At Scarlet Lane Brewery for Scarelastic Bookfair featuring horror authors and a few independent publishers. It was awesome! Got so many new books, totally blew my budget. 100% would do again.
At Scarlet Lane Brewery for Scarelastic Bookfair featuring horror authors and a few independent publishers. It was awesome! Got so many new books, totally blew my budget. 100% would do again.
“She knew he was building an HR case against her, accumulating a long list of missteps and failures. When the staff cuts came - and everyone knew cuts were coming; you could sense a weird sort of tension in the air - Amy knew she would be at the top of Basil‘s list.”
Satire. Creepy & paranormal. Horror balanced with the right amount of nuance and humor. Unique IKEA catalog-like format complete with furniture ads at the start of each chapter. I enjoy Grady Hendrix's writing and was immediately connected and invested in the characters. I also found the background on the haunting interesting.
Gisela, you spoiled me! (Sorry, I don't have your Litsy handle)
I looove the Día de los Muertos decor but sadly, the globe's stand came broken. However, thank you!!!
#HHS #HHS23 @wanderinglynn
In a downmarket knockoff of IKEA, manager Basil picks Amy and Ruth Ann to investigate things that go bump in the night.
It wasn't as funny as I thought it was going to be, but nevertheless I enjoyed the first half where the characters were investigating the shop at night. The second half was certainly dark but I didn't feel particularly creeped out, just wanted the story to get a move on.
If you've ever worked retail then you know the abuse you take from customers so being closed in a furniture box store overnight with ghosts and demons would be a piece of cake 😂 Grady Hendrix's twist on Ikea and their products is brilliant
This is my Halloween twist of a Charcuterie Board, a little wonky looking but tasted delicious 😋
This is a great selection for the Halloween season. The story takes place in a furniture store similar to IKEA, even though it was made very clear at the beginning of the book that it‘s not based on an IKEA store. Based on other readers‘ comments about the comparison to an IKEA store, I thought this was going to be a goofy book. I couldn‘t have been more wrong! It was a good, haunted furniture store story.
Full review at https://abookandadog.com
And that‘s a wrap on the week 1 #scarathlon game for me! I made different lists each day of book titles that reminded me of our two buddy reads, resulting in a strange and complicated google sheet lol
#skeletoncrew
Witty concept. Poor execution on audible. I found myself checking out constantly. Couldn‘t have cared less about the characters or whatever demon/ghost.
Even though I‘ve already filled my buddy read spot for the #skeletoncrew this #scarathlon - I decided I couldn‘t resist rereading our other buddy read option! I loved this just as much as last time - the perfect mix of horror, comedy, and genuinely moving parts about the MC‘s coworkers being worth fighting with and for even tho the company is trying to kill your soul.
Here are my results for the week 1 #scarathlon game!
I went through my LibraryThing collection of books read to see which ones had things in common with our #skeletoncrew buddy reads but ran out of steam after listing 306 books. Most were in the fantasy or horror genres but I was especially proud of finding a decorating book that matched “furniture“ for Horrorstor!
This book was SO GOOD! I even made my 7th graders read for 30 minutes so that I could model reading with this book. The imagery was stellar and I will never look at a wholesale store the same again. 4/5! #scarathlon #creepinitreal
I guess I like my horror with a side of hilarious. I think this is Hendrix‘s best book. Though I haven‘t read all of them. I‘ll never feel quite the same walking through IKEA.
Did anyone else notice that all the item numbers for the products had 666 in them? Made me chuckle.
(Pictured in front of my IKEA billy shelves😆)
Attention #scarathlon #skeletoncrew! There‘s a couple choices for our buddy read, worth 50 points, though you can only use one book as the buddy read. I wanted to give more and less scary options
Horrorstör is a horrific comedy about hell and labour relations set in a store that can‘t legally be called IKEA
Comedy? Suspense? Quirky? Scary? Yes!! Starting this today. 🪑
Tackle the TBR 🤓📚
What are you reading?
#boleybooks #horrorstor #gradyhendrix #bookbeast #bookbuds #bookchat 🙌
Finished! Not a big fan of horror books but this one was pretty good. Comedy and horror is melded pretty well.
Extra ¼ star for the audio – loved the Orsk “ads”, and they got better as the book went along (to kind of fit what was happening in the book). I particularly liked the last ad, and it was Bronson Pinchot doing those. The story was less horror in the first half, more mystery? And humour. I really liked how it ended.
#LMPBC Round 18 - Group H
@BeckyWithTheGoodBooks @Maggie4483 @vonnie862 @suvata has joined the horror train. I just wanted to take a minute to start the discussion about what books we will be reading this round. This is going to be fun… And scary.
4-18-23: My 42nd finished book of 2023! I loved the whole concept of this book. From the cover art to the chapter set up this story really gives you a full experience. Amy works at Orsk, and take off on IKEA, where she is pretty miserable and believes she is about to be fired. Then one night her manager asks her to stay in the store overnight to help him catch whoever is vandalizing and all hell, literally, breaks loose. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️📖#️⃣4️⃣2️⃣
So I'd gone to work the other day and forgot to bring my current read. No worries I work in a bookstore so I decided to pick this one up. First it's Grady Hendrix so you know it's going to be quirky. This was fun a haunted IKEA store and sarcastic and campy characters and voila. This is probably one of my favorites by him.
Grady Hendrix is my favorite author, and this is one of his best. A campy horror story about a haunted Ikea. Also, a sarcastic, moody main character that I love.
This is a book that you really need to have the physical copy to get the full reading experience.
Set out like an IKEA catalogue this is the story of Orsk, a furniture store where customers follow the Bright and Shining path through the showrooms, down onto the Market floor (sound familiar?).
Something weird is going on at Orsk, the opening team are finding poop on the sofas, broken furniture and corporate are becoming concerned.
Was fun!
This was such a fun horror/comedy novel. It is about a Haunted knock off Ikea store. The book was designed to look like an Ikea catalog.
@teebe my #CreepyChristmas is coming from Amazon all it should be to @rsteve388 by the 30th. The items should be wrapped seeing I did pay for wrapping.
Setting aside any regards for its contents, Horrorstor gets five stars for book design, alone. Look at it! It‘s formatted to look like an IKEA catalogue, complete with an order form for a copyright page and product descriptions for chapter headers. It‘s honestly one of the most beautiful tomes I‘ve ever had the privilege of placing on my shelves. Full review: https://keepingupwiththepenguins.com/horrorstor-grady-hendrix/
This book is best as a physical copy, because it is made to look like an old school catalogue (which is definitely based on ikea)
This was the first Grady Hendrix I read, and I enjoyed this tale of a #Haunted furniture store 👻
#OminousOctober #Scarathlon2022 #TeamMonsterMash
Oh my! Hendrix sure likes to use rats in his horror stories 😳 I also have a thing about snot - when little, people blowing their noses used to make me gag - so let me tell you, there is a certain scene in this book that was A Problem lol.
Anyway, good setting, entertaining integration of the increasingly disturbing ikea-like product descriptions, but I could do without the body horror 🤢
Read for #aam and #scarathlon
#authoramonth22 I'm too wimpy for most horror, but I think book challenges are toughening me up. 😄 This was pretty fun in a chilling sort of way, or do I mean the opposite? The Ikea parody was spot on.
A perfect #scarathlon2022 read. not my usual genre, still I enjoyed 🥶 I like the atmosphere of this book more than the plot.Cos I ve not read many books with commercial settings. good ending. 4⭐️ #authoramonth2022 #AAM #readathon
#littenlisten @aperfectmjk #spookoween @TheSpineView #31in31 @Catsandbooks #promptmaze #bookspinbingo #witchathon @mdm139 #teamSlaughter #stabbybingo #bodycountbingo #somethingspooky #hauntedbuilding 6hrs 15m
📖 mystery
🏡 haunted house
I don‘t tag people much because I never know who likes to play these games. I like to do them, so thanks for the tag @MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm ! #thoughtfulthursday
5 ⭐️s
My first Grady Hendrix and I LOVED it! I especially enjoyed the design of the book to be like an ordering catalog. I do wish it had been longer, but I‘m glad it ended the way it did as well. The buildup was nice and I was glad Hendrix didn‘t shy away from the gore. A characters fingernail being ripped off “like a wet postage stamp” is exactly the kind of descriptive nastiness I live for in my horror.
#Scarathlon2022
#TeamMonsterMash
This is such a uniquely fun and scary book! Hendrix creates the world of an IKEA knockoff in Cleveland where strange things are happening. Weird smells and texts from strange numbers saying “help”. The assistant manager asks two employees to stay overnight to find out what happens when the cameras go dark. Of course they get more than they bargained for. I LOVE the details that turn this print book into a catalogue. Highly recommend! #AuthorAMonth
Spooky and scary when I got up this morning. ?? A perfect time to finally start my *print* copy of Horrorstör! I‘ve listened to the audiobook half a dozen times, but this is a fantastic one to own in print because it really does look like an ikea catalogue. I just love Hendrix. He is ? my horror sweet spot! #AuthorAMonth
Repost for @Soubhiville
It‘s October, time to pull out our Grady Hendrix books for #AuthorAMonth. What are you planning to read?
#AuthorAMonth is a no-pressure, no-commitment Litsy challenge. The goal is to celebrate the works of a particular author each month. Authors were chosen through polls by Litsy participants. Read as many as you like, skip months when needed, it's entirely up to you!
My first book of #scarathlon2022 was this reread which I LOVED as much as last time. So scary, great characters, so original, and this time round I found I was really touched by all the material about good work, bad work, worthwhile work. Go basil, the middle manager who won‘t let the demonic hordes take the cashiers he‘s responsible for.
#teamslaughter @Clwojick +6 non team read plus word search and readathons which I‘ll add on my spreadsheet
Probably my fave Hendrix so far, and that‘s mostly because I cringed, I laughed and I snorted while driving home. It was both creepy and disgusting, and yet hilarious (the product intros to each chapter, that get increasingly disturbing… amazing!). I feel like I won‘t be visiting an IKEA anytime soon. But if I do, I know what I‘ll be keeping an eye out for.
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Such a great day! Starts with a yoga fest and ended with meeting Grady Hendrix. He talked for over an hour and then he said he would stay until the last book was signed! Luckily I was like 10th in line, so I only waited about 30 minutes. He signed all 3! Paperbacks from Hell came with the event ticket, but I bought the other two. If he comes to your area, I highly suggest going!!
Here's the link to the signup: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScrAKF_4P5QR-kJDU9lrhzW7PQata8xPbqkHpE7...
I'm really excited to join in #Scarathlon2022, and strangely a wee bit nervous. Let's do this!
#earlybirdpoints #teamslaughter
@Clwojick
Thanks to #trappedonanisland, my #scarathlontbr is more organized than ever! If you're interested, @aperfectmjk is hosting this challenge on her litsy page. See their original post for details, but in brief, add books you're interested in reading for the month to a goodreads shelf for others to peruse 🕷️ mine has all the thrillers and horror novels I've bought and stuck, languishing on my kindle 🧛♀️ and some possibles from the library 🎃
I have mixed feelings about this book but I enjoyed the creepy parts in the middle and the ending enough to give it a pick. The beginning was slow but I loved the layout of the book, like an Ikea catalog. #horror #ghosts #paranormal
I liked the thought of this story. The need to keep climbing the ladder of gore is where it lost me. To me the mind games were scarier than the gore. #AwesomeAugust #Readathon @Andrew65