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10th Book I Read in 2025

Title: Horrorstör

Author: Grady Hendrix

While Putin is bombing schools, maternity hospitals, and hardware stores in Ukraine, the Ukrainians struck a Russian over-the-horizon radar station 1,800 km (1,119 miles) from Ukraine. Apparently Russia's radar technology didn't see the drone about to hit it. 😆

A long-range drone operated by Ukraine's military intelligence (HUR) attacked early-warning Voronezh M radar in Russia's Orsk city in Orenburg Oblast on May 26, a source in the agency told the Kyiv Independent on May 27. For the first time since the start of the full-scale invasion, Ukraine attacked facilities in Orsk, some 1,800 kilometers (around 1,200 miles) from the drone's launch location, according to the source. Russian media claimed on May 26 that a drone fell in the Orsk suburbs in the Novoorsk district, allegedly targeting a military facility. No damages or casualties were reported. The military intelligence source told the Kyiv Independent that the consequences of the May 26 attack are still being clarified. Later during the day, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's Schemes project published satellite imagery of the radar system after the attack.

Here are before and after satellite photos of the Orsk radar facility. It's a little difficult to make out the damage because the photos were taken at different times of day and from slightly different angles. But inside the red circles there are blackened areas which can't be accounted for by shadows.

Ukraine's military intelligence also struck another Voronezh radar in the village of Glubokii in Krasnodar Krai on May 23, causing a fire at the facility, according to the source. Voronezh radar is an early-warning equipment that provides long-distance airspace monitoring, focusing on ballistic missile attacks and aircraft. Its operational range is up to 6,000 kilometers (around 3,700 miles).

These over-the-horizon radar systems are updated versions of technology developed during the Cold War. With Ukraine set to receive F-16s later this year, damaging these radar installations would make it more difficult for Russia to monitor Ukrainian flyers from afar.

Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix is a 248 page Stand-Alone Horror novel. 

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.

I rate this book 5/5 Stars.

This story was amazing. I was hooked from the moment I started reading it. It’s gripping and scary, but just the right amount. There’s mostly body horror within the book and damn, they send shivers down my spine and gave me goose bumps. The interior of the book really adds to the setting of the book and it’s wonderful to see the ways that certain furniture of those chapter headers return in the story itself.  There were some twists that I didn’t see coming. And in the Epilogue something happens that makes it look like there would be a 2nd novel in the book. But the author has stated that there wouldn’t be, which makes me kinda sad.

This book is a definite recommend from me. I haven’t read much horror, but if you’ve any recommendations in the genre I’d welcome them.