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Saturday, 31 August 2024

A Gathering for Guy (part 2)

We drove into Knighton shortly before lunch, wining and dining at the George and Dragon.  Tara, Guy's daughter, told me that she featured in The Knighton Vampires book, playing the piano in the establishment. Sadly, there was no piano remaining when I went, though the chef there served a very delicious hot meal. 






We left the George and Dragon feeling full and continued our tour of Knighton, with me snapping various locations I was told featured in Guy's book. I won't share all my pics here as they will end up featuring in the next GNS zine I hope get out in early Spring next year. But here's one more, 
of the auctioneer's car-park, which featured in the Guy N Smith short story The Baby.

What debauchery and horror took place here in the GNS tale of a demonic baby?
I guess I will have to source and purchase the short story to find out.

As dusk grew heavy that evening, we headed back out to the neighbouring graveyard. Mrs E was hoping for More Northern Lights pics (it turned out it was too cloudy) and I wanted to photograph some curiously illuminated graves I'd spotted the night before.





That done, and remembering the cool but scary shadowme pic I captured the night before, I roped Mrs E into lighting my rear for a second time as I wanted some spooky author pics for my next horror book.



Return to our lodgings, we were met by this little fellow. Sat on our door step as bold as brass. Is this a cool omen as the novel I was just taking pics for was Familiar - my supernatural tale about a toad!