9 Novels & Collections by Robert Bloch
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Overview: 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.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
The Jekyll Legacy with Andre Norton
This novel originally published in 1990, a collaboration between Robert Bloch and Andre Norton is a sequel to Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic ‘The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’
MR. HYDE IS DEAD-OR IS HE?
When Hester Lane arrives in England, she swiftly discovers her true identity as Hester Jekyll niece of the respected Dr. Henry Jekyll. But the inheritance she thought she could claim easily proves to be elusive…the friends she thought she had made are suddenly untrustworthy and aloof… and she finds herself entangled in the frightening mystery of her uncles past. And as a series of brutal deaths begins and Hester is haunted by a dark, terrifying figure, she is forced to ask a new question:
Have we truly seen the last of Dr. Jekyll…or Mr. Hyde?
Final Reckonings: The Selected Stories of Robert Bloch, Volume One
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 decades. The stories are in his classic style of gripping suspense, science fiction and fantasy.As Bloch writes, "These stories in this collection have a common theme; they deal with monsters. Some of the monsters are human, some are not– but all of them embody, in one way or another, the fears common to us in our dreams. We call these monsters by many names– ghosts, vampires, extraterrestrials, changelings. But we recognize them for what they are; manifestations of the secret dreads and desires which lurk beneath the surface of consciousness."
"Bloch has become a virtual fixture on the popular culture landscape." –Publishers Weekly
"If you’re not familiar with Bloch’s short fiction, find someone to borrow this from; if you already are familiar, you know that you want to own these volumes." –Locus
The Twilight Zone The Movie:
You’re travelling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind; a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. Next-stop…The Twilight Zone…
• where demonic tyrants of the past live again to terrorize a man who carries the seeds of their hate into the present.
• where evil perches on a plane wing taunting the psychic who dare not believe his eyes—and still hold on to his mind.
• where the power to control the world rests in the fantasy-fraught imagination of a lonely child.
• where the joys of eternal youth are offered to those who remember childhood and are not too old to dream.
Robert Bloch’s novelisation of The Twilight Zone movie is a little different from the film itself. Changes made to segment one after the horrific helicopter crash that killed Vic Morrow and two child actors are not entirely reflected in the novel which reads more like the original script, and the bookend segments with Dan Ackroyd are missing from the book. When asked in a later interview Robert Bloch said he was never told they were in the film.
The Scarf:
“Did you ever stop to think about this angle? Thousands of guys are beating their brains out every year writing books. Every broken-down hack that ever had a job on a newspaper or in advertising sooner or later gets the idea that he’s going to write The Great American Novel. And hundreds of the damn fools actually do write their books and get them published, every year. How many of those hundreds of novels have you read this year? How many do you think anybody has read? … You can starve to death in that racket, son. And here’s another encouraging thought: you’ve written one book, but how do you know you can write another? The woods are full of one-book authors…”
Robert Bloch’s first novel The Scarf was published in 1947. It tells the story of a writer, Daniel Morley, who uses real women as models for his characters. But as soon as he is done writing the story, he is compelled to murder them, and always the same way: with the maroon scarf he has had since childhood. We start in Minneapolis and follow him and his trail of dead bodies to Chicago, New York, and finally Hollywood, where his hit novel is going to be turned into a movie, and where his self-control may have reached its limit.
The Todd Dossier:
HOLLIS TODD is one of the richest men in the world, a flamboyant and dynamic multimillionaire who possesses everything in the world, except a good heart. With death imminent, he is flown to the country’s most prestigious heart transplant hospital, where shortly afterward the dying victim of an automobile accident is brought in. He is Tony Polanski, former Olympic track star already suffering a fatal disease—and the perfect donor. After his death, his heart is successfully transplanted to Todd, and so “the heart of one of the world’s great athletes beats on in the body of one of the world’s richest men.”
