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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?...

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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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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"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.

I like my BlueSky presence.

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What if Edgar Allan Poe's scariest stories were inspired by actual events that happened to him one summer when he was fifteen? EDGAR, a novel by David Allen Voyles, available on Amazon.

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...

This sounds really great. Just pre-ordered!

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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

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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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.

Making a note of it now...Thanks!

#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.

No, I'll have to check that out! I actually freaked myself out with a cave scene in an episode that was about the The Bell Witch Cave. (Could have used one answer for 2 questions!)

Yeah...that feeling that maybe you actually conjure up some evil stuff when writing...?

#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.

Yep, stuff in a cave freaks me out!

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.
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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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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.

“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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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.

Amen to that! It's been hell trying to get this book recognized. We had a hurricane here in NC, too, right as my book was launched which didn't help, but frankly marketing is just the basic challenge as an indie writer. I've got to learn to let that go and just write.

Retired high school English teacher and writer of horror. My latest is kinda/sorta YA...about Poe when he was fifteen. Looking forward to seeing what you've written and will write.

Hahaha, horror dad jokes.

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"Dream sequences are bad and cheesy."

Dreams may be easily overdone or done poorly, but they can still be effective.

Interesting! I'd like to hear more about that.