6/13/2023 0 Comments Hide and shriek hackHowever, he is best known for his 70 or so horror books. 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 countryside matters. Smith has had over a thousand short stories and magazine articles published. The pulpish nature of Smith's concepts and writing are legendary in the horror fiction world, and have been spoofed by the award winning comedian and writer Matthew Holness in his Garth Marenghi persona. ![]() In 1980 a film adaptation Island Claws came out. The series chronicles invasions by giant, man-eating crabs of various areas of British coastline. He is probably best known for a series of six Crabs books, the first of which, Night of the Crabs, was published in 1976. Smith wrote his first horror book, Werewolf by Moonlight in 1974. ![]() Guy Newman Smith (born 1939, Hopwas, Staffordshire) is a prolific English writer best known for his pulp fiction-style horror fiction.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |