by L.D. Jordan

Spare Change

On a scale of one to ten, how bad is the pain?

MADISON SPACED OUT as she brushed her teeth with the old baking soda she took from the fridge. Her reflection in the mirror did not tell the story of the little girl inside her who delighted in the warmth of her mother’s hug as she told her stories of princesses in magic kingdoms.

The woman before her was hollow, unaware of the sunken dark READ MORE...

by J.C. Maçek III

Appetizer

A lovesick suitor, desperate to bed his latest conquest, has a very unique, painful and self-defeating method of demonstrating his devotion to the object of his desire. Dinner guests don’t seem to be complaining about the delicacy he gives them a taste of.

CUTTING MY PENIS OFF has unquestionably been the most difficult thing I’ve ever had to do.

This is especially true because “cutting off” is the wrong term. She told me she wants thin slices, see? Slices so thin and delicate you can see light through them.

Let me tell you, that fucking hurts! Pure agony!

The things we d READ MORE...

by Zoltán Komor

This is Why I Gave 4 Stars to the Seller on Chinese eBay, Who Killed my Wife with Glitter Poop Pills

Glitter, poop and the meaning of life!

I WANT MY WIFE’S excrement to sparkle real girlishly, so I order some glitter poop pills from the net. As they say, the glitter poop pill is the new craze in Japan: Swallow one transparent gelatin capsule filled with glitter, and your stool will look like something that came from a fairy tale.

To tell you the truth, until my late teen year READ MORE...

by Matt Scott

No Signal

A getaway cabin deep in the woods reveals a host of sinister secrets lurking beyond the firelight.

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“What do you think?”

Riley and Jim stood at the base of a cabin. It rested on stilts, twenty-five feet above the forest floor, facing west over the Beulah Valley.

“It’s gorgeous,” Riley said, looking up at the A-frame structure made of glass and pine. It was a marvel of architecture READ MORE...

by Amanda Worthington

Eviction Notice

Sometimes to put it all together, you have to take it all apart.

PEACE IS MOMENTS AWAY, I think as the drugs swim in my system. There is a hastily written note on the kitchen island. The marble beneath the paper is pristine. That’s what really matters. Leave the property in the condition it was in when you signed the lease. I take my contractual obligations seriously. I like to think I’m a good per READ MORE...

by Josh Darling and Jacque Day, Editors

The Best of Carnage House Year One

The vultures delight in this collection of guts and madness.

Out now on Godless.com and in paperback on Amazon!!!

by Paul Lonardo

Aphrodisiac

When you’re truly in love, until death do us part is just the beginning.

I INCREASED THE VOLUME in my earbuds, not wanting to listen to his phone conversation or hear the desperation in his voice as he begged Becca to go out with him. Nor did I want to hear his whimpering when she refused him yet again. This had been going on since the beginning of the fall semester when Jairo first saw Becca Cantone in his chemistry cl READ MORE...

by Emma Rose Darcy

Unclogging the Grinder

Best read while eating dinner. Spaghetti Bolognese, or chili con carne straight out of the can.

WITHOUT A DOUBT the part of my job I hate the most is unclogging the grinder. You have to climb all the way down the chute using a flimsy little ladder in your waders and rubber gloves, trying to grip two brooms in your armpit and you can’t see shit through your goggles because it’s so fucking humid in there. Panicked animals generate a lot of READ MORE...

by D. L. Winchester

Playing Possum

Not all possums are roadkill...

I HELD SARAH’S HAND as I drove through the mountains, playing with the ring I’d put on her finger the night before. It’d taken months to save up for it on my EMT salary, but I’d finally managed. We were on our way to surprise my parents with the news. Passing through an open valley, we rounded a curve, and Sarah squeezed my hand.

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by Benjamin Kardos

Bath Salt Politician

When the cult of personality, politics, and hard drugs collide, chaos ensues.

THE DEBATE WAS about to begin. Backstage Ronald snorted a long white line of crushed powder off the compact mirror in his hand. His bloated body shook as his nerves jolted to life, adrenaline shooting through his veins like flame across a gasoline trail. With two more deep snorts, the rough powder was gone. It burned his sinuses. Looking in the mir READ MORE...

by Kurt Swaim

The Corpse on the Cross

Some things are best left alone.

