The Westside Fairytales Podcast
We at the Westside Fairytales have written a story for you. Not you in that broad sense where you just means anybody, but you, Dear Listener. We know all about you. What makes you nervous, what sickens you, what keeps you from leaving your house sometimes for the maddening worry of it. And we’ve put it in a story. A story we’ll read for you.
Demons, desperate souls, and eldritch horrors… These strange and varied original tales will linger long after you've finished listening. The Westside Fairytales horror and dark fiction podcast is an award-winning audiodrama written, read, and produced by author Tyler Bell.
Seasons 1-4 contain a variety of short stories; Seasons 5 and 6 are novels broken into chapters. While each story can stand on its own, all take place in the extended Westside Fairytales universe, with continuing themes, characters, and connections. The Horror and Lit Club episodes are discussions, interviews, and reviews independent of the fiction episodes. Original art by Yui Breedlove.
Latest Episodes
HLC - Blasphemous 2
On this episode of the Westside Fairytales Horror and Lit Club, host Tyler Bell says Blasphemous 2 is just a really great game.
HLC - Interview with Chantal Ryan, horror game developer
On this episode of the Westside Fairytales Horror and Lit Club, host Tyler Bell sits down with Chantal Ryan, an indie video game developer and anthropologist.
HLC - Interview with horror creator and professional artist Nic Boone
On this episode of the Westside Fairytales Horror and Lit Club, host Tyler Bell sits down with Nic Boone, a horror creator and artist who's worked on numerous video games, including League of Legends.
HLC - Interview with Steven LaFond, co-creator of Witchever Path
On this episode of the Westside Fairytales Horror and Lit Club, host Tyler Bell sits down with Steven LaFond, co-creator of the horror audiodrama Witchever Path.
HLC - Interview with indie author Paul J. Kearns
In this episode of the HLC, host Tyler Bell interviews Paul J. Kearns, an independent horror author from the UK.
HLC - "Knock at the Cabin"
In this episode of the Horror and Lit Club, host Tyler Bell talks about “Knock at the Cabin.” M. Night Shyamalan's most recent film isn't his worst, but it's still not very good.
HLC - "The Menu" is a masterpiece
In this Horror and Lit Club episode, host Tyler Bell talks at extreme length about one of the best movies in recent memory, “The Menu.”
HLC - Interview with Caitlyn Pace, author of "Mumblings"
In this Horror and Lit Club episode, host Tyler Bell interviews Caitlyn Pace, author of "Mumblings," a collection of horror and dark fiction short stories set in West Virginia.
HLC - Horizon Zero Dawn and "Children of Chicago" by Cynthia Pelayo
In this Horror and Lit Club, host Tyler Bell talks about jury duty! And also the video game Horizon Zero Dawn, and the book “Children of Chicago” by Cynthia Pelayo.
HLC - "Barbarian"
This month's Horror and Lit Club covers the 2022 horror film Barbarian, a review that took me so long because I love that movie that I had to cut the other thing I was going to talk about.
HLC - Tyler complaining for like 2 hours and also talking about "Nope"
On this episode of the Westside Fairytales horror and dark fiction podcast’s Horror and Lit Club, I complain a lot but then I also talk about the 2022 horror film “Nope” by Jordan Peele.
HLC - "The Black Phone" and "The Hollow Places" by T. Kingfisher
On this episode of the Westside Fairytales Horror and Lit Club, I do a massive review of "The Black Phone," and I also talk a bit about "The Hollow Places.”