In 1916, in a book with a foreword written by Casper Yost, editor of the "St. Louis Globe-Democrat", Henry Holt and Company publicized Curran's claims that she had contacted the long dead Patience Worth. Curran claimed she began to anticipate what the Ouija board was going to spell and by 1919 the pointer would just move aimlessly about the board. Curran described pictorial visions which accompanied Patience's words. She said "I am like a child with a magic picture book. Once I look upon it, all I have to do is to watch its pages open before me, and revel in their beauty and variety and novelty...When the poems come, there also appear before my eyes images of each successive symbol, as the words are given me...When the stories come, the scenes become panoramic, with the characters moving and acting their parts, even speaking in converse. The picture is not confined to the point narrated, but takes in everything else within the circle of vision at the time...If the people talk a foreign language, as in "The Sorry Tale", I hear the talk, but over and above is the voice of Patience, either interpreting or giving me the part she wishes to use as story." Pearl Curran went on to describe her association with Patience Worth as "one of the most beautiful that can be the privilege of a human being to experience." Pearl and Patience together wrote several novels including "Telka", "The Sorry Tale", "Hope Trueblood", "The Pot upon the Wheel", "Samuel Wheaton", as well as several short stories and many poems.