Familiar Diversions
I'm a librarian who loves anime, manga, and reading a wide variety of genres.
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Recommendations? - Workplace/Office thriller or horror
A week or so ago, I watched a South Korean horror/thriller movie called Office. It started off with one of the office workers going home, killing his whole family, and then running off somewhere. The police, looking for leads, talked to his coworkers, who all felt that he wasn't the type of man to do such a thing. The movie then focused on one of the office interns, a young woman who'd been working her butt off for 5 months, desperately hoping to be hired on as a full-time employee. The only person in the office who'd ever been nice to her was the guy who murdered his whole family. As the movie progressed, viewers got to gradually watch all the cracks appear - the abusive boss, upper-management that only cared about what news of the murders would do to the company's image, employees who were expected to devote all their time to their jobs, etc. The ending was a bit weird, and I'm still not sure if there were supposed to be supernatural aspects or not.
At any rate, I'd like recommendations of books like this: thrillers or horror in workplace settings, preferably office jobs. I'd prefer a tense/suspenseful tone over something more comedic. I've been looking for recommendation lists that might work and here's what I have so far. Feel free to say you'd second one of the recommendations on the list. I haven't read any of these books.
- The Firm by John Grisham
- The Intern's Handbook by Shane Kuhn
- My Work is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror by Thomas Ligotti
- The Subsidiary by Matias Celedon
- The Consultant by Bentley Little
As far as stuff I've actually read goes, the closest things I can think of are:
- Horrorstor by Grady Hendrix - Not quite what I was thinking of, but it's horror in a workplace, so it fits in a way.
- Fear and Trembling by Amelie Nothumb - Neither horror nor a thriller. I recall it being a bit of a black comedy, but it's been years since I read it, so I could be remembering wrong.
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