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Robert Bloch


Born
in Chicago, Illinois, The United States
April 05, 1917

Died
September 23, 1994

Genre
Horror, Mystery & Thrillers, Science Fiction & Fantasy

Influences
H.P. Lovecraft ...more


Robert Albert Bloch was a prolific American writer. He was the son of Raphael "Ray" Bloch (1884, Chicago-1952, Chicago), a bank cashier, and his wife Stella Loeb (1880, Attica, Indiana-1944, Milwaukee, WI), 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; 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 Tra ...more

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Average rating: 4.06 · 189,850 ratings · 12,563 reviews · 1,109 distinct works • Similar authors
Psycho (Psycho, #1)
4.13 avg rating — 80,321 ratings — published 1959
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Psycho II (Psycho, #2)
3.18 avg rating — 3,010 ratings — published 1982 — 59 editions
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Psycho House (Psycho, #3)
2.78 avg rating — 1,322 ratings — published 1990 — 33 editions
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Mysteries of the Worm
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3.96 avg rating — 852 ratings — published 1981 — 14 editions
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The Night of the Ripper
3.61 avg rating — 651 ratings — published 1984 — 20 editions
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This Crowded Earth
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3.57 avg rating — 646 ratings — published 1958 — 81 editions
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American Gothic
3.40 avg rating — 677 ratings — published 1974 — 21 editions
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The Shambler from the Stars
3.66 avg rating — 423 ratings — published 1935 — 5 editions
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Robert Bloch's Psychos
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Yours Truly, Jack the Rippe...
3.64 avg rating — 412 ratings — published 1943 — 16 editions
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“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
― Robert Bloch
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“The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.”
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“I think perhaps all of us go a little crazy at times.”
― Robert Bloch, Psycho
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