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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.
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
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.
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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
I WAS NEVER PARTICULARLY proud of the fact that my father, whenever he could, wallowed in silicone-based lubricant scraped out of other people’s asses. My mother probably wasn’t proud either—that’s why she left him. Of course, she left me behind as well, while I was still an infant, before I had spoken my first word
SALLY AND HER FRIENDS were stranded on the road next to the woods. She was with Tara, Bobby, and Clyde. Since twilight, they had gotten caught in traffic on the highway before hitting the exit. A one-hour trip turned into three.
“I’m telling you guys that’s not going to work,” Tara said. She watched as the gu
SHE SAID IT SUDDENLY as they watched the herd of zombies shuffle down the street, three stories down, from their apartment window. This was the second lockdown Billy had experienced in his lifetime. During the first lockdown, Viola and Billy tried anal, which Billy thought he would like. Viola refused to use lube on the
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.
My body was trash before I had words for it. In our house, trash was holy. It fed the worm god long before I knew its name. The first time I saw my grandfather smile, his mouth was full of my shit.
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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
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Each full moon, you turn into a fossilized Viking turd —how does your spouse react?
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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