Malefic

by Rayne Havok, Ash Ericmore

Seven friends travel to the camp by the lake. There to prepare the camp for re-opening, twenty years after the scene of a brutal assault. Murder. Some of them want to party. Others want to work. But work barely begins before one of them discovers something …

An evil, waiting to swallow them.

One after the other.

Getting stronger each time.

Sex descends into death, dripping from every eighties slasher inspired hole. With scenes of hardcore sex, brutal violence, lust, betrayal … consider this a trigger warning for everything you thought you knew … and everything you don’t.

Genres: Horror, Fiction

189 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 19, 2022

About the author

Rayne lives in the Arizona desert, free to leave her house whenever she wants, she chooses not to risk death by sweltering sun demons. Instead, she stays safely indoors with a computer and all the words she knows, slapping them together in any which way she chooses in the moment.
Often gory, sometimes erotic. She loves the limitless boundaries of writing, and tends to push them toward extreme.

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Reviews

[Peter Topside · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was very ok for me. I get the attempt at the vintage horror style set-up, but it just got lost in the really overdone amount of sex. You don’t really enjoy any of the characters, as there is no depth to any of them, and they’re all just killed one by one, with no real impact. Maybe it’s because I’m coming off fresh from Adam Cesare’s Video Night, which captured 80s horror beautifully, but this missed the mark. The introduction chapter was very uncomfortable and seemed to set the stage for something really special, but the story just seemed to be a one hit pony after that. It focused on sex as the main avenue for everything, but even those sequences weren’t unique enough to carry the book. There’s no one to root for or truly dislike, the antagonist gets lost in the shuffle and is fairly insignificant, the ending fell flat, and as the reader, you’re not given much to work with. It couldn’t seem to decide whether to be a full blown splatterpunk, or pay homage to old school horror, or just be a sort of reimagining of a classic scary movie idea. And, if the latter, there was no charm whatsoever, which is what made things like 80s horror so much fun. They had humor, over the top teenagers getting killed while doing drugs and/or having sex in hazardous situations, a riveting killer or creature, goofy premises that somehow kept you tuned in, some fun kill scenes, and that’s what made them all work. They were fun and it was all balanced. This was literally just sex, sex, gore, repeat, for almost two hundred pages. I thought the writing itself was fine and the gore was decent, but I did not care for much beyond that.

[Lady MacDeath · Rating 5 out of 5]

More More More!!!

When two of your favourite authors come together, it’s a match made in splatterpunk heaven!! This had lots of blood, gore and sex sex sex, and more sex. Also reminiscent of a typical 80’s slasher movie. This was hella fun, and I can’t wait to see what other delights Havok and Ericmore have in store for the future, because I want more more more!!!

[Alison Sweet · Rating 4 out of 5]

Well fuck me sideways! Actually… please don’t.

[Corrina Morse · Rating 5 out of 5]

HOLY HORNY HORNDOGS!! 😲

I mean - Wowza!! I'm a LOT flustered after reading this book, I mean, I left it a good few hours before sitting down to go through my notes, and I'm still feeling rather warm!! This book is steamy, raunchy, horrific, and did I say raunchy?? 🥵

OK, it's not just raunchy, there is blood, guts, gore, murder, brutal revenge and possession. But its also really raunchy! 😉😂

The opening chapter is shocking and savage and sets up the rest of the book perfectly!
A group of young adults head to an old disused camp to get it up and running again, but things are never that easy, right?! With the setting where it is, you might be thinking it's a typical camp slasher - but there's nothing typical about this, there really isn't!

Throw in a sex demon intent on revenge, a group of horny couples and a game of spin the bottle, and feel the sexy, evil tension build throughout the story to its dramatic and bloody climax!
This book literally left me breathless, in more ways than one! 😉 It was such a fun ride, I loved how the demon got its revenge, I loved the characters and their vulnerabilities, my faves were Jane and Shane! And I loved how the writing flowed and built up the suspense and intrigue, you wouldn't know it was 2 different authors coming together! Rayne and Ash make a fantastic 'double team' 😁

You may want a box of mansize tissues at the ready, this book is absolutely drenched in love juice! I'm off for a very cold shower!!

