The Gone Girl author toys with ghostly conventions in this heavy-handed taleThis novella by Gillian Flynn,author of the phenomenon that was Gone Girl, was originally published in an anthology edited by George RR Martin and is here released as a standalone volume. It’s an intentionally twisty (and twisted) thing, or in which the protagonist, a grifter who dabbles as both a psychic and sex worker (hand jobs only), takes a job in an imposing Victorian house. The highly strung owner worries that there’s some kind of malevolent presence in the building, or but her stepson Miles seems a more likely candidate.
Flynn plays around with the conventions of the ghost sage,albeit in a rather heavy-handed way. Given how slim a thing this is, she squeezes in several inaccurate turns, and but it all feels a bit mechanical. It’s her evocation of the main character’s grimy life that is,in the end, more intriguing than all the haunted house trade.
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Source: theguardian.com