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Robert Bloch

Robert Albert Bloch was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of German-Jewish Americans. During the 1930s, he was an avid reader of Weird Tales magazine and H. P. Lovecraft in particular. He wrote to Lovecraft, who responded with advice on writing, and Bloch sold his first published short story, "The Feast in the Abbey" to Weird Tales when he was just seventeen. He continued to write for Weird Tales and went on to become one of its most popular authors, while also contributing to other magazines. In 1946, his first published novel, The Scarf, was released. He received the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1959 for “That Hell-Bound Train” (1958). Also in 1959, he published one of his best-known novels, Psycho, which was adapted for the screen in 1960 by Joseph Stefano, directed by Alfred Hitchcock. He wrote the screenplay for the movie The Night Walker (1964), and he also wrote three scripts for the television show Star Trek. Over the course of his career, he wrote hundreds of short stories and over twenty novels, mostly in the crime fiction, science fiction and, horror fiction genres.

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American fiction writer

Born 5 April 1917
Died 23 September 1994

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  • Cover of: VAMPIRES AT MIDNIGHT: Seventeen Brilliant and Chilling Tales of the Ghastly Bloodsucking Undead

    First published in 1970 1 edition
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  • Cover of: HORROR HUNTERS: Thing on the Roof; Gateway of the Monster; Ancient Sorceries; Unnamable; Mr. Ames' Devil; In the X-Ray One Foot and the Grave; I Kiss Your Shadow

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  • Cover of: ALONE BY NIGHT: Sweets to the Sweet; The Strange Children; The Likeness of Julie; It Will Come to You; A Gnome There Was; Nightmare at Twenty Thousand Feet; In the Midst of Death; Gabriel-Ernest; Baynter's Imp; Enoch; For the Blood is the Life

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  • Cover of: Tales in a jugular vein

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American fiction writer

Born 5 April 1917
Died 23 September 1994
Subjects
American Horror tales, Fiction, Horror tales, American Science fiction, Science fiction, Fiction, horror, Horror tales, American, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Children's fiction, English Horror tales, Fiction, science fiction, general, short stories, Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, general, Short stories, American Detective and mystery stories, American Fantasy fiction, Fiction, short stories (single author), Horror stories, English Short stories, Horror, Science fiction, American, short story, Fantasy fiction, Horror fiction
Places
London, Paris, Baker Street, Jefferson, Maine, Mississippi, New England, Yoknapatawpha County, Alabama, Australia, Ballarat, Boscombe Pool, Boscombe Valley, Bridgton, Carcosa, England) Whitechapel (London, Gennesault, Hartford, Hatherley Farm, Herefordshire, India, Italy, Jamaica, John F. Kennedy International Airport, Massachusetts
People
John H. Watson, Sherlock Holmes, H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937), Robert Bloch (1917-), Archie, Berenice, C. Auguste Dupin, Colonel Sartoris, Duncan Ross, Egaeus, Emily Grierson, Homer Barron, Jabez Wilson, Jack the Ripper, John Clay, Minister D—, Mr. Grierson, Mr. Merryweather, Police Inspector Jones, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, Tobe, Vincent Spaulding, Aggie Bibber, Alan Turman, Alice Turner
Time
20th century, 1890, Antebellum era, 1600s, 1861-65, 1950's, 19th century, Sci-Fi, carnival, futurist, futuristic

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  • Robert Bloch
  • Tarleton Fiske, Will Folke, Nathan Hindin, E.K. Jarvis, Wilson Kane, Jim Kjelgaard, Sherry Malone, John Sheldon, Collier Young

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September 30, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot add ISNI
March 31, 2017 Edited by MARC Bot add VIAF and wikidata ID
June 13, 2016 Edited by Hemanth Kumar Edited without comment.
November 26, 2013 Edited by Sarah Breau Added middle name to bio, removed alternate names
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import