It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Come gather around the yule log and listen to some holiday tales: one with a big dose of colonialism (boo) before our favorite sad bisexual Victorian boy (yay!), Hans Christian Andersen brings the mood up for a change. Abbie tells a Mexican Christmas story about the poinsettia, or as we shall call it henceforth, cuetlaxōchitl (kwet-lah-SHO-shee-tl). Kelsey closes out 2025 with HCA’s new year’s tale, The Twelve Who Came by Mail, followed by The Snail and the Rosebush as a reminder to all of us to keep blooming and pay those who refuse no mind. Happy Holidays and see you next year!

Make sure to rate, review, and subscribe. You can find us on Instagram @fairytalefixpod, and chat with us on our Discord channel! Join our Patreon at patreon.com/fairytalefixpod and visit us at fairytalefixpod.com. Fairy Tale Fix Podcast is a Fantastic Worlds Production.

Abbie Lammel (@bonanzafamine)
Kelsey Horne (@monsieurcheval)
With tremendous thanks to our good friend, Dustin Alexander

Angel Espinoza
Elizabeth Masoud
Cynthia Lammel
William Johnson
Dami Schlobohm
Caroline Donham
Melissa Buron
Rabia Sadiq
Gisselle M. Ingan

Books and other media mentioned in this episode:

Check out all the books from the show here!
The Legend of the Poisettia (aka the cuetlaxōchitl)
Hans Christian Andersen’s Complete Fairy Tales

Fairy Tale Fix Podcast is a Fantastic Worlds Production.

Is anyone else having an existential crisis? No? Just us? Well strap in because it’s real clear on Fairy Tale Fix this week! Kelsey tells a Swedish fairy tale about how we humans keep having to learn the same lesson of not allowing people to hoard wealth over and over again in The Barrel Bung. Abbie’s story also has a strong message about the importance of taking care of people who some might deem unworthy in Japanese folk tale Ubasute-yama (Mother-Rid Hill). Our fix for both stories? Eat the rich.

Make sure to rate, review, and subscribe. You can find us on Instagram @fairytalefixpod, and chat with us on our Discord channel! Join our Patreon at patreon.com/fairytalefixpod and visit us at fairytalefixpod.com. Fairy Tale Fix Podcast is a Fantastic Worlds Production.

Abbie Lammel (@bonanzafamine)
Kelsey Horne (@monsieurcheval)
With tremendous thanks to our good friend, Dustin Alexander

Angel Espinoza
Elizabeth Masoud
Cynthia Lammel
William Johnson
Dami Schlobohm
Caroline Donham
Melissa Buron
Rabia Sadiq
Gisselle M. Ingan

Books and other media mentioned in this episode:

Check out all the books from the show here!
Swedish Fairy Tales
Folk Tales of Japan by Kyota Ko
Kyota Ko on Instagram

Fairy Tale Fix Podcast is a Fantastic Worlds Production.

We love an unplanned theme! This week on Fairy Tale Fix, we’re keeping busy with Abbie reading an Italian folk tale called The Man Who Only Came Out At Night, a story that’s barely about that man at all. Kelsey then reads a Scottish fairy tale entitled A Box of Fairies, where a smitten young lad is given very specific instructions, and do you think he follows them?

Make sure to rate, review, and subscribe. You can find us on Instagram @fairytalefixpod, and chat with us on our Discord channel! Join our Patreon at patreon.com/fairytalefixpod and visit us at fairytalefixpod.com. Fairy Tale Fix Podcast is a Fantastic Worlds Production.

Abbie Lammel (@bonanzafamine)
Kelsey Horne (@monsieurcheval)
With tremendous thanks to our good friend, Dustin Alexander

Angel Espinoza
Elizabeth Masoud
Cynthia Lammel
William Johnson
Dami Schlobohm
Caroline Donham
Melissa Buron
Rabia Sadiq
Gisselle M. Ingan

Books and other media mentioned in this episode:

Check out all the books from the show here!
Italian Folktales
Faeries, Elves, and Goblins: The Old Stories
The Fairies of the Gizzen Briggs by Helen Drever
Tales and Legends from Tain
Rosalind Kerven: Working with Myths, Legends, & Fairy Tales

Fairy Tale Fix Podcast is a Fantastic Worlds Production.

