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Slaughterhouse Moan
The Winslow Farm is a dying slice of Americana. Run by the “Princess
of Pork,” Beulah Belle Winslow, the farm has seen better days. Along
with her deformed daughter Hattie, Beulah performs unspeakable acts to
keep the farm running. But will they be able to keep their dark secrets
hidden, or will the sins of the farm be thrust into the light?
Davey is a scumbag, and his father makes sure he knows it. With the
threat of jail looming, he needs to secure a job to keep his probation
officer off his case. When Davey takes a farmhand job at the Winslow
Farm, he soon realizes jail might not be the worst fate.
JD, Ari, Rich, and Danielle just want to finish out their senior year on
the sunny beaches of Florida, but a flat tire puts a damper on their plans.
With limited funds, and nowhere to turn, the teens find themselves stuck
in an old hunting cabin on the Winslow Farm. They soon find out that
the screams from the slaughterhouse are nothing compared to what lurks
in the woods.
of Pork,” Beulah Belle Winslow, the farm has seen better days. Along
with her deformed daughter Hattie, Beulah performs unspeakable acts to
keep the farm running. But will they be able to keep their dark secrets
hidden, or will the sins of the farm be thrust into the light?
Davey is a scumbag, and his father makes sure he knows it. With the
threat of jail looming, he needs to secure a job to keep his probation
officer off his case. When Davey takes a farmhand job at the Winslow
Farm, he soon realizes jail might not be the worst fate.
JD, Ari, Rich, and Danielle just want to finish out their senior year on
the sunny beaches of Florida, but a flat tire puts a damper on their plans.
With limited funds, and nowhere to turn, the teens find themselves stuck
in an old hunting cabin on the Winslow Farm. They soon find out that
the screams from the slaughterhouse are nothing compared to what lurks
in the woods.
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305 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 29, 2025
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July 16, 2025
Where do I begin?! This book was full of sex, gore, and straight up depravity. I was drawn in from the very beginning and could not put it down! The story telling was phenomenal and I am such a sucker for alternating timelines! I also loved the little mention of another character in the DJV universe that we know and love. That little detail made me giggle and kick my legs!
Huge shout out to King Volpe for making all my dreams come true and allowing me to be a character in a book. It was so surreal and i had so much fun with this one. By far my favorite Volpe read to date!
Huge shout out to King Volpe for making all my dreams come true and allowing me to be a character in a book. It was so surreal and i had so much fun with this one. By far my favorite Volpe read to date!
August 23, 2025
Another fantastic 5* read from Daniel. Probably the goriest and BY FAR the wettest, messiest, horniest, book I've read this year. Slaughterhouse Moan was just as much fun to read as RUNTS.
Beulah will do anything to keep her pig farm afloat and running. She blames her father for her fucked up life, but shes just as horrible to her own daughter.
Davey is a POS on probation that needs a job to keep his probation officer off his ass. And the Winslow Farm is hiring.
JD, Ari, Danielle, and Rich are 4 high-school graduates on their way to Florida when a flat tire puts them in the middle of a small town in Virginia. It'll take a couple days for the shop to get the tired delivered and installed, but the Winslow Farm has an old hunting cabin they can rent while they wait.
Hattie... the Unfortunate offspring of Beulah, blossoms into her own. She won't be used like her mother was, and won't allow herself to be deprived of what she wants.
Beulah will do anything to keep her pig farm afloat and running. She blames her father for her fucked up life, but shes just as horrible to her own daughter.
Davey is a POS on probation that needs a job to keep his probation officer off his ass. And the Winslow Farm is hiring.
JD, Ari, Danielle, and Rich are 4 high-school graduates on their way to Florida when a flat tire puts them in the middle of a small town in Virginia. It'll take a couple days for the shop to get the tired delivered and installed, but the Winslow Farm has an old hunting cabin they can rent while they wait.
Hattie... the Unfortunate offspring of Beulah, blossoms into her own. She won't be used like her mother was, and won't allow herself to be deprived of what she wants.
September 5, 2025
If you're looking for a slasher mixed with a lot of sex and weird sh*t, this is your book! This is why Volpe is my favorite author, he somehow combines words and makes sentences that are filled with debauchery and sex with undertones of mental health issues, psychological trauma, just regular trauma and THEN mixes it with gritty terrible characters you can either hate to love or love to hate and BOOM, you're Slaughterhouse Moaning.
There are a few different timelines and storylines happening in this book and they all get intertwined in a way that makes you a bit happier with how your life is going. One of our main characters is Davey, he's kind of a tool who whores around getting most women he wants with his charming smile and bad boy attitude and to appease his PO he finally finds a job. Not ideal, but it's going to be at a pig farm and he's going to be paid cash. He's also excited to learn about the hottie of a boss he'll have at the farm - Beulah.
Beulah has a tough story. Growing up on the farm with her father Shep Winslow was full of disgusting behavior including trying to pimp out his own daughter. When Beulah decided to escape from it and move away to the big city, she got into drugs and some nasty porn business and ended up getting pregnant with Hattie. As much as Beulah tried to get rid of Hattie (I'll save that part for you to read on your own), it turns out Hattie was resilient.
After many attempts to make it on her own outside the Winslow farm, Beulah unfortunately returns home. Things do not get much better but eventually Beulah is in charge of the farm all on her own. Right before the slaughter, a group of unexpected fresh high school graduates - super horny ones, too - happen to break down and the only place they can find nearby while their vehicle gets fixed is at the extra cabin at Winslow Farm.
Hattie has seen her mother do lude and nasty acts to "save" money at the farm but as she is coming-of-age she is getting curious and very interested in exploring her own body and even more interested in exploring the bodies of others. She has her eyes set on all the fresh faces that are on the Winslow Farm. But when things don't feel quite right or go her way she decides to unleash a little murderous surprise hidden deep within the basement. Oink, oink!
This one is fun. Enjoy it. Happy reading!
There are a few different timelines and storylines happening in this book and they all get intertwined in a way that makes you a bit happier with how your life is going. One of our main characters is Davey, he's kind of a tool who whores around getting most women he wants with his charming smile and bad boy attitude and to appease his PO he finally finds a job. Not ideal, but it's going to be at a pig farm and he's going to be paid cash. He's also excited to learn about the hottie of a boss he'll have at the farm - Beulah.
Beulah has a tough story. Growing up on the farm with her father Shep Winslow was full of disgusting behavior including trying to pimp out his own daughter. When Beulah decided to escape from it and move away to the big city, she got into drugs and some nasty porn business and ended up getting pregnant with Hattie. As much as Beulah tried to get rid of Hattie (I'll save that part for you to read on your own), it turns out Hattie was resilient.
After many attempts to make it on her own outside the Winslow farm, Beulah unfortunately returns home. Things do not get much better but eventually Beulah is in charge of the farm all on her own. Right before the slaughter, a group of unexpected fresh high school graduates - super horny ones, too - happen to break down and the only place they can find nearby while their vehicle gets fixed is at the extra cabin at Winslow Farm.
Hattie has seen her mother do lude and nasty acts to "save" money at the farm but as she is coming-of-age she is getting curious and very interested in exploring her own body and even more interested in exploring the bodies of others. She has her eyes set on all the fresh faces that are on the Winslow Farm. But when things don't feel quite right or go her way she decides to unleash a little murderous surprise hidden deep within the basement. Oink, oink!
This one is fun. Enjoy it. Happy reading!
July 17, 2025
In the summer of 2003, four friends are headed to Florida for one last hoorah before college, Davey needs a job to appease his parole officer, and Beulah is doing her best to keep her pig farm afloat while caring for her teenage daughter. Their lives are about to collide in an unexpected and terrifying way.
Beulah Winslow lived a hard life of drug abuse and sexual escapades in New York before taking over the family pig farm after her father up and left. Her daughter, Hattie, unfortunately, bears the scars of her bad decisions; literally. Davey is a local loser in his thirties who desperately needs a job. Desperate to keep his parole officer off his back and himself out of prison, he takes a job as a farmhand on the Winslow farm. JD, Ari, Danielle, and Rich are on their way to Florida for one last hoorah before the end of their senior year. Unfortunately, a flat tire leaves them stranded in a cabin on the Winslow farm. None of these poor souls are ready for the absolute terror that lurks in the slaughterhouse.
On the surface, Slaughterhouse Moan is a small-town slasher with an early 2000s vibe. Volpe managed to take the “five friends in a spooky location” trope, rip it apart, and reconstruct it in a new, imaginative way. Like any other typical slasher, you would expect a story like this to have the teens as the primary focus. Instead, the real story comes from Beulah and Hattie and their lives in New York, told through flashback chapters. While Davey and the teens may seem like secondary characters, they represent the consequences of Beulah’s choices. I also appreciate the fact that Volpe didn’t give the teens the typical horror archetypes like the stoner, the jock, the slut, and the brainiac.
