Who cared what the chin-stroking horror cognoscenti thought? This was entertainment run rampant, penny dreadfuls for what would become the Video Nasty generation. Subtlety was not Smith’s style – his books were awash with explicit sex, violence and outrageousness, and as such were like catnip for teenage boys. A Smith book – certainly in the 1970s – could be consumed in one sitting, sometimes at an unseemly speed – I recall being impressed that his novelisation of The Ghoul took less time to read than the film did to watch, and was a lot more entertaining. His work was too sordid and pulpy to be taken seriously by the serious horror fiction world. Smith was never the darling of the horror scene. When the market for pulp fiction dried up, he simply moved into self-publishing with both print and e-books.
Frankly, Smith put the rest of us to shame with his non-stop work ethic that continued until the year of his death. One of the world’s most prolific writers, he quite literally ground stuff out for many years, writing not just the lurid horror novels that he was infamous for, but also a series of porn novels, numerous short stories for adult magazines, a series of Disney film novelisations, work under various pseudonyms and a series of books about gamekeeping and country life. Smith, who died just before Christmas 2020, was the stuff of legend. The most recent inclusion is Nightmares from the Black Hill.įor other versions of this page and other bibliographic resources, return to the Broken Backlist.Remembering the unrestrained king of British pulp horror. This page lists 115 titles released in book form, with each title linking to a dedicated page for that book that speaks to different editions. Smith is a prolific author would be an understatement! Smith Books Listed by Publisher (Text Version)
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