Our favorite nomadic gnome and spellbound storyteller is back for the third installment of his Baba Yaga series, we welcome Chadwick Heiberg back to Fairy Tale Fix! Chadwick reads his original fairy tale, The Road to Baba Yaga, and answers some very important questions we’ve had about our favorite witchy grandmother. Then, Kelsey finishes up this Halloween episode with two more stories from Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark: Wait Till Martin Comes and Aaron Kelly’s Bones.

Make sure to rate, review, and subscribe. You can find us on Instagram @fairytalefixpod, and chat with us on our Discord channel! Join our Patreon at patreon.com/fairytalefixpod and visit us at fairytalefixpod.com. Fairy Tale Fix Podcast is a Fantastic Worlds Production.

Abbie Lammel (@bonanzafamine)
Kelsey Horne (@monsieurcheval)
With tremendous thanks to our good friend, Dustin Alexander

Angel Espinoza
Elizabeth Masoud
Cynthia Lammel
William Johnson
Dami Schlobohm
Caroline Donham
Melissa Buron
Rabia Sadiq
Gisselle M. Ingan

Books and other media mentioned in this episode:

Check out all the books from the show here!
Follow Chadwick on Instagram
Follow Chadwick on TikTok
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

Fairy Tale Fix Podcast is a Fantastic Worlds Production.

It’s Halloween season! Abbie kicks things off by telling us all about our childhood favorites; the Ouija Board Demon and Bloody Mary, followed by the terrifying English legend of Black Annis. Kelsey follows it up with a millennial Halloween favorite with more Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, featuring The Haunted House and Room for One More.

Make sure to rate, review, and subscribe. You can find us on Instagram @fairytalefixpod, and chat with us on our Discord channel! Join our Patreon at patreon.com/fairytalefixpod and visit us at fairytalefixpod.com. Fairy Tale Fix Podcast is a Fantastic Worlds Production.

Abbie Lammel (@bonanzafamine)
Kelsey Horne (@monsieurcheval)
With tremendous thanks to our good friend, Dustin Alexander

Angel Espinoza
Elizabeth Masoud
Cynthia Lammel
William Johnson
Dami Schlobohm
Caroline Donham
Melissa Buron
Rabia Sadiq
Gisselle M. Ingan

Books and other media mentioned in this episode:

Check out all the books from the show here!
The Book of Superstitions
The Legend of Black Annis
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

Fairy Tale Fix Podcast is a Fantastic Worlds Production.

Kelsey takes inspiration from her trip into the woods and reads Rapunzel from the Brothers Grimm. Abbie follows it up with another tale about an old woman in Watching for the Milk Stealer from her Wise Women book. We also learn What Old Women Are Made Of – if you think you know the answer you’re WRONG! Find out on Fairy Tale Fix!

Make sure to rate, review, and subscribe. You can find us on Instagram @fairytalefixpod, and chat with us on our Discord channel! Join our Patreon at patreon.com/fairytalefixpod and visit us at fairytalefixpod.com. Fairy Tale Fix Podcast is a Fantastic Worlds Production.

Abbie Lammel (@bonanzafamine)
Kelsey Horne (@monsieurcheval)
With tremendous thanks to our good friend, Dustin Alexander

Angel Espinoza
Elizabeth Masoud
Cynthia Lammel
William Johnson
Dami Schlobohm
Caroline Donham
Melissa Buron
Rabia Sadiq
Gisselle M. Ingan

Books and other media mentioned in this episode:

Check out all the books from the show here!
The Original Folk & Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
Wise Women: Myths and Stories for Midlife and Beyond
A Book of Witches

Fairy Tale Fix Podcast is a Fantastic Worlds Production.

We’re back at it again with some hot mermaid sh*! Kelsey tells a very mysterious tale we need all the details on about a Lorelai-esque baddie named Anna Mayala from The Turnip Princess while Abbie makes good on her promise and delivers two Palestinian tales of old women with The Old Woman Ghouleh and The Old Woman and Her Cat.

