Neon Golgotha

by Michael Faun

Welcome to Hotel Neon Golgotha! A first-of-its kind “home away from home!” In these five freestanding life-stories, each taking place in New York City, we get to meet Laurent, Joel, Flynn, Amanda, & Barbara, whose deplorable circumstances has driven them to a hotel named Neon Golgotha. Each room in the hotel is perfectly designed for its guest's eccentric traits, and is sure to satisfy their outlandish inclinations... Murder! Incest! Sexual sadism! Mutilation! Lavish in decor, Hotel Neon Golgotha offers spectacular live shows (though not for the faint of heart!), tailor-made personal experience packages, and much more. Make your overnight stay perfect – from the welcome Champagne flute, to a visit to our Roman spa, and why not a trip down memory lane?

Genres: Horror, Ebooks

68 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 23, 2017

About the author

Books:

FIRST HARVEST
SIX PACK O' STRANGE TALES
BLACK HEART METAL MONSTER
CANNIBAL ISLAND
DEEP INVADERS #3
SS DEATH SIMULATION
X-HAUSTPIPE X-TASY #X
GILLIAN'S MARSH
HÆX
RED FINGERS
DRUGULA
NEON GOLGOTHA
PULP JUNK

COMING SOON:

MUFF-MANIC MERMEN FROM MALIFANUA BAY
JIXER JIMCRAXXX #666
SEPTEMBER DOOM
CANNIBAL ISLAND 2 (RETURN TO HELL)
KRUX

Reviews

[Janie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Five different characters are escorted to their final resting places in the Neon Golgotha Hotel. Each individual's history is revealed in scenes of violence and depravity. The "guests" settle into hells of their own making, and I did not detect a single complaint about the lodgings. Another raunchy good time from author Michael Faun, who always delivers.

[Karl · Rating 4 out of 5]

Michael Faun likes to "Take a Walk on the Wildside", as Lou Reed would say. His newest book, a chapbook really, has the following disclaimer at the front of the book on the copyright page -

"The views expressed in this book are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them."

The "Neon Golgotha" is a Hotel entered from New York, the price of admission, of course, is that the customer must die to gain entry. The bellhop "dressed in picallo garb, the badly seared skin on the demon's face creased as it leered", leads you to your room. Perhaps the hotel is one of many high rises in hell itself. Only the damaged may enter.

DB Spitzer couldn't have said it better about the book, in his words -"a work of art/smut... a decadent, dirty, dark and depraved look" into the afterlife. These five short tales tell of the worst of dreams and reality congealing into the narrator's eternity, the stories of a gay porn star, a down and out junkie, a waitress from a themed fast food joint, and a couple of others who all arrive at the "Neon Golgotha".

Heroin
by The Velvet Underground
"I don't know just where I'm going
But I'm gonna try for the kingdom, if I can
'Cause it makes me feel like I'm a man
When I put a spike into my vein
And I tell you things aren't quite the same"

[Ben Arzate · Rating 4 out of 5]

Full Review

Neon Golgotha is a colorful, decadent, and masterful piece of horror fiction. It's a short read, but well-worth reading. Michael Faun paints vivid and disturbing pictures with his prose.

[Rodney · Rating 4 out of 5]

In these delightful and disturbing vignettes, we find the pieces of who and what the characters are through lenses of insecurities, fetishes and addictions. As they each arrive at Neon Golgotha and enter their accommodations, karma can give them what they think they deserve, or what they actually deserve. Their stories are told in a style that has no filler, going straight for the throat with it’s economy of words. Nicely done.

[Donald Armfield · Rating 4 out of 5]

Following five disturbing situations, through the boughs of New York. Weird sexual, disturbing imagery involving characters and there final day before their room becomes available at
Neon Golgotha Hotel. Behind the door of their selected room number their souls will live out the karma they brought on themselves.
Faun holds nothing back throwing the blood right in the mixture, the vomit to sting the back of the throat and tossing around dismembered body parts. Get a copy of this book and let me be the first to say, Welcome to "Neon Golgotha".

If you see a one-eyed demon in a bellhop garb, your time is up...

[Steve Isaak · Rating 4 out of 5]

"Neon" is an entertaining, vivid sex-, violence- and drug-fueled short work. This hotel-hub novella is not for the squeamish. Its forty-eight pages, in heady fashion, detail the horrific deaths and subsequent Hells of various characters as they arrive at the Hotel Neon Golgotha. Readers who are expecting a typical characters-meet-up-and-figure-a-way-out trope should be warned that Faun does not incorporate that storyline here. It is Neon Golgotha that brings things together, not its guests.

[Justin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Neon Golgotha features five gritty tales about addiction, debauchery, and what happens after it all ends. Michael Faun packs a short and steady punch with his prose. You'll need to take a shower after this to get all the New York grime off your skin.