Cult by Ash Ericmore

Cult Reviews

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  Khalid Abdul-Mumin

  What a sick gore-fest of depravity!!!
  
  Mr. Ash Ericmore has a very unique and splendid facility to blend the ordinary and the macabre, the totally brutal, abhorrent and the disgusting with a nice and much needed reprieve of black humour.
  
  It's absolutely sick and funny at the same time (this is quite unseemly but I love it!).
  
  I present you with a sort of sanitized snippet from the book.

  After a second of silence, Sam’s father began to scream so loudly it rounded the ball-gag and could probably have been heard in the flat above. Blood erupted from between his legs, mixing with the piss at first and then overtaking it, dripping from the chair to the carpet, trickling down his legs. He bit down on the gag so hard, his front teeth cracked, and one split in half, splitting his gum and causing a torrent of blood from his mouth.

  Cult begins with a family of three moving into a seaside apartment block where they unfortunately encounter a group of people with truly sick predispositions.
  
  This is their daughters' story. I'll highly recommend this to extreme horror affictioniados, happy reading. I've definitely gotten a new sub-genre to wallow in. NOT!!! for the faint of heart at all.
  
  2022 Read
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  Peter

  Sam (not West, LOL) and her family move into a cheap high rise on the coast from their former London home. Strange things are going on there. When Sam is kidnapped and her parents are murdered the situation is getting tight. Will she find and ally and come out of it alive? The story sounds compelling but was paper thin and a bit worn. Primarily it was about incest and using Sam as a new breeding vessel... you can imagine how descriptive those parts were (but even here nothing new under the sun). It was okay but there is better stuff out there for this kind of genre (okay, I came from reading Sam West). At least the cover was good and alluring and it was quickly finished.
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  Janie

  A family of three moves to a shabby council tower block that looks as ominous as it feels. They are pursued by a cult that rules the block in a most violent and bloodthirsty regime. The daughter, Sam, tries the best she can to protect her parents and to survive the cruel "family" that wants her to join them. If you fear for your life, consider one thing when looking for a new home: location, location, location!
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  Leeanne 🥀 The Book Whor3 🥀

  CULT!!
  
  Well, that was a f***** up little read!! Full of incestuous sex, gore, blood, violence and depravity.....and I loved it!!
  Sam moved to a run down apartment building with her parents, from beautiful Camden, and is thrust into a nightmare with the building being run by an elderly sadist ‘Nanny’, who wants to keep the family bloodline alive!! This was a short story but was a complete hoot and packed full of all the ‘good’ stuff!! Definitely NOT the type of place I’d move to!
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  MadameD

  Cult by Ash Ericmore is a good extreme horror story.. The torture scenes are very well described. It was so realistic I recommend it.
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  Hail Hydra! ~Dave Anderson~

  “Will you remember my mum when you’re drinking this? Open wide.”
  And Noah stabbed him in the dick.
  Peter screamed and Sam squirted the liquid down his throat. When it hit the gag reflex he started to choke.
  Noah came back around. “I lost the knife. It’s kinda hanging outta his dick and I ain’t getting close enough to retrieve it.”
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  Ian

  A fun, but violent, short tale about a ‘Cult’ group that take control of a high rise apartment block that deal out their own brand of punishment to anyone that refuses to fall into line and follow their special rules and directives.
  
  Sam and her parents have arrived to take occupancy of their new home and it’s not long before they fall foul of some of the local residents which soon leads into experiencing a welcome that they will truly never forget.
  
  An entertaining, yet highly improbable, piece of pure escapism which has more than a touch of the original ‘Die Hard’ movie about it. Slightly disappointed with the convenient ending that felt a little rushed and also appeared to provide a rather abrupt and incomplete halt to affairs.
  
  Rating: 3.1 stars.
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  Mindy

  Okay so. Dnf at 45%. Want my honest thoughts and burning feelings on this book? Check StoryGraph.
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  Nicole

  Love the spunky heroine in this one..
  
  So I asked around for some recommendations. A reading friend pointed out she had not seen any Ash Ericmore titles in my reviews. I was having a weird day and kept messing up the name. Searched several times for "Eric Ashmore" and was starting to think she was playing a trick lol Thankfully I got that sorted out. You can believe i won't forget his name again. What a wild ride!
  Absolutely love the main character in this one. She is spunky and sarcastic and tough as nails. Cannot wait to read more by this author.
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  Shadow Girl

  RTC
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  Dakota Dawe

  Cult is a fast paced rollercoaster, going 60 miles an hour with all the loops, drops, and whiplash you can handle. Think backwoods inbred hillbillies, but give them a UK accent and have them all live under one giant roof, taking in new tenants to either recruit or use as breeding cows. The book is as wild as it sounds!
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  Lindsay Crook

  Loved it
  
  Another bloody vote fest...Who doesn't love a good incestuous cult in a block of flats..This one is going in my favourites pile.I'd of liked a little more from Noah but it didn't take from the story which made my black soul happy.
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  Sharon Leung

  Good short read
  
  I enjoyed this read, it was simple, to the point , with plenty of action. I enjoyed the surprise near the beginning, and I definitely will be checking air vents no matter where I see them. Also love the nan, she made me laugh. I think I know of a few women whom would like to be in her shoes concerning certain things. But loved her character, although I can't say I enjoyed a lot of what she did. It definitely made me cringe in parts. All in all it was a fast paced nasty read that I thoroughly enjoyed. I would recommend.
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  Tara Losacano

  This was a nasty tale of brutality and revenge! I never know what I'm going to get when reading Ericmore and it always makes for an exciting read. I do, however, know it'll be intense, it'll be violent, and it'll be brutal.. and those are some of my favorite things in a horror book! 4/5 decapitated skulls 💀
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  Mark Alexander

  Another great read from the author! Violent, creepy, gross and yet in places oddly...erotic?
  Some good humour in places as usual.
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  PaigeReads

  3 ⭐️
  
  I enjoyed this one a lot more than the first of his that I read. I really liked the main character and the pacing was super quick.
  
