Robert Bloch

Robert Albert Bloch (5 Avril 1917 au 23 Septembre, 1994) ce qui a prolific American writer, primarily of crime, horreur et science-fiction. He is best known as the writer of Psycho, the basis for the film of the same name by Alfred Hitchcock. He was also known as an excellent standup speaker with a wry sense of humour. He many times, remarquait that he had the heart of a little boy", quipping "I keep it in a jar on my desk." Bloch wrote hundreds of short stories and over twenty novels, usually crime fiction, la science-fiction and perhaps most influentially, horreur fiction (Psycho). He was one of the youngest members of the Lovecraft Circle. H. P. Lovecraft ce que Bloch s mentor and one of the first to seriously encourage his talent. Bloch qui a contributor to pulp magazines such as Weird Tales in his early career, and was also a prolifique scénariste and a major contributor to de science-fiction, fanzines, and fandom en general. He was the recipient of the Hugo Award for his story "That Hell Bound Train"), the Bram Stoker Award, and the World Fantasy Award. He served a term as president of the Mystery Writers of America (1970) and was a member of that organisation and of Science Fiction Writers of America, the Writers' Guild, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Count Dracula Society.En 2008, The Library of America selected Bloch s story “The Shambles of Ed Gein” for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American true crime. His favourites amongst his own novels were The Kidnappeur, The Star Stalker, Psycho, Night World and Strange Eons.