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The Grownup
A Thriller & Suspense Short Story by Gillian Flynn
Subgenres:
- Psychological Thriller,
- Gothic
This book is for you if you're into...
- Psychic scams colliding with real supernatural chills
- Unnamed narrators with razor-sharp observations and questionable motives
- Creepy Victorian houses hiding more than just family secrets
Gillian Flynn’s Edgar Award-winning homage to the classic ghost story, published for the first time as a standalone.
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.
“The Grownup,” which originally appeared as “What Do You Do?” in George R. R. Martin’s Rogues anthology, proves once again that Gillian Flynn is one of the world’s most original and skilled voices in fiction.
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