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Robert Albert Bloch ( / blɒk /; April 5, 1917 – September 23, 1994) was an American fiction writer, primarily of crime, psychological horror and fantasy, much of which has been dramatized for radio, cinema and television. He also wrote a relatively small amount of science fiction. His writing career lasted 60 years, including more than 30 ...
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The official, authorized website of Robert Bloch, author of Psycho, upon which Alfred Hitchcock based his classic film. This site provides a comprehensive bibliography of late author's works.
Sep 23, 1994 · Robert Bloch. Robert Albert Bloch was a prolific American writer. He was the son of Raphael "Ray" Bloch (1884, Chicago-1952, Chicago), a bank cashier, and his wife Stella Loeb (1880, Attica, Indiana-1944, Milwaukee, WI), a social worker, both of German-Jewish descent. Bloch wrote hundreds of short stories and over twenty novels, usually crime ...
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Welcome! This website, authorized by the Bloch Estate, provides insight into the breadth of Robert Bloch’s versatility as a writer—at home in the worlds of fantasy and horror, but equally adept at writing thrillers, science fiction, detective/crime, and humor. The author of over 25 novels and hundreds of short stories has cemented Bloch’s ...
- Psycho (Psycho, #1) Robert Bloch.
- Psycho II (Psycho, #2) Robert Bloch.
- Mysteries of the Worm Robert Bloch, Steven Gilberts (Illustrator), Robert Price (Editor)
- Psycho House (Psycho, #3) Robert Bloch.
Psycho. (novel) Psycho is a 1959 novel by American writer Robert Bloch. The novel tells the story of Norman Bates, a caretaker at an isolated motel who struggles under his domineering mother and becomes embroiled in a series of murders. The novel is considered Bloch's most enduring work and one of the most influential horror novels of the 20th ...
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In American Gothic (1974), he fictionalized the horrors of real-life serial killer H. H. Holmes, who brutally murdered a number of people during the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. Lastly, Bloch ended his long association with Jack the Ripper in 1984 with The Night of the Ripper. An acclaimed entry in the Ripper canon, the book is notable for ...
