Hendrix cleverly sprinkles in nods to well-established vampire lore, and the fact that he's a master at conjuring heady 1990s nostalgia is just the icing on what is his best book yet.

Sometimes the layout of a book can severely detract from the story being told, but Horrorstor is the perfect example of a book that uses the layout to its advantage to enhance the storytelling experience, drawing you further and further in through the imagery, ads, and satire. It was dawn, and the zombies were stumbling through the parking lot, streaming toward the massive beige box at the far end. The first half of the book was great,a little slow,but still good,and you are introduced to the characters,which to be honest,are some of the most natural and real characters I have ever read about. There's the tightly-strung manager with a heart of gold, the maternal push-over figure who may be tougher than she looks, and more.Could it be that this building this built on the ruins of an insane asylum with a mad doctor who tortured and killed his patients? Amy is unsuccessful in rescuing Ruth Anne before the woman commits suicide, but frees Basil and helps him keep sane by talking to him about his sister, for whom he is a caregiver. I’ve read a handful of novels by Hendrix and I absolutely love his style of writing, horror, and the hilarious dark humor often found in everything he does.

It did creep me out, especially the last few chapters, but admittedly: 1) I am a scaredy cat, and 2) I read it all one night I was alone in an airport because I had a flight at dawn, and let me tell you, the author nailed the feeling of “wrongness” when there’s nobody around in places designed to be full of people.

she's all set to transfer to a different branch to escape some of the irritants when basil offers her a deal: he will approve her transfer and give her 200 dollars cash if she works an overnight shift with both him and another worker: relentlessly upbeat team player/cashier ruth anne. For more than a year now, the name Grady Hendrix kept popping up from GR friends, either with a reading, rating, review or recommendation.

Can you think of anything scarier than an asylum with torture devices that would have made the Inquisition jealous? I spent the first 15 years öf my wörking life wörking retail, sö all the retail clichés fröm the first part öf the böök hit höme. I thought it would be funny, and there are bits of humor (only in the first 100 pages before everything goes south) but what I wasn't expecting was a full-on, twisted, horror book bonanza. It’s hard to walk into an IKEA and not think about his “bright and shining path," or the false doors that, in this book, do open and lead to interdimensional horror.By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. I loved the ending and I felt that the last chapter of the book, which explores the effects of trauma but also rises out of it with a sense of purpose and courage (and a new creep factor), elevated the whole book. A former film critic for the New York Sun, Grady has written for Slate, the Village Voice, Time Out New York, Playboy, and Variety.

This was so much fun and what starts as some biting satire that will have you laughing very abruptly turns into a gore-fest that will have you screaming. This is not horror of the depressing variety where everyone dies or if one person lives they have been driven mad by their sufferings. The project was to have been executive produced by Charlie Kaufman and directed by Josh Schwartz, with a pilot script written by Michael Vukadinovich. His infusion of social commentary into the plot is precisely what I hope to achieve in my own writing.

its incisive social commentary and meaningful character development make The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires not just a palatable read for non-horror fans, but a winning one. Did you love it as much as I did, or was the incorporation of the layout into the story too gimmicky for you?