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
Sin Carriers 5 - Shootout
In chapter 5 of Sin Carriers, the Pinkerton ambush is underway! Our travelers are spread out and outnumbered, with a bounty on their heads. But it’s clear the fight has just begun, as Pinkerton heads are already exploding, rolling, and flying as the mysterious Gato joins the fray.
Sin Carriers 4 - Drop Offs
In chapter 4 of Sin Carriers, our travelers prepare to arrive at their second destination. Elam notices something odd while getting a lesson from Mildover. Vicky has an unsettling encounter. Moira finds herself entranced. Tolliver readies himself to meet an old acquaintance. And Gato gives some new arrivals a heads-up.
Sin Carriers 3 - Introductions
In chapter 3 of Sin Carriers, a team of misfits embarks safely, heading east. With nothing but time on their hands, our disparate cast makes their introductions, both to us, and to each other. Some of these first meetings are friendly, others awkward, and at least one close to deadly.
Sin Carriers 2 - Departure
In chapter 2 of Sin Carriers, we’re introduced to the rest of our party as they embark on a train ride toward bloodshed, misery, and horror! Knife-slingers, thieves on the lam, and, most frightening of all, a Catholic priest!
HLC - Tyler got COVID, "The Exorcist" as read by William Peter Blatty, and "Stalker"
Today’s Horror and Lit Club: I ain’t dead goddammit.
Sin Carriers 1 - Into the Wood
In the years following the end of a wild, free America, a group of misfits, killers, and criminals gather in a city on America's west coast, soon to travel east by rail in each other's company in the first episode of this season’s story, Sin Carriers.
The Tortures of Edith Harlow
In today’s story, days after the death of her husband, the widowed Edith Harlow finds she must contend with a mysterious entity named Mr. Bags, who has aims on her home in the remote Staplebrick Holler.
HLC - "Malignant" and "Candyman"
In this episode of the Westside Fairytales horror and dark fiction podcast's Horror and Lit Club, I have an EXTENSIVE discussion of the absolute mess that is Malignant and my thoughts on Candyman.
HLC - "Blacktop Wasteland" by S.A. Cosby is amazing
Mid-summer check in! In this episode of the Westside Fairytales horror and dark fiction podcast's Horror and Lit Club, I talk about the book "Blacktop Wasteland" by S.A. Cosby.
Scars in Time 20 - The End
In chapter 20 of Scars in Time, Ash clings to life by a thread, hanging literally at the edge of the door to oblivion. But she can hear the typewriter. It is calling to her.
Scars in Time 19 - The Auction
In chapter 19 of Scars in Time, Ash must come face to face with the person she’s most afraid of. Most disgusted by. Most ashamed of. Herself.