Enjoyable short story about a scam artist working as a psychic, who gets drawn into a potentially deadly family conflict. Either the mother or the stepson has murderous intent, and behind both is the idea of the haunted house, which either suspect may be using as a means to advance their own agenda. There's a lot of reference to haunted house narratives here, but it's all a bit too clever. I know my haunted house stories, and all those references do is make clear the construction that underlines the narrative. I'm trying to be a little oblique here, because of spoilers, but suffice to say that because of all this seeding, the twist is just not that much of a surprise. It would have been subtler, I think, to name the kid Miles and get rid of all of the other literary in-jokes. One is enough.