Guy N. Smith
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 |
This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. Please discuss this issue on the talk page or replace this tag with a more specific message. This article has been tagged since July 2006. |
Guy N. Smith is an English writer of horror fiction. He was born in 1939 in the village of Hopwas in Staffordshire. He is married to Jean and they have four grown-up children. He wrote his first horror book, Werewolf by Moonlight in 1974, which spawned two sequels. He is probably best known for a series of six Crabs books, the first of which, Night of the Crabs, was published in 1976. The series chronicles invasions by giant, man-eating crabs of various areas of British coastline. These books are legendary in the horror fiction world, so much so that they were even spoofed by the award winning comedian and writer Matthew Holness under the guise of his Garth Marenghi persona. (See http://www.garthmarenghi.com/books/crab.htm)
A prolific writer, Guy has had over a thousand short stories and magazine articles published. He has written a series of children's books under the pseudonym Jonathon Guy, two thrillers under the name Gavin Newman and a dozen non-fiction books on countryside matters. But, it is for his 70 or so horror books that he is best known.
The success and popularity of Guy N Smith is down to a tried and tested horror book formula, mixing plenty of sex, violence and gore with an easy to read and descriptive writing style. But the thing that has most endeared him to his fans is his ability to inject humour into serious and sexual situations in a self-lampooning way. This means his books work on two levels; they are a good horror novel, which is at the same time a satire of itself. The best of these phrases, known amongst the fans as "classic quotes" can often be enjoyed in isolation, without reading the whole book.
A life-long pipe smoker, he won the British pipe smoking championship in 2003. He collects pipes and smoking ephemera and has also written a book on tobacco - Tobacco Culture: A DIY Guide, published in 1976. He is also an active pro-smoking campaigner.
Guy's books have also inspired a card game, a board game and a computer game, all produced by Merlin End Games. More information on these can be found at http://www.merlinend.com
His novels enjoyed considerable popularity in Poland in the early 1990s, having been cheaply translated and published as pocket editions by the Amber (publisher) publishing house.
[edit] Some examples of Classic Quotes:
Gordon would you … take me away from here? Take me with you, where there aren’t such things as wolves, Black Dogs and people cutting their heads off with saws. – from Werewolf by Moonlight
She needed a man. A real man. Not the boyish Chris Latimer. Someone who would dominate her. Take her as a woman should be taken. – From The Sucking Pit
...her reply was lost in the moans and the writhings of their united bodies as they reached the ultimate possible peak of pleasure which any man and woman can climb. – From Night of the Crabs
...Suddenly he found himself becoming aroused. Hell, it was a long time since he’d gone a fortnight without a woman. Nevertheless he was determined that such pleasures would have to wait and attempt to satisfy his craving the only way he knew how. But it did not stop him getting an erection again… Every man had his Achilles heel. – From Sabat 1: The Graveyard Vultures
But what chance did they stand against this army of attacking pheasants? – From Carnivore
Why shouldn't a child's corpse turn into a pike? No reason at all...Maybe he was a fish and hadn't realised it up until now. – From The Undead
Any woman who could give him an erection after all the anti-hormone drugs they stuffed into Caerlaverock personnel deserved to be heard out. – From Warhead
It was his first taste of human flesh and he wondered why he had ever bothered with hares and sheep before. – Werewolf by Moonlight
This doomed girl had not only risen from her deathbed but she had turned into a nymphomaniac. – From The Resurrected
He did something that caused the elephant to go berserk and the potato vendor to burn to death. – From The Dark One
"Nothing else mattered...Not even the giant crabs." -From Night of the Crabs
[edit] Bibliography
Werewolf by Moonlight (1974)
The Sucking Pit (1975)
The Slime Beast (1975)
Return of the Werewolf (1976)
Night of the Crabs (1976)
The Ghoul (1976)
Bamboo Guerillas (1977)
The Truckers 1: The Black Knights (1977)
The Truckers 2: Hi-Jack! (1977)
The Son of the Werewolf (1978)
Killer Crabs (1978)
Bats Out of Hell (1978)
Origin of the Crabs (1979)
Locusts (1979)
Thirst (1980)
Deathbell (1980)
Satan's Snowdrop (1980)
Caracal (1980)
Crabs on the Rampage (1981)
Doomflight (1981)
Warhead (1981)
Entombed (1981)
Manitou Doll (1981)
Wolfcurse (1981)
The Graveyard Vultures (1982)
The Blood Merchants (1982)
Cannibal Cult (1982)
The Pluto Pact (1982)
The Lurkers (1982)
The Druid Connection (1983)
Blood Circuit (1983)
The Undead (1983)
Accursed (1983)
Crabs' Moon (1984)
The Walking Dead (1984)
Throwback (1985)
The Wood (1985)
Abomination (1986)
The Neophyte (1986)
Snakes (1986)
Cannibals (1986)
The Plague (1987)
Demons (1987)
Alligators (1987)
Bloodshow (1987)
The Human Sacrifice (1988)
Fiend (1988)
The Island (1988)
The Master (1988)
The Camp (1989)
The Festering (1989)
Mania (1989)
Phobia (1990)
The Unseen (1990)
Carnivore (1990)
The Black Fedora (1991)
The Resurrected (1991)
The Knighton Vampires (1993)
Witch Spell (1993)
The Plague Chronicles (1993)
The Dark One (1995)
Dead End (1996)
Dead Meat (1996)
Water Rites (1997)
The Pony Riders (1997)
The Busker (1998)
Deadbeat (2003)
Blackout (2006)
Writing as Jonathon Guy:
Cornharrow (1988)
Badger Island (1993)
Rak: The story of an urban fox (1994)
Pyne (1995)
Hawkwood (1996)
Writing as Gavin Newman:
The Hangman (1994)
An Unholy Way to Die (1999)
Non-Fiction:
Gamekeeping and Shooting for Amateurs (1976)
Tobacco Culture: A DIY Guide (1977)
Ferreting and Trapping for Amateur Gamekeepers (1978)
Hill Shooting and Upland Gamekeeping (1978)
Profitable Fishkeeping (1979)
Ratting and Rabbiting for Amateur Gamekeepers (1979)
Sporting and Working Dogs (1979)
Animals of the Countryside (1980)
Moles and Their Control (1980)
The Rough Shooter's Handbook (1986)
Practical Country Living (1988)
Writing Horror Fiction (1996)
[edit] External links
Official Website:
Merlin End Games website:
