Westside Fairytales

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. This month’s sponsor: Stitcher Premium Support us on Patreon! Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Join the Westside Fairytales Horror and Lit Club! Send Tyler a message: westsidefairytales@gmail.com This month’s recommendations: Literature recommendation: Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad Random horror recommendation: Magic, starring Anthony Hopkins

Everything that begins, must end.This episode, we bring you the long-awaited finale of the four-part Tota Americana. This month’s sponsors: Feminist Folklore and Audible Support us on Patreon! Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Join the Westside Fairytales Horror and Lit Club! Send Tyler a message: westsidefairytales@gmail.com This month’s recommendations: Literature recommendation: Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad Random horror recommendation: Magic, starring Anthony Hopkins

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! Support us on Patreon! Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram! Join the Westside Fairytales Horror and Lit Club! Send Tyler a Message: westsidefairytales@gmail.com This month’s recommendations: Book of the month: Preacher, By Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon Random horror recommendation: Night in the Woods

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 second part 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. This Month’s Sponsor: HelloFresh Support us on Patreon! Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram! Join the Westside Fairytales Horror and Lit Club! Send Tyler a Message: westsidefairytales@gmail.com This month’s recommendations: Book of the month: Preacher, By Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon Random Horror Recommendation: Night in the Woods

Part Two of Tota Americana

The greatest lie we tell ourselves is often the most cruel. That we, standing amongst so many others just like ourselves, live lives without reason or purpose. That we are insignificant, useless, or even disposable. It’s a lie that seems to come down out of the sky, like acid rain, etching itself into anyone unlucky enough to be caught out in the storm, and disintegrating those of us who can make their home nowhere but the gutters. In this, the first part 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. Just as our hero begins the long trek across the odd and varied lands of America, we will find ourselves crossing story after story on the way to an end that is little more th...

What happens when a seemingly-perfect marriage ends in a nasty divorce and someone ends up dead? Listen to Over My Dead Body today wherever you’re listening to this or www.wondery.fm/omdb

Loyalty is one of our most frightening precepts.

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Sometimes I think of people as bells ringing on a foggy night. They are all different and distant, ringing to their own timbre. Some are golden and light, others are solemn iron things whose peeling thrum falls slow and cold over the land. It’s not easy to traverse the fog on the way to them, holding an ear up the cold night and still trying to keep your eye on the uneven ground before you. For some people, the stress of those first meetings, of finding the voice behind the bell in the fog, is too great to bear. And so they don’t bear it, and choose instead to live alone.  Today’s story is the second half of a two-part tale. If you haven’t listened to the first part, stop here and listen to Ghost Story (Part One) from last month. 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...

Isolation is a bad blanket. Most people — those who can — eschew it in favor of the warmth good company brings. But those who can’t — the introverts, the awkward, the strange — may find it easier to wrap themselves in those tattered threads when confronted by the chill of loneliness. Not because it’s enjoyable, but because going out into the world can be so much lonelier when you’re not really a part of it. Today’s story is about a man living alone, with little more than the glow of his computer to keep him company. He has a job, sure, and a few acquaintances, but otherwise he is a man on his own, a solitary creature slinking his way through life in the shadows. 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. Follow us on social media! TwitterFacebookInstagram This month’s recommendations. My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf The Haunting of Hill House on Netflix Support us on Patreon! Join...

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, super long-distance running, as a way to escape the memories and feelings that have haunted him since his last ugly day in the sandbox.

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 anymore 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.

Today’s story is about a man trapped in the 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.