Robert Bloch
Robert Albert Bloch 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 years in television and film. He began his professional writing career immediately after graduation from high school, aged 17. He is best known as the writer of the novel Psycho (1959), the basis for the 1960 film Psycho directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Bloch wrote hundreds of short stories and over 30 novels. He was a protégé of H. P. Lovecraft, who was the first to seriously encourage his talent. However, while he started emulating Lovecraft and his brand of cosmic horror, he later specialized in crime and horror stories, often emphasizing psychological aspects of the characters within.
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🎬 Movies
Psycho
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1998
Psycho IV: The Beginning
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1990
Psycho III
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1986
Psycho II
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1983
The Mannikin
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1977
Asylum
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1972
The House That Dripped Blood
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1971
Torture Garden
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1967
The Deadly Bees
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1966
El Muñeco
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1966
The Skull
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1965
The Night Walker
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1964
Strait-Jacket
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1964
Psycho
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1960
📖 Books
Zombies! Zombies! Zombies!
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2011
The Vampire Archives
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2009
My Favorite Horror Story
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2000
Die schönsten Fantasygeschichten
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2000
The 50 Greatest Mysteries of All Time
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1998
Murder for Halloween
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1994
Three Complete Novels
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1993
Three Complete Novels
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1993
The best horror stories
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1990
The Dark Descent
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1987
Psycho
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1985
Twilight Zone, The Movie
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1983
![The Fantasy Hall of Fame [22 stories]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/9273477-M.jpg)
The Fantasy Hall of Fame [22 stories]
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1983
Great Short Tales of Mystery and Terror
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1982
The Arbor House Treasury of Horror and the Supernatural
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1981
Isaac Asimov presents the great science fiction stories -- Volume 1, 1939
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1979
The Hounds of Hell
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1974
The witchcraft reader
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1969
The Seventh Galaxy Reader
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1964
![The Hugo Winners [volume I]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/14314020-M.jpg)
The Hugo Winners [volume I]
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1962
The Hugo Winners, Volumes one and two
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1962
Psycho
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1959