University of Wyoming
The collection is arranged into the following series and sub-series:
Series I. Books
Series II. Magazines, Fanzines, Newsletters, Bulletins, Journals, and Newspapers
Series III. Comic Books and Comic Magazines
Series IV. Manuscripts
Series V. Scripts
Series VI. Writings by others
Series VII. Correspondence
Series VIII. Conventions, Conferences, and Fairs
Series IX. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Series X. Artworks
Series XI. Biographical
Series XII. Diaries and Calendars
Series XIII. Catalogues
Series XIV. Clippings
Series XV. Collected Music
Series XVI. Collected Radio Shows
Series XVII. Directories
Series XVIII. Film Festivals, Film Programs, and Film Notes
Series XIX. Financial
Series XX. Interviews with and Presentations by Bloch
Series XXI. Photos
Series XXII. Production Files
Series XXIII. Publicity and Advertising
Series XXIV. Assorted
Series XXV. Sally Francy Donations
Robert Bloch was best known as the author of the novel "Psycho." He was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1917. He attended schools in Maywood, Illinois, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He worked as a freelance writer from 1934-1942. He then spent eleven years as a copywriter for a Milwaukee advertising agency before returning to freelance writing in 1953. He wrote primarily horror fiction, science fiction, and crime fiction. Bloch's most famous book was "Psycho," but he wrote other novels and anthologies of short stories, as well as scripts for film and television. Many of his stories were published in numerous pulp magazines, including "Amazing Stories" and "Weird Tales." His scripts for television included episodes of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents," "Thriller," and "Star Trek." His screenplays included "Strait-Jacket," "The House That Dripped Blood," "The Psychopath," and "Torture Garden." Bloch died in 1994.
The Robert Bloch papers consist of extensive personal and professional correspondence, a large selection of science fiction and horror books, as well as periodicals (including rare fanzines), convention programs, and annotated screenplays, scripts, and manuscripts written by Bloch. Also included are advertising and publicity materials for films written by Bloch.
There are no access restrictions on the materials for research purposes, and the collection is open to the public.
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This material was received from Robert Bloch from 1967-1994, J. Vernon Shea in 1967, Randall D. Larson from 1971-1975, and Diana Thatcher in 2015. The letters sent from Bloch to Sprague Vonier were received from Vonier between 1987 and 1995; they have been transferred to this collection. The materials from series XXV, Sally Francy Donations, were received from Sally Francy, Robert Bloch's daughter, in 2025. The scripts from the radio series "Stay Tuned for Terror" were purchased by the American Heritage Center in 2025.
The collection was processed by Shaun Hayes in June 2010 and re-processed by Roger Simon from March 2023-May 2024.
Item Description, Box Number, Collection Name, Collection Number, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.
“My only exclusively science-fiction collection – but still fantastic enough, I think.”
“The paperback edition fared better than any other short story collection of mine, here and abroad.”
“The American edition of this collection – more complete than the British reprint.”
“The English edition of one of my best collections of short stories – originally published by Simon & Schuster.”
“One of the better collections – includes a biographical sketch by Sam Moskowitz.”
“A ‘mixed bag’ of short stories – ranging from an early ‘Weird Tales’ piece to a recent ‘Playboy’ effort.”
“This was my first screenplay, from a story treatment by Blake Edwards and Owen Crump, who produced it. I was asked to novelize it, and did. Note comments on Hollywood.”
Originally published as “There is a Serpent in Eden.”
“This novel, published in hard covers by Simon & Schuster, plays up the ‘youth vs. age’ problem a half-dozen years before it hit the headlines, thanks to university troubles and street riots. But I defined here the battle-lines, which I saw as already clearly-drawn.”
“English edition of a novel which has been translated into 8 languages.”
“British paperback edition of ‘The Dead Beat’ – a strange sort of novel for an English audience.”
Three short novels by Bloch: “A Good Knight’s Work,” “Eager Dragon,” and “Nursemaid to Nightmares.” Also includes a “backword” by Bloch. “Farce-fantasy novelets – which seem to have an audience even today, long after their original magazine appearances. I
“Paperback edition of my most recent hardcover book – note the totally irrelevant and misleading illustration – and the inevitable mention of ‘Psycho’ in the blurb.”
“This is perhaps the strangest item of all – and one of the strangest books ever published. Science fiction fans often publish amateur magazines – mimeographed, in many cases. Through the years, from 1933 on, I must have contributed 200 articles, essays and pieces of fiction to such magazines. And for several years I reviewed such magazines for a professional science fiction publication, ‘Imagination.’ From my contributions, and reviews, it was decided to make a selection for a book. This is the result – as far as I know, the only book of this particular genre ever published.”
“A strange novel which I hope to do some day as a film.”
Graphic-novel adaptation by Keith Giffen and Robert Loren Fleming of the story by Bloch.
“These are old, early efforts – from my first book, ‘The Opener of the Way,’ 1945.”
“First publication of ‘Ladies’ Day’ anywhere – plus first book publication of my short science fiction novel – ‘This Crowded Earth’ – written before the ‘population explosion’ was a popular menace.”
“None of these stories were ever available in reprint before – though some date back to a quarter of a century ago. Of interest to archeologists!”
“The ‘Hugo’ is the annual award of the World Science Fiction Convention. My short story [‘That Hell-Bound Train,’] contained herein, received it.”
Bloch is listed as a “consulting editor.” “I helped edit this ‘guide’ to science fiction fandom which is still fairly definitive in the field.”
“I am the only man to complete an unfinished story [‘The Light-House’] by Edgar Allan Poe. See if you can detect where Poe left off and I began.”
“A comprehensive collection of my fantasy stories from 1946-58.”
“An early paperback of this, my best-known novel.”
“A used copy – all I ever found – of the 5th paperback edition. Thus far, there have been seven.”
“The 5th British paperback edition – still being printed as far as I know.”
“After numerous Crest-Gold Medal collections, ‘Psycho’ was reprinted yet again by Bantam this year [1969].”
“Note my introduction.”
“The title story became a motion picture – and now one of the other stories is being adapted for films by me.”
“My second novel – which nobody liked – could be redone today and appear most timely. In fact, I may still do it.” Also includes the novel “The Corpse in My Bed” (“Most Men Don’t Kill”) by David Alexander.
“My favorite title – and some of my favorite stories.”
“A novel with a sympathetic and innocent young hero, for a change. Nobody quite believed I wrote it.”
“These short stories have since been widely reprinted – and several were televised. At the time, nobody cared.”
“This is the novel I wrote and which Dell (Delacorte is their hardcover branch) put out in hardcover (which was
Bloch’s novelization of the 1983 film.
An anthology of three Bloch novels: “The Scarf,” “The Dead Beat,” and “The Couch.”
“A very scarce novel of mine – and a favorite.”
“The title story of this collection has been reprinted more times – and dramatized more frequently – than any of my other work; indeed, it’s probably one of the most often-reprinted stories I know. It has been read aloud on Israeli radio; done on TV, is now being edited for a children’s anthology – for 24 years it has continued to appear, and the end is not yet!”
Danish-language translation of the graphic-novel adaptation by Keith Giffen and Robert Loren Fleming of the story “Hell on Earth” by Bloch.
Thirty-four stories.
The novel “The Dead Beat.” “A Flemish edition of ‘The Dead Beat’ – with the usual change in title which foreign editors seem to deem mandatory.”
The novel “The Dead Beat.”
The novels “Psycho” and “Psycho II.”
The novels “Psycho” and “Psycho II.”
The novel “Night-World.”
The novel “Night-World.”
Seventeen stories.
The novel “Psycho II.”
The novel “The Scarf.” “My novel ‘The Scarf’ is making the scene in various languages, including the Scandinavian. There’s a uniform edition in paperback, also.”
The novel “The Scarf.”
The novel “Psycho.”
The novel “The Kidnapper.”
Twelve stories.
Twelve stories.
Twelve stories.
The novel “The Scarf.”
Thirteen stories.
The novel “Shooting Star.”
The novel “The Will to Kill.”
The novellas “This Crowded Earth” and “Ladies’ Day.”
Twelve stories.
The novel “The Jekyll Legacy.”
Fourteen stories.
The novel “Firebug.”
The novel “Night-World” - part of
Fourteen stories.
The novel “Night of the Ripper.”
The novel “The Night of the Ripper.”
Twelve stories.
The novel “Psycho.”
The novel “Psycho House.”
The novel “Psycho II.”
The novel “Psycho II.”
The anthology “Strange Eons.”
The anthology “Strange Eons.”
Seven stories.
The novel “There is a Serpent in Eden.”
The novel “There is a Serpent in Eden.”
The novel “There is a Serpent in Eden.”
The novel “The Dead Beat.”
Fifteen stories.
The novel “Terror.” “My German grandparents would probably have appreciated this and other translations – but I can’t read the language!”
The novel “Terror.”
The anthology “The Best of Robert Bloch.”
The anthology “The Living Demons.”
The novel “The Jekyll Legacy.”
The anthology “Blood Runs Cold.” “There are many foreign-language collections of my short stories, such as this – but few publishers have gone to the bother of sending copies to me. This is ‘Blood Runs Cold’ in its German incarnation.”
The novel “American Gothic.”
The novel “Firebug.”
Six stories.
The novel “Night-World.”
“German edition of ‘Psycho’ – with everybody’s picture but mine. (Too gruesome, I suppose.)”
The novel “The Kidnapper.”
The novel “Psycho House.”
The novel “Sneak Preview.”
The novel “Night of the Ripper.”
The novel “The Dead Beat.” “German translation of ‘The Dead Beat’ – with their own title!”
The novel “The Dead Beat.”
Nine stories.
The novel “The Scarf.” “Another belated foreign publication of ‘The Scarf’ – a German fan, visiting at the science fiction convention, tells me there is quite a current vogue for my writing there, including many magazine story reprints.”
The novel “Night-World.”
The anthology “The King of Terrors.”
“My novel ‘Terror’ in its Japanese incarnation – was then retranslated here for Israel!”
The novel “Firebug.”
“The Crowded Earth”/“Ladies Day.”
The novel “Night-World” - a
The anthology “The Opener of the Way.”
The anthology “The Opener of the Way.”
The novel “Firebug.”
The novel “Psycho.” “‘Psycho’ was published in 18 countries. Here is the Italian version.”
The novel “Psycho.”
The novels “Psycho” and “Psycho II.”
The novel “The Scarf.”
“Japanese edition of ‘Blood Runs Cold.’ I didn’t proofread it!”
“‘Psycho’ in one of its many foreign translations.”
The anthology “Cold Chills.”
The anthology “Chamber of Horrors.”
The anthology “Nightmares.”
The anthology “Nightmares.”
The anthology “Atoms and Evil.”
The anthology “The King of Terrors.”
The story “The Skull of the Marquis de Sade.”
The novel “The Dead Beat.”
The novel “The Dead Beat.”
The anthology “Blood Runs Cold.” “‘Blood Runs Cold’ in Spain and Latin America, too!”
The anthology “Blood Runs Cold.”
The novel “Night of the Ripper.”
The novel “Psycho.”
The novel “Psycho.”
The novel “Psycho.”
The novel “Psycho II.”
“The Will to Kill.” “Swedish edition of ‘The Will to Kill’ under another title.”
Includes the story “Man with a Hobby” by Bloch.
Includes the story “Water’s Edge” by Bloch. “Third or fourth British appearance of this durable story, ‘Water’s Edge,’ which Hitchcock, ironically enough,
Includes the story “Crook of the Month” by Bloch.
Includes the story “The Play’s the Thing” by Bloch.
Includes the story “Luck Is No Lady” by Bloch.
Includes the story “Crook of the Month” by Bloch.
Includes the story “A Killing in the Market” by Bloch.
Includes the story “That Hell-Bound Train” by Bloch.
Includes the stories “Sweets to the Sweet” and “Enoch” by Bloch. “I have two stories in this anthology – and I think they’re among the best of my fantasies. The latter – ‘Enoch’ – is now part of a film [‘Torture Garden’] I wrote for Paramount release, with Jack Palance and Burgess Meredith.”
Includes the story “Forever and Amen” by Bloch.
Includes the story “Lukundoo” by Edward Lucas White, with an introductory note by Bloch.
Includes the story “Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper” by Bloch.
Includes the story “Mother of Serpents” by Bloch.
Includes the story “Crook of the Month” by Bloch.
Includes the story “Nina” by Bloch.
Includes an introduction by Bloch.
Includes an introduction by Bloch.
Includes the story “Forever and Amen” by Bloch.
Includes the story “Talent” by Bloch.
Includes the story “Terror in Cut-Throat Cove” by Bloch.
Includes the stories “Lizzie Borden Took an Axe” and "Return to the Sabbath” by Bloch. “Two yarns in this British paperback – part of a series of anthologies.”
Includes six stories by Bloch (who last name is misspelled twice in the table of contents): “The Shadow from the Steeple,” “The Grinning Ghoul,” “Mannikins of Horror,” “The Druidic Doom,” “A Question of Etiquette,” and “The Man Who Cried Wolf!” “This little volume – unauthorized and uncontracted for – burst like a bombshell on the scene this June [1969]: still not paid for, it is a thorn in my side (and Ray’s) because it is made up of stories we sold
Includes six stories by Bloch: “The Shadow from the Steeple,” “The Druidic Doom,” “Mannikins of Horror,” The Grinning Ghoul,” “A Question of Etiquette,” and “The Man Who Cried Wolf.”
“Note pics and stories and entries on me.” Bloch was the master of ceremonies at the convention. Includes the essay “Edgar Allan Poe” by Bloch. Includes as an insert a program for the convention.
Includes the story “The Undead” by Bloch, “plus a list of [manuscripts] and books of mine offered for sale.”
Includes the story “Talent” by Bloch.
Includes an introduction by Bloch to “The Crooked Man.”
Includes a “picture story” adaptation of the story “The Past Master” by Bloch. “Christipher Lee, a personal friend, was a house-guest here in ’66. One of my stories had been selected for this volume – where it appears in comic strip form.”
Includes a “picture story” adaptation of the story “The Past Master” by Bloch.
Includes the story “The Dynamics of an Asteroid” by Bloch. “Quite possibly the rarest of all my published stories – this Sherlockian associative item, ‘The Dynamics of an Asteroid,’ previously appeared only in the ‘Journal of the Baker Street Irregulars.’”
Includes “A Good Imagination” by Bloch.
Includes the story “The Bogey Man Will Get You” by Bloch.
Includes the story “A Toy for Juliette” by Bloch, as well as an introduction by Bloch to the story “The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World” by Ellison. “Paperback edition of last year’s big anthology – with my story and editorial matter, plus introduction to Harlan Ellison’s story.”
Includes the story “The Night Before Christmas” by Bloch.
Includes the story “The Night Before Christmas” by Bloch.
Includes the story “Floral Tribute” by Bloch.
Includes the story “Sweet Sixteen” by Bloch.
Includes an introduction by Bloch.
Includes “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” by Bloch.
Includes the story “Mother of Serpents” by Bloch.
Includes the story “Black Lotus” by Bloch.
Includes the story “A Way of Life” by Bloch. One copy includes the following note: “My story of science fiction fans taking over the world – a spoof on all such tales.”
Includes the story “The Hell-Bound Train” by Bloch.
Includes the story “The Pin” by Bloch.
Includes the story “Waxworks” by Bloch.
Includes the story “Lucy Comes to Stay” by Bloch. “My short story, written years ago, was my first venture into the schizophrenia area later covered by ‘Psycho.’”
Includes the story “Lucy Comes to Stay” by Bloch.
Includes the story “Enoch” by Bloch.
Includes an introduction by Bloch.
Includes “Dr. Psycho and Mr. Stein” by Bloch. One copy includes the following note: “I have several items in this book concerning Boris Karloff – a friend who passed away this year [1969]. Also numerous mentions throughout regarding our association over the years: a bit embarrassing to my wife, since we surely weren’t
Includes the story “The Warm Farewell” by Bloch.
Includes the story “Talent” by Bloch.
Includes the story “The Cloak” by Bloch.
Includes the story “It Happened Tomorrow” by Bloch. “A novelet – ancient – that would still make a good film today, I think.”
Includes the story “Iron Mask” by Bloch.
Includes the story “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” by Bloch.
Includes a reprint of the comic “The Flash and the Black Widow,” which was written by Bloch.
Includes the story “Crime in Rhyme” by Bloch.
Includes the story “Nocturne” by Bloch.
Includes “Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper” by Bloch.
Includes the story “Head Man” by Bloch. One copy includes the following note: “This yarn, out of print and impossible to find in its magazine incarnation – picked up from my collection, it is at last beginning the reprint route.”
Includes the story “The Movie People” by Bloch.
Includes the story “The Movie People” by Bloch.
Includes the story “The Hell-Bound Train” by Bloch.
