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This October Flesh
Kidnapped and bound, locked in a cell, and tortured without end. No demands. No questions. No motivations.
Wren’s living her best life. Sure, she drinks too much, and her best friend is clearly in love with her, and that new bloke that just moved in upstairs makes too much noise, but she’s got a good enough job, and a reasonable flat.
But watching a horror film—drunk—about extreme haunt attractions, she makes a call.
The only problem is the next day she can’t remember what about.
Bizarre telephone calls lead to weirdos on the street, people following her, until eventually she’s taken. She doesn’t know what they want.
And they won’t tell her.
Consider this a trigger warning for just about everything.
Wren’s living her best life. Sure, she drinks too much, and her best friend is clearly in love with her, and that new bloke that just moved in upstairs makes too much noise, but she’s got a good enough job, and a reasonable flat.
But watching a horror film—drunk—about extreme haunt attractions, she makes a call.
The only problem is the next day she can’t remember what about.
Bizarre telephone calls lead to weirdos on the street, people following her, until eventually she’s taken. She doesn’t know what they want.
And they won’t tell her.
Consider this a trigger warning for just about everything.
- GenresHorror
181 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 1, 2022
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May 21, 2025
I’ve enjoyed a few of Ash Ericmore’s works, but for the most part, I have not had good experiences. I’m sure there are lots of fans out there, but I just cannt jive with his style. And I never give two star ratings, but this was not good. I do not enjoy stories that focus on body horror, trying to piece together a plot and characters around the aforementioned theme. Aside from maybe Yolanda Olson, and even her books grow tired quickly, it never works. And this felt just like that. I felt no connection to Wren, and didn’t really care how badly she was being tortured and mutilated. And that, in itself, made it extremely hard to stay focused on the this almost nonexistent premise. The story just maintained the same basic idea, with very little development, and then ended on an extremely confusing and unsatisfactory ending. Again, I would recommend Olson for a much more refined version of what this aspired to be.
October 4, 2022
Baconing good times.
Well blow me. That dirty cider will mess you up.
Stockholm syndrome at its most terrifying. That was pure brutality with a healthy dose mystery. Wren went from confidante no fu**s given to a broken shell.
I absolutely loved that a character from a previous book made an appearance.
This book will suck you in and hold you captive to the very last page.
Well blow me. That dirty cider will mess you up.
Stockholm syndrome at its most terrifying. That was pure brutality with a healthy dose mystery. Wren went from confidante no fu**s given to a broken shell.
I absolutely loved that a character from a previous book made an appearance.
This book will suck you in and hold you captive to the very last page.
October 2, 2022
Review coming soon.
October 5, 2022
Wren lives alone, in a pretty much abandoned block of flats, (she also has great taste in music 😉) and she's content with that! Until she gets a new neighbour, in the flat directly above her! When she receives an anonymous phone call one day, whilst at work, she fears she has introduced herself to the new neighbour during one of her lone drinking sessions, yet she can't remember a thing! She comes to realise that she did make a drunken call in the early hours of the morning, but to who? And why? Unfortunately this becomes somewhat clearer when 2 masked brutes turn up, enter her flat and drag her off!
The mystery and intrigue at the start of this story continue throughout and the tension is palpable. I felt Wren's pain, fear and confusion, and my heart broke for her several times!
This story reminds you to be careful what you ask for! We see Wren dealing with her addiction as well as the horrifying situation she finds herself in. We watch, horrified as she descends into reluctant obedience, depravity and insanity! Could this be a case of Stockholm Syndrome? I kind of got that feeling from it! Can things get any worse for her, worse than the abhorrent situation she is stuck in? Oh yes, the answer is most definitely, Yes! 😲
This story was very dark and depraved, and will mess with your psyche long after reading! Full of great, shocking twists, this wasn't brutal in the way that a lot of Eric's books are, but in a brutal, mind bending and emotional way! And with a brilliantly chilling ending! 🖤💀🖤
The mystery and intrigue at the start of this story continue throughout and the tension is palpable. I felt Wren's pain, fear and confusion, and my heart broke for her several times!
