A Republican Congress won’t do it. It’s up to us. #STOPTRUMP

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David Allen Voyles @davidallenvoyles.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

ATTN #HORROR LOVERS: Want a free, monthly treat that has links to fun, spooky stuff? No charge, no spam. Just fun stuff for folks who like #Halloween spookiness year round. Check out the archives for past issues here: #DarkCycles davidallenvoyles.com/darkcycles_a...

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David Allen Voyles @davidallenvoyles.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Last of the Edgar and Morella series: Masque of the Red Death (like anyone's seeing these) Two more panels in the comments. #Poe #blackcat #darkhumor

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David Allen Voyles @davidallenvoyles.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

When one big "puppet" named Dead Ernest puts on a puppet show of you and your dark bride. I want to do another puppet theme for Halloween. #Halloween #darkpuppets

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David Allen Voyles @davidallenvoyles.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Edgar & Morella: The Tell-Tale Heart, 2nd Draft (Curious about what inspired the comic? Check out my novel EDGAR about a much younger Edgar Allan Poe on Amazon. Totally different tone, but Morella is there.) #blackcat #sarcasm #horror

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David Allen Voyles @davidallenvoyles.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

IT'S TODAY! Join me at Malaprop's at 6 for a discussion and reading to celebrate the belated book launch of EDGAR, my horror novel about a 15-yr-old Edgar Allan Poe. Register here: www.malaprops.com/event/hybrid...

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David Allen Voyles @davidallenvoyles.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

The Black Cat: First Draft (My own comic strip spin-off inspired by my novel EDGAR, although Edgar is just fifteen years old in my book. And the book's not funny. But then, the comic may not be either.) #blackcat #Poe #horrorwriting #SkyHorror #SkyWriters #horror

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David Allen Voyles @davidallenvoyles.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

It's hard to be fun and act like everything's ok after yesterday's cold reality check as we watched an autocratic, Nazi-saluting oligarchy take office . Hopefully I'll be back to posting fun stuff tomorrow, but I will also be doing what I legally can to oppose this nightmare.

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David Allen Voyles @davidallenvoyles.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

My podcast Dark Corners started with a #Halloween party that featured a #haunted, self-guided tour where guests could pause at haunted sites and listen to original #horror stories recorded and accessible with their phones. You can hear it here: creators.spotify.com/pod/show/dav...

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