Includes the story “The Proxy Head” by Bloch. “First reprint of a hard-to-find science fiction story of mine.”
Includes the story “Almost Human” by Bloch. “My much reprinted robot story finally ends up in an anthology on robots.”
Includes “The Head” by Bloch.
Includes the story “Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper” by Bloch.
Includes a tribute to Shea by Bloch.
Includes “Monsters in Our Midst” by Bloch.
Includes “The Clown at Midnight” by Bloch.
Includes an introduction by Bloch.
Includes the story “The Cloak” by Bloch.
Includes the story “Everybody Needs a Little Love” by Bloch.
Includes the story “The Animal Fair” by Bloch.
Includes “The Real Bad Friend” by Bloch.
Includes the story “Sweets to the Sweet” by Bloch.
Includes the story “The Living Dead” by Bloch.
Includes the story “The Strange Island of Dr. Nork” by Bloch.
Includes the story “The Strange Island of Dr. Nork” by Bloch.
Includes the story “The Mannikin” by Bloch.
Includes an introduction by Bloch, as well as the story “It Takes One to Know One” by Bloch.
Includes the story “Sweets to the Sweet” by Bloch.
Includes the stories “The Real Bad Friend” and “Lucy Comes to Stay” by Bloch.
Includes the story “Almost Human” and an introduction by Bloch. “Contains one of my very earliest efforts in science fiction.”
Includes the story “Word of Honor” by Bloch.
Includes the story “The Rubber Room” by Bloch.
Includes the story “The Plot is the Thing” by Bloch.
Includes “Bloch Talks Shop,” an interview with Bloch.
Includes “The Head Hunter” by Bloch.
Includes the story “The Head Hunter” by Bloch.
Includes the story “Enoch” by Bloch.
Based on the screenplay by Bloch; includes an introduction by Bloch. “I did an original screenplay for ‘The Night Walker’ (Universal, 1964), and it was novelized, with my permission, by Michael Avallone, under a pseudonym. Note that I wrote an introduction for this volume.”
Based on the screenplay by Bloch; includes an introduction by Bloch. “English edition of the ‘ghostly’ shocker written by Michael Avallone under a pseudonym – with my introduction.”
Includes an introduction by Bloch.
Includes the story “Talent” by Bloch.
Includes the stories “Terror in the Night” and “A Home Away from Home” by Bloch.
Includes the story “A Toy for Juliette” by Bloch.
Includes the stories “Beezlebub” and “The Traveling Salesman” by Bloch. “Two short stories in this collection – also hardcover.”
Includes the story “Word of Honor” by Bloch. “Story here also in hardcover.”
Includes an introduction by Bloch.
Includes the story “The Shambles of Ed Gein” by Bloch. “My original (for publication here) article in which I examine the case which inspired my novel ‘Psycho.’ Oddly enough, this is long o.p. [out of print] and has never been reprinted anywhere.”
Includes an introduction by Bloch.
Includes an introduction by Bloch.
Includes a foreword by Bloch, as well as his story “Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper.”
Includes the story “Almost Human” by Bloch.
Includes the story “A Way of Life” by Bloch.
Includes the story “Spawn of the Dark One” by Bloch.
Includes the story “Lefty Feep Gets Henpecked” by Bloch.
Includes the essay “Imagination and Modern Social Criticism” by Bloch. “My views on science fiction form the basis of the essay included here – originally delivered as a lecture for the University of Chicago.”
Includes the story “The Old College Try” by Bloch.
Includes the story “The Black Kiss” by Bloch.
Includes the story “The Mannikin” by Bloch.
Includes the story “Picture” by Bloch.
Includes the story “Sock Finish” by Bloch.
Includes the story “The Movie People” by Bloch.
Includes the essay “Menace, Anyone? – A Serious Survey of Important Fright Films” by Bloch. “More on horror films. The complete article, ‘Menace, Anyone?’ is reprinted herein.”
Includes the essay “Menace, Anyone? – A Serious Survey of Important Fright Films” by Bloch.
Includes the story “Constant Reader” by Bloch.
Includes the story “Untouchable” by Bloch.
Includes the story “Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper” by Bloch.
Includes the story “A Case of the Stubborns” by Bloch.
Includes the story “A Question of Etiquette” by Bloch. “A rather rare reprinting of this story in English anthology – one of many Kurt Singer collections in which I appear over there.”
Includes the stories “The Shambler from the Stars,” “The Shadow from the Steeple,” and “Notebook Found in a Deserted House” by Bloch. “Brand new – first time my three Lovecraft-linked stories appear together in print as a [illegible].”
Includes the stories “The Shambler from the Stars,” “The Shadow from the Steeple,” and “Notebook Found in a Deserted House” by Bloch.
Includes “Dr. Holmes’s Murder Castle” by Bloch. “This contains my 50,000-word non-fiction piece on H.H. Holmes.”
Includes the story “Catnip” by Bloch.
Includes the story “The Yougoslaves” by Bloch.
Includes the story “A Good Imagination” by Bloch. “Here is a story of mine in a collection which includes wors of Poe, Bierce, Wilkie Collins, de Maupassant and Villiers de I’Isle-Adam. A writer can’t help but wonder if his own work will enjoy the longevity of craftsmen such as these.”
Includes the story “The Dream Makers” by Bloch.
Includes the story “Enoch” by Bloch.
Includes the story “Time Wounds All Heels” by Bloch.
Includes the story “The Man Who Looked Like Napoleon” by Bloch. “The story in this anthology is an ‘off-beat’ little effort – which took seven years to sell! Since then, it has been several times reprinted.”
Includes the essay “Ray” by Bloch.
Includes the stories “A Return to the Sabbath” and “The Man Who Collected Poe” by Bloch.
Includes the story “The Hell-Bound Train” by Bloch.
Includes the story “The Strange Island of Dr. Nork” by Bloch.
Includes the story “The Living Dead” by Bloch.
Includes the story “The Cloak” by Bloch.
Includes the story “Water’s Edge” by Bloch.
Includes a foreword by Bloch and the story “The Black Kiss” by Bloch and Henry Kuttner.
Includes the story “A Question of Etiquette” by Bloch. A “blurb” page includes the following quote from Bloch: “Underneath it all, I have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar.” “This remark, widely quoted, has been cheerfully filched by Bennett Cerf and others.”
Includes the story “A Question of Etiquette” by Bloch.
Includes the story “The Feast in the Abbey” by Bloch.
Includes the story “Sweets to the Sweet” by Bloch. “This English anthology never received American publication to my knowledge.”
Includes the story “The Legend of Dirty Dick” by Bloch.
Includes the story “The Secret of Sebek” by Bloch.
Includes an introduction by Bloch.
Includes the story “Double Whammy” by Bloch.
Includes the story “The Animal Fair” by Bloch.
Anthology of stories that includes “The Hell-Bound Train” by Bloch.
Anthology of stories that includes “The Hell-Bound Train” by Bloch.
Anthology, “presented” by
Anthology of novels that include “Psycho.” The other titles are “Shrine” by James Herbert, “The Businessman A Tale of Terror” by Thomas M. Disch, and “Rosemary’s Baby” by Ira Levin.
Anthology that includes the story “Mr. Steinway” by Bloch.
Anthology that includes the stories “Rhyme Never Pays” and “The Masterpiece” by Bloch (the latter under the pseudonym “Tarleton Fiske”). One copy includes the following note: “I appear twice in this collection – as Robert Bloch and as ‘Tarleton Fiske,’ my old pseudonym.”
Anthology (and
Spanish-language/English-language anthology that includes an essay by Bloch.
Anthology that includes the story “Eyes of the Mummy” by Bloch.
Includes an interview with Bloch. Inscribed by the author.
“Lengthy interview and articles on me.” “Note my memorial – end of book!”
“This is a fairly complete bibliography of my professionally-published works up to the end of 1964. Writings for 1965 and 1966 not included.”
1Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author. Includes a short note from the author.
Inscribed by the author. Includes the author’s business card.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Includes a short note from the author.
Inscribed by Jason Karpf and Forrest J. Ackerman.
"And this little box of bons-bons is for the only other man I know who enjoys poisoned chocolates…my friend Robert Bloch.”
Inscribed by author Michael Avallone (Jean-Anne de Pré).
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
“For Robert Bloch – Who still has that heart of a small boy….”
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author. Includes a short note from the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by Andre Norton.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the co-authors.
Includes a letter from senior editor Jared Kieling of St. Martin’s Press.
“Another bad Hollywood novel!”
Inscribed by the author.
Includes a press release promoting the book and other books published by Bantam.
A novelization of 1971 film, which was co-written by and co-starred Jones.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Dedicated to Bloch.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Includes a note from the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by Farmer.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the editor.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by Parry.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by co-authors.
Inscribed by Campbell and J.K. Potter, who did the illustrations.
Inscribed by Jeff Thompson. Includes a note (with a post-it) from Thompson.
Each book is inscribed by the author.
Inscribed the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
“I have no idea of current price of these 3 volumes. I paid $ 125 for them 5 years ago (1977).”
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by Hoffman.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Each copy is inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
A graphic-novel adaptation of the story by Ellison.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Includes three clippings.
Inscribed by the author.
Advertised as “the encapsulated view of life by W.C. Fields in his own words.”
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by Norton.
“The alternative to the propagated history of life on this planet!”
A novelization of the 1977 film, which was based on the short story by H.G. Wells.
Inscribed by Norton.
Inscribed by the author.
A novelization of the 1981 film.
Includes a note from Steve Allen and a note from his assistant.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Pages with publisher information are missing.
A novelization of the 1980 film.
A novelization of the 1978 TV-movie, which was based on a story by Paul Gallico.
Each copy is inscribed by the author.
Limited edition signed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
“I had a copy of this book when I was an infant – it encouraged me to start drawing animals at the age of four.”
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
One copy is inscribed by the author.
One copy is inscribed by the author.
Each copy is inscribed by the editor.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by Neville.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author. Includes a short note from the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Each copy is inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
One copy is inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed the author.
Inscribed by Locke.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author. Includes a short note from Steve O’Keefe, editorial director at Loompanics Unlimited, and a flier for the book.
Inscribed by Wright.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author. Includes a note from the author.
Inscribed by Norton.
Includes a note from the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author. Includes a post-it from the author.
A novelization of the 1977 film, which was based on the novella by H.G. Wells.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Includes a letter from Heinlein.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Includes a letter from Virgil Utter.
Inscribed by the author. Includes a letter from the author.
Includes “The Great Gatsby” and short stories by Fitzgerald.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Includes a letter from the publisher.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Includes two fliers from the publisher.
Inscribed by the author.
A graphic-novel adaptation of the novel by Niven.
Inscribed by Adams.
Includes a letter from David G. Hartwell of Pocket Books.
Inscribed by the author.
Includes a letter from Flanagan.
A graphic-novel adaptation of the novella by Pohl.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by Harold Lee Prosser, who has a story in the anthology.
Inscribed by Devendra P. Varma, who wrote the introduction.
One copy is inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by Tucker.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by Cave and illustrator Lee Brown Coye.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by Steve Vertlieb. Includes a letter from Vertlieb.
A novelization of the 1985 film.
Inscribed by the author.
One copy is inscribed by the author.
One copy is inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author. Includes a note from the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by Roberts.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
A graphic-novel adaptation of the novel by Silverberg.
Includes a note to Bloch. A quote by Bloch in on pg. 282.
One copy is inscribed by the author.
A novelization of the 1986 film.
Inscribed by the author.
Three of the four copies are inscribed by the author.
About the making of the 1984 film “2010: The Year We Make Contact,” which was co-written by Clarke and Hyams and directed by Hyams.
Includes a quote from Bloch on the cover and a note from the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author with the following note: “For the master of us all, Robert Bloch.”
Inscribed by Kenneth Anger. Includes a note from Anger and a clipping about Norton.
Includes a two-page document titled “Robert Bloch’s very own Cheat Sheet for PARADISE.”
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Each copy is inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
A non-fiction book about serial killer Charles Schmid.
Inscribed by the author.
The cover and spine of one copy is mislabeled “Versus.”
Inscribed by Robinson.
Inscribed by Rhea.
A frame-by-frame “recreation” of Hitchcock's film, which is based on Bloch’s novel.
Includes two inserts – “The Lighton Theory – A Hypothesis” by Andrew Twostein and “Free People.”
Inscribed by the author.
Graphic-novel adaptations of six stories by Bradbury.
Inscribed by the author.
Includes as an insert a program for Cinecon 22, “A Tribute to Dorothy Gish.”
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
A novelization of the 1922 film starring Douglas Fairbanks.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by author.
Inscribed by Dickison.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author. Includes a note from the author.
A graphic-novel adaptation of the story by Martin.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by Ackerman.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by Marrott.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by William F. Nolan, who wrote the introduction.
Includes as an insert Derleth’s obituary from the “International Herald.”
Inscribed by the author.
Includes a note to Bloch and two other inserts.
Inscribed by Norris.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by Crispin.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Includes a clipping.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by Norton.
Inscribed by the author.
Dedicated to Bloch. One copy includes a note.
Includes a note to Bloch.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author. Includes a note from the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Includes a note from the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Includes a note from the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Includes a clipping.
Inscribed by the author.
Includes a note from Barbara Norville.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the editor.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author. Includes a 1985 note regarding the book.
Inscribed by the author.
Includes a note from the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by Blackmore.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author by “his attorney.”
Inscribed by the author “by his attorney.”
Includes a note from the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
“This rather rare book is a slice of my life from the age of 10 until 36 – 1927 to 1953 – during which I lived in Milwaukee and rode these streetcar lines everywhere. We never owned a car, but I explored the city and environs on all these lines – they formed an important part of my education. The maps of routes, the very names, evoke instant nostalgia to this date. And when, this year, I boarded one of the few remaining ‘trans’ lines in the world – in Melbourne, Australia – I was suddenly transported in time, as well as space, and found myself experiencing the well-remembered journeys of half a century or more ago, eight thousand (no,
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by Varma.
Includes an insert promoting American Bicentennial Commemorative stamps.
Inscribed by the author.
Advertised as “the first Yiddish science fantasy novel ever.”
A non-fiction book about serial killer Charles Schmid.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by Devendra P. Varma, who wrote the introduction.
A novelization of the 1983 TV miniseries.
Inscribed by the author.
One copy is inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the co-authors.
Inscribed by the author.
A non-fiction book about the Symbionese Liberation Army and Patty Hearst.
Includes a quote from Bloch on the cover and, as an insert, a letter to Bloch from DeWeese.
Inscribed by the co-authors.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by Schiff.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Each copy is inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
“‘The Shielography Updated’; Volume 3 – Part 2.”
“‘The Shielography Updated’; Volume II – Part 1.” Includes as an insert an order form for other Shiel publications.
Inscribed by the author.
Includes a note from the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the editor.
Inscribed by the editor.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author. Includes a flier for the French-language magazine “Polar.”
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author. Includes two blank “Nestor Burma” postcards.
Part of the French-language “Valérian and Laureline” comics series.
Inscribed by the author.
French-language translation of the short story “The Plunge” by Goodis.
Reference book that includes an entry (pp. 193-194) on Bloch.
Reference book that includes multiple references to Bloch.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Inscribed by the author.
Spanish-language translation of the anthology “Dangerous Visions 2,” edited by Ellison.
Spanish-language translation of the anthology “Dangerous Visions 3,” edited by Ellison.
Includes the story “A Toy for Juliette” by Bloch.
Includes the story “The Black Lotus” by Bloch.
Includes a “tribute” (pg. 8) to Bloch.
Includes the essay “Fantastic Adventures with Amazing” by Bloch.
Includes “Strange Schwartz Stories” by Guy H. Lillian III – Bloch is mentioned on pg. 6.
Includes a quote (pg. 21) from Bloch.
Includes a letter from Bloch.
Includes the story “That Hell-Bound Train” by Bloch.
Includes the story “It Happened Tomorrow” by Bloch.
The first issue of the newsletter, which includes a quote (pg. 1) from Bloch.
Includes the story “That Hell-Bound Train” by Bloch.
Includes the story “Skin-Deep” by Bloch. “This is a bitter little horror story.”
Includes the story “The Dream Makers” by Bloch.
Includes the story “Enoch” by Bloch.
Includes Bloch in “Great Escapes: Writers Pick Their Favorites.”
Includes an article on the film “Psycho” (1960) that mentions Bloch.
Includes the story “How Bug-Eyed Was My Monster” by Bloch.
Includes the story “The Double Whammy” by Bloch.
Includes the story “The Man Who Looked Like Napoleon” by Bloch.
Includes a “completely fictitious ‘interview’ article. I supplied data by mail – the authoress fabricated her own – and the editor rehashed it all, not neglecting to complete the job by misspelling my name on the cover. Sic transit!”