This story reminds you to be careful what you ask for! We see Wren dealing with her addiction as well as the horrifying situation she finds herself in. We watch, horrified as she descends into reluctant obedience, depravity and insanity! Could this be a case of Stockholm Syndrome? I kind of got that feeling from it! Can things get any worse for her, worse than the abhorrent situation she is stuck in? Oh yes, the answer is most definitely, Yes! 😲
This story was very dark and depraved, and will mess with your psyche long after reading! Full of great, shocking twists, this wasn't brutal in the way that a lot of Eric's books are, but in a brutal, mind bending and emotional way! And with a brilliantly chilling ending! 🖤💀🖤
October 16, 2022
so... the ending? i have way too many unanswered questions right now
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February 17, 2023This book has all the fucking triggers in the world 💀…
There’s no proper story for this book ..no HEA ..no justice ..this book has pure torture and nothing else …and this book is very very dark
Wren was living alone …one day she started receiving prank calls..not only her but her flat mate & her friend also received the same calls ..Wren thought it’s all her flat mate’s doing ..but one day her nightmare came alive …🥴
Wren looked up from the fridge. It wasn’t Charlie’s voice. She turned, saw that there were two men in the kitchen coming towards her. Both of them were big, tall, like. Brutes. They were both wearing fucking Halloween masks. Both of them skull-faced. Evil looking. Dark clothes. That was all she got before the first was on her. He grabbed her by the hair, got a fist full of it. Pulled her back, hard. Hurt. A screaming stab across her head as the hand pulled. Her head moved with his hand now, attached to it. Her hands went out.Then he pushed her head forwards. If the door to the fridge had been closed he would had smashed her face against it, but it wasn’t. Her head clattered into the shelves in the fridge. Metal wire ones. They dislodged as she smashed through them, trying to hold her head, trying to get a grip, her fingers grasping and scraping on things, slipping. Her head abruptly coming to a stop in the fridge, against the side of it. A numbing warmth. Then cold.
There’s no proper story for this book ..no HEA ..no justice ..this book has pure torture and nothing else …and this book is very very dark
Wren was living alone …one day she started receiving prank calls..not only her but her flat mate & her friend also received the same calls ..Wren thought it’s all her flat mate’s doing ..but one day her nightmare came alive …🥴
Wren looked up from the fridge. It wasn’t Charlie’s voice. She turned, saw that there were two men in the kitchen coming towards her. Both of them were big, tall, like. Brutes. They were both wearing fucking Halloween masks. Both of them skull-faced. Evil looking. Dark clothes. That was all she got before the first was on her. He grabbed her by the hair, got a fist full of it. Pulled her back, hard. Hurt. A screaming stab across her head as the hand pulled. Her head moved with his hand now, attached to it. Her hands went out.Then he pushed her head forwards. If the door to the fridge had been closed he would had smashed her face against it, but it wasn’t. Her head clattered into the shelves in the fridge. Metal wire ones. They dislodged as she smashed through them, trying to hold her head, trying to get a grip, her fingers grasping and scraping on things, slipping. Her head abruptly coming to a stop in the fridge, against the side of it. A numbing warmth. Then cold.
they locked her inside a cell and beats the shit out of her everyday …at one point I almost cried like why the fuck are you doing this to her ….
The man on the right got his cock out his jeans, and immediately started to piss. The thick yellow liquid raining down on her. Lying in the coffin. She put her hands up to try and protect herself. He was showering her up and down. The smell rancid. “Please,” she cried. “Why?” She tried to turn in the coffin, to escape the piss shower. The second of them laughed. Watching his conspirator friend taking her dignity. Taking her humanity.
