Tatters: Extreme Horror by Ash Ericmore

Tatters: Extreme Horror Reviews

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  Leeanne 🥀 The Book Whor3 🥀

  Harold is an “old school” clown, who likes nothing more than jumping out of the bushes at night (in full clown gear) and scaring people.
  
  One night, things don’t go swimmingly for him, and he is attacked. From then, Harold, along with his “friend” ‘Howdy The Magnificent’, go out to seek bloody revenge, and “bring back the fear!”
  
  I used to be scared of clowns but I’m obsessed with the ones we meet in Ash Ericmore’s books. I really feel for Harold, who is lonely, and obviously has some serious issues, but also a decent heart.
  
  This is a great little novella, which isn’t full on extreme, which we have come to expect from the author, but it still has some triggers, and a fare bit of gore. You also get to see into the life of a clown and can really empathise with Harold...well I could anyway!!
  
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  5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
  
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  Robyn

  Read this due to a nasty tiktok review saying this book needed to be burned.
  
  I have one thing to say “I’m tatters the clown bitch”
  
  If you love splatterpunk, clowns and straight up horror this book is for you! It’s full of trigger and content warnings. You name it it’s got it in. I loved every second of this book and the ending was so good. The phycological aspect of this was very well done.
  
  I only wish this was a little longer!
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  Stitching Ghost

  My reading was interrupted a number of time that's simply beyond human comprehension every single time I picked up this title. I want the world to know that if I ever go full evil this was where it happened, when I had to reread the same paragraph for the 15th time for the 28th time in a row.
  
  Now that my villain origin story is out of the way. Tatters is a short, delightfully violent, and bleak tale of a clown having one heck of a day. It's dark, it's gritty, it's funny and I loved everything about it.
  
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  Leah

  If you're a reader of any decent lit, this is... lackluster. There are spelling errors, grammatical errors and a very real lack of more developed plot, characters and "atmos" as he puts it.
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  Casey M

  As far as extreme horror goes this was really tame. I've seen people saying it's one of the most disgusting and awful books they've ever read and I don't see it. I was bored through this book.
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  Stephen Cooper

  Love how British this one is. Feels like it should be read with a nice cup of tea. Always a fan of Ash's writing and really enjoyed this quick brutal story about a clown that just wants to scare people, but ultimately goes a teeny tiny bit to far. Great fun.
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  Tony

  this was ... fine? as someone who reads extreme horror/splatterpunk quite a bit, i thought the actual violence going on in here was kind of mid, but i mean. certainly nothing to take lightly. if you want to try reading a splatterpunk book, try this. if you don't like gore and violence and general gross shit that's got excel spreadsheets of trigger warnings... don't.
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  CarlysGrowingTBR

  I honestly picked this up based on a negative review, claiming it was way too gory and just plain disgusting. It's clear that the person who wrote that had never read extreme horror before.
  
  Tatters follows Harold, who is an old-school clowner. But honestly, that profession is extremely outdated and so is Harold. Harold suffered a traumatic brain injury as a child, which resulted in him having an alter ego, or an invisible friend, that only he can talk to and see. This character is named howdy, the clown. And howdy wants Harold to bring back the fear. Bring back the old school horror that accompanies the old school clowners. This sets Harold off on a killing spree of disastrous proportions. This book definitely has body horror, animal, death, gore, dismemberment, etc. I found this to be an extremely interesting and fun book, but it was definitely middle of the road. It was definitely not as bad as others I've read, but it was still compelling enough that I enjoyed my Read. I would say this is a very good entry to extreme horror because it is a quick read, and it covers a lot of the bases of extreme horror in general.
  
  
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  Optimisticbooknerd

  3 ⭐️
  
  Such a weird little book. however the extremeness was good, I don't have thoughts but clowns freak me out soooo lmao
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  Brandy Brusseau

  Clowns! I hate clowns but love reading stories about them! Well-written and fast paced. Another short but fun read from Ash.
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  Noelia

  una lectura suuuper rápida y entretenida y tampoco es tan gore como lo pinta la gente tiene sus descripciones gráficas pero tampoco es para sorprenderse y en general el prota muy bueno literalmente fighting his demons y solo daña a la gente que le ha hecho daño y no quiere causar mal a nadie más muy bueno me da mucha pena
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  Phyllica W

  CLOWNS!!! I love clowns.
  I love the horror and the extreme horror genre, so no surprise I enjoyed this dark and twisted novella. Since this book was so short, I felt it could have even been pushed further. I did however enjoy the underlying aspect of seeing another entity and the mental anguish Harold is going through.
  Another great horror read!
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  Daniel Bayer

  Wow
  
  This book was exciting. Like always, Ash delivered something I won't soon forget. It had everything I love; clowns, laughs, and lots of blood and death. The twist at the end was definitely chefs kiss, and I did not see it coming.
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  Ashley Hana

  I feel like this had so much potential, but it was fairly boring. I also hated the animal abuse (didn't let this influence my rating though, as this is just too much for me personally). But as always, the writing style was still great!
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  Rachel

  *I'm not going to give you the 'what this book is about' blurb - you can read that elsewhere.
  
