Bentley Little can produce horrifying tales out of nothing and her stories are so strong that they make you believe that the evil exists out there. The Summoning told us about the reporter who didn’t believe in vampires and then the circumstances forced him to yield in front of the vampire world. This time it is a girl who attends the funeral of her mother and thinks that her mother is now gone forever.
She takes time to adjust herself mentally but finally she gives her mind the surety that she would not be seeing her mother anymore. Ironically her mother appears before her once again which just stuns her. Gloria is amazed to see her mother in the house again but no one else in the family thinks in the same way because they haven’t recognize her.
Gloria’s mother returns to the human world as a young girl because of which no one is able to recognize her. Moreover after the return of the dead, Gloria’s life seem to change which only she can detect. For a long time Gloria thinks of the reason hidden behind these odd changes in her life and then she comes to know that all of that is actually happening because of the mysterious shed in the town.
All the strangers who gather around the shed get connected to Gloria somehow and it is evident that she has some sort of bond with the shed. John Pirhalla does not disappoint anyone, and no doubt he has provided a spectacular voice to the novel which has made it surpass The Policy. There are many complexities in the story and perhaps it is the most complex one ever created by Bentley.