Being a modern splatterpunk novel, there are some devices you would expect, such as extreme gore and disgusting prose. More often than not, they only serve to provide shock value or solidify a splatterpunk classification and rarely add anything of value to the story. Volpe, thankfully, managed to limit the extreme to the moments that call for it and avoids going so over the top that it becomes silly.
He also did something I’ve rarely seen done in modern splatterpunk, which is limit the sexual assaults to off-page. I’m almost inclined to label this as refined splatterpunk. I think Kristopher Triana and Oscar Brady also fit into this category. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy my over-the-top extreme horror like Playground and No One Rides for Free, but I also like having options.
Slaughterhouse Moan is a grotesque and brilliant horror story that drives home the old saying, ‘you reap what you sew.’ If you are a lover of psychological horror or body horror and you’re looking for something with a bit more umph, this is the read for you. Daniel J. Volpe is well on his way to becoming this generation’s Jack Ketchum.
Beulah Winslow lived a hard life of drug abuse and sexual escapades in New York before taking over the family pig farm after her father up and left. Her daughter, Hattie, unfortunately, bears the scars of her bad decisions; literally. Davey is a local loser in his thirties who desperately needs a job. Desperate to keep his parole officer off his back and himself out of prison, he takes a job as a farmhand on the Winslow farm. JD, Ari, Danielle, and Rich are on their way to Florida for one last hoorah before the end of their senior year. Unfortunately, a flat tire leaves them stranded in a cabin on the Winslow farm. None of these poor souls are ready for the absolute terror that lurks in the slaughterhouse.
On the surface, Slaughterhouse Moan is a small-town slasher with an early 2000s vibe. Volpe managed to take the “five friends in a spooky location” trope, rip it apart, and reconstruct it in a new, imaginative way. Like any other typical slasher, you would expect a story like this to have the teens as the primary focus. Instead, the real story comes from Beulah and Hattie and their lives in New York, told through flashback chapters. While Davey and the teens may seem like secondary characters, they represent the consequences of Beulah’s choices. I also appreciate the fact that Volpe didn’t give the teens the typical horror archetypes like the stoner, the jock, the slut, and the brainiac.
Being a modern splatterpunk novel, there are some devices you would expect, such as extreme gore and disgusting prose. More often than not, they only serve to provide shock value or solidify a splatterpunk classification and rarely add anything of value to the story. Volpe, thankfully, managed to limit the extreme to the moments that call for it and avoids going so over the top that it becomes silly.
He also did something I’ve rarely seen done in modern splatterpunk, which is limit the sexual assaults to off-page. I’m almost inclined to label this as refined splatterpunk. I think Kristopher Triana and Oscar Brady also fit into this category. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy my over-the-top extreme horror like Playground and No One Rides for Free, but I also like having options.
Slaughterhouse Moan is a grotesque and brilliant horror story that drives home the old saying, ‘you reap what you sew.’ If you are a lover of psychological horror or body horror and you’re looking for something with a bit more umph, this is the read for you. Daniel J. Volpe is well on his way to becoming this generation’s Jack Ketchum.
November 3, 2025
Slaughter House Moan
Volpe is one of my ultimate favs, I pre-ordered this in what seems like forever ago but only just got to it…It was so worth the wait though!!!
Winslow Farm, a place full of secrets. Run by Beulah Winslow, it’s a family moto that you do whatever you have to do to survive & following her father’s footsteps that means using sex as a bargaining tool… even if it’s not using her but her deformed daughter, Hattie 😔
Now the farm is in trouble, they need extra help until the slaughter. Hiring people & renting out their cabin to give them that boost seems like a normal thing to do…
Yeahhh these new guests & employee will soon disagree! The farm is full of dark twisted secrets, that none of them could of ever imagined 🫣🤯
Ohhh the way this was told was perfection! I was hooked from the very first chapter! I loved it so much, I didn’t want it to end!! I felt sooo many different ways throughout it!! More so for Beulah! I felt sorrow for her past but hatred for her present. Poor Hattie didn’t deserve the life she gave her 🫣
The characters are so well written, you get to know each personality so quick & you know who you’re going to love & who you’re going to hate from the get go. The men in this book pmo sooo bad, all of them were like horny teenagers with no respect! When you feel so strongly on characters it just shows the sign’s of an amazing author!
