Horrorstör
Something strange is happening at the Orsk furniture superstore in Cleveland, Ohio. Every morning, employees arrive to find broken Kjerring bookshelves, shattered Glans water goblets, and smashed Liripip wardrobes. Sales are down, security cameras reveal nothing, and store managers are panicking.
To unravel the mystery, three employees volunteer to work a nine-hour dusk-till-dawn shift. In the 
dead of the night, they’ll patrol the empty showroom floor, investigate strange sights and sounds, and encounter horrors that defy the imagination.
A traditional haunted house story in a thoroughly contemporary setting, Horrorstör comes packaged in the form of a glossy mail order catalog, complete with product illustrations, a home delivery order form, and a map of Orsk’s labyrinthine showroom.
My review............4 stars
Anyone who has read many of my reviews would never think I would give this high a rating for, of all things, a horror story! Believe me, I'm not a fan of horror, whether it be in print or in movies. This book gets all its stars from the sheer genius of the design and the idea behind the print. Once I saw the cover, I knew that I had to have it. It's set up like an Ikea catalog, right down to each chapter featuring a piece of furniture with a description (just like in a catalog), and that piece is used somewhere within the chapter. If you've ever walked through one of these stores, the descriptions of the store layout was brilliant. The story was so clever, and surprise surprise, I didn't even mind the horror parts! It was more creepy, kind of disgusting stuff, and it doesn't even occur until the last third of the book. It's a fast read, and with all the pictures and diagrams, it just flows together seamlessly.
This would be a great book for someone who wants to read something completely different and out of their comfort zone, particularly if you appreciate the artistic aspects of a book. I thought the whole thing was a treasure. I'll never walk through an Ikea store again without thinking about this book!
Yay! I thought this was such an amazing book for its creativity and complete outside-the-box approach to literature. It is the type of novel you just want to shove into people's hands so that they can see how visually fun it is.
Completely agree. What a brilliant idea! Someone suggested it should be made into a movie. I might even go see it 🙂
I agree, the concept behind this book is so clever.