Deep at the center of the darkness that is Ravencroft Sanatorium, there sits a creature of unrelenting evil. A foul abomination, born of the union between twisted human psychoses and a symbiotic lifeform from the stars. He is madness. He is chaos. He is Carnage! Now, one man will peer into the blackened soul of Cletus Kasady, determined to uncover the forces that drive his maniacal lusts, and attempt the impossible: the rehabilitation of Carnage!