Guy N. Smith Books in Order

Banished by her jealous stepmother, Snow White seeks shelter in a dangerous forest and finds refuge with seven dwarfs. Their unlikely household offers companionship and protection as she faces the consequences of the queen’s determination to remove her.

Searching for lost treasure in the Wash, Professor Lowson uncovers a monstrous creature buried in the mud. As it begins killing, his desire to capture it clashes with his companions' determination to destroy it.

Jenny Lawson inherits her dying uncle’s secret book and experiments with its ancient potions. Her disturbing transformation draws an investigative reporter into the mystery of a wooded burial ground and the sinister influence of the enigmatic Cornelius.

A Scottish fisherman builds holiday chalets on inherited land, bringing visitors into a community guarding a terrible secret. When tourists ignore his warning to avoid a nearby mountain, their holiday exposes the danger locals fear.

Guy N. Smith explains practical gamekeeping for shooters managing their own ground. Covering equipment, working dogs, pheasant rearing, predator control, rough shoots, and wildfowling, the guide addresses the tasks involved in establishing and maintaining a shoot.

Disappearances off the Welsh coast draw marine biologist Cliff Davenport into an investigation of monstrous crabs. With holidaymakers unaware of the threat beneath the water, he must persuade the authorities and help stop an invasion before it spreads beyond the beaches.

Ron and Ingrid Hamilton’s Scottish holiday becomes a nightmare when they return to her home village and encounter its werewolf secret. After Ingrid disappears, a hunter must confront the creature before another full moon brings further bloodshed.

As Malaya falls to Japan, a group of nurses is captured by a brutal colonel. Jungle Carter and his Chinese guerrillas attempt a rescue, fighting through hostile terrain where heat and disease are as dangerous as enemy soldiers.

Guy N. Smith describes growing and curing tobacco in Britain for personal use. Illustrated with photographs and diagrams, the guide considers the preparation of tobacco for pipes, cigarettes, cigars, and snuff through a practical approach.

Guy N. Smith introduces ferret care, training, and work in rabbit and rat control. Alongside advice on trapping and identifying quarry, the guide examines the equipment and methods used by amateur gamekeepers in the countryside.

Drawing on the creation of his own shoot, Guy N. Smith considers the expense and practical challenges of upland gamekeeping. Topics include establishing ground, managing game birds, controlling predators, and dealing with the demands of hill country.

Years after giant crabs were defeated off the Welsh coast, Norwegian fishermen encounter another monstrous specimen. The warning fails to reach the authorities, while disappearances near an Australian island suggest a new colony has found another vulnerable population.

At a remote Scottish hunting estate, Loch Merse conceals enormous crabs with a taste for human flesh. As attacks begin, those who encounter the creatures struggle to survive and warn others before the threat spreads.

A family unknowingly brings locusts into the Shropshire hills inside a crate of peaches. Joined by insects driven north by a heatwave, they multiply into enormous swarms, turning an ordinary move to the countryside into a national emergency.

Guy N. Smith explains freshwater fish rearing for amateur and small commercial operations. Chapters cover pond construction, general management, and species including trout, salmon, carp, pike, and goldfish, linking fish care with the practical organization of a fishery.

Bilal arrives in Britain hoping for opportunity, only to discover he has been exploited for cheap labour. Meanwhile, his pet caracal escapes into the Welsh border hills, reverting to the wild and drawing hunters as its attacks escalate.

New residents install an enormous bell at Caelogy Hall, drawing the curiosity of nearby Turbury. Its toll soon brings madness and violent death, leaving villagers desperate to understand and stop the force behind it.

Guy N. Smith combines an account of mole behavior with traditional and contemporary catching methods. Family history and the experience of professional mole-catchers provide a background to this examination of an established countryside occupation.

Al Pennant buys a mansion once used by a Nazi torturer, dismissing signs that its evil survives. Even moving the house to Long Island fails to protect his family from disturbing visions linked to a single snowdrop outside.

A lorry accident contaminates Birmingham’s water supply with a lethal weedkiller, leaving thousands ill and dying. The chemist who helped create it searches for an antidote while trapped inside a sealed city collapsing into violence and desperation.

The public believes the giant mutant crabs have been destroyed, but the creatures are still alive. Returning from hiding, a ravenous horde spreads through the countryside, bringing a renewed threat to people who thought the danger had passed.

A company plans to rebuild an abandoned airfield as an international airport, ignoring warnings about a desecrated Druid stone circle. As bizarre deaths multiply, a growing supernatural threat beneath the runways endangers everyone involved in the project.

During a family visit to a funfair, young Rowena befriends a fortune teller who also carves its dolls and ride animals. Sensing approaching evil, the woman fails to recognize how her own creations connect to an ancestral curse.

