Grownup
by Gillian Flynn
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A young woman is making a living faking it as a cut-price psychic (with some illegal soft-core sex work on the side). She makes a decent wage mostly by telling people what they want to hear. But then she meets Susan Burke. Susan moved to the city one year ago with her husband and 15-year-old stepson Miles. They live in a Victorian house called Carterhook Manor. Susan has become convinced that some malevolent spirit is inhabiting their home. The young woman doesn't believe in exorcism or the supernatural. However when she enters the house for the first time, she begins to feel it too, as if the very house is watching her, waiting, biding its time ...
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Ghost stories, Psychics, Fiction, Fiction, ghost| Edition | Availability |
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Gao gui
2015, Shi bao wen hua chu ban qi ye gu fen you xian gong si
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The Grownup: A Story by the Author of Gone Girl
Nov 03, 2015, Random House Audio
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0451484231 9780451484239
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"A story by the author of Gone Girl."
Includes an excerpt from Dark Places.
Originally appeared as "What Do You Do?" in the anthology "Rogues", edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, published by Bantam Books in 2014.
Edgar Award for Best Short Story, 2015
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A canny young woman is struggling to survive by perpetrating various levels of mostly harmless fraud. On a rainy April morning, she is reading auras at Spiritual Palms when Susan Burke walks in. A keen observer of human behavior, our unnamed narrator immediately diagnoses beautiful, rich Susan as an unhappy woman eager to give her lovely life a drama injection. However, when the "psychic" visits the eerie Victorian home that has been the source of Susan's terror and grief, she realizes she may not have to pretend to believe in ghosts anymore. Miles, Susan's teenage stepson, doesn't help matters with his disturbing manner and grisly imagination. The three are soon locked in a chilling battle to discover where the evil truly lurks and what, if anything, can be done to escape it.
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