Celebrating the Imagination of Guy N Smith.
This is my Guy N Smith page, which details the GNS books, manuscripts and fanzines in my collection. This site also contains a LOT of Guy N Smith related blog posts, which you can see by clicking HERE!
Coming soon - a full-colour fanzine celebrating Guy's creative work, featuring a bio, bibliography, an essay on the trials and tribulations of becoming a GNS collector, shout-outs to the many people who have helped me collecting Guy's work and have encouraged this project, a MAMMOTH! quiz and more...
Guy N. Smith was a renowned author who was widely regarded as one of the most productive writers of horror fiction in the late 20th century and early 21st century. He wrote around 80 horror novels, many of which have been translated into several languages.
Smith, or GNS as he will be addressed here on in, was known for his vivid and graphic depictions of horror, which often contain more than their fair share of lurid sex scenes. GNS novels are typically set in rural villages in England and Wales, on whose borders he lived with his wife and children. These locations are injected with a foreboding and suspenseful atmosphere that keeps his readers on the edge of their seats.
GNS found his horror amongst classic supernatural creatures such as vampires, werewolves and zombies, He also turned everyday wildlife, like locusts and crabs, into insatiable killers with a penchant for human flesh.
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My Current GNS Collection:
Date shown are for the book's first publication date
1974
1975
The Sucking Pit
1976
The Slime Beast
Night of the Crabs
Night of the Werewolf
1977
The Ghoul
The Truckers - No. 1 - The Black Knights
The Truckers - No. 2 - Hi-Jack!
Return of the Werewolf
Bamboo Guerillas
1978
Bats out of Hell
Killer Crabs
The Son of the Werewolf
1979
The Origin of the Crabs
Locusts
1980
Deathbell
Thirst
Satan's Snowdrop
Caracal
1981
Doomflight
Manitou Doll
Wolfcurse
Crabs on the Rampage
Warhead
1982
Entombed
Sabat 1: The Graveyard Vultures
Sabat 2: The Blood Merchants
The Pluto Pact
Lurkers
Sabat 3: Cannibal Cult
1983
Blood Circuit
Sabat 4: The Druid Connection
The Undead
Accursed
1984
Crabs' Moon
The Walking Dead
1985
Throwback
The Wood
1986
The Neophyte
Abomination
Snakes
Cannibals
1987
Alligators
Bloodshow
Thirst II: The Plague
Demons
1988
Crabs: The Human Sacrifice
The Island
Fiend
The Master
Mania
1989
The Camp
The Festering
1990
Phobia
Carnivore
The Unseen
1991
The Black Fedora
The Resurrected
1993
The Knighton Vampires
Witch Spell
The Plague Chronicles
1994
The Hangman
1995
The Dark One
1996
Dead End
1997
Water Rites
The Pony Riders
1998
The Busker
1999
2003
Deadbeat
2006
Blackout
2008
The Cadaver
2009
Maneater
2010
Nightspawn
2011
The Eighth Day
2012
Killer Crabs: The Return
2013
Psalm 151
2015
Spawn of the Slime Beast
2016
Carnage
2018
Sabat 5: Wistman's Wood
The Reaper
2019
The Charnel Caves
Sabat 6: The Return
2021
Satanic Armageddon
Beheaded
Pseodonymous Work
The Hangman
Cornharrow
Sleeping Beauty
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Song of the South
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Pyne
Rak
x4 more of Guy's remaining 'Sexy Confessions' are also contained in my collection in the form of facsimiles:
Signed Cover Proofs
Bibliography
Shane Agnew's Bible for collecting GNS is presented in both a illustrated version and a smaller checklist version. The amount of research Sean has undertaken to produce such a tome of reference is remarkable and every collection of Guy's work benefits for from his undertaking.
From the Dark Hours
Hangman's Hotel
Nightmares from the Black Hill
Dead Meat
A Bargain Bumper Treble
Murder House
Crabs Omnibus
The Casebook of Raymond Odell
Werewolf Omnibus
Stories Appearing in Magazines and General Compilations
The Decoy
The Fish-Thing
The Doll
The Mummy
Aunt Mary and the Cats
Return to Innsmouth
Why Me?
Non-Fiction
Animals of the Countryside
Pipe Dreams
Practical Country Living
Writing Horror Fiction
Chapbooks
Graveyard Rendezvous Zine
Interviews & Reviews
Hand-written Manuscripts
Writers Forum (1) (Introduction for Guy's Fanzine Graveyard Rendezvous)
Written on two A4 pages of A4 white paper. The draft includes Guy's corrections and is written on the reverse of a book report for his store inventory).
Writers Forum (2)
x2 introduction to the GNS fanzine Graveyard Rendezvous
Dwellers of the Dark
A short story that eventually featured as a chapbook and in Hangman's Hotel and other stories.
Pocklington's Walk
Short Story that featured in Beyond the Boundaries, Horror Shorts (second collection) & in the chapbook Limited Edition.
Mr Strange's Christmas Dream
Short Story written on Midland Bank paper, dating writing to c.1950s, when author worked at the bank. The story was published in Fantasy Unlimited #12 & Graveyard Rendezvous.
The Lurkers
Short Story that found its home in Graveyard Rendezvous.
Toby's Way
Limited Edition Introduction
The Alsatian and the Poltergeist
Unpublished.
The Origin of the Crabs Synopsis
The Minster Geese
Crabs Omnibus
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