Smith's work mixes sex, violence, gore and self-conscious humour. The Penguin Enclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural considers that Smith's horror novels were "endearing, imbued with lively storytelling and the tacky brilliance of the horror and science fiction cinema of the 1950's". However, he is best known for his 70 or so horror books. He has written a series of children's books under the pseudonym Jonathon Guy, two thrillers under the name Gavin Newman and a dozen non-fiction books on countryside matters. Smith has had over a thousand short stories and magazine articles published. The pulpish nature of Smith's concepts and writing are legendary in the horror fiction world, and have been spoofed by the award winning comedian and writer Matthew Holness in his Garth Marenghi persona. The series chronicles invasions by giant, man-eating crabs of various areas of British coastline. He is probably best known for a series of six Crabs books, the first of which, Night of the Crabs, was published in 1976. Smith wrote his first horror book, Werewolf by Moonlight in 1974.
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