Jenny Ashford is a horror, true crime, and paranormal writer, graphic designer, and podcaster. Her most recent books are a three-volume true crime compilation collectively known as The Faceless Villain: A Collection of the Eeriest Unsolved Murders of the Twentieth Century. Volume One was published in 2017, Volume Two in 2018, and Volume Three in 2019. Her other books include four paranormal nonfiction books: The Unseen Hand: A New Exploration of Poltergeist Phenomena, The Mammoth Mountain Poltergeist (with Tom Ross), House of Fire and Whispers: Investigating the Seattle Demon House, and The Rochdale Poltergeist (both with Steve Mera); as well as three horror novels, Red Menace, Bellwether, and The Five Poisons; two short story collections, Hopeful Monsters and The Associated Villainies; and a graphic novel, The Tenebrist. A second edition of The Associated Villainies was published in 2019, featuring four new stories, an enhanced print layout, and an audio book version. A second edition of The Five Poisons was published in 2020. Her short stories have appeared in several anthologies, including The Nightmare Collective, History Is Dead, 2012AD, ChimeraWorld #3, and ChimeraWorld #4. Her horror blog, Goddess of Hellfire, contains writing news, short stories and articles, and her reviews and opinions on horror films and books. She also co-hosts a podcast with Tom Ross called 13 O'Clock, on which they discuss true crime, unexplained mysteries, paranormal weirdness, horror movies and books, food, and other fun, creepy topics. They recently collaborated on a 13 O'Clock cookbook. Jenny's graphic design work can be seen on everything from books and business cards to posters and packaging. She runs an online store called Gravecake selling products with her designs, and also has a board-and-card game concern called Giallo Games, which produces games based around the beloved Italian horror/crime genre, among many other themes.
Carrie Brumfield lived in Franklinton, Louisiana, but worked at a shipyard in Mississippi. On September 12th, 1967, passersby discovered him dead in the front seat of his car, which was parked on a deserted rural road. He had been shot once in the chest with a .22 caliber pistol. Police seemed to be at a … More Carrie Brumfield
Fifty-four-year-old Dr. Helen Davidson had been practicing medicine in the market town of Amersham, Buckinghamshire for more than two decades. On the afternoon of Wednesday, November 9th, 1966, after her husband had gone off to work, Helen hopped into her car, accompanied by her beloved terrier Fancy. Presumably, Helen was heading toward Hodgemoor Wood to … More Dr. Helen Davidson
In late July of 1966, there would be another racially-motivated murder in Louisiana that tragically recalled the 1965 slaying of Deputy Sheriff Oneal Moore. Twenty-four-year-old Clarence Triggs was an Army veteran and a bricklayer who had only just moved to Bogalusa, Louisiana with his wife Emma from their former home in Jackson, Mississippi. Though he … More Clarence Triggs
On May 23rd, 1966, forty-year-old Ohio State University professor and rocket scientist Loren E. Bollinger was found dead in a pool of blood in a storage room. The well-liked and unmarried professor had tempered his resignation with the college shortly before, and had planned to open up his own office that July in the building … More Loren Bollinger
At approximately one-thirty a.m. on the morning of October 6th, 1966, someone peered out of his apartment window in Paterson, New Jersey and witnessed three thugs slitting the throat of a fourth man on the porch of the apartment next door. The victim, forty-two-year-old Gabriel “Johnny the Walk” DeFranco, was dead at the scene. He … More Gabriel DeFranco
On March 13th, 1966 in Clifton, New Jersey, a man out walking his dog came across the remains of a partially nude woman in a gully off the Garden State Parkway. The victim had been strangled and shot twice in the head, and though she was left naked from the waist down, it was later … More Judith Kavanaugh
The Bricca family—twenty-eight-year-old Jerry, his twenty-three-year-old wife Linda, and the couple’s four-year-old daughter Debbie—had moved to the pleasant, middle-class enclave of Green Township near Cincinnati in 1963. Jerry was a chemical engineer for Monsanto, and had been transferred from their Seattle plant. Linda had worked as a flight attendant prior to the move, and once … More The Bricca Family
In 2009, thirty-seven-year-old Paula Hounslea was having something of a rough time. She was suffering from poor health in general and bipolar disorder in particular, and though she had worked as a seamstress and a bartender in the past, she was unemployed at this juncture in her life. She lived in West Derby, Liverpool, England, … More Paula Hounslea
On the afternoon of November 15th, 2013, several gardeners were clearing weeds at a house on Audley Drive in the village of Warlingham, in Surrey, England. One of the workers noticed that the padlock on the cover of the seven-foot well in the garden had been broken; curious, the gardener lifted the cover and peered … More Damian Chlywka
On the evening of April 30th, 2012, ninety-two-year-old Emma Winnell was put to bed by her home-care nurse. Emma was in her own house, located in the suburb of Moseley, in Birmingham, England. The nurse left shortly after her duties had been accomplished, locking the front door behind her as she always did. But when … More Emma Winnell
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