Re: RARA-AVIS: Hollywood - Bloch

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• From: "DOUGLAS GREENE" <dgg100f@hamlet.bal.odu.edu>
• Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 12:30:41 EST
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> Robert Bloch is a fabulous writer, so fabulous that I'll read his
> scifi/fantasy stuff (a genre I normally ignore).

Robert Bloch, who died a year or two ago, was a fine writer.  As a 
teenager, he corresponded with Lovecraft, and the two of them wrote 
each other into their stories.  His early stuff was imitation 
Lovecraft for WEIRD TALES in the 30s, but very good for a-that.  His 
best work may be the fantasy things of the early 40's like "The 
Skull of the Marquus de Sade" and "Yours Truly, Jack the 
Ripper"--both also for WEIRD TALES.

He's best known for PSYCHO and similar works in which the horror, 
instead of being supernatural, is all too natural.  See his 
autobiography, ONCE AROUND THE BLOCJ, and a recent anthology of 
commentary about Bloch and stories by him, ROBERT 
BLOCH--APPRECIATIONS, edited by Richard Matheson.

Doug
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