Author Gillian Flynn is riding high after the critical success of David Fincher’s Gone Girl. She has since worked on HBO’s “Utopia” as well as collaborated on a new comic series titled “Masks”, which will be released on Dark Horse Comics. Now, the author is taking her short story “The Grownup” to the market for a possible film or TV adaptation, according to TB.
The site describes “The Grownup” as a, “…ghost story similar to Henry James’ Turn of the Screw. It tells the story of a a woman struggling to survive by perpetrating various levels of [mostly] harmless fraud. While “reading auras,” our heroine meets a woman who claims to be terrorized by poltergeists. She visits the home where the occurrences take place to find that she may not have to pretend to believe in ghosts anymore as she finds herself locked in a chilling battle to discover where the evil truly lurks and what, if anything, can be done to escape it.”
The story appeared in “Game of Thrones” author George R.R. Martin’s anthology “Rogues” under the titled “What Do You Do?” It will be published on its own by Random House on November 3rd.