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

"So what do your mum and dad do for a living?"


"My dad's the Engineering Manager at Jackson's. You know, the one on the Barnborough Road with a huge red sign outside."


"And my mum works there too, in the accounts department."


She put her hand over her mouth, then dropped it again. "He came home the other day absolutely livid because someone had spray-painted graffiti under the sign." She lost control and cracked out laughing again. "Under the - the sign that says 'Jackson's Tool Works' they had painted 'So does mine'."


And so it was that the pair of them were laughing like loons when Rupert's mum came home.


She was in the act of taking off her coat as she walked into the kitchen, took one look at Samantha, cried, "Oh my God!"and ran out of the room again.


Rupert and Samantha stopped laughing instantly and looked at each other, mystified.


"What was all that about?"Samantha asked.


Chapter 32