Jenny Twist was born in York and brought up in the West Yorkshire mill town of Heckmondwike, the eldest grandchild of a huge extended family.
She left school at fifteen and went to work in an asbestos factory. After working in various jobs, including bacon-packer and escapologist’s assistant (she was The Lovely Tanya), she returned to full-time education and did a BA in history, at Manchester and post-graduate studies at Oxford.
She stayed in Oxford working as a recruitment consultant for many years and it was there that she met and married her husband, Vic.
In 2001 they retired and moved to Southern Spain where they live with their rather eccentric dogs and cat. Besides writing, she enjoys reading, knitting and attempting to do fiendishly difficult logic puzzles.
In July 2018 she won the Author Show TOP FEMALE AUTHOR Fantasy/Horror/Paranormal/Science Fiction award.

. . .In the south of Spain at the beginning of the twentieth century, village people still believed in this particular fabulous beast. Sometimes they called it a mantequero, and sometimes a sacamantecas; it was a monster which looked like a man, but which lived in wild places and fed on human manteca or fat . . .
Some people still do . . .

This book is a compilation of the three Mantequero stories: Mantequero, Disappeared and Sins of the Father; with the addition of two new stories: The First Mantequero and The Last Mantequero.


Tales of the Mantequero

Alison and Patsy were sitting in the living room of June Blacker's cottage - soon to be Patsy's cottage. Patsy, who was just learning to knit, was struggling with something lumpy and amorphous in a bilious orange. Alison was knitting something far more complicated and lacy in a delicate white yarn. 


On the whole, she felt it had not turned out too badly. They had what the press called 'closure'. 


June Blacker had been an organised soul, much like Alison herself. She had left a will and a substantial trust fund for Patsy. The life assurance on the mortgage had been left directly to Patsy, which meant there would be no hold-up in payment. The fund allowed for monies to be available for the upkeep and maintenance of the house until Patsy was eighteen. To Alison's surprise, she herself was given authority to manage the house and disburse funds, as she thought fit. 


"Mummy was furious about the house,"Patsy remarked.


Chapter 28