And the ending 😱 give me morrrrrrre 👏🏼
Brilliant read! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ check your triggers! 🤎
Volpe is one of my ultimate favs, I pre-ordered this in what seems like forever ago but only just got to it…It was so worth the wait though!!!
Winslow Farm, a place full of secrets. Run by Beulah Winslow, it’s a family moto that you do whatever you have to do to survive & following her father’s footsteps that means using sex as a bargaining tool… even if it’s not using her but her deformed daughter, Hattie 😔
Now the farm is in trouble, they need extra help until the slaughter. Hiring people & renting out their cabin to give them that boost seems like a normal thing to do…
Yeahhh these new guests & employee will soon disagree! The farm is full of dark twisted secrets, that none of them could of ever imagined 🫣🤯
Ohhh the way this was told was perfection! I was hooked from the very first chapter! I loved it so much, I didn’t want it to end!! I felt sooo many different ways throughout it!! More so for Beulah! I felt sorrow for her past but hatred for her present. Poor Hattie didn’t deserve the life she gave her 🫣
The characters are so well written, you get to know each personality so quick & you know who you’re going to love & who you’re going to hate from the get go. The men in this book pmo sooo bad, all of them were like horny teenagers with no respect! When you feel so strongly on characters it just shows the sign’s of an amazing author!
And the ending 😱 give me morrrrrrre 👏🏼
Brilliant read! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ check your triggers! 🤎
August 21, 2025
3.5/5 rounded up.
Four teenagers are headed to Florida for one last vacation before their lives change and they all move away to college. Local womanizer and drunk, Davey, needs to find a job to appease his parole officer. All the while Beulah is struggling to keep her families pig farm afloat while raising her only daughter. All their lives collide in one terrifying blood bath.
Okay, with a name like Slaughterhouse Moan I was hoping for more of a Slaughter vibe... and maybe a little bit of a moan vibe but this book gave me more moan and less Slaughter. While this book does primarily take place at a pig farm/slaughterhouse I really missed that slasher and slaughter vibe.
The story line of this book was really truly thought out. You can tell that Volpe put a lot of time and effort into this story. I really enjoyed the nostalgia feeling that this book gave me in regards to an old school slasher with some creature feature added in. The storyline of people being the true monster was very well done and I do love to see that in a horror book.
I think where this book fell flat for me was honestly the horror aspects. There is a lot of sexual depravity throughout this story and while it is mostly fade to black it just at times got overwhelming and repetitive. As previously stated I did enjoy the aspect of humans being the true monsters... I just wish we would have gotten a little bit more of the actual monster. The monster aspects of this story were well written and I was just wishing for more. I also don't think Volpe incorporated the Slaughterhouse part of the book enough for me. There was an entire slaughterhouse available and not many kills take place in it.
While I wish we did have more of a monster read, I do recommend this book to anyone thinking of taking a summer road trip where anything could go wrong...
Four teenagers are headed to Florida for one last vacation before their lives change and they all move away to college. Local womanizer and drunk, Davey, needs to find a job to appease his parole officer. All the while Beulah is struggling to keep her families pig farm afloat while raising her only daughter. All their lives collide in one terrifying blood bath.
Okay, with a name like Slaughterhouse Moan I was hoping for more of a Slaughter vibe... and maybe a little bit of a moan vibe but this book gave me more moan and less Slaughter. While this book does primarily take place at a pig farm/slaughterhouse I really missed that slasher and slaughter vibe.
The story line of this book was really truly thought out. You can tell that Volpe put a lot of time and effort into this story. I really enjoyed the nostalgia feeling that this book gave me in regards to an old school slasher with some creature feature added in. The storyline of people being the true monster was very well done and I do love to see that in a horror book.
I think where this book fell flat for me was honestly the horror aspects. There is a lot of sexual depravity throughout this story and while it is mostly fade to black it just at times got overwhelming and repetitive. As previously stated I did enjoy the aspect of humans being the true monsters... I just wish we would have gotten a little bit more of the actual monster. The monster aspects of this story were well written and I was just wishing for more. I also don't think Volpe incorporated the Slaughterhouse part of the book enough for me. There was an entire slaughterhouse available and not many kills take place in it.
While I wish we did have more of a monster read, I do recommend this book to anyone thinking of taking a summer road trip where anything could go wrong...
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August 29, 2025
Slaughterhouse Moan primarily takes place on the Winslow Farm, which is run by the "Prinsess of Pork," Beulah Belle Winslow, and her deformed daughter Hattie. Between these 2, there are some disturbing things happening aside from the slaughtering of hogs.
