Westside Fairytales: Horror and Dark Fiction Stories

Westside Fairytales: Horror and Dark Fiction Stories

Demons, desperate souls, and eldritch horrors. Strange and varied original stories that will linger long after you've finished listening. The Westside Fairytales horror and dark fiction podcast is written, read, and produced by Tyler Bell. New episodes are released the first Friday of every month.


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WSF Productions LLC Fiction 5 évad 91 rész The internet's scariest podcast. Original horror and dark fiction stories by author Tyler Bell.
HLC - The Worst Horror Movie I've Ever Seen
81 perc 5. évad 91. rész

I talk about Greg McLean's "The Darkness," possibly the most stultifyingly boring movie I've ever seen, my plans for upcoming format changes to various parts of the podcast, and a recommendation for "Little Nightmares" by Tarsier Studios. I also talk at some length about my evolving "Radha Mitchell Conspiracy Theory" that will eventually expose me as the triviality-obsessed sociopath I am.\


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SiT Chapter Twelve - The Hollow Braid
58 perc 5. évad 12. rész

There is no separating Ash from her visions now, and she doesn’t know if what she’s experiencing are visions at all. Seemingly thrust out of her own life and into one she’d rather die — rather kill — than live, she finds her headspace filled with memories of an existence that shouldn’t feel as familiar as it does.

Desperate for a way out, but bedridden from smoke inhalation, Ash is forced to use every last ounce of wit to escape this new and horrific predicament.


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SiT Chapter Eleven - The Hole
57 perc 5. évad 11. rész

The lines around Ash’s reality blur in full as she finishes Morgan’s story. The cruel, beautiful ghost haunting her seems as made of flesh as Darcy.

As time moves on without Ash fully in the world, the repairs to her home proceed on schedule. But as the work crews pry deeper into the house, an accident occurs that might push Ash through the thin walls of her own mind into somewhere else entirely.


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HLC - "The Frozen Ground" dir. by Scott Walker and "Coldheart Canyon" by Clive Barker
86 perc 5. évad 88. rész

Talking about "The Frozen Ground" dir. by Scott Walker and "Coldheart Canyon" by Clive Barker, as well as rambling at length about the completion of my most recent novel "Black City," which you are not allowed to read yet.


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SiT Chapter Ten - The Debtor
61 perc 5. évad 10. rész

Ash dives fully into the story of Jacob Morgan, the supposed real estate agent who’d ended his own life by jumping off a balcony at the Gun Cotton Hotel. As Ash dives into his sordid past, it’s readily apparent that, perhaps, not everything she’s writing is fiction.

And the lines between Ash’s visions of Morgan’s life before that ill-fated meeting in Gun Cotton and Ash’s own life aren’t quite as solid as they should be.


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SiT Chapter Nine - The Repairs
55 perc 5. évad 9. rész

Furious with Darcy after their argument the night before, Ash takes on more responsibilities to prove she’s capable of handling things herself. She goes into town in search of a phone and parts to get her new typewriter working.

She manages to reconnect with an old friend and meets with a repairman who takes her on a more detailed tour of her home. What Ash learns is that her home has more secrets — and rooms — than she ever expected, though figuring out those riddles will have to wait.

Because she’s got a new typewriter she’s just dying to try out.


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HLC - "Ratman's Notebooks" by Stephen Gilbert and "Blasphemous"
43 perc 5. évad 85. rész

A discussion of “Ratman’s Notebooks” by Stephen Gilbert and “Blasphemous,” a Metroidvania video game from Team17. I also talk a bit about bad writing advice, the television show “Fargo,” and other nonsense.

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SiT Chapter Eight - The Lantern
54 perc 5. évad 8. rész

Ash tries to shake off the images that accompanied her discovery in the attic, pondering who or what might have left those things there. When the ancient and overtaxed electrical grid in her house dies, however, she’s forced to trek back into Gun Cotton in search of a temporary source of light.

Something strong enough, hopefully, to beat back the black and smoking shadows trying to creep up from the basement.


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SiT Chapter Seven - The Typewriter
55 perc 5. évad 7. rész

Ash and Darcy are finally moved in, but their new home is anything but perfect. Years of neglect have left it near in ruins, and with the high pressures of her new practice, Darcy will have to leave much of the work to Ash.

Determined to not be a burden, Ash takes a plethora of chores onto her shoulders, possibly biting off more than she can chew in the process. As she’s exploring her new home ahead of the planned renovations, she stumbles across something that’s been hidden away for a long time. Hidden, in fact, just where someone, or some thing, knew she would find it.


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Last HLC of 2020! Merry Christmas!
73 perc 5. évad 82. rész

Talking about Cyberpunk 2077, Fargo, Scoob and Shag, and the Blair Witch video game.


This month's recommendations:


Scoob and Shag


Blair Witch


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SiT Chapter Six - The House
59 perc 5. évad 6. rész

Ash and Darcy take the day to explore their new house, a place as full of secrets and lost memories as it is bad wiring and rusted pipes. Ash’s visions continue to haunt her. And though now they all have a very specific setting, this odd house in Old Town, Gun Cotton, Ash finds she’s no longer feeling quite herself when she has them.


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SiT Chapter Five - The Mayor
58 perc 5. évad 5. rész

If there’s anything Ash can be sure of, it’s that her move to Gun Cotton has not alleviated her visions. To make matters worse, she’s become the unwilling witness to a suicide.

