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Robert Bloch

Robert Bloch (1917–1994) was a writer of psychological horror, crime and fantasy novels, many of which have been dramatized for radio or adapted for television and film. Bloch began writing short fiction in the 1930s at the urging of H.P. Lovecraft. His first novel, The Scarf, was published in 1947. In 1959, Bloch’s novel Psycho was published. It was also in 1959 that Bloch won a Hugo Award and began to write for television and film, starting with the series Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Bloch twice collaborated with famed filmmaker William Castle and wrote three episodes of the original Star Trek television series. In addition to this work, Bloch continued to write chilling and perceptive short stories and novels, including Firebug, American Gothic, Psycho II, and The Night of the Ripper. Bloch’s autobiography, Once Around the Bloch, was his last major work.