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Occupation
  
writer

Nationality
  
English


Name
  
Guy Smith

Role
  
Writer

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Genre
  
Horror fiction, Fantasy, Children's literature, Non-fiction

Books
  
Night of the Crabs, Slime Beast, The Sucking Pit, Werewolf by Moonlight, Bats out of hell

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Steve Alten, Barry Hannah, Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm

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Guy Newman Smith (born 21 November, 1939, Hopwas, Staffordshire) is a prolific English writer best known for his pulp fiction-style horror fiction, though he has also written non-fiction, softcore pornography, and children's literature.

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Biography

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Smith's father was a bank manager, his mother a pre-war historical novelist (E. M. Weale). His mother always encouraged his writing and he was first published at the age of 12 in The Tettenhall Observer, a local newspaper. Shooting (hunting) has always been an interest of Smith's, and he would have liked an apprenticeship in the gun trade. Not acceptable to his father, Smith's first job was in banking. In 1961 he designed and made a 12-bore shotgun, and during 1960-67 operated a small shotgun cartridge loading business.

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In the late 1960s and into the early 1970s Smith's writing focused mainly on shooting and he wrote regularly for many sporting magazines of the day. In 1972 he launched a second hand bookselling business that would eventually become Black Hill Books. Smith's intention had been to concentrate on this business and hopefully leave banking. It would ultimately be his writing that would do this.

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Smith wrote his first horror book, Werewolf by Moonlight, in 1974. It spawned two direct sequels. However, he states it was Night of the Crabs published in 1976 that really launched him as a writer. Spawning six sequels, the latest of which was published in 2012, the series chronicles invasions by giant man-eating crabs of various areas of British coastline. In 1981, the film Island Claws was released, which told a similar story about crabs on the coast of Florida, though neither Smith nor his novel were credited on the film.

To date, Smith has had over a thousand short stories and magazine articles published. He has written a series of children's books under the pseudonym Jonathon Guy, two thrillers under the name Gavin Newman, and a dozen non-fiction books on various countryside matters. However, he is best known for his 70 or so horror books. The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural considers Smith's horror novels "endearing, imbued with lively storytelling and the tacky brilliance of the horror and science fiction cinema of the 1950s". On the other hand, the horror critic R.S. Hadji included Smith's novel The Sucking Pit on his list of the worst horror novels ever written.

Smith's most recent book Carnage was published in September 2016.

The pulpish nature of Smith's concepts and writing have been spoofed by the award winning comedian and writer Matthew Holness in his Garth Marenghi persona.

A lifelong pipe smoker, he won the British pipe smoking championship in 2003. He collects pipes and smoking ephemera and has also written a book on tobacco, Tobacco Culture: A DIY Guide. He is also an active pro-smoking campaigner. He is married to Jean and they have four adult children, Rowan, Tara, Gavin and Angus.

References

Guy N. Smith Wikipedia