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.
Nineteen-year-old Ashley Dighton was spotted on CCTV cameras on the afternoon of June 11th, 2007 entering a Sainsbury’s supermarket on Simone Weil Avenue in Ashford, Kent, England. At some point after this sighting, he mysteriously vanished. A month later, his horribly decomposed remains, minus his head and sections of his arms, were discovered dumped in … More Ashley Dighton
Thirty-year-old banker Alistair Wilson lived with his wife Veronica and their two children in the town of Nairn, Scotland, about seventeen miles east of Inverness. Alistair seemed by all accounts to have a completely normal existence until 2004, when he unwittingly became the victim of one of the country’s most mysterious and infamous unsolved murders. … More Alistair Wilson
In England, and more specifically in the sleepy town of Norwich, a teenaged sex worker was allegedly seen getting into a car on Rouen Road at approximately one-fifteen a.m. on the morning of November 20th, 1992. A little more than two hours later, she would be dead. A truck driver passing through the area at … More Natalie Pearman
At around six-thirty a.m. on the morning of September 11th, 1991, passersby strolling through Green Meadows Park in Los Angeles stumbled across the dead body of a young white or Hispanic woman. The victim—eventually dubbed Los Angeles County Jane Doe—was between fifteen and twenty years old, stood approximately five-foot-two, and weighed around one-hundred-seventy pounds. She … More Los Angeles County Jane Doe
It was Tuesday, March 26th, 1991 in Daegu, South Korea, and due to local elections, schools and many workplaces were closed for the day. Six young boys, who were all students at Seongseo Elementary School—nine-year-old Kim Jong-sik, ten-year-old Park Chan-in, ten-year-old Kim Tae-ryong, eleven-year-old Kim Yeong-gyu, twelve-year-old Jo Ho-yeon, and thirteen-year-old U Cheol-won—decided to take … More The Frog Boys
In California, late in the summer of 1987, a young woman would be found dead on the side of a highway and remain unidentified until early 2019, when she finally had her name restored. It was August 30th, and a hiker came across the nude and mostly skeletal remains of a woman, lying fifty feet … More Tracey Hobson
In the late spring of 1984, in the Midwest, a woman would be found murdered alongside a highway. On the night of May 4th, three teenagers driving along Old Line Road near Westby, Wisconsin happened upon a set of remains lying a short distance off the side of the road. The victim had been so … More Vernon County Jane Doe
In the autumn of 1986, fifteen-year-old Chaim Weiss was a student in the yeshiva of Long Beach, New York. He lived in a third-floor dorm room in a building on East Beech Street, and was one of only two students who didn’t have a roommate. It was Halloween night, and Chaim had been studying with … More Chaim Weiss
Dr. Sebastian Russo was in many ways a classic, old-fashioned family doctor of the sort that barely exists anymore. Born and educated in Italy, the physician emigrated to the United States in the 1950s and became certified as a doctor in America. He set up an office on Hartford Road in Northeast Baltimore, Maryland, in … More Dr. Sebastian Russo
Russell and Shirley Dermond were an elderly couple, living in a gated community near Lake Oconee, northeast of Eatonton, Georgia. The pair had married in 1950 and had four children and nine grandchildren. Russell had owned several Hardee’s restaurants in Atlanta before retiring in 1994. On May 1st of 2014, Russell was spotted in Eatonton … More Russell and Shirley Dermond
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