Despite her fragile mental state, Ash has to speak with the police and, while doing so, meets the enigmatic and somewhat frightening mayor of Gun Cotton. And, before the day’s over, she’ll have the key to her new home in hand.


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SiT Chapter Four - The Town
56 perc 5. évad 4. rész

Darcy helps Ash pull herself together after a particularly bad episode. Ash’s visions are growing more vivid and more obtrusive by the day, coalescing with a life-changing moment of self-destruction.


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SiT Chapter Three - The Trip
59 perc 5. évad 3. rész

As the fire engulfs their home, it seems that Darcy and Ash are left without recourse to do anything but head for West Virginia. Are Ash’s horrifying dreams a friendly warning, or a poorly veiled threat about what awaits her?

Ash and Darcy drive across America to their new home in the remote mountain town of Gun Cotton. A misty, almost forgotten place full of its own odd ghosts, some of which have been waiting a long time to meet Ash Littletree.


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HLC - "Kill Six Billion Demons" by Abbadon and American Horrorplex Haunted House
90 perc 5. évad 76. rész

A discussion of this month's Horror and Lit Club recommendations: "Kill Six Billion Demons" by Abbadon and American Horrorplex Haunted House. I also discuss HBO's "Lovecraft Country," Adam Sandler's "Hubie Halloween," and the movie adaptation of Clive Barker's "Books of Blood."


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SiT Chapter Two - The Fire
54 perc 5. évad 2. rész

Ash wraps up the last threads of her life in Colorado as she and Darcy prepare to move to Gun Cotton, West Virginia. However, Ash’s delusions - her visions - continue to afflict her day and night. She soldiers on, as always, but finds it harder and harder to say the nightmares she’s seeing aren’t real when they’re walking around in the daytime.


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SiT Chapter One - The Visions
53 perc 5. évad 1. rész

This season, the Westside Fairytales takes you to Gun Cotton, West Virginia, a small, eclectic mountain town where the ever-thickening mists hold untold and horrifying secrets. We join Ash Littletree, now 30 years past the events of our tale, “The Umbrella Man,” as she journeys back to her home state to escape the funk that has overtaken her in middle age.

Once back in West Virginia, however, she’ll find the past she thought she’d left behind is still half-alive and waiting for her. And this time, she might not escape.


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Introducing Season Five: Scars in Time
2 perc 5. évad 73. rész

Scars in Time is the 20-episode-long fifth season of the Westside Fairytales. Journey to Gun Cotton, West Virginia and experience the nightmare October 2nd.


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HLC - "House on Haunted Hill" (1999) and "Unsounded" by Ashley Cope
96 perc 4. évad 79. rész

A discussion of "House on Haunted Hill" (1999) and "Unsounded" by Ashley Cope, as well as a chat about the "Hannibal" television show.


Note, I called JD Vance by the wrong name for most of this episode. His initials are JD, not JA.


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"House on Haunted Hill" (1999)

"Unsounded" by Ashley Cope



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HLC - "Voices of Glory" by Davis Grubb and "The Last Drive-in With Joe Bob Briggs"
80 perc 4. évad 72. rész

The last Horror and Lit Club for season four is a discussion of "Voices of Glory" by Davis Grubb and "The Last Drive-in With Joe Bob Briggs," as well as excessive rambling about anime and representation and the importance of taking a break now and then.

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Literature Recommendation: "Voices of Glory" by Davis Grubb

Random Horror Recommendation: "The Last Drive-In With Joe Bob Briggs"



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Carrier
97 perc 4. évad 10. rész

A young man is attacked while walking home after a night at the bar. When he wakes the next morning, he finds his life has changed forever.

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This month's recommendations:

Literature Recommendation: "Voices of Glory" by Davis Grubb

Random Horror Recommendation: "The Last Drive-In With Joe Bob Briggs"



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The Three Flights of Mateo Jefferson
97 perc 4. évad 9. rész

Love isn't always a wonderful thing. Today's story is about young men interred at a West Virginia lunatic asylum and the things one of them is willing to do to ensure the other survives.


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This month’s recommendations:

Literature recommendation: "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings," by Maya Angelou

Random horror recommendation: "Pan's Labyrinth," dir. by Guillermo del Toro



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HLC - "Hyperion" by Dan Simmons and "Event Horizon" dir. by Paul W.S. Anderson
67 perc 4. évad 67. rész

This month’s episode of the Westside Fairytales Horror and Lit Club is a discussion of the ceaseless flow of time, as well as this month’s recommendations, “Hyperion” by Dan Simmons and “Event Horizon” directed by Paul W.S. Anderson.

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Literature recommendation: "Hyperion" by Dan Simmons 

Random horror recommendation: "Event Horizon" directed by Paul W. S. Anderson 



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Dog Star
101 perc 4. évad 8. rész

In today's episode, a massive industrial accident involving a space station orbiting a distant star imperils the lives of the few workers remaining aboard during a skeleton shift. But as one of the workers tries to make his way out of the floundering station, he finds there might be something inhuman hunting for the remaining survivors.

