Absorbed by Excrement

by Michael Errol Swaim

When the boundary between life and art collapses, is anyone safe?.

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

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LMS

by Basile Lebret

The end of the fucking world can only get worse, I promise.

PETR AWOKE TO THE sounds of lonely car alarms blaring far off in the distance. For a moment, he wondered if it was the reason behind his sleep disruption. Unable to arrive at a clear answer, he let his right arm fall on Ivanna’s side. The gentle curve of her hip calmed him for a while. In the moist darkness he tried to synchronize his breathing w READ MORE...

Taco Tim Too: With Hot Sauce

by Penny Blood

Now the shit’s hitting the fan big time, and it’s still spreading.

A sequel to Taco Tim, which appeared in Carnage House Issue #7.

“FUCKIN’ HELL JUS’SIT down ‘n shut up. How many times’ve I gotta say it?” The Nurse pressed her thick breadstick fingers in a fan across Fred’s chest, forcing him to li READ MORE...

The Curse of Being Beautiful

by Elsbeth Eden

Gods guard beauty, and damn any who dare to possess it.

THE CARVING IS BEAUTIFUL. Why can’t I carve? The details are perfect, crisp as the day they were chipped from the granite four generations ago.

She is the epitome of beauty. Her statue looms to the left of the dark opening. A pointed archway into the unknown.

Though it READ MORE...

Daddy’s House

by Thomas Stewart

Inside Daddy’s house is pure hell.

I CAN’T HELP MYSELF and keep swinging the ax, reducing his face further and further to red paste. One of his eyes stares at me with a panicked look. I glare back.

My arms ache. My knees buckle. My mind tells my body to keep going. That he’s not dead, not yet. His body is still twitching. I want it to stop. No rising or falling, READ MORE...

The Artist

by Christopher Michael Blake

In the hands of the Artist every death is a piece of art.

PEOPLE ARE SUCH FOUL creatures. Physically, they are grotesque. They disgust me. Pounds of excess fat carelessly hanging from their obese bodies, along with sprouts of hair follicles springing up everywhere on their skin. Then there are the clumps of leftover food littering their crooked yellow teeth. If you even thought about getting close to a pe READ MORE...

The Green and Red Dragon Tattoo

by Laura Shell

A misogynist gets his comeuppance from the special ink of a tattoo.

SHANE DIDN’T LIKE THIS guy one bit. Within ten minutes of tattooing the back of his right calf, he’d proven to be the largest misogynistic asshole Shane had ever met. So Shane brought out the special ink.

“Hey guy, I work better if it’s quiet in here,” Shane said.

“Oh, okay. But you have to admit that Kim Kardashian has li READ MORE...

Reciprocity

by Chantell Renee

She hates Easy Cheese, and it’s her way out of a hopeless life.

“I’m leaving,” Cecily said.

But her words were lost in the face of his rage.

Behind him, the gas flame flickered on the stovetop. Cecily wasn’t much of a cook, but she’d managed to not burn the Hamburger Helper this time. It didn’t matter. He’d grabbed the pan and thrown it at the wall with all his might. Now, the grou READ MORE...

The Last Course

by Chris McAuley

When you have bitten off more than you can chew...

CAMERON VOSS HAD BEEN a god once—or as close as the digital age allowed.

Twenty-seven years old, six million followers on YouTube, nearly eleven million on TikTok. He wasn’t a comedian. He wasn’t a chef. He wasn’t a game dev.

He was just...there. A face. A laugh. A constant presence in the algorithm’s bloodstream. READ MORE...

Absorbed by Excrement

by Michael Errol Swaim

When the boundary between life and art collapses, is anyone safe?

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

Joshua Meyers’s life has not been without struggles, but he finds solace in writing extreme hor READ MORE...







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We Released Another Book

Josh Darling

Carnage House has released our first novella, "Absorbed by Excrement" by Michael Errol Swaim. This is our first release, and hopefully not the last, we'll be publishing that's not a collection. You can find it either on Amazon or Godless.com.

Our year 2 has officially ended, and we're looking to start assembling "The Best Carnage House Year Two" for a November release. Which also means, we are not looking for stories for "The Best of Carnage House Year Three," and we are open for submissions!

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 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!!!

+20 plus fresh stories of gore and terror from Douglas Ford, Dani Brown, Lisa Vasquez, Moaner T. Lawrence, Michelle Vizinau, Chris W. McGuinness, Ken Hueler, Matthew Hollis Damon, and others!

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:

YOUTUBE STUFF!!!.

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...