“Are you scared yet?” he asked. “What?” Wren said. The second of them dropped the lid of the coffin down on top of her. Her hands pushed against it, lifting it up. She screamed out in fear. Then the coffin lid snapped down. One of the two of them putting their weight on it. Pushing the coffin lid closed. Banging. Hammering, she realised as she kicked her feet against the wood. “No,” she screamed. “Not like this.” She banged her fists against the wood, the hammering ceasing. “I’ll do anything,” she cried, pleading in the blackness. The abyss now around her. She was shaking. Her fingernails digging at the lid, her knees banging against the wood in the silence.As the all-encompassing silence surrounded her, as she was buried alive in a wooden box.
at one point I almost gave up on this book …I was like m done ..but I continued bcz I was waiting for the justice part
She crawled to the water. Picked up the cup. Shaking. She tried to lift it, but the pain in her fingers stopped her, the cup slipped, and the water was gone. A puddle on the floor. “No,” she cried. “No. Fuck. Please.” More tears streamed down her face. “It’s not fair.” She looked at the water. Pooled on the concrete. She didn’t know if they would even come to her cell and visit today, let alone know that she was without water. So she bent forward. Licking the water from the floor like a dog. And it felt good. Her tongue, refreshed, grazing against the concrete as she lapped the dirty liquid to her lips. Tastes of soil and piss, but she didn’t care. She swallowed it back, coughing as it smoothed her rough throat, her eyes becoming damp as the water was absorbed.
She wanted to forget. Forget her cell. Forget her dog act. The stench of the shit in the cell. That she’d shit in the corner and wiped with a paper plate. She wanted the vodka to numb the stabbing in her gut before she needed to shit again.
the poor girl couldn’t hold any longer..nd lost her entire sanity ..those two bastards raped her ..burned her skin alive with Lighter and an electronic teaser and laughing while she was pleading …there’s no justice or shit in this book ..only pure torture..many things left unfinished …nd the writing style was also not very good …m not going to rate this book ..ending sucks ..
October 4, 2022
I can honestly say that I'm glad to be finished with this book. I have never seen the word 'please' used as many times as I have in this book. At about 78% I almost threw in the towel, that's how sick I was of reading that word. As for being scary, I can't say that it hit the mark on that. I will be avoiding this author in the future.
October 12, 2022
Ash Ericmore wowed me once again with his in-your-face (or more accurately, in your HEAD) descriptions! This was my first longer read by Mr. “Epicmore” and I can tell you right now, I’m going to buy them all eventually!
Wren is a drunk, a loner, a take-no-bull kind of woman who knows she’s a hottie and a BAMF to boot on her motorcycle. Trouble is, she thinks she’s indestructible. Watching movies with the cute but friend-zoned guy or yelling at the new neighbor upstairs for his music being loud isn’t enough to distract her from her crummy flat with broken heating and her lame temp job at the call center. But again, she’s a drunk… and she makes bad decisions. This one might have been the last she made of her own free will (albeit a blackout drunk decision).
With her final (?) mistake escaping her memory, then beaten from her, starved from her, stripped from her, will she emerge from this prison alive? If she can escape, will she ever recover from what she’s done and how broken she’s become? Will she WANT to escape? Is there any humanity left in her that COULD survive?
Ash Ericmore’s writing style puts YOU, the reader, in the victim’s skin. You feel not only how they are starved, and beaten, but how mentally and emotionally broken they become as the mystery of her captors torment continues. We take the drunken trip right along with Wren as she struggles through the torture and bends to the Master’s will, becoming what he wants.
Wren is a drunk, a loner, a take-no-bull kind of woman who knows she’s a hottie and a BAMF to boot on her motorcycle. Trouble is, she thinks she’s indestructible. Watching movies with the cute but friend-zoned guy or yelling at the new neighbor upstairs for his music being loud isn’t enough to distract her from her crummy flat with broken heating and her lame temp job at the call center. But again, she’s a drunk… and she makes bad decisions. This one might have been the last she made of her own free will (albeit a blackout drunk decision).
With her final (?) mistake escaping her memory, then beaten from her, starved from her, stripped from her, will she emerge from this prison alive? If she can escape, will she ever recover from what she’s done and how broken she’s become? Will she WANT to escape? Is there any humanity left in her that COULD survive?
Ash Ericmore’s writing style puts YOU, the reader, in the victim’s skin. You feel not only how they are starved, and beaten, but how mentally and emotionally broken they become as the mystery of her captors torment continues. We take the drunken trip right along with Wren as she struggles through the torture and bends to the Master’s will, becoming what he wants.
October 15, 2022
Imagine your alcoholism becoming your worst enemy.
Wren, an alcoholic, lives in a block of flats. Her best friend wants more and she just got herself an annoying neighbour.
