Grownup
By: Gillian Flynn
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 79
ISBN-13: 9781474603041
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Psychics; Fiction
Description: 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 ...
Notes: "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