Robert Bloch
Robert Bloch has written at least 163 books. Their most popular book is Psycho with 205 saves with an average rating of 3.84⭐.
Author Bio
Robert Albert Bloch was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of German-Jewish Americans. During the 1930s, he was an avid reader of Weird Tales magazine and H. P. Lovecraft in particular. He wrote to Lovecraft, who responded with advice on writing, and Bloch sold his first published short story, "The Feast in the Abbey" to Weird Tales when he was just seventeen. He continued to write for Weird Tales and went on to become one of its most popular authors, while also contributing to other magazines. In 1946, his first published novel, The Scarf, was released. He received the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1959 for “That Hell-Bound Train” (1958). Also in 1959, he published one of his best-known novels, Psycho, which was adapted for the screen in 1960 by Joseph Stefano, directed by Alfred Hitchcock. He wrote the screenplay for the movie The Night Walker (1964), and he also wrote three scripts for the television show Star Trek. Over the course of his career, he wrote hundreds of short stories and over twenty novels, mostly in the crime fiction, science fiction and, horror fiction genres.
1963 • 51 Readers • 289 pages • 4.4
1987 • 23 Readers • 1,028 pages • 4.5
1987 • 15 Readers • 637 pages • 3.7
1980 • 10 Readers • 715 pages • 3
#2 of 2 in Comic Tales of Fantasy
1997 • 8 Readers • 383 pages • 3.4
1963 • 8 Readers • 376 pages • 4.4
7 Readers • 3.5
1992 • 7 Readers • 628 pages
1968 • 5 Readers • 320 pages • 4
1945 • 5 Readers • 3.5
1993 • 4 Readers
1926 • 4 Readers • 147 pages • 3.5
1958 • 4 Readers • 4.5
1988 • 4 Readers • 582 pages
#1 of 1 in American Fantastic Tales
2009 • 4 Readers • 750 pages
1974 • 3 Readers • 246 pages
3 Readers
1947 • 3 Readers • 166 pages
1987 • 3 Readers • 3
2012 • 3 Readers • 906 pages • 1
1989 • 3 Readers • 1,112 pages • 4
#1 of 5 in Hot Blood
1989 • 3 Readers • 340 pages • 3
1997 • 2 Readers • 392 pages
#1 of 3 in Psycho
1959 • 2 Readers • 159 pages • 4.5
1977 • 2 Readers • 397 pages
1969 • 2 Readers • 532 pages • 1
1986 • 2 Readers • 299 pages
1987 • 2 Readers • 528 pages • 4
6 Dangerous Visions
1967 • 2 Readers • 203 pages
1992 • 2 Readers
1987 • 2 Readers • 575 pages
1992 • 2 Readers • 246 pages • 4
1965 • 2 Readers • 157 pages • 4
1984 • 2 Readers • 288 pages
1983 • 2 Readers • 208 pages • 3
1961 • 2 Readers • 215 pages • 2
1989 • 2 Readers
1943 • 2 Readers • 40 pages • 3
1978 • 2 Readers • 249 pages
2 Readers • 104 pages
2 Readers
1 Reader
1 Reader • 3.5
1 Reader • 3
1979 • 1 Reader • 240 pages
2007 • 1 Reader
1958 • 1 Reader
1989 • 1 Reader • 519 pages
1996 • 1 Reader
1977 • 1 Reader
1996 • 1 Reader • 425 pages
1962 • 1 Reader • 158 pages
1990 • 1 Reader • 210 pages
1998 • 1 Reader • 593 pages
1996 • 1 Reader • 470 pages
1942 • 1 Reader • 3
2019 • 1 Reader • 828 pages
1 Reader • 432 pages • 4
2009 • 1 Reader • 162 pages
1991 • 1 Reader
1991 • 1 Reader
1996 • 1 Reader • 366 pages
1972 • 1 Reader • 212 pages • 4
2017 • 1 Reader • 480 pages
1987 • 1 Reader • 621 pages
1988 • 1 Reader • 356 pages
21 Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu books
1997 • 1 Reader • 308 pages • 2
1975 • 1 Reader • 264 pages
2000 • 1 Reader • 423 pages
2018 • 1 Reader • 416 pages • 3
1993 • 1 Reader • 400 pages
1981 • 1 Reader • 597 pages
1991 • 1 Reader • 648 pages
#2 of 3 in Weird Tales
1980 • 1 Reader • 288 pages
1987 • 1 Reader • 422 pages
2003 • 1 Reader • 316 pages
1959 • 1 Reader • 223 pages • 5
1982 • 1 Reader • 670 pages • 4
21 Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu books
1997 • 1 Reader • 256 pages
#2 of 2 in Cthulhu
1969 • 1 Reader • 491 pages
1980 • 1 Reader • 228 pages
1963 • 1 Reader
1992 • 1 Reader
1977 • 1 Reader • 208 pages
1972 • 1 Reader • 160 pages
1987 • 1 Reader • 177 pages
1989 • 1 Reader • 282 pages
1940 • 1 Reader • 508 pages
1935 • 1 Reader
1936 • 1 Reader
1 Reader
1982 • 1 Reader
1 Reader
1965 • 1 Reader • 127 pages