Includes an essay that Bloch originally wrote for the book series “Reference Guide to Fantastic Films” by Walt Lee.
Includes an excerpt from Bloch’s novel “Night-World.”
“Report on talk given to Dracula Society – Dec. 1967.”
A “special Robert Bloch issue” that includes the story “The Sorcerer’s Jewel” by “Tarlton Fiske,” as well as articles about Bloch and his writings.
Includes an interview with Bloch.
Includes “a lengthy autobiographical article dealing with my early association with ‘Weird Tales’ magazine.”
Each issue includes material about an apparently imaginary “feud” between Bloch and Bob Tucker.
Includes the story “The Show Must Go On” by Bloch. “A short story – later selected for Diners’ Club anthology.”
Includes an interview with Bloch. Also includes as an insert a letter from editor C.C. Clingan.
Includes the story “The Neon Graveyard” by Bloch.
Includes an article about Bloch.
Includes the story “Hobo” by Bloch.
Includes the story “Edifice Complex” by Bloch.
Includes the story “The Man Who Collected Poe” by Bloch.
Includes an interview with Bloch.
Each issue includes a letter from Bloch.
Includes a letter from Bloch.
Includes the story “Black Lotus” by Bloch. “A very early (1934) story which I did for a fan magazine – since then, reprinted in professional magazines a number of times. Written at age 16.”
Includes the story “Black Lotus” by Bloch.
Includes the story “The Dark Isle” by Bloch.
Includes the story “The Sorcerer’s Jewel” by Bloch.
Includes the story “The Old College Try” by Bloch.
Each issue includes a letter from Bloch.
Includes an interview with Bloch and a Bloch filmography.
Includes the essay “A Stake in the Future” by Bloch. “A ‘fan magazine’ devoted not to science fiction, but to fantasy – and my article dealing with the state of the
“Special Robert Bloch issue” that includes the stories “The Movie People” and “Beelzebub” by Bloch, as well as an interview with Bloch.
Includes the essay “The Lovecraft Mythos” by Bloch.
Includes a letter from Bloch.
Includes a letter from Bloch.
Includes the story “The Shrink and the Nympho” by Bloch.
Includes a letter (pg. 33) from Bloch.
Includes the story “Have Tux – Will Travel” by Bloch.
Includes the essay “How to be a SF Critic” by Bloch. “An article on science fiction criticism as practiced by fan reviewers.”
Includes the essay “Surrogate in ‘58” by Bloch.
Includes a quote (pg. 14) from Bloch.
Includes an interview with Bloch.
Includes a three-way interview with Bloch, Forrest J. Ackerman, and Fritz Leiber on movie monsters. “Some of the ideas ‘editorialized’ by the writer of this article were suggested to him by me.”
Includes the story “Final Performance” by Bloch.
Includes an article about Bloch.
Includes the story “Son of Rasputin” by Bloch.
Includes the story “Chinaman’s Chance” by Bloch.
Includes the story “Hell on Earth” by Bloch.
Includes the story “Terror in the Night” by Bloch.
Includes the story “Bankroll for a Blonde Widow” by Bloch.
“A ‘Star Trek’ fanzine – in which I’m mentioned, of course, as a script writer for the show.”
Includes “Yours Truly, Bob – The Ripper!” – an article on Bloch.
Includes the story “The Lighthouse of Horror” by Edgar Allan Poe and Bloch.
Includes a letter from Bloch.
Includes “The Psycho Man – An Interview with Robert Bloch.”
Includes an interview with Bloch.
Includes the story “Head Man” by Bloch.
Each issue includes a paragraph on Bloch’s current works.
Includes a review of Bloch’s book “Once Around the Bloch: An Unauthorized Autobiography.”
Includes a quote from Bloch (pg. 2).
Includes the story “Singe for Your Supper” by Bloch.
Includes a condensed version of Bloch’s novel “Psycho.”
Includes an interview with Bloch.
Includes “Yours Truly, Robert Bloch,” an interview with Bloch.
Includes a letter from Bloch.
Includes a comment from Bloch (pg. 75).
Includes the essay “The Decline and Fall of the American Shooting Gallery” by Bloch.
Includes the essay “A Visitor from Averoigne” by Bloch.
Includes the story “ETFF” by Bloch.
Includes “Postcard from Robert Bloch.”
Includes a short review (pg. 9) of Bloch’s novel “Psycho.”
Includes the story “Black Lotus” by Bloch.
Includes the story “The Sex Education of Homer” by Bloch.
Each issue includes a letter from Bloch.
Includes the story “Come-back” by Bloch.
Each issue includes a letter from Bloch.
Includes the story “Indian Sign” by Bloch.
Includes an interview with Bloch.
Includes “Robert Bloch on Writing.”
Includes the story “Enoch” by Bloch.
Includes the story “End of Your Rope” by Bloch.
Includes the story “Murder from the Moon” by Bloch.
Includes the story “The Proxy Head” by Bloch.
Includes the story “The Machine That Changed History” by Bloch.
Includes the story “Last Laugh” by Bloch.
Each issue includes a letter from Bloch.
Includes the story “Them Ones” by Bloch.
Includes a letter (pg. 22) from Bloch.
Includes “‘The Psychopath’ – from a story written by the author of ‘Psycho,’ Robert Bloch.”
Includes the story “Daybroke” by Bloch.
Includes the story “House of the Hatchet” by Bloch. “Belated reprint of one of my very early stories from ‘Weird Tales.’”
Includes the story “Last Laugh” by Bloch.
Includes the story “The Spawn of the Dark One” by Bloch.
Includes the story “A Good Imagination” by Bloch. “This story, later televised [a 1961 episode of the anthology series “Thriller”] (see teleplay), represents the dramatic approach to my writing.”
Each issue includes a letter from Bloch.
Includes a reprint of an interview with Bloch from the “St. Louis-Post-Dispatch.”
Each issue includes a letter from Bloch.
Includes an article on the anthology TV series “Darkroom.” The series included three episodes with stories and scripts by Bloch, and the article mentions Bloch.
Includes the story “The Knife and the Throat” by Bloch.
Includes a letter from Bloch.
Includes the story “Constant Reader” by Bloch. “A strange ‘literary’ science fiction story.”
Includes the story “The Cloak” by Bloch.
Includes a letter from Bloch.
Includes the essay “Forrest J. Ackerman of Filmland – An Appreciation” by Bloch.
Includes a letter from Bloch.
Each issue includes a letter from Bloch.
Each issue includes a letter from Bloch.
Includes the story “Indian Sign” by Bloch.
Includes a letter from Bloch.
Includes an excerpt from Bloch’s novel “Strange Eons.”
Each issue includes a letter from Bloch.
Includes a statement by Bloch on Forrest Ackerman.
Includes the story “In the Cards” by Bloch.
Includes an article by Eleanor Sullivan that mentions Bloch.
Each issue includes a letter from Bloch.
Each issue includes a letter from Bloch.
Includes a letter from Bloch.
Each issue includes a letter from Bloch.
Includes a letter from Bloch.
Includes a letter from Bloch.
Includes the story “The Picture” by Bloch.
Includes the story “The Closer of the Way” by Bloch.
Includes the story “Crook of the Month” by Bloch, as well as a short review of Bloch’s novel “There is a Serpent in Eden.”
Includes a review of Bloch’s novel “Lori.”
Comprised of five stories by Bloch: (1) “All on a Golden Afternoon”; (2) “The Goddess of Wisdom”; (3) “Constant Reader”; (4) “You Could Be Wrong”; and (5) “Almost Human.” “An entire issue of my short stories in German.”
Includes the story “That Hell-Bound Train” by Bloch.
Includes the story “That Hell-Bound Train” by Bloch.
Includes a story (pg. 56 – translation title “Guest from the Ice Age”) by Bloch.
Includes a story (pg. 20 – translation title “Stories of Intelligent Men”) by Bloch.
Includes the story “Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper” by Bloch.
Includes the story “The Second Coming” by Bloch.
Promotional magazine for the film “Alien” (1979).
Includes a program for a 1970 retrospective titled “’27-’33 Medium Rare – Ten Retrospective Selections from the American Film Institute Collection at the Library of Congress.”
Includes as an insert a 1975 issue of “Science Fiction International News.”
Also includes a copy of the program for the 1979 Nebula Awards, a copy of the SFWA by-laws, and a certificate awarded to Bloch as “Official SFWA Liason [sic] Honcho.”
“A salute to Milton Caniff on his 75th year.”
Also includes clipped pages from the January 1984 issue and a partial photocopy of the May 1989 issue.
Promotional magazine for the film “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” (1977).
A publication about Vietnam by
Each issue is an “Oscar Screening Guide.”
Also includes a 1974 financial report for the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society and an active-membership list for the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society.
Also includes a supplement titled “Tales of Brun,” as well as a supplement titled “Varona.”
Also includes a 1972 “The Fandom Unlimited # 1 Supplement,” a 1972 advertisement that includes an ad for “Fandom Unlimited Enterprises: The Robert Bloch Fanzine,” and three additional undated ads.
Includes an ad for Cinecon promoting Bloch as a “guest of honour.”
Also includes “Luck of the Fannish” and “Willis Plays Vegas,” each by Arnie Katz.
Also includes an undated ad for the magazine.
The last folder also includes a list titled “Films in Review’s Career Articles Still in Print.”
An unidentified (pp. 3-11) publication, a 1994 Hall of Fame Ballot, and an announcement for the Walter Gillings Travel Fund.
Includes an order form and an ad for Foyles Bookclubs.
Includes a subscription form.
Includes only part of issue no. 17. Also includes “A Gegenschein flyer, especially designed to reduce circulation,” and a subscription flyer.
Two copies of a “special issue” titled “The Best of Ghosts & Scholars.”
Also includes a sheet of poems by Denise Dumars that was “published in association with GRUE Magazine.”
The 1950 “Centennial Issue.”
“36th Anniversary” issue.
Includes a subscription form.
Also includes the 1990 Bram Stoker Award Recommendations, two issues of the “HWA Market Report,” and one issue of the “Horror and Dark Fantasy Market Report.”
Also includes a letter and five photographs from publisher Ben Indick.
Also includes a supplement to the issue.
Also includes “The John D. MacDonald Quotebook.”
Promotional magazine for the film “The Lord of the Rings” (1978).
Also includes a subscription form for the publication.
Also includes a printout titled “Index of Authors & Titles – Volume 1, number 1 through Volume 54, number 6 – Fall 1949 through June 1978.”
A 1979 issue (nine copies) lists Bloch as a “guest of honor” at the first Festival of the Detective Novel in Rheims, France. Also includes five sets of minutes for Board of Directors meetings, bylaws, two ballot/election documents, two announcements of meetings, and “TV or Not TV – Some Notes on Selling to Television,” which Bloch for Mystery Writers of America.
Also includes a subscription advertisement for the publication.
Also includes a “Midfan Supplement.”
Includes a subscriiption form.
Also includes “The Great Debate – A Special Literary Supplement to ‘The Miskatonic.’”
One issue includes a one-page “supplementary reader.”
Also includes an “M-Press Publications Information Sheet.”
Includes application materials for membership to the British Film Institute.
Also includes “Nemesis Presents ‘Dante’s Inferno.’”
Photocopies of pages from a 1949-1950 magazine.
Also includes an issue of “The Watchtower,” “combined with ‘The SFWA Newsletter,’” a “final report” from President J.E. Pournelle, and a Nebula Awards Report.
“Special Year-end Movie Issue.”
The issue is dedicated to Bloch.
One issue includes the following note: “Leonard Nimoy – ‘Mr. Spock’ of ‘Star Trek’ – seems destined to go down in entertainment history as the James Dean of the 1960s. Scores of similar effusions reached me in past several years.” Another issue includes the following note: “Typical ‘Star Trek’ fanzine – some day people will wonder about
Also includes “Dead Thing in a Deserted Theater,” a “special one-shot supplement to ‘Outre’ #5.”
Includes a flier for the publication.
Reprint of a 1936 issue.
“Spring Announcements.”
Also includes a multi-page ad for the magazine and other publications.
Sent to Bloch by Nils Hardin, the publisher and editor of “Xenophile.” Also includes a letter from Hardin.
Also includes invitations to two events, as well as two copies of a publication celebrating the organization’s thirtieth anniversary.
A clipping sent by Michael Avallone is attached.
Sally Francy, Bloch’s daughter, was the newsletter editor.
The issue dated December 23, 1982-January 6, 1983, includes the following note: “You couldn’t find a more perfect compendium of what was wrong with 1982 than the entire contents of this issue of ‘Rolling Stone.’”
Also includes an issue of “Bong,” “a dietary suppliment [sic]” to issue no. 71 of “Rune.”
Also includes two convention reports, “Hugo(e)s There?” and “The Crazed Wizard’s Gift,” by Bob Vardeman.
Includes an order form for the publication.
Includes a flier for the publication.
Also includes “Nibblings SF Reviews.”
Includes an ad for an issue devoted to the film “The War of the Worlds” (1953).
Also includes a “Third Letter.”
Also includes “Spudnut,” a “letterzine supplement to Spud # 1.”
Also includes “Doom Eager,” “a supplement to ‘Star Fire’ #6.”
Also includes “SubGenius Pamphlet No. 1” and “SubGenius Pamphlet No. 2.
Includes a card promoting The Skreughbaul Press.
Bloch was an “honorary member” of the fan club.
Bloch’s membership card is attached to an issue.
Also includes a photo of Hampshire.
Also includes a photo of Hampshire and “Susan Hampshire – Her Life and Career.”
“The Jack the Ripper Special!”
Also includes “Portals of Madness,” “a Thru Black Holes Production.”
A “guide to the exhibition, ‘Time Covers Hollywood 1923-1985.’”
One issue is a hardbound “sixty-fifth anniversary issue” that includes a letter from Darrell Schweitzer. Another issue is a hardbound “special David S. Schow issue” that is inscribed by Schow.
Also includes a supplement and two copies of a “mini-issue.”
Bloch is listed in one issue as an “honorary member.” Also includes a German-language certificate awarded to Bloch from the Club, as well as two business cards for Elke Jost, a member of the club’s board.Bloch is listed in one issue as an “honorary member.” Also includes a German-language certificate awarded to Bloch from the Club, as well as two business cards for Elke Jost, a member of the club’s board.
Also includes seven supplements.
Includes the story “The Picture” by Bloch.
Includes “The Funny Farm,” “inspired by the story by Robert Bloch."
Includes “The Shambler from the Stars!” “from the story by Robert Bloch,” and “Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper,” “based on the story by Robert Bloch.”
Includes “The Man Who Cried Werewolf” “from the short story titled ‘The Man Who Cried Wolf’ by Robert Bloch.”
Includes “And the Blood Ran Green” by Bloch.
Draft of an introduction by Bloch for “Psycho-Paths II,” an anthology that he was editing at the time of his death in 1994 – it was published in 1997 as “Robert Bloch’s Psychos.” Also includes lists of stories under consideration for both “Psycho-Paths” and “Psycho-Paths II.”
Includes handwritten notes from Liane Gibbons regarding the formatting and editing of some of the stories. “Original material and manuscript for my book collection ‘The Skull of the Marquis de Sade.’” Includes manuscripts for the following stories:
“This is the manuscript for a collection of my short stories (“Tales in a Jugular Vein” – Pyramid Books, 1965). The Story ‘A Home Away from Home’ – originally a prize winner in the ‘Alfred Hitchcock’ magazine, when it first appeared, later served as the basis for a teleplay which I wrote under the same title for ‘The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.’ I include a copy of this script elsewhere, and it is interesting to compare the short story with its development into an hour-long teleplay.”
Includes manuscripts for the following stories:
“Manuscript of a convention report to appear in ‘If’ magazine, March 1969.”
“Introduction for ‘Dragons and Nightmares,’ New Mirage hardcover collection.”
“Manuscript of ‘Show’ magazine article (unpublished).” “Article for ‘Show’ magazine – which went out of business rather than publish it (and I can’t blame them, even if this was their idea and assignment).”
“Galley proofs of new edition of my essay on SF and social criticism.”
“Introduction for collection ‘The Living Demons.’”
“Manuscript of book review.” Includes the cover for the reviewed book – “The Improbable Irish” by Walter Bryan.
“Not delivered as planned – but later printed.”
Also includes a letter from Harry Wasserman, publisher of the fanzine “Fantasy News.”
“Also delivered in accepting award for Christopher Lee.”
“A magazine piece for ‘Worlds of If,’ Dec. 1965, on the London science fiction convention I attended.”
One of a series of articles I did on films for [‘Show’ Magazine].”
First draft: “This never found a magazine for several years – but it’s a favorite.” Second draft: “Here is the revision I made for publication in a book collection.”
“Book review for 2 science fiction fan magazines.” “These items – written for both professional and specialized publications – are in a way semi-autobiographical, as they indicate activities and views circa 1965-1966.”
