David Allen Voyles
@davidallenvoyles.bsky.social
Horror writer, Halloween fanatic, and black bear advocate who's fine with being "liberal" and "woke"
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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August 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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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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
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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July 13, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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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
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
"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
June 17, 2025 at 3:28 PM
"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
The two new kitties, Sadie and Boo.
June 15, 2025 at 5:37 PM
The two new kitties, Sadie and Boo.
I like my BlueSky presence.
June 11, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I like my BlueSky presence.
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
April 30, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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
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...
March 30, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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...
@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
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
March 29, 2025 at 3:52 PM
@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
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
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
March 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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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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
#HorrorWritersChat question 4 (last question but stick around in ten minutes for the outro):
Write a horror story or poem using the word “equinox”. Keep the length to a single post.
Quote post, and don't forget to include the hashtag!
Write a horror story or poem using the word “equinox”. Keep the length to a single post.
Quote post, and don't forget to include the hashtag!
March 26, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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
#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.
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.
#HorrorWritersChat question 4 (last question but stick around in ten minutes for the outro):
Write a horror story or poem using the word “equinox”. Keep the length to a single post.
Quote post, and don't forget to include the hashtag!
Write a horror story or poem using the word “equinox”. Keep the length to a single post.
Quote post, and don't forget to include the hashtag!
March 26, 2025 at 8:24 PM
#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.
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.
Reposted by David Allen Voyles
#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.
#HorrorWritersChat question 3:
International Happiness Day was on the 20th March. How does horror make you happy?
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International Happiness Day was on the 20th March. How does horror make you happy?
Quote post, and don't forget to include the hashtag!
March 26, 2025 at 7:59 PM
#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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#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.
Tell us about a time you scared yourself with your own writing project
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#HorrorWritersChat
Quote post, and don't forget to include the hashtag!
#HorrorWritersChat
March 26, 2025 at 7:23 PM
#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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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
#HorrorWritersChat
Tell us about a time you scared yourself with your own writing project
Quote post, and don't forget to include the hashtag!
#HorrorWritersChat
Quote post, and don't forget to include the hashtag!
#HorrorWritersChat
March 26, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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
#HorrorWritersChat
#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..."
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..."
#HorrorWritersChat question 3:
International Happiness Day was on the 20th March. How does horror make you happy?
Quote post, and don't forget to include the hashtag!
International Happiness Day was on the 20th March. How does horror make you happy?
Quote post, and don't forget to include the hashtag!
March 26, 2025 at 7:50 PM
#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..."
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..."
#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"
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"
Tell us about a time you scared yourself with your own writing project
Quote post, and don't forget to include the hashtag!
#HorrorWritersChat
Quote post, and don't forget to include the hashtag!
#HorrorWritersChat
March 26, 2025 at 7:41 PM
#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"
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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#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.”
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.”
#HorrorWritersChat question 1:
Introduce yourself: Tell us who you are, what you write, and the scariest line from your current WIP
Quote post, and don't forget to include the hashtag!
Introduce yourself: Tell us who you are, what you write, and the scariest line from your current WIP
Quote post, and don't forget to include the hashtag!
March 26, 2025 at 7:07 PM
#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.”
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.”
#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.
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.
#HorrorWritersChat question 1:
Introduce yourself: Tell us who you are, what you write, and the scariest line from your current WIP
Quote post, and don't forget to include the hashtag!
Introduce yourself: Tell us who you are, what you write, and the scariest line from your current WIP
Quote post, and don't forget to include the hashtag!
March 26, 2025 at 7:27 PM
#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.
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.
#HorrorWritersChat
"Dream sequences are bad and cheesy."
Dreams may be easily overdone or done poorly, but they can still be effective.
"Dream sequences are bad and cheesy."
Dreams may be easily overdone or done poorly, but they can still be effective.
March 19, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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"Dream sequences are bad and cheesy."
Dreams may be easily overdone or done poorly, but they can still be effective.
"Dream sequences are bad and cheesy."
Dreams may be easily overdone or done poorly, but they can still be effective.
#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.
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.
Question Three!
I suspect this MIGHT align with the pantsers plotters but hey who knows. Maybe it won't.
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I suspect this MIGHT align with the pantsers plotters but hey who knows. Maybe it won't.
#HorrorWritersChat
March 19, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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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.
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.
#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!
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!
Question TWO. Now I feel like one of those quiz folkies. I expect to get a range of answers to this, but hey who knows. It's not that much of a corker. I'm not super mean today. Mwahaha.
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#HorrorWritersChat
March 19, 2025 at 7:50 PM
#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!
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!
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.
Alright let's kick things off for another night. If you're not a horror writer, feel free to mute me for this evening, I will not be offended!
#HorrorWritersChat people, assemble! I want to hear your thoughts.
#HorrorWritersChat people, assemble! I want to hear your thoughts.
March 19, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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.
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.)
#HorrorWritersChat question 3:
You must spend the night in a haunted house. You can choose one of your characters to accompany you. Who? And why?
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You must spend the night in a haunted house. You can choose one of your characters to accompany you. Who? And why?
Quote post, and don't forget to include the hashtag!
March 12, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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.)
#HorrorWritersChat Haunted houses. I absolutely love them.
#HorrorWritersChat question 2:
What's your favourite horror trope to write? The one you rely on the most?
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What's your favourite horror trope to write? The one you rely on the most?
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March 12, 2025 at 7:48 PM
#HorrorWritersChat Haunted houses. I absolutely love them.