Robert Bloch

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  • Bibliography:
    63 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1947
  • Latest Book:
    January 2025
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Psycho

1 - Psycho (1959)
2 - Psycho II (Jun-1989)
3 - Psycho House (Jan-1990)

Book List in Order: 63 titles

  • The Scarf

  • Lucy Comes to Stay

    REELING FROM THE REELS What was the original inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock's PSYCHO? Where did David Cronenberg get the idea for THE FLY? Who dreamed up the character that Arnold Schwarzeneggar played in TOTAL RECALL? If you have ever wondered...

  • The Kidnapper

    Criminally insane Steve Collins kidnaps the four-year-old daughter of a wealthy industrialist and even after his quick temper causes the child's death, he continues the charade in hopes of still collecting the ransom...

  • Spiderweb

    Hard Case Crime - 42

    Contains two complete novels in one gripping volume that finds a one-eyed detective and a blackmailer trapped in a web of murder and deception when they enter the dark underbelly of Hollywood. Original....

  • The Will to Kill

  • Shooting Star

    Hard Case Crime - 42

    Contains two complete novels in one gripping volume that finds a one-eyed detective and a blackmailer trapped in a web of murder and deception when they enter the dark underbelly of Hollywood. Original....

  • Psycho

    Psycho - 1

    “The basis for one of the most iconic horror films of the 1960s . . . [Bloch’s] unique true-crime slant to storytelling set the tone.” -- Sublime HorrorThe story was all too real -- indeed this classic was inspired by the real-l...

  • The Dead Beat

  • Firebug

    His name is Philip Dempster. Where he goes, fire follows. Investigating a number of phoney “churches,” Dempster becomes caught up in a web of intrigue, arson, and murder. Shortly after he visits each tabernacle, the building does up in flam...



  • A Toy for juliette

    in Dangerous Visions #1

  • The Movie People

    in Silver Scream

    Welcome to the midnight matinee, the great cinematic festival of horror. From the broken down picture palaces to glorious neon drive-ins, from the has-been stars of yesterday to the ambitious, rapacious would-be stars of tomorrow, from the tinsel ...

  • Night World

  • American Gothic

    The Castle: it looms over the streets of modern Chicago. Its stone walls conceal a maze of secret passageways and hidden rooms, private laboratories and concealed trapdoors. The Castle is home to G. Gordon Gregg, physician-murderer. His victims are...

  • The Serpent Was Cunning

  • Such Stuff As Screams Are Made of

    Nightmares turned inside out. The tunnel of love - in the darkness of a romantic fun house, Marco had a rendezvous with a love who wanted more than kisses...The unspeakable betrothal - a lot of things can happen at night, especially in dreams. But wh...

  • Pleasant Dreams

  • There is a Serpent in Eden

  • Mysteries of the Worm

    As in a dream I swayed to the gilded coffin. I tore away the paneling and lifted the lid, and then I knew it was no dream, for dreams cannot approach the horror that was the creature lying within, with eyes like a midnight demon's and a face of loath...

  • The Cunning

    THE CHILLS That’s what they all felt that day. Warren Clark felt it as he watched his wife get ready to meet her lover. Joe Marks felt it as soon as Irene told him to expect company. Carrie Humphreys had the creeps so bad she kept looking over h...



  • Twilight Zone

    A bigoted man learns about intolerance by visiting the past, a gremlin terrifies an airplane passenger, a lonely boy controls the world, and a group of old people are given a chance to recapture their youth...

  • Night of the Ripper

  • Unholy Trinity

  • Fear and Trembling

    Contents: The Yougoslaves A Most Unusual Murder The Brood of Bubastis Groovyland The Chaney Legacy Floral Tribute Reaper The Shrink and the Mink [“The Shrink and the Nympho”] A Killing in the Market The New Season ETFF Freak Show Hor...

  • Lori

    A young woman is plunged into a nightmare of supernatural madness and violence as the birth mother Lori never knew reaches out from beyond the grave to claim her daughter's body as her own and to consign Lori's soul to eternal damnation...

  • Psycho II

    Psycho - 2

  • Psycho House

    Psycho - 3

    The new Bates Motel is a tourist attraction, a re-creation of the infamous murder site, and the developers are already counting their profits. But there's a new exhibit that nobody expected: the bloody corpse of a teenage girl crumpled in the fron...

  • Final Reckonings

    Best known as the author of "Psycho", Robert Bloch is world-renowned for his stories of horror, mystery, fantasy, and science fiction. Many of the 25 stories in this first volume of "The Complete Stories of Robert Bloch" have been unavailable for dec...

  • Best Horror Stories

  • Bitter Ends



  • The Jekyll Legacy

    In a sequel to the classic "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," Hester Jekyll, the doctor's niece and heir, is suspected of murdering the missing doctor and is stalked by the police and a mysterious, misshapen man who may be a resurrected Edward Hyde...

