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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.

A traditional haunted house story in a thoroughly contemporary setting, Horrorstör comes packaged in the form of a glossy mail order catalog, complete with product illustrations, a home delivery order form, and a map of Orsk’s labyrinthine showroom. It’s “a treat for fans of The Evil Dead or Zombieland, complete with affordable solutions for better living.”—Kirkus Reviews.

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Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Quirk Books (September 23, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1594745269
ISBN-13: 978-1594745263
Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 0.6 x 8.8 inches
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Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (200 customer reviews)
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27 of 31 people found the following review helpful

Horrorstor

By Brendan Moody VINE VOICE on July 25, 2014

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Beneath the quirky trappings of Grady Hendrix's new novel lies a conventional but well-told horror/suspense story. Protagonist Amy works at the recently-opened local branch of Orsk, a trendy furniture store whose similarities to Ikea are entirely parodic. Despite Orsk's upbeat "happy employee, happy customer" rhetoric, something is seriously wrong: mysterious vandalism is occurring every night while the store is empty, and the higher-ups aren't happy. Amy's supervisor asks her to join a small group staying overnight to investigate the problem, and she agrees, little realizing what a nightmare she's set herself up for.

HORRORSTOR is formatted like an Orsk catalog, with an unusual trim size, illustrations, and product descriptions at the head of every chapter. The descriptions are very amusing, tilting the rhetoric (and the naming conventions) of Ikea-type stores just far enough to highlight their ridiculousness. The main text of the novel, which is in traditional third person limited prose, is likewise smart about making fun of retail absurdities without unnecessary exaggeration. The humor and a decent sense of pace keep the novel compelling until the horror starts.

When it does, readers hoping for something innovative may be disappointed: the setting is a bit out of the ordinary, but what happens and why is familiar enough from many recent novels and movies. (A seance goes horribly wrong, it turns out the store was built on a site with an ominous history, etc.) That doesn't make it bad, of course, and readers who like their horror built around tense, often viscerally unpleasant action sequences will enjoy Amy's desperate efforts to escape.Read more ›

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful

Deliciously creepy

By Irene on November 15, 2014

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This is a horror story with a cover that looks like an Ikea catalog. I don't know about you but that caught my attention right away. I'm not usually a fan of horror because I'm a scaredy cat, but sometimes it's nice to read outside my usual genres. As such I don't know if this story is original or if it's full of tropes, I only know that I enjoyed it a lot.

The story is set in the Orsk store which (even the characters admit) is an Ikea knockoff. Someone has been vandalizing the store, so some employees decide to spend the night patrolling the show to catch the culprits in the act. This is obviously a Very Bad Idea because the vandals are not human.

I'll leave it at that, because part of the fun for me was not knowing just what exactly was wrong with the store -- was it ghosts? monsters? a curse? -- and I liked the shift from normal slice-of-life account of a day in the life of an Orsk employee to the really creepy stuff going on at night. It helped that I read this book as I was travelling to visit Isa: if you're alone on a train before dawn you can really appreciate the creepiness of usually crowded spaces when they're empty and silent.

As for the characters, the story is told from the POV of Amy and I really like her. She avoids most of the usual pitfalls, such as suggesting to split up, and I was really rooting for her. I also rather liked Basil, and the Big Bad is suitably creepy. Some of the characters left me indifferent though, and there was at least one death when I thought, oh well, one less character to keep track of.

There is death, and creepy things, and bloody gory bits that I really hope I won't dream about at night. Like I said, I'm squeamish.Read more ›

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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful

I Really Enjoyed The Second Half

By Irish TOP 1000 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on September 1, 2014

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HORRORSTOR is such a unique book. It's put together very nicely, like a catalog from a very popular furniture store. Grady Hendrix creates an inside view of a such store complete with unique furnishings and accessories, employees who are either devoted or confused, and some very dastardly happenings at the Orsk store.

This is an original story on a couple of different levels. The story takes place inside a store with all the furnishings, fake rooms and maze like layouts that we are all familiar with. There is a menace inside the store leaving unexplainable messes in the mornings that the puzzled crew has to deal with.It's up to a store manager to get to the bottom of things by selecting a few people, and having them spend the night to be witness to whatever is wrecking havoc in the store.

The start of the book deals with the personalities involved and the lay-out of the store and the crazy things that are being left in the morning for the employees to sort out. The store is located in the middle of nowhere in Ohio.

Basil, a very devoted Orsk employee, has a huge challenge. The big boss team is coming and he has to make sure that nothing out of the ordinary happens so he picks Amy and Ruth Anne to spend the night with him to make hourly rounds through the store to catch the culprit who's been making messes in the night. They've got their work cut out for them when a series of bizarre happenings occur in the huge store of fake rooms and furniture. Someone or something seems to be slithering under the Muskk or hiding in the Liripips.

The story, is original, but does rely on certain ideals that you will be familiar with, but is entertaining nonetheless.Read more ›

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Ghosts in aisle one

Loved it.
If you have ever worked retail or dislike the maze that is IKEA, this book will make you chuckle. It is a decent mystery and the horror is mild. Read more

Published 8 hours ago by jdb

Interesting setting

Interesting premise, I liked the idea of the setting- the Orsk store that is like Ikea- but once the story got into the "horror" part it wasn't entirely believable. Read more

Published 11 hours ago by Diana F.

Ikea is already creepy as heck in it's rat maze ...

Ikea is already creepy as heck in it's rat maze of a showroom, but it takes on a new level of creepy after reading this book.

Published 1 day ago by ZombieQT

Fun and entertaining- just read it for that!

This is a simple, humorous, entertaining read. I read it in one day. The main appeal for me in selecting it, was its catchy, unique cover and similarity to Ikea. Read more

Published 1 day ago by momtol

Terrible

THIS BOOK SUCKS!!!! Horribly written and wouldn't even qualify as a teen horror book.

Published 5 days ago by jbiv771

Cool concept with a kitschy feel

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Clever story that takes the idea of the corporate drone and pushes it to an even darker level. Read more

Published 6 days ago by Amanda

Would have made a better movie

Great idea for plot. I loved the kind of corniness through out the book. Using names of furniture as chapters too funny. Read more

Published 7 days ago by J. Mason

Creepy

All I have to say is.. do not read this at night in a quiet house, everything every noise will creep you out... see now I'm not gonna be able to sleep.

Published 19 days ago by Melli

Horror at IKEA

A very weird horror story in an IKEA-like store. It starts with some right-on satire about working retail (I worked 9 years in a chain store). Read more

Published 26 days ago by Kindle Customer

I was expecting a terrifying read with a possibly super twisted ghost...

Strange things are happening at Orsk, an Ikea knockoff store in Ohio. When the store closes, the cameras automatically shut off so in order to investigate some employees have to... Read more

Published 27 days ago by The Bookavid

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