CARNAGE HOUSE

Josh Darling

Editor-in-Chief

Josh Darling fell in love with the works of Clive Barker and the anthologies put out by Del Books in the 90s. Throughout high school, he wrote gross stuff. Some of it got published. He started abusing words professionally in 2014 as a ghostwriter and book doctor. Under his name, his stories have appeared in anthologies with Richard Chizmar, Elizabeth Massie, Philip Fracassi, and Gwendolyn Kiste. His horror fiction has appeared in "The Horror 'Zine," "Siren's Call," and numerous publications from Hellbound Books. He started "Carnage House" feeling there are many publishers of splatter/extreme horror books but few for short stories. As an editor, he looks to help writers develop their craft, but primarily, he's famous for being unknown.

Jacque Day

Co-Editor-in-Chief

Jacque Day is the Carnage House founding co-editor and the former longtime managing editor for the New Madrid journal of contemporary literature. She works for Crystal Lake Publishing and writes for Memento Mori Ink Magazine. Jacque has zigged and zagged as a magazine journalist, book and magazine editor, radio correspondent, TV producer, motion picture crew member, university lecturer, and occasional comedy writer and producer. Jacque has an MFA in creative writing, but please don’t hold that against her. A member of the HWA, she lives in her home state of Pennsylvania with her childhood-sweetheart husband, Art, a scientist and the love of her life who fully supports every wacky decision she makes.

R.E. Dyer

Editor

R.E. Dyer has worked as a teacher, a trainer, and a curriculum developer. Across twenty-five years, only a few trainees seemed to notice how the names in their lessons lined up with horror-movie casts. He is also a collector. As physical media died, he skulked the aisles, carting off movies like the bones of saints evacuated ahead of vengeful hordes. His weird tales and supernatural yarns appear in publications like Carnage House, Fraidy Cat Quarterly, and Dungeon Magazine, and anthologies from Ps and Qs Publishing, Samak Press, Terrorcore Publishing, and Eerie River Publishing. A member of the HWA, he lives in the wilds of Pennsylvania with his wife and two children under the eye of a large, hungry cat.

Nora B. Peevy

Editor

Nora B. Peevy is a cat trapped in a human’s body. Please send help or tuna. She is an Olympic champion sleeper and toils away for JournalStone/Trepidatio Publishing as a submission reader and a reviewer for Hellnotes, and reads scripts for The H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival. She also is an editor for Hallōwhartt Püblications and Carnage House. Nora writes nonfiction articles for The Weird Wide Web. She also is a syndicate author for Thrill Ride eZine and has taken up freelance editing. Her quirky tales are published by Carnage House, Trepidatio, Crystal Lake Publishing, Kandisha Press, The Evil Cookie Publishing, and other places. For the Sake of Brigid, her first novelette, came out in May 2024 and her first novel, Flesh-eating Turtles!, debuted in 2025. Her first short story collection came out in April 2026. Nora is also an editor and leader of The Butchered Writers, and is an avid photographer and mixed media artist.