Ladies and gentlemen, if you're not yet familiar with the peculiar force of nature known as Grady Hendrix then prepare yourself. The co-founder of the New York Asian Film Festival, the man behind the stellar
Kaiju Shakedown blog - which has run variously on Variety and now Film Comment - and an occasional (and very much beloved) contributor to things here at ScreenAnarchy, Hendrix has gone and written himself a novel and we've got five copies to give away.
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.
Horrorstor hits shelves September 23rd and if you want you chance to win a copy simply
email me here with the name and description of a horrific piece of (fictional) Scandinavian modular furniture. Good luck!