1993 ONCE AROUND THE BLOCH by ROBERT BLOCH Signed Inscribed Revised Copy/Manuscript Unbound
Signed by Robert Bloch on the top of the front page.
This lot includes approximately 539 printed pages plus 6 additional front pages. Appears to be complete, but we can't guarantee it.
This item came from Robert Bloch's estate. It was part of his personal archives.
Pages are in good condition with signs of yellowing/aging and lightly wrinkled edges. There are hand prints, small rips and stains. Please see photos.
Robert Bloch (1917-1994) American
fiction writer primarily of crime psychological horror and fantasy,
much of which has been dramatized for radio, cinema and television. He
also wrote a relatively small amount of science fiction. His writing
career lasted 60 years, including more than 30 years in television and
film. Best known as the writer of Psycho (1959), the basis for the film of the same name by Alfred Hitchcock. Bloch is the
author of more than 200 stories, nearly thirty novels, and a large
number of non-fiction articles, screenplays, and teleplays, Bloch got
his start as a writing professional in the pulp magazines.
ONCE AROUND THE BLOCH takes us from Bloch's early years in Chicago
to his first fateful encounter with the pulp magazine classic, Weird
Tales. Within its pages, he discovers the peerless horror fiction of H.P
Lovecraft, and he begins a correspondence with Lovecraft which changes
the course of his life. It is Lovecraft himself who first suggests that
young Mr. Bloch might just have the knack for dreaming up literary
terrors of his own. And how right he is.
As a young family man in
Wisconsin, our struggling author finds the inspiration for his
masterwork, PSYCHO, thanks to the real-life exploits of a - mercifully -
distant neighbor. His name is Ed Gein, and he is lonely, backwoods sort
of fellow with a penchant for digging up corpses for company (not to
mention arts and crafts). And he's not above making a few fresh corpses
of his own when excavating gets dull. In the hands of a master
craftsman, this raw material will become the stuff of legendary
nightmare, and Norman Bates will be born.
But ONCE AROUND THE BLOCH
is not just the story of a literary life - it is also a tale of Tinsel
Town. Aside from providing the genesis for Alfred Hitchcock's favorite
black comedy, Robert Bloch has also lent his talents to the big and
small screens over the years as a scriptwriter. He has helped to create
such cinematic terrors as STRAIT-JACKET (directed by the immortal
showman, William Castle), ASYLUM, and THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD, and
written teleplays for TV cult classics like THRILLER, NIGHT GALLERY and
STAR TREK.
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