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

Then Johan greeted the others. He told Alison she hadn't changed a bit, then turned his charm on Patsy. "And I can't believe this is the little girl who came here to see her Auntie's grave. You have grown into such a beauty."


He felt another twinge of anxiety when he saw Samantha. She was undeniably fat. Not so fat as Heather had been, but nevertheless ... He sincerely hoped the boy didn't take after his father. 


"He doesn't take after his father,"Alison whispered, as if reading his thought. "They've been going out together for months now. If he took after his father she wouldn't still be fat."


"Yes, yes, of course,"Johan whispered back. "It just took me by surprise."


Alison laughed at him and called over the waiter. 


Chapter 38