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The Store is a 1998 horror novel by Bentley Little about a large retail chain that opens in a small Arizona town. As the store expands, its presence affects local businesses, institutions, and residents in increasingly disturbing ways. The novel uses the familiar setting of a big-box retailer to explore conformity, consumer culture, and the possibility that an apparently ordinary corporation has a supernatural purpose.
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What happens when the store opens in Bentley Little's The Store?
A large retail chain opens in a small Arizona town and begins expanding its influence. Its growth damages local businesses and affects residents, institutions, and community life in disturbing ways.
Is The Store about a supernatural shop or ordinary corporate expansion?
It starts with a familiar big-box retail premise, but the consequences become horror. Bentley Little uses the store's ordinary business practices and growing reach as the source of an increasingly unnatural threat.
When was The Store published?
The Store was published in 1998. It is one of Bentley Little's satirical horror novels about institutions that become invasive and frightening.
Why is the Arizona setting important in The Store?
The small-town Arizona setting makes the chain's arrival feel like a direct threat to an existing community. As the store expands, residents lose local control and become surrounded by its influence.
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