For the anthology “The Necromancers” by Peter Haining (ed.).
“Article for fan magazine on World Science Fiction Convention – personal reminiscences.”
“For a fan magazine.”
“Reflections on World Science Fiction Convention problems – for a fan magazine.”
“As a letter in ‘Films in Review.’”
“This review appeared in the Spring 1968 issue of ‘Psychotic’ magazine.”
“Written for a fan magazine – this shows some of the reactions of a screen-writer to the actors he meets.”
“For a fan magazine.”
“In 1947, Dial Press published my first novel, ‘The Scarf.’ Subsequently in 3 Avon paperback editions, the book went out of print in 1953 or thereabouts. In 1966, Fawcett publishers (Crest, Gold Medal) decided to put out a new paperback edition. I updated language and topical references – wrote a new ending – and an introduction (the latter not used). Here is my work in changing a book 20 years after its first printing.” Includes handwritten and typewritten lists of revisions, as well as an ‘author’s note.’”
Includes an “author’s note” with the following: “This introduction for the new edition of ‘The Scarf’ was never used – publisher apparently wanted to create the impression that this was a ‘new book.” Also includes a list of revisions with the following: “Last year (1967) Fawcett Gold Medal reprinted my 1947 novel ‘The Scarf.’ I made changes in the text – and here is the exact record of those changes, showing how I updated the book after twenty years. N.B.: A comparison will show how I added a completely new ending as here written.”
“Although a carbon, this is the original manuscript of the novel published as ‘The Star Stalker’ by Pyramid in 1968. The first copy was lost. I then revised this version – strengthening it and adding various episodes, but all is based on this copy.”
Includes a note regarding the manuscript from Pyramid Publications. “This is the revised original of ‘Colossal,’ which appeared as ‘The Star Stalker’ – with all corrections. Compare mss with its earlier version.”
“Written before the ‘new sound.’” “Retitled ‘Dig That Crazy Grave,’ this story won a prize in the ‘Ellery Queen Magazine’ short story contest. It appeared in the magazine and in several book collections under that title. Oddly enough, some years later, a writer named Richard Prather titled one of his mysteries ‘Dig That Crazy Grave.’ Hmmm…”
“Typical ‘Weird Tales’ fare from my ‘middle period.’
“From ‘Weird Tales’ of long ago – a bit revised for a recent collection.”
Clipped from the anthology “Yours Truly, Jack, the Ripper.”
“Inspired by reaction to death of James Dean.” “This appeared in ‘Ellery Queen’ magazine as “Betsy Drake Will Live Forever.” Widely reprinted, it was bought for television by ‘Alfred Hitchcock Presents’ and was my first TV story sale – though the script was written by William Fay, some time before I ever I arrived in Hollywood.”
“Early ‘Weird Tales’ – I worked two nights in a drug store as a youth, with this result.”
Clipped from “Fanews Magazine.” “The editors at Dial Press deleted the foregoing chapter from my first novel, ‘The Scarf.’ In 1947, it was considered too ‘far out.’ In 1965, Charles Whitman took a rifle up on a tower in Texas and brought my fantasy to life.”
“One of my favorites – to do as a teleplay or film.”
“More of S.F. – with a difference.” “This story, written for ‘The Arkham Sampler’ in 1948 or 1949, became the first teleplay [titled “The Changing Heart”] I adapted from one of my own published tales on the ‘Alfred Hitchcock Presents’ show. As such, it broke their precedent – previously, they hadn’t allowed a writer to do the teleplay version of one of his own published stories. But from that time on, I did quite a few of my own for them.”
Clipped from the anthology “Yours Truly, Jack, the Ripper.”
“This title later changed – and I used it instead on an article.” “This story, retitled ‘Sock Finish,’ appeared in ‘Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine’ in October 1957. It has since been frequently reprinted – and one of its plot elements I used in a teleplay called ‘The Greatest Monster of Them All,’ on the ‘Alfred Hitchcock Presents’ TV show (half-hour format).”
“A rewritten version of the magazine piece.”
“The story treatment sold to 20th Century-Fox for use in ‘Journey to the Unknown.’”
“A rather outrageous example of how to turn a pun into a story.”
“From ‘Weird Tales’ – I did this also as a radio script from my own show – “Stay Tuned for Terror.” “This short story became an hour teleplay I did for ‘Thriller.’”
“This was written in the days when all youngsters wore crew-cuts.”
“An ironic little detective yarn.”
“A teleplay was written from this for the ‘Hitchcock’ show by another writer when I wasn’t available to do the script.”
“One of the earliest ‘modern style’ stories I wrote for ‘Weird Tales.’”
“William Lindsay Gresham, who wrote ‘Nightmare Alley,’ always liked this piece.”
“My notes – and how did I decipher such a mess? – for my novelet ‘Groovyland,’ in ‘If.’”
Attributed to “Tarleton Fiske.” “This started in a fan magazine – for free – ended years later in ‘Playboy.’”
“Hitchcock’s magazine liked this – but it was reprinted elsewhere in a shorter version.”
Clipped from the fanzine “Fantasy Fan.” “Oddly enough, this item – ‘The Fantasy Fan’ for Dec. 1934 – is probably the rarest and hardest to come by of any: collectors of this material cannot secure copies at any price. As a ‘contributor,’ I was sent several – and by some stroke of fortune, stored an extra one away – for 33 years!” “This extremely rare fan magazine contains one of the first pieces of my writing to be published – an atrocity, but an early attempt on the part of a 17-year-old to find a reading audience.”
“I became a charter member of the Friends of Lizzie Borden Society as a result of writing this story for ‘Weird Tales.’”
“A strange one – which I intend to do in films one day.”
“Sold to ‘Fantastic’ – but they changed editors, never ran it there.” “My sole published venture into verse – for the poetry anthology ‘Fire and Sleet and Candlelight’ (Arkham House).”
“This one fooled ‘em – it eventually sold to a science fiction magazine.”
Clipped from the August 1966 issue of “The Saint Magazine.”
“Original outline of my story in Feb. 1968 issue of ‘Galaxy’ – ‘Sales of a Death-Man.’ One page is all that’s necessary for most short stories, or so I find.”
Clipped from the book “Something About Cats and Other Pieces.” “Page proofs from a book – this story was never published in a magazine.”
“No magazine would dare to run this – so I put it in one of my collections.”
“‘Unknown Worlds’ was a fine but short-lived fantasy magazine of 25 years ago. Here’s one of my contributions, retyped for an anthology.”
“Often reprinted.”
“This story sold to Amicus Productions – Paramount filmed it in England for 1965 release as ‘The Skull,’ with script by Milton Subotsky.”
Serbian-language translation of Bloch’s story.
“A long story from ‘Weird Tales’ – in the days of the ‘gangster.’”
“Edited mss of my novelet, “Tell Your Fortune,” which appeared in ‘Weird Tales’ over 20 years ago.”
Clipped from “Bestseller Mystery Magazine.”
“For ‘Dangerous Visions,’ Doubleday, 1966 – an anthology of original science fiction stories.”
“1. Biographical notes to ‘A Toy for Juliette.’ 2. Introduction to Harlan Ellison’s sequel to ‘A Toy for Juliette.’ 3. Ellison’s notes on ‘A Toy for Juliette.’ This story appeared in the Doubleday anthology ‘Dangerous Visions,’ which Ellison edited. When he read my story ‘A Toy for Juliette,’ he wrote a story of his own to continue it.”
Clipped from “Adam” magazine (nudity). “Stories sometimes turn up in strange places!” Also includes “The Prowler in the City on the Edge of the World,” Harlan Ellison’s sequel to Bloch’s story.
“ESP was fairly new to the general public when I wrote this one.”
“For ‘Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine’, 1966. This story is being used as the basis for a pilot script of a new 20th Century-Fox series starring Louis Jordan. I am doing the story and script.”
“This one has seldom been seen – it appeared in ‘Avon Fantasy Reader,’ a most offbeat publication.”
Clipped from the anthology “More Nightmares.”
“No magazine would run it – too far out – so I put it in a collection.”
“Retitled ‘Day Broke’ for ‘Star Science Fiction.’”
“Straight science fiction.”
“Science fiction.”
Manuscripts of Bloch’s speech at the 1969 World Science Fiction Convention (St. Louis, MO) and his speech at the 1972 Annual Banquet, Wisconsin Raconteurs Club (West Allis, WI). Also includes his addresses to the Mystery Writers of America as new president and as former president, as well as a letter “read in absentia at annual banquet of Praed Street Irregulars, Nov. 1968.”
“Failures from way back – unpublished and unsold by my former agent – all original mss., dated on envelopes.” Each manuscript except “The Last Clown” includes a list of publications to which the story was submitted, with dates of submission and return. Rejection letters are attached to some manuscripts.
The titles are
“This material was sent to me by the studio as a basis for my script on ‘The Deadly Bees.’” “This outline came to me and I didn’t care for it – so wrote my own instead.”
“This was my actual outline from which I dictated screenplay.” “My story synopsis for ‘The Deadly Bees’ with accompanying guidance-notes for dictating actual script.”
Four stenographic notebooks. One notebook includes the following note: “The shorthand dictation of a screenplay ‘The Deadly Bees.’ Note frequent changes and revisions in material before its transcription to typed form.”
“It contains my own changes and revisions. See the accompanying second draft for further developments.”
“Here is real idiocy – my script as rewritten by an English author to ‘sensationalize’ the story. Unfortunately, some of the trade reviews take me to task for his changes. The film was not successful – nor did it deserve to be, after this sort of nonsense.”
“Included here are two treatments by Milton Subotsky based on my suggestions and incorporating my four short stories which form the basis of ‘The House That Dripped Blood.’” Included with the bound outline are two small pages of handwritten notes and five typewritten pages with handwritten notes.
“This is the original script of my latest screenplay for Amicus Productions. Their title, ‘The House That Dripped Blood,’ will, hopefully, be changed before release.”
“From original story treatment which I also did.” “An original story and screenplay – released by Universal, 1965, starring Robert Taylor and Barbara Stanwyck.”
“Here is a teleplay story idea – that became a film idea – that became a first draft screenplay – that became a second draft screenplay. Complete with my outline, notes and producer’s notes. Release title: ‘The Psychopath,’ Paramount, 1966.”
“An unsold script for a teleplay series that was never made. I liked the plot and suggested it as a movie possibility to Amicus Productions, filming in England and releasing here through Paramount. What follows is my treatment for a film version.”
“My treatment and original title – changed to ‘Schizo’ and finally released as ‘The Psychopath.’ This is the story they bought.”
“Fragmentary notes I used in dictating the two drafts of the screenplay.”
“The first draft – with my notes and corrections.”
“Changes suggested to first draft by the producer.” Attached to a cover letter from producer Max J. Rosenberg.
“Filmed as ‘The Psychopath’ – an Amicus Production in England, released in this country by Paramount in 1966. In the fall of 1965, I visited London and saw some of the shooting at Shepperton Studios.”
“The first version of my original story followed William Castle’s idea of a ‘fat murderess,’ for Joan Blondell. When Columbia read it, they sent it to Joan Crawford, who asked to do the lead. We went to New York, talked to Miss Crawford. I told her what I had in mind for changes and she agreed. Columbia paid Miss Blondell’s contract up in full and I revised the script for Miss Crawford. During production, I stayed with the picture – through the shooting and after, to observe editing, dubbing, scoring, etc. I rehearsed Miss Crawford, who read her part for me before filming. There were a few changes made by Mr. Castle which I did not agree with, but it was a successful picture.”
“This copy of the final version of ‘Strait-Jacket’ stayed with me through casting, rehearsal, shooting and post-production. It includes the actual shooting schedule which follows script. This shows how the film was broken down for production.”
“Adapted by me from four of my published short stories – ‘Enoch,’ ‘Terror Over Hollywood,’ ‘Mr. Steinway,’ and ‘The Man Who Collected Poe.’ This is the ‘release script, based on time-study of the edited final print of the film itself. I do not approve [of], nor am I responsible for, the ‘non-camera’ gore added by the people who made the picture – or for the introduction of a cat in ‘Enoch’!”
“This is the ‘long’ or TV version of the film – with added scenes here cued in to the other script. It is better in this form than in the abbreviated one – but the other was cut to conform to the theatrical double-bill program-timing.”
Lists suggested new titles as “Trigger-Happy” and “Man with a Gun.” “But they called it ‘Off Season’ instead, heaven knows why!”
“June Lockhart and John Anderson gave fine performances in this one.”
“Other hands revised this script before its subsequent airing – taking out one of the two storylines which involved the boy and concentrating on the female patient. Again, ‘executive thinking’ – of a sort which resulted in the show being dropped after its first season.” “This was shown as ‘Why is My Love Grown So Cold?” – hardly an improvement in title, I think. Nor did I like the ‘new’ script.”
The story is credited to Bloch and Richard De Roy; the script is credited to De Roy. “They’d already bought a similar story, unknown to my producer – so they combined them and let the first writer do the teleplay.”
Includes the original story by Bloch, titled “Mask of Death,” “which they bought – and altered rather drastically,” and the revised script by Stephen Kandel. The script credits the story to “Robert Block.” “Sometimes, when a writer’s work is altered, they also misspell his name. Freudian slip?” Of Kandel’s script, Bloch wrote, “and a good job – though not really my story at all.”
“This is the original draft of my script ‘The Indian Spirit Guide,’ taken from the story of the same title, which I wrote for ‘Weird Tales.’ Twentieth Century-Fox sent me to England to do this script in June-July 1968 for their series ‘Journey to the Unknown.’ A comparison with my short story (which was reprinted in several anthologies) will show the intent of the changes I made in order to translate it into an hour-long teleplay.”
“‘Syndicated TV’ was a world of its own – do the shows fast and cheaply was the imperative of the day. But one learned to improvise.”
“How to do a teleplay ‘outside’ – with a minimum of sets.”
“One of my first teleplays – starring Buddy Ebsen, who was glad to get 3 days’ work, then!” “Written for a half-hour ‘low-budget’ syndicated show, [the three scripts] exemplify a simplified approach – few sets, lots of ‘exterior’ scenes, small cast. But it interested me to note that the cast included many motion picture ‘old-timers’ down on their luck – people like Andy Clyde [in “Abandoned Mine”], J.M. Kerrigan [in “So Shall Ye Reap,” not written by Bloch], and (in “Death and Texas”) a then-unsuccessful Buddy Ebsen. I did 5 of these shows, my ‘baptism of fire’ in television, and enjoyed them.”
The script is credited to Bloch; the story is credited to John Thomas James, “who is actually the producer Roy Huggins.”
Also includes a photocopy of a 1978 letter by Bloch regarding the episode.
“The ‘case history’ of a teleplay, from 2-page basic premise to finished script – showing changes and elements involved in evolution of a script: (1) premise; (2) outline; (3) revised outline; (3a) mimeographed outline; (4) 1st draft teleplay; (5) 2nd draft teleplay; (6) producer’s comments; (7) producer’s notes on series format; (8) further changes by producer; (9) additional versions; (10) final script.”
The memo from Roddenberry that is dated May 23, 1966, and which presumably refers to the “The Cormobite Maneuver” script for “set descriptions, characterizations and episode style aspects which are very close to what we want,” includes the following note from Bloch: “This is typical of way in which a producer tries to help familiarize his writers with changes in TV series concepts, etc. However, the terse ‘military atmosphere’ of this script dialogue may be contrasted with the less rigid approach of my ‘Star Trek’ script.”
“Another horrible example – teleplay development of ‘Wolf in the Fold,’ showing how 1967 network and studio executives arbitrarily call the tune – and, in this instance, then proceed to change their own directives when they see that what they suggest will not work. You might call this a lesson in how
“Perhaps my best teleplay. The scene with the Indian was omitted when the show was run – and rerun.” “’A Good Imagination,’ from one of my own short stories and expanded by me, was shot directly from this first draft. It starred Edward Andrews, and is probably my best script. It was entered at the Cannes Festival.”
“We used dwarfs long before ‘Ship of Fools,’ as this script attests.”
“Pink pages represent changes and show how a script can alter in concept – in this case, an improvement.”
“This is the original from a script I adapted from a short story of mine. It made a nice macabre comedy, thanks to players like Henry Jones, Reta Shaw, Philip Ober, Edgar Buchanan and Eve McVeagh.” “Note the ‘stage directions’ – often consisting of ‘inside’ jokes to amuse the production staff. It was a ‘fun show’ to work for – and I met Boris Karloff as a result: he was the weekly host.”
“From my story in ‘Weird Tales.’” “I sat in on these rehearsals on ‘Thriller’ very often and learned a lot from the fine actors used.”
