I was thoroughly spooked while I devoured every page of this book.
Grady Hendrix created the perfect amount of retail horror in this novel. It's set up to read like a catalogue that features all of Orsk's latest an greatest products. For instance, the Bodavest (item #5355666200) is a chair that confines movement and forces the occupant into total immobility; or the Jodlöpp (item #3927272666), an iron cap that forces the wearer into absolute submission.
If you've ever worked retail I'm sure you've thought, "I don't get paid enough for this shit." Well, that's pretty much how the employees at Orsk feel as they're wheeling a Brooka couch covered in poop off the sales floor. The employee entrance is broken. There's graffiti in the bathroom. There might even be a ghost. So when Amy is called into the office, she assumes the worst....she's going to get fired. Instead, her manager asks her and Ruth Anne to work an overnight shift patrolling the store. Strange things have been happening and Basil just doesn't want to lose his job. The three of them set out to find the person behind these disgusting acts.
Two other employees catch wind that there might be a ghost in the store considering the building used to be a penitentiary for the mentally ill. Trinity and Matt believe they could get some good footage for their hopeful Bravo series, Ghost Bomb. They sneak in through the employee entrance and get to work setting up candles and EVP recorders when the run into Amy and Ruth Anne on their first walk through.
Immediately spooky things start happening.
The bathroom walls are filling with graffiti.
There's a homeless man running through the store.
There's a seance happening while they wait for the police.
This is how they entered The Beehive.
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