Voces Animarum by Marten Hoyle

The Marten Hoyle Project (the initials of which stand for Mental Health Problems) is the name assigned to a Literary Endeavor based in the psychological setting of the Eglantine Home for the Poetically Unsound in Mettray, USA. The Project is held anonymously by the Voice of a being known as Vate C. Carmen.

Hoyle suffers from the disease schizophrenia but considers the Voice of “Vate C. Carmen” (a genderless hallucination that has been with him since his earliest childhood) to be the source of his creative output.

Born on April 15th, 1988, in Spokane, Washington, Hoyle began writing at the age of six and began writing poetry regularly at the age of fourteen, when he discovered both John Donne’s Holy Sonnets and Pink Floyd’s musical achievements.

Hoyle has been consistent in his output of prose and poetical works for nearly thirty years. His first professional publication was an epic poetry trilogy titled Symphoniya de Toska that was released from Wheelsong Books in 2023, and later that same year, his first novel, Voces Animarum, was published by I Ain’t Your Marionette Press.

The Marten Hoyle Project consists primarily of written works, and it produces visual and musical media to accompany the compositional endeavors, which Hoyle considers to be “Literary Symphonies.” Voces Animarum is the first book in a series of such “symphonic literary movements” titled Filii der Bedlam, all of which are scheduled for future release from I Ain’t Your Marionette Press.

Known themes in Marten Hoyle’s literary endeavor include deep melancholy, suicidal ideation, death, loneliness, isolation, philosophical theory on the subjective nature of reality, and insanity. Marten Hoyle’s works have been compared to those of such literary giants as Edgar Allan Poe, Leo Tolstoy, H.P. Lovecraft, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Franz Kafka, and William Shakespeare.