“This
“Much too long – and much too stilted. Not my style at all.” “This is a first draft of a TV show episode that was never filmed. Jack Webb’s ‘True’ series, made at Warner Brothers in 1962-3, lasted only one season – and so did Mr. Webb’s role as head of their television operation. The reasons may perhaps be found in this example, written ‘to order.’ Mr. Webb’s insistence on dialogue and narrative technique which followed his personalized ‘Dragnet’ style is oddly out of place in a story of this sort: this is an example of an assignment a writer takes out of necessity and executes under pressure. As in this instance, it seldom succeeds at any level.”
“Here, in notes, outline and various versions and revisions, are the copious results of an attempt to translate John D. MacDonald’s novel ‘Linda’ into a screenplay. The results – representing compromises with executives and studio personnel, were eminently unsatisfactory, and the project was abandoned. These things happen – but, there is, as evidenced here, as much or more work involved in the failures as in the successes.”
Includes Notes and Outline (two copies, each with handwritten annotations), Biographical Notes for characters, and handwritten notes.
“No action on this yet by a network – but it may still be produced. Note the mss. of the story included amongst my papers.”
“Story treatment and copy of two-hour original motion picture or teleplay for pilot of new series: ‘Fear No Evil. Episode: ‘The Twenty-First Witch.’” The story treatment includes the following note: “My original story treatment for a two-hour film for television on which I worked at Universal Studios in summer and fall of 1969.” The revised story treatment includes the following note: “The same story after suggested revisions on part of Universal producers.” The script includes the following note: “Here is how the treatment evolved into my finished screenplay – which I doubt very much they will have the courage to film, since it is straight fantasy.”
“A further transformation of a script – my story for Twentieth Century-Fox reverted to me – whereupon I changed it to fit my own concept. It may still sell. Note the emendations in text throughout.”
“This thinly disguised version of ‘Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’ did not appeal to me. I turned down an offer to revise it.” “This script was never filmed – I had no suggestions on what they should do with it, nor any thoughts on revision.”
“Sometimes scripts are sent to writers for assignment to rewrite. I turned this one down.” “Sometimes it takes ‘guts’ to refuse a job. I turned down an offer of $30,000 to revise this. The studio hired another writer, made the film anyway – and it was neither a critical nor a popular success. Should I have taken the assignment for the money and forgotten my reservations about the story? I think not.”
Includes revisions on pink pages. “‘Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper’ is one of my most widely-known efforts, reprinted a score of times in anthologies, widely translated abroad – done on many radio shows – it finally reached television at a time when I was doing a film and thus unable to take the script assignment. Some day I shall eventually do my own dramatic version – a tentative approach has already been made and will be included here. Pink pages represent further changes made in script before shooting.” “[Lyndon was] an excellent writer – but some day I’ll do my own version of this story.”
From Bloch: “Martha Hyer Wallis’s screenplay she wanted me to re-write.” Note from Wallis: “Bob – I wrote this treatment (after the script) in an attempt to give it an international importance for Lew Grade. It’s much the same. I prefer the simple ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ type of approach but just want the story told – either way.” Letter from Wallis: “I hope you like the idea well enough to want to work on it. My writing is amateurish and just an attempt to get the concept down on paper. A complete re-write – rethinking – any changes – all would be welcome from you. I think it could be a very big picture commercially and certainly its message of hope is something people hunger for today. I will call you when I get back from La Costa and we’ll work out some sort of financial arrangement if you decide you’re interested in working on it (small salary while writing – large piece of the project).”
“Robert Bloch’s dialogue appears on page 5.”
Includes a French-language essay about H.P. Lovecraft.
Includes four postcards that “were sent to me in letters – during his travels in the early 1930s – by H.P. Lovecraft.”
“A devoted fan – English – showing type of questions asked of writers – mainly relevant to films and television.”
“Correspondence (partial) of a longtime American ‘fan.’”
Includes letters from Bloch, Charles Beaumont, Chester Himes, Asa Wilgus, Gil Orlovitz, Fritz Leiber, and John Ciardi.
Includes letters from Bloch and Asa Wilgus.
Includes letters from Bloch and Asa Wilgus.
Includes letters from Bloch and Asa Wilgus.
Includes letters from Bloch and Asa Wilgus.
Letters from Bloch.
Includes letters from Bloch, Ramsey Campbell, and L. Sprague de Camp.
“Cross-section of business correspondence – mostly 1966 – a few ‘exotic’ earlier items to show what kind of propositions are made to a writer.”
“Enclosed letters in this should be self-explanatory.” Correspondence regarding a favorable quote about the novel by Charles Larson that Bloch allowed to be used to publicize the novel. Includes a bound manuscript copy of the novel.
“General ‘fan mail’ – mostly 1966 – few earlier items of special interest, showing reactions of general readers and audience.”
“A few samples of correspondence with ‘celebrities’ – just to indicate that all mail is not from ‘fans.’” Includes correspondence from Boris Karloff, Joan Crawford, Stan Laurel, and composers Eric Coates and Ferde Grofé.
Correspondence regarding the 1991 anthology edited by Bloch.
Includes letters regarding “Psycho-Paths II,” an anthology that Bloch was editing at the time of his death in 1994 – it was published in 1997 as “Robert Bloch’s Psychos.”
Photocopy of a letter from Bloch to Forrest Ackerman.
A letter from composer Eric Coates.
Includes a letter from Michael Avallone.
Includes a letter from August Derleth.
Includes two letters from Stan Laurel.
Includes letters from Kirk Douglas, August Derleth, Michael Avallone, and Dallas Mayr. Also includes a letter from Peggy Robertson, an assistant to Alfred Hitchcock – attached is a transcript of a discussion between Hitchcock and Bloch regarding a possible “Jack the Ripper” project.
“A fairly representative cross-section of correspondence – Nov. ’66 thru Nov. 67. Business, personal, and ‘fan letters’ included – again a sort of running record of contact with both regular correspondents, occasional, and casual scriveners. Much material dealing with still-pending business transactions must, of course, be returned for the records – so there isn’t as much ‘important business mail as would be truly representative. But it’s a fair sampling.” Includes letters from Christopher Lee, Colin Wilson, August Derleth, Milton Subotsky, and Max J. Rosenberg.
Includes letters from Milton Subotsky, Max J. Rosenberg, Michael Avallone, Harlan Ellison, August Derleth, and Lee Hoffman.
Includes letters from Milton Subotsky, Max J. Rosenberg, J. Vernon Shea, Michael Avallone, Dallas Mayr, Samuel A. Peeples, and August Derleth.
Includes letters from Laurence Janifer, Milton Subotsky, Michael Avallone, and August Derleth.
Includes letters from J. Vernon Shea, Laurence Janifer, Michael Avallone, Lee Hoffman, August Derleth, and Robert Silverberg.
Includes letters from J. Vernon Shea, Michael Avallone, and August Derleth.
Includes letters from Milton Subotsky, Lee Hoffman, Michael Avallone, and J. Vernon Shea.
Includes letters from Robert Silverberg and Michael Avallone.
Includes letters from Dallas Mayr, Michael Avallone, Lee Hoffman, Robert Silverberg, and Milton Subotsky.
Includes letters from Milton Subotsky, Michael Avallone, Robert Silverberg, and August Derleth.
Includes letters from Michael Avallone and Richard E. Geis.
Includes letters from Michael Avallone.
Includes letters from Michael Avallone and J. Vernon Shea.
Includes letters from Poul Anderson, Michael Avallone, Leslie Halliwell, and Frederik Pohl.
Includes letters from Michael Avallone and Poul Anderson.
Includes letters from Milton Subotsky, Laurence Janifer, Michael Avallone, Richard E. Geis, and Lee Hoffman.
Includes letters from Milton Subotsky, Lee Hoffman, Michael Avallone, August Derleth, and Richard E. Geis.
Includes letters from Michael Avallone, Milton Subotsky, and Dallas Mayr.
Includes letters from Fritz Lang, Michael Avallone, J. Vernon Shea, and Lee Hoffman.
Includes letters from Max J. Rosenberg, Samuel A. Peeples, and Brian Aldiss.
Includes letters from Max J. Rosenberg, A.E. van Vogt, J. Vernon Shea, and Harlan Ellison – Ellison’s letter is attached to a copy of the July 1968 issue of “Adam” (nudity) that features the stories “A Toy for Juliette” by Bloch and “The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World” by Ellison.
Includes letters from Max J. Rosenberg, Samuel A. Peeples, J. Vernon Shea, Poul Anderson, August Derleth, Jeannot Szwarc, Richard E. Geis, and Ray Bradbury.
Includes letters from Max J. Rosenberg, Milton Subotsky, Michael Avallone, Richard E. Geis, and J. Vernon Shea. Also includes a letter from John Stanley of the “San Fransisco Chronicle” and an accompanying article about Bloch: “Results of a 4-hour taped interview with reporter from the ‘San Francisco Chronicle’ in August. Some errata crept in, I regret to say, and I set the record straight with the reporter – who now intends to do a magazine story on me.”
Includes letters from Michael Avallone, J. Vernon Shea, and L. Sprague de Camp.
Includes letters from Milton Subotsky, Michael Avallone, J. Vernon Shea, and Leslie Halliwell.
Includes letters from Milton Subotsky, Dallas Mayr, Hillary Waugh, Michael Avallone, J. Vernon Shea, and Evelyn Karloff, wife of Boris Karloff.
Includes letters from Robert L. Fish, Michael Avallone, J. Vernon Shea, and Hillary Waugh.
Includes letters from Peter Haining, Robert L. Fish, Lee Hoffman, Dallas Mayr, August Derleth, Michael Avallone, and J. Vernon Shea.
Includes letters from Robert L. Fish, Michael Avallone, and J. Vernon Shea.
Includes letters from August Derleth, Michael Avallone, J. Vernon Shea, Evelyn Karloff, widow of Boris Karloff, and Christopher Lee.
Includes letters from Lucy Freeman, Peter Haining, Robert L. Fish, Michael Avallone, J. Vernon Shea, and Evelyn Karloff, widow of Boris Karloff.
Includes letters from Isaac Asimov, Max J. Rosenberg, Michael Avallone, J. Vernon Shea, and Evelyn Karloff, widow of Boris Karloff.
Includes letters from Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Dallas Mayr, Michael Avallone, J. Vernon Shea, and Gordon R. Dickson.
Includes letters from Arthur C. Clarke, Michael Avallone, J. Vernon Shea, and Gordon R. Dickson.
Includes letters from Evelyn Karloff, widow of Boris Karloff, Michael Avallone, and J. Vernon Shea.
Includes letters from August Derleth, Poul Anderson, Evelyn Karloff, widow of Boris Karloff, Robert L. Fish, Michael Avallone, and J. Vernon Shea.
Includes letters from Michael Avallone, J. Vernon Shea, and Peter Haining.
Includes a letter from Michael Avallone.
Includes letters from Michael Avallone, J. Vernon Shea, John Brunner, and A.E. van Vogt.
Includes letters from Michael Avallone and J. Vernon Shea.
Includes letters from Michael Avallone, J. Vernon Shea, Harlan Ellison, and Lester del Rey.
Includes letters from J. Vernon Shea and Max J. Rosenberg.
Includes letters from Robert L. Fish, Isaac Asimov, Milton Subotsky Michael Avallone, and J. Vernon Shea.
Includes letters from Robert L. Fish, Robert A. Heinlein, Greg Bear, Michael Avallone, J. Vernon Shea, Milton Subotsky, and Christopher Lee.
Includes letters from Hillary Waugh, Michael Avallone, J. Vernon Shea, and Harlan Ellison.
Includes letters from Milton Subotsky, August Derleth, and J. Vernon Shea.
Includes letters from Robert Silverberg and J. Vernon Shea.
Includes letters from Michael Avallone, J. Vernon Shea, and Max J. Rosenberg.
Includes letters from Hillary Waugh, Michael Avallone, J. Vernon Shea, and Robert L. Fish.
Includes letters from Hillary Waugh, Lucy Freeman, Michael Avallone, and J. Vernon Shea.
Includes letters from Lucy Freeman, L. Sprague de Camp, Lee Hoffman, Michael Avallone, and J. Vernon Shea.
Includes letters from Lucy Freeman, August Derleth, Philip Jose Farmer, J. Vernon Shea, L. Sprague de Camp, and Kirby McCauley – McCauley’s letter includes a 1970 issue of “The Howard Collector” and a copy of “Skull Comics # 1” by Gary Arlington.
Includes letters from L. Sprague de Camp, Michael Avallone, and J. Vernon Shea.
Includes letters from Fritz Leiber, Lucy Freeman, Christopher Lee, Robert L. Fish, L. Sprague de Camp, Philip Jose Farmer, Kirby McCauley, Milton Subotsky, Michael Avallone, and J. Vernon Shea.
Includes letters from Lucy Freeman, Philip Jose Farmer, Dallas Mayr, Milton Subotsky, Max J. Rosenberg, L. Sprague de Camp, Michael Avallone, J. Vernon Shea, and John Brunner.
Includes letters from Lucy Freeman, Lin Carter, Michael Avallone, J. Vernon Shea, Dallas Mayr, Fritz Leiber, Peter Haining, Max J. Rosenberg, and Philip Jose Farmer.
Includes letters from Lucy Freeman, Samuel A. Peeples, Peg Campbell, widow of John W. Campbell, Michael Avallone, J. Vernon Shea, and Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer.
Includes letters from Lucy Freeman, Robert L. Fish, Lee Hoffman, Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer, Michael Avallone, and J. Vernon Shea.
Includes letters from Lucy Freeman, Max J. Rosenberg, Michael Avallone, and J. Vernon Shea.
Includes letters from Max J. Rosenberg, Michael Avallone, J. Vernon Shea, Evelyn Karloff, widow of Boris Karloff, and Robert A. Heinlein.
Includes letters from Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer, Michael Avallone, J. Vernon Shea, and Milton Subotsky.
Includes letters from Fritz Leiber, Max J. Rosenberg, Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer, Michael Avallone, and J. Vernon Shea.
Includes letters from Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer, Fritz Leiber, Max J. Rosenberg, Michael Avallone, and J. Vernon Shea.
Includes letters from Philip Jose Farmer, Frederic Dannay, Michael Avallone, J. Vernon Shea, Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer, and Robert A. Heinlein.
Includes a letter from Stanley Kubrick in which Kubrick asks Bloch for Bloch’s “favourite ten stories in [the] genre [terror and the supernatural.]” Also includes letters from Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer, Michael Avallone, J. Vernon Shea, Philip Jose Farmer, Milton Subotsky, and Isaac Asimov.
Includes letters from Milton Subotsky, Fritz Leiber, Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer, Michael Avallone, and J. Vernon Shea.
Includes letters from Dallas Mayr, L. Sprague de Camp, Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer, and J. Vernon Shea.
Includes letters from Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer, Lucy Freeman, Robert L. Fish, Richard Matheson, Poul Anderson, Michael Avallone, J. Vernon Shea, and Fritz Leiber.
Includes letters from Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer, Milton Subotsky, Michael Avallone, J. Vernon Shea, and Poul Anderson.
Includes letters from Arthur C. Clarke, L. Sprague de Camp, Michael Avallone, J. Vernon Shea, Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer, and Evelyn Karloff, widow of Boris Karloff.
Includes letters from L. Sprague de Camp, Samuel A. Peeples, Milton Subotsky, Lucy Freeman, Poul Anderson, and J. Vernon Shea.
Includes letters from A.E. van Vogt, L. Sprague de Camp, Samuel A. Peeples, Arthur C. Clarke, Christopher Lee, Poul Anderson, John Brunner, Robert L. Fish, J. Vernon Shea, and Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer.
Includes letters from Samuel A. Peeples, Milton Subotsky, Michael Avallone, J. Vernon Shea, Poul Anderson, Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer, Lucy Freeman, and L. Sprague de Camp.
Includes letters from L. Sprague de Camp, Arthur C. Clarke, Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer, Michael Avallone, J. Vernon Shea, and Robert L. Fish.
A postcard from Fritz Leiber.
Includes letters from L. Sprague de Camp, Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer, Michael Avallone, and J. Vernon Shea.
Includes letters from Fritz Leiber, Samuel A. Peeples, Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer, and J. Vernon Shea.
Includes letters from Poul Anderson, Richard E. Geis, Philip Jose Farmer and Bette Farmer, Fritz Leiber, Michael Avallone, J. Vernon Shea, and Dallas Mayr.
Includes letters from Forrest J. Ackerman, Michael Avallone, J. Vernon Shea, Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer, and L. Sprague de Camp.
Includes letters from L. Sprague de Camp, Donald Wandrei, Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer, and J. Vernon Shea.
Includes letters from Fritz Leiber, Philip Jose Farmer, Michael Avallone, and J. Vernon Shea.
Includes letters from Donald Wandrei, John Ball, Lucy Freeman, Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer, Donald J. Sobol, D.C. Fontana, Dirk W. Mosig, Isaac Asimov, Michael Avallone, and J. Vernon Shea.
