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Robert Bloch

This is a classic science fiction novel by Robert Bloch. It tells the story of an overpopulated Earth and its perilous problem of diminished resources. However, the government have a plan. Will it work? Find out in this wonderful example of prophetical science fiction. This work is part of our Vintage Sci-Fi Classics Series, a series in which we are republishing some of the best stories in the genre by some of its most acclaimed authors, such as Isaac Asimov, Harry Harrison, and Robert She...

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Robert Bloch

Robert Bloch's classic first novel, the precursor to Psycho***, a chilling look into the mind of a serial killer***Dan Morley is an aspiring novelist who is well liked by everybody, but most of all by women. But nobody knows that he struggles with a dark and forbidden urge, an irresistible impulse to kill. And when the lust for murder comes over him and he twists his scarf around his victim's neck, there is no escape ...Robert Bloc...

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Robert Bloch

Fourteen classic tales of terror by the author of PsychoMidnight Dreams (1987) collects some of Robert Bloch's best tales from later in his career, featuring his trademark blend of spine-chilling terror and gallows humor and an eclectic mix that includes three Halloween-themed stories, a Christmas horror story, and a previously uncollected tale first published in Weird Tales in 1939.In "Pumpkin," a boy wanting to carve a H...

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Robert Bloch, Joe R. Lansdale

Pleasant Dreams (1960), published just a year after his more famous Psycho, finds Robert Bloch leaving behind his earlier Lovecraftian influences to find his own style and voice in this collection of masterful tales, in which the horror is often laced with an undercurrent of pitch-black humor.In "Catnip," a young bully burns down the neighborhood witch's house and faces a grim reckoning with her black cat. "The Light-House" is a unique collaboration, in which Bloch completes a rare...

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Robert Bloch

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...

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Robert Bloch

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).

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Robert Bloch, Guy de Maupassant, Malcolm Ferguson, Ian Gordon, H. P. Lovecraft, P. F. Stern, Everil Worrell

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Ian Gordon, Jennifer Gordon

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Diary Horror

Fifteen stories told through the recovered pages of diaries/journals.Contents:What Killed Granded? by Ian Gordon (HorrorBabble, 2020)An investigation told through a series of audio logs.The Diary of Alonzo Typer by H. P. Lovecraft (Weird Tales, 1938)An occult researcher disappears without a trace.The Horror in the Lighthouse by E. A. Poe and R. Bloch (Fantastic, 1953)Bloch co...

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Robert Bloch, Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Stanley Ellin, Robert L. Fish, Joe Gores, Allan Kim Lang, Patricia McGerr, Ross Macdonald, William P. McGivern, William F. Nolan, Charles Norman, Ellery Queen, Lawrence Treat, Hillary Waugh, Donald A. Wollheim

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A Mystery Writers of America Classic Anthology

FIFTEEN STORIES ABOUT THE MOST HEINOUS CRIME OF ALL…Of all the crimes humankind can commit, the act of murder—of cold-bloodedly taking another human life—is often the most shocking, and can tear couples, families, and even entire towns apart.Mystery Writers of America is proud to present this volume in the Classics series, featuring fourteen stories by acclaimed writers, all exploring the terrible crime of murder. From chill-master Robert Bloch comes a stor...

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Robert Bloch

This Robert Bloch classic tells the story of an overpopulated Earth and its perilous problem of diminished resources. However, the government has a plan. Is it for good or evil? Will it work?

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Robert Bloch

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 ...

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Robert Bloch

For two tiny bewildered people it was a struggle for survival in a world of toys

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Robert Bloch

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 ...