The Essential Robert Bloch Quotes

“Behold the Great God Pan! Yes, and behold the Serpent, the Tempter, the Fallen Angel! Behold Satan, Lucifer, Beelzebub, Azriel, Asmodeus, Sammael, Zamiel, Prince of Darkness and Father of Lies! Gaze on the Black Goat of the Sabbath, gaze on fabled Ahriman, on Set, Typhon, Malik Tawis, Abaddon, Yama, Primal Nodens, the archetype of evil, known to all men by all names!”
― Robert Bloch, The Essential Robert Bloch

“Maybe his thinking had been affected by the attitude of the age, in which a man tended to be less and less identified as an individual and more and more regarded based on the symbolic status of the car he drove. When a stranger rode down the street, one seldom thought of him as a person; one’s only immediate reaction was, “There goes a Ford — there goes a Pontiac — there goes one of those big goddam Imperials.” And men bragged about their cars instead of their characters.”
― Robert Bloch, The Essential Robert Bloch

“It's a death sentence,” Nicko said. “She's accusing us of everything but stopping up the royal sink.”
― Robert Bloch, The Essential Robert Bloch

“The Black Kiss (with Henry Kuttner) Weird Tales, June 1937 1. The Thing in the Waters Graham Dean nervously crushed out his cigarette and met Doctor Hedwig’s puzzled eyes. “I've never been troubled like this before,” he said. “These dreams are so oddly persistent. They’re not the usual haphazard nightmares.”
― Robert Bloch, The Essential Robert Bloch

“Just because it’s printed somewhere, that’s no reason you have to believe it any more than if you saw it.” Harry blinked. “I never thought of that angle before.”
― Robert Bloch, The Essential Robert Bloch