Westside Fairytales: Horror and Dark Fiction Stories

In this episode of the Westside Fairytales Horror and Lit Club, Tyler discusses the recommendations for July: John Carpenter’s 1983 horror film “The Thing,” and Jeannette Walls’ 2004 memoir, “The Glass Castle.” He also talks about some stuff he's been watching lately, including “The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs,” and a somewhat tragic experience from childhood.

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Hey folks, thanks for sticking with us through another thrilling season of the Westside Fairytales. This retrospective episode is a much larger version of a thing we do on the Patreon and we thought it’d be a nice bonus for you all at the end of the season.

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New season begins in October!

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Some people are invisible to many of us, but that doesn’t make them any less important. In today’s episode, the season 3 finale of the Westside Fairytales, come along on a journey with one of those forgotten people on a slow escape from a city rotting apart from the inside out.

This month’s recommendations:

Literature recommendation: “The Glass Castle” by Jeannette Walls

Random horror recommendation: “The Thing” directed by John Carpenter

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On this month’s episode of the Horror and Lit Club, Tyler rambles at length on some books he's been reading, HBO’s new miniseries “Chernobyl,” and the Westside Fairytales literature and random horror recommendations for June 2019.

This month’s recommendations:

Literature recommendation: ”Heart of Darkness” by Joseph Conrad

Random horror recommendation: ”Magic,” starring Anthony Hopkins

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Everything that begins, must end. In this episode of the Westside Fairytales, we bring you the long-awaited finale of the four-part story, Tota Americana.

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This month’s recommendations:

Literature recommendation: ”Heart of Darkness” by Joseph Conrad

Random horror recommendation: Magic, starring Anthony Hopkins

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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.

This month’s recommendations:

Literature recommendation: "Preacher" by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon

Random horror recommendation: Night in the Woods video game

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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 third of a four-part series. Our suggestion is that you return here after enjoying part one and two, 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 recommendations:

Literature recommendation: "Preacher" by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon

Random horror recommendation: Night in the Woods video game

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It’s on the Great Plains where we resume our story, the tale of a young person named 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. Marks have been set into flesh that leave the scent of blood to linger on the wind, drawing forth a greater evil from the depths of the American Heartlands. A thing beyond reckoning, which must be faced in time.

Let us remind you that today’s story is the second 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 recommendations:

Literature recommendation: “American Gods” by Neil Gaiman

Random horror recommendation: Apocalypse Now

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In today’s episode of the Westside Fairytales, the first 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 listener.

This month’s recommendations:

Literature recommendation: ”The Talisman” by Stephen King and Peter Straub

Random horror recommendation: The Wailing

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Today’s episode of the Westside Fairytales will let us see the furthest limits to which loyalty might push us, by putting us in the shoes of a soldier faced with unthinkable duties. In the last months of a war he does not yet know has all but ended, he’ll be pushed to carry out orders beyond the scope of anything he’s ever, even in his worst nightmares, thought could come to pass. And we’ll see if those golden tethers of loyalty, so valuable and yet so easily broken, will bend him to the task at hand.

This month’s recommendations:

Literature recommendation: ”Night” by Elie Weisel

Random horror recommendation: Silent Hill from Konami

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