Guy N. Smith

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  • Bibliography:
    96 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    November 1979
  • Latest Book:
    September 2021
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Full Series List in Order

Crabs

Killer Crabs ()
Night of the Crabs ()
Origin of the Crabs (Apr-1988)
Crabs' Moon (May-1988)
Crabs on the Rampage (Jun-1988)
Crabs: The Human Sacrifice (Apr-1989)

Book List in Order: 96 titles

  • Bats Out of Hell

    Professor Brian Newman is researching into a cure for meningitis. Unfortunately, as a by-product, he accidentally creates a lethal mutated version of the disease which is swiftly killing all the bats in his glass test cage. He knows that his expe...

  • The Rough-Shooter's Handbook

  • Entombed

    Years Ago . . . the children toiled in the dank slate mines of Cowmgilla, hostages to their mad overseer . . . helpless victims in his evil satanic rites. Now . . . on the outskirts of the charming Welsh village, something stirs deep in the...

  • The Wood

  • Origin of the Crabs

    Crabs

    Rouse suddenly let out a piercing scream releasing him from the paralysis of sheer terror in which those malevolent red eyes had held him. In panic he turned and tried to scamble up the slippery rockface. But his feet could not grip; slowly he began ...

  • Crabs' Moon

    Crabs

    They lurched out of the water - moon-driven, coldly mad in their need to destroy, to kill, to eat. In their hundreds, huge and evil, they crawled, waving their claws of death, feeling their way towards their prey......

  • Crabs on the Rampage

    Crabs

    One man only saw them and him they killed, hunted him down through the dense reed beds, trapped him, drove him mad with terror before they pulled him to pieces and ate every bloodied shred of his body. And then it was quiet again - for a little while...

  • The Nicodemus Code

  • Crabs: The Human Sacrifice

    Crabs



  • The Dark One

    Agreeing to take in Marcel while his parents are away, the Gorlays dismiss local gossip that link the troubled youth to devil worship until the family dog is brutally killed and a strange force takes over the house. Original....

  • Dead End

    Ever since Max was a child, he'd heard scary tales of The Waste, the desolate place just beyond the Dead End sign on the outskirts of town. It was there that the dead lived, doomed to wander for all eternity. But those were just stories to frighten b...

  • Writing Horror Fiction

    This writer's guide explains how to write short stories and horror fiction for children and adults. The author shows how to build on the initial idea and develop characters and plot. There are ideas for selecting and approaching publishers and in...

  • Dead Meat: The Complete Book of Sabat

    Here in one volume are the four books of Sabat: Graveyard Vultures, Blood Merchants, Cannibal Cult and Druid Connection. Legendary horror writer Guy N Smith propels the reader from encounter to weird encounter in a gore-splattered pulp mania wracked ...

  • Water Rites

    IN THE VILLAGE OF HOPWAS, THERE IS A BARBED WIRE FENCE AROUND THE OLD RESERVOIR. An elderly derelict living in the Hopwas woods has seen them gather under the chill of the moon. He has heard the haunting echoes of their strange midnight chants. A re...

  • The Pony Riders

    His life devastated when his family is attacked by Native Americans, Ben Hollister allies himself with legendary Pony Express boss and killer Joseph Slade and targets a Paiute warlord for revenge. Original....

  • The Busker

    There had been buskers in the cathedral city of Lichfield for centuries, but never one like Jonjo. Crowds are drawn irresistibly by his strange, haunting, hypnotic music, a weird melody that lingers with the listeners long afterwards, a nuisance by d...

  • Witch Spell

    Yvonne Wheeler is a white witch who wants to put as much distance between her teenage daughter Bobbie and her ex-husband Alec, a devout Satanist. To achieve this, Bobbie is sent to Willington College in rural England. However, Alec dies, his powers b...

  • Blackout

    A terrifying journey through time, from a master horror writerIn a hunting lodge in the remote American Midwest, a family prepares to sit out a devastating storm. In the morning the hut is still standing, but has deteriorated, and is filled with a dr...

  • The Cadaver

    A spine-chilling tale from a master of horror - In a small Welsh town, a group of children, dressed for Halloween, gather outside the shabby house of the most feared and despised resident, Edward Kroll. After one of the trick-or-treating children is ...



