
The Best of Carnage House Year One
by Josh Darling and Jacque Day, Editors
The vultures delight in this collection of guts and madness.
Out now on Godless.com and in paperback on Amazon!!!

The Best of Carnage House Year One
by Josh Darling and Jacque Day, Editors
The vultures delight in this collection of guts and madness.
Out now on Godless.com and in paperback on Amazon!!!
Taco Tim
by Penny Blood
This is truly the mother lode of mother lodes, the one shit to rule them all —and it is spreading.
IT ALL STARTED ON Saturday. Biff had gotten a taco from a shit-faced weasel of a man —I think his name was Tim. Tim was greasy and dirty and smelled like ass, but Biff had been on the streets for some time himself so he wasn’t one to care. Anyway, Biff ran into this so-called Tim at the bus station where all the drifters looked out for each oth READ MORE...
Cradle to the Grave
by R.E. Dyer
They wanted to punish him. He just wanted them to tell him what he did.
TED HIT THE ROUGH wooden floor face-first. Someone snapped on a bank of overhead lights, hot and white, and his eyes burned beneath closed lids. They had injected him with something—the fucking police had drugged him—but it was wearing off. His muddled thoughts were organizing. He knew he was in trouble.
Ted’s head was full of READ MORE...
Of Kings and Spiders
by Dewey L. Yeatts
A terrifying invasive species comes to Florida.
SATURDAY NIGHT
BEN HADN’T COUNTED ON getting lucky that night. He went to the same bar he always went to, the one that got him affordably drunk, and from whence he always went home alone. That night, there was this brunette, short hair, curvy, and with a ready laugh. For some reason, she found Ben to be hilarious. Then her hand was on h READ MORE...
Let it Gush
by Josef B. Wilke
A love story about a girl and her pimples.
MY ENTIRE TEENAGE LIFE has been filled with people trying to convince me that my pimples are ugly.
My mother.
The dermatologist she drags me to every month.
Every slack-jawed idiot I share a sophomore year of high school with.
All of them are on some sort of personal vendetta to prove to me that pimples are ugly, hav READ MORE...
The Foetus Fighter
by Alexander Hay
Possibly the only supervillain evil baby punching story you’ll ever need to read.
SWEAT RAN DOWN SUSAN’S face. She grit her teeth as the next contraction took hold like a death spasm.
“That’s it, love, you can do it,” the midwife said in a soft Black Country accent. A seasoned pro, she made it sound like she hadn’t ever done this dozens of times, and this was not her first birth, but the most important birth, an READ MORE...
Red
by Toshiya Kamei
No longer little, Little Red Riding Hood pays the huntsman a visit.
THE WOODSMAN’S GRUFF VOICE rumbled through the cabin as I untied the ribbons of my hood. I was no longer little, but I still went nowhere without the red cape Grandmother had given me. The color had worn somewhat, but my crimson hair compensated for it. When I tossed my tresses over my shoulder, I never failed to catch some young woman’s eye. READ MORE...
Touch of Glass
by Aiden E. Messer
What happens when two guys in a sadomasochistic BDSM relationship decide to ditch their safeword? Absolutely nothing good.
MARC FELT JACOB'S FIST punching inside his guts with a brutality that threatened to tear his sphincter. He struggled against the restraint trapping him against the padded bondage bench, as always, they held fast. His body was slick and glistening with sweat. Every single muscle in his strong body ached.
The pain was excruciating. His stomach READ MORE...
Body and Blood
by Galen Gower
Claire and I decided we’d eat each other.
A DOCTOR DIAGNOSED ME with dermatophagia when I turned eight.
“This is a relatively common anxious behavior,” he said to Mom with his gentle-pat-on-the-shoulder voice. “It’s just a way for Elliott to relieve some of his big feelings. Keep an eye on it, but he’ll probably grow out of it.”
I didn’t grow out of it. I lear READ MORE...
We are open for subs...
Josh Darling
We are open for submissions. Go here for more information: SUBMISSION! Our Submission Guidelines! or click "Navigation" in the menu and then "Submissions."
We are OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS!!!
Josh Darling
We are open for submissions until May 1st, 2025. Go here for more information: Our Submission Guidelines! or click "Navigation" in the menu and then "Submissions."
Happy Holidays —The War on Xmas Rages On! Qapla!
