#guy n. smith

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Ray Feibush (1948-1998), ''The Slime Beast'' by Guy N. Smith, 1976

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“She stood about three yards from him, seemed to glide and then stop again, her complexion so white that he saw every detail of her features”

Andrew Smith, illustration for Guy N. Smith’s ‘Vampire Village’

Fantasy Tales Vol. 10 #1, Autumn 1988

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The House on Stillcroft Street (Joseph Payne Brennan) "A carnivorous plant takes over reclusive collector Millward Frander's house -- and Millward himself."

The Festering (Guy N. Smith) "A couple move to the English countryside to escape urban life. Their plumbing is dodgy, so they have well dug in their garden. Unfortunately, an ancient, diseased corpse was buried there, and the lads who dig the well end up contracting the disease.

This disease causes you to grow disgusting boils all over and to leak stinking pus and slime from every orifice. It also increases sexual and aggressive urges. Those who get sick end up going on violent rampages and end up as a rancid puddle of noisome muck."

Corruption Leitner Redemption Bracket Round 2 Bout 1

The House on Stillcroft Street (Joseph Payne Brennan)

The Festering (Guy N. Smith)

Voting ended onSep 11, 2024

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Guy N. Smith - Witch Spell - Kensington - 1993

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|“Crabs: The Human Sacrifice” Book Cover|

Author; Guy N. Smith

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Summer Beach Horror Reads #1

As anyone who has read a copy of Grady Hendrix’s Paperbacks from Hell knows, the 80s was a boom-time for horror fiction. But who wants to read a scary novel late at night when you can do it on the beach while working on your tan? Just make sure you make it thematically appropriate. Like tracking down Guy N. Smith’s series on crustacean scares. Out of print (sadly?), there are  copies to be found at used book stores, thrift shops, Goodwill, dodgy sea food restaurants, the internet, etc. Smith published six crab-pocalyptic novels, beginning with Night of the Crabs (1976) on through Crabs: The Human Sacrifice (1988), then later returned to the series with the aptly entitled Killer Crabs: The Return (2012). Shlock-tastic reads, the books are perfect in their own way.

I’m totally getting crab cakes for dinner tonight.

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Entombed by Guy N. Smith 1982 Dell Books

Had enough of exorcists yet?  Guy Smith hasn't, and this time we've got one as a main character.  A former Jesuit exorcist has a mid-life crisis after his wife leaves him, and he takes up with a codependent divorcee.  For a lark, they go on a tour of a closed slate mine, because that's what people do for fun in Wales. Just so happens that the mine is haunted, and the exorcist prepares to drive the spirits out.  He spends some time talking to unfriendly townsfolk to discover the horrible secret of the mine, to learn what dreadful sins were committed that people generations later refuse to talk about. If there was a horrible secret, Smith didn't share it with us.  All we get is that children were forced to work in the mine, and that many were killed due to their overseer's carelessness.  That's pretty much spelled out in the tour and on the back cover, so no revelations there. While the exorcist kills time, his kids are kidnapped, murdered, then promptly forgotten about.  A local coven has an orgy, then are slaughtered by the ghost of the overseer who is in league with Satan in some kind of turf war or something.  This bit isn't really explored, as it sounds far too interesting. Much more interesting is reading about people sitting around in the dark, as a trapped rescue party discuss their options after being trapped. The exorcist says the magic words and abracadabra, no more ghosts, the end. No cheating newspapermen, but this is the second Guy N Smith novel I've read to heavily feature the word funicular.

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The Festering (Guy N. Smith) "A couple move to the English countryside to escape urban life. Their plumbing is dodgy, so they have well dug in their garden. Unfortunately, an ancient, diseased corpse was buried there, and the lads who dig the well end up contracting the disease.

This disease causes you to grow disgusting boils all over and to leak stinking pus and slime from every orifice. It also increases sexual and aggressive urges. Those who get sick end up going on violent rampages and end up as a rancid puddle of noisome muck."

The Bridegroom (Ingeborg Refling Hagen) "A tragic romance novel set in Norway at the onset of the Black Death. The protagonist, Elise, is in love with a fiddler, Erik Ekset, and plans to meet him at the midsummer festivities. When he does not arrive, she waits for him until the news of the plague comes -- and the plague comes with it, killing her family. Distraught, Elise sets out to find her beloved and journeys through a nightmare of plague-stricken countryside, and she dies trying to find his grave.

Strong themes associating disease with music, love, and community throughout -- the plague first strikes at a wedding with a dead fiddler arriving in a cart pulled by a pale horse, and the bride -- now bereaved -- appears again near the end, inconsolable."

Corruption Leitner Redemption Bracket Round 1 Bout 2

The Festering (Guy N. Smith)

The Bridegroom (Ingeborg Refling Hagen)

Voting ended onSep 10, 2024