Russian agents enlist a man versed in voodoo to penetrate a secret American missile base in the Welsh hills. As supernatural forces converge with advanced nuclear weapons, an infiltration mission threatens to unleash a catastrophe beyond anyone’s control.

Unhappy bank clerk Ray Tyler buys an old book and begins transforming into a violent werewolf. Losing his job and control of his behaviour, he becomes a fugitive as the police pursue a growing trail of horrific crimes.

Ex-priest and exorcist Mark Sabat hunts supernatural evil while haunted by his own brother’s corruption. A condemned murderer’s promise to return after execution introduces a new threat that challenges the apparent finality of his death.

Exorcist Simon Rankin struggles with failed relationships and doubts about his faith. A visit to a Welsh mining village draws him toward an evil presence underground, forcing him to confront both supernatural danger and his uncertainty.

Former priest, trained soldier, and exorcist Mark Sabat continues his battle with occult forces. Haunted by his past, he pursues an enemy bound to him by blood, confronting the corruption and dark powers surrounding his own brother.

Former priest and trained killer Mark Sabat hunts the brother who has embraced evil. Captured and unable to move, he must resist a dark ritual while confronting an enemy tied to his own past.

Writer Peter Fogg moves his family to an isolated Welsh cottage to work on a new book. Hostile neighbors, threats, and apparent ritual killings destroy their peace, leaving him increasingly alone in resisting efforts to drive them away.

Newspaper editor Bob Coyle fears a nuclear waste facility will endanger his Scottish hometown. When strange deaths and violent behavior spread, an old magician's curse offers another explanation, linking modern development to a threat rooted in the village's past.

A former racing driver living in seclusion meets a wealthy woman who wants him back on the track. Attracted to her despite memories of his last disastrous drive, he becomes troubled by the violence surrounding her.

Guy N. Smith surveys dogs bred for field sports and practical work, from terriers and gundogs to hounds, collies, and lurchers. The guide considers their histories, management, uses, and ailments across a range of working breeds.

Exorcist Mark Sabat investigates murders and disturbing events around a village church. Visions of ancient rituals and the consequences of a disputed land sale draw him toward a druidic force seeking revenge against the modern world.

A newly successful writer moves his family into Gabor House, unaware of its violent history. A curse connected to a murdered child and a long-ago execution begins threatening the household, turning their fresh start into a struggle against the past.

While digging a fallout shelter in his garden, George Brownlow disturbs the resting place of two Egyptian mummies. The forces he releases begin tormenting his family, drawing them into a frightening descent toward madness.

Driven by the moon and an insatiable hunger, hundreds of giant crabs emerge from the water. As the creatures move inland toward their prey, their renewed attack turns the shoreline into a place of mounting terror.

A man sinks beneath the dark waters of a pit and encounters figures that remain alive despite being dead. Their beckoning song and grasping hands turn the depths into a nightmare from which escape may be impossible.

Guy N. Smith examines ratting and rabbiting through their history and the work of a contemporary gamekeeper. Trapping, ferreting, teamwork, and management of a small shoot feature in an account combining practical methods with countryside experience.

A biological catastrophe causes people across the Western world to revert to primitive savagery. While Jackie struggles to retain her humanity, her husband and his mistress emerge from shelter into a society where survival is increasingly uncertain.

A chemical company releases a pesticide designed to make insects outgrow themselves and die. When the creatures instead survive and become ravenous giants, a village on the Welsh border faces the consequences of falsified research and corporate haste.

A motorway collision releases dangerous snakes being transported from a closing zoo. As the reptiles spread into the surrounding countryside and homes, residents and investigators face attacks, panic, and the challenge of containing creatures thriving in the heat.

An old persecution leaves a village with a legacy of fear and hatred. The evil born from those deaths has endured in its darkest corners, and a new series of violent events signals that its time has come.

Animal rights activists release reptiles from a zoo, unleashing deadly caimans on the surrounding countryside. A veterinarian attempts to recapture them alive as frightened authorities prepare lethal measures and the attacks threaten more people.

A Scottish castle attracts tourists with electrically operated dungeon horrors, concealing an evil far older than its exhibits. When the undead Laird of Benahee awakens, the fake terrors become instruments of revenge against those trapped inside.

A decade after the deathbell terrorised Turbury, reckless intruders awaken its influence again. As the flooded village re-emerges, old horrors return and draw residents and unsuspecting visitors into another outbreak of madness and violence.

Heavy snow isolates a village that should have enough food and fuel to endure the winter. But a diseased body and residents consumed by thirst and bloodlust reveal a threat far more dangerous than the weather outside.

