Guy Smith: 100 books

Alan Alton and family move into the Shropshire hills to run a smallholding. One item that they take with them is completely forgotten in the hassle, namely a crate of peaches sent by an American relative, which also happens to contain a few Pennsylvanian locusts. Joining these are more locusts which...

For Mike and Holly Mannion, the tumbledown cottage in a quiet country village seemed the ideal retreat from the rat race. But when a team of contractors is hired to drill a water-well, a deadly plague is unleashed – a macabre, terrifying entity that had lurked in the bowels of the earth for centuries. The Festering Death had risen from its burial place …

Ron Halestrom is a new author, one successful book behind him, who moves into a new home with his family, to write more. But naturally, Gabor House has a dark secret which is trying to drive them away. Two hundred years before, it was the old manor house: home to the Mainwarings, owners of much of...

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 across. Lowson wants to capture it alive, his...

Driving instructor Max Frame ends up in hospital after a car crash, his girlfriend Shanifa doesn’t survive. But soon after recovering, he sees Shanifa going into the Ghetto, a derelict zone traditionally regarded as a no-go area, which parents use to scare their children with: it’s where you...

When Al Pennant buys the huge mansion overlooking the Reichenbach falls, he knows that it's last owner was a Nazi who tortured many people to death on the premises, but only his son Tod senses that his evil is still there. When they move in, Tod starts seeing things; then Al's wife, Veronica, witnesses...

Tom 'Romany' Lawson, aged woodman, is discovered dead. His virginal niece Jenny mixes up a potion described in his diary and is immediately transformed into a murderous sex maniac. She ends up helping a giant gypsy leader named Cornelius to regain the local ancient Romany burial site, the Sucking...

Mark Sabat, ex-priest, ex SAS-trained killer, exorcist, is a man with a dreadful mission. Driven and haunted, he has to seek out and destroy his mortal enemy. He stood upon twice-holy ground. A country churchyard, consecrated and tended for hundreds of years. But before that, long long before, ground...

The Black Hill werewolf, Philip Owen, has been dead for a year, and there have been no further outrages. Until now, that is, and the new maulings coincide with the disappearance from his grave of Philip Owen's body. Gordon Hall, the man who caught Owen a year before, returns to the Black Hill to...

While the forces of nature create a white hell outside, a satanic force from beyond the grave is at work inside … Into this world step three unwitting travellers, driven by the blizzard to seek refuge at a country house hotel. A hotel where the guests live in a diabolical world of lunacy and madness,...

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 with a frequency that jars the senses, changes peoples'...

Ray Tyler, an unhappy bank clerk and self-sufficiency freak, buys an old book from his local bookshop. However, after reading it, he finds that he is gradually turning into a violent beast driven solely by murder and rape: in short a werewolf. His increasingly erratic behaviour earns him the sack from the bank, and three rapes and two murders later, he is on the run from the police.

Malaya was about to fall to the Japanese, and a group of nurses had been taken prisoner by the notorious Colonel Sika. 'Jungle' Carter knew they faced sadistic torture, even a hideous death. It was up to him and his band of Chinese guerillas to rescue them from Sika's clutches - but in a hostile...

Big business has come to the sleepy town of Fradley in the form of a partnership attempting to turn a disused local wartime RAF station into a major international airport. Retired schoolmaster Hartley Lowe is leading the mounting local opposition, and he soon discovers that the site was built on...