Includes letters from Donald Wandrei, Jerry Pournelle, Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer, Michael Avallone, J. Vernon Shea, L. Sprague de Camp, and Otto Penzler.
Includes letters from Philip Jose Farmer and Bette Farmer, Fritz Leiber, Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, Michael Avallone, and J. Vernon Shea.
Includes letters from Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, Christopher Lee, Michael Avallone, J. Vernon Shea, and Samuel A. Peeples.
Includes letters from Fritz Leiber, Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, Michael Avallone, J. Vernon Shea, Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer, Dirk W. Mosig, Dallas Mayr, and Jerry Pournelle.
Includes letters from Dirk W. Mosig, Michael Avallone, J. Vernon Shea, Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer, Lee Hoffman, and Lucy Freeman.
Includes letters from Dallas Mayr, Dirk W. Mosig, Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer, Michael Avallone, and J. Vernon Shea.
Includes letters from Dirk W. Mosig, Michael Avallone, J. Vernon Shea, and Otto Penzler.
Includes letters from Dallas Mayr, Dirk W. Mosig, Michael Avallone, J. Vernon Shea, Philip Jose Farmer and Bette Farmer, and Otto Penzler.
Includes letters from Dallas Mayr, Philip Jose Farmer and Bette Farmer, Dirk W. Mosig, and J. Vernon Shea.
Includes letters from Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, L. Sprague de Camp, Dirk W. Mosig, Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer, Lucy Freeman, Dallas Mayr, Michael Avallone, J. Vernon Shea, A.E. van Vogt, and Arthur C. Clarke.
Includes letters from Dallas Mayr, Arthur C. Clarke, Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, Dirk W. Mosig, Michael Avallone, J. Vernon Shea, Alan Dean Foster, and Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer.
Includes letters from Fritz Leiber, Dallas Mayr, Dirk W. Mosig, Michael Avallone, J. Vernon Shea, and Philip Jose Farmer and Bette Farmer.
Includes letters from Dirk W. Mosig, Evelyn Karloff, widow of Boris Karloff, Isaac Asimov, Philip Jose Farmer and Bette Farmer, Dallas Mayr, Fritz Leiber, Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, and J. Vernon Shea.
Includes letters from Dirk W. Mosig, Dallas Mayr, Fritz Leiber, Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, J. Vernon Shea, and Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer.
Includes letters from Dallas Mayr, Philip Jose Farmer and Bette Farmer, Dirk W. Mosig, Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, and J. Vernon Shea.
Includes letters from Dallas Mayr, Dirk W. Mosig, Ramsey Campbell, Philip Jose Farmer and Bette Farmer, Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, Michael Avallone, J. Vernon Shea, and Robert L. Fish.
Includes letters from Dallas Mayr, Dirk W. Mosig, Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer, Michael Avallone, and J. Vernon Shea.
Includes letters from Donald Wandrei, Dallas Mayr, Robert L. Fish, Dirk W. Mosig, Michael Avallone, J. Vernon Shea, and Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein.
Includes letters from Isaac Asimov, Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer, Dirk W. Mosig, Dallas Mayr, D.C. Fontana, Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, Michael Avallone, J. Vernon Shea, Fritz Leiber, Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer, and Donald Wandrei.
Includes letters from Dallas Mayr, Fred Olen Ray, Philip Jose Farmer and Bette Farmer, D.C. Fontana, Fritz Leiber, Dir W. Mosig, Michael Avallone, J. Vernon Shea, L. Sprague de Camp, and Les Daniels.
Includes letters from Dirk W. Mosig, Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer, Dallas Mayr, Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, Fritz Leiber, L. Sprague de Camp, Michael Avallone, and J. Vernon Shea.
Includes letters from Otto Penzler, Dirk W. Mosig, Dallas Mayr, Les Daniels, Kirby McCauley, and J. Vernon Shea.
Includes letters from Les Daniels, Dirk W. Mosig, Michael Avallone, J. Vernon Shea, Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer, and Dallas Mayr.
Includes letters from Lester del Rey, Dallas Mayr, Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer, Dirk W. Mosig, and J. Vernon Shea.
Includes letters from Les Daniels, Dirk W. Mosig, Fritz Leiber, Dallas Mayr, J. Vernon Shea, David Gerrold, Forrest J. Ackerman, Isaac Asimov, Philip Jose Farmer and Bette Farmer, and Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein.
Includes letters from Fritz Leiber, Dallas Mayr, Dirk W. Mosig, Les Daniels, Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer, Robert L. Fish, and J. Vernon Shea.
Includes letters from Dallas Mayr, Frederic Dannay, Dirk W. Mosig, Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer, Michael Avallone, J. Vernon Shea, and Les Daniels.
Includes letters from Otto Penzler, Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer, Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, Les Daniels, Dirk W. Mosig, Fred Olen Ray, and J. Vernon Shea.
Includes letters from Otto Penzler, D.C. Fontana, Harlan Ellison, Les Daniels, Robert L. Fish, and Lee Hoffman.
Includes letters from Otto Penzler, D.C. Fontana, Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer, Fritz Leiber, Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, Dallas Mayr, and Les Daniels.
Includes letters from Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, Otto Penzler, Dallas Mayr, and Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer.
Includes letters from D.C. Fontana, Stephen King, Kirby McCauley, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer, Fritz Leiber, and Lee Hoffman.
Includes letters from Ramsey Campbell, Stephen King, D.C. Fontana, Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer, Lucy Freeman, and Otto Penzler.
Includes letters from Otto Penzler, Peter Haining, Ramsey Campbell, Stephen King, Lucy Freeman, Michael Avallone, J. Vernon Shea, Dirk W. Mosig, Ramsey Campbell, Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer, and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro.
Includes letters from Peter Haining, Isaac Asimov, Lee Hoffman, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Michael Avallone, J. Vernon Shea, Dirk W. Mosig, and Dallas Mayr.
Includes letters from Stephen King, George R. R. Martin, Dirk W. Mosig, Michael Avallone, J. Vernon Shea, Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, Fritz Leiber, Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer, and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro.
Includes letters from Otto Penzler, Dallas Mayr, Isaac Asimov, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Ramsey Campbell, Dirk W. Mosig, Philip Jose Farmer and Bette Farmer, Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, Les Daniels, Fritz Leiber, and J. Vernon Shea.
Includes letters from Richard Matheson, Otto Penzler, Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, Dirk W. Mosig, Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer, Dallas Mayr, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Lucy Freeman, and J. Vernon Shea.
Includes letters from Dirk W. Mosig, Les Daniels, Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, Otto Penzler, Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer, Ben Bova, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Michael Avallone, J. Vernon Shea, and Donald Wandrei.
Includes letters from Dirk W. Mosig, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Philip Jose Farmer and Bette Farmer, Richard Lupoff, Ramsey Campbell, Michael Avallone, and J. Vernon Shea.
Includes letters from Robert A. Heinlein and Ginny Heinlein, Dirk W. Mosig, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Les Daniels, Hillary Waugh, Philip Jose Farmer and Bette Farmer, Michael Avallone, and J. Vernon Shea.
Includes letters from Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer.
Includes letters from Dirk W. Mosig, Michael Avallone, J. Vernon Shea, Philip Jose Farmer and Bette Farmer, Ramsey Campbell, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, and Isaac Asimov.
Includes letters from Stephen King, Otto Penzler, Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, Dirk W. Mosig, and Philip Jose Farmer and Bette Farmer.
Includes letters from Otto Penzler, David Gerrold, Brian Garfield, L. Sprague de Camp, Dirk W. Mosig, Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, Philip Jose Farmer and Bette Farmer, Les Daniels, Jerry Pournelle, and J. Vernon Shea.
Includes letters from Otto Penzler, Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, Samuel A. Peeples, Dirk W. Mosig, Fritz Leiber, Forrest J. Ackerman, Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer, and J. Vernon Shea.
Includes letters from Forrest J. Ackerman, Otto Penzler, Dirk W. Mosig, Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, Donald Wandrei, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Dallas Mayr, and J. Vernon Shea.
Includes letters from Marion Zimmer Bradley, Donald Wandrei, Peter Haining, Philip Jose Farmer and Bette Farmer, Bill Pronzini, Ramsey Campbell, Dirk W. Mosig, Michael Avallone, and J. Vernon Shea.
Includes letters from Dirk W. Mosig, Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, Philip Jose Farmer and Bette Farmer, Ramsey Campbell, and J. Vernon Shea.
Includes letters from Dirk W. Mosig, Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Otto Penzler, Isaac Asimov, and J. Vernon Shea.
Includes letters from Dirk W. Mosig, Otto Penzler, Donald Wandrei, and J. Vernon Shea.
Includes letters from Donald Wandrei, Dirk W. Mosig, Fritz Leiber, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Dallas Mayr, David J. Schow, and J. Vernon Shea.
Includes letters from Philip Jose Farmer, Les Daniels, Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, Dirk W. Mosig, Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer, Dallas Mayr, Otto Penzler, and J. Vernon Shea.
Includes letters from Dirk W. Mosig, Philip Jose Farmer, L. Sprague de Camp, Michael Avallone, and J. Vernon Shea.
Includes a letter from Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer.
Includes letters from Paul M. Sammon, Otto Penzler, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Dirk W. Mosig, Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer, Isaac Asimov, Les Daniels, and J. Vernon Shea.
Includes letters from Otto Penzler, Danny Peary, Dirk W. Mosig, Donald Wandrei, and J. Vernon Shea.
Includes letters from Danny Peary, Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, Dallas Mayr, Dirk W. Mosig, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, and J. Vernon Shea.
Includes letters from Dirk W. Mosig, Paul M. Sammon, Forrest J. Ackerman, and J. Vernon Shea.
Includes letters from Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Les Daniels, Dirk W. Mosig, Danny Peary, J. Vernon Shea, Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer, and David J. Schow.
Includes letters from Fritz Leiber, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Dirl W. Mosig, J. Vernon Shea, and Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer.
Includes letters from Otto Penzler, Philip Jose Farmer, Donald Wandrei, Ramsey Campbell, Dirk W. Mosig, J. Vernon Shea, and Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer.
Includes letters from Donald Wandrei, Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Dirk W. Mosig, J. Vernon Shea, and Ramsey Campbell.
Includes letters from Otto Penzler, Dirk W. Mosig, Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer, J. Vernon Shea, and L. Sprague de Camp.
Includes letters from Donald Wandrei, Dirk W. Mosig, L. Sprague de Camp, J. Vernon Shea, Philip Jose Farmer and Bette Farmer, and Ramsey Campbell.
Includes letters from Dirk W. Mosig, J. Vernon Shea, and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro.
Includes letters from Ramsey Campbell, Dirk W. Mosig, J. Vernon Shea, Danny Peary, Dallas Mayr, and Donald Wandrei.
Includes “Robert Bloch – a few words of friendship” by Harlan Ellison.
Includes letters from Donald Wandrei, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Les Daniels, Danny Peary, Dirk W. Mosig, Philip Jose Farmer and Bette Farmer, Michael Avallone, and J. Vernon Shea.
Includes letters from H.L. Prosser, Dirk W. Mosig, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Isaac Asimov, Jerry Pournelle, Philip Jose Farmer and Bette Farmer, Donald Wandrei, Brian Garfield, and J. Vernon Shea.
Includes letters from Dirk W. Mosig, J. Vernon Shea, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Ed Gorman, Donald Wandrei, and Barry N. Malzberg.
Includes letters from Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Ed Gorman, Better Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer, J. Vernon Shea, Dirk W. Mosig, Donald Wandrei, and Donald A. Wollheim.
Includes letters from Donald Wandrei, Otto Penzler, Philip Jose Farmer and Bette Farmer, and J. Vernon Shea.
Includes letters from Fritz Leiber, Dirk W. Mosig, Robert L. Fish, Michael Avallone, and J. Vernon Shea.
Includes letters from J. Vernon Shea, Michael Avallone, and Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer.
Includes letters from Fritz Leiber, Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer, J. Vernon Shea, Michael Avallone, and Philip Jose Farmer and Bette Farmer.
Includes letters from Dirk W. Mosig, J. Vernon Shea, Michael Avallone, Dallas Mayr, Philip Jose Farmer and Bette Farmer, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, and Les Daniels.
Includes letters from Stephen King, Donald Wandrei, Les Daniels, J. Vernon Shea, and Michael Avallone.
Includes letters from J. Vernon Shea, Michael Avallone, Philip Jose Farmer and Bette Farmer, H.L. Prosser, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, and Fritz Leiber.
Includes letters from J. Vernon Shea, Michael Avallone, Kenneth Anger, Philip Jose Farmer and Bette Farmer, and Fritz Leiber.
Includes letters from Michael Avallone, Philip Jose Farmer and Bette Farmer, and Fritz Leiber.
Includes letters from Jose Farmer and Bette Farmer, Pat Cadigan, J. Vernon Shea, and Michael Avallone.
Includes letters from Philip Jose Farmer and Bette Farmer, J. Vernon Shea, Michael Avallone, Lin Carter, Donald Wandrei, Isaac Asimov, and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro.
Includes letters from Robert Adams, Philip Jose Farmer and Bette Farmer, H.L. Prosser, J. Vernon Shea, Michael Avallone, and H.L. Prosser.
Includes letters from H.L. Prosser, Elizabeth Brown, widow of Fredric Brown, Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer, J. Vernon Shea, Michael Avallone, and Harlan Ellison.
Includes letters from H.L. Prosser, J. Vernon Shea, Michael Avallone, Philip Jose Farmer and Bette Farmer, Stephen King, and Fritz Leiber.
Includes letters from J. Vernon Shea, Michael Avallone, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, and Jerry Pournelle.
Includes letters from Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Elizabeth Brown, widow of Fredric Brown, H.L. Prosser, Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer, Robert Adams, and J. Vernon Shea.
Includes letters from H.L. Prosser, Robert L. Fish, Paul M. Sammon, Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer, J. Vernon Shea, Michael Avallone, and Harlan Ellison.
Includes letters from J. Vernon Shea, Michael Avallone, and Dallas Mayr.
Includes letters from Donald Wandrei, Forrest J. Ackerman, Philip Jose Farmer and Bette Farmer, Dallas Mayr, H.L. Prosser, and J. Vernon Shea.
Includes letters from Paul M. Sammon and J. Vernon Shea.
Includes letters from Dallas Mayr, Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer, H.L. Prosser, J. Vernon Shea, and Michael Avallone.
Includes letters from Dallas Mayr, J. Vernon Shea, Michael Avallone, and Pat Cadigan.
Includes letters from Anthony Slide, L. Sprague de Camp, Lee Hoffman, Dallas Mayr, Philip Jose Farmer and Bette Farmer, and Michael Avallone.
Includes letters from Gene Roddenberry, Lee Hoffman, Isaac Asimov, and Michael Avallone.
Includes letters from Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, Paul M. Sammon, Marion Zimmer Bradley, and Michael Avallone.
Includes letters from Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, John Brunner, and Michael Avallone.
Includes letters from Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Fritz Leiber, Forrest D. Ackerman and Ray Bradbury, Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, and Michael Avallone.
Includes letters from Fritz Leiber, Michael Avallone, Jerry Pournelle, Donald Wandrei, William Campbell Gault, John Brunner, and Philip Jose Farmer and Bette Farmer.
Includes letters from Forrest D. Ackerman, Isaac Asimov, Michael Avallone, Robert Adams, Larry Niven, Fritz Leiber, and Philip Jose Farmer and Bette Farmer.
Includes letters from Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer, Michael Avallone, and Robert Adams.
Includes letters from Donald Wandrei, Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer, Michael Avallone, H.L. Prosser, Robert Adams, and Fritz Leiber.
Includes letters from H.L. Prosser, Michael Avallone, Donald Wandrei, and Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer.
Includes letters from H.L. Prosser, Joe R. Lansdale, Dallas Mayr, and Donald Wandrei.
Includes letters from H.L. Prosser, Dallas Mayr, and Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer.
Includes letters from Joe R. Lansdale, Philip Jose Farmer, H.L. Prosser, Pat Cadigan, and Isaac Asimov.
Includes a letter from Universal Pictures regarding title use of “Psycho II.” Also includes letters from Anthony Slide, H.L. Prosser, Philip Jose Farmer and Bette Farmer, and Michael Avallone.
Includes letters from H.L. Prosser, Michael Avallone, Philip Jose Farmer and Bette Farmer, and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro.
Includes letters from Michael Avallone, Donald Wandrei, Stephen King, and H.L. Prosser.
Includes letters from H.L. Prosser, L. Sprague de Camp, Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, Michael Avallone, and Donald Wandrei.
Includes letters from Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer, Michael Avallone, Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, H.L. Prosser, Douglas E. Winter, Donald Wandrei, and Philip Jose Farmer and Bette Farmer.
Includes letters from H.L. Prosser, Fritz Leiber, Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, Philip Jose Farmer and Bette Farmer, and Isaac Asimov.
