The Porter Curse

What would you do if you thought your family was cursed? For 300 years, members of the Porter Family had died or been killed in strange ways, all attributed to a curse upon the family. Who would be next? The newly married Jonathon? The fourteen year old Christopher? The child of a pregnant family member? Could the curse be stopped?“I don’t want to lose you,” Anne cried into his chest. “I want to have your children.” She stopped to gain control of her voice. “But that won’t happen until this curse nonsense is over. I don’t want our children tainted with this thing, and I don’t want to worry every night whether or not some dog attacked you. Make it stop, Jonathon—make it stop!”Running through the pages of this novel is the Hellhound, a supernatural being in the form of a dog; a clairvoyant eleven year old who is also a budding artist; three women who are gifted mediums and a Monsignor with experience in Haiti treating possessed people.“As you pursue your quest to find an antidote to this curse, please keep in mind that there is evil in this world—an evil that is powerful and persuasive. At the moment, you’re dabbling around the edges of evil, learning things, solving problems . . . and it seems like fun, but let me suggest to you that the angels of Hell may be seducing you.”Ground yourself for The Porter Curse.

About the Author

About the Author Ronald D. Giles holds an undergraduate degree in history from Ohio University and a master's degree in television and film from The Ohio State University. After teaching American history in the Columbus Public School System, he changed his career path to that of television production, working at WBNS-TV in Columbus, WCPO-TV in Cincinnati, QUBE Cable in Columbus and Pittsburgh, WBZ-TV in Boston, Mullin Productions in Los Angeles, and QVC in West Chester, PA, where he created the television format and held the title of Executive Vice-President from 1986 to 1996. In 1997, Mr. Giles began consulting in electronic retailing, working internationally in Mexico, the United Kingdom, Germany, Brazil, Australia, South Korea, and China. He has been awarded six regional Emmys for his television production work. Mr. Giles added author to his list of credits with his first book, On Harrisonville Avenue, an autobiography about growing up in a steel mill town in the 1950's; it was published in 2008. Other works include Cottonwood Pass, a suspense novel set in contemporary Colorado (2009), Great Heats, a novel of historic fiction about the prehistoric Mound Builders, set in modern day Ohio (2011); a short story titled The Prey, (where a hunter encounters the hellhound) was included in the anthology, Chester County Fiction (2011). That short story was repurposed and included in Locusts and Wild Honey, a novel of the supernatural (2013). In 2015, a short story by Mr. Giles, The Friday Night Dance, was included in a collection of works by Appalachian authors, Every River on Earth, published by Ohio University Press. In 2018, Mr. Giles was the coordinating editor for a collection of sermons that was published by Church of the Loving Shepherd: The Collected Sermons of the Reverend Dr. Mark Wayne Bailey. The Porter Curse, (2020) grew out of Locusts and Wild Honey but can be read as a stand-alone work. All of these books are available on-line, at select independent bookstores and at major electronic retailers. [email protected].

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