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Literature recommendation: "Hyperion" by Dan Simmons

Random horror recommendation: "Event Horizon" directed by Paul W. S. Anderson



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HLC - "Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro and "Session 9" dir. by Brad Anderson
83 perc 4. évad 65. rész

This month's Horror and Lit Club episode is a discussion of "Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro and "Session 9" directed by Brad Anderson. I also talk at length about some stuff I've been enjoying during quarantine, including the 1991 film "Soap Dish," the original 1973 version of "The Wicker Man," and the first-person shooter video game Doom Eternal.


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Literature recommendation: “Remains of the Day” by Kazuo Ishiguro

Random horror recommendation: “Session 9” directed by Brad Anderson



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The Move
92 perc 4. évad 7. rész

This month’s story concerns a handful of men working for a small moving company tasked with emptying an ancient woodland mansion. As they dig deeper into the house, however, they find more than just cobwebs lingering in the halls.

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Literature recommendation: “Remains of the Day” by Kazuo Ishiguro

Random horror recommendation: “Session 9” directed by Brad Anderson



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Within as Without
48 perc 4. évad 6. rész

In today's story, a lone soldier stalks the ruins of a post-apocalyptic city, following the last orders he was given at the end of an unknown war. But as he hunts his quarry through broken buildings and desolate streets, he realizes he's not just the hunter, but the hunted as well.

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This month’s recommendations:

Literature recommendation: “Night of the Hunter” by Davis Grubb

Random horror recommendation: Night of the Hunter, directed by Charles Laughton



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Ojos Oscuros
112 perc 4. évad 5. rész

A peasant girl working as an agave farmer is given a second chance a new life, but the sacrifices she'll have to make may not be worth it.

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This month’s recommendations:

Literature recommendation: "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros

Random horror recommendation: REC dir. by Jaume Baulguero and Paco Plaza



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Oh, Heaven
56 perc 4. évad 4. rész

It's good to have a goal to keep you motivated, to keep you grounded, but letting that goal become an obsession is never healthy.

Today's story concerns a longtime sailor whose dissatisfaction with his work life is manifested in his obsession with a small Pacific island. His desire to return there after a brief shore leave intensifies until it seems only violence, possibly even mutiny, will allow him to return to his own, personal heaven.

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This month’s recommendations:

Literature recommendation: "The Terror" by Dan Simmons

Random horror recommendation: AMC's "The Terror," developed by David Kajganich.



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Mud of the Heart
84 perc 4. évad 3. rész

In this episode of the Westside Fairytales, we join a young man contracted as a hospice nurse to a mute, elderly woman living in an aged mansion beside a swamp. As the woman in his care slips closer to death, he finds himself plagued by haunting visions.

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This month’s recommendations:

Literature recommendation: “Me Talk Pretty One Day” by David Sedaris

Random horror recommendation: “The Witch” directed by Robert Eggers



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Best Roses, Manassas, West Virginia
100 perc 4. évad 2. rész

Today’s story concerns a group of older folks, the tip-top of society who live on a secluded hill in West Virginia. Despite an all-consuming fire steadily, surely approaching them, they’re content to squabble amongst themselves about old feuds and grudges. That is, until one of them finds a seemingly innocuous sign that sets about the events that will bring an end to their little hilltop community.

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This month’s recommendations:

Literature recommendation: ”Beloved” by Toni Morrison

Random horror recommendation: "Society” directed by Brian Yuzna



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The Umbrella Man
112 perc 4. évad 1. rész

Most of us — all of us, hopefully — had a small, comfortable group of friends in high school we seemed to do everything with. The folks who seemed to always be around, showing up, dragging you out to do this or that. Today’s story concerns the end of just such a group of friends as they begin their senior year of high school. These four aren’t lucky enough to simply grow apart, however, because some twisted and crooked thing has endeavored to make their parting far more deadly.

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This month’s recommendations:

Literature recommendation: “It” by Stephen King

Random horror recommendation: “Dead by Daylight” from Behavior Interactive



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Summer Minisode - Best Left Forgotten
22 perc 3. évad 11. rész

It’s most often the least deserving who plague themselves with guilt, who allow the pain to build up until it suffocates them. This summer’s minisode is about just such a person who, whether they deserve it or not, is killing himself with regret over the past.

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Ice, and Alley Walking
52 perc 3. évad 10. rész

Some people are invisible to most of us, but that doesn’t make them any less important. In this month’s episode, the season 3 finale of the Westside Fairytales, come along on a journey with one of those forgotten people on a slow escape from a city rotting apart from the inside out.

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This month’s recommendations:

Literature recommendation: “The Glass Castle” by Jeannette Walls

Random horror recommendation: “The Thing” directed by John Carpenter

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Tota Americana (Part Four)
74 perc 3. évad 9. rész

Everything that begins, must end. This episode, we bring you the long-awaited finale of the four-part story, Tota Americana.

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Literature recommendation: ”Heart of Darkness” by Joseph Conrad

Random horror recommendation: Magic, starring Anthony Hopkins



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Tota Americana (Part Three)
56 perc 3. évad 8. rész

In this continuation of the four-part series Tota Americana, Alex continues traveling through the wide open spaces of the American Great Plains, coming across an odd, lonely girl sitting by herself on a train platform. She asks for little more than some company, but things aren't always what they seem out there on the road.

Let us remind you that today’s story is the third of a four-part series. Our suggestion is that you return here after enjoying part one and two, but no worries if you’d like to listen out of order. We here at the Westside Fairytales sometimes eat our dessert before dinner as well.

