About Robert Bloch
Robert Bloch wrote a fan letter to H P Lovecraft at the age of 16. Lovecraft encouraged the young boy to begin writing fiction and to submit his stories to Weird Tales. Thus began a 60-year writing career that is one of the most distinguished in the horror and mystery field. Bloch is today most famous as the author of Psycho. He is also well-known for having said, "Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk."
Novels
The Scarf (1947)
Spiderweb (1954)
The Will to Kill (1954)
The Kidnapper (1954)
This Crowded Earth (1958)
The Shooting Star (1958)
The Dead Beat (1960)
Firebug (1961)
The Couch (1962)
The Star Stalker (1968)
The Todd Dossier (1969) (writing as Collier Young)
It's All in Your Mind (1971)
Night-World (1972)
American Gothic (1974)
The Cunning (1979)
aka There Is a Serpent in Eden
The Night of the Ripper (1984)
Lori (1989)
The Jekyll Legacy (1990) (with Andre Norton)
Spiderweb (1954)
The Will to Kill (1954)
The Kidnapper (1954)
This Crowded Earth (1958)
The Shooting Star (1958)
The Dead Beat (1960)
Firebug (1961)
The Couch (1962)
The Star Stalker (1968)
The Todd Dossier (1969) (writing as Collier Young)
It's All in Your Mind (1971)
Night-World (1972)
American Gothic (1974)
The Cunning (1979)
aka There Is a Serpent in Eden
The Night of the Ripper (1984)
Lori (1989)
The Jekyll Legacy (1990) (with Andre Norton)
Omnibus
Collections
The Opener of the Way (1945)
Sea-Kissed (1945)
Terror in the Night: And Other Stories (1958)
Pleasant Dreams / Nightmares (1959)
Pleasant Dreams (1960)
The House of the Hatchet (1960)
Blood Runs Cold (1961)
Nightmares (1961)
More Nightmares (1962)
Terror (1962)
Atoms and Evil (1962)
Bogey Men (1963)
Horror-7 (1963)
15 Grusel Stories (1964)
The Skull of the Marquis de Sade: And Other Stories (1965)
Tales in a Jugular Vein (1965)
Chamber of Horrors (1966)
The Living Demons (1967)
Dragons and Nightmares (1969)
Fear Today, Gone Tomorrow (1971)
The King of Terrors (1976)
The Best of Robert Bloch (1977)
Cold Chills (1977)
The Laughter of a Ghoul: What Every Ghoul Should Know (1977)
Out of the Mouths of Graves (1978)
Strange Eons (1978)
The Early Fears (1978)
Such Stuff as Screams Are Made of (1979)
Fear and Trembling (1979)
Out of My Head (1981)
Mysteries of the Worm (1981)
Lost in Time and Space with Lefty Feep (1987)
The Selected Stories of Robert Bloch (1987)
Final Reckonings: Complete Stories of Robert Bloch Volume 1 (1987)
Midnight Pleasures (1987)
Flowers from the Moon: And Other Lunacies (1998)
The Devil with You!: The Lost Bloch, Volume 1 (1999)
Crimes and Punishments: The Lost Bloch, Volume 3 (2000)
Hell On Earth: The Lost Bloch, Volume 2 (2000)
Fear Planet and Other Unusual Destinations: The Reader's Bloch, Volume One (2005)
Kiss the Whip (2005) (with Henry Clement, Jean-Paul Denard, Richard Matheson and Jeremy Reed)
Skeleton in the Closet: And Other Stories (2007)
Sea-Kissed (1945)
Terror in the Night: And Other Stories (1958)
Pleasant Dreams / Nightmares (1959)
Pleasant Dreams (1960)
The House of the Hatchet (1960)
Blood Runs Cold (1961)
Nightmares (1961)
More Nightmares (1962)
Terror (1962)
Atoms and Evil (1962)
Bogey Men (1963)
Horror-7 (1963)
15 Grusel Stories (1964)
The Skull of the Marquis de Sade: And Other Stories (1965)
Tales in a Jugular Vein (1965)
Chamber of Horrors (1966)
The Living Demons (1967)
Dragons and Nightmares (1969)
Fear Today, Gone Tomorrow (1971)
The King of Terrors (1976)
The Best of Robert Bloch (1977)
Cold Chills (1977)
The Laughter of a Ghoul: What Every Ghoul Should Know (1977)
Out of the Mouths of Graves (1978)
Strange Eons (1978)
