Horrorstor: A Novel
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By Grady Hendrix
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It’s a classic old-fashioned haunted house story – set in a big box Swedish furniture superstore. Designed like a retail catalogue, Horrorstor offers a creepy read with mass appeal-perfect for Halloween tables! Something strange is happening at the Orsk furniture superstore in Cleveland, Ohio. Every morning, employees arrive to find broken Kjerring wardrobes, shattered Bracken glassware, and vandalized Liripip sofabeds-clearly, someone or something is up to no good. To unravel the mystery, five young employees volunteer for a long dusk-til-dawn shift-and they encounter horrors that defy imagination. Along the way, author Grady Hendrix infuses sly social commentary on the nature of work in the new 21st century economy. A traditional haunted house story in a contemporary setting (and full of contemporary fears), Horrorstor comes conveniently packaged in the form of a retail catalogue, complete with illustrations of ready-to-assemble furniture and other, more sinister accessories.
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‘Horrorstor’ by Grady Hendrix provided the Reading Army with a good read tackling the never ending grind of working in retail giving unrealistic hopes through ‘bright and shining paths’ and ‘false doors’ and how that can infact become a horror story in itself quite literally!-don’t think we’ll ever think about IKEA in the same way again!
‘Horrorstor’ by Grady Hendrix provided the Reading Army with a good read tackling the never ending grind of working in retail giving unrealistic hopes through ‘bright and shining paths’ and ‘false doors’ and how that can infact become a horror story in itself quite literally!-don’t think we’ll ever think about IKEA in the same way again!
A fictional horror story, though at first glance it looks like an IKEA catalogue. I'd heartily recommend this, starts off as a slightly humorous story about staff stuck in a dead end job, but soon moves into a truly creepy tale. Read if you like supernatural stories and like (or don't like) flat pack furniture.
