The Devil's Double

By: Ash Ericmore

Narrated by: Big Bear Audio

Ashley has been taken by Franklin Joyce. Franklin Joyce is a monster.

Ashley is having a bad day at the office. Ben is following her, he's even followed her home, and she's not interested. She just wants him to leave her alone. She even hides in the basement car park to catch him at it.

Which is the last thing she'll do before Franklin Joyce comes into her life.

Franklin Joyce wasn't taught to do the things he does. Franklin Joyce was twisted as a child so far that he just knows them. He takes people and does what he wants with them over extended periods. Extended periods of torture. Extended periods of terror. He rapes. He cuts. He tears. He kills.

Will Ashley escape her prison? Will there be anything after the horror for her? Is the life that Franklin Joyce gives her the only one she will ever know?

The Devil's Double is a dark psychological horror containing extreme and disturbing acts.

Will you look inside Franklin Joyce?

I dare you.

©2025 Ash Ericmore (P)2025 Ash Ericmore

A wild ride or depravity

I was told The Devil's Double would be dark, brutal, depraved, and bleak. It did not disappoint, the narration by Big Bear Audio helped perfectly capture the emotions that were given to the characters. Franklin Joyce is perhaps one of the most depraved and evil characters in a novel l've read or listened to so far and really kept me on the edge of my seat trying to see what crazy, awful things he'd do next. My first Ash Ericmore novel, and will definitely not be my last

Gruesomely orchestrated torture and pain dispensed

If movies like SAW and The Human Centipede or TV shows like Dexter and Hannibal grab hold of your attention and keep you locked in place, even though you know you might not like what's about to happen, then you're among the target audience for Ash Ericmore's latest story. A deranged man with a singular goal will stop at nothing to achieve his desire. No amount of suffering, pain, agony, or pleading from his victim(s) will stop him. He'll only cease the abhorrent acts when he's dead. Filled with brutal accounts of human-on-human indecencies, narrated with silky-smooth calm by the highly talented Big Bear Audio, this story creates goosebumps on your goosebumps, assuming you haven't already crawled out of your skin. Gory, vulgar, and highly detailed descriptions of vile acts inside. You've been warned. [Disclosure: I received this title for free and listened at 2.0x.]

Dissecting Family

A ghastly gorey troubled work that was curious to experience as a much darker mature thriller that people should brace themselves before experiencing. It's senselessly dark for people who might appreciate senseless darkness; existing in the sort of world where anything goes. I found the book stuck with me in an uncomfortable way that made me a bit ill delivering as one might expect from the selling of the book as having extreme and disturbing acts. As a guy who appreciates extreme horror (torture porn works much better in book form that cinema) I appreciated the negative shocked reactions this book created in me. I've experienced a few of Eric Ashmore's books and felt this was his 'best' book yet. Keen on pushing taste plotwise but using straightforward language in doing so (for example comparing a ladies nethers to an onion); then book hit like horror minded fast food - cheap, greasy, and simple. My favorite theme was the idea of legacy and I was amused to see traditional values inverted in a way that made me question how if my values were to be wrong I might be passing them along. Misogyny escapism has a place in fantasy literature but here I sometimes wishes the victims had a more 'survivor girl' spunk rather than being vehicles for punishment (which was a double edged sword allowing rag doll anything goes cruelty at a cost to more balanced conflict even if the book gives us a few options for optimism). Big Bear fearlessly narrates the ghastly trashy stuff here, which has clear trigger warnings for anything that might need trigger warnings. Who's a beautiful boy?