The Calling

THE CALLING just seems to follow the routine of most of these stories, whereby a couple is determined to buy a new place to live and the woman begins to feel the strange atmosphere closing in on her.

The story starts when the woman is a young girl and apparently has the ability to see and converse with the dead, something her father tries to stop when he becomes aware of this ability. He doesn't believe her. At this point in the story, she occasionally chats with her dead grandfather.

The years pass and as an adult the woman still has this "gift," which causes a divorce. When she remarries, she holds the truth from her new husband as strange things begin happening again in the new house. She awakes one morning with bite marks on her leg which she and her husband perceive as coming from a young child.

Eventually, things get so out of hand that by the end of the tale they're moving out and leaving the spirits behind.