Welcome to the Westside - Promotional trailer video for the Westside Fairytales horror and dark fiction podcast by author Tyler Bell.
The first 4 seasons of the Westside Fairytales are comprised of a variety of short stories. Seasons 5 and 6 each are a season-long novel broken into episodic chapters. While each story can stand on its own, all content takes place in the extended Westside Fairytales universe, with continuing themes, characters, and connections. Original art by Yui Breedlove.
The Horror and Lit Club episodes are discussions, interviews, and reviews that are separate from the regular fiction episodes.
The Westside Fairytales is a Top 5 Finalist for Fiction in the 2022 CrowdUltra Podcast Awards.
The Westside Fairytales is a Top 10 Finalist for Fiction in the 2022 People’s Choice Podcast Awards.
Tyler’s story “Lagunitas, 4 a.m.” won Second Place in LEO Weekly’s 2022 Literary LEO short fiction competition.
The Westside Fairytales won Best Storytelling Production, Best Storyteller in a Storytelling Production, and Best Writing of a Storytelling Production in the 2020 Audio Verse Awards!
The Westside Fairytales was featured as an Under the Radar Podcast You Should Be Listening To in the June 2020 edition of Podcast Magazine.
Tyler and his writing have been featured on podcasts such as Hillbilly Horror Stories, Dark Topic, Witchever Path, Ignorance Was Bliss, Evergreen, Monstruo, and Sword and Scale.
Most of us had a small, comfortable group of friends in high school we seemed to do everything with. Today’s story concerns the end of just such a group 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.
Read MoreIt’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 he deserves it or not, is killing himself with regret over the past.
Read MoreThe Westside Fairytales returns October 4 with ten new, horrific stories. Tell your friends.
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Read MoreIn 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.”
Read MoreAn in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at the stories of season three of the Westside Fairytales podcast. This retrospective episode is a larger version of a thing I do on Patreon and I thought it’d be a nice bonus for you guys at the end of the season.
Read MoreSome people are invisible to most of us, but that doesn’t make them any less important. Come along on a journey with one of those forgotten people on a slow escape from a city rotting apart from the inside out.
Read MoreThis is a discussion of June’s random horror and literature recommendations, the movie “Magic” starring Anthony Hopkins and the novel “Heart of Darkness” by Joseph Conrad.
Read MoreEverything that begins, must end. This episode, we bring you the long-awaited finale of Tota Americana, the four-part story that follows the journey of a person named Alex.
Read MoreThis 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.
Read MoreIn this continuation of the four-part series Tota Americana, Alex comes 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.
Read MoreIn part two of Tota Americana, we resume our story of 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.
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