Make sure to rate, review, and subscribe. You can find us on Instagram @fairytalefixpod, and chat with us on our Discord channel! Join our Patreon at patreon.com/fairytalefixpod and visit us at fairytalefixpod.com. Fairy Tale Fix Podcast is a Fantastic Worlds Production.

Abbie Lammel (@bonanzafamine)
Kelsey Horne (@monsieurcheval)
With tremendous thanks to our good friend, Dustin Alexander

Angel Espinoza
Elizabeth Masoud
Cynthia Lammel
William Johnson
Dami Schlobohm
Caroline Donham
Melissa Buron
Rabia Sadiq
Gisselle M. Ingan

Books and other media mentioned in this episode:

Check out all the books from the show here!
The Turnip Princess and Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales
Speak Bird, Speak Again: Palestinian Arab Folktales

Fairy Tale Fix Podcast is a Fantastic Worlds Production.

Fairy Tale Fix has really hit the big time hosting our very first published fairy tale author: Tish Black! Tish reads the Fixtresses two of her fairy tale retellings that hit all the right catharsis notes for your feminine rage: Bone and Roan (hey that rhymes). Kelsey rounds out the episode with two tales of how old Russian ladies cope with their terrible husbands, and wow – they both need fixing real bad.

Make sure to rate, review, and subscribe. You can find us on Instagram @fairytalefixpod, and chat with us on our Discord channel! Join our Patreon at patreon.com/fairytalefixpod and visit us at fairytalefixpod.com. Fairy Tale Fix Podcast is a Fantastic Worlds Production.

Abbie Lammel (@bonanzafamine)
Kelsey Horne (@monsieurcheval)
With tremendous thanks to our good friend, Dustin Alexander

Angel Espinoza
Elizabeth Masoud
Cynthia Lammel
William Johnson
Dami Schlobohm
Caroline Donham
Melissa Buron
Rabia Sadiq
Gisselle M. Ingan

Books and other media mentioned in this episode:

Check out all the books from the show here!
Ebony, Blood, and Snow: New Stories from Old Tales
Russian Fairy Tales

Fairy Tale Fix Podcast is a Fantastic Worlds Production.

Spoiler alert: the fix is Free Palestine for the Palestinian folk tale of Speak Bird, Speak Again told by Abbie in this episode. Kelsey takes things to a lighter (right?) place with the Slavic tale of Baba Yaga and the Brave Youth.

Make sure to rate, review, and subscribe. You can find us on Instagram @fairytalefixpod, and chat with us on our Discord channel! Join our Patreon at patreon.com/fairytalefixpod and visit us at fairytalefixpod.com. Fairy Tale Fix Podcast is a Fantastic Worlds Production.

Abbie Lammel (@bonanzafamine)
Kelsey Horne (@monsieurcheval)
With tremendous thanks to our good friend, Dustin Alexander

Angel Espinoza
Elizabeth Masoud
Cynthia Lammel
William Johnson
Dami Schlobohm
Caroline Donham
Melissa Buron
Rabia Sadiq
Gisselle M. Ingan

Books and other media mentioned in this episode:

Check out all the books from the show here!
Russian Fairy Tales

Fairy Tale Fix Podcast is a Fantastic Worlds Production.

Who shot Menet? A vicious new enemy enters the fray and shakes up what was seemingly an easily-handled battle. Sights are aimed, but who falls to the gunman’s attacks? A challenging battle awaits Team Torta – how will they prevail? 

The Fantastic Worlds Podcast is a Fantastic Worlds Productions.

Theme song created and composed by Amy Hawkenson

Featuring music by Eclipzodiac! 

Dustin Alexander (@dustinalexander)
Abbie Lammel (@bonanzafamine)
Angel Espinoza (@espinoza916)
Jess Negin (@hanktheclank)
Logan Mayne-Rizzi (@mayneman08)
Heidi Owens (@vamihilion)

Visit our website at fantasticworldspod.com

If you enjoy the show, help us out by joining our Patreon at fantasticworlds.cash

Additionally, you can help us out by subscribing to our podcast and reviewing us on Apple Podcasts. Help spread the word and telling friends and share on social media using the hashtag #worldstraveler.

Thank you for listening!