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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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Two narrators deliver this story, which revolves around a Swedish furniture store. Tai Sammons gives distinctive voices to the employees of the Orsk store, and Pinchot enthusiastically reads the store's catalogue...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. -- AudioFile Hendrix does a good job of toying with the classic haunted-house story...Tai Sammons narrates evenly, with Bronson Pinchot providing interstitial advertisements for increasingly sinister-sounding Orsk furniture...With no mood-setting music or intense scares, this audiobook is light on suspense and horror but surprisingly fun nonetheless. Fans of B horror movies will enjoy this parody and will be entertained by the strong story development. -- Library Journal (audio review) A very clever ghost story. -- Booklist At a Cleveland-area Orsk home store, 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...Will deliver enough scares for horror fans...Enjoyable. -- Library Journal Retail stores that peddle lifestyle philosophies to customers and employees get a comic drubbing in this diverting horror lampoon. -- Publishers Weekly Wildly fun and outrageously inventive. -- Shelf Awareness for Readers, starred 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 Disarming. -- Wall Street Journal

"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. -- ""AudioFile"" 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)"" This fun horror novel...will deliver enough scares for horror fans. -- ""Library Journal"" Wildly fun and outrageously inventive. -- ""Shelf Awareness (starred review)"" A very clever ghost story. -- ""Booklist"" Disarming. -- ""Wall Street Journal"" 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"" Retail stores that peddle lifestyle philosophies to customers and employees get a comic drubbing in this diverting horror lampoon. -- ""Publishers Weekly"""

Wildly fun and outrageously inventive. -- Shelf Awareness for Readers, starred review A very clever ghost story. -- Booklist At a Cleveland-area Orsk home store, 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...Will deliver enough scares for horror fans...Enjoyable. -- Library Journal Disarming. -- Wall Street Journal Hendrix does a good job of toying with the classic haunted-house story...Tai Sammons narrates evenly, with Bronson Pinchot providing interstitial advertisements for increasingly sinister-sounding Orsk furniture...With no mood-setting music or intense scares, this audiobook is light on suspense and horror but surprisingly fun nonetheless. Fans of B horror movies will enjoy this parody and will be entertained by the strong story development. -- Library Journal (audio 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 Retail stores that peddle lifestyle philosophies to customers and employees get a comic drubbing in this diverting horror lampoon. -- Publishers Weekly Two narrators deliver this story, which revolves around a Swedish furniture store. Tai Sammons gives distinctive voices to the employees of the Orsk store, and Pinchot enthusiastically reads the store's catalogue...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. -- AudioFile

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. -- AudioFile 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) This fun horror novel...will deliver enough scares for horror fans. -- Library Journal Wildly fun and outrageously inventive. -- Shelf Awareness (starred review) A very clever ghost story. -- Booklist Disarming. -- Wall Street Journal 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 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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Grady Hendrix is a novelist and screenwriter based in New York City whose novels have won wide acclaim. Horrorstör was named one of the best books of 2014 by National Public Radio, and Paperbacks from Hell won the Bram Stoker Award. Tai Sammons earned her degree in theater from Southern Oregon University in Ashland, where she worked at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. This award-winning actress currently resides upstate in Portland, with her beloved black pug, Oscar. Bronson Pinchot, Audible's Narrator of the Year for 2010, has won Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Awards, AudioFile Earphones Awards, Audible's Book of the Year Award, and Audie Awards for several audiobooks, including Matterhorn, Wise Blood, Occupied City, and The Learners. A magna cum laude graduate of Yale, he is an Emmy- and People's Choice-nominated veteran of movies, television, and Broadway and West End shows. His performance of Malvolio in Twelfth Night was named the highlight of the entire two-year Kennedy Center Shakespeare Festival by the Washington Post. He attended the acting programs at Shakespeare & Company and Circle-in-the-Square, logged in well over 200 episodes of television, starred or costarred in a bouquet of films, plays, musicals, and Shakespeare on Broadway and in London, and developed a passion for Greek revival architecture.

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