  • The Festering

  • Maneater

    When a gamekeeper in the Welsh Borders takes a shot at a Big Cat prowling in his woods but only succeeds in wounding it, the creature, unable to catch rabbits and deer, turns its attention to humans . . . Retired professional hunter Gordon Hall is...

  • The Slime Beast

    Professor Lowson is searching the Wash for King John's lost treasure. Instead he awakes a reptilian creature buried in the mud, which seems to have arrived on this planet in a meteorite. It starts wandering around, killing and eating anybody it comes...

  • Bamboo Guerillas

  • Locusts

  • Deathbell

    The long deserted Caelogy Hall in the small village of Turbury has new residents. Martyn Hamilton keeps his gates locked, installs a fierce alsatian and shuns all contact with the village. He also installs a bell in his chapel, a bell which rings wit...

  • Thirst

    Mel Timberley, professional lorry driver, swerves to avoid a hare and crashes into Claerwen Reservoir, polluting the entire water supply of Birmingham with the most deadly weedkiller ever created. Ron Blythe was the chemist who helped to create the s...

  • Throwback

  • Abomination

  • Deadbeat

    Deadbeat by Guy N. Smith [Redrum Horror #3] SEX, SATANISM, AND ROCK N' ROLL! What is the compulsive beat that seems to invade the very soul of listeners with violent, terrifying visions? Having sent a demo tape to Donna Caryl, the lead singer of the ...



  • Mammoth Books presents The Case of the Sporting Squire

    Violet Morgan is found dead in the library of Winchcombe Hall. She is found where she always used to read after dinner. Mortified, her daughter Gloria Morgan visits Sherlock Holmes. She accuses her father of murdering his wife so he is legally able t...

  • The Eighth Day

    Kate Leonard is a loner, psychological scars remaining from childhood abuse. She finds solace in her artwork especially in painting the ducks on the park lake. Then one day her solitary life is shattered when she is raped by a masked man. Although hi...

  • Night of the Werewolf

  • The Return

    In 1978 the Crabs attacked Australia’s Great Barrier Reef with horrendous loss of human life. Amongst the fatalities was Harvey Logan, big-game hunter. The world believed that these terrible crustaceans had been annihilated but Harvey’s son, Broc...

  • The Hangman

  • Psalm 151

    The gruesome sadistic killings begin. The first victim is a retired organist, the second his successor. The residents of Cathedral Close sense that they are being watched, the murderer singling out his next prey. Will it be another organist. Is there...

  • Hangman's Hotel and Other Stories

    Guy N. Smith began writing short stories at the age of 12. Best known for over 100 novels including ‘Night of the Crabs’, its six sequels, and his Sabat psychic detective series, he has penned numerous shorts over the past sixty years. This selec...

  • Spawn of the Slime Beast

    Forty years ago a hideous, scaly monster roamed the marshes of the Wash, humans its victims, ripping them to shreds and devouring their intestines. Gavin Royle, a young archaeologist's assistant, had finally destroyed it. Its origins were a mystery, ...

  • Crabs Omnibus

    Time and time again since that scorching summer of 1976 the monstrous crabs have come ashore and wreaked terrible destruction and carnage on mankind. Now in this collection of short stories they have returned in a frenzy of foul, insatiable hunger fo...

  • Carnage

    The Lewis family had hand reared a pair of baboons which lived with them for years in their remote home. Then came the 1976 Dangerous Wild Animals Act which demanded costly security to be installed. They could no longer afford to keep their pets so t...



  • Carnivore

  • Manitou Doll

  • The Plague Chronicles

  • The Pluto Pact

  • Return of the Werewolf

  • Warhead

  • Werewolf by Moonlight

  • Wistman's Wood

  • Alligators

  • The Black Fedora



  • Bloodshow

  • Cannibals

  • The Druid Connection

  • The Island

  • Nightspawn

  • Phobia

  • The Son of the Werewolf

  • The Sucking Pit

  • The Undead

  • Shadows And Teeth, Volume 3

    Out of the shadows and meaner than ever, volume three of this award-winning horror series packs international star power. Featuring ten brand-new stories by the legendary Guy N. Smith, the prolific Adam Millard, master of horror Nicholas Paschall, an...

