The Best of Carnage House Year One

by Jacque Day (Editor), Josh Darling (Editor), Valerie B. Williams

Each full moon, you turn into a fossilized Viking turd —how does your spouse react?
What if John Wick met the Sawyer family? How much of a slob do you have to be for
the ghost haunting your studio apartment to stage an intervention? Speaking of ghosts,
did you know they can give you STDs? And, would you know a Pukwudgie when you
saw it?

The authors in this compilation of vile, disgusting, and transgressive tales have
considered these questions —and more. Cozy, we are not. The stories within feed from
the bottom, a menagerie of splatterpunk, extreme horror, gore, and smut, with some
laughs thrown in for good measure. If you’re interested in the spaces where the dream
life meets the American nightmare story with more roaches than a Cheech and Chong
movie, check out this anthology.

Carefully selected by the editors of the Carnage House e-zine, the stories in The Best of
Carnage House Year One will make you gag, faint, scream, and belly-laugh, hopefully
all at once.

316 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2025

Reviews

[Basile Lebret]

I'm part of this anthology so i won't rate it but my personnal favorites include: Rebecca Cuthbert's Plea from the Ghost Haunting your One-Bedroom Queens Apartment that you Clean this Place the Fuck up, JP Townsend's the Badger Game, Chris Mcauley and Claudia Christian's The Mind of Evil and Emma Rose Darcy's Cindy.

[T.A. Jenkins · Rating 4 out of 5]

Overall, this was a fantastic read- there were some stories I felt were a little juvenile or undercooked, however the high quality of the majority more than made up for this. Some highlights for me were 'Plea from the Ghost Haunting Your One-Bedroom Queens Apartment That You Clean This Place the Fuck Up' by Rebecca Cuthbert, '20K' by Michelle Vizinau, and 'You'd Date a Guy' by Basile Lebret.

If you're a horror fan, I think you'll like this book; it's got something for everyone.