Cult

by Ash Ericmore

Sam and her family are moving from beautiful Camden to a rundown seaside tower block. In it lives a cult, run by an octogenarian sadist known as Nanny, hell-bent on keeping her family growing. And if that means people have to reproduce or die, then so be it.

Cult is a novella that skates the thin line of being so brutal and disgusting that it is unpalatable, so if you don’t like your fiction so gross you don’t want to look at it, then perhaps you might want to give this one a miss, yes?

Full of sex as grotesque as it is beautiful, and violence so pure it will make your skin crawl, Cult is an extreme horror, painted with the blackest of humour. Consider this a trigger warning for just about everything.

Genres: Horror, Splatterpunk, Dark

99 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 26, 2020

Reviews

[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

[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.

[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!

[Lady MacDeath 🌒🌕🌘]

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!

[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.

[Peter Topside]

I was really unsure whether to rate this 2 or 3 stars, but I try to give most authors the benefit of the doubt. This was very messy, both figuratively and literally. A really obscene amount of sexual content and body horror. The thing here was that I really liked the core premise about the new family moving into this creepy apartment building overrun by a cult. Possibilities here were endless. However, Ash Ericmore really forced things like rape, gore, etc, without giving anything proper footing, so it all felt out of place. Now, in case anyone hasn't noticed, I am enamored with splatterpunk, horror, etc, so I should really be a target reader for something like this. But it all just felt very mishmosh. Nothing really made much sense and it was all just random vulgar ideas tossed together, with some loose connections, but no real flow or pace. Any semblance of a plot was lost amongst the nonstop bloodshed and rape, which is a shame because there really could have been something good here. One of my least favorite Ash Ericmore books to date.

[Geoff]

Great short horror tale

[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.”

[John The Crippledgimp]

Well that was a messed up short read. This story kinda was that movie wrong turn but in a big ass apartment building. This was a pretty good read definitely messed up plenty of gore throughout but was disappointed at the ending because after all the shit that was done to that girls family the got off to easy I give it 4.5. Good quick read

[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.

[Mindy]

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

[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.

[Shadow Girl]

RTC

[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!

[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.

[Ashley]

I did really like parts of this.

But a large portion made me question whether or not I had a stroke. I swear full sentences were missing.

[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.

[Mellisa]

Summary: Sam and her family are moving from beautiful Camden to a rundown seaside tower block. In it lives a cult, run by an octogenarian sadist known as Nanny, hell-bent on keeping her family growing. And if that means people have to reproduce or die, then so be it.


Review: This is short, vicious extreme horror that doesn’t hold back. Brutal, gory, and uncomfortable in all the right ways. Exactly what you want if you’re looking for something truly disturbing.

[Ieva Valentinavičiūtė]

This was a depraved little read packed with gore and all kinds of extreme twisted horrors.
When Sam and her family move into a new apartment building, things quickly spiral into a fight for survival because the place is ruled by a weird inbread cult.
I'd love to read a prequel exploring the origins of the cult and the twisted family behind it.

[Vaios]

Πολύ άρρωστο

[Trish]

Heed the tigger warnings at the front.

Gruesome, horrific, graphic. But with a convincing narrative and characterisation.

Short, but not sweet

[Nicki Thoirs]

This was twisted! A new family move into an apartment. The building is busy, large and run down. While there the family is targeted by a depraved cult and all sorts of shenanigans start to happen.
Some of the topics are quite taboo. At points, I felt down right disturbed! I found myself confused at certain points, for a short story, there are a lot of characters. I would like to see a prequel style story, and have the ability to re read this with more context and understanding of the characters.

[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 💀

[Mark Alexander]

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

[bex]

loved it!!

[Sam Mitchener]

it's a no from me, thanks

[Holly Wheeler]

I love me an ash Ericmore read but I will be honest this wasn’t my favourite could of done with more gore. Don’t get me wrong I did like it just wasn’t one of my favourites.

[hannah]

Gore, violence, council flat cult AND the big Tesco?? Yeah that was bloody brutal -3.5

[pageturn]

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

[linnea — lnnvns]

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!