5/5 bewitched bottles 🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾

[Leo · Rating 1 out of 5]

I don't rate books 1 star a lot anymore but I didn't get the book. I bought is as I thought it would be a gory, Gruesome camp slasher that also involved sex and such. But there where not a lot of character development, and almost non development in plot. I don't know if I completely missed it but I don't quite know what the horror elements where about. Most of the book is just sex and very little of anything else. I probably had the wrong idea about the book going in. But I would like to read something else by Rayne Havok in the future

[Rachel M · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved this one! You have your sex, you have your gore, you have your sex, you have your revenge, you have your sex! This reminded me of the proper horror films, sort of I spit on your grave mixed with Friday the 13th with a whole lot more! You all need to take a trip to Camp Winslaw, but you might want to give spin the bottle a miss!

[Christina Pfeiffer · Rating 5 out of 5]

Next up, is the Slip n Slide extravaganza know as MALEFIC by Rayne Havok and Ash Ericmore.

A group of teenagers show up at a summer camp a few weeks before opening in order to get the place ready for the public. The camp has been shutdown ever since the incidents from 20 years before (I’m not ruining it, so don’t ask). What was supposed to be a summer of bonding, drinking, and sex turns into a fight for their lives. Who will remain after revenge is best served deadly?

That last line makes me feel like I should write taglines to movies/stories. That was AMAZING! Almost as amazing as this story. Havok and Ericmore by themselves are a force to be reckoned with, together, they are unstoppable. Being their first collaboration is suprising as this story is flawless. I SAID FLAWLESS! The gore is there, sure, but what they really showcase is their ability to force the reader to endure what the characters endure. Add to that the suspense is second to none, and the sex scenes, well Hoover Dam called, it would like to be plugged. Get that cold shower ready, kids, because you are going to need it.

Or they will get you pregnant.

Either way, YOU HAVE TO PICK THIS UP! Available May 19th.

[John The Crippledgimp · Rating 5 out of 5]

Well what can I say..... When the king and queen of the "extreme" short story come together to write a story you know it's going to be awesome and this didn't disappoint. This was full of sex, brutality, gore, and SEX so much steamy erotic bloodlust, but then the end the vengeance that is served so awesome.
I hope that Rayne Havok and Ash Ericmore collaborate again I enjoyed this savage erotic revenge slasher a lot. Both these authors fucking rule. Read this I highly recommend it. 5 steamy stars from me.

[Daniel Volpe · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brutal, sexual, violent and well written. Full review coming.

[Slim Jones · Rating 5 out of 5]

Go look up the definition for Malefic and you’ll get the sub text of this book. Rayne and Ash kill this. Slumber camp 80’s vibe with loads of raunchy sex, violence, and raw fury.

[Michael Cushing · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love it when both Horror and Sex come together in the perfect Hybrid.

This Book has some of the best smut that I've read in a while. I was actually typing out two to three pages from different passages and texting them to a friend of mine.

The story surrounds 5 friends and their employer with his wife as they go about reopening a Camp Site where a murder had happened many years ago. So standard horror fare here. My only real complaint was that I wish that there was more Horror to this story.

I would highly recommend this anyways because this is a niche market that I really feel needs to be filled properly. I would live to see what this Collaboration can create together in the future.

[Hail Hydra! ~Dave Anderson~ · Rating 4 out of 5]

He’s weak, he needs to remember this. All of it. Stretching out his hand, he feels around, it has to be here somewhere. He gets his other hand moving, reaching, his fingertips come to rest…on his clipboard.

[DA · Rating 5 out of 5]

Filthy, disgusting, disturbing and addictive! I couldn't put this book down. I need more Havok/Ericmore in my life. Perhaps a sequel is in the works??
I was annoyed by one of the main characters, but it didn't take away from the story for me at all.

[Lindsay Crook · Rating 5 out of 5]

When two of your favourite authors come together it's always a little worrying they might not mesh but Ash and Raynes styles work so well together I couldn't tell who wrote what.
This has everything I love by these two imaginative kills, blood and gore, dark humour and a ton of filth. All taking place in a summer camp setting what more could you want?

