Horrorstor: A Novel

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From theNew York Timesbest-selling authorofThe Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampirescomes 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.

Reviews

Horrorstr 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

Hendrixs one-of-a-kind novel is an innovative hybrid of ghost story and satire, at once clever, gruesome, and hilarious.Amazon Book Review

If youve ever been frustrated trying to put together furniture from IKEA, youll get a laugh out of Hendrixs 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 funhorror novel.Library Journal

A very clever ghost story.Booklist

The books packaging as a catalogcomplete with illustrations of increasingly sinister-looking furniture with faux Scandinavian namesgives 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 Friends Exorcism.The Wall Street Journal, on My Best Friends Exorcism

Pure, demented delight.The New York Times Book Review, on Paperbacks from Hell

Terrific... Sharply written... [My Best Friends Exorcism] makes a convincing case for [Hendrixs] powers as a sharp observer of human behavior.The A.V. Club, on My Best Friends Exorcism

Hendrixs 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 Friends Exorcism

Clever, heartfelt, and get-under-your-skin unnerving.Fangoria, on My Best Friends Exorcism

A good, creepy, music-tinged thriller.CNET, on We Sold Our Souls

Author Bio

Grady Hendrix is an award-winning andNew York Timesbest-selling novelist and screenwriter living in New York City. He is the author ofHorrorst r,My Best Friend's Exorcism(which is being adapted into a feature film by Amazon Studios),We Sold Our Souls,The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires, andThe Final Girl Support Group. Grady also authored the Bram Stoker Award-winning nonfiction bookPaperbacks from HellandThese Fists Break Bricks- How Kung Fu Movies Swept America and Changed the World.