I asked fellow Curses anthology contributors to share some things about themselves prior to publication and those generous enough to do so will be appearing here for the next week or so.
Each entry gives a taste of their contribution, a little about them, how to contact them, how their story came about, and definitely a link to Curses (which you should purchase because it would make each and every one of us happy.
you do want to make us happy, don’t you?
i mean, considering what we wrote, you want us to know you’re a good person, right?).
And now, Robert White’s The Longspeth Curse:
Knowing the Longspeths had come from a small port town on Lake Erie called Northtown, I’d only heard bits and pieces of my family history from my father. Being curious to know more, I asked him how it was he’d settled in Duluth, Minnesota. He turned glum and refused to answer my questions.
How the story came about:
The idea for a curse came from a trainwreck in my town in 1876 that captured front-page news across the country. Many magazine articles were also devoted to it in the weeks and months afterward owing to the loss of lives (over 90) and the horrific deaths by burning and drowning when three deluxe passenger cars dropped seventy feet into the Ashtabula River. The iron truss bridge was flawed in design (the designer committed suicide in his Cleveland manor house). An official from the railroad company was presumed murdered as a result of the subsequent investigations. One fact resonated with me: right after the bridge collapsed, many locals ran out into a blizzard to help the wounded; some went there to pick the pockets of the wounded and dying. My “curse” resulted from one such man who passed on his curse to all the males in his line.
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About Robert White: Robb White lives in Northeastern Ohio. He is a Derringer-nominated author of genre fiction and three series detectives: Thomas Haftmann, Raimo Jarvi, and Jade Hui. Betray Me Not, a collection of noir tales, was selected for distinction by the Independent Fiction Alliance in 2022. You can find Robb on his website, Facebook, X, and Instagram. |
See all Curses stories here.
And for our finale, a teaser to the anthology on YouTube.
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