But to Dr. Charles Everett, a member of the surgery team, there is something too fortuitous about the circumstances. Against spirited opposition and stern warnings, he delves deeper and deeper into the case, eventually exposing a masterly conceived and executed plan to insure the longevity of Todd, the man who wants to stay alive more than anything in the world. His disclosure triggers a chain reaction that brings the story to a shattering climax. Emphasizing, throughout, the moral and ethical dilemmas posed by transplants, and at the same time combining good surgery (“Medicine is just another form of human endeavor, the good and the bad.”) with good mystery (“. . . he was a far better doctor than he was a detective.”), The Todd Dossier is a novel both topical and engrossing, entertaining and informative
Strange Eons:
It was not until the morning of the fifth day out on the Pacific that Keith’s calm was shattered. When Abbott pounded on the stateroom door and roused him to come out on deck, the sight that greeted Keith’s eyes rendered him speechless. Shuddering, he stared at what lay off the starboard bow. It was horrifyingly familiar, and for a moment he thought he was experiencing déjà vu. Then he realized that he was gazing at what H.P. Lovecraft had so vividly and accurately described in his story—the tip of a single muddy peak upthrust from the ocean depths, atop of which towered a mountainous mass of masonry that rose to a monolith formed by gigantic blocks of slime-green stone. It was R’lyeh, and it was real. Now at last Keith could believe it all, for here before him was the ultimate proof—proof in a form more frightening than anything hinted at in words or in the imagery of nightmare. Staring at this horror from the depths, he knew its power—the power to make its presence known in the dreams of men halfway around the world. It was in dreams that Lovecraft had seen it long ago, and wakened to set down his warning… Robert Bloch’s affectionate and at times humorous tribute to H. P. Lovecraft, in many ways this novel was the swan song of the original ‘Lovecraft Circle’, a fun read – highly recommended.
Flowers From the Moon and Other Lunacies:
"This book collects for the first time a variety of Robert Bloch’s early stories from Weird Tales and Strange Stories. These stories range from whimsical and maniacal humor to dark and eldritch horrors, " editor Robert Price notes in his introduction. Including the following stories: "The Druidic Doom, " "Fangs of Vengeance, " "Death Is An Elephant, " "A Question of Identity, " "Death Has Five Guesses, " "The Bottomless Pool, " "The Dark Isle, " "Flowers From The Moon, " "He Waits Beneath the Sea, " "Power Druid, " "Be Yourself, " "A Sorcerer Runs for Sheriff, " "Black Bargain, " "A Bottle of Gin, " "Wine of Sabbat, " "Soul Proprietor, " "Satan’s Phonograph, " "The Man Who Told the Truth, " "The Night They Crashed the Party, " and "Philtre Tip."
Such Stuff As Screams Are Made Of:
Anthology of 21 short stories, originally published between 1948 and 1977, the title is typical of Robert Bloch’s graveyard humour
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 what happened to Avis Long was something you wouldn’t dare tell your best friend . . .
Final Performance
Jim Chatham wondered what a nice girl like Rosie was doing with an old has-been like Rudolph in a dump outside of Bakersfield. Unfortunately, he found out . . .
The Screaming People:
The voice Steve heard in the darkness could have been only a bad dream. But it wasn’t. And he wasn’t the only one who’d heard it . . .
The Masterpiece:
Every great artist has a secret—but for the old master who had created Girl with Flowers the secret was an insidious matter of life and death . . .
Life in Our Time:
Harry’s time capsule meant nothing to his wife Jill, but then again neither did Harry—until time began running out . . .
Underground:
It wasn’t easy to convince people that vampires really existed, but Count Barsack was an excellent actor. And an excellent spy. The trouble was, he began playing his role too well . . .
A Case of the Stubborns:
When a crusty old man like Grandpa didn’t believe he was dead, it took more than medical science and a lot less than most people would think to convince him . . .
What You See Is What You Get:
Charlie Randall got a real deal when he bought his instant picture camera—but once he started taking pictures, nobody else did . . .
And More…..
Night-World:
"The phone rang. “Miss Anderson? This is Lieutenant Barringer, Los Angeles Police Department.” It was hard to hear him over the T.V. The Lieutenant was saying something about bodies. “How many other patients were staying at the sanatorium?” “Five.” There was no draft, but Dorothy was shivering. “Can you give me their names, please?” “Yes.” Now she could feel a hint of an air current. Dorothy started to scream . . .In a moment there were four things open in the apartment. The bathroom window. The door of the closet. The kitchen drawer where the butcher knife was kept. And the jugular vein in Dorothy’s throat."
Robert Bloch, the creator of Psycho, takes you into the inner recesses of the mind of a madman. A man bent on revenge that comes out of the night, grabbing its victims by the throat and giving no quarter. From the moment Karen Raymond entered the sanitarium, she knew something was terribly wrong. The doctors had been brutally murdered, the patients had escaped. Was she to be the killer’s next victim?
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