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Bitter Ends (The Selected Stories of Robert Bloch)
by
Robert Bloch
Contents:
Water's Edge
The Real Bad Friend
Man With a Hobby
Welcome, Stranger
Terror Over Hollywood
Luck Is No Lady
Crime in Rhyme
The Cure
Sock Finish
Broomstick Ride
Daybroke
Betsy Blake Will Live Forever
Terror in Cut-Throat Cove
Word of Honor
That Old Black Magic
The Deadliest Art
The Screaming People
The Hungry Eye
Show Biz
The Gloating Place
The Man Who Knew Women
The Big Kick
Night School...more
Water's Edge
The Real Bad Friend
Man With a Hobby
Welcome, Stranger
Terror Over Hollywood
Luck Is No Lady
Crime in Rhyme
The Cure
Sock Finish
Broomstick Ride
Daybroke
Betsy Blake Will Live Forever
Terror in Cut-Throat Cove
Word of Honor
That Old Black Magic
The Deadliest Art
The Screaming People
The Hungry Eye
Show Biz
The Gloating Place
The Man Who Knew Women
The Big Kick
Night School...more
Hardcover, 368 pages
Published
March 1st 1987
by Underwood-Miller
(first published 1987)
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As always, Bloch is a skilled writer. However, too many stories in this anthology hit too similar a note... setup and then a twist! Haha! The technique gets old by the end of the book, and thus this collection is best read one story at a time, over time, as opposed to all in one sitting. Doled out in smaller portions, like vitamins, the stories are a lot more enjoyable.
A lot of the plots will seem a little too "familiar" and predictable to horror fans, but to give Bloch credit where it's due, th...more
A lot of the plots will seem a little too "familiar" and predictable to horror fans, but to give Bloch credit where it's due, th...more
Lots of stuff about Hollywood. And agents and things...and didn't I recognize about a half-dozen plots for Alfred Hitchcock, Outer Limits, etc? A tendency toward annoying cant about the deficiencies of the Modern Age; and not a lot of real nice guys in his brood. Still, how can you dislike a guy with a story called "Terror At Cut-Throat Cove"?
Again, hardly "complete" as the title misleads. A complete collection of Bloch's stories would be way more than 3 volumes. Anyway, most of these cuts are from the late 1950's, magazines like Ellery Queen, Alfred Hitchcock and Fantastic. All of them entertain, and are good examples of the art of the short story.
Enjoyed these flavors more than vol. 1; absolutely incredible.
Again, quite good genre fiction.
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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 fict...more
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Bloch wrote hundreds of short stories and over twenty novels, usually crime fiction, science fiction, and, perhaps most influentially, horror fict...more
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