They quickly uncover two other co-workers, Matt and Trinity, who have stayed in the store to film a reality show called Ghost Bomb in hopes of catching a spirit on tape. She and an elderly co-worker, Ruth Anne, are recruited by their anal-retentive boss, Basil (a closet geek), to investigate a series of strange breakages by walking the showroom floor overnight. Our main protagonist is Amy, an aimless 24-year-old retail clerk. Set inside a disturbingly familiar Scandinavian furniture superstore in Cleveland called Orsk, the book starts as a Palahniuk-tinged satire about the things we own-the novel is even wrapped in the form of a retail catalog complete with product illustrations. That’s the case with this clever little horror story from longtime pop-culture journalist Hendrix ( Satan Loves You, 2012, etc.). You have to give it up for the wave of paranormal novels that have plagued the last decade in literature at least they’ve made writers up their games when it comes to finding new settings in which to plot their scary moments. A hardy band of big-box retail employees must dig down for their personal courage when ghosts begin stalking them through home furnishings.
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