The Grownup: A Story by the Author of Gone Girl Audiobook (Free)

Gillian Flynn’s Edgar Award-winning homage towards the traditional ghost story, posted for the very first time as a standalone.

A canny young female is struggling to survive by perpetrating various degrees of mainly harmless fraud. On a rainy April morning hours, she is reading auras at Religious Hands when Susan Burke strolls in. A keen observer of individual behavior, our unnamed narrator immediately diagnoses beautiful, rich Susan as an unsatisfied woman eager to give her lovely life a drama injection. Nevertheless, when the about The Grownup: A TALE by the Author of Gone Young lady ‘psychic’ visits the eerie Victorian home that has been the source of Susan’s terror and grief, she realizes she may not need to pretend to believe in ghosts any more. Miles, Susan’s teenage stepson, doesn’t help issues with his troubling manner and grisly creativity. The three are quickly locked inside a chilling fight to discover where in fact the wicked really lurks and what, if anything, can be done to flee it.

“The Grownup,” which originally appeared as “WHAT NOW ??” in George R. R. Martin’s Rogues anthology, proves once more that Gillian Flynn is among the world’s most first and competent voices in fiction.