Horrorstor - by Grady Hendrix (Paperback)

About the Book

"Comes ... packaged in the form of a retail catalog, complete with illustrations of ready-to-assemble furniture and other more sinister accessories"--Amazon.com.

Book Synopsis

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.

Review Quotes

"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

About the Author

Grady Hendrix is an award-winning novelist and screenwriter living in New York City. He is the author of several New York Times best sellers including How to Sell a Haunted House, The Final Girl Support Group, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires, and many more. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages and sold over two million copies. He also writes nonfiction, and his history of the horror paperback boom of the seventies and eighties, Paperbacks from Hell, won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Nonfiction.