One night after getting drunk, she awakes to have no memory of a DVD playing and a call made to an unknown number.
Soon she starts getting creepy calls and getting stalked. It culminates in her being brutally taken from her home.
She finds herself trapped in a cage. Let the brutality begin!!!!!
Wren, an alcoholic, lives in a block of flats. Her best friend wants more and she just got herself an annoying neighbour.
One night after getting drunk, she awakes to have no memory of a DVD playing and a call made to an unknown number.
Soon she starts getting creepy calls and getting stalked. It culminates in her being brutally taken from her home.
She finds herself trapped in a cage. Let the brutality begin!!!!!
August 19, 2023
Wren clearly has problems. A semi functioning alcoholic by day; and the nights she can’t remember due to her reliance on the cheap and dirty cider she consumes by the bucket load.
Self centred, arrogant and dismissive of those that try to love her, despite her faults. Her eventual tears of pity spilled only for herself; not her friends that she has caught in her tailspin.
She sort of deserves what she gets; but oh my life, is it brutal.
Tw for serious violence, kidnap, abuse.
Self centred, arrogant and dismissive of those that try to love her, despite her faults. Her eventual tears of pity spilled only for herself; not her friends that she has caught in her tailspin.
She sort of deserves what she gets; but oh my life, is it brutal.
Tw for serious violence, kidnap, abuse.
November 7, 2022
No Way
As I am sure most of you will figure out where the story is going, I am going to agree and say it did tend to drag a bit. Either cut it shorter or give more backstop?
But it is creepy and I felt myself smelling things I really would rather not! I can feel what she's feeling, great writing! Can't wait to read more!
As I am sure most of you will figure out where the story is going, I am going to agree and say it did tend to drag a bit. Either cut it shorter or give more backstop?
But it is creepy and I felt myself smelling things I really would rather not! I can feel what she's feeling, great writing! Can't wait to read more!
December 2, 2022
Becareful what you wish for…..
I must lay off the cider! 😂
This is a quick read filled with all the good stuff we have come to expect from Ash! Although slightly predictable still a good read!
I must lay off the cider! 😂
This is a quick read filled with all the good stuff we have come to expect from Ash! Although slightly predictable still a good read!
March 20, 2024
Be more careful.
People should be more careful. They thought their back gardens were safe places. He shook his head and slipped into the kitchen. Had the rag dowsed in a cocktail of drugs stuffed in his pocket. Push it over her face. Take her. She was finally his.
People should be more careful. They thought their back gardens were safe places. He shook his head and slipped into the kitchen. Had the rag dowsed in a cocktail of drugs stuffed in his pocket. Push it over her face. Take her. She was finally his.
December 26, 2024
AMAZING
Omg I freaking loved this!!! I completely forgot about a specific phone call that was made and I thought to myself, holy crap how did you forget that?? Absolute must read. A bit gory though FYI
Omg I freaking loved this!!! I completely forgot about a specific phone call that was made and I thought to myself, holy crap how did you forget that?? Absolute must read. A bit gory though FYI
October 3, 2022
stupid
They should have had to pay for all the horrible things they did. Did not like the ending at all. Just glad she got out.
They should have had to pay for all the horrible things they did. Did not like the ending at all. Just glad she got out.
October 10, 2022
Shocking
Suspenseful , brutal and shocking . Wren wakes up in a cell with no idea how she got there . What follows are beatings , mind games and torture .
Another winner from Ash
Suspenseful , brutal and shocking . Wren wakes up in a cell with no idea how she got there . What follows are beatings , mind games and torture .
Another winner from Ash
January 29, 2023
Could not figure this book out!
July 16, 2023
Shocking and brutal. Another great read from Ash.
June 20, 2024
Damn, I will say I will read anything by Ash Ericmore but I went into this blind, didn't even know what the plot was or anything....but this one was brutal.
October 2, 2023
An interesting read. The plot was pretty much settled from the moment Wren called the North Path company while drunk. However, this quickly became a Stockholm syndrome novel. Definitely would give a chance if you're into ultra violence.
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October 4, 2022
Couldn't put it down!
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