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.
Twenty-four-year-old Rosina Hilliard had been making her living as a sex worker in Leicester, England for some time. On February 22nd, 1974, her body was found lying across a road on a building site in Highfields. It appeared that her killer had attempted to strangle her, as there were compression injuries to her neck, but … More Rosina Hilliard
Seventeen-year-old Heidi Mnilk was German but was living in London, England, working as an au pair. On Monday, July 9th, 1973, she was riding on a train when she was approached and stabbed by an unknown attacker and thrown out of the carriage onto the tracks between the London Bridge and New Cross stations, near … More Heidi Mnilk
Emmy Werner was certainly no stranger to tragedy. Though she had lived a pleasant life with her husband Albert, a dentist, and their daughter Hedy in Brno, Czechoslovakia, all that changed in 1939, with the German occupation. Three years later, she and her family were sent to Theresienstadt concentration camp near Prague, and two years … More Emmy Werner
Fourteen-year-old Sarah Benford lived with her mother Vicky and her two siblings in Kettering, Northamptonshire, England. She was described as a “troubled” teenager and had run away from home on several occasions; because of this, she often spent time at Welford House children’s home in Northampton. On April 4th, 2000, Sarah ran away from the … More Sarah Benford
Twenty-five-year-old Delia Adriano had spent Sunday, September 26th, 1982 with her fiancé Danny Dutra, going to a barbecue and attending a soccer game. At about nine-thirty p.m., Danny dropped Delia off in front of her parents’ home in Oakville, Ontario, Canada. She started walking toward the side entrance of the house, but she never made … More Delia Adriano
Twenty-three-year-old Nancy Perry Baird was a divorced mother of a four-year-old son and worked as a service station attendant at a Fina gas station on south Highway 89 in East Layton, Utah. She was working there on the afternoon of July 4th, 1975, and was spotted by a patrolling police officer at around five-thirty p.m., … More Nancy Perry Baird
On October 15th, 1981, three men were using metal detectors near the pier bandstand on Weymouth Beach in Dorset, England when they stumbled upon a white carrier bag with Bath Street Wine Cellar, Quality Wine Merchant, Jersey CI printed on it. Inside the bag was the body of a baby girl who was only a … More The Baby on the Beach
Fifty-two-year-old James Keltie was a manager at the Muirton House Hotel in Blairgowrie, Perth and Kinross, Scotland. His wife Agnes was a policewoman at Fife Constabulary, and the couple had three children, aged five, nine, and sixteen. On January 11th, 1971, a taxi driver named Dave Turpie arrived at the hotel at around eight a.m. … More James Keltie
At around lunchtime on Saturday, September 24th, 1955, eleven-year-old schoolboy Peter Williams left his home in Birkenhead, Wirral, Merseyside, England, and walked to a nearby estate with his friends to pick blueberries. On the north side of the estate was a concrete pillbox from World War II, and a curious Peter peeked inside. At first, … More Alice Barton
Forty-eight-year-old Andre Mizelas was a royal hairdresser in London, England, a wealthy part-owner of twenty salons in the fashionable Andre Bernard chain. He didn’t seem to have an enemy in the world. But on November 9th, 1970, a cyclist found him slumped over the steering wheel of his Triumph TR5 sports car in Hyde Park. … More Andre Mizelas
