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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

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...

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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 et al.

In "Amazing Tales Volume 205" by Robert Bloch et al., explore a captivating collection of science fiction short stories that challenge the boundaries of imagination and human understanding. "Cosmic Striptease" by E. K. Jarvis presents a humorous yet profound narrative where Martians communicate with Earth, transforming the sky into a cosmic broadcast revealing their advanced civilization and challenging Earth's values. Ray Cummings' "He Who Served" delves into robotics and human emotions, ...

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Robert Bloch

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...

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Robert Bloch, Ramsey Campbellt

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...

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Robert Bloch

Seasoned interplanetary guide Mike Mallison expects a routine charter, not a mystery wrapped in secrecy, danger, and an alluring young woman. When Professor Arnold Brandon and his daughter Doree hire the Space Queen for a private voyage to an unknown planet in the Orion sector, Brandon insists he has translated an ancient papyrus proving the world exists—but he refuses to reveal its location until after launch. Mike's skepticism begins to crack as he tours Outer Port's gritty, twilight wor...

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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 ...