Born this day: 04/05/1917 (d. 09/23/1994)
Robert Bloch was an American author of horror, crime, and science fiction. He won the 1959 Hugo Award for his story "That Hell-Bound Train". Best known for Psycho, adapted by Alfred Hitchcock.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bloch

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"Funny how we take it for granted that we know all there is to know about another person, just because we see them frequently or because of some strong emotional tie."

~ Robert Bloch, born today, 1917.

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Titelbild von Margaret Brundage für
Weird Tales, June 1936
u.a. mit "The Grinning Ghoul" von Robert Bloch
(archive.org)

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Innen-Illustration von Virgil Finlay für
"The Grinning Ghoul" von Robert Bloch
aus Weird Tales, June 1936
(archive.org)

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Conversation with @Taskerland took me to the Wikipedia page for #RobertBloch where I learned that Bloch had written several stories about #JackTheRipper

The first of these, "Yours truly, Jack the Ripper" cast the Ripper as an eternal being who must make human sacrifices to extend his immortality. This idea resurfaced in Bloch's contribution to the #StarTrek #TOS episode "Wolf in the Fold".

I was familiar with Bloch's #CthulhuMythos work but this I did not know.

*Adds to reading list*

Després de quasi dos mesos d'interrupció hem tornat a gravar!

Al programa 31 de La Llibreria d'Arkham hem parlat de les primeres històries del #CercledeLovecraft, amb una trilogia feta juntament amb l'autor #