Westside Fairytales: Horror and Dark Fiction Stories

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Westside Fairytales: Horror and Dark Fiction Stories episodes

April 05, 2019 Tota Americana (Part 2)
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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45 min
March 01, 2019 Tota Americana (Part 1)
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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55 min
February 01, 2019 The Gates of Heaven
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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1 hr 8 min
January 04, 2019 Ghost Story (Part 2)
Today’s episode of the Westside Fairytales is the second half of a two-part tale.

Last episode, we left the subject of our story, a young man named Barden, in his hermitage of a flat in Paris. He’s been bothered by strange knocking from the apartment downstairs, and visions of some pale-faced apparition that may or may not be a symptom of his self-imposed isolation. Barden is a man who likes solitude not because he enjoys it, but because he’s afraid of trying anything else. But he’s started hearing the first low peels of bellsong in the foggy Parisian night, and soon he may find the call of at least one of those long and lonely notes too enticing to ignore.

Literature recommendation: ”The House of Sand and Fog” by Andre Dubus III

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49 min
December 08, 2018 Ghost Story (Part 1)
Today’s episode of the Westside Fairytales is about a man living alone, with little more than the glow of his computer to keep him company. But something from beyond the veil of death and time may soon enter into the life of this modern hermit, whether he wants it to or not.

This month’s recommendations:
Literature recommendation: ”My Friend Dahmer” by Derf Backderf
Random horror recommendation: The Haunting of Hill House

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41 min
November 02, 2018 From Barstow Back Home
I fought a war once. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen combat, more than a decade actually. But even after all that time, the memories of Iraq: The sand. The heat. The people. The violence. Those have stayed closer to my heart than almost any other thing I’ve done.

In today’s episode of the Westside Fairytales, we follow a veteran who faces a similar problem, coming to terms with the guilt of surviving something many others did not. He’s a man who’s taken up ultra-marathoning as a way to escape the memories and feelings that have haunted him since his last ugly day in the sandbox. But on this run, he finds something else chasing him through the rocky sands of the Mojave desert. Something he might not be able to outrun.

This month’s recommendations:
Literature recommendation: ”The Complete Lovecraft” by H.P. Lovecraft
Random horror recommendation: Hollow Knight video game

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45 min
November 02, 2018 302 - From Barstow Back Home
I fought a war once.
It’s been a long time since I’ve seen combat, more than a decade actually. But even after all that time, the memories of Iraq.
The sand. The heat. The people.
The violence.
Those have stayed closer to my heart than almost any other thing I’ve done.
In today’s story, we follow a veteran who faces a similar problem, coming to terms with the guilt of surviving something many others did not. He’s a man who’s taken up ultra-marathoning, super long-distance running, as a way to escape the memories and feelings that have haunted him since his last ugly day in the sandbox.
But on this run, he finds something else chasing him through the rocky sands of the Mojave desert. Something he might not be able to outrun.
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This month’s book recommendation: The Complete Lovecraft
This month’s random recommendation: Hollow Knight
45 min
October 31, 2018 Preview of New Secret Project!!
Hey Everybody,

I’m coming to you this Halloween-eve with a preview of the up-and-coming collaboration project between myself, Jack Luna of the Dark Topic Podcast, and Mike Boudet of the Sword and Scale Podcast. I can’t tell you anymore about the project other than it’s terribly horrifying, based on true events, and that it lives somewhere on the border between True Crime and Horror Fiction.

Oh yeah, and that the first episode will drop 1-9-19.

This little episode is an interview of the major players in the team, a sort of get-to-know-you for people who aren’t familiar with us and the working dynamic we share. Hopefully, it gets you as excited as we are for the release in early January.

Please share this wherever you can, and help us build up the hype for what’s going to be the definitive podcasting moment of the New Year.

For real, nobody has ever put something like this out before.

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Get out there and show some love to Dark Topic (@Dark_Topic) and Sword and Scale (@SwordandScale) as well.

Westside Fairytales returns with a new regular episode this Friday, November 2.

See you then,

And, as always, stay safe out there.
32 min
October 05, 2018 Quarterly Review
The grind can get to you. My guess is you know what I’m talking about. Most of you, my Dear Listeners, are probably listening to this in the background of some banal task. You’re driving yourself to work, or the kids to school. You’re out mowing the lawn or sitting on a cold bench waiting for the train to finally show.

But like most people in this modern world, you’re somebody with someplace to be and something to do. And it’s hard sometimes, the way the days begin to flit by as you stack dollars and pay bills. As your hair grays and the days disappear until, one day, it’s like your whole life is behind you. But the grind, the grind never slows.

Today’s episode of the Westside Fairytales is about a man trapped in that same grind, by his own desire to become the master of the great millstone itself. But his preoccupation with success is getting to him, coloring every new day darker than the last.

This month’s recommendations:
Literature recommendation: ”Uzumaki” by Junji Ito
Random horror recommendation: Jacob’s Ladder

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1 hr 22 min
October 05, 2018 301 - Quarterly Review
The grind can get to you.
My guess is you know what I’m talking about. Most of you, my Dear Listeners, are probably listening to this in the background of some banal task. You’re driving yourself to work, or the kids to school. You’re out mowing the lawn or sitting on a cold bench waiting for the train to finally show.
But like most people in this modern world, you’re somebody with someplace to be and something to do. And it’s hard sometimes, the way the days begin to flit by as you stack dollars and pay bills. As your hair grays and the days disappear until, one day, it’s like your whole life is behind you.
But the grind, the grind never slows.
Today’s story is about a man trapped in that same grind, by his own desire to become the master of the great millstone itself. But his preoccupation with success is getting to him, coloring every new day a darker shade than the last.
1 hr 22 min