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

It was well after four o' clock by the time they got to Mrs Winton's house. They came wandering along, hand in hand, gazing dreamily into each other's eyes. 


As they got to the little gate in the hedge, the front door opened and a young woman with wild dark hair came bounding out. "Where have you been? I thought you were never coming."


"Sorry, Patsy. We got - a bit distracted."Rupert looked down fondly at Samantha, who beamed back at him.


Patsy grinned. "So that's how the land lies, is it? Hello, you must be Samantha."


Samantha managed to drag her eyes away from Rupert and hold her hand out to Patsy, who completely ignored it and instead enveloped Samantha in a hug. "I'm so pleased to meet you. Rupert told me all about you but I never realised you were an item. I thought you were just really good friends."


"I think we're sort of both,"Samantha said, smiling shyly. 


Chapter 35