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Literature recommendation: ”Preacher” by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon

Random horror recommendation: Night in the Woods



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Tota Americana (Part Two)
45 perc 3. évad 7. rész

It’s on the Great Planes where we resume our story, the tale of a young person named Alex traveling across the country to the resting place of a barely known father. The hope is to find some deeper understanding of self through this visitation, but the paths ahead are riddled with pitfalls and parties of a dubious nature. Marks have been set into flesh that leave the scent of blood to linger on the wind, drawing forth a greater evil from the depths of the American Heartlands. A thing beyond reckoning, which must be faced in time.

Let us remind you that today’s story is the second of a four-part series. Our suggestion is that you return here after enjoying part one, but no worries if you’d like to listen out of order. We here at the Westside Fairytales sometimes eat our dessert before dinner as well.

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This month’s recommendations:

Literature recommendation: “American Gods” by Neil Gaiman

Random horror recommendation: Apocalypse Now



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Tota Americana (Part One)
54 perc 3. évad 6. rész

In this, the first of a four-part series, we join a young person, a human animal cast loose of the nest by a sudden death of one parent, and the just as unexpected madness of another. Setting out on a journey to understand a new and unfamiliar life, this child will come across demons both external and internal, and characters both familiar and unfamiliar to you, dear reader.

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This month’s recommendations:

Literature recommendation: ”The Talisman” by Stephen King and Peter Straub

Random horror recommendation: The Wailing



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The Gates of Heaven
67 perc 3. évad 5. rész

Today’s story will let us see the furthest limits to which loyalty might push us, by putting us in the shoes of a soldier faced with unthinkable duties. In the last months of a war he does not yet know has all but ended, he’ll be pushed to carry out orders beyond the scope of anything he’s ever, even in his worst nightmares, thought could come to pass. And we’ll see if those golden tethers of loyalty, so valuable and yet so easily broken, will bend him to the task at hand.

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This month’s recommendations:

Literature recommendation: ”Night” by Elie Weisel

Random horror recommendation: Silent Hill from Konami



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Ghost Story (Part Two)
49 perc 3. évad 4. rész

Today’s story is the second half of a two-part tale.

Last episode, we left the subject of our story, a young man named Barden, on his lonesome in his hermitage of a flat in Paris. He’s been bothered by strange knocking from the apartment downstairs, and visions of some pale-faced apparition that may or may not be a symptom of his self-imposed isolation.

Barden is a man who likes solitude not because he enjoys it, but because it suits him and he’s afraid of trying anything else. But he’s started hearing the first low peels of bellsong in the foggy Parisian night, and soon he may find the call of at least one of those long and lonely notes too enticing to ignore.

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This month’s recommendations:

Literature recommendation: ”The House of Sand and Fog” by Andre Dubus III

Random horror recommendation: Monstruo, the new podcast from the creators of the Westside Fairytales, Dark Topic, and Sword and Scale



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Ghost Story (Part One)
40 perc 3. évad 3. rész

Today’s story is about a man living alone, with little more than the glow of his computer to keep him company. But something from beyond the veil of death and time may soon enter into the life of this modern hermit, whether he wants it to or not.

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This month’s recommendations:

Literature recommendation: ”My Friend Dahmer” by Derf Backderf

Random horror recommendation: The Haunting of Hill House



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From Barstow Back Home
44 perc 3. évad 2. rész

In today’s story, we follow a veteran who faces a similar problem, coming to terms with the guilt of surviving something many others did not. He’s a man who’s taken up ultra-marathoning as a way to escape the memories and feelings that have haunted him since his last ugly day in the sandbox.

But on this run, he finds something else chasing him through the rocky sands of the Mojave desert. Something he might not be able to outrun.

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This month’s recommendations:

Literature recommendation: ”The Complete Lovecraft” by H.P. Lovecraft

Random horror recommendation: Hollow Knight



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Quarterly Review
81 perc 3. évad 1. rész

Today’s story is about a man trapped in that same grind, by his own desire to become the master of the great millstone itself. But his preoccupation with success is getting to him, coloring every new day a darker shade than the last.

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This month’s recommendations:

Literature recommendation: ”Uzumaki” by Junji Ito

Random horror recommendation: Jacob’s Ladder



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Summer Minisode - Lagunitas, 4 a.m.
14 perc 2. évad 11. rész

Life is like the tides. It comes and goes, rises and falls with the moon and light and darkness. This endless force propels us forward no matter our situation, until we can be moved no more.

Tonight’s minisode is about a man who takes his elderly grandfather on a late night surf trip. A last bit of kindness before the moon sets in the west. 

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Bands of Gold and Iron
64 perc 2. évad 10. rész

Today’s story lives amongst the tendrils of this idea. It is the story of a woman who wakes up to a life that isn’t hers, that she doesn’t want to live, and that certain forces, certain people, won’t allow her to leave. Our protagonist knows the truth about herself, but she’s stripped of her freedoms, even her dignity, simply because that’s the sort of thing that happens to women sometimes.