Includes letters from H.L. Prosser, Donald Wandrei, Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer, Stephen King, Forrest J. Ackerman, Fritz Leiber, Dallas Mayr, Poul Anderson, and Arthur C. Clarke.
Includes letters from H.L. Prosser, Donald Wandrei, Harlan Ellison, and Fritz Leiber.
Includes letters from Ray Bradbury, Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, H.L. Prosser, and Fritz Leiber.
Includes letters from Michael Avallone, H.L. Prosser, and Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein. Also includes a letter from a Christopher Mills, an undated follow-up letter from Mills, and the following note: “Now this is a sad one. Christopher Mills wrote to me in ’82, asking permission to do a bibliography (see letter attached). I demurred, telling him it would be a difficult, time-consuming job. He insisted, saying he’d use a computer for indexing, etc. Finally I gave a hesitant consent, again warning him it was a complex task. Thereafter, at his request, I collected and furnished material, answered questions, etc., over the next six months. That summer I was in Atlanta, met the young man, and was told he was well on his way to completion. I never heard from him again. Not one word. Nor did he reply to my note, many months later, asking for at least the courtesy of an explanation. It was a waste of time – but taught me a lesson. Teen-age fans don’t seem to have a sense of personal responsibility, nor any appreciation of the demands they make on others.”
Includes letters from Fritz Leiber, Larry Niven, Philip Jose Farmer and Bette Farmer, and H.L. Prosser.
Includes letters from Philip Jose Farmer and Bette Farmer, H.L. Prosser, and Isaac Asimov.
Includes letters from H.L. Prosser, Robert A. Heinlein, Fritz Leiber, and Otto Penzler.
Includes letters from Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, H.L. Prosser, Fritz Leiber, and Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer.
Includes letters from H.L. Prosser, Fritz Leiber, Philip Jose Farmer and Bette Farmer, and Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein.
Includes letters from Bob Clampett, Brian Garfield, H.L. Prosser, L. Sprague de Camp, Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer, Michael Avallone, Fritz Leiber, Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, and Forrest J. Ackerman.
Includes letters from L. Sprague de Camp, H.L. Prosser, Michael Avallone, Richard North Patterson, Danny Peary, and Bob Clampett.
Includes letters from Danny Peary, Isaac Asimov, Dallas Mayr, H.L. Prosser, Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer, Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, and Michael Avallone.
Includes letters from Fritz Leiber, H.L. Prosser, Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer, Michael Avallone, Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, Danny Peary, and Dennis Etchison.
Includes letters from Danny Peary, H.L. Prosser, Forrest J. Ackerman, Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, Robert R. McCammon, and Donald Wandrei.
Includes letters from Kenneth Anger, H.L. Prosser, Danny Peary, Douglas E. Winter, Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer, and Michael Avallone.
Includes letters from Philip Jose Farmer and Bette Farmer, H.L. Prosser, and Dennis Etchison.
Includes letters from John Brunner and Arthur C. Clarke.
Includes letters from J.N. Williamson, H.L. Prosser, Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, and Fritz Leiber.
Includes letters from J.N. Williamson, Fritz Leiber, Andre Norton, Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, and H.L. Prosser.
Includes letters from Michael Avallone, H.L. Prosser, Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer, Fritz Leiber, J.N. Williamson, Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, and Forrest J. Ackerman.
Includes letters from H.L. Prosser and J.N. Williamson.
Includes letters from Douglas E. Winter, Harlan Ellison, Fritz Leiber, H.L. Prosser, and Neil Gaiman.
Includes letters from Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, H.L. Prosser, Danny Peary, Harlan Ellison, and Jerry Pournelle.
Includes letters from H.L. Prosser, Michael Avallone, Isaac Asimov, Dallas Mayr, Ray Garton, Douglas E. Winter, and Neil Gaiman.
Includes letters from Julius Schwartz, H.L. Prosser, Brad Linaweaver, Philip Jose Farmer and Bette Farmer, Fritz Leiber, Michael Avallone, and L. Sprague de Camp.
Includes letters from Don C. Thompson, H.L. Prosser, J.N. Williamson, Dennis Etchison, and Brad Linaweaver.
Includes letters from H.L. Prosser, J.N. Williamson, Julius Schwartz, Michael Avallone, and Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer.
Includes letters from H.L. Prosser, Michael Avallone, Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, and Richard A. Lupoff.
Includes letters from H.L. Prosser, Michael Avallone, Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, L. Sprague de Camp, Lucy Freeman, and Richard Matheson.
Includes a postcard from Michael Avallone.
Includes letters from Dennis Etchison, Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, H.L. Prosser, Philip Jose Farmer and Bette Farmer, Michael Avallone, and Forrest J. Ackerman.
Includes letters from H.L. Prosser, Michael Avallone, Isaac Asimov, and Dennis Etchison.
Includes letters from Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer, H.L. Prosser, Dallas Mayr, and Michael Avallone.
Includes letters from H.L. Prosser, Michael Avallone, Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, and Dennis Etchison.
Includes letters from Fritz Leiber, Colin Wilson, Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer, and H.L. Prosser.
Includes letters from Colin Wilson, H.L. Prosser, Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, Peter Haining, Philip Jose Farmer and Bette Farmer, Dennis Etchison, and Lee Hoffman.
Includes letters from H.L. Prosser, Forrest J. Ackerman, Lee Hoffman, and Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein.
Includes letters from H.L. Prosser, Philip Jose Farmer and Bette Farmer, and Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein.
Includes letters from Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, H.L. Prosser, and Forrest Ackerman.
Includes letters from Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, H.L. Prosser, and Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer.
Includes a letter from Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer.
Includes letters from J.N. Williamson, Forrest J. Ackerman, H.L. Prosser, Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, and Philip Jose Farmer and Bette Farmer.
Includes letters from Douglas E. Winter and Michael Avallone.
Includes letters from Stephen Rebello, J.N. Williamson, Jerry Pournelle, H.L. Prosser, Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, and Philip Jose Farmer and Bette Farmer.
Includes letters from H.L. Prosser, Philip Jose Farmer and Bette Farmer, J.N. Wiliamson, and Isaac Asimov.
Includes letters from Philip Jose Farmer and Bette Farmer, Stephen Rebello, H.L. Prosser, Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, and Robert L. Fish.
Includes letters from H.L. Prosser, Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, Philip Jose Farmer and Bette Farmer, and S. P. Somtow.
Includes letters from H.L. Prosser, Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, and Michael Avallone.
Includes letters from H.L. Prosser and Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein.
Includes letters from H.L. Prosser, Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, and Michael Avallone.
Includes letters from S. P. Somtow, H.L. Prosser, Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, Michael Avallone, and J.N. Williamson.
Includes letters from H.L. Prosser, Philip Jose Farmer, Michael Avallone, and J.N. Williamson.
Includes letters from Donald Wandrei, H.L. Prosser, Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, Michael Avallone, and Peter Cushing.
Includes letters from H.L. Prosser, Michael Avallone, and J.N. Williamson.
Includes letters from Richard P. Rubinstein, Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, H.L. Prosser, Michael Avallone, and D.C. Fontana.
Includes letters from J.N. Williamson, H.L. Prosser, Michael Avallone, Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, and Philip Jose Farmer.
Includes letters from J.N. Williamson, H.L. Prosser, Philip Jose Farmer, and Michael Avallone.
Includes letters from J.N. Williamson, H.L. Prosser, and Michael Avallone.
Includes letters from H.L. Prosser, Michael Avallone, Philip Jose Farmer, Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, and Arthur C. Clarke.
Includes letters from Michael Avallone, Donald Wandrei, Forrest J. Ackerman, David J. Schow, and J.N. Wiliamson.
Includes letters from Michael Avallone, H.L. Prosser, Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, and Harold Schechter.
Includes letters from Michael Avallone, H.L. Prosser, Fritz Leiber, J.N. Williamson, Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, and Dennis Etchison.
Includes letters from H.L. Prosser, Forrest J. Ackerman, Michael Avallone, and Dallas Mayr.
Includes letters from Dallas Mayr, Isaac Asimov, Richard P. Rubinstein, Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer, and J.N. Williamson.
Includes letters from H.L. Prosser, Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, Michael Avallone, and Senator Alan Cranston.
Includes letters from H.L. Prosser and Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein.
Includes letters from H.L. Prosser, J.N. Williamson, Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer, and Danny Peary.
Includes letters from David J. Schow, Miichael Avallone, and Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein.
Includes letters from Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, H.L. Prosser, and Harold Schechter.
Includes letters from Dennis Etchison, H.L. Prosser, Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer, Michael Avallone, and Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein.
Includes letters from H.L. Prosser, Michael Avallone, J.N. Williamson, Brad Linaweaver, Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, and Philip Jose Farmer.
Includes letters from H.L. Prosser, Forrest J. Ackerman, Dennis Etchison, Ginny Heinlein, wife of Robert A. Heinlein, J.N. Williamson, and Philip Jose Farmer and Bette Farmer.
Includes letters from H.L. Prosser, Michael Avallone, and Philip Jose Farmer.
Includes letters from Curt Siodmak, Michael Avallone, H.L. Prosser, and Ginny Heinlein, widow of Robert A. Heinlein.
Includes letters from Michael Avallone, Dallas Mayr, Ginny Heinlein, widow of Robert A. Heinlein, and H.L. Prosser.
Includes letters from H.L. Prosser, Andre Norton, and Ginny Heinlein, widow of Robert A. Heinlein.
Includes letters from Michael Avallone and Ginny Heinlein, widow of Robert A. Heinlein.
Includes letters from Dallas Mayr and Michael Avallone.
Includes letters from Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer, H.L. Prosser, and J.N. Williamson.
Includes a letter from F.M. Busby.
Includes letters from Michael Avallone, H.L. Prosser, Philip Jose Farmer and Bette Farmer, and Forrest J. Ackerman.
Includes a letter from H.L. Prosser.
Includes letters from Michael Avallone and H.L. Prosser.
Includes a from H.L. Prosser.
Includes letters from H.L. Prosser and Michael Avallone.
Includes letters from Arthur C. Clarke, Kenneth Anger, Fritz Leiber, Michael Avallone, and H.L. Prosser.
Includes letters from H.L. Prosser, Jerry Pournelle, and Michael Avallone.
Includes letters from H.L. Prosser and Mike Resnick.
Includes letters from H.L. Prosser and Michael Avallone.
Includes letters from Ginny Heinlein, widow of Robert A. Heinlein, Poul Anderson, Michael Avallone, Philip Jose Farmer and Bette Farmer, and H.L. Prosser.
Includes letters from Philip Jose Farmer, Ginny Heinlein, widow of Robert A. Heinlein, H.L. Prosser, Ray Russell, Michael Avallone, and Kim Newman.
Includes letters from Dallas Mayr, J.N. Wiliamson, Michael Avallone, and Ginny Heinlein, widow of Robert A. Heinlein.
Includes letters from Richard Matheson, H.L. Prosser, and Dallas Mayr.
Includes letters from Michael Avallone and Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer.
Includes letters from Isaac Asimov, Richard Matheson, H.L. Prosser, Michael Avallone, and Philip Jose Farmer.
Includes letters from Julius Schwartz and Michael Avallone.
Includes letters from Stephen Rebello, H.L. Prosser, and Richard Matheson.
Includes letters from H.L. Prosser and Michael Avallone.
Includes letters from Andre Norton, Michael Avallone, Les Daniels, Mike Resnick, and H.L. Prosser.
Includes letters from Lee Hoffman and Michael Avallone.
Includes letters from H.L. Prosser, Michael Avallone, F. Paul Wilson, and J.N. Williamson.
Includes letters from H.L. Prosser.
Includes letters from H.L. Prosser, F. Paul Wilson, Brad Linaweaver, and J.N. Williamson.
Includes letters from Kenneth Anger, H.L. Prosser, Forrest J. Ackerman, Andre Norton, and Arthur C. Clarke.
Includes a letter from Joe R. Lansdale.
Includes letters from H.L. Prosser and Michael Avallone.
Includes letters from Ginny Heinlein, widow of Robert A. Heinlein, Michael Avallone, H.L. Prosser, Andre Norton, and Brad Linaweaver.
Includes letters from Andre Norton, H.L. Prosser, Brad Linaweaver, and Michael Avallone.
Includes letters from Andre Norton, Michael Avallone, Forrest J. Ackerman, H.L. Prosser, and Isaac Asimov.
Includes letters from Andre Norton, Ginny Heinlein, widow of Robert A. Heinlein, and H.L. Prosser.
Includes letters from, Andre Norton, H.l. Prosser, and Michael Avallone.
Includes letters from Andre Norton, Ginny Heinlein, widow of Robert A. Heinlein, Michael Avallone, and H.L. Prosser.
Includes letters from Andre Norton, Philip Jose Farmer, Ginny Heinlein, widow of Robert A. Heinlein, H.L. Prosser, and Michael Avallone.
Includes letters from Michael Avallone and Andre Norton.
Includes letters from H.L. Prosser, Michael Avallone, Andre Norton, and Forrest J. Ackerman.
Includes letters from H.L. Prosser, Andre Norton, Michael Avallone, J.N. Williamson, and Ginny Heinlein, widow of Robert A. Heinlein.
Includes letters from Andre Norton, Philip Jose Farmer, Fritz Leiber, and H.L. Prosser.
Includes a letter from Les Daniels.
Includes letters from Andre Norton and H.L. Prosser.
Includes letters from Andre Norton and Michael Avallone.
Includes letters from Andre Norton, J.N. Williamson, and Michael Avallone.
Includes letters from Peter Straub, Michael Avallone, Andre Norton, H.L. Prosser, Philip Jose Farmer, and Ray Bradbury.
Includes letters from Michael Avallone, H.L. Prosser, and Andre Norton.
Includes letters from Michael Avallone, Andre Norton, and H.L. Prosser.
Includes letters from H.L. Prosser, Michael Avallone, Andre Norton, J.N. Williamson, and Kenneth Anger.
Includes letters from Andre Norton and Brad Linaweaver.
Includes letters from H.L. Prosser, Arthur C. Clarke, and Andre Norton.
Includes letters from Philip Jose Farmer, Michael Avallone, Andre Norton, and H.L. Prosser.
Includes letters from H.L. Prosser, Andre Norton, and Michael Avallone.
Includes letters from H.L. Prosser, Andre Norton, Michael Avallone, and Kenneth Anger.
Includes letters from Andre Norton, Michael Avallone, H.L. Prosser, John Peyton Cooke, and Dallas Mayr.
Includes letters from H.L. Prosser, Andre Norton, Anthony Slide, Forrest J. Ackerman, Michael Avallone, and S. P. Somtow.
Includes letters from Brad Linaweaver, Andre Norton, Michael Avallone, and H.L. Prosser.
Includes letters from Andre Norton, Michael Avallone, H.L. Prosser, and S. P. Somtow.
Includes letters from H.L. Prosser, Michael Avallone, and Andre Norton.
Includes letters from Michael Avallone and Andre Norton.
Includes letters from Michael Avallone and Andre Norton.
Includes letters from Andre Norton, H.L. Prosser, Michael Avallone, and Larry Niven.
Includes letters from Andre Norton, H.L. Prosser, and Michael Avallone.
Includes letters from Arthur C. Clarke, Andre Norton, Michael Avallone, and H.L. Prosser.
Includes letters from J.N. Williamson, Michael Avallone, Andre Norton, H.L. Prosser, and Brad Linaweaver.
Includes letters from Andre Norton and Michael Avallone.
Includes letters from Michael Avallone, Andre Norton, and J.N. Williamson.
Includes letters from Andre Norton.
Includes letters from Andre Norton and Bette Farmer, wife of Philip Jose Farmer.
Includes letters from Michael Avallone, Andre Norton, Brad Linaweaver, and Kenneth Anger.
Includes letters from Andre Norton, H.L. Prosser, and Michael Avallone.
Includes letters from Andre Norton, Michael Avallone, and H.L. Prosser.
Includes a letter from Kenneth Anger.
Includes a photocopy with a note from Arthur C. Clarke.
Includes letters from Lester del Rey and L. Sprague de Camp.
Includes letters from Lucy Freeman and Philip Jose Farmer and Bette Farmer.
Includes letters from Christopher Lee and Fritz Leiber.
Includes letters from Dirk W. Mosig, Dallas Mayr, and Richard Matheson.
Includes letters from S. P. Somtow, Paul M. Sammon, and Ronald Shusett.
Includes a postcard from Chelsea Quinn Yarbro.
“Scroll presented to me, designed by fans at World Science Fiction Convention in St. Louis (1969), where I presented the annual awards at the banquet. Amateur artwork, but a labor of love. I much appreciated.”
Bloch was a “guest of honor” in 1980 and a “toastmaster” in 1982.
Bloch was a “guest” in both 1980 and 1984.
Bloch was a “guest of honor” in 1986.
Bloch was a “guest speaker” in 1979. The 1981 program includes his essay “A Short Hike Down Memory Lane.”
