Robert Bloch



Robert Bloch

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born April 05, 1917
died September 23, 1994
gender male
place of birth Chicago, Illinois, United States
genre Horror, Mystery & Thrillers, Science Fiction & Fantasy
influences Howard Phillips Lovecraft

about this author

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 (fo...more

books by Robert Bloch

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avg rating: 3.75 | 323 ratings | 106 distinct works
The Best of H. P. Lovecraft: B... The Best of H. P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre (Paperback)
by Howard Phillips Lovecraft, August Derleth (editor)
avg rating 4.21 — 1011 ratings — published 1945
13 editions
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Psycho II Psycho II (Paperback)
by Robert Bloch
avg rating 3.14 — 21 ratings — published 2003
9 editions
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Complete Stories of Robert Blo... Complete Stories of Robert Bloch: Final Reckonings (Complete Stories of Robert Bloch)
by Robert Bloch
avg rating 4.57 — 14 ratings — published 1990
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Psycho Psycho (Hardcover)
by Robert Bloch
avg rating 3.75 — 16 ratings — published 2003
27 editions
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Shooting Star/Spiderweb Shooting Star/Spiderweb (Hard Case Crime #42)
by Robert Bloch
avg rating 3.69 — 16 ratings — published 1958
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Robert Bloch's Psychos Robert Bloch's Psychos (Mass Market Paperback)
by Robert Bloch
avg rating 3.43 — 14 ratings — published 1998
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The Night of the Ripper The Night of the Ripper (Paperback)
by Robert Bloch
avg rating 3.91 — 11 ratings — published 1986
4 editions
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Shudder Again Shudder Again (Paperback)
by Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, Ramsey Campbell
avg rating 3.64 — 11 ratings — published 1995
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The Early Fears The Early Fears (Hardcover)
by Robert Bloch
avg rating 4.57 — 7 ratings — published 1994
2 editions
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Mysteries of the Worm: 20 Earl... Mysteries of the Worm: 20 Early Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos by Robert Bloch (Call of Cthulhu Fiction)
by Robert Bloch
avg rating 3.88 — 8 ratings — published 2007
2 editions
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quotes by 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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"So I had this problem -- work or starve. So I thought I'd combine the two and decided to become a writer."
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"I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf."
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