Horrorstör
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| Author | Grady Hendrix |
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| Audio read by | Tai Sammons Bronson Pinchot |
| Illustrator | Michael Rogalski |
| Cover artist | Michael Rogalski |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Horror comedy |
| Published | 2014 |
| Publisher | Quirk Books |
| Media type | Print, e-book, audiobook |
| Pages | 248 pages |
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| Preceded by | Satan Loves You |
| Followed by | My Best Friend's Exorcism |
Horrorstör is a 2014 horror comedy novel that was written by Grady Hendrix and illustrated by Michael Rogalski. The novel was released in paperback on September 23, 2014 through Quirk Books and is set in Orsk, an IKEA-esque store that has been experiencing supernatural phenomena. The audiobook release was narrated by Tai Sammons and Bronson Pinchot. The book's events take place largely over the course of one night in ORSK and the story is accompanied by illustrations of ORSK products, which grow more sinister as the book progresses.
Television rights to the series were optioned in 2015 by the Jackal Group.
The novel follows a group of people that have stayed overnight at ORSK to investigate strange acts of vandalism, store manager Basil and his employees Amy, and Ruth Anne. The book particularly focuses on Amy, who is unhappy because she views her work at ORSK as an unfulfilling dead-end job. During a patrol of the store Amy and Ruth Anne come across fellow employees Trinity and Matt, who have snuck into the store to record paranormal phenomena, and the homeless bum Carl, who has been sleeping in the store without anyone knowing. Although the group decides against calling the police, Amy reveals that she had called them earlier over some minor strange occurrences earlier in the night.
Trinity manages to convince the others, minus Basil as he has gone outside to wait for the police, to hold a seance. During the seance they make contact with Warden Worth, who possesses Carl and informs everyone that he will take them into his "Beehive" and cure them of their mental illnesses. Worth then slits Carl's throat. Basil returns and is horrified by the amount of blood, but points out that Carl's body is missing. The group decides to search for him and in the process find a door leading to an old asylum that no longer exists. Everyone is abducted and subjected to various cruel "treatments" except for Basil, who manages to find and rescue Amy. The two are separated after a group of Worth's inmates (all of who are ghosts) attack Basil and drag him off. Amy nearly succumbs to the temptation to continue Worth's treatments, as his earlier treatment had nearly convinced her that her life was worthless, but she fights off the urge after seeing Trinity put through a similar torture treatment. Amy frees Trinity, only for her to run off in fear, and Amy initially makes it successfully out of the building. She stops after she realizes that she is the others' only hope of escaping the building and that running away would mean quitting, which would prove Worth to be correct.
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