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

As they walked back to the apartments, he took her by the hand. "What is it?"he asked.


"Oh, I don't know,"she looked down miserably at her feet. "I can't help wondering whether you only found me attractive because I'm ... I was ... fat."


Cornelius thought about this for a moment. "I don't think so,"he said slowly. "I noticed you before I found the bag."But a part of him had a nagging doubt. He couldn't remember whether he had thought she was attractive before he found the bag. Maybe the bag found her attractive. 


"Good God no,"said Cornelius, shocked. 


"What other women?"he asked, perplexed. 


"The ones you're going to offer the treatment to."Suddenly Laura burst into tears. "I'm sorry,"she said, turning her head away.


Cornelius grabbed her by the chin and turned her back to face him. "I'm not in the least bit interested in other women,"he said. "This would be business."


Chapter 48