Robert Bloch

...Parade magazine (No. 39, August 1994) contains two articles by Larson on collecting Bloch - "Paperblochs: Robert Bloch in Paperback" and "Robert Bloch in Paperback". An earlier reference work by Australia's Graeme Flanagan, Robert Bloch: A...

In this article: Robert Albert Bloch, H. P. Lovecraft, Weird Tales, Carl Zeidler, Psycho, Harlan Ellison, The Haunter of the Dark, Jack the Ripper, and S. T. Joshi

...University, and the apocryphal tome of hidden truths called the Necronomicon. Topping the book off is an introduction by Psycho author Robert Bloch, a teenage protege of Lovecraft, which puts his mentor's nightmarish work into biographical...

In this article: H. P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu, Stephen King, Necronomicon, Neil Gaiman, Yuggoth, Miskatonic University, and Arkham

...seats were outfitted with small vibrating buzzers), "13 Frightened Girls," "Strait-Jacket" (written by "Psycho's" Robert Bloch and starring Joan Crawford as an ax murderer), "The Old Dark House," "Mr. Sardonicus" (about a loathsome baron...

In this article: William Castle, The Tingler, Psycho's Robert Bloch, Vincent Price, DVD, Mr. Sardonicus, San Francisco Chronicle, Strait-Jacket, The Old Dark House, and Homicidal

...films to get you started. This is the most famous and celebrated Hitchcock film. Based on a novel, also entitled Psycho, by Robert Bloch, this story was inspired by the repulsive life of a real-life serial killer, Ed Gein of...

In this article: Alfred Hitchcock, The Birds, Jimmy Stewart, Norman Bates, Ed Gein, Psycho, North by Northwest, Rear Window, Strangers on a Train, and Psycho

De Vermis Mysteriis, or Mysteries of the Worm, is a fictional grimoire created by Robert Bloch and incorporated by H. P. Lovecraft into the lore of the Cthulhu Mythos. The tome first appears in Bloch's short story "The Shambler from the...

In this article: H. P. Lovecraft, Henry Kuttner, Miskatonic University, and Stephen King

...happen to you as well-the Psycho audience knew full-well about Ed Gein-has been in play at least since William Castle and Robert Bloch's 1964 Strait Jacket, and "it's only a movie, it's only a movie" was supposed to be the ward that...

In this article: Stephen Graham Jones, The Blair Witch Project, Pinocchio, The Exorcist, Last House on the Left, This Is Spinal Tap, The Ring, and Dictum

...the filming of Psycho, a film he felt might just revive his fortunes after the box office failure of Vertigo. In adapting Robert Bloch's novel based on the crimes of serial killer Ed Gein, he pushed the prevailing boundaries of taste and...

In this article: Shelley Duvall, Jack Nicholson, Anthony Hopkins, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Ben-Hur, Steven Spielberg, Janet Leigh, Julia Roberts, and Dustin Hoffman

...Edith Wharton, Ambrose Bierce and Charlotte Perkins Gilman. And then, with the pulps, come H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Robert Bloch, Stephen Crane, Willa Cather and others. </p><p>Straub, the author of 14 novels and the winner of...

In this article: Peter Straub, Library of America, Joyce Carol Oates, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Henry James, and Nathaniel Hawthorne

...Edith Wharton, Ambrose Bierce and Charlotte Perkins Gilman. And then, with the pulps, come H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Robert Bloch, Stephen Crane, Willa Cather and others. "Let us at least take note that loss, grief, and terror echo...

In this article: Peter Straub, Edgar Allan Poe, Human beings, Joyce Carol Oates, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman

...investigation of this cult inevitably leads to his death. Lovecraft based Robert Blake on one of his correspondents, the teenage Robert Bloch who had just begun his career as a writer of horror and science fiction. In the story, Lovecraft...

In this article: Robert Harrison Blake, H. P. Lovecraft, The Haunter of the Dark, Robert M. Price, Clark Ashton Smith, Randolph Carter, Milwaukee, and Yuggoth