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Horrorstör
- Author
- Grady Hendrix
- Narrator
- Tai Sammons, Bronson Pinchot
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 23 September 2014
- Run Time
- 6 hours 17 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Rating
- 4.5 (2 reviews)
What to expect
A traditional haunted house story in a contemporary setting, and full of current fears, Horrorstör delivers a high-concept premise in a unique style.
Something strange is happening at the Orsk furniture superstore in Cleveland. Every morning, employees arrive to find broken Kjërring bookshelves, shattered Glans water goblets, and smashed Liripip wardrobes—clearly someone, or something, is up to no good. To unravel the mystery, five young employees volunteer for a long dusk-till-dawn shift and encounter horrors that defy imagination. Along the way, author Grady Hendrix infuses sly social commentary on the nature of work in the new twenty-first-century economy.
A traditional haunted house story in a contemporary setting, and full of current fears, Horrorstör delivers a high-concept premise in a unique style.
Critics Review
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“Disarming.”
Wall Street Journal
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“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
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“Wildly fun and outrageously inventive.”
Shelf Awareness (starred review)
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“This fun horror novel…will deliver enough scares for horror fans.”
Library Journal
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“A very clever ghost story.”
Booklist
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“Retail stores that peddle lifestyle philosophies to customers and employees get a comic drubbing in this diverting horror lampoon.”
Publishers Weekly
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“Tai Sammons narrates evenly, with Bronson Pinchot providing interstitial advertisements for increasingly sinister-sounding Orsk furniture…Fans of B horror movies will enjoy this parody and will be entertained by the strong story development.”
Library Journal (audio review)
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“Sammons’ performance has a tough, acidic edge that perfectly reflects Amy’s cynicism and resignation. Pinchot, meanwhile, sounds just like a commercial, with a tenor tone and perfectly convincing upbeat rhythm.”
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User Reviews
Book 4.5
Narration 5.0
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5.0 5.0
I listened to this over the course of a day as I couldn’t bring myself to press pause! Fantastic, escapist thriller / horror plot with an engaging narrator who brought out the comedic elements of the plot and had me on the edge of my seat at moments. I also loved the way the book was interspersed with adverts, like a catalogue, which got increasingly more and more sinister as the book neared its conclusion.
This was my first book with this app and I am going to be purchasing many more (seriously, I’ve made a list and it’s topping 50..).
Thank you so much!AmyG 2025-01-11 -
4.0 5.0
Great book, very creepy and tense and atmospheric.
Helenw102 2024-06-23
Details
- Author
- Grady Hendrix
- Narrator
- Tai Sammons, Bronson Pinchot
- Duration
- 6 hours 17 minutes
- Release Date
- 23 September 2014
- ISBN
- 9781483049762
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Horror and supernatural fiction, Fantasy, Thriller / suspense fiction
- Rating
- 4.5(2 reviews)
- Narration
- 5.0(2 reviews)
Synopsis
A traditional haunted house story in a contemporary setting, and full of current fears, Horrorstör delivers a high-concept premise in a unique style.Something strange is happening at the Orsk furniture superstore in Cleveland. Every morning, employees arrive to find broken Kjërring bookshelves, shattered Glans water goblets, and smashed Liripip wardrobes—clearly someone, or something, is up to no good. To unravel the mystery, five young employees volunteer for a long dusk-till-dawn shift and encounter horrors that defy imagination. Along the way, author Grady Hendrix infuses sly social commentary on the nature of work in the new twenty-first-century economy.A traditional haunted house story in a contemporary setting, and full of current fears, Horrorstör delivers a high-concept premise in a unique style.
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