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Carnage House is a free online fiction web-zine, publishing the best splatterpunk, extreme horror, gore smut, and transgressive horror short stories —since 2023.
Founded by editors Josh Darling and Jacque Day, Carnage House exists to give a platform to the raw, the visceral, and the unapologetically extreme. No reviews. No ads. No AI-generated content. No bullshit. Just fiction that weeps guts — every story hand-selected by our editorial team for maximum impact.
THIS IS WHAT YOU get when you use a discount glory hole. Frank loved glory holes and was hooked into a network on the dark web, which provided locations where the service was available and the best times to go there. He should have been wary to go into the one that unexpectedly popped up a few miles from hi
THE PRESSURE ON HIS SPHINCTER was overwhelming, and Branch was just about to risk a charge of indecent exposure. He knew he’d fucked up horribly when he grabbed the bag of tacos from a regional chain that he’d never heard of. They had tasted all right going down, but they settled funny in his stomach and started talking
THE HEAVY, RHYTHMIC TICKING of the hallway grandfather clock was the only sound in Elias’s immaculate, white-tiled bathroom. A sterile sanctuary, smelling of clove oil and high-grade antiseptic.
Elias stood before the mirror, his reflection blurred by a thin film of steam. He ran a tongue—smooth and unimpeded—
THE TOWNSFOLK LEFT JUST ENOUGH of Catherine for Emma to consume. Emma’s tired, shaking hands hold her swollen belly as the water washes over her. The creek is a balm against the burn blisters scoring the bottoms of her feet. Her body is so heavy, so full with Catherine. She can feel her lover beneath her skin, s
BLOOD SPEWED OUT of my master’s mouth as the tramp smashed a dirty foot into his jaw. Master fell to the ground, hard, with a nasty crunch. The horrible mauve bruise spread across his face, coated in the filth from the kick that nearly killed him.
He somehow managed to haul his broken body to its feet. Drenched wit
IT’S NOT ALL SOUNDS THAT trigger my anxiety. Some sounds relax me. Like the steady drip, drip, drip of the old man’s blood on the floor beside me. It comforts me, because it assures me his daily assault on my eardrums is finally over. Forever. I don’t think I expected too much of t
BEREND BOTHA HAD HEARD tales in Sol Del Mar Country Club’s bar about a creature that could milk a man completely of cum.
“The beast would use its vagina and tail to manipulate the prostate, and once it’s latched, the beast does not let go until the man is spent,” the man said across from Botha.
Clyde B
AMELIA STOOD AT the bathroom doorframe, silently staring as Luna watched the rain pelt her bedroom window. The pale yellow of a streetlight leaked in. Luna always said there was something special about rain, the louder the better—the more it kept her mind from wandering into awful places.
Wrapped in her scarlet ba
THE BED SHEETS WERE saturated with blood. They stuck to his skin like glue as he rolled on his side. Rising out of bed, he pulled the covers back. “Shit,” he said. The bleeding was worse than ever. His bed looked like a murder scene. The stains were everywhere. The sheets hadn't been changed in months.
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“Basile Lebret’s writing seduces you with stunning metaphors and gut-punches you with bruta
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Joshua Meyers’s life has not been without struggles, but he finds solace in writing extreme horror—an endeavor that hasn’t made him wealthy, not exactly. But he and his family en
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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 submissions. Go here for more information: SUBMISSION! Our Submission Guidelines! or click "Navigation" in the menu and then "Submissions."
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."
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.
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