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This month's recommendations:

Podcast recommendation: Hillbilly Horror Stories

Literature recommendation: ”House of Leaves” by Mark Z. Danielewski



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Last Chance Gas
62 perc 2. évad 9. rész

Today’s story is about a man trapped in a relationship he despises. He doesn’t know if he hates his wife, but he does know he plans on leaving her, just as soon as they reach the end of the long trip they’ve embarked on together.

But his plans are put on hold when they stop for gas at a remote desert gas station. Strange things have the building and its occupants under siege. There seems to be no way out, and unfortunately for our protagonist, “til death do us part” may be his only option. 

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This month’s recommendations:

Podcast recommendation: Evergreen

Literature recommendation: ”Night Shift“ by Stephen King



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The Gap on Gable Street
46 perc 2. évad 8. rész

Life has a pace, a rhythm. It’s always unsettling when things disturb it. The death of a friend, an injury, an accident, when the unexpected comes calling it usually visits with bad news in tow.

Today’s story is about a man who sets his watch by life’s banalities. He lives a boring life, a life he generally enjoys, but things are about to change for him. It starts small, a gap appears on a street where there was no gap. But even a small change in a boring life can have extraordinary effects.

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This month’s recommendations:

Podcast recommendation: 33% Pulp

Literature recommendation: ”Dry” by Augusten Burroughs



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The Seventh
53 perc 2. évad 7. rész

There’s an old sort of saying that the best judge is one who hates his work. A man eager to pass judgment on others, that is, is the man least capable of doing the job.

Today’s story is about just that sort of man, a reserved individual sent to a small village in a seemingly medieval country, tasked with finding out why people passing by the town are being branded as criminals and hanged.

It’s not just a story on the passing of judgment, but on the nature of those judgments we pass and are forced to pass on each other. How eagerness for justice may lead us into injustice.

This episode brought to you by Sudio. Go to Sudio.com and use discount code WESTSIDE15 for 15% off at checkout!

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This month’s recommendations:

Podcast recommendation: Gamma Radio

Literature recommendation: “A Lesson Before Dying” by Ernest J. Gaines



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Child of Sparrows
40 perc 2. évad 6. rész

We all feel the urge to run sometimes. Pressure builds up around us, pushing on our chests and heads, caving in the soft bits inside our ears and eyes until we feel fit to burst. Money, family, loneliness, the struggle to be known, the pain of being forgotten, it all stacks up and gets heavier. And heavier. And heavier.

And when it gets to be too much, there’s a part of you inside that lets you know. We need to run now. We either run, or we die.

Today’s story is about a girl who decides to run. She’s taken all she can of the life that was given to her at birth, a life that’s had terrible consequences for most all of the people who’ve gotten tangled up in it. She gets involved with a soon-to-be notorious outlaw, and cuts a path of crime and pain across America, until she arrives at her final destination a thousand miles from where she started, feeling like she’d never really left at all.

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This month’s recommendations:

Podcast recommendations: Dark Topic and Canadian True Crime

Literature recommendation: ”A Winter Haunting” by Dan Simmons



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The Green Man
33 perc 2. évad 5. rész

Guilt grows like a weed in the hearts of sinners. It’s hard to imagine anybody who’s never wronged another person. At some point, all of us are going to make a decision we’ll have trouble living with for the rest of our lives. And even if it’s a small thing, a trifle, it’ll sit with you in the dark hours of the night, stroking the skin at the back of your neck to keep you awake.

Tonight’s story is about just such a feeling. A young boy in a bad neighborhood does something awful, and as he tries to move on from the deed, he finds it haunting him at every step. Never letting up for a second.

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This month’s recommendations:

Podcast recommendation: Canadian True Crime 

Literature recommendation: ”If We Were Villains” by M.L. Rio



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The Water Rotted Doll (Part Two)
27 perc 2. évad 4. rész

You know the fear of drowning, even if you've never been near water. It's as inborn in us as the desire to keep breathing. When last we left our protagonist, she was in deathly danger of drowning, and trapped in the kitchen of a sinking ship.

This is part two and the conclusion of "The Water-Rotted Doll." We hope you enjoy.

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If you were missing a podcast recommendation this month, we always suggest Dark Topic 



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The Water-Rotted Doll (Part One)
42 perc 2. évad 3. rész

Today’s tale is the story of a woman’s journey from a war-torn country to one of safety and prosperity. It is a time of sickness, of death, and the specter of death itself follows her on her voyage in the form of an ugly doll made of plaster. Today’s podcast will cover only the first half of the story, and the second half will be available next episode.

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This month’s recommendations:

Podcast recommendation: Counter Worlds Podcast

Literature recommendation: ”Carrion Comfort” by Dan Simmons



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They All Come By
31 perc 2. évad 2. rész

We all feel lonely sometimes. Some of us never really feel like we’re not alone, even when we’re surrounded by people. For guys like me, and our main character, that means slinking out to the bar. Secreting yourself away somewhere dark and comfortable, where it’s okay to be a man on his own.

Thing is, that kind of lifestyle can wear on you. It can get too comfortable, and the loneliness might end up becoming your only friend. You become a man alone, sitting at a bar, waiting for friends you barely know, who might not show at all.

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This month’s recommendation:

Literature recommendation: ”The Historian” by Elizabeth Kostova



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So Long Roscoe
43 perc 2. évad 1. rész

Ever felt stuck in a rut? Today's story is about a woman who feels trapped in a life she never expected to live. Her husband doesn't appreciate her. She doesn't have any hobbies, any friends or really any social interaction aside from her children. But an old friend has stopped by to help her break out of this funk. Somebody from her childhood that always shows up when she needs him.

