Displaying 1 of 1 2014 Format: Book Author: Hendrix, Grady, author. Title: Horrorstör / a novel by Grady Hendrix ; designed by Andie Reid ; illustrated by Michael Rogalski ; cover photography by Christine Ferrara. Publisher, Date: Philadelphia : Quirk Books, [2014] Description: 243 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm Summary: After strange things start happening at the Orsk furniture superstore in Cleveland, three employees volunteer to work an overnight shift to investigate, but what they discover is more horrifying than they could have imagined. Subjects: Furniture showrooms -- Fiction. Haunted places -- Fiction. Cleveland (Ohio) -- Fiction. Genre: Horror fiction. LCCN: 2013956140 ISBN: 9781594745263 (paperback) 1594745269 (paperback) OCLC: 696099173 System Availability: 3 # System items in: 2 # Local items: 1 # Local items in: 1 Current Holds: 0 Place Request Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Awards Large Cover Image Trade Reviews Library Journal ReviewAt a Cleveland-area Orsk home store (think Ikea), uptight store manager Basil convinces employees Amy and Ruth Ann to stay after closing one night to catch the vandal who is defacing company property. They run into two more employees who are also staking out the business after hours, but Matt and Trinity are hoping to find evidence of ghosts haunting the showroom. Both groups find more than they bargained for in this fun horror novel. You see, the company made a big mistake when it decided to build a new big-box warehouse on the site of a condemned prison. VERDICT The faux-Ikea line drawings of furniture and use of umlauts seems silly at first, and there is a fair amount of workplace humor, but the book gains momentum and will deliver enough scares for horror fans as well. This first novel may be gimmicky, but it is enjoyable. (c) Copyright 2014. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.Publishers Weekly ReviewRetail 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. (Sept.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved. Librarian's View Displaying 1 of 1