Robert Bloch
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Book Review: The Vampire Archives: The Most Complete Volume of Vampire Tales Ever Published Edited by Otto Penzler...a young boy who is not what he appears. Other familiar names for genre fans are Charles Beaumont, Ambrose Bierce, Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, Tanith Lee, Richard Matheson, Anne Rice, and Roger Zelazny. This writer is a member of The Masked... In this article: Otto Penzler, The Vampyre, John Polidori, Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Kim Newman, The Hound, Popsy, Ligeia, and Hallucination |
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Wikipedia | October 12, 2009
The Year's Best Horror Stories
...Brian Lumley, David Drake, Eddy C. Bertin, Kit Reed, Lisa Tuttle, R. Chetwynd-Hayes, Ramsey Campbell, Richard Matheson, Robert Bloch, Stephen King, and Tanith Lee; as well as then-newcomers to the field such as Al Sarrantonio, Dennis...
In this article: Brian Lumley, Ramsey Campbell, Lisa Tuttle, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Jessica Amanda Salmonson, DAW Books, and Tanith Lee
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Netflix New Releases This Week | November 09, 2008
Night Gallery: Season 2
...Badham helms the story of a young psychic (Clint Howard), Zsa Zsa Gabor becomes trapped in an antique mirror, and Richard Matheson and Robert Bloch write chilling stories of vampires and black magic. Not rated. This movie has not been rated...
In this article: Arachnophobia, DVD, Richard Matheson, Rod Serling, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Clint Howard, John Astin, John Badham, and The Twilight Zone
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J. N. Williamson
...& Science Fiction (1987) which covered the themes of such writing and cited the writings of such writers as Robert Bloch, Lee Prosser, Richard Matheson, Ray Bradbury, H. P. Lovecraft, August Derleth, William F. Nolan, and Stephen King. Many...
In this article: J. N. Williamson, Shortridge High School, Butler University, Fantasy & Science Fiction, William F. Nolan, Richard Matheson, Stephen King, H. P. Lovecraft, August Derleth, and Ray Bradbury
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Faces of Fear (interview book)
...British and American horror writers about their life and art. The writers are V. C. Andrews, Clive Barker, William Peter Blatty, Robert Bloch, Ramsey Campbell, John Coyne , Dennis Etchison, Charles L. Grant, James Herbert, T. E. D. Klein,...
In this article: James Herbert, Alan Ryan, John Coyne, Whitley Strieber, Richard Matheson, Stephen King, Peter Straub, Dennis Etchison, V. C. Andrews, and Michael McDowell
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Charles Beaumont
...after all. Beaumont was much admired by the well-known colleagues who outlived him (Ray Bradbury, Harlan Ellison, Richard Matheson, Robert Bloch, Roger Corman), and his work is currently in the process of being rediscovered. Many of his...
In this article: Charles Beaumont, William F. Nolan, Playboy, Twilight Zone, California, Dog, and Bromo
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Supernatural Addiction
...Edgar Allan Poe) Famous Ghost Stories, segment "The Hitchhiker" (written by Oscar Brand) Asylum, segment "Frozen Fear" (written by Robert Bloch) Trilogy of Terror, segment "Amelia" (written by Richard Matheson) An Occurrence at Owl...
In this article: Supernatural Addiction, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Eduardo Sanchez, The Tell-Tale Heart, William Gaines, Richard Matheson, Rod Serling, Edgar Allan Poe, and Oscar Brand
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Robert Albert Bloch (April 5, 1917, Chicago – September 23, 1994, Los Angeles) was a prolific American writer, primarily of crime, horror and science fiction. He was the son of Raphael "Ray" Bloch (born 1884, Chicago - died 1952, Chicago), a bank cashier, and his wife Stella Loeb (born 1880, Attica, Indiana - died 1944, Milwaukee, Wisconsin), a social worker, both of German-Jewish descent.
Bloch wrote hundreds of short stories and over twenty novels, usually crime fiction, science fiction and, perhaps most influentially, horror fiction (Psycho). He was one of the youngest members of the Lovecraft Circle. H. P. Lovecraft was Bloch's mentor and one of the first to seriously encourage his talent.
He was a contributor to pulp magazines such as Weird Tales in his early career, and was also a prolific screenwriter. He was the recipient of the Hugo Award (for his story "That Hell-Bound Train"), the Bram Stoker Award, and the World Fantasy Award. He served a term as president of the Mystery Writers of America.
Robert Bloch was also a major contributor to science fiction fanzines and fandom in general. In the 1940s, he created the humorous character Lefty Feep in a story for Fantastic Adventures. He also worked for a time in local vaudeville and tried to break into writing for nationally-known performers. He was a good friend of the science fiction writer Stanley G. Weinbaum. In the 1960s, he wrote three scripts for Star Trek.
- Birth Date:
- April 05, 1917
- Birthplace:
- Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Death Date:
- September 23, 1994
- Place of Death:
- Los Angeles, California, United States
- Nationality:
- American
- Occupation:
- Novelist, Short story writer
- Period:
- 1934—1994
- Influenced:
- Stephen King
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