1 The last unenriched food on Earth is a tin of dog meat. Like the chew toys that decay too slowly, this tin long outlasts its purpose. No more dogs in the world to call back to their dinner bowls. Few creatures survived the heat of those summers. It is a rich man who buys…
Tag: Horror
Literary Lists: Graphic Short Stories
If you haven’t read any graphic novels before, graphic short stories can be an excellent starting point. Here are five of the best that we’ve been able to find – a reading list that should provide a solid few hours of visual and verbal entertainment…
Neon’s 2022 Shirley Jackson Awards Nominations
The annual Shirley Jackson Awards recognise outstanding achievements in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic. They’re named after Shirley Jackson, a prolific novelist and short story writer whose output includes “The Lottery” and The Haunting of Hill House…
The Shadow Man Travels
At the time, he’s sick of it, the heavinesssettling in his shadow limbs. All those nightsmixing with the same old spirits in New Orleans,or rattling chains in windowless European castles.He’s tired of strangers who call themselves expertson him, then walk through his body on the stairscall out with cold hearted threats. So the Shadow Man…
Sunflower Heart
They say I have to write a story. It’s what I wanted when my back was breaking. You should be careful what you wish for. At least there’s a window and I can watch the evening primroses opening while I think. I lift the lid on my tea mug and smell the green tea. This…
Slow TV
Gareth Durasow grew up in Castleford, West Yorkshire. He has been a teacher, a tailor, a soldier, and a spy. As well as Neon, his short stories and poetry have been published by The Fiction Desk, Dead Ink, The Rialto, Shearsman, STORGY and Ad Hoc Fiction. His poetry collection Endless Running Games is available from…
The Audience May Want to Look Away
Ground floor flats mean easy access to the street. There is no lugging your shopping up flights of stairs, no lugging your bins down them. Large windows on ground floor flats let in a lot of light. You really feel in the middle of the action. Selling points. He didn’t mention that ground floor flats…
Petrichor
That summer they added fluoride to the water. Our parents did not question that the commies who ran New York City wanted us to glow green in the dark. A decade earlier, our fathers had stopped the stain of evil spreading over the Pacific and Europe. They had no patience for the distinction between fluoride…
Literary Lists: Horror Short Stories
To celebrate the brilliance of the horror short, we’ve compiled a list of five excruciatingly creepy short stories which you might not have heard of. Settle in, dim the lights, and be prepared to jump out of your skin if the phone rings at just the wrong moment…
Huge Rat Comforts Himself With Lies
The rat engineered to grow to the size of a humanhas only two hours left to live. The laboratory has burnedto the ground. The rat suffered burn wounds, but theseburns will not be what kill him; it’s just that his physiologyis unsustainable when detached from specialized machinery.So he has stepped out of the burning building,…