Bloch was a “guest of honor” in 1975. The 1976 program includes his essay “Introducing: C.L. Moore.”
Bloch appeared at the 1980 Cabrillo Suspense Writers’ Conference, and he was a “guest of honor” at both the 1972 Convention Francaise du Cinema Fantastique and the 1981 Cinecon. Progress Report 4 for the 1983 ConStellation includes his essay “Letter to a Convention-Goer.” The program for the 1983 Chattacon includes his essay “On the Beam with Bob Tucker.”
Bloch was a “guest of honor” in 1987. The 1987 program includes “The Cutting Edge of Horror,” an essay about Bloch, by Robert Weinberg.
Bloch was a “guest of honor” in 1974.
Bloch was a “guest” at DCON 71. The program for the 1981 Denvention Two includes his essay “An Open Letter to C.L. Moore.”
Bloch appeared in 1973 and was a “celebrity guest” in 1976.
The 1974 program includes the essay “My Five Favorite Fright Flicks” by Bloch.
Bloch was a “guest of honor” in 1978.
Bloch was a “guest.”
Bloch appeared at the conference.
Bloch was a “guest speaker” in 1982.
The “H.P. Lovecraft Centennial Guidebook” for the 1990 H.P. Lovecraft Centennial Weekend includes an interview with Bloch.
Bloch was a “toastmaster” in both 1972 and 1984. The 1984 program includes the essays “The Opener of the Way – Robert Bloch” by Jerry Pournelle and “Everything You Were Afraid to Know About Jerry Pournelle and Didn’t Want to Ask” by Bloch.
Bloch was a “guest of honor” in 1978. The 1978 program includes the essay “Robert Bloch – A Personal Appreciation” by Jerry Pournelle. The 1978 program includes the essay “Forrest J. Ackerman” by Bloch.
Bloch was a “toastmaster” in 1987. The 1987 program includes the essay “Introducing: Robert Bloch” by John Brower.
Bloch was a “guest of honor.” The program includes a short essay on Bloch’s life and career, as well as a bibliography.
Bloch was a “toastmaster” in 1985. Photos from the 1985 convention are attached to the 1985 program.
Bloch was a “guest of honor” at the 1983 Pulpcon.
Bloch was a “guest of honor” at the 1978 Rivercon.
Bloch was a “guest” in 1975.
Bloch was a “guest celebrity” in 1976.
Bloch was a “guest speaker.”
Bloch appeared at the convention.
Bloch appeared on a panel and passed out the annual awards.
Bloch spoke at the 1982 Science Fiction Showcase.
Bloch was a “professional guest of honor.”
Bloch was a “guest of honor” in 1985. The 1985 program includes the essay “Thie Writer’s Bloch” by Lee Hoffman, as well as a bibliography.
Bloch was a “guest of honor” in 1982 and a “fan guest” in 1986. The 1982 program includes the essay “The Head on the Bloch” by David Schow, as well as a bibliography compiled by James A. Corrick. The 1986 program includes the essay “Writer’s Bloch” by Schow, as well as a bibliography compiled by Corrick.
Bloch was a “guest of honor.”
Bloch was a “guest of honour” in 1985. The 1985 program includes the essay “The Man with the Heart of a Small Boy” by Randall D. Larson, as well as a bibliography.
The 1969 program includes the essay “Men, Myths and Monsters” by Bloch.
Bloch was a “guest speaker.”
Bloch was a “guest” in 1972.
Includes three copies of “The First World Fantasy Convention: Three Authors Remember” by Bloch, T.E.D. Klein, and Fritz Leiber – Bloch’s essay is “Time-Traveling with H.P. Lovecraft.” Bloch was a “toastmaster” in 1983. The 1983 program includes “A Profile of Robert Bloch” by Stephen King and “The Searcher After Horror” by Bloch. Also includes documents related to the World Fantasy Awards – Bloch was a judge for the 1977 awards.
Bloch appeared at the conference.
Bloch was a “guest of honor.” The program includes the essay “Memory Bloch” by Ted Wagner.
(1) Notes for Panel Discussion: “The Spectre of the Future” at the Westercon science fiction convention, Santa Monica, California, July 4th, 1969; (2) Equicon Banquet, Marriott Hotel, Sunday, April 18, 1976; and (3) An interview with Robert Bloch – conducted at the World Fantasy Convention, November 1, 1975 – edited by Otto Penzler.
Each volume has the name “Wm [William] Castle” handwritten on the cover.
Materials that Bloch received as a member of the Visual Effects Award Committee.
Includes “original artwork for my article in ‘If’ magazine 1969. Note the largest head is a caricature of me as Jack the Ripper.”
“Design for ‘Strait-Jacket’ set by Boris Leven, Academy Award-winning set designer. Working on my film through production, as I did, I was given the opportunity to study various phases of production techniques – of which set design was one.”
“Design for ‘Strait-Jacket’ set by Boris Leven. During the filming, I was constantly amazed at how this ingenious man (who designed ‘West Side Story’ among other films) would create, as in this instance, a realistic railroad depot and environs by using a few sheets of cardboard and proper lighting.”
Includes a letter to Bloch and instructions on how to view the print.
The panel includes “Bait Motel.”
“For Ellie: Who is prettier than a farfalle, a mariposa, a papillon, and even a schmetterling! From your sweet self my affections will never flutter by.”
“To Bob Bloch – How would you like to make me into a movie? Love & xxx’s, Vampy.”
Includes a print of a drawing of Edgar Allan Poe: “Reproduction of a magazine illustration which I am told was used for one of my stories (‘The Man Who Collected Poe’?).” Also includes “original artwork for my novelet ‘Groovyland’ in ‘If’ magazine. Also includes “the original artwork for my ‘If’ magazine convention article, courtesy of artist Jack Gaughan and editor Judy Lynn- Benjamin.”
Includes a photo of Bloch for April.
A clipping about Bloch.
Regarding “Carefree Carnival”: “Note similarity of telephone operator to Lily Tomlin of today.”
Digitized – ahcav_02256_0001. Sent to Bloch from Jim Harmon: “Bob – in lieu of a Christmas card, I thought I’d send you this tape of ‘Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper’ on ‘Molle Mystery Theatre (no date given). Unfortunately, it is only the first half (on one of two discs, the other having been lost or broken). But then you probably remember how the story comes out. It is the only example of your radio work I have ever come across. (God knows I have everything else – my collection is edging upwards of 40,000 programs.)” The full episode is available at
“I was a guest of honor here and spoke.”
Bloch spoke at the festival. Includes a reel-to reel audio tape – “Tape recording of my address, ‘Men, Myths and Monsters.’”
Includes a flier for a screening of “The Phantom Tollbooth” (1970) with a quote from Bloch.
Includes
Possibly from the 1975 World Fantasy Convention.
In a folder labeled “Enlargements.” Includes a large photo of Bloch (taken at Deepsouthcon in 1987), as well as seven small photos of others (including Gene Kelly). Includes notes on the back of the photos.
Slides from the episodes that Bloch wrote – “Catspaw,” “What Are Little Girls Mad Of,” and “Wolf in the Fold.”
Includes pictures of Christopher Lee, William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Mort Weisinger, Sydney Chaplin (inscribed by Chaplin), and the childhood home in Gilmanton, NH, of Herman W. Mudgett, aka H.H. Holmes.
“I was on the set during this production – and saw it thru editing, too.”
One call sheet includes the following note from Bloch: “I wrote and appeared in this 5-minute special advertising trailer – with Joan Crawford and William Castle. Crawford’s and my ‘clinch’ burned up the screen with its torrid romance.” Another call sheet notes that “cast & crew dress warmly for 60 degree temperature on stage” and includes the following note from Bloch: “Crawford always insists on air conditioning her sets. We froze!” The Staff & Crew Sheet includes a handwritten note by Joan Crawford and the following note from Bloch: “Crawford’s note to Bloch – explaining movement during 2 ‘shot.’”
“Chicago bus cards – Spring-Summer 1975.”
One item includes the following note: “Cheap promotion for a cheap film!”
Although Bloch is not credited on this film, a note says that the film is “connected with my screen-work, ‘at one remove,’ as it were.”
Includes a Belgian poster.
Credits the director, scriptwriter, and studio, but not Bloch. “Question: Who wrote this story? Hitchcock? Stefano? Paramount?”
Includes eighteen stills and a Belgian poster for the film. The poster includes the following note: "Belgian 'one sheet' of 'Psycho' – made to look like a sex-film."
One copy includes the following note: “A writer may approach his screen-play with a certain regard for restraint and good taste – then the advertising department gets in the act and – see what happens.”
Includes twenty-one stills. One item includes the following note: “A thing of beauty and joy forever – or something.” Another includes the following note: “A ‘promotion piece’ – note the general air of restraint(?)”
Digitized – ahcav_02256_0002a and ahcav_02256_0002b.
“This was the ad that appeared in ‘Weird Tales’ Magazine during the time my radio series ran on the air.”
One includes the following note: “A promotional piece that worked.”
A still and a Belgian poster.
Bloch wrote the novelization of the film.
Includes an ad for Bloch's novelization.
Includes an ad for a book about fish by German physician and naturalist Marcus Eliezer Bloch (1723-1799) with the following note: “Ancestor? Sounds fishy to me.”
Bloch probably received this as a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Bloch probably received these materials as a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences:
Includes a brochure from the American Film Institute and documents related to the publisher Arkham House.
From Richard Matheson and Fritz Leiber.
“Symbol of Ram. Goblet – Protector of travellers – God of boundaries, protector of thieves – guardian spirit of fairs & markets.”
Includes a program for an unidentified event at which Mike Hodel spoke on Bloch’s book “Night of the Ripper.”
Includes a speech that Bloch gave at the 1969 Mrs. Ann Radcliffe Awards Dinner, as well as the programs for the 1968 and 1969 Awards Dinners – Bloch spoke at the 1968 dinner and won the award for Literature at the 1969 dinner. Also includes Bloch’s diploma for the Nobel Order of Count Dracula.
Includes a quote from Bloch.
Credits for ‘Tales from the Darkside” (Bloch’s episodes were “A Case of the Stubborns” and “Beetles”) and “Klute.”
Includes a brochure on Ray Harryhausen, as well as a list, sent by D.C. Fontana, of confirmed guests (including Bloch) for an unidentified event.
Includes references to “The Maltese Falcon” (“The Maltese Falcon Room,” “Bloody Brigid,” and “Sam Spade’s Chops), as well as an essay, “Stalking Sam Spade,” by Fritz Leiber.
Includes a brochure on Ray Harryhausen, as well as a list, sent by D.C. Fontana, of confirmed guests (including Bloch) for an unidentified event.
Includes two papers on Lovecraft, one by Dirk W. Mosig.
Includes “Master Paintings from the Hermitage and the State Museum, Leningrad” from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, as well as a certificate to Bloch from the Literary Rescue Society.
Includes the following about fanzines: “Innocuous as they may seem, these little amateur publications, put out by fans, are extremely rare and sought-after: published in quantities of 100 to 200 copies, generally, they soon become collector’s items.”
Includes “press information” about Leonard Nimoy from the Leigh Bureau.
Digitized – ahcav_02256_0003.
Notice to Bloch that he was on a list of guests to be admitted to the club.
Not originally part of the Bloch papers, this
In a small box labeled “The Polished Edge.”
Includes two copies of the program for the 1989 Julius Schwartz Non-Surprise Party.
Includes a folder of materials for the 1982 UCLA Extension course “Escape Velocity: Exploring the World of Speculative Fiction” – Bloch participated in a panel discussion titled “The Joy of Fear.”
Digitized – ahcav_02256_0004. “In which the Russians invade Milwaukee, Wisconsin- in pre-TV days.” “This is a tape made in 1946 by Harold Gauer, Robert [illegible], Sprague Vonier and Milton Gelman in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from a script by Robert Bloch. Bloch is to blame for the singing, as well as a number of roles. He and Gauer did quite a few of these primitively recorded and quite unrehearsed tapings in the 1939-1946 period, including ‘Fiddlestuffer and His Boss,’ ‘A Night at the Burlesque,’ and ‘God for Governor’: the two usually collaborated on scripts and enlisted the aid of their friends, as in the above cast. Equipment in those days was not very sophisticated – but then, neither were the performances.”
Award for “Lifetime Achievement in the Realms of Fantasy.”
Certificate recognizing Bloch as an “Honorary Citizen.”
Award for “his book ‘Psycho’ that was made into the best motion picture of the year.”
Award for “promoting the genre of horror and supernatural fiction as a writer.”
Certificate honoring Bloch “for outstanding achievement in the field of Science, Horror and Fantasy.”
Certificate honoring Bloch “as a Notable Wisconsin Author.” Includes a letter.
Certificate honoring Bloch “as a Notable Wisconsin Author.” Includes two letters.
Certificate congratulating Bloch, “whose television programs ‘Alfred Hitchcock Presents’ and ‘Star Trek’ have been named on the WGA’s list of 101 best written TV series.”
Includes an interview with Bloch.
Bloch was a “special guest.” Includes a printout with a note regarding the panel “The Life and ‘Hard’ Times of Robert Bloch.”
Bloch was a “toastmaster.”
Bloch was a “guest of honor.” Includes the essay “Robert Bloch – A Personal Appreciation” by Jerry Pournelle.
Bloch was a “guest of honor.” Each copy includes biographical information and a bibliography.
Bloch was a “fan guest.” Includes the essay “Writer’s Bloch” by David Schow, as well as a Bloch bibliography compiled by James A. Corrick.
Bloch was a “guest of honor.”
Bloch was a “guest of honor.” Includes “The Man with the Heart of a Small Boy,” an essay about Bloch by Randall D. Larson, as well as a Bloch bibliography.
Bloch was a “special guest.”
Includes one letter each from Arthur C. Clarke and J.N. Williamson.
Condolences following Bloch’s death. Includes one letter each from Joseph Stefano, Poul Anderson, and Francois Guerif.
For the marriage of Bloch and Eleanor Alexander, as well as for Bloch’s funeral.
“Personal cards, letters and things meaningful to Sally Francy from Dad and Elly, plus letters to Dad from fans and friends and what Sally read at Dad’s memorial service.”
From “Rogue” magazine.
Includes the following note from Bloch: “My first – and only – venture into writing a comic book story!”
From a symposium on “The Literature of Science-Fiction and the Cinema” at Il Festival Internacional do Filme at Rio de Janeiro.
Bloch’s typewritten timeline for his novel, the film, and the sequels. Includes a handwritten note by Bloch.
Includes a forward, in both English and German, by Bloch.
Each copy includes a photo of Bloch at age 14.
Copy 226 of 500.
Inscribed by Bloch to “Sally and Jim.”
An essay on Bloch by Samuel A. Peeples.
Graphic-novel adaptation of the story by Bloch.
Based on the story by Bloch. From the book “Classics Dark and Dangerous” (Ontario Educational Communications Authority, Toronto, Canada), 1977.
A tribute to Bloch.
Includes a drawing of Bloch on the cover.
From the program for the 1987 Deepsouthcon convention.
An adaptation of Bloch’s story.
Bloch’s baby book. Includes as inserts photos and Bloch’s footprints.
Includes covers from the following Bloch books: “Fear and Trembling,” “The Kidnapper,” “Lori,” “Midnight Pleasures,” “Night-World,” “Psycho,” “Psycho II,” and “Strange Eons.” Also includes a photo of the over of an issue of the comic book “Journey into Mystery” that included “Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper,” based on Bloch’s story, and a photo of the cover of “Terreur sur Hollywood,” a French-language collection of Bloch’s stories.
“Catalogs listing auction/sales prices of Dda’s books & books Dad owned.” Includes a postcard to Bloch regarding auction prices of his early paperback books.
Includes a photo of Bloch for April.
Part of the A&E series “Time Machine with Jack Perkins.” Includes interview excerpts with Bloch.
Bloch is listed as screenwriter, and Curtis Harrington is listed as director. Includes a statement by Bloch on the concept for the adaptation.
Includes an invitation to the 1964 wedding of Bloch and Eleanor Meyers Alexander, notes to and from Bloch and Eleanor, photos, drawings, and an announcement of Bloch’s death.
Includes Bloch, as well as John Gurda, S.D. Schindler, and Irving Wallace.
Includes an interview with Stephen King, then promoting his novel “Bag of Bones,” in which, according to Sally Francy, King “steals Dad’s line.”
Includes a tribute by Bloch to Fritz Leiber, two sheets of “Bates Motel” stationery, a photocopy of Bloch’s entry in the 46th edition of “Who’s Who in America,” Bloch’s “obituary notes,” a flier promoting “The Robert Bloch Fanzine,” a list of celebrities, including Bloch, interred at Westwood Village Memorial Park, and multiple printouts, from various websites, regarding Bloch and his career.