Back to Guy N Smith's Night of the Crabs, I will use this post to share some of my photographs of a few other key settings used in the pulp horror novel.
Remember the Royal Airforce base where Professor Cliff Davenport who was interrogated after spying on the unmanned aircraft there to see if their undercarriages had left the strange giant crab-like marks on the Shell Island beach? Well, that RAF base exits no longer and is now utilised as a small airport:
And this is the beach carpark Davenport uses when he started out to explore the beach below:
Later in the novel, Professor Cliff Davenport learns that the giant crabs are not living in the sea, but in the adjoing marsh on the other side of Shell Island:
And here, on the causeway road that separates the marsh from the beach and cuts off Shell Island from the North Wales mainland at high tides, visitors enjoy catching crabs:
I wonder how many of them wonder, like Guy had the imagination to, what would happen if the little crabs they catch before returning them to the water, mutated into monstrous proportations.
I will round up my write-up of my late Summer Guy N Smith pilmrimage in my next post, with some more pretty pics from the island and a quick stop-off at Dorchester, with a couple more photographs of places features in Night of the Crabs.
As next year marks the 50th anniversary of the release of Guy's most popular story, I will also add a few details of how the next Guy Smith zine GNS3, will celebrate the event, and how you too can have your creative work featured in the book...
