CLICKBAIT: CRABS ON THE RAMPAGE!

Recently mentioned on MC were a haul of paperback books by the British writer Guy N. Smith, famous for his horror books about killer crabs. He was a prolific author, and this series alone eventually ran to 12 titles, published between 1976 and 2019.

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Crabs on the Rampage (1981) was the fourth book in the series. I thought the cover of this would make a good subject for a photo shoot, using some items I already had to hand .....

The King Crab is a toy by CollectA, and carries a 2012 copyright date. The ruined castle is a pre-painted aquarium ornament.

The background is a photographic model railway backscene by Peco. The photograph was taken in my new Shotbox by We R Memory Keepers.

A quick and fun project!

The book cover photograph is from Worthpoint.

Paul Adams from New Zealand

THE SHIPLEY SHUFFLE

A pearl among the junk, I found this compact stack of Guy N. Smith paperbacks in a charity shop shuffle across Shipley the other day. Bingo! 

A great new haul this, as I collect Guy N. Smith paperbacks as part of my big horror novel collection.

Shelling out just three pounds, the stack included three of the well-known Crabs outbreaks, which Smith made his name with.

Despite the author having been very prolific, these 1980's horror paperbacks are now increasingly hard to find, as many will have been simply read and binned back in the day.

Although my favourite novel by the late great Guy N. Smith has to be the folk-trash, The Sucking Pit, the first one I ever read was Killer Crabs, so I'm really looking forward to a scuffle through its pages again.

Smith died aged 81 in 2020, very unwell and infected with COVID. Sadly gone but not forgotten, his many works live on and no doubt like the unknown Shipley reader who donated these paperbacks, I'm very excited about reading them.

Have you read any Guy N. Smith?

Do you collect books?