![]() ![]() ![]() Later, Basil comes across a gruesome scene. When the night watch holds a séance, one character pretends to channel the customer from hell. Hendrix strikes a nice balance between comedy and horror. The “Bodavest” chair, for example, “confines the penitent and opposes the agitated movement of blood toward the brain.” Inside, its mock product descriptions get darker and funnier as the book progresses. “Horrorstör” is such a dead ringer for an Ikea catalogue that you could easily mistake it for junk mail. This book wears its zany charm on its cover. But the crew also learns that an entrance has been left open all night, so there’s probably a logical explanation for it all.Įxcept that evil, like flat-pack furniture, often defies logic. ![]() Mysterious graffiti and stained ceiling tiles appear, the store’s secret past as a 19th-century prison is revealed, and a ghost is caught on camera. ![]() “Problem solved.”Īt the beginning of the night, things are only a dog short of a Scooby-Doo episode. “If a vandal is sneaking in and trashing the place, we’ll bust him and call the cops,” Basil says. The story opens at dawn, of course, and it centers on a group of ragtag Orsk employees who are recruited by their boss Basil, “a taller Urkel from ‘Family Matters,’ ”) to spend the night and investigate a recent rash of crimes against the store: mattresses hacked to shreds, smeared feces on a “Brooka” sofa, etc. ![]()
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