io9 is proud to present fiction from LIGHTSPEED MAGAZINE. Once a month, we feature a story from LIGHTSPEED’s current issue.

The airport houses the only Short Story Dispenser in the state. It’s not just popular; the dispenser by the French publishing house Short Édition produces the second most printings in the ...

Known primarily for his macabre contributions to horror cinema, Osgood Perkins is back behind the camera for Stephen King's short story adaptation, The Monkey.

An excerpt from ‘A Bouquet of Dead Flowers’, by Swadesh Deepak, translated from the Hindi by Jerry Pinto, Pratik Kanjilal, ...

"We're lost and we just wanna get home!" Disney has revealed the official trailer for a lovely animated short called An ...

Stephen King’s most terrifying book still doesn’t have a big screen adaptation, but once you’ve read it, you might be grateful.

Ranjan Adiga, a professor of creative writing at Westminster University, isn’t afraid to talk about the experience of being ...

The launch of a book about the late literary figure is one of the highlights of Cork International Short Story Festival ...

"Whoever controls it, controls life and death. And those deaths... are really F'd up." Neon has unveiled the creepy new ...

Slowly we realize we are not unlike immigrants. We start with what we already think. We start with our political views. We ...

Stories on Stage will bring to life four literary works that delve into the complexities of inclusion, compassion and ...

The short story penned by King provides some clues: it follows two brothers, Peter and Dennis (renamed Bill and Hal in the ...