[Nat Whiston · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a marriage made in horror heaven, the book is an enticing rollercoaster of blood, sex (so much sex) and of course revenge. Imagine the movie The Following, I spit on your grave and Friday the 13th had a messed up possessed monster baby, that is this epic story. I love that both authors' personalities are visible in this, from the well-developed character plotting that Ash is popular for. With the dark erotic theme with lots of strong female characters, Rayne is well known. This book starts with what you think is a camp crystal lake-style setting. Just when you think you know where this is going BOOM slaps you in the face with a very brutal and nasty assault scene.
So you learn that this place in the 80s wasn't a place you wanted to party. So her story becomes past and you then follow a bunch of teenagers full of hormones and looking to party. And where else do teens wanna party but at the very same camp that closed due to a horrific unsolved murder? The story is quick-paced and full of the trademark qualities that make these authors renowned. I love that the characters weren't the same bunch of personality types you get in slasher fiction. April and Shanes's relationship dynamic was a great twist and of course, I enjoyed the development of each character that gets possessed. From the change in mannerism to the pure carnal need that seems to infect them. These two have always been fantastic with the erotic scenes and very creative with the killing side in all their books. So their writing styles went hand in hand, almost forming one entity. I forgot it was written by two authors at one point, as they have planned out this story so well. 
It's also a very different genre type to what I expected to see from both writers, but hey I should be surprised they rocked this assignment. Hell, even I got a little envious at how well these two minds melded to create this very fresh take on a slasher horror. While still keeping some of the classic tropes in place.
It will make you not want to goof off at summer camp. May even make you consider a bloody chastity belt or mace, to calm down those hormones that may awaken something in desperate need of revenge.

[Albert Kadmon · Rating 5 out of 5]

Se juntaron dos grandes autores de estilos similares así que el resultado es el de un texto compacto repletísimo de venganza y sexo que deja a films como It follows a la altura de las aventuras juveniles. Me ha tenido atrapado de inicio a final.

[Rachel]

*I'm not going to give you the 'what this book is about' blurb - you can read that elsewhere.

1. I'll be very straightforward and say that I love love both Rayne and Ash and they can do no wrong in my eyes. (except that one story, Rayne. You know which one...#StillBitter) BUT - that being said, this book is legitimately delightful whether I love the authors or not. Well, maybe not delightful, it's actually pretty freaking brutal. And spicy. Brutally spicy like a late night trip to Taco Bell.
2. This one gave me camp slasher vibes similar to Friday the 13th or Don't Go To Wheelchair Camp, but sexier. I mean, I don't know that sexy is the word for it, but I'm not the most versed in ways to describe evisceration while in the middle of carnal relations, so I guess 'sexy' it is 🤷‍♀️. It's like the horror version of A Court of Silver Flames. For those of you that get that and are into it - you're my people.
3. Maybe don't read this on a plane. Because while it's GOOD it's also one of those things where you're gonna wonder who is reading it over your shoulder and if you can expect an escort from an Air Marshall when you deplane.
4. I like to think I've read enough of both authors separately that I can tell who wrote what parts, but realistically I'm probably way off and honestly this is just a pairing made in your worst nightmares 😱 (which is a very good thing for us splatterpunk and extreme geeks)!

[Mique Watson · Rating 1 out of 5]

Just a bunch of shitty porn poorly disguised as extreme horror. The first 30% or so had me on board, but when I found out what was *actually* happening, I lost all interest. After the main reveal, the rest of the book just becomes a series of tedious, foreseeable scenes that had no tension. It’s a repetitive, predictable mess that just falls completely flat. The smut isn’t smutty enough, and the gore isn’t written with the kind of gruesome descriptions I normally like. This is tragic, because I know that this author has it in her (having read Killstreme and Degenerate, which I really enjoyed). Overlong, underwritten, and sluggishly paced; not at all worth the time it takes to read. Yawn.

[Stephen Cooper · Rating 3 out of 5]

This one felt more like erotica than extreme horror to me with the balance probably 90/10. I enjoyed it, and when the gore happened it was satisfyingly nasty, but not really my genre overall. That said, the writing was hot so I'd still read more lol.

