Horrorstör

author: Grady Hendrix
name: Wayne
average rating: 3.63
book published: 2014
rating: 4
read at: 2015/05/03
date added: 2015/05/03
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'Horrorstor' by Grady Hendrix is both a tongue in cheek look at the horrors of working retail, and also a horror novel involving wandering around an empty store at night. I liked it quite a bit.

Amy is marking time at big box furniture store Orsk , where the prices are lower than Ikea, and, the author assures us, that is where the resemblance ends. She is trying to 1) avoid her manager, who is out to fire her, 2) come up with the shortfall in her rent, 3) and get transferred back to the store she came from. When her manager Basil offers her the chance for overtime by investigating strange doings in the store during the nighttime hours, Amy can't pass up the opportunity for the double overtime. This is where all the horror aficionados scream "No! Don't do it!" because this is the set up for all the things that follow. She is stuck in the store with her manager Basil and overly cheerful cashier Ruth Anne. Unknowingly, a couple co-workers who want to make it famous in the ghost hunting game have also decided to spend the night. What follows is a gradual unfolding of events from slightly uneasy to outright terrifying. From strange graffiti appearing in the employee bathrooms to a showroom maze that seems intent on confusing Amy to torture and possible death.

The book is designed like an Ikea catalog. It includes all the things you might expect to find, and things you won't expect to find. The cheeriness of the catalog and ideals of the employee values, along with Amy's feelings of being trapped help to create a strange prison-like environment which fits perfectly with what happens later in the store. There is plenty of tongue-in-cheek humor for the horrors of working retail, and for fans of the store this book parodies. The humor is balanced with the horror and the evil that is found in the store is pretty grotesque and scary, so be warned about that. But for those who like their horror mixed with dark humor, this certainly fills the bill.

I received a review copy of this ebook from Quirk Books and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this great ebook.



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