The Early Fears (1978)
Such Stuff as Screams Are Made of (1979)
Fear and Trembling (1979)
Out of My Head (1981)
Mysteries of the Worm (1981)
Lost in Time and Space with Lefty Feep (1987)
The Selected Stories of Robert Bloch (1987)
Final Reckonings: Complete Stories of Robert Bloch Volume 1 (1987)
Midnight Pleasures (1987)
Flowers from the Moon: And Other Lunacies (1998)
The Devil with You!: The Lost Bloch, Volume 1 (1999)
Crimes and Punishments: The Lost Bloch, Volume 3 (2000)
Hell On Earth: The Lost Bloch, Volume 2 (2000)
Fear Planet and Other Unusual Destinations: The Reader's Bloch, Volume One (2005)
Kiss the Whip (2005) (with Henry Clement, Jean-Paul Denard, Richard Matheson and Jeremy Reed)
Skeleton in the Closet: And Other Stories (2007)
Graphic Novels
Anthologies edited
Twilight Zone the Movie (1983)
Psycho-paths (1991)
Monsters in Our Midst (1993)
Robert Bloch's Psychos (1997)
Psycho-paths (1991)
Monsters in Our Midst (1993)
Robert Bloch's Psychos (1997)
Non fiction
Anthologies containing stories by Robert Bloch
The Night Side (1947)
Far Boundaries (1951)
Fever Dream and Other Fantasies (1951)
Night's Yawning Peal (1952)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1957)
The Fantastic Universe Omnibus (1960)
Spine Chillers (1961)
Dark Mind Dark Heart (1962)
The Fiend in You (1962)
The 4th Pan Book of Horror Stories (1963)
The Vampire (1963)
When Evil Wakes (1963)
Kurt Singer's Ghost Omnibus (1964)
Sleep No More (1964)
The Boris Karloff Horror Anthology (1965)
Everyman's Book of Classic Horror Stories (1965)
Beyond the Curtain of Dark (1966)
I Can't Sleep at Night (1966)
The Playboy Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy (1966)
Terror! (1966)
Dangerous Visions 1 (1967)
New Worlds of Fantasy (1967)
aka Step Outside Your Mind
The Playboy Book of Horror and the Supernatural (1967)
Tales of Terror (1967)
Time Untamed (1967)
The Evil People (1968)
Hauntings: Tales of the Supernatural (1968)
Legends for the Dark (1968)
The Midnight People (1968)
A Man Called Poe (1969)
Other Worlds, Other Times (1969)
The Satanists (1969)
Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos Volume 2 (1969)
The Unspeakable People (1969)
The Witchcraft Reader (1969)
The Freak Show (1970)
The Hollywood Nightmare (1970)
A Sea of Space (1970)
The Ghouls Book 2 (1971)
The Necromancers (1971)
Partners in Wonder (1971)
The Year's Best Horror Stories (1971)
The 7th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1972)
The Year's Best Horror Stories II (1972)
The Edge of Never (1973)
The Nightmare Reader Volume 2 (1973)
Summoned from the Tomb (1973)
Christopher Lee's New Chamber of Horrors (1974)
A Clutch of Vampires (1974)
The Devil's Children (1974)
The Hounds of Hell (1974)
Christopher Lee's 'X' Certificate (1975)
The Rivals of Frankenstein (1975)
The Star Book of Horror 1 (1975)
Tales of Terror From Outer Space (1975)
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction 22nd Series (1976)
Frights: New Stories of Suspense and Supernatural Terror (1976)
The Ides of Tomorrow: Original Science Fiction Tales of Horror (1976)
Realms of Wizardry (1976)
Tales of Unknown Horror (1976)
Weird Tales Volume 2 (1976)
The Rivals of Dracula (1977)
Weird Legacies (1977)
Whispers (1977)
Chamber of Horrors (1978)
Shadows (1978)
Frights 2 (1979)
The Great SF Stories One: 1939 (1979)
Les Meilleurs Recits de Weird Tales Tome 3 (1938-1942) (1979)
The Master's Choice Book 1 (1979)
Dark Forces (1980)
New Terrors 2 (1980)
The Giant Book of Horror Stories (1981)
Modern Masters of Horror (1981)
A Treasury of Modern Fantasy (1981)
