Guy N. Smith has written at least 35 books. Their most popular book is Shadows over Innsmouth with 11 saves with an average rating of 3.75⭐.
Smith was born in Hopwas, near Tamworth, Staffordshire, England. His mother was a pre-war historical novelist (E. M. Weale). Smith was first published at the age of 12 in the Tettenhall *Observer.* Between 1952-57 he wrote 56 stories for them. His father was a bank manager and Smith was destined for banking from birth. Guns and shooting became another early interest. In 1961 he designed and made a 12-bore shotgun, intending to follow it up with six more. During 1960-67 he operated a small shotgun cartridge loading business. During this time, he wrote regularly for most of the sporting magazines, interspersed with fiction for such magazines as the legendary London Mystery Selection, a quarterly anthology. In 1972 he launched a second hand bookselling business which eventually became Black Hill Books, which still operates today. In 1974 he published his first horror novel, *Werewolf by Moonlight*, but it was the bestselling *Night of the Crabs* in 1976 which really launched him as a writer of paperback horror originals. Amicus bought the film rights to *Crabs* in 1976, released as *Island Claws* in 1981 (albeit with no credit to Smith). The sale, however, gave Smith the chance to leave banking and support himself full-time by writing, spawning five sequels to *Night of the Crabs*, and was followed by another 60 or so horror novels through to the mid-1990's, spanning all genres including crime and mystery (as Gavin Newman), children's animal novels (as Jonathan Guy), a series of novelizations of popular Disney animated films including *Song of the South* and *The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,* a series of softcore erotic novels under various pseudonyms, and numerous how-to books devoted to fishing, shooting, animal identification, and other matters of practical gamekeeping.
Smith lived with his wife Jean. Together they had four adult children, Rowan, Tara, Gavin and Angus. A lifelong pipe-smoker, Smith won the British pipe-smoking championship in 2003, collected pipes and smoking ephemera, and wrote a book on tobacco.
Smith died due to complications of COVID-19, at the age of 81.
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Killer Crabs Killer Crabs
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The Lurkers The Lurkers
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The Origin of the Crabs The Origin of the Crabs
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Crabs' Moon Crabs' Moon
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The Island The Island
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Doomflight Doomflight
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The Slime Beast The Slime Beast
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Werewolf Omnibus Werewolf Omnibus
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Throwback Throwback
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The Sucking Pit The Sucking Pit
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Shadows And Teeth, Volume 3 Shadows And Teeth, Volume 3
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Next Door Next Door
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Sabat Sabat: Cannibal Cult
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Crabs on the Rampage Crabs on the Rampage
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King Crabs Nachtmahl King Crabs Nachtmahl
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Mania Mania
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Carnivore Carnivore
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