u/LeonardVoss

Over the last year I've been building an interconnected psychological horror/crime thriller universe called Red in the Dark.

The project follows multiple connected characters across Portland, Maine and other parts of the state through serialized audio drama episodes, standalone horror stories, fictional broadcasts, and original music tied directly into the narrative itself.

The world is heavily grounded in reality and focuses on things like:

- serial killers

- addiction

- manipulation

- extortion

- corruption

- violence

- mental illness

- trauma

- ordinary people trapped in increasingly horrifying situations

The main storyline follows Leonard Voss, while Beyond the Dark explores stories happening on the outskirts of the same universe — sometimes in parallel, other times in the past or present.

Some stories are deeply psychological.

Others are brutal.

Everything released through the podcast already exists in written form first, and over time I also plan to release the written material itself alongside the audio project.

This has pretty much consumed my life over the last year and I genuinely love building it.

If any of this sounds interesting to you:

Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/show/2c29CwAJFmKinboYCB8kuR

Apple Podcasts:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/red-in-the-dark/id1871882492

May 25th.

I’m releasing a new song called:

The Bob Ross Bing Bang Bong Sing Along Song!

Imagine if public access television had a nervous breakdown and formed a grunge/punk band in a tunnel at 2AM.

At one point during production I stopped and asked myself:

“Should this exist?”

The answer was unfortunately yes.

This stupid thing somehow became one of the catchiest songs I’ve ever made.

No Bob Rosses, David Carradines, or Charlie Sheens were harmed during the making of this masterpiece of madness.

Feel free to reach out and I'll send ya a link to sample to song . You can also search Red in the Dark to check out the catalog

It’s me, Leonard.

I keep seeing stream-for-stream stuff everywhere and while I love that people are at least trying to help each other, I genuinely think a lot of musicians are destroying their own music without realizing it.

One fake fan is worth less than no fan.

If somebody follows you just so you follow back, never returns, skips every track halfway through, or only clicked because they wanted something from you, platforms see that.

And eventually they stop pushing your music because the data says people don’t actually care.

That hurts way more than having small numbers.

I’d rather have 10 real listeners than 10,000 ghosts sitting in a follower count doing absolutely nothing.

Music is supposed to leave a mark on somebody. Not become some weird trading game where everybody pretends to support each other for 30 seconds and disappears.

Half the time nobody’s even listening. They mute the track, drop a fire emoji, and move on to the next guy hoping for another fake stream back.

That’s not a fanbase. That’s people quietly inflating each other into irrelevance.

If you actually want to help another artist, listen to the damn song. Remember something from it. Tell them what stuck. Come back later if it mattered.

Try to even focus into the genres you actually listen to so you might genuinely find something you love instead of throwing out a:

“Yeah boi. That track got that giyat, no cap.”

Just like learning to make music or work out, real support grows slow. Painfully slow.

But at least it’s real.