[Debra · Rating 5 out of 5]

another great read

I absolutely loved this book! It’s a bit different from previous books I have read and enjoyed; five star read!

[v0id_93 · Rating 2 out of 5]

I DNF’d at 43%

This had so much potential but the 3rd POV style switching between characters mid sentences/paragraphs was too hard to keep up with. And this is one of those times where less sex more plot would’ve been so much better

[Sarah Corwin · Rating 2 out of 5]

Sex, Gore, and….That’s About It

I knew going into this it would be a splatterpunk kind of story but dang…..literally every page either had sex or gore.

[kim wood · Rating 3 out of 5]

Malefic

I skipped a lot of the book as I became bored with all the sex scenes . Runs like a typical 80's slasher movie

[Sharon Leung · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved it

I really enjoyed this book. When you see the word camp in any horror you think straight to the original slasher stories. Each one with the same concept just different characters. This is by far different from the originals. Yes it's a camp but not as you think. A group of friends go to clean and set up the camp for the first lot of visitors in a very long time. It's not long before the camp is engaged in all the debauchery of a university college frat house. The sounds and screams coming from each room brings it to a whole new level. Th I awakens something deep in the camp where the workers soon have some uninhibited sexual desires. A full, action packed tale of sexually explicit happenings and deathly content that has you glued.to each page. Totally enjoyable and fully recommended.

[Mark Alexander · Rating 5 out of 5]

Holy hell this one had some kinky scenes that would have my grandmother clutching her pearls (not a euphemism). The sex scenes were ACTUALLY WELL WRITTEN, though. A lot of the time when extreme horror writers incorporate graphic sex in their books it just comes off as really cringy and bad, like they were written by a 14 year old boy who spends too much time on pornhub.

I have no idea why it took me so long to read this one as I'm a fan of both authors, but I made the correct decision while browsing through my to-read's yesterday. I couldn't put this down. Graphic and brutal in all the best ways.

[Stefanie Duncan · Rating 4 out of 5]

ma-lef-ic - definition: causing or capable of causing harm or destruction, especially by supernatural means.

Great Story! Reminded me very strongly of 80s slasher hits except with way more sex! WAY MORE SEX! Hardcore Sex.

7 people travel to a camp site to set it up for a re-opening. Of course booze, spin-a-bottle games, weed, and lots of sex makes time go by faster. What they don't know.. evil infiltrated them and destroys them one by one.

When two amazing authors get together, you'll know the result will be great. I've read anything Rayne has published so far and read a few stories by Ash Ericmore. These two should defiantly collaborate again.

[Aya Blackwood · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read the Trigger Warnings

This had gore, it had smut, and it had gory smut.
What it did not have was a detailed plot. It did have enough of one to make the story make sense, which is all I need in a slasher story.
So if you need character development, world building, or anything other than a smutty slash and stab, don't read this.
If you want an extreme horror with smut like lots of it, this is the book for you.

[Travis Yannell · Rating 2 out of 5]

I felt like the two authors didn't pair well. I love Rayne Havok's insane writing, while Ash Ericmore is a bit more subdued (but still good). It's probably just my imagination, but I feel like his style kind of held back what Rayne would have done solo. This felt more shallow than your standard slasher like "Halloween" and "Friday the 13th". I'm talking violence wise, WAY more sex in this book lol.

[Cozy Ginger · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a smutty romp around camp brandishing perfectly described gore. I was hoping for a 50/50 between smut and gore but it was a nonstop smut-fest ( which was deliciously described ) with a smattering of gore. The plot got tucked away which made me super sad since it was something that I was genuinely excited for. It had a lot of promise but just fell short of what I was expecting. But thats not enough of a deterrent for me to dismiss other works by these authors since the writing was genuinely quite good! I look forward to exploring other titles by them.

[Joseph Buckus · Rating 3 out of 5]

I certainly don't think this was bad. But..... I have like no idea what it was supposed to be about or really if there even was a plot. Nothing really made sense or felt connected in any way. But if you're a fan of sex and violence then you might get a kick out of it.