  1. Ash and his creepy clowns 🖤. This clown is quite different than those in the Carnie trilogy, however.
  2. The twist! I did not see that coming.
  3. I love Ash's writing; it's always such great fun, full of dark humor and good old-fashioned gore. His novellas tend to be a bit more 'surface' in writing. Now, don't get me wrong, I love them, but there's not always a deep meaning behind them; they're quick, and they're brutal. His novels are different though, the man (skeleton?) can craft a heck of an engaging plot. In this novella, there was a vein of that serious/deeper meaning that we see in his novels, and I am here👏for👏it👏. I can't say much more without giving things away. Honestly, novel or novella Ash is an author you can't go wrong with!
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  The_Macabre_Reader

  🤡 🎈🩸Book Review 🩸🎈🤡
  
  Summary: Harold misses the good ol' days when people would run screaming at a clown smiling from the bushes. With the help of his buddy Howdy the Magnificent, maybe it's time to bring back the fear...
  
  Thoughts: I went into this novella completely blind. I saw a booktok reviewer slamming it for being "totally f*cked up and beyond disgusting". Naturally I downloaded it right away.
  It was decent, it definitely qualifies as splatter-punk and is a quick fun read. Was it the most disturbing book I've read? No. I wanted a little more disturbance lol but over all a good little read.
  
  Would I recommend it? Yes, I would actually (coming from someone who hates clowns). HOWEVER, check your triggers ⚠️. There is graphic content, if you're not familiar with splatter-punk then maybe skip this one 😅
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  Holly Horror

  Clown revenge
  
  Poor Harold. He spends his nights all dressed up in his clown costume, standing in the shadows of a park to scare those who wander by at night. But it's not the same anymore. No, people just don't fear clowns like they used to. After an altercation in the park with some punks, Howdy, a clown living inside Harolds head, urges Harold to "bring back the fear," so he does just that.
  Suited up in his clown costume, Harold, or Tatters as he's now named himself, along with Howdy, set off on their mission to bring back the fear people once had of clowns, leaving lots violence and blood in their wake.
  Tatters was a quick, gory, and comical story easily read in a couple of hours.
  
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  Shaun Wilson

  Tatters by ash Ericomore was an interesting read. I was drawn to it solely based on the cover and my love for clowns. Although I predicted part of the ending, I was taken aback by how it was executed, which truly saved this book from receiving the 3 stars I had originally intended to give it. This was primarily due to some poor editing, such as repeated words, for example in Chapter 13: “but that was how this had played out played out, hadn’t it?” There were a few other instances like this, as well as other wording that disrupted the overall flow. Despite that, I thoroughly enjoyed the story and will definitely give this author another shot.
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  Erica Summers

  I love Ash Ericmore's humorous horror style so much. I find myself laughing in the midst of a really depraved scene and I just love that. Its a delicate blend and I think Ash walks that fine line perfectly. Tatters is such a fun extreme tale of a clown who just wants to make people fear clowns like they once did. No one takes this clown (named Tatters after an unfortunate incident with a dog) seriously, but they certainly should because Tatters only has one thing on his mind: rekindling the flames of fear in suburbia.
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  D.H. Jonathan

  Extreme
  
  I saw a video on TikTok of a guy talking about how disgusting this story was and that no one should read it. And then two responses to that video, both by women, defending it as a great example of “extreme horror” (which is stated on the cover of the book). So I decided to see for myself seeing as how this was on Kindle Unlimited and would cost me anything.
  
  Tatters was a deep examination into loneliness and mental/emotional disorders. And it was graphic but not as extreme as I was expecting.
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  Carmen

  Looks as if nobody proofread the book at all. The author tried hard to tie in humor, but it just did not work for it. The book also broadcasts “extreme horror,” but everything was very overused and predictable. There was nothing disturbing about the images being described.
  
  I made this purchase based off of a FB group recommending it and I wish I would’ve read the reviews closer. It was a quick read, — only 80-ish pages, — I just wouldn’t have spent my money on it.
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  Clariece

  I enjoyed this book but it’s not extreme unless your scared of clowns I guess. The writing I enjoyed I expected the ending from the beginning.
  Overall, I think it would be a great Halloween read if your looking for something not ridiculous when it comes to the extreme horror genre, so I give 3 stars over all.
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  Hannah

  I was in a reading slump, and this short horror brought me right. I read it in one sitting and enjoyed it. It's tamer than some other extreme horror's I've read but it got the point across. I saw the tiktok review bashing it, which is why it caught my interest but as an avid horror watcher and reader I really enjoyed it.