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Selected Works:

Novels:

In the Land of Sky-Blue Ointment - with Harold Gauer - unpublished- characters from this book appear in later Bloch short stories - Bloch's estate has blocked publication

The Scarf - 1947, rev 1966
Spiderweb - 1954
The Kidnapper - 1954
The Will to Kill - 1954

Shooting Star - 1958 - published in a double volume with the ss collection Terror in the Night - identified only as Ace Double D-265

This Crowded Earth - 1958 - original magazine appearance; published as book in double format with Ladies Day - 1968

Psycho - 1959 UK: Robert Hale, April 1960 - adapted into the 1960 film, Psycho, directed by Alfred Hitchcock; later remade in 1998 by Gus Van Sant

The Dead Beat - 1960 - An 'Inner Sanctum' Mystery
Firebug - 1961
The Couch - 1962
Terror - Belmont Books - 1962
Ladies Day / This Crowded Earth - 1968
The Star Stalker  - 1968 Pyramid T-1869

The Todd Dossier - 1969 - note: The byline on this book is not a Bloch pseudonym; Collier Young was a film producer who had secured a book deal with Bloch for his planned film called THE TODD DOSSIER Bloch wrote the novel based on a story by Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne. The film was never made; Bloch, who had contracted for a paperback release, was shocked to learn that the producer had placed his own name on the book as author when it was published in hardcover editions

Sneak Preview - 1971
It's All in Your Mind - Curtis Books, 1971 Reprint - Imaginative Tales 1955 magazine appearance, titled 'The Big Binge" "The Big Binge" can also be found in The Lost Bloch, Volume One
Night World - 1972 UK: - 1974

American Gothic - 1974 - note: This novel was inspired by the true life story of mass murderer HH Holmes Bloch also wrote a 40,000 word essay based on his research for the novel, "Dr Holmes' Murder Castle" - first published in Reader's Digest Tales of the Uncanny, 1977; since reprinted in Crimes and Punishments: The Lost Bloch, Vol 3" - 2002

Strange Eons - 1978 - signed/boxed edition
There Is a Serpent in Eden - 1979 Reissued as The Cunning - 1979 
Psycho II - Whispers Press, 1982 - signed/boxed ed, 750 copies - unrelated to the film of the same name
Twilight Zone: The Movie  - 1983 - novelisation of the Warner Bros movie, based on stories by John Landis, George Clayton Johnson, Richard Matheson, Josh Rogan and Jerome Bixby
Night of the Ripper - 1984 - novel about Jack the Ripper
Unholy Trinity - collects The Scarf, The Couch and The Dead Beat- 1986 - trade edition and 350 copy boxed ed signed by author and artist
Lori - 1989
Screams: Three Novels of Suspense - collects The Will to Kill, Firebug and The Star Stalker- 1989 - trade edition - signed edition, 300 numbered copies
Psycho House - 1990 - unrelated to the films Psycho II, Psycho III or Psycho IV: The Beginning
The Jekyll Legacy - 1991
Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper - 1991 - a 100-copy hardbound signed edition of Bloch's famous short story

The Thing - 1993 - a limited edition of 85 copies, only 9 bound in cloth, of the author's first appearance in print - a parody of HP Lovecraft which originally appeared in the April 1932 issue of The Quill, his Lincoln High School literary magazine
Psycho - The 35th Anniversary Edition - 1994 - limited edition of 500 copies. The last work to be signed by Bloch before his death; includes a new intro by Richard Matheson and a new Afterword by Ray Bradbury

Short-story Collections:

The Thing - 1932 - a single short story - parodying the style of HP Lovecraft, the author's first, but initially published in book form by The Pretentious Press in - 1993
A Portfolio Of Some Rare And Exquisite Poetry By The Bard Of Bards - 1937 or 1938 written under the pseudonym Sarcophagus W Dribble - one page folded to make 4 - Poetry
The Opener of the Way - 1945
Sea Kissed - 1945
Terror in the Night - 1958 - note: published in a double volume with the novel Shooting Star
Pleasant Dreams: Nightmares - 1960
Blood Runs Cold - 1961: UK: Robert Hale, 1963
Nightmares - 1961
More Nightmares - 1961
Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper - 1962
Atoms and Evil - 1962
Horror 7 - 1963
Bogey Men - 1963 Includes the essay "Psycho-Logical Bloch" by Sam Moskowitz
House of the Hatchet - 1960 UK: Tandem Books, 1965
The Skull of the Marquis de Sade - 1965 UK: Robert Hale - 1975
Tales in a Jugular Vein - 1965
Chamber of Horrors - 1966
The Living Demons - 1967
Dragons and Nightmares: Four Short Novels - 1968 - Voyager series V-102
Bloch and Bradbury: Whispers from Beyond - 1969
Fear Today, Gone Tomorrow - 1971
The King of Terrors: Tales of Madness and Death - 1977 
The Best of Robert Bloch - 1977 - introduction by Lester Del Rey
Cold Chills - Doubleday - 1977
Out of the Mouths of Graves - 1978
The Laughter of a Ghoul/What Every Young Ghoul Should Know - 1978
Such Stuff as Screams Are Made Of - 1979
Mysteries of the Worm - 1981 - introduction "Demon-Dread Lore" by Lin Carter
Midnight Pleasures - 1987
Lost in Space and Time With Lefty Feep - 1987 - boxed/deluxe ed, 250 copies signed - note: This book was designated "Volume One" but no further volumes of the series were published
Selected Stories of Robert Bloch - 1987, 3 volumes

Note: The following three entries represent paperback reprints of the Underwood Miller Selected Stories set Complete Stories is a misnomer as these three volumes do not contain anywhere near the complete oeuvre of Bloch's short fiction:

The Complete Stories of Robert Bloch: Volume 1: Final Reckonings - 1987
The Complete Stories of Robert Bloch: Volume 2: Bitter Ends - 1987
The Complete Stories of Robert Bloch: Volume 3: Last Rites - 1987
Fear and Trembling - 1989
Mysteries of the Worm - revision 1993 from Chaosium books
The Early Fears - 1994- limited edition
Flowers from the Moon and Other Lunacies - 1998 - introduction by Robert M Price - previously published in Weid Tales, Strange Stories and Rogue magazines; of its 20 stories, 15 are not readily obtainable outside the original pulps where they appeared

The Lost Bloch: Volume 1: The Devil With You! - limited edition of 724 numbered copies signed by editor/introducer David J Schow and Foreword writer Stefan Dziemaniowicz Includes interview with Bloch, 'An Hour with Robert Bloch" conducted by David J Schow. One of the stories included is "The Big Binge" - originally in Imaginative Tales in 1955 and reprinted as the short novel It's All in Your Mind - 1971. The Lost Bloch supplements Flowers from the Moon in reprinting rare and unreprinted Bloch stories; early 2011 around 50 Bloch stories remain uncollected

The Lost Bloch: Volume 2: Hell on Earth - 2000 - limited edition of 1250 numbered copies signed by editior/introducer David J Schow and Foreword writer Douglas E Winter Includes afterword by Schow and interview "Slightly More than Another Hour with Robert Bloch" by J Michael Straczynski

The Lost Bloch: Volume 3: Crimes and Punishments - 2002 - limited edition 750 numbered copies signed by editor/introducer David J Schow Includes introductory piece by Gahan Wilson, interview "Three Hours and Then Some with Robert Bloch" by Douglas E Winter and "My Husband, Robert Bloch" by Eleanor Bloch

The Reader's Bloch: Volume 1: The Fear Planet and Other Unusual Destinations - 2005; limited edition signed by editor, 750 numbered and 26 lettered copies Edited by Stefan R Dziemanowicz, and provides an introduction, "Future Imperfect" - most of its 20 stories are science fiction, and are otherwise unobtainable outside their original magazine appearances

The Reader's Bloch: Volume 2: Skeleton in the Closet and Other Stories - 2009; 750 numbered copies signed by the editor Edited by Stefan R Dziemanowicz. An unthemed collection of Bloch rarities, most of whose 16 stories are otherwise unobtainable outside their original magazine appearances
Anthologies & Collections edited by Bloch
The Best of Fredric Brown - 1976
Psycho-Paths - 1991
Monsters in Our Midst - 1993
Robert Bloch's Psychos - 1997 - edited by Robert Bloch until his death in 1994 Martin H Greenberg completed the editorial work posthumously

Non-fiction:

The Eighth Stage of Fandom - 1962 reprint, 1992, with new intro by Wilson Tucker and new afterword by Harlan Ellison
Out of My Head - 1986 - essays - slipcase edition - edition limited to 800 numbered copies, the first 200 being slipcase edition
Once Around the Bloch: An Unauthorized Autobiography - 1993
Robert Bloch: Appreciations of the Master - 1995 - a tribute to Bloch collecting essays by many writers who knew or worked with him, together with reprints of several Bloch stories.                          

First wife Marion Holcombe
Second wife Eleanor Alexander.