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Guy N.Smith
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The Dark One
The Gorlays have just agree to take a twelve-year-old Marcel into their home
while his parents are away. Even though their own son and daughter would rather they
didn’t. Even though Marcel is addicted to gambling and cigarettes. Even though
rumours are spreading around town about satanic rituals and demonic possession. After all,
it’s only for three days....
Soon Marcel is discovered in a graveyard.... holding a shattered skull. Soon, a horrifying
fate befalls Remus, the Gorlay family dog. Soon, the Gorlays are trapped in a house where
the doors and windows won’t open and the telephone is dead.
Then Marcel makes his announcement: The Master is coming.
And the master never leaves empty-handed.
Dead End
There’s a vacancy in Hell tonight....
Ever since Max Frame was a child, he’d heard scary tales of The Waste,
the desolate place just beyond the Dead End sign of the outskirts of town. It was there
that the dead lived, doomed to wander for all eternity. But those were just stories to
frighten bad little boys.
Until Max sees his girlfriend there.... Shanifa, who’s been dead and buried for
months.
Followed by vagrants with hungry eyes, haunted by screams of the burning dead, Shanifa is
desperately searching for a way out. Max thinks he can save her. But no one has ever
willingly ventured into The Waste.... or escaped with their soul intact.
For, as Max Frame and his girlfriend are about to discover, there’s a price to be
paid for leaving Hell....
Guy N. Smith was first published at
the age of 12 in a local newspaper. His mother was a pre-war historical novelist (E.M.Weale)
and it was evident even in his schooldays that he would follow in her footsteps. However,
his father was insistent that he pursued a career in banking, which he did from 1956-1975.
Even during those banking years Guy wrote prolifically, contributing to many non-fiction
countryside-related journals. In 1968 he began to devote his efforts to fiction and wrote
a number of Dixon Hawke detective stories for D.C.Thompson.
From there he progressed to the legendary London Mystery Magazine and had 18
stories published before its demise in 1982. He has had over 1200 short stories and
magazine features published to date.
Novels and full-time writing were a natural progression. In 1974 his first book Werewolf
by Moonlight was published by New English Library. This led to a prolific output
of over 60 horror novels, including his best-seller Night of the Crabs,
which itself spawned five sequels.
Although Guy is best known for his horror writing, and has probably covered more aspects
of the horror field than any other single writer, he has established himself successfully
in several other genres as well. He has had 12 non-fiction books on countryside matters
published, and has written a series of children's animal novels under the pseudonym of Jonathan
Guy. He has written crime and mystery thrillers, notably The Black Fedora
(shortlisted for the Lichfield Prize), and its sequel, The Knighton Vampires
(which isn't a horror novel!). His serial killer book, The Hangman, is
written under the name of Gavin Newman.
Nowadays, his original horror is all published by Zebra, New York, and in 1966 he wrote Writing
Horror Fiction (A&C Black), a manual for aspiring writers in the genre. By
contrast, Pinnacle, New York, are publishing a big western by Guy. He hopes the latter
will be the start of yet another successful branch of his writing.
Guy lives in Black Hill, on the Shropshire/Welsh border, with his wife Jean. They have
four children. On their small farm, which is primarily a conservation area, they have two
donkeys and a goat, plus cats and dogs.
Apart from his countryside pursuits, Guy defines his hobby as "collecting".
Guy N.Smith - Bibliography
Horror (Original Paperbacks)
