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.
Thirty-three-year-old Karen Reed lived on Willow Way in Woking, Surrey, England. On the evening of April 30th, 1994, Karen’s friend Anne Smith had come over to visit. At approximately nine-fifteen p.m., there was a knock at the front door. Karen got up and opened the door partway, asking who was there. The man on the … More Karen Reed
Seventy-one-year-old Ralph McIntosh was a native of Edinburgh, Scotland; he was a veteran of World War II, and an avid golfer who could have gone pro had the war not intervened. As it was, he’d been successful in his post-war career as a secretary of the British Investment Trust. After he retired, he and his … More Ralph McIntosh
Ninety-four-year-old Dorothy Wood had lived in her home on Whitby Avenue in Fartown, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire for sixty years. Her home had been robbed twice, once in 1993 and once in 1996, and though she’d had a burglar alarm installed, she usually turned it off because she kept accidentally triggering it. At around seven-thirty p.m. … More Dorothy Wood
Seventy-three-year-old Constance Aris, better known as Connie, or sometimes “Little Granny” because of her diminutive size, lived in a house on Roman Road in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. She had lived alone since 1978, following the death of her husband Hubert. Connie was a well-loved, very religious woman, and had a close relationship with her son … More Connie Aris
Eighty-year-old Emily Pye owned a grocery store on Gibbet Street, Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, and she’d been running it for thirty years. She was a long-established fixture in the community and well-loved by the locals. Saturday, June 8th, 1957 was a public holiday, and the store had been open as normal. Emily had plans later … More Emily Pye
Shortly before ten-forty-five on the morning of Saturday, February 2nd, 2008, a man entered the Lane Bryant clothing outlet store in the Brookside Marketplace in Tinley Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. Wielding a Glock, he herded four customers, the store manager, and a part-time employee, all women, into the back of the store. There, … More The Lane Bryant Shooting
Forty-year-old Keith Rogers, described as a “gentle man” with “many friends” by his family, lived in a second-floor flat on Station Road in Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, England. In the early morning hours of Sunday, April 29th, 2001, while Keith was asleep, someone poured gasoline through the letterbox of his apartment and set it alight. Awakened by … More Keith Rogers
On New Year’s Eve of 1987, nineteen-year-old Trevor Monerville was on his way to visit his aunts when he mysteriously went missing. The following day, his family found out through the grapevine that he may have been taken to the police station in Stoke Newington, London, England, and they went there to find him. At … More Trevor Monerville
Sixty-four-year-old Eric Carver lived alone in a house in Lenton, Nottingham, England. On December 23rd, 1980, he was found bludgeoned to death in his bed. Forensic examination determined that he had been struck between seven and ten times in the skull with a wrench or a hammer and that he had likely been killed sometime … More Eric Carver
Eighty-three-year-old Warren Wheeler had spent twenty-seven years as a stoker in the Royal Navy, and later worked as a postman. He lived with his seventy-nine-year-old wife Elizabeth in a house called Yatscombe Cottage in Boars Hill, Oxfordshire, England. The couple had lived in the home for nearly three decades, but it had fallen to rack … More Warren and Elizabeth Wheeler
