![]() Her boss, Basil, is a walking Orsk motivational poster, the kind of guy who has read the company founder's autobiography and memorized the employee handbook. Grady Hendrix excels at this sort of tongue-in-cheek humor inserted into what develops into a pretty dark tale, and the book itself is part of the satire, being laid out like an Ikea catalog, with increasingly sinister products described in ever-cheerful ad copy at the beginning of each chapter.Īmy is an unmotivated 20-something doing the bare minimum to not get fired from her job at Orsk, a cheaper knockoff of Ikea (which gets namechecked repeatedly several times just so we know Orsk is totally not Ikea). It reminds you more of Office Space or Clerks than The Haunting of Hill House. Along the way, author Grady Hendrix infuses sly social commentary on the nature of work in the new 21st-century economy.Ī traditional haunted house story in a contemporary setting, and full of current fears, Horrorstör delivers a high-concept premise in a unique style. To unravel the mystery, five young employees volunteer for a long dusk-till-dawn shift and encounter horrors that defy imagination. Every morning, employees arrive to find broken Kjerring wardrobes, shattered Brooka glassware, and vandalized Liripip sofa beds - clearly someone, or something, is up to no good. ![]() Something strange is happening at the Orsk furniture superstore in Cleveland. ![]()
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