Horrorstor
A Novel
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Andrews McMeel Publishing
Published:23rd Sep '14
Should be back in stock very soon
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 store in Cleveland. Every morning, employees arrive to find broken displays, damaged merchandise, and unexplained destruction scattered across the showroom floor. Security cameras reveal nothing. Customers are staying away. Management wants answers.
When a small group of employees volunteers to work an overnight shift and investigate the mystery, they discover that something far more terrifying than retail theft is hiding inside the store. As the night spirals into chaos, ORSK transforms from a familiar shopping destination into a nightmare.
Featuring a clever furniture-catalog design complete with illustrations and product pages that grow increasingly sinister throughout the story, this cult-favorite novel delivers both genuine scares and laugh-out-loud absurdity.
- Blends supernatural horror, haunted-house fiction, workplace satire, and dark humor
- Fast-paced suspense that escalates over a single terrifying night
- Unique catalog-style design with immersive illustrations throughout
Step inside ORSK and discover a horror novel that turns everyday retail nightmares into something far more terrifying.
“Horrorstör delivers a crisp terror-tale...[and] Hendrix strikes a nice balance between comedy and horror.”—TheWashington Post
“Disarming.”—The Wall Street Journal
“Wildly inventive...Hendrix delivers both a palm-sweating horror story and a laugh-out-loud satire of retail.”—Esquire
“Highly giftable.”—Buzzfeed
“Hendrix conjures up some wonderfully gruesome imagery.”—Nerdist
“An inventive, hilarious haunted house tale.”—Bustle
“Hendrix’s one-of-a-kind novel is an innovative hybrid of ghost story and satire, at once clever, gruesome, and hilarious.”—Amazon Book Review
“If you’ve ever been frustrated trying to put together furniture from IKEA, you’ll get a laugh out of Hendrix’s spoof mystery.”—New York Post
“Hendrix is an engaging writer.”—Santa Fe New Mexican
“A clever little horror story...[and] a treat for fans of The Evil Dead or Zombieland, complete with affordable solutions for better living.”—Kirkus Reviews
“A fun horror novel.”—Library Journal
“A very clever ghost story.”—Booklist
“The book’s packaging as a catalog—complete with illustrations of increasingly sinister-looking furniture with faux Scandinavian names—gives it a charmingly oddball allure.”—Publishers Weekly
More praise for Grady Hendrix:
“National treasure Grady Hendrix follows his classic account of a haunted IKEA-like furniture showroom, Horrorstor (2014), with a nostalgia-soaked ghost story, My Best Friend’s Exorcism.”—The Wall Street Journal, on My Best Friend’s Exorcism
“Pure, demented delight.”—The New York Times Book Review, on Paperbacks from Hell
“Terrific... Sharply written... [My Best Friend’s Exorcism] makes a convincing case for [Hendrix’s] powers as a sharp observer of human behavior.”—The A.V. Club, on My Best Friend’s Exorcism
“Hendrix’s darkest novel yet will leave readers begging for an encore.”—Booklist, starred review, on We Sold Our Souls
“A true appreciation of the genre.”—Los Angeles Times, on Paperbacks from Hell
“Campy. Heartfelt. Horrifying.”—Minnesota Public Radio, on My Best Friend’s Exorcism
“Clever, heartfelt, and get-under-your-skin unnerving.”—Fangoria, on My Best Friend’s Exorcism
“A good, creepy, music-tinged thriller.”—CNET, on We Sold Our Souls
- Commended for IndieFab awards (Horror) 2014
ISBN: 9781594745263
Dimensions: 221mm x 187mm x 15mm
Weight: 474g
240 pages