  Loved the ending. So fucked up
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  linnea — lnnvs

  definitely a whole lot of content warnigns for this one, it really had me questioning human kind at certain points.. like, a lot..👹a little bummed out about a certain death that just felt *too easy* and the ending was a bit rushed, a few more pages would’ve been the finishing touch in both those instances. other than that, very enjoyable and such a quick entertaining read!
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  Lee Crucefix

  This story is brutal but such a fun read, if you have a strong stomach i can't recomend it enough
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  Tilly

  I’m so grateful for this book recommendation because I would never have found this book! It’s a great short, very dark read. Now I’m on to the next.
  If you haven’t got an open mind. Have lots of triggers. This book isn’t for you.
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  ❤ArtfullySinful❤

  “Welcome to the Court of Lanner.”
  
  When her family fell on hard times, Sam and her parents; Lillian and Roger found themselves so far removed from the elegance they once lived. Now, they find themselves in a dilapidated apartment complex full of disgusting furniture left behind and neighbors who are anything but friendly. Only six months her father said as he struggled to get back on his feet. Yet this would prove to be a fatal move for the family. After they rolled the disgusting mattress from their room, the boys around the complex already began to threaten them with severe violence. It wouldn't be until the first night they actually spent there that Sam would encounter the first real savageness of them. Hanging a man out a nineteenth floor window looking for Noah Miles. As Sam tries to interject they drop him and let him plummet to his death before giving chase to capture her. Running as fast as she could she fell into grasps of an elderly woman named Jenny, nicknamed Nanny who drugged her with tea to let the boys get ahold of her. Waking up strapped down she witnesses the decapitated and sexual abuse of her mother's corpse before the same happened to her father. After being rescued by the elusive Noah, they travel through the ducts of the apartment complex as revenge circulates through Sam's mind. Stabbing and slaughtering them, Noah is kidnapped after the death of Nanny and Sam is willing to fight to the death to rescue her new companion. Finding him in the basement she sets it ablaze with petrol before together they killed ten of them. With Peter the last man left they tie him up before leaving him and the rest of the apartments to burn. Watching from the outside, they see the other captives; pregnant woman fighting between burning alive or jumping to their deaths. One thing is for certain however, nobody will believe what happened here.
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  George Dunn

  This book’s warning on the front is valid 😭 Cult by Ash Ericmore is grim and grotesque. The author takes the macabre and bends it to make it even more outrageous, and occasionally humorous. This novella is the epitome of splatter punk, and I sped through it.
  Often when a book is non stop violence and gore, the storyline gets lost (at least in my experience) however this was a very clever premise- that I would recommend to those with a strong stomach.
  Cult follows Sam and her family who have just moved into a block of flats from London, after some financial issues. After Sam witnesses a murder and finds she’s being followed by the two culprits, she takes shelter in an old lady’s flat, who goes by the name of nanny. However Nanny is not your typical grandma, she is the leader of a nasty and messed up community- who run this block. Nanny, is the leader of a cult, a cult which she plans on expanding.
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  Ihilani Kapuniai

  Meh, it was okay. It ended just as soon as it started, but what can you expect from a 100 page book? I bought the book because I like extreme horror and anything about cults interest me. The trigger warnings on the back piqued my interest, but the story itself left a lot to be desired. The gore was just okay; the trigger warnings hyped it up so much that I was let down in the end. The story wasn't long enough to really establish that we were dealing with a cult, and didn't explain anything at all. I didn't care about any of the characters to include the main character/protagonist. Matter of fact, she annoyed me. The amount of times she said "Fucking hell" took away from anything else she said.
  
  In the end, I suppose it was an ok one-time read. Wouldn't read it again though.
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  Jacquelyn G

  Gross and entertaining
  
  This story was basically The Hills Have Eyes moves to the city. It was disgusting and gory and I loved every page. I enjoyed all the blood and violence without all the emotional baggage.. stab someone and on to the next.
  I will definitely be looking for more from this author.
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  Lauren Valentine

  The first half of this book is as rough as you would expect from an extreme horror. The second half is a wonderful revenge story which slips into black humour. Not as good as Carnie but I think that’s because of my own sensibilities rather than anything else.
  3 stars because of this but also because I wanted it to be more culty.
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  Richard Stange

  I’m not going to say that this was a good book. It lacked any literary devices and had a very superficial character arc. This story read like Rosemary’s Baby meets The Last House on the Left. I’d say that the drive to finish reading this book came from the same deep primordial morbid curiosity that makes it difficult to pull one’s attention from a car crash.
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  The_5ft_reader

  So the end of the blurb on this book says, "Consider this a trigger warning for just about everything" and geeez it wasn't wrong! Some of the descriptions are just too sick not to be funny! This was my first ash ericmore book but won't be my last!!
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  R.J. Benetti

  Ash Ericmore weaves a tale of extreme horror, humor, action, and mystery into a true page turner. He knows when to get messed up and when to pull back, letting the tension build and the story flow flawlessly. Truly excellent stuff! I loved it!