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

Cornelius Wentworth Clissold had been doomed from the moment of his christening to be pale, thin and uninteresting. Only a very strong personality can survive a name like that. And Cornelius was not strong. He had been a sickly child, bullied mercilessly by his peers, and as he grew he became more and more unattractive. Fate dealt him the final lethal blow when at fourteen years old he developed virulent acne which ravaged his face, leaving him pock-marked. The acne had shown no sign of dying down even when he left his teenage years behind. 


Now, at twenty-one, he was still a virgin and looked likely to remain so unless a miracle happened.


Chapter 44