The story also follows a womanizer (Davey) starting a job as a farmhand on the Winslow Farm just in time to help with the slaughter.
A group of high school seniors (JD, Ari, Rich, and Danielle) whose trip to Florida was postponed due to a flat tire. Unlucky for them, they get a cheap stay in a hunting cabin owned by Beulah on her farm.
Volpe slams his foot on the gas and never lets up in this disturbingly sexy gore filled masterpiece. Every time I thought I knew where the story was going, I was pleasantly surprised it took a completely different turn. I highly recommend giving this one a try for lovers of splatterpunk.
The story also follows a womanizer (Davey) starting a job as a farmhand on the Winslow Farm just in time to help with the slaughter.
A group of high school seniors (JD, Ari, Rich, and Danielle) whose trip to Florida was postponed due to a flat tire. Unlucky for them, they get a cheap stay in a hunting cabin owned by Beulah on her farm.
Volpe slams his foot on the gas and never lets up in this disturbingly sexy gore filled masterpiece. Every time I thought I knew where the story was going, I was pleasantly surprised it took a completely different turn. I highly recommend giving this one a try for lovers of splatterpunk.
October 17, 2025
This was a fun read. This was a pretty grotesque read.
Farm life isn’t for everyone, and for this farm woman, things haven’t been normal since the farmer lost her father, who was the previous farmer of this land. Meanwhile, a group of college kids have a car breakdown and must stay on the farm’s extra cabin until their car is back to working. The farmer’s daughter has other plans though.
This was a fun read. Daniel J Volpe’s version of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. It was a blast!
4/5 stars. I removed one star because I do wish there was a bit more brutality to this one. That’s nitpicking though.
Farm life isn’t for everyone, and for this farm woman, things haven’t been normal since the farmer lost her father, who was the previous farmer of this land. Meanwhile, a group of college kids have a car breakdown and must stay on the farm’s extra cabin until their car is back to working. The farmer’s daughter has other plans though.
This was a fun read. Daniel J Volpe’s version of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. It was a blast!
4/5 stars. I removed one star because I do wish there was a bit more brutality to this one. That’s nitpicking though.
September 7, 2025
Very entertaining! I ate this up in less than 24 hours. If you’re a fan of backwoods slasher/gore type horror (think Wrong Turn and Texas Chainsaw Massacre), you’ll enjoy this! This read like a fantastic B rate horror flick (and that’s a good thing!) Be prepared for blood & violence, mutants, SA, sex scenes aplenty, animal killing, child abuse, etc.
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September 16, 2025
This book I think is Daniel Volpe best book so far. The gore is superb and it has beastiality. The author did tribute his book to Ed Lee. I read a few of his books but haven't gotten to The Pig yet. it is currently sitting on my bookshelf collecting dust. I'm sure I'll read it before the year ends.
October 1, 2025
Slaughterhouse Moan is absolute filth from start to finish, full of extremely explicit sex scenes and gore straight out of a slasher movie! A great plot exploring themes of dynasty and disturbing power dynamics, coupled with its cast of memorable characters, elevates it to its place among the great novels of the modern extreme horror genre.
October 5, 2025
Slaughterhouse Moan is a fun and gory, slasher novel that gives off strong vibes from some of our favorite '80s and '90s horror movies. With plenty of spicy moments, and others that want to make you gag, thrown in. Not much else to say about this except that it is enjoyable from start to finish. highly recommended!
November 23, 2025
Volpe delivers. A deprived past chews its way into the future and consumes what’s left of a family living on the edge of darkness. Vivid description, visceral confrontations, all in the classic style that Volpe transforms the page into a nightmarish mindscape. Indie horror is in good hands!
September 5, 2025
Stunned 😳
This was wow, I have no words really besides definitely take a chance and read this!! Had a few turns that I was like damn!!! Amazing book!!!
This was wow, I have no words really besides definitely take a chance and read this!! Had a few turns that I was like damn!!! Amazing book!!!
September 7, 2025
Well....Volpe just gave me horrendous ideas on how to use my animal anatomy knowledge. Thanks? This book was weird and gross but so engaging.
November 15, 2025
best smut so far
December 9, 2025
“Filth,filth,filth. I love it”
December 27, 2025
This book was twisted, gross, full of gore and WTF moments and I loved every part of it. Daniel J Volpe is one of those authors that when they say they have a new book coming out I have to have it right away and I am never disapointed. This one had such great characters and a crazy premise it worked in all the right ways.
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