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.
The year of 1979 would be less than a week old before an appalling quadruple child murder took place in a small home in Singapore. Tan Kuen Chai and Lee Mei Ying were a hard-working couple who lived in a one-room flat in the Geylang Bahru subzone of Kallang, Singapore. They ran a small business, … More The Tan Children, aka the Geylang Bahru Family Murders
Thirty-one-year-old Stuart Lubbock, a meat factory supervisor and father of two, was spending the night of Friday, March 30th, 2001 partying with some friends. At a club called Millennium in Harlow, Essex, he happened to run into Michael Barrymore, a rather famous TV host and comedian, and at some point during the night, Barrymore invited … More Stuart Lubbock
Pamela Werner was the adopted daughter of Edward Theodore Chalmers Werner, a retired British diplomat who had remained in the Chinese capital after his retirement, becoming an expert in the language and culture of the country and often lecturing at Peking University. Though his wife Gladys Ravenshaw had died in 1922, E.T.C. Werner had stepped … More Pamela Werner
August 3rd, 1990 was a Friday, and just as he usually did, Peter Heron headed out for his job at GE Stiller Transport, a haulage firm in the town of Darlington in northeast England. His wife, forty-four-year-old Ann Heron, was off work that day, and had been shopping with a friend that morning, though she … More Ann Heron: The Beauty in the Bikini Murder
As winter of 1998 descended, a brilliant and promising young woman would be viciously slain in the street near the campus of one of the most prestigious universities in the world. Suzanne Jovin was twenty-one years old, a senior majoring in political science and international studies at Yale University in Connecticut. She had been born … More Suzanne Jovin
In the late autumn of 1971, the presumed first victim of a child killer who seemingly had a peculiar method for choosing his targets would turn up in Rochester, New York. It was the afternoon of Tuesday, November 16th. Ten-year-old Carmen Colón left the home on Brown Street she shared with her grandparents and began … More The Alphabet Murders, aka The Double Initial Killings
On June 30th, 2001, a body would be discovered in a remote house, and a host of baffling questions would arise shortly after the autopsy results came in. Forty-one-year-old Eric Tamiyasu lived in Hood River, Oregon, and had recently built a home next to the orchard business he owned on Binns Hill Road. It was … More Eric Tamiyasu
Early spring of 1987 would feature the heinous slaughter of a private investigator in England, a crime which still resonates throughout the United Kingdom due to its purported association with blatant police and media corruption. Thirty-seven-year-old Daniel Morgan, originally born in Singapore to Welsh parents, moved to London with his wife sometime in the late … More Daniel Morgan
Just over a week into the new year of 1976, a series of murders of dark-haired young women would commence, most of them centered on the beach town of Pacifica, located about fifteen miles south of San Francisco. Because many of the known victims were found in the vicinity of Gypsy Hill Road, the murders … More The Gypsy Hill Killings, aka The San Mateo Slasher Case
September 24th, 1905 was a Sunday, and twenty-two-year-old bookkeeper Mary Money had received her week‘s wages on the previous day. The dairy that employed her, owned by a man named Mr. Bridge, was in Lavender Hill, Clapham, and it also served as Mary’s home, as it did for some of the dairy’s other employees, including … More Mary Money