MY DREAMS ARE getting worse. Nightmares I should say. No. Not nightmares. I don’t know what to call them. They don’t terrify me. They’re just unnerving, more like an annoyance. I should have said, a mixture of both. Doesn’t matter though. I need to do something about it. It’s affecting my life. I can barely sleep. Exhaustion is taking its READ MORE...

by Chris McAuley

Symphony of Screams

Read on —if you dare...

EMILIA HARKWRIGHT HAD ONCE been the pride of Blackbridge Conservatory, a prodigy whose talent with the piano and violin drew audiences from across the country. But as the years passed and her contemporaries outshone her, the accolades waned, and the seats at her performances emptied. Desperate to recapture her lost glory, Emilia retreated into obse READ MORE...

by Chris McAuley

Q&A with Clive Barker

Carnage House regular contributor Chris McAuley interviews legendary New York Times best-selling author, Clive Barker.

WE ARE HONORED and delighted to present this Q&A with Clive Barker, legendary New York Times best-selling author, filmmaker, painter, comic book artist, and grandaddy of splatterpunk. Mr. Barker is interviewed by Chris McAuley, a regular Carnage House contributor, co-creator of the StokerVerse and Dark Legacies franch READ MORE...

by Nora B. Peevy

Hors d’oeuvre

A man obsessed with eating his toenail sculptures develops a fungal infection and discovers other tasty delights.

THEY SAID IT WAS onychophagia. “They,” being the doctors. I just couldn’t help myself. I loved the way my toenails felt in my mouth, the thick ridge, the salty sweat taste of my foot, the ripping tear, and the way I could chew on the nail for a while, bending it over and over in my mouth, worrying it around like a leftover particle until it g READ MORE...

by Eddie Spohn

The Grammy Chair

Even death can’t separate Grammy from her favorite chair.

MARJORIE PAUSED OUTSIDE her grandmother’s apartment, nose wrinkled in disgust. The smell of rotten meat and old garbage seeped out around the edges of the door and hovered like an invisible noxious cloud.

Clara’s slacking off, Marjorie thought. Clara, the home health aide, had parked her Acura in the driveway near Grammy’s old READ MORE...

by Corinne Pollard

Tippity Twitchet

Piper’s body hungers with a monstrous appetite. When is sex too much sex?

PIPER HUNGERED.

Wound up tight, her body shivered and sweated from head to toe. Her mouth was dry as a desert, her breasts ached, and her rock-solid nipples chafed at the slightest touch. She panted, her lungs and heart trembling with the longing, the need for release, until she could no longer stand it.

She’d tried her usual toys READ MORE...

by J. Rocky Colavito

Sounds Like a You Problem

Some dating profiles are weirder than most.

I REALLY WONDER ABOUT certain folks like the ones that act all judgy and offended in social media communities. I’m sure you’ve encountered them, especially in kink groups. Like it’s an issue that consenting adults enjoy cosplaying in animal mascot regalia, having wrestling matches, and ending up in cuddle puddles. Seeing your favorite Bull READ MORE...

by Thomas Stewart

Eyesore

NOT THE EYE!

DONOVAN GROWLED, HIS EYES rolled back, and he grabbed her swinging breasts. As he sank his nails into them, she dismounted. Getting to her knees while continuing to rub herself, she eyed him expectantly, her tongue lapping out.

He rose to his feet, stroking himself to her dolled-up face. Her makeup gave her skin an almost porcelain look, wit READ MORE...

by Jerry Blaze

Bong Fetus

A pair of guys decide to get creative with their bong water.

IT STARTED WHEN I went to a rave with my friend, Chaz. He and I decided to get high in the unisex restroom with the bong I had brought along. We had some primo bud and I wanted to be high while out in the crowd of idiots.

The sink wasn’t working and we didn’t have anything to fill the bong with, but an idea crossed my mind. Pushing op READ MORE...

by Holly Nicholls

Delphinophobia

Dolphins are sweet and playful creatures, until you’re alone in the ocean with one.

NO ONE TELLS YOU how dark the ocean is. Vantablack. The blazen fireflies of stars and galaxies stretch above the cruise liner. A seemingly endless liner, yet nothing at all compared to the vastness that hides out there. And under the magnificent boat… Under the rippling waves, is an entire world we haven’t touched compared to the surface.

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