Escaping a threatening man whose offer of a lift she accepted, Carol Embleton seeks refuge in Droy Woods. The apparent sanctuary conceals another danger, placing her among the dead who prey upon anyone still living.

A devastating cancer strikes the giant killer crabs, apparently threatening to end their reign of terror. But a deranged human sets out to save the creatures, pursuing a plan that demands a human sacrifice.

A Russian leader dies in the Kremlin while a news blackout conceals the event from the world. As his corpse begins to move and breathe again, the secrecy surrounding his death gives way to a terrifying supernatural threat.

Stranded by snow, a mother, her daughter, and a book dealer seek shelter at an isolated country hotel. Its apparently welcoming owners conceal a sinister purpose, trapping the travellers amid occult schemes and unsettling guests.

A grieving widower moves to an abandoned island despite its history of mysterious deaths. The arrival of a woman and four daughters draws him toward an older tragedy involving a deserted family and a sinister presence in a cave.

Ann Rawsthorne takes a teaching position at a private school in the Scottish Highlands, expecting a quiet life. Disturbing deaths and a cruel headmaster instead draw her into a sinister plan involving the school's dead founder.

During an intensely hot summer, a couple believe themselves trapped in a house by an endless snowstorm. Their desperate attempt to escape reveals horrors connected to a holiday camp and a secretive government department operating behind its ordinary appearance.

Mike and Holly Mannion move to a rural cottage and hire workers to drill a well. The work releases an ancient infection, turning their plans for peaceful country living into a struggle against spreading disease and violent impulses.

The repeal of an old prohibition allows bloodsports to resume on the Earl of Corby's land. Breaking that protection awakens a curse, and local wildlife begins attacking the people who have turned the countryside into a hunting ground.

John and Leah Strike move their children into a South London house that seems ordinary. Violent nightmares soon leave the family afraid of everyday things, before the horrors haunting their sleep begin taking physical form around them.

A young bank manager survives a brush with death, but something malevolent returns with him from the void. As his personality changes and his presence terrifies children and animals, recovery gives way to the threat of possession.

Festival crowds fill the cathedral city of Lichfield, but an unfamiliar man in a black fedora brings an unsettling presence. Though no one knows him, his appearance inspires a growing fear that shadows the celebrations.

Desperate to save his dying wife, Bernie Oldroyd turns to a practitioner of dark magic. Her return from death brings consequences he never imagined, leaving the woman he loves bound to the sinister purposes of the man who revived her.

Grieving secret government operative John Mayo travels to Knighton, where apparent vampire killings terrorize the town. Believing he has glimpsed his dead wife among the attackers, he investigates links between the deaths and other local unrest.

A family retreats to its country holiday home hoping to escape a devastating drought and repair strained relationships. Instead, worsening disasters and spreading anarchy turn their domestic troubles into a struggle to survive a world descending into chaos.

Thirteen-year-old Bobbie Wheeler is sent to an English boarding school by her mother, a witch. There she begins receiving unusual lessons from her distant father, bringing her education into contact with the supernatural inheritance of her family.

The Gorlay family agrees to look after a troubled boy while his parents are away, dismissing rumors of devil worship. A violent incident involving their dog and an invading presence soon make the warnings impossible to ignore.

Unable to accept the loss of his girlfriend Shanifa, Max Frame ventures into the Waste, where the dead wander endlessly. His attempt to bring her back forces him to risk joining the damned he hopes to escape.

A wealthy man’s unraveling mind, a drowned body found in a dry field, and a missing child disturb the village of Hopwas. These seemingly disconnected events signal the arrival of a terror threatening the entire community.

Smith explains how to develop horror fiction for children and adults, from an initial idea to character and plot. The guide also covers short stories, graphic novels, approaching publishers and navigating contracts and publication.

After an attack devastates his family, Ben Hollister pursues revenge against a Paiute warlord. His alliance with notorious Pony Express boss Joseph Slade draws him into a dangerous frontier world where violence and vengeance shape his future.

A busker’s hypnotic music unsettles listeners in Lichfield as an organic farming family clashes with a neighboring agronomist. Disappearances, strange figures, and a disastrous harvest festival suggest the musician’s warnings of approaching doom may be coming true.

This collection gathers writing from Guy N. Smith's school years, originally published in the Tettenhall Observer and Advertiser. It offers early stories from the period when he first began contributing fiction to his local newspaper's children's section.

Twelve stories bring together giant-crab attacks, supernatural threats, revenge, and deception. Returning characters include Mark Sabat, while other tales follow a dangerous rhinoceros hunt and an attempt to profit from a fabricated Loch Ness monster sighting.

This collection mixes creature horror, supernatural encounters, and dark comedy, with appearances by recurring characters including Sabat. Stories range from a husband's increasingly frustrated murder attempts to unsettling hauntings and further episodes involving Smith's familiar monsters.

A family shelters from a violent storm in a remote Midwestern hunting lodge. In the morning, the building, their car, and the surrounding forest appear impossibly aged, trapping them in a landscape transformed by an unexplained passage of time.

A trick-or-treating child dies outside the home of Edward Kroll, a feared resident of a small Welsh town. When Kroll subsequently disappears, the community faces the possibility that his vengeful presence has survived beyond the grave.

A wounded big cat begins hunting people in the Welsh Borders after a gamekeeper fails to kill it. With the rural community living in fear, retired professional hunter Gordon Hall is called in when other attempts to stop it fail.

Mike Britton and his transport workers face a gang of hijackers threatening their livelihood. Protecting their business means confronting criminals willing to use dirty tricks and dangerous staged accidents against both the drivers and the people close to them.

An abused housewife discovers that her angry wishes can cause deadly accidents. As Sylvia embraces her new powers and forms a coven, fear spreads through the village and other women organize to confront the threat she has become.

A demo tape brings Stephanie Insel into contact with the lead singer of the Necromancers. She and a friend become entangled in a demonic cult, discovering that the band’s disturbing music carries intentions far beyond ordinary performance.

Brock Logan has waited thirty years for the giant crabs that killed his father to return. When the creatures emerge on the Solway Firth, the hunter begins a dangerous pursuit driven by revenge and the desire for a trophy.

After a masked attacker destroys her solitary peace, artist Kate Leonard begins a violent search for revenge. Detective Jason Ford must stop the killings while knowing that pursuing her could make him the next target.

Smith recounts his life from childhood ambitions to a career writing horror and other fiction. Alongside publishing, he recalls work in banking, private investigation, cartridge manufacture and country-sports journalism, tracing the varied pursuits behind his books.

The murder of a retired organist is followed by the killing of his replacement, spreading fear through Cathedral Close. Detective Jason Ford searches for a connection before the unseen killer chooses another victim among the frightened residents.

This collection gathers Guy N. Smith’s short fiction, including stories returning to his giant crabs and psychic detective Sabat. Supernatural encounters and threatening creatures connect the varied tales, bringing familiar characters together with other manifestations of the uncanny.

Forty years after Gavin Royle destroyed a deadly creature in the Wash, his family returns to the area. A new monster begins killing there, forcing Gavin to confront the horror he believed he had ended decades earlier.

Unable to afford new security requirements, a family secretly releases its pet baboons into the Welsh mountains. Decades later, unexplained killings reveal the consequences as the animals’ descendants turn once peaceful walking and climbing country into dangerous territory.

A visit to the Midland Gun Company with his father began Smith’s lifelong fascination with its guns and cartridges. Drawing on collecting and research, he attempts to reconstruct the firm’s history despite the absence of surviving records.

An escaped criminal with occult connections seeks treasure hidden at a bloodstained farm and revenge against the detective who captured him. Those trapped in the old farmhouse face a threat combining a ruthless human enemy with dark supernatural forces.

Mark Sabat continues his battle against supernatural evil while pursued by the darkness associated with his brother. A group of decaying figures confronts the living, bringing another manifestation of horror into the exorcist’s dangerous path.

Smith explores the history of shotgun cartridges through selected familiar brands and rare examples from his collection. The book traces how once-discarded cases became collectors’ objects and records a changing sporting culture through its surviving materials.

Believed eradicated after repeated attacks around the world, surviving giant crabs return to the Welsh coast. Hidden beneath the cliffs, they breed inside a maze of caves and prepare another assault on an unsuspecting population.

After finally defeating his brother Quentin, Mark Sabat faces an escaped criminal known as the Reaper. Armed with supernatural powers, the fugitive seeks revenge on the detective who caught him, leaving Sabat to protect the intended victim.

Professor Brian Newman accidentally creates a lethal virus and confines infected bats in his laboratory. Their fragile glass cage becomes the only barrier between a dangerous research mistake and an outbreak threatening people far beyond the research center.

Stories first published in a long-running author fanzine bring together murder, cannibals, zombies and graveyard hauntings. A new Sabat adventure joins these tales, which explore the dangers lurking in isolated places and among apparently ordinary people.

Private detective Raymond Odell and his young assistant Tommy Bourne investigate crimes that have defeated conventional policing. Thirteen cases range from fraud and robbery to murder and brushes with the occult, relying on persistence and deduction rather than modern technology.

Angela dreams of pursuing her talent as a potter while enduring an abusive marriage. Her growing hatred reaches across time and awakens a murderous force, bringing an old ghost story into terrifying contact with her already fractured life.