Horrorstor: A Novel
From the New York Times best-selling author of The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires comes a hilarious and terrifying haunted house story in a thoroughly contemporary setting: a furniture superstore.
Something strange is happening at the Orsk furniture superstore in Cleveland, Ohio. Every morning, employees arrive to find broken Kjerring bookshelves, shattered Glans water goblets, and smashed Liripip wardrobes. Sales are down, security cameras reveal nothing, and store managers are panicking.
To unravel the mystery, three employees volunteer to work a nine-hour dusk-till-dawn shift. In the dead of the night, they’ll patrol the empty showroom floor, investigate strange sights and sounds, and encounter horrors that defy the imagination.
Something strange is happening at the Orsk furniture superstore in Cleveland, Ohio. Every morning, employees arrive to find broken Kjerring bookshelves, shattered Glans water goblets, and smashed Liripip wardrobes. Sales are down, security cameras reveal nothing, and store managers are panicking.
To unravel the mystery, three employees volunteer to work a nine-hour dusk-till-dawn shift. In the dead of the night, they’ll patrol the empty showroom floor, investigate strange sights and sounds, and encounter horrors that defy the imagination.
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“And as her mind closed up shop and went dark, Amy wondered dully if she would be stuck on the hamster wheel forever, stuck in retail forever, stuck at Orsk forever. But she didn't have to worry. Tonight would be her final shift.”
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This was a super fun book. Interesting and relevant to anybody who has worked in retail before. However the ending- though it was good- I need more! I feel like every book review I write, I'm always unsatisfied with the ending. But this one leaves it too open. Are Matt and Trinity ever found? All in all, it was a great book, but I wish we knew what happened after Amy and Basil go back in after hours!
This was a super fun book. Interesting and relevant to anybody who has worked in retail before. However the ending- though it was good- I need more! I feel like every book review I write, I'm always unsatisfied with the ending. But this one leaves it too open. Are Matt and Trinity ever found? All in all, it was a great book, but I wish we knew what happened after Amy and Basil go back in after hours!
We never stop.
We never sleep.
And now we're in your home.
This is the story of a group of employees working at an Ikea-wannabe-store who spend the night trying to chase who they think is a homeless person out of the store, only to find that the store is fertile ground for things scarier than assembly-required furniture. The horror takes a zero-to-a-hundred turn in no time flat.
Anyone who has been on the Ikea hamster wheel can appreciate the catalog-style format of the book, with it's product diagrams that go from typical furniture to increasingly disturbing contraptions as the story unfolds. And in his typical form, Hendrix injects some biting wit along to journey.
"I got nowhere else to go," Carl said. "I tried hiding out in Lowe's and Ikea but they've got much better security. Can't you guys show a little sympathy?"
As with any of the other of the Hendrix books that I have read, it's a wacky fun time, taking a not-so-subtle jab at the cult of consumerism from both the customer and big-box-employee sides of the coin.
“We’re getting out of here,” she said. “The store will try to stop us. It’ll disorient you, get inside your head, try to confuse you and control you. But if you stay focused, you can block it out. You have to fight, do you understand?”
The book caught my eye by looking like an old-fashioned Ikea catalogue. It's about a fictitious furniture store where dark secrets await. The book is exciting and never boring. The book skilfully plays with clichés and is very exciting. I now have a different view of the Swedish furniture store. The book skilfully plays with clichés and is very exciting. The book skilfully plays with clichés and is very exciting. I now have a different view of the Swedish furniture store. The book is exciting, but the protagonist unfortunately does not act in a comprehensible way from my point of view, because of this and because of partly exaggerated depictions of violence only 8 out of 10 points.
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