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.
Benny Evangelist was something of a polarizing figure in Detroit, Michigan, to say the least. Carpenter by day, cult leader by night, Benny had actually been born Benjamin Evangelista in Sicily before immigrating to the United States in the early years of the twentieth century. He and his wife Santina had four children—Angeline, eight; Margaret, … More The St. Aubin Street Massacre
Twenty-four-year-old barmaid Linda Cook lived in the seaside town of Portsmouth with her boyfriend and her boyfriend’s mother. At around eleven-thirty p.m. on the night of December 8th, 1986, Linda walked to a friend’s house on Sultan Road, a little more than a mile away from her own home on Victoria Road North. She spent … More The Cinderella Murder: Linda Cook
September 11th, 2001, was, of course, a day that changed everything in the United States; a day that saw the callous slaughter of nearly three-thousand people by a group of terrorists; a day that caused unimagined upheaval to the culture at large, and whose after-effects still resonate right up until the present day. However, there … More Henryk Siwiak
Twenty-year-old Amanda Tusing, better known as Mandy to her family and friends, had a promising future ahead of her. She had just started working in a veterinarian’s office, and was hoping to one day become a vet herself. She had also recently become engaged to her boyfriend, Matt Ervin, and had already started consulting bridal … More Amanda Tusing
It was three days after Christmas, 1956. Two teenage sisters, Barbara and Patricia Grimes, who were fifteen and thirteen years old, respectively, left their home in the McKinley Park neighborhood of Chicago at around seven-thirty p.m. to head down to the Brighton Theater about a mile and a half away. Both girls were huge Elvis … More The Grimes Sisters
In the spring of 1984, the finding of a dead infant on an Irish beach would lead to a gross miscarriage of justice and a cultural sea-change in the country concerning women’s rights, a long-standing fight that still continues to the present day. It was April 14th, and a man jogging along White Strand beach … More The Kerry Babies Case
Marianne Schmidt had moved with her family to Melbourne, Australia from her native Germany back in 1958. By 1965, she was fifteen years old, living in Sydney, and had become inseparable best friends with her fifteen-year-old neighbor Christine Sharrock, who lived next door with her grandparents. It was January, the height of the Australian summer. … More The Wanda Beach Murders and the Disappearance of the Beaumont Children
On Friday, November 7th, a young nun in Baltimore, Maryland would go out to run errands and never return home. Though her ultimate fate would not be revealed until early the following year, the mystery of her disappearance and death would resonate right up to the present day, when she was the subject of the … More Sister Cathy Cesnik: The Keepers Murder
At a little before eleven a.m. on the morning of November 6th, 2001, a woman pulled into the parking lot of a hair and nail salon in the rural, forested burg of Florence, Montana. The salon, called The Hair Gallery, had once been the town’s post office, but had been serving the community’s beauty needs … More The Florence Salon Murders
Toward the end of 1970, a remote valley in Norway would serve as the center point of a sinister crime in which both victim and killer are still unidentified, and tantalizing details suggest a possible connection to international espionage. On November 29th, a man and his two daughters were hiking near Mount Ulriken in Bergen, … More Three Murders Featuring Strange Codes
