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The Suicide In The Study
First published in Weird Tales, June 1935
Unknown Binding
First published June 1, 1935
About the author
Robert Bloch
1,108 books1,326 followersRobert 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 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 1960's, he wrote 3 stories for Star Trek.
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 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 1960's, he wrote 3 stories for Star Trek.
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November 30, 2020
"Asunto fascinante. Identidad dual ¡El sueño de los hombres desde el principio de los tiempos! Dos almas en un cuerpo... toda la filosofía se basa en la lógica comparativa; el bien y el mal. ¿El alma humana? Stevenson sólo tenía razón en parte cuando escribió Dr. Jekyll y Mr. Hyde. Imaginó una metamorfosis que variaba de un extremo al otro. Creo que ambas identidades coexisten; que, una vez separadas por el pensamiento autohipnótico , un hombre puede disfrutar de dos existencias simultáneamente: su yo bueno y su yo malo"
"Un vistazo a mi laboratorio sacudiría su alma presumida hasta la locura. . ¿Qué podrían entender? Temblarían ante el Necronomicón; lo quemarían, si pudieran, como lo hicieron sus piadosos antepasados hace trescientos años. ¡Cazadores de brujas, escépticos, materialistas todos ellos! Estoy harto de esta estúpida manada. El destino del genio es vivir solo. Muy bien, entonces. Viviré solo, ¡pero pronto vendrán encogidos de miedo a mi puerta y suplicarán misericordia!"
3.5*
James Allington Tiene tiene identidad dual. Debido a ciertos conocimientos que posee decide experimentar y someterse a una auto-hipnosis para desdoblar estar personalidades... si da resultado podrá separar ambas personalidades de forma psíquica y también física.
"¡Si mi trabajo de esta noche tiene éxito, si puedo hipnotizarme a mí mismo y desdoblar mi personalidad, manifestarlas físicamente… Incluso la psicología moderna afirma que se puede hacer. El espiritismo acredita sus posibilidades. Los antiguos me han proporcionado la clave del problema, como lo han hecho antes. Alhazred sabía muchas cosas, era solo el peso del conocimiento lo que lo volvía loco"
" Se había dormido con la firme determinación de cortar su alma, dividir su personalidad, separar su ego. ¿Quién sabe? El hipnotismo hace muchas cosas extrañas"
Una historia sin rodeos de uno de los grandes maestros del relato y que Refleja su visión de la naturaleza humana(al margen de los acontecimientos"atípicos")
"Un vistazo a mi laboratorio sacudiría su alma presumida hasta la locura. . ¿Qué podrían entender? Temblarían ante el Necronomicón; lo quemarían, si pudieran, como lo hicieron sus piadosos antepasados hace trescientos años. ¡Cazadores de brujas, escépticos, materialistas todos ellos! Estoy harto de esta estúpida manada. El destino del genio es vivir solo. Muy bien, entonces. Viviré solo, ¡pero pronto vendrán encogidos de miedo a mi puerta y suplicarán misericordia!"
3.5*
James Allington Tiene tiene identidad dual. Debido a ciertos conocimientos que posee decide experimentar y someterse a una auto-hipnosis para desdoblar estar personalidades... si da resultado podrá separar ambas personalidades de forma psíquica y también física.
"¡Si mi trabajo de esta noche tiene éxito, si puedo hipnotizarme a mí mismo y desdoblar mi personalidad, manifestarlas físicamente… Incluso la psicología moderna afirma que se puede hacer. El espiritismo acredita sus posibilidades. Los antiguos me han proporcionado la clave del problema, como lo han hecho antes. Alhazred sabía muchas cosas, era solo el peso del conocimiento lo que lo volvía loco"
" Se había dormido con la firme determinación de cortar su alma, dividir su personalidad, separar su ego. ¿Quién sabe? El hipnotismo hace muchas cosas extrañas"
Una historia sin rodeos de uno de los grandes maestros del relato y que Refleja su visión de la naturaleza humana(al margen de los acontecimientos"atípicos")
October 8, 2020
Thank you HorrorBabble for doing a Gothtober series of Robert Bloch stories as they are ridiculously hard to come by.
And gaga knows why this is, as they are good, good, cosmic eldritch horror stories about lurking fear and people going mad. All the things that make up the kind of stories you should be reading. Yes you.
This was a perfectly formed little story, we get the creepy build up of a dabbler in the dark arts, we get the monster and the terror and the blind panic, and we get what always happens when you mess with shit humans should leave alone.
We get death.
Clever ending and a creepy little tale. Great Mythos fun!!!!
And gaga knows why this is, as they are good, good, cosmic eldritch horror stories about lurking fear and people going mad. All the things that make up the kind of stories you should be reading. Yes you.
This was a perfectly formed little story, we get the creepy build up of a dabbler in the dark arts, we get the monster and the terror and the blind panic, and we get what always happens when you mess with shit humans should leave alone.
We get death.
Clever ending and a creepy little tale. Great Mythos fun!!!!
June 7, 2021
A pretty pedestrian early Bloch in the Lovecraft vein. Serviceable, but nothing to write home about.
June 10, 2021
Another fun, early piece from young high school graduate Robert Bloch, writing short stories for Weird Tales with the encouragement of his idol, H.P. Lovecraft. The story focuses on a young wizard who plans to hypnotize himself into two personalities, the good and the evil, with disastrous consequences for the wizard, of course. The notable element of the story is its introduction of a couple of fictitious authors and their equally fictitious works, into the Mythos lore, including Ludvig Prinn and his Mysteries of the Worm, and Comte d'Erlette, author of the Cultes des Goules.
September 12, 2025
weird short story set like a murder mystery. Loved it!!
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