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
Scars in Time 18 - The Painting
In chapter 18 of Scars in Time, Ash is trapped in Ashley Colon’s version of reality with no way out, and even if she had one, it wouldn’t fix what was wrong with Gun Cotton.
Scars in Time 17 - The Clinic
In chapter 17 of Scars in Time, after a lifetime of letting herself be slowed, sidelined, and stalled, Ash is ready to break through into the shadowed history of her house’s basement.
Scars in Time 16 - The Return
In chapter 16 of Scars in Time, Ash’s desperate gambit in the Doctor’s hidden clinic has paid off, returning her home as though from a dream.
Scars in Time 15 - The Doctor
In chapter 15 of Scars in Time, the Doctor’s threats, and his condition, make it all too clear that Ash’s time in the Starling household is rapidly coming to a close.
Scars in Time 14 - The Sickness
In chapter 14 of Scars in Time, Ash adapts to her new job as a maid while trying to figure out a way home, the meaning behind that other her's urging to “Find the Medusa.”
Scars in Time 13 - The First Patient
In chapter 13 of Scars in Time, Ash’s brief stint in the world of her doppelganger, Ashley Colon, may have ended, but things are only getting more bizarre.
HLC - The Worst Horror Movie I've Ever Seen
In this Horror and Lit Club, I talk about Greg McLean's "The Darkness," possibly the most stultifyingly boring movie I've ever seen, and I recommend “Little Nightmares."
Scars in Time 12 - The Hollow Braid
In chapter 12 of Scars in Time, there is no separating Ash from her visions now, and she doesn’t know if what she’s experiencing are visions at all.
Scars in Time 11 - The Hole
In chapter 11 of Scars in Time, the lines around Ash’s reality blur in full as she finishes Morgan’s story.
HLC - "The Frozen Ground" and "Coldheart Canyon" by Clive Barker
This Horror and Lit Club talks about "The Frozen Ground" and "Coldheart Canyon,” as well as rambling at length about the completion of my most recent novel.
Scars in Time 10 - The Debtor
In chapter 10 of Scars in Time, 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.