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This month’s recommendation:

Literature recommendation: ”Universal Harvester” by John Darnielle



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The Last Car
41 perc 1. évad 10. rész

Have you ever felt trapped, even when, technically, you were free as a bird? Today we’ll hear the story of a man trapped by his life decisions, a man who smiles at everybody through bars only he can see. But as he becomes stuck in a monolithic warehouse with something not of this world, he finds the bars he thought were holding him weren’t as solid as they seemed.

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This month’s recommendation:

Literature recommendation: “Black Bled the Prairie” by Tyler Bell (hopefully available to buy at some point in the future!)



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Without Eulogy
41 perc 1. évad 9. rész

Today’s story is a sort of sci-fi western, set at the edge of space in a time unknown. Our small cast of protagonists are escorting a sick man to the far edge of the frontier, ostensibly to die. It’s as dangerous a trip as any, and as our protagonists walk further into the wild of that unknown planet, it becomes clear that not all of them will return from their journey alive.

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This month’s recommendation:

Literature recommendation: ”Blood Meridian” by Cormac McCarthy



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Gourmand Gourmet (Part Two)
35 perc 1. évad 8. rész

This episode is the second half of Gourmand Gourmet, in which David has found he can no longer keep any traditional food down after emergency brain surgery. After slitting the throat of a lamb during a Central Park nativity scene, he discovers the one thing he can eat is human flesh. With that knowledge in hand, he must decide whether it's better to starve to death ... or to go hunting.

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This month’s recommendation:

Literature recommendation: ”Pest Control” by Bill Fitzhugh



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Gourmand Gourmet (Part One)
39 perc 1. évad 7. rész

A well-respected food critic finds he's no longer able to enjoy food after emergency surgery to remove tumors from his brain. Not only is he unable to enjoy it, but everything tastes utterly foul to him. As his career, relationship, and dignity are put on the line, he puts his hope in curing himself by finding something to eat that doesn't come up right after he chews, but he soon finds the only item on the menu is the most taboo.

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This month’s recommendation:

Literature recommendation: ”Lust and Wonder” by Augusten Burroughs



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The Twinkling Kad
34 perc 1. évad 6. rész

A disgraced former professor is forced to take a job as a night watchman after his career and life fall apart. After spending some time alone in the dark on his night patrols, he finds his new station in life is far from the worst of his worries.

Today’s tale is based loosely on my own life. I too lost a job I’d worked very hard to get, and I too had to take work as a night watchman at a construction site. Sitting there in the dark, alone in the middle of nowhere, you will start seeing things. Little bursts of light and twists of shadow. The only thing more frightening than that, I believe, would be finding out the thing you thought you’d seen was actually there.

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This month’s recommendation:

Literature recommendation: “Summer of Night” by Dan Simmons



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Carpenter Under Stone (Part Two)
28 perc 1. évad 5. rész

To recap part one of this week's story, a mentally disadvantaged inmate named Zeke is being forced to make Glory State Penitentiary’s first electric chair. The first inmate scheduled to use that chair, a notorious criminal named Cunny Marco, has been threatening Zeke, hoping that him not finishing the chair means his own execution will be stayed indefinitely.

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This month’s recommendation:

Literature recommendation: ”The Stranger” by Albert Camus



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Carpenter Under Stone (Part One)
24 perc 1. évad 4. rész

What would you do if somebody gave you the choice of dying now, or killing people just to die a bit later? In this week's story, a mentally-disabled savant at a mid-20th-century West Virginia prison is faced with that same decision when the warden gives him a simple task: Build the prison's new electric chair. This story is long enough that we're going to be splitting it into two parts.

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This month’s recommendation:

Literature recommendation: ”Fool's Parade” by Davis Grubb



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As Read by the Author
29 perc 1. évad 3. rész

This episode is concerned with the life of a very odd book. What would you do if you found the book in your hands was writing itself even as you read it? Would you put it down, afraid of some trickery, or would you read on with fascination? And what would you do, Dear Listener, if you found out the book had suddenly switched its focus to you?

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This month’s recommendation:

Literature recommendation: ”It Happened in Boston?” by Russell H. Greenan



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The Book Buyer
23 perc 1. évad 2. rész

Everybody knows somebody with an obsession. Sports. Video games. Reading. But some people's hobbies take a darker turn. This story deals with just such a man, whose obsessive book-collecting may be covering up a much more sinister desire.

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The Urge
26 perc 1. évad 1. rész

Have you ever stood at the edge of a tall building or ledge and just had that urge to jump? In this first episode of the Westside Fairytales podcast, we follow a young woman who travels into the woods and finds it hard to leave. 

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Behind The Season - Season Four
81 perc 71. rész

A lengthy rundown of some behind-the-story information for every episode in the fourth season of the Westside Fairytales. Thank you so much for supporting my little show!


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HLC - "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," by Maya Angelou and "Pan's Labyrinth" dir. by Guillermo del Toro
118 perc 69. rész

In this Horror and Lit Club I talk about Maya Angelou's seminal 1969 work "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," and Guillermo del Toro's masterpiece of horror-fantasy, "Pan's Labyrinth." I also ramble at length about potentially racist bookstore layouts, the absolute travesty that is "Cannibal Holocaust," and the horrors of war.


