The more over the top, gross, Grand Guignol moments are more horrifying than scary, because they are so far removed from our regular experience. Just because this book made me have a nightmare about a haunted store doesn’t mean you will find it scary at all. I thought this book was scary, but I think a lot of innocuous things are scary. When it comes to horror I’m a lightweight. The front is pictured above – here’s the back: The whole design of the book is phenomenal, and I’ll talk about that in more detail, but even if the creativity had been limited to the cover I would have given this book some love. Did they know that Orsk is the name of an actual town in Russia? Did they care? But to my American ears the word is the perfect stand in for IKEA – a word clearly selected at random by marketing officials who didn’t think this through. I’m sure that to a Russian speaker the name is not funny, and having googled “Orsk” it looks like a lovely (and cold) place.
It’s funny, right? My apologies to people who live in Orsk, Russia. Luckily they are in a nice, safe Ikea Orsk so nothing can go wrong, right? Wrong.īefore I get into the nitty gritty, here are three things that I adored about the book instantly: Mike and Trinity are there because they want to record a ghost and be on TV. He also persuades employee Ruth Anne to do it because she’s too nice to say no.
Amy, our heroine, is bribed into the overnight shift by her irritating boss, Basil. This company is called Orsk, and on a very, very bad night a few of its employees try to find out what happens in the Orsk showroom after hours. In the novel, an American company decides to compete with IKEA by offering vaguely Scandinavian-style furniture in the same store model as IKEA, except for less money. There’s no romance in it, but it’s relevant to the interests of the Bitchery in the sense that it’s about a haunted IKEA, a concept that should strike mingled dread and delight in the soul of anyone who has ever actually been to IKEA. Horrorstör is basically a novel about a haunted IKEA. Elyse reviewed a pretty creepy horror/thriller, so we thought we’d resurrect a lighter horror novel for other readers. This review was originally published (weirdly a year ago today) August 26, 2015.
NB: Welcome to Flashback Friday! During FBF, we’ll be resurrecting older posts and reviews that are relevant to things we’ve published on the site this week.
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