Dust off your skeleton decor and deck your hallowed Halloween halls—spooky season is here! Join us at Penguin Random House Audio all October long for ghosts, demons, witches (so. many. witches.), and scariest of them all…THE SUBURBS. READ MORE
Erik Larson, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile and The Devil in the White City, has been thrilling fans of narrative non-fiction for years. Now his first ever work of fiction, No One Goes Alone, is available as an audiobook original. READ MORE
Gillian Flynn, New York Times bestselling author of Gone Girl, is back with a short story called The Grownup. The Grownup is a chilling ghost story about a suburban family in a Gothic Victorian home.
The nameless narrator is a young grafter woman. She works at a spiritual shop—in front they provide women with psychic readings; in back, they provide pleasure to men. One day, a disheveled woman, Susan, enters the shop and asks for help. Her house may be haunted, and her unusual stepson may have sinister intentions. Intending to use Susan as a conduit to other wealthy women interested in psychic house calls, the narrator agrees to help.
Once the narrator begins visiting the family and the home, however, eerily disturbing events and stories unfold…and things are not necessarily as they seem.
Listen to a clip from The Grownup read by Julia Whelan. The Grownup