Mother's Home

by Ash Ericmore

There's something evil inside Burns House. Something that watches Matty and Brooke as they take ownership of the old mansion, long of Matty's blood-line. Something sinister is in the air. As friends and family are unzipped and de-gloved ... as limbs are severed ... as someone gets really nasty pins and needles ... the house's tormented history will out.

Mother's Home is a novella of squick, with scenes rampant of gore and filled with horny teenagers. There is visceral content in these parts. Some might wish to give this one a miss, yes?

Within the pages of this haunted house gestates extreme horror, and content that some might find disturbing. Consider this a trigger warning for just about everything.

Genres: Horror

91 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 13, 2021

Reviews

[Peter Topside · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 stars. I really, really was into the early portion of the book. Lots of great intrigue around Matty and his murky past and this estate that was left to him. Even his dynamics with Brooke were playful but never lacked the proper context for each scene. Now, once we hit the spot where Luke, Nancy, and Evan showed up, I felt like the story really pivoted hard in a weird direction. That, along with some forced, awkwardly placed sex scenes, just took away from the established build-up. It basically turned into a basic possession/haunted house sort of concept, with some near meaningless victims, losing any momentum that was there. And it was under a hundred pages, so less would have been more here. If all the sex was removed (You know it's not great when Peter Topside says that!), the story kept strictly to Matty and Brooke exploring the house and having spooky instances, and just simplifying a few other plot points, this would have had a much better flow and impact.

[Janie · Rating 3 out of 5]

I really enjoy Ash Ericmore's stories, but this one just seemed to be missing something. On to the next!

[Hail Hydra! ~Dave Anderson~ · Rating 3 out of 5]

The car rode from side to side, sliding off the bushes, barely staying in a straight line, as the first explosion rocked it. Brooke slammed her foot onto the brakes and the car slid to a halt. She looked in the mirror at the house, a raging bonfire, as flames licked from the windows on the ground floor, from the open front door.

[Lindsay Crook · Rating 4 out of 5]

Creepy

That damn crow gave me the willies. Ash never fails to entertain me with his words. This wasn't my favourite Ericmore book but I still enjoyed reading it.

[❤ArtfullySinful❤ · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another woman was there. Young. Beautiful. But different. Extending from her mouth was a tendril, an alien arm, sliding—throbbing—from her, into him. He could feel it extending, travelling down into him, probing his insides.

A house filled with the most unimaginable horrors imaginable is what is lying in wait for Marty and his wife Brooke when he becomes the sole heir to his mother's gorgeous mansion. Despite the frigid cold that lingered the halls, its what was left to be discovered that holds all the horror. His father had a benign fascination with the occult and studied it passionate, even to the point of a human sacrifice of one of the hired help in the basement years prior. In an attempt to save the soul of her son, his mother sent him away from the mansion to live with realities when he was merely six years old. With her death looming, the house found it's way to claim her to it's bidding. It's been years from the atrocities in the basement where a young woman was cut, burned, mutilated and had her stomach torn apart for a crow to feed from, yet the eerie feelings still lingered in the halls. The first trip Matty took into the basement left him horribly shaken as his body seemed to burn and blister from the inside out. After that slowly dissipated, he began having visions of the woman Iris stalking the hallways, indecency clad in nothing and strikingly beautiful. Days later and the couple decide to throw a small get together of her close friend Nancy and his friends Logan and his brother Ethan. Getting stoned and drunk together ends in a horrific bloodbath as they are murdered either by Matty or by Iris and her sinful tongue. Fleeing from the house after locking Matty in the basement, Brooke sits to watch the house catch ablaze, hoping it'll trap the damned inside.

We'll do this the hard way.

[Tracy Halls · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not keen sorry

Sorry but this was pretty poor, the story was ok but had the potential to be so much better and some of the descriptions were really lame and hard to take seriously, the part where Nancy is attacked with the axe, starts of fairly descriptive saying how it went through her clavicle etc then ends with and then her arm fell off... It’s like it’s written by a older child/young teen.
The characters were pretty poor, and not enough build up to the story, they get drunk and stoned go to bed and then everyone starts getting killed (badly)
Not for me I’m afraid

[Matthew Hudson · Rating 3 out of 5]

I feel like this book wants to be an extreme horror story and a creepy haunted house story at the same time and the shifts in tone don’t really work. It’s an okay read but it’s oddly paced and the more extreme sections (including a needlessly graphic sex scene) just feel out of place. There are a couple of truly creepy scenes here but it suddenly turns into a slasher which kills any atmosphere that had built up.

[Trish · Rating 3 out of 5]

I loved all the component parts of this one. The atmospherics were incredible, the text descriptive and nasty, but it feels like a longer work struggling to get out. Or maybe I just want more because I was really enjoying it. I’m selfish like that!

[kim wood · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mothers Home

A nice , quick read from Ash . Not as extreme has his other work , but definitely worth a read