  • The Early Fears

    Robert Bloch (b. 1917) began his writing career as a teenager in 1935. While his early work was deeply influenced by the style and concepts of his mentor, H.P. Lovecraft, it did not take him very long to develop his own literary voice. Prolific and v...

  • Water's Edge

    in Modern Treasury of Great Detective and Murder Mysteries

    No hit-or-miss anthology, this first-rate collection of 25 contemporary mysteries offers a cross-section view of the American detective, suspense and mystery short-story worlds. Gorman, editor of Mystery Scene, gathers the works of such masters as To...

  • Robert Bloch's Psychos

    Twenty-two short horror tales collected by the Horror Writers Association include Stephen King's "Autopsy Room Four"; Richard Christian Matheson's "Please Help Me"; and Charles Grant's "Haunted." Original....

  • Flowers from the Moon

  • Flowers from the Moon : And Other Lunaciew

  • Monsters in Our Midst

    Nothing is more frightening than the unspeakable acts humans commit upon one another. Edited by Robert Bloch, the award-winning author of Psycho, this collection of works by such writers as Ray Bradbury, Ramsey Campbell, Jonathan Carroll, Charles Gra...

  • Lost Bloch Crimes

  • The Eighth Stage Of Fandom

    Assembled here are Robert Bloch's best essays from fan-produced magazines, including such classics as "The Seven Ages of Fan," "Through a Picture-Tube, Darkly," "The Demolished Fan," "Poe and Me," "In Memoriam: Weird Tales," and "The Incredible Head-...

  • Terror



  • The Star Stalker

  • Fear Planet

  • Kiss the Whip

    Four acclaimed purveyors of fantastic fiction collide in a pulp inferno of black magic, torture, and sexual depravity: Robert Bloch's The Skull of the Marquis de Sade, Jean-Paul Denard's Jacqueline, Daughter of the Marquis de Sade, Richard Matheso...

  • Skeleteon in the Closet

  • This Crowded Earth

    This Crowded Earth is a taut and compelling story about an all too possible future. Earth is overcrowded and its resources are being taxed to the limit. The government has a desperate plan, but will it work and at what price? By the author of Psycho ...

  • The Crowded Earth

                                                                                              THE WORLD GONE PSYCHO

    Harry Collins is an ad-executive in a fu...

  • Sneak Preview

    Graham is a discontented Talent in futuristic America. He questions the ideology of Planned Society and gets himself in trouble for it. However, he finds an ally in the persons of Doc and Clare, who are outwardly posing as representatives of the Psyc...

  • It's A Small World

    For two tiny, bewildered people, it was a struggle for survival in a world of toys  excerpt It was Christmas Eve. Family men in their cozy bungalows hummed cheerfully as they put the finishing touches on Christmas trees. Men of affairs slapped e...

  • Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper

    Robert Bloch's ground-breaking novel Psycho introduced the world (and renowned director Alfred Hitchcock) to Norman Bates, a killer who haunted a generation of readers hungry for psychological thrills. But Bates was not the only serial slayer to inha...

  • Before Egypt



  • The Big Binge & the Miracle of Ronald Weems

    A FICTION HOUSE REPRINT: A flying brassiere salesman, a pink elephant, a talking gorilla, vampires, and other strange characters are found in these two hilarious fantasy stories by the author of "Psycho."...

  • Murder Most Foul

    FIFTEEN STORIES ABOUT THE MOST HEINOUS CRIME OF ALL…

    Of all the crimes humankind can commit, the act of murder -- of cold-bloodedly taking another human life -- is often the most shocking, and can tear couples, families, and even entire to...

  • The opener of the way

    The landmark first collection by one of the masters of 20th-century American horror fiction, back in print at lastThough he published over 350 short stories and more than thirty novels, most of Robert Bloch's work has long been out of print, and many...

  • Atoms and Evil

    • / Horror
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  • The Best of Robert Bloch

    • / General Fiction
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  • Dragons and Nightmares

    • / General Fiction
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  • The king of terrors : tales of madness and death

    • / Horror
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  • Midnight Pleasures

    • / Horror
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  • Out of my head

    • / Horror
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    Out of My Head commemorates Robert Bloch’s appearance as Boskone XXIII Guest of Honor. It contains a wide selection of fact and fiction, all centered around science fiction and SF fandom. Among the things included are: “A Way of Life,” the s...

  • Out of the Mouths of Graves

    • / Horror
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  • Strange Eons

    • / Horror
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  • Mother of Serpents

    in The Evil People
    • / Horror
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  • The Living Dead

    in The Midnight People
    • / General Fiction
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  • The Feast in the Abbey

    in The Unspeakable People
    • / Horror
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Award-Winning Books by Robert Bloch

The Early Fears
1995 Bram Stoker Award -- Collection


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Robert Bloch has published 63 books.

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The first book by Robert Bloch, The Scarf, was published in January 1947.

Yes. Robert Bloch has 1 series.
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