Robert Bloch
Born 5 April 1917 · Died 23 September 1994
From Chicago, Illinois, United States · Nationality: United States · Writes fiction
Robert Albert Bloch was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of German-Jewish Americans. During the 1930s, he was an avid reader of Weird Tales magazine and H. P. Lovecraft in particular. He wrote to Lovecraft, who responded with advice on writing, and Bloch sold his first published short story, "The Feast in the Abbey" to Weird Tales when he was just seventeen. He continued to write for Weird Tales and went on to become one of its most popular authors, while also contributing to other magazines. In 1946, his first published novel, The Scarf, was released. He received the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1959 for “That Hell-Bound Train” (1958). Also in 1959, he published one of his best-known novels, Psycho, which was adapted for the screen in 1960 by Joseph Stefano, directed by Alfred Hitchcock. He wrote the screenplay for the movie The Night Walker (1964), and he also wrote three scripts for the television show Star Trek. Over the course of his career, he wrote hundreds of short stories and over twenty novels, mostly in the crime fiction, science fiction and, horror fiction genres.
Quotes
“Horror is the removal of masks.”
p. 203 “Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
p. 270 “I haven’t had this much fun since the rats ate my baby sister.”
p. 20 “We’re all not quite as sane as we pretend to be.”
Psycho, Chapter 16 “Funny...how we take it for granted that we know all there is to know about another person, just because we see them frequently or because of some strong emotional tie.”
Psycho, Chapter 8
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Books by Robert Bloch in order
Books by Robert Bloch in the order they were published, from Psycho (1959) to Three Complete Novels (1993).
- 1Psycho
Psycho1959 - 2Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, Volume 2
Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, Volume 21969 - 3American Gothic
American Gothic1974 - 4Psycho II
Psycho II1982 - 5Twilight Zone, The Movie
Twilight Zone, The Movie1983 - 6The Selected Stories of Robert Bloch
The Selected Stories of Robert Bloch1987 - 7Psycho House
Psycho House1990 - 8The Best Horror Stories
The Best Horror Stories1990 - 9Three Complete Novels
Three Complete Novels1993 - 10Robert Bloch's Psychos
Robert Bloch's Psychos