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.
Eighteen-year-old Inga Maria Hauser was originally from Munich, Germany, a free-spirited, artistic young woman with a passion for travel. Toward the end of March 1988, her family had dropped her off at the train station, and she had journeyed through Holland before taking a ferry to Harwich, England and then on to London. She had … More Inga Maria Hauser
In March of 1988, in northern India, a crime took place in broad daylight on a crowded street and claimed the lives of four people, including one of the most famous singer-songwriters to ever emerge from Punjab. It was around two p.m. on the afternoon of March 8th, 1988, and Amar Singh Chamkila, his wife … More Amar Singh Chamkila and Amarjot Kaur
On Valentine’s Day of 1988, authorities were summoned to a dumpster located near the intersection of Kaiser Road and Old Perkins Road in Millen, Georgia. Three people had noticed a foul stench coming from inside the dumpster, and when police investigated, they soon found the source of the odor: inside was a large, nylon duffel … More Jenkins County Jane Doe
It was a little past six p.m. on the evening of Tuesday, January 4th, 1994. Eleven-year-old Kim Heyrman and her eight-year-old brother Ken left their home in Antwerp, Belgium, and went to visit their friends David and Natacha Musik. David was not at home, though, having earlier traveled to the nearby town of Merksem to … More Kim and Ken Heyrman
In England in the 1920s and 1930s, there was a small but horrific trend in a very particular type of crime, in which murder victims were dismembered and stashed inside trunks, some of which were discovered at train stations. Though these murders were ultimately found to be unrelated, the bizarre series gave the seaside town … More The Brighton Trunk Murders
It was December 16th, 1978, and fifteen-year-old Kerry Graham was planning a shopping trip with her best friend and next-door neighbor, fourteen-year-old Francine Trimble. The girls lived in Forestville, California, and on that Saturday afternoon, they were heading to the Coddingtown Mall in Santa Rosa to buy Christmas gifts for their families. Neither of them … More Kerry Graham and Francine Trimble
On November 10th, 1979, a farmer in Caledonia, New York was surveying his corn fields when he spotted a glimpse of red. Believing he’d caught a poacher, the farmer made his way over to where he had seen the hint of color, and found instead that he had discovered the dead body of a young … More Tammy Jo Alexander
Janet Kennedy Smith was a young Scottish woman who had been working as a nursemaid for the Baker family since January of 1923. Frederick and Doreen Baker, wealthy owners of an import-export business, were apparently happy with Janet’s care of their newborn daughter Rosemary, for they asked the nursemaid to accompany them when they moved … More Janet Kennedy Smith
It was late afternoon on Saturday, February 26th, 1921, among the numerous farms that occupied the land outside the village of North Motton in Tasmania, Australia. Ena May Dawes gave her daughter Chrissie Venn a basket and some money, and asked the fourteen-year-old if she would walk the three miles into town to buy some … More Chrissie Venn
Vera Page was ten years old, an avid swimmer who lived in the Notting Hill district of London. At around four-thirty on the afternoon of December 14th, 1931, she asked her mother if she could walk the fifty yards to her aunt Minnie’s house; she wanted to stop by and show her aunt some swimming … More Vera Page
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