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.
Sixty-two-year-old Philip Silvester was described as a quiet man who kept to himself. He lived alone in a house on Kellaway Road in Kidbrooke, London. At around noon on December 2nd, 2009, Philip was captured on CCTV camera driving to a convenience store on Whetstone Road in his silver and blue Ford Escort and making … More Philip Silvester
Forty-five-year-old Ian Newtion was a well-known reggae performer in Greenford, a large town in Ealing, west London. Under his stage name Scoobie Santino, he’d had a hit single in 1990 with Sweetie Irie called “Money Honey.” He had also been working as a delivery driver to supplement his income. On the evening of March 21st, … More Ian Newtion
Seventy-one-year-old Leonard Farrar was a retired merchant navy captain who lived alone in a home left to him by his parents. The residence was a semi-detached house on Cardinal Road, Beeston, Leeds, England. In the spring of 2002, he had a strange incident occur at his home. Apparently, a couple he didn’t know showed up … More Leonard Farrar
Robert Keetley was thirty-seven years old, and worked at a bakery in Nottingham, England. He was a friendly, outgoing young man, much loved by his friends and family, and was particularly close to his mother, Jacqueline. On Saturday, April 28th, 2007, Robert, who usually went by Bobby, went out to The New Foresters, a gay … More Robert Keetley
In late September of 2017, a woman was overseeing a kitchen extension on her four-bedroom Victorian house on Cowdrey Road in Wimbledon, southwest London. To her shock, the workmen unearthed something far more sinister than dirt or old pottery shards: the skeletal remains of a dismembered man. The body was discovered only a foot down … More Wimbledon Unidentified Male
Thirty-three-year-old Norah Bartlett worked in a cafeteria and lived with her widowed mother in a house on Rhydings Park Road in Brynmill, Swansea, Wales. On the night of Thursday, November 18th, 1943, Norah was reportedly seen walking with an American soldier along Rhydings Park Road. Since it was during World War II and German bombing … More Norah Bartlett
Thirty-one-year-old Helen Rosemary Hooper was a teacher and lived with her husband in Broken Green, Standon, Ware, Hertfordshire, England. In 1976, however, she had started seeing another teacher, and made plans to divorce her husband and move in with her lover. Helen told her husband of her plans, there was a bitter argument, and shortly … More Helen Hooper
Eighty-six-year-old Sarah Hill was a tiny woman, standing only four-foot-ten and weighing a little over one hundred pounds. She had spent her entire life working in the cotton mills near her home in Lees, Greater Manchester, England. Now retired, she lived alone in a house on Thomas Street, and because of her frail health and … More Sarah Hill
In November of 1978, the partially clothed body of fourteen-year-old Gary Wilson was discovered under a pile of tires and an old sofa behind an abandoned store on Comet Road in Deptford, southeast London. The boy had been sexually assaulted, strangled with a belt, and stabbed in the chest and neck with shards of broken … More Gary Wilson
Thirty-three-year-old Yvonne Fitt wasn’t at a particularly good place in her life. She had been a sex worker for nearly a decade, plying her trade around Leeds and Bradford, West Yorkshire, and had also become addicted to crack cocaine. She was a mother to an eleven-year-old daughter, and lived a somewhat itinerant lifestyle, staying with … More Yvonne Fitt
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