Horror

Do you like ghost stories? If you do, this book is for you! A Ghostly Presence is a book comprised of three short stories : The Cortez House, The Dress, and The O-Grand Hotel. Each story is filled with spooky surprises and ghostly encounters that will make you want to hide under your covers.

A sleepy city gets some help when a group of psychiatrists come to their city and acquire an old broken down landmark and transform it into a school for troubled young men. The city begins to prosper and the things seem to be looking up dispite a pesky little murder that the city detectives try to figure out.

When the proprietor of the Peacekeeper Inn, a charming Inn in the valley of North Carolina, discovers a sapling with one white flower blooming from it on the steps along with the morning papers, she immediately develops a fondness for the plant. After planting the fragile tree on the property, she takes special care in nourishing it as it rapidly grows skyward. In the interim, she learns the intricate details of the assorted brightly colored flowers that it can produce at will, usually at the insistence of Miss Mary. Having the ability to manipulate the Jonny Tree, a moniker she had given to the tree in honor of her deceased brother, allowed her to control individuals with the magical ...