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.
A few days after Christmas of 1999, an American journalist would be mysteriously slain in Guatemala, one of thirty-seven journalists murdered that year, though the motives behind his killing are still unclear. Forty-one-year-old Larry Dale Lee was originally from Rockford, Illinois, but spent most of his formative years in the small town of Doniphan, Missouri. … More Larry Dale Lee
Twenty-four-year-old Rachael Johnson lived in Tallmadge, Ohio with her three-year-old daughter Katelin. On the evening of Friday, March 29th, 1991, Rachael had hired a babysitter and went out on the town with her best friend. The two women were seen leaving the El Cid bar at about two-thirty a.m. on the morning of Saturday, March … More Rachael Johnson
On September 19th, 1990, an inmate work crew picking up garbage alongside Interstate 40 in Hillsborough, North Carolina discovered the decomposed body of a young woman down an embankment just off the highway. The victim, eventually dubbed Hillsborough Jane Doe or “Hope,” was white, aged between fourteen and twenty-five, standing around five-foot-four and weighing approximately … More Hillsborough Jane Doe
It was July 22nd, 1990, and some teenagers were exploring an area of Monroe Township, Pennsylvania, about three miles south of Interstate 80. They had just passed under a small railroad trestle when they noticed what they initially thought was a dead deer, lying in a shallow stream. But as they grew closer, they realized … More Penny Doe
Leonard Gomm, a seventy-five-year-old husband, and a father of three grown daughters, had lived in the Oxford area of England for most of his life, and after retiring from the Cowley motor works some time before, had begun driving a taxi to earn some extra money and get him out of the house. By all … More Leonard Gomm
As the spring of 1990 began heading into summer, a Native American woman in the Midwestern United States would leave a party with two men and disappear shortly thereafter, only to turn up dead in late autumn of the same year. Twenty-nine-year-old mother of two Susan “Suzy” Poupart had been spending the evening of Saturday, … More Susan Poupart
Only a few days before Halloween of 1989, a mysterious phone call arrived at the home of the Mihaljevic family in Bay Village, Ohio, just outside of Cleveland. Ten-year-old Amy Mihaljevic answered the phone, and presumably knew the man at the other end of the line. This unidentified individual told Amy to meet him at … More Amy Mihaljevic
It was the morning of Sunday, September 25th, 1988, and a man was driving along Highway 474 in Lake County east of Orlando, searching for a perfect cypress tree to cut down and make furniture out of. Spotting a promising specimen, the man pulled over, but then began to notice a terrible smell wafting out … More Julie Doe
On the evening of May 1st, 1967, in California, fourteen-year-old Nikki Benedict was walking home from a girlfriend’s house at around six p.m. As she took a short cut along a dirt road in the then-unincorporated town of Poway, near San Diego, she was attacked by a person or persons unknown. About a half-hour later, … More Nikki Benedict
Thirty-six-year-old Wharlest Jackson, Jr. was a veteran of the Korean War and a Florida native. He had moved to Natchez, Mississippi more than a decade earlier to marry his sweetheart Exerlena, who had been born there. The couple had five children. In the early part of 1967, Wharlest had been offered a promotion at the … More Wharlest Jackson
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