Издания и произведения

Повесть, удостоенная престижной премии Эдгара Аллана По, от автора мирового бестселлера «Исчезнувшая». Молодая женщина зарабатывает на жизнь чтением ауры клиентов в гадальном салоне «Волшебные ручки». И, надо сказать, неплохо зарабатывает, главным образом благодаря тому, что говорит людям то, что они хотят услышать. Там она знакомится со Сьюзен Бёрк, которая переехала к ним в городок год назад вместе с мужем и 15-летним пасынком Майлсом. Они живут в Картерхук-Мэноре – доме в викторианском стиле, построенном в 1893 году. Сьюзен убеждена, что в доме обитает злой дух, завладевший ее пасынком, и даже обнаруживает на стене струйки…

A young woman is making a living, faking it as a cut-price psychic working at Spiritual Palms (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, built in 1893. Susan has become convinced that some malevolent spirit is inhabiting their home, and taking possession of the stepson. She has even found trickles of blood on the wall. The young woman doesn't believe in exorcism or the supernatural, but…

Acanny young woman is struggling to survive by perpetrating various levels of mostly harmless fraud. On a rainy April morning, she is reading auras at Spiritual Palms when Susan Burke walks in. A keen observer of human behavior, our unnamed narrator immediately diagnoses beautiful, rich Susan as an unhappy woman eager to give her lovely life a drama injection. However, when the "psychic" visits the eerie Victorian home that has been the source of Susan's terror and grief, she realizes she may not have to pretend to believe in ghosts anymore. Miles, Susan's teenage stepson, doesn't help matters with his disturbing manner and grisly…

Иногда попытка заработать денег прикинувшись экстрасенсом может привести ну к совершенно неожиданным неприятностям...

A nameless sex worker and fortune teller is hired to spiritually cleanse a wealthy woman's house but soon comes to believe she is in way over her head.

This is a short story that was originally published in the 2014 anthology Rogues, edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, under the title "What Do You Do?". The next year it was re-titled and published as a stand-alone book. The story is about a sex worker who becomes an aura reader and is then hired by a woman with a failing marriage and a disturbing step-son to purify her Victorian home. The story won an Edgar Award in 2015 for best short story.

Иногда попытка заработать денег прикинувшись экстрасенсом может привести ну к совершенно неожиданным неприятностям...