  • Shadows And Teeth

    Out of the shadows and meaner than ever, volume three of this award-winning horror series packs international star power. Featuring ten brand-new stories by the legendary Guy N. Smith, the prolific Adam Millard, master of horror Nicholas Paschall, an...

  • Nightmares from the Black Hill

    Guy N. Smith’s long horror writing career encompassed 70 best-selling novels. His short story ‘The Searchers’ was the first to be published in the London Mystery Magazine in March 1972. This was followed in June of that year by ‘The Mummy’ ...

  • The Master

  • Sabat 5 - Wistman's Wood

    Mark Sabat, ex-priest, SAS-trained killer, exorcist, is a man with a dreadful mission. Driven and haunted, he has to seek out and destroy his mortal enemy. An enemy who has chosen the Left Hand Path, who embodies the eternal principle of Evil. An ene...

  • Postcards From The Void

    From the creative team behind the award-winning Shadows And Teeth horror series comes a reality-bending anthology that combines eerie vintage photos with terrifying stories.The places in this book are shunned, abandoned and forgotten. They do not exi...

  • The Reaper

    The remote farm has a long history of bloodshed dating back to the days of the English Civil War. A mutilated human skeleton had lain in an undiscovered Priest Hole where loot from a nearby mansion was reputed to have lain hidden.An infamous master c...

  • The Charnel Caves

    In 1975 an army of gigantic crabs, the result of an underwater nuclear experiment, attacked the Welsh coastline. The battle was bloody, many lives were lost until the crustacean invaders were defeated.

    Over the ensuing years they turned up i...

  • Tales From The Graveyard

    This is a collection of horror stories originally published in 'Graveyard Rendezvous', the Guy N. Smith fanzine, that ran from 1992 - 2012. They feature mayhem and murder, cannibals, zombies and spectral beings which lurk in deserted graveyards durin...

  • The Casebook of Raymond Odell

    Today modern technology plays a major role in the solving of crimes and mysteries.Yet this was not so half a century ago and often the police failed in their efforts to solve cases. This was when a victim of crime called in a private detective who ha...

  • Satanic Armageddon

    The forces of evil, led by Satan's disciple, were massing worldwide to overthrow democracy.Throughout the UK and Europe the forces of evil were gathering to destroy democracy. Bombs, shootings, vehicles mowing down unsuspecting pedestrians in the str...

  • Accursed

  • The Black Knights

  • Blood Circuit

  • The Blood Merchants

  • The Camp

  • Cannibal Cult

  • Caracal

  • Demons

  • Doomflight

  • Fiend

  • From The Dark Hours

    What lies in the dark? What stirs in the murk? What creeps and crawls in the blackness, fearful of the sun but thirsty for meat?Lethal hauntings, murderous animals and uncanny curses rule the night, as Guy N Smith, master of pulp horror, unleashes a ...

  • The Graveyard Vultures

  • Hi-Jack!

  • The Knighton Vampires

  • The Lurkers

  • Mania

  • The Neophyte

  • The Plague

  • The Resurrected

  • Satan's Snowdrop

  • Snakes

  • An Unholy Way To Die

  • The Unseen

  • The Walking Dead

  • Wolfcurse

  • Killer Crabs

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    Crabs

    In 1978 the Crabs attacked Australia’s Great Barrier Reef with horrendous loss of human life. Amongst the fatalities was Harvey Logan, big-game hunter. The world believed that these terrible crustaceans had been annihilated but Harvey’s son, Broc...

  • Night of the Crabs

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    Crabs

    The Welsh coast basks in summer tranquility. Then the 'drownings' begin. But not until the monstrous crustaceans crawl ashore, their pincers poised for destruction, does the world understand the threat it faces. A seafood cocktail for the strongest s...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Guy N. Smith has published 96 books.

Guy N. Smith does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, From The Dark Hours, was published in September 2021.

The first book by Guy N. Smith, Bats Out of Hell, was published in November 1979.

Yes. Guy N. Smith has 1 series.
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