Marion is lost on a dark and lonely road; she's tired and hungry and afraid. She thinks she's dreaming when she sees a motel sign shining in the darkness: Bates Motel. But for Marion the nightmare is just beginning ...To most people Psycho needs no introduction, but although Alfred Hitchcock's film was largely faithful to the book, in the novel itself you will find a story more nuanced and - if possible - even darker.

Five stories. Five very different excursions into the imaginative worlds of vintage science fiction, where interplanetary conflict, deadly mysteries, strange technology, and unexpected twists are waiting.Battle of the Solar System by Ray Cummings launches into a sweeping adventure on a cosmic scale, carrying readers into a future where danger stretches across the planets and the stakes could not be higher.The Grip of Death by Robert Bloch b...

Graham Dean, a young artist living alone in an inherited house near San Pedro, is plagued by vivid dreams of the sea that feel less like nightmares than a summons. As his work falters and a doctor dismisses his fears, he senses a sinister force in the house's history, one tied to his ominous ancestor Morella Godolfo, whose beauty, sorcery, and rumored transformation into something not quite human have long haunted local legend. When his uncle Michael Leigh, an occult scholar, warns him to ...

Robert Bloch has more than a few claims to fame – he was a member of the Lovecraft Circle, a group of writers who first corresponded with the legendary H. P. Lovecraft, and then continued his writing style in the Cthulhu world. Another thing he is known for is writing three classic Star Trek episodes: Catspaw, What Little Girls Are Made of? and Wolf in the Fold which were the Halloween, weird android duplicate and Jack the Ripper episodes. But Robert Bloch’s biggest claim...

Robert Bloch's "Founding Fathers" begins as a riotous time-travel caper, with Thomas Jefferson, John Hancock, Benjamin Franklin, and Charles Thomson recast as wisecracking gangsters barging into Independence Hall to rewrite history. Franklin nervously takes charge, coaching the others through a frantic, slang-filled version of the signing of the Declaration, while the comedy sharpens the contrast between patriotic legend and criminal hustle. The story then shifts into harder crime-fiction ...

Some doors should never be opened. Some bargains should never be made. And some mysteries wait patiently across centuries for the next curious soul.Lost Sci-Fi Books 506 thru 510 delivers five unforgettable journeys into the strange, the supernatural, and the farthest reaches of imagination. Stephen Marlowe’s Divvy Up turns greed into a dangerous game where every choice carries unexpected consequences. Robert Bloch’s chilling The Shambler F...

Robert Bloch's name is known to most readers today only as the author of Psycho, the inspiration for the famous Hitchcock film, but he was in fact a remarkably prolific author, publishing countless short stories over a sixty-year span, along with over thirty novels. The Opener of the Way (1945), published by the legendary Arkham House, was Bloch's first book, collecting twenty-one of his early tales from pulp magazines like Weird Tales, including some of his best...

Between 1942 and 1950, Robert Bloch (known for writing the novel Psycho, as well as three classic Star Trek episodes) wrote about the extremely tall tales of Lefty Feep, a down-and-out lout. I have footnoted some of the more arcane references (it seems language has changed substantially, even since the 1940s, but then some of the cultural references in early Simpsons episodes are hard to follow now).

The author of Psycho takes on the famous unsolved slayings of Jack the Ripper!Robert Bloch gave us fiction's most famous knife-wielding maniac in Psycho's Norman Bates, and in The Night of the Ripper (1984), this master of horror fiction offers his own unique take on history's most infamous unsolved murder case.Whitechapel, 1888. A madman stalks the foggy streets, murdering prostitutes in...

Step into a double-feature of golden-age wonder, danger, and cosmic mystery—now reborn for modern readers. Pharaohs of the Future unites two of Hugo-winner Robert Bloch's most sought-after novelettes in a single, beautifully produced volume complete with 10 custom retro-pulp illustrations that leap off the page.This Crowded EarthIn the year 2230, megacities choke the planet and humanity resorts to drastic miniaturization to survive. Office ...

You remember Norman Bates, the shy motel manager with the fatal mother fixation. Now, years after his horrific bout of butchery, Norman is at large again. Breaking free from the psycho ward, he cuts a shocking swath of blood all the way to Hollywood—where, it so happens, they are making a movie about Norman’s life and crimes. A movie that suddenly and terrifyingly becomes a lot like real life.

Robert Bloch's classic contribution to the Lovecraftian Cthulhu Mythos, back in print at last!When Albert Keith comes across a dusty old painting of a hideous, red-eyed, sharp-clawed creature in a dingy junk shop, he falls in love with it at first sight and buys it at a bargain price. But it isn't until he shows it to his friend Simon Waverly that he understands the painting's true significance: it appears to be one of the portraits described by H.P. Lovec...