Josh Darling
I don't like themed submission calls. The theme with Carnage House is "Entertaining Splatter/gore/extreme horror," so why throw another layer of complicated on top of that? Why say, "Write that and make it holiday-themed?" So, for funsies, the editorial staff wrote some Holiday Horror that you'll find in the mix. You'll know these pieces because they have a mistletoe illustration. We also did this so all the people who get rejection letters from us can say, "Yeah, the editors there suck as writers." And that is our real gift to you, and maybe kidney stones.
Happy whatever you celebrate. —or don't.
Musings on Carnage House Year 1.
Josh Darling
Here's a concept for a magazine: Operate at a loss while publishing in a freak subgenre. Make the site fiction only. Come for the weird stuff, stay for the sex and carnography.
There will be no reviews of the new Disney Batman movie.
No interviews with Ryan Jackman.
No ugly ads.
Nothing to save the reader from the stories that weep guts.
Add to that a mathematical sense of equality. This is done with a randomized homepage. The stories we publish are great, and there is no way to order greatness.
Magically, it paid off. By "magically," I mean a ton of hard work and luck.
The experience of working with writers, making new friends, and learning so much about writing and the craft has been one of my best experiences.
I know I post soupy messages about how "I'm shocked at how well things are going." For a guy with so many failed projects, having a site with 49,000+ hits since January 1st leaves me dumbfounded. It's easy to say, "Hits are just a number," but it makes me happy knowing our stories are getting read.
A year ago, I struggled with putting Carnage House together. Then Jacque Day Pallone and a mysterious illustrator came on board and helped this along. Carnage House would not have been possible without them.
At the end of issue #3, Jacque and I asked a few writers to help us with Issue #4. Tim Tolbert, Holly Luanne Nicholls, and Michael Errol Swaim, I'm super appreciative of what you bring to the table.
For me, the most important part of our editorial meetings is the chance to thank all of you.
Issue #4 is special because we've made it a year. It's also special because we're publishing an issue with a handful of stories by award-winning name authors. It's shocking to me. I have never felt so lucky, and I am grateful.
Thank you, the editors, the writers, and the readers.
I can't say it enough: Thank you, thank you, thank you.
As one year ends, the next one begins. Issue #5 is open for submissions.
Get at it.
Thank you
Issue #3 Launch
The Editors
Twenty-one new stories of gore and terror from some names you recognize, including Ken Hueler, J. Rocky Colavito, Joe Cameron, C. C. Rossi, Alejandro Gonzales, Amanda Worthington, and Holly Nicholls. Also, in Issue 3, appearing in Carnage House for the first time are Lindsey B. Goddard, Corinne Pollard, Basile Lebret, Valerie B. Williams, Kasey Hill, Nora B. Peevy, Jon Carroll Thomas, Aisling Campbell, Benjamin Kardos, Daniel R. Robichaud, Katharine Hanifen, Lee Culloty, and Michael Errol Swaim.
In this issue we have something special from Dr. Chris McAuley and Claudia Christian—a preview of their upcoming Dark Legacies series.
Issue #2 Launch
Josh Darling
Issue 2 will go live tonight, March 15h, around 11 PM EST!!!
Issue #2 launches March 15...
Josh Darling
Look out for stories from Dani Brown, Douglas Ford, Lisa Vasquez, Matthew Hollis Damon, Chris W. McGuinness, and Moaner Lawrence.
We Are Closed for Submissions
Josh Darling
We are currently closed for submissions. Due to the quality and quantity of what we have, it'll take us some time to sort through.
The War on Christmas Begins!
The Editors
Seeking winter holiday-themed stories set around Kwanzaa, Chanukah, and more, really any holiday including that one—extra points for killing Santa. The "War on Christmas" issue will include only a handful of stories, so get super gross with it.
DEADLINE: December 13, 2023.
Rocky Gets Reviewed
Josh Darling
Rocky Colavito whose story "Jailhouse Slop" appears in VOL 1. of Carnage House scored an awesome review of his book "Shards of Shattered Dolls" on Splatploitation check out the review here:
Coming Soon Illustrations!!!
Josh Darling
More stories are slowly getting posted as I'm getting the time to post them. Soon a few illustrations will be up for a handful of the stories. The drawings are done by the New York artist M.
We're Up and Running... ish.
Josh Darling
We didn't want to say that we were going to do something and then not do it...
There were a bunch of stepping stones that got tripped over along the way to getting the site up. Because the quality of the fiction that we're posting here is so important to us, a few more stories will be released over the next week or so.
On a fun and terrible side note, we're still bug crushing so give us a heads up if you see any here:
Oh yeah, we have a Facebook page, please like us while there's still space...