Also, I meant to say "microtonal" music when I was talking about System of a Down, not "multitonal."


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Literature recommendation: "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings," by Maya Angelou

Random horror recommendation: "Pan's Labyrinth," dir. by Guillermo del Toro



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HLC - "Night of the Hunter" by Davis Grubb and "Night of the Hunter" dir. by Charles Laughton
73 perc 63. rész

A discussion of this month's dual recommendations, Davis Grubb's debut 1953 novel "Night of the Hunter" and its 1955 film adaptation by Charles Laughton. I also give my first impression of the new “Locke and Key” series on Netflix and ramble on about the greatness of Tobe Hooper’s classic, “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.”

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Literature recommendation: “Night of the Hunter” by Davis Grubb

Random horror recommendation: Night of the Hunter, directed by Charles Laughton



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Introducing - The Dating Game Killer
8 perc 61. rész

The Dating Game Killer transports you to a time when serial killers terrorized cities from coast to coast.


In the middle of a string of murders, one of these deranged men appeared as a contestant on the popular television show The Dating Game. And he won. How was it that a cold blooded serial killer made it onto a TV show that millions of people watched, and no one could see what he really was?


Rodney Alcala was one of the most deadly serial killers in American history. Police believe that he murdered five people, but the real number might be closer to 100. 


From Wondery, the team that brought you Over My Dead Body and Hollywood and Crime, comes The Dating Game Killer - the gruesome story of the most famous serial killer that you’ve never heard of. 


You’re about to hear a preview of The Dating Game Killer. While you’re listening, be sure to subscribe to The Dating Game Killer on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you’re listening right now.


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HLC - "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros and "REC" directed by Jaume Balaguero and Paco Plaza
63 perc 60. rész

This month's horror and lit club is a discussion of "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros and "REC" directed by Jaume Balaguero and Paco Plaza. I also talk at length about some random shit, including how bad the holidays between January and June suck and how much I love "Bates Motel," the five-season adaptation of "Psycho" that aired on the A&E network from 2013 to 2017.

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Literature recommendation: "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros

Random horror recommendation: REC dir. by Jaume Balaguero and Paco Plaza



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HLC - "The Terror" by Dan Simmons and its television adaptation by AMC
105 perc 58. rész

In this episode of the Westside Fairytales Horror and Lit Club, we discuss Dan Simmon's 2007 novel "The Terror," and its 2018 adaptation written and produced by David Kajganich. Also, I talk about and review "The Lighthouse" directed by Robert Eggers and the 2020 reboot of "The Grudge."

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HLC - "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris and "The Witch" dir. by Robert Eggers
86 perc 56. rész

The December episode of the Westside Fairytales Horror and Lit Club, in which we discuss this month's recommendations: "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris and "The Witch" directed by Robert Eggers. Also a lengthy discussion on subtle moralizing in stories alongside my thoughts on Taika Waititi's "Jojo Rabbit."

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Introducing Blood Ties
11 perc 55. rész
BLOOD TIES: A scripted audio series starring Gillian Jacobs, Josh Gad, and Amy Landecker. When legendary pediatric cardiologist and businessman, Dr. Peter Richland, is killed in a plane crash two days before Christmas, secrets begin to emerge about his dealings with female colleagues throughout his career. These disturbing revelations thrust his children, Eleonore and Michael, into a fight they’re completely unprepared for. Listen now at wondery.fm/BTWestside

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Introducing Detective Trapp
9 perc 53. rész
Anaheim investigator Julissa Trapp is not like other detectives. She’s the only woman on the homicide squad, and a skilled chameleon: undercover cop in vice stings, crime-scene commander, patient confidante of killers. A master interrogator, she invokes her personal experience – and deepest griefs -- as a tool to elicit confessions. When a young woman’s body is found at a trash-sorting plant, Trapp learns the murder may be linked to the disappearance of three other women in nearby Santa Ana. Trapp embarks on a dark journey that brings her face to face with a man who takes “a little piece of her soul.” Listen now at Wondery.fm/westsideDT (http://wondery.fm/westsideDT)

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HLC - "Beloved" by Toni Morrison and "Society" dir. by Brian Yuzna
83 perc 52. rész

In this month’s Horror and Lit Club is a discussion on Toni Morrison’s seminal work, “Beloved,” and the 1989 body-horror film “Society” directed by Brian Yuzna.

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Introducing What Makes a Killer
5 perc 50. rész
Audioboom presents: What Makes a Killer. Listen to new episodes of What Makes a Killer for a look into the life and crimes of the world’s most infamous serial killers. Featuring interviews with family members, forensic experts, law enforcement, and witnesses. What Makes a Killer premieres 10/31. Subscribe to What Makes a Killer on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-makes-a-killer/id1483611909

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HLC - Dead by Daylight and "It," by Stephen King
93 perc 49. rész
An off-the-cuff discussion of October’s literature and random horror recommendations, Dead by Daylight from Behavior Interactive and “It,” by Stephen King. For “It” we discuss not only the novel, but the television miniseries and recent movies as well.Check out True Crime Horror StorySupport us on Patreon or by purchasing some merch!Follow us on social media: Twitter | Facebook | Instagram Join the Westside Fairytales Horror and Lit ClubSend us an emailArtwork by Yui Breedlove

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Introducing: The Mysterious Mr. Epstein
9 perc 47. rész
For most of his life, Jeffrey Epstein was a mystery-- who he was, how he made his money, and how he got away with horrific crimes for so many years. The Mysterious Mr. Epstein explores how Epstein was able to use his wealth to buy status and credibility, to buy power, and ultimately to buy himself freedom from justice.

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Introducing: Over My Dead Body: Joe Exotic
4 perc 45. rész
Joe Exotic loves his animals, his husbands and his animals. He’s a liger-breeding, gun-slinging, polygamous zoo owner from Oklahoma. And throughout his career, he’s made some major enemies. Listen to season 2 of Over My Dead Body: Joe Exotic on August 27th.

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Season Four Promo
1 perc 44. rész

The Westside Fairytales returns Oct. 4 with 10 new, horrific stories. Tell your friends.

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Update - Merch Store is Live!
45 perc 43. rész

Show your support for the Westside Fairytales by making a purchase from our merch store at westsidefairytales.com/merch.

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New season begins in October!



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HLC - Jeannette Walls’ “The Glass Castle” and John Carpenter’s “The Thing”
71 perc 42. rész

In this episode of the Westside Fairytales Horror and Lit Club, I discuss the recommendations for July 2019: John Carpenter’s 1983 horror film “The Thing,” and Jeannette Walls’ 2004 memoir, “The Glass Castle.” I also talk about some stuff I’ve been watching lately, including “The Last Drive In with Joe Bob Briggs,” and a somewhat tragic experience from my childhood.

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Bonus Episode: Behind the Season
86 perc 41. rész

Hey folks, thanks for sticking with me through another thrilling season of the Westside Fairytales. This retrospective episode is a much larger version of a thing I do on the Patreon and I thought it’d be a nice bonus for you guys at the end of the season.

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HLC - "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad and "Magic" starring Anthony Hopkins
71 perc 39. rész

On this month’s episode of the Horror and Lit Club, I ramble at length on some books I’ve been reading, HBO’s new miniseries “Chernobyl,” and the Westside Fairytales literature and random horror recommendations for June 2019.

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This month’s recommendations:

Literature recommendation: ”Heart of Darkness” by Joseph Conrad

Random horror recommendation: Magic, starring Anthony Hopkins



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HLC - "Preacher" by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon and "Night in the Woods"
48 perc 37. rész

Welcome to the Westside Fairytales Horror and Lit Club! This is new a monthly bonus episode series where host Tyler Bell goes into detail about the month's random horror and literature recommendations. It's not required listening to understand the podcast, just a little bonus we're throwing in to thank you for all your support!

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This month’s recommendations:

Literature recommendation: ”Preacher” by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon

Random horror recommendation: Night in the Woods



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Introducing Over My Dead Body
6 perc 33. rész


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Monstruo!!
8 perc 31. rész
Here it is everybody, Monstruo! Available now wherever you listen to podcasts. Learn more at MonstruoPodcast.com.

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Preview of New Secret Project
31 perc 27. rész

I’m coming to you this Halloween-eve with a preview of the up-and-coming collaboration project between myself, Jack Luna of the Dark Topic podcast, and Mike Boudet of the Sword and Scale podcast. I can’t tell you any more about the project other than it’s terribly horrifying, based on true events, and that it lives somewhere on the border between True Crime and Horror Fiction.

Oh yeah, and that the first episode will drop 1-9-19.

This little episode is an interview of the major players in the team, a sort of get-to-know-you for people who aren’t familiar with us and the working dynamic we share. Hopefully, it gets you as excited as we are for the release in early January.

Please share this wherever you can, and help us build up the hype for what’s going to be the definitive podcasting moment of the New Year.

For real, nobody has ever put something like this out before.

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Westside Fairytales returns with a new regular episode this Friday.



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Minisode - Stuff
12 perc 14. rész

Here's the last of the three minisodes for the summer off-season. We've got a slew of terrifying new content heading your way at the beginning of November, so remember to stay up to date with us on social media. We hope you enjoy your Halloween. Stay safe out there.

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Minisode - The Balloon Game
12 perc 13. rész

We're now more than halfway through the off-season, and new episodes of Westside Fairytales are just around the corner. Today's minisode is just a trifle. A snatch of memory. The creeping sort of horror that walks with you for a while even after you've said goodbye.

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Sound Test One
4 perc 12. rész

Here's the first of the off-season releases, titled "Sound Test One." It's a gift from our corporate sponsors at Blackwell Innovations*, a technology company based out of the midwest that's been a staunch supporter of the podcast since the beginning. Hope you enjoy!

*Blackwell Innovations is a subsidiary of the Blackwell Corporation and Walther Heavy Industries. Any use of the Blackwell coat of arms or other tradmarked images is strictly prohibited. All Blackwell Letholog technology is copyright 2017, Blackwell industries.

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Off-Season Announcements and Updates
4 perc 11. rész

Hey everybody, we're just checking in on you and letting you know how things are coming along for Season 2 of the Westside Fairytales podcast. We've got a lot of great things coming up during the break and you can expect Season 2 sometime in November. In the meantime, catch up on season 1 wherever you get your podcasts.

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