The Gruesome Book (1983)
Haunted Houses: The Greatest Stories (1983)
Magic for Sale (1983)
Masques: All New Works of Horror and the Supernatural (1984)
Top Fantasy (1984)
Realms of Darkness (1985)
Terrorists of Tomorrow (1985)
A Treasury of American Horror Stories (1985)
Cutting Edge (1986)
Hallowe'en Horrors (1986)
Masters of Darkness (1986)
A Century of Horror 1970-1979: The Greatest Stories of the Decade (1987)
The Colour of Evil (1987)
Masques 2 (1987)
Jack the Ripper (1988)
Silver Scream (1988)
Curses (1989)
Hot Blood: Tales of Provocative Horror (1989)
Between Time and Terror (1990)
Dark Voices: The Best from the Pan Book of Horror Stories (1990)
The Mammoth Book of Terror (1990)
Amazing Stories: The Anthology (1991)
The Night Fantastic (1991)
Vampires: The Greatest Stories (1991)
The Mammoth Book of Vampires (1992)
Ghosttide (1993)
Monsters in Our Midst (1993)
Nursery Crimes (1993)
To Sleep, Perchance to Dream...Nightmare (1993)
Dark Destiny (1994)
Doubles, Dummies and Dolls: 21 Terror Tales of Replication (1994)
The Mammoth Book of Frankenstein (1994)
Young Blood (1994)
Angels of Darkness (1995)
The Best New Horror 6 (1995)
The Best of Weird Tales (1995)
Ghost Movies: Famous Supernatural Films (1995)
More Phobias (1995)
The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1996)
Rivals of Dracula (1996)
The Vampire Hunters' Casebook (1996)
Virtuous Vampires (1996)
The Wizards of Odd: Comic Tales of Fantasy (1996)
Cyber-Killers (1997)
Dancing with the Dark (1997)
The Flying Sorcerers (1997)
Don't Open This Book! (1998)
Knights of Madness: Further Comic Tales of Fantasy (1998)
The Mammoth Book of Fantasy All-Time Greats (1998)
aka The Fantasy Hall of Fame
The Young Oxford Book of Aliens (1998)
California Sorcery (1999)
Tales of The Cthulhu Mythos (1999)
Technohorror: Tales of Terror, Suspense, and Intrigue (1999)
The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories (2000)
My Favorite Horror Story (2000)
Far Boundaries (1951)
Fever Dream and Other Fantasies (1951)
Night's Yawning Peal (1952)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1957)
The Fantastic Universe Omnibus (1960)
Spine Chillers (1961)
Dark Mind Dark Heart (1962)
The Fiend in You (1962)
The 4th Pan Book of Horror Stories (1963)
The Vampire (1963)
When Evil Wakes (1963)
Kurt Singer's Ghost Omnibus (1964)
Sleep No More (1964)
The Boris Karloff Horror Anthology (1965)
Everyman's Book of Classic Horror Stories (1965)
Beyond the Curtain of Dark (1966)
I Can't Sleep at Night (1966)
The Playboy Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy (1966)
Terror! (1966)
Dangerous Visions 1 (1967)
New Worlds of Fantasy (1967)
aka Step Outside Your Mind
The Playboy Book of Horror and the Supernatural (1967)
Tales of Terror (1967)
Time Untamed (1967)
The Evil People (1968)
Hauntings: Tales of the Supernatural (1968)
Legends for the Dark (1968)
The Midnight People (1968)
A Man Called Poe (1969)
Other Worlds, Other Times (1969)
The Satanists (1969)
Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos Volume 2 (1969)
The Unspeakable People (1969)
The Witchcraft Reader (1969)
The Freak Show (1970)
The Hollywood Nightmare (1970)
A Sea of Space (1970)
The Ghouls Book 2 (1971)
The Necromancers (1971)
Partners in Wonder (1971)
The Year's Best Horror Stories (1971)
The 7th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1972)
The Year's Best Horror Stories II (1972)
The Edge of Never (1973)
The Nightmare Reader Volume 2 (1973)
Summoned from the Tomb (1973)
Christopher Lee's New Chamber of Horrors (1974)
A Clutch of Vampires (1974)
The Devil's Children (1974)
The Hounds of Hell (1974)
Christopher Lee's 'X' Certificate (1975)
The Rivals of Frankenstein (1975)
The Star Book of Horror 1 (1975)
Tales of Terror From Outer Space (1975)
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction 22nd Series (1976)
Frights: New Stories of Suspense and Supernatural Terror (1976)
The Ides of Tomorrow: Original Science Fiction Tales of Horror (1976)
Realms of Wizardry (1976)
Tales of Unknown Horror (1976)
Weird Tales Volume 2 (1976)
The Rivals of Dracula (1977)
Weird Legacies (1977)
Whispers (1977)
Chamber of Horrors (1978)
Shadows (1978)
Frights 2 (1979)
The Great SF Stories One: 1939 (1979)
Les Meilleurs Recits de Weird Tales Tome 3 (1938-1942) (1979)
The Master's Choice Book 1 (1979)
Dark Forces (1980)
New Terrors 2 (1980)
The Giant Book of Horror Stories (1981)
Modern Masters of Horror (1981)
A Treasury of Modern Fantasy (1981)
The Gruesome Book (1983)
Haunted Houses: The Greatest Stories (1983)
Magic for Sale (1983)
Masques: All New Works of Horror and the Supernatural (1984)
Top Fantasy (1984)
Realms of Darkness (1985)
Terrorists of Tomorrow (1985)
A Treasury of American Horror Stories (1985)
Cutting Edge (1986)
Hallowe'en Horrors (1986)
Masters of Darkness (1986)
A Century of Horror 1970-1979: The Greatest Stories of the Decade (1987)
The Colour of Evil (1987)
Masques 2 (1987)
Jack the Ripper (1988)
Silver Scream (1988)
Curses (1989)
Hot Blood: Tales of Provocative Horror (1989)
Between Time and Terror (1990)
Dark Voices: The Best from the Pan Book of Horror Stories (1990)
The Mammoth Book of Terror (1990)
Amazing Stories: The Anthology (1991)
The Night Fantastic (1991)
Vampires: The Greatest Stories (1991)
The Mammoth Book of Vampires (1992)
Ghosttide (1993)
Monsters in Our Midst (1993)
Nursery Crimes (1993)
To Sleep, Perchance to Dream...Nightmare (1993)
Dark Destiny (1994)
Doubles, Dummies and Dolls: 21 Terror Tales of Replication (1994)
The Mammoth Book of Frankenstein (1994)
Young Blood (1994)
Angels of Darkness (1995)
The Best New Horror 6 (1995)
The Best of Weird Tales (1995)
Ghost Movies: Famous Supernatural Films (1995)
More Phobias (1995)
The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1996)
Rivals of Dracula (1996)
The Vampire Hunters' Casebook (1996)
Virtuous Vampires (1996)
The Wizards of Odd: Comic Tales of Fantasy (1996)
Cyber-Killers (1997)
Dancing with the Dark (1997)
The Flying Sorcerers (1997)
Don't Open This Book! (1998)
Knights of Madness: Further Comic Tales of Fantasy (1998)
The Mammoth Book of Fantasy All-Time Greats (1998)
aka The Fantasy Hall of Fame
The Young Oxford Book of Aliens (1998)
California Sorcery (1999)
Tales of The Cthulhu Mythos (1999)
Technohorror: Tales of Terror, Suspense, and Intrigue (1999)
The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories (2000)
My Favorite Horror Story (2000)
Short stories
| Almost Human (1934) | |||
| The Feast in the Abbey (1934) | |||
| The Shambler from the Stars (1934) | |||
| Black Lotus (1935) | |||
| The Secret in the Tomb (1935) | |||
| The Suicide in the Study (1935) | |||
| The Dark Demon (1936) | |||
| The Druidic Doom (1936) | |||
| The Faceless God (1936) | |||
| The Grinning Ghoul (1936) | |||
| Mother of Serpents (1936) | |||
| The Opener of the Way (1936) | |||
| The Black Kiss (1937) (with Henry Kuttner) | |||
| The Brood of Bubastis (1937) | |||
| The Creeper in the Crypt (1937) | |||
| Fane of the Black Pharaoh (1937) | |||
| The Mannikin (1937) | |||
| Mannikins of Horror (1937) | |||
| The Secret of Sebek (1937) | |||
| Beetles (1938) | |||
| The Eyes of the Mummy (1938) | |||
| The Hound of Pedro (1938) | |||
| The Mandarin's Canaries (1938) | |||
| Slave of the Flames (1938) | |||
| The Cloak (1939) | |||
| The Red Swimmer (1939) | |||
| The Seal of the Satyr (1939) (writing as Tarleton Fiske) | |||
| The Sorcerer's Jewel (1939) (writing as Tarleton Fiske) | |||
| The Strange Flight of Richard Clayton (1939) | |||
| Waxworks (1939) | |||
| The Fiddler's Fee (1940) | |||
| The Ghost Writer (1940) | |||
| Beauty's Beast (1941) | |||
| A Good Knight's Work (1941) | |||
| The House of the Hatchet (1941) | |||
| The Beasts of Barsac (1942) | |||
| Black Bargain (1942) | |||
| The Little Man Who Wasn't All There (1942) | |||
| A Question of Etiquette (1942) | |||
| The Shoes (1942) | |||
| Son of a Witch (1942) | |||
| The Eager Dragon (1943) | |||
| It Happened Tomorrow (1943) | |||
| Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper (1943) | |||
| The Bat is My Brother (1944) | |||
| The Devil's Ticket (1944) | |||
| Iron Mask (1944) | |||
| The Weird Taylor (1944) | |||
| The Man Who Cried Wolf! (1945) | |||
| One Way to Mars (1945) | |||
| The Skull of the Marquis de Sade (1945) | |||
| The Bogey Man Will Get You (1946) | |||
| Enoch (1946) | |||
| "Lizzie Borden Took an Axe..." (1946) | |||
| The Cheaters (1947) | |||
| Sweets to the Sweet (1947) | |||
| Catnip (1948) | |||
| Change of Heart (1948) | |||
| The Indian Spirit Guide (1948) | |||
| Floral Tribute (1949) | |||
| The Sorcerer's Apprentice (1949) | |||
| The Unspeakable Betrothal (1949) | |||
| The Girl from Mars (1950) | |||
| The Head Hunter (1950) | |||
| The Shadow from the Steeple (1950) | |||
| Tell Your Fortune (1950) | |||
| The Hungry House (1951) | |||
| The Man Who Collected Poe (1951) | |||
| Notebook Found in a Deserted House (1951) | |||
| The Tin You Love to Touch (1951) | |||
| Lucy Comes to Stay (1952) | |||
| The Dream Makers (1953) | |||
| The Lighthouse (1953) (with Edgar Allan Poe) | |||
| The Thinking Cap (1953) | |||
| The Goddess of Wisdom (1954) | |||
| Mr Steinway (1954) | |||
| The Pin (1954) | |||
| Comfort Me, My Robot (1955) | |||
| I Do Not Love Thee, Doctor Fell (1955) | |||
| Nursemaid to Nightmares (1955) | |||
| The Past Master (1955) | |||
| Where the Buffalo Roam (1955) | |||
| You Could Be Wrong (1955) | |||
| All on a Golden Afternoon (1956) | |||
| Dead-End Doctor (1956) | |||
| Founding Fathers (1956) | |||
| A Good Imagination (1956) | |||
| I Kiss Your Shadow (1956) | |||
| I Like Blondes (1956) | |||
| String of Pearls (1956) | |||
| Terror in the Night (1956) | |||
| Try This for Psis (1956) | |||
| Water's Edge (1956) | |||
| A Way of Life (1956) | |||
| Broomstick Ride (1957) | |||
| Crime in Rhyme (1957) | |||
| Man with a Hobby (1957) | |||
| The Professor Plays It Square (1957) | |||
| The Proper Spirit (1957) | |||
| The Real Bad Friend (1957) | |||
| A Return to the Sabbath (1957) | |||
| Rhyme Never Pays (1957) | |||
| Sock Finish (1957) | |||
| Terror Over Hollywood (1957) | |||
| Block That Metaphor (1958) | |||
| Daybroke (1958) | |||
| The Deadliest Art (1958) | |||
| Edifice Complex (1958) | |||
| Egghead (1958) | |||
| F.O.B. Venus (1958) | |||
| Hungarian Rhapsody (1958) (writing as Wilson Kane) | |||
| Is Betsy Blake Still Alive? (1958) | |||
| The Living Bracelet (1958) | |||
| Report on Sol III (1958) | |||
| Sleeping Beauty (1958) | |||
| Spawn of the Dark One (1958) | |||
| Sweet Sixteen (1958) | |||
| Terror in Cut-Throat Cove (1958) | |||
| That Hell-bound Train (1958) | Hugo | ||
| This Crowded Earth (1958) | |||
| Word of Honour (1958) | |||
| The Big Kick (1959) | <

