The Complete Stories of Robert Bloch by Robert Bloch

The Complete Stories of Robert Bloch by Robert Bloch

Best known as the author of Psycho, Robert Bloch is world-renowned for his stories of horror, mystery, fantasy, and science fiction. Many of the 25 stories in this first volume of The Complete Stories of Robert Bloch have been unavailable for decades. The stories are in his classic style of gripping suspense, science fiction and fantasy.

As Bloch writes, These stories in this collection have a common theme; they deal with monsters. Some of the monsters are human, some are not-- but all of them embody, in one way or another, the fears common to us in our dreams. We call these monsters by many names-- ghosts, vampires, extraterrestrials, changelings. But we recognize them for what they are; manifestations of the secret dreads and desires which lurk beneath the surface of consciousness.

Bloch has become a virtual fixture on the popular culture landscape. --Publishers Weekly

If you're not familiar with Bloch's short fiction, find someone to borrow this from; if you already are familiar, you know that you want to own these volumes. --Locus

Robert Bloch is the author of the classic horror novel, Psycho, which served as the basis for Alfred Hitchcock's thrilling film of the same name. At the urging of H. P. Lovecraft, Bloch began writing short fiction in the 1930s; his first short novel, The Scarf, was published in 1947. In 1959, the year Psycho was published, Bloch won the Hugo Award for a short story and began to write for television and film, starting with Alfred Hitchcock Presents-a job he earned before the film version of Psycho had completed shooting!
Bloch also worked on Thriller, a TV series hosted by Boris Karloff, twice collaborated with famed filmmaker William Castle, and wrote three episodes of the original Star Trek television series. In addition to this work, Bloch continued to write chilling and perceptive short stories and novels, including Firebug, American Gothic, Psycho II, and The Night of the Ripper.
Bloch's unauthorized autobiography, Once Around the Bloch, was his last major work. Robert Bloch died in 1994 after a long bout with cancer.

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ISBN 13	9780806511443
ISBN 10	0806511443
Title	The Complete Stories of Robert Bloch
Author	Robert Bloch
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Kensington Publishing
Year published	1990-03-19
Number of pages	384
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