Tales From The Graveyard
Guy N. Smith
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PRESENTS
Tales from the Graveyard
Copyright © 2020 Guy N. Smith
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed or transmitted in any form or by any means, without prior written permission.
Edited by J. R. Park
Interior design by J. R. Park
Cover art by Matthew Morris
Published by The Sinister Horror Company
Publisher’s Note: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are a product of the author’s imagination. Locales and public names are sometimes used for atmospheric purposes. Any resemblance to actual people, living or dead, or to businesses, companies, events, institutions, or locales is completely coincidental.
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This book is dedicated to all my fans over the past forty years.
My sincere thanks for continuing to read my novels.
Contents
Introduction
The Shooting on the Moss
The Ghouls
The Lurkers
The Executioner
Cannibal Island
Mr. Strange’s Christmas Dream
The Case of the Ostrich Slasher
The Werewolf Legend
The Howling on the Moors
Hounds from Hades
I Couldn’t Care Less
Sabat: The Robber’s Grave
Gallery
Introduction
Back in 1992 Andy Hurst, a GNS fan, launched Graveyard Rendezvous, a fanzine devoted to virtually everything concerning my work and lifestyle. It was an in depth look at how I became a professional author and covered my years living on the remote Black Hill in the wilds of South Shropshire.
By the time Graveyard Rendezvous saw publication I had written 60 novels starting with Werewolf by Moonlight (New English Library) up to Witchspell (Zebra USA). The second issue saw the start of the serialization of Night of the Werewolf previously only published in Germany by Erich Pabel. In 1976 issue No.3 was a special Crabs issue. No 4 introduced The Black Fedora and No.5 had The Old Bride’s Column written regularly thereafter by Jean, my wife, about what GNS had been up to and what it was like living with him!
However, the immense amount of work involved in publishing a regular fanzine was proving difficult for Andy in conjunction with all the other demands on his time so, commencing with issue 6, it was taken over by Black Hill Books in 1995. It then increased in size from 31 to 60 pages and was in A4 format.
From then on Graveyard Rendezvous covered a much wider field. This included stories by fans as well as originals by myself, an in depth look at my lifestyle, including our donkeys, goats and feathered stock. I also wrote a long running series on advice to budding writers, Successful Horror Writing. This covered devising a plot, suitable characters and the preparation of a detailed synopsis. Only then are you in a position to begin writing the novel. Working from the synopsis, which you will undoubtedly change as the novel progresses, ensures that you will arrive at the correct wordage for the finished book.
Basically, though, Graveyard Rendezvous is the ultimate in all types of horror.
Sadly this publication became much smaller with issue 23. This was solely due to advanced technology, primarily the website where all GNS information appeared and a continuation of Graveyard Rendezvous would only have been a repetition of this.
However, Graveyard Rendezvous lasted up until issue 41 which was published in the summer of 2012. Throughout its lifetime, though, it featured some truly gruesome horror in virtually every field of the genre.
Hence I decided to publish a selection of these stories in book form rather than allow them to disappear into the mists of time. Tales from the Graveyard contains stories which I consider to be the most diverse and gruesome to appear in Graveyard Rendezvous.
Black Hill Books still has a small stock of back issues numbers 7,8,9,11,13,14,15,19,20,21,34,40 & 41. These are available by post at £2.00 each including postage, and can be ordered from www.guynsmith.com *
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In the meantime, enjoy a good read of the stories within these pages.
Happy Nightmares!
Guy N. Smith
The Shooting on the Moss
(from Graveyard Rendezvous 1)
Evil lurked deep down on the slime.
The glorious twelfth had done it’s damnedest to bely tradition, Charles decided as the Range Rover splashed its way down the rutted, muddy track which meandered along the mist enshrouded slopes of the valley from the main road a mile and a half behind. The purple heather had taken on a shade of depressing greyness, visibility was reduced to less than fifty metres. The monotonous whine of the wipers was getting on his nerves, cutting swathes through the opaque film of fast drizzle on the windscreen. Neither he nor Peter had spoken for the last half hour, just muttered curses each time they came to a gate.
