Horrorstör: A Novel

"Ever felt lost and disoriented in a huge imported furniture emporium of Scandinavian design? It’s a little sinister, right? So why did it take so long for someone to set a hilarious horror novel in what’s essentially a haunted Ikea? (It’s called Orsk in the novel.) Horrorstör’s grimly funny pleasures include the novel’s sendups of Ikea catalogs, complete with advertisements for Potemkin armchairs, Müskk beds and Lågniå water glasses. The plot — wage slaves up against corporate indifference and a gruesomely vengeful ghost — is mostly an excuse for such lines as, “There is a dead man on the Frinjk!” But author Grady Hendrix’s wit and trenchant observations about retail culture exceed Horrorstör’s silly concept. The book’s been plucked up for TV by the executive who developed Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel."