Horrorstör

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Published Sept. 1, 2015 by Knaur HC.

ISBN:
978-3-426-51722-2
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4 stars (13 reviews)

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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reviewed Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix

TL;DR - When your retail job wants you literally dead...

4 stars

I read this book in essentially one sitting. Grady Hendrix seems to have to sucked me all the way in. I love the idea of a haunted retail situation, maybe because I worked in a grocery store for 10 years and it's already so soul sucking that you might as well be haunted by ghosts. Solid body horror, and the start is quite creepy. Also I was a sucker for ending. #FriendshipGoals

Review of 'Horrorstör' on 'GoodReads'

3 stars

Why I picked it up ##



It was available. Needed a nightstand read. It's been on my radar for a couple years now.



## What I liked about it ##



Super short, quick read. Very spooky!



The labyrinthine not-IKEA store layout was so crucial to the story and featured so predominately that it was practically a main character. Made me realize that I would 100% grab an IKEA map and run a tabletop game there.



## What I didn't like about it ##



What's the reading equivalent of covering your eyes during the scary scene of a movie, but peeking between your fingers? I did that a couple times during the gory bits. I'm squeamish!



Literally built on top of a haunted burial site. Ultra cliche, but works for this cheap thrill.



## What I want to remember ##



There was actually quite a bit of clever writing around "job …

Review of 'Horrorstör' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

If you've ever spent hours stuck in an Ikea, gotten turned around, felt a sense of existential dread as you wander around looking at shelves, couches, kitchens, etc., all of it fake, and finally gotten out after spending more than you were expecting, imagine how much worse it would be if the place were haunted.

I wish I could say I liked this book more, but it just felt flat(packed) after such a good initial buildup. Maybe my feeling about it would be improved if I'd read the hard copy version, since it's actually formatted like an Ikea catalog?

Review of 'Horrorstör' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Horror ist ein Genre, das mich nur selten anspricht. Dementsprechend muss ein Buch aus diesem Bereich schon in irgendeiner Weise bemerkenswert sein um meine Aufmerksamkeit zu erregen. Horrostör hat das mit Leichtigkeit geschafft – schon bevor ich genaueres über den Inhalt wusste, einfach durch seine Aufmachung.

Denn jedem, der schon einmal einen Ikea-Katalog in der Hand gehalten hat, dürfte oben bei dem Foto eine gewisse Ähnlichkeit aufgefallen sein. Und es ist nicht nur der Einband, auch im Inneren setzt sich die Gestaltung fort. So sind beispielsweise die Kapitel nach Fantasie-Möbelstücken mit pseudo-skandinavischen Namen benannt und ihnen ist jeweils eine der typischen schematischen Darstellungen vorangestellt. Außerdem gibt es auch Auszüge aus Führungshandbücher des Unternehmens, Stellenanzeigen und dergleichen, welche durch das ganze Buch gestreut sind. All die Kleinigkeiten und Anspielungen zu entdecken, hat mir furchtbar Spaß gemacht und das war für mich auch eindeutig das Highlight des Buches.

Und natürlich spielt die …

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