Horrorstor
A Novel
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4.0 • 357개의 평가
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- US$9.99
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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.
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Retail stores that peddle lifestyle philosophies to customers and employees get a comic drubbing in this diverting horror lampoon. When three employees of the Cleveland Orsk a "fake IKEA act" of a furniture superstore pull an overnight shift to find out who has been trashing store stock after hours, they are horrified to discover that the building is haunted by ghosts from a prison that stood there a century before, and that the maniacal warden intends to inflict his "rehabilitative" punishments on the store's staff. Hendrix gleefully skewers Orsk and its real-life ilk by comparing the "scripted disorientation" of the store's layout to that of the penitentiary, and the "numbing grind of repetitive labor" that the prisoners perform to the work of store employees. The plotting is minimal, but 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.
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Short but captivating
I read the whole thing in a few hours so it’s short, but I honestly couldn’t put it down. I was interested to keep reading and to know “what happens next.” Great supernatural thriller
It was fine
This book was a super easy read. Mildly entertaining. Worth $10 to read
Fantastic!!
This was just a random book I picked up for the heck of it, tell you what I am super glad I picked it up. It had the right type of spooky to it. It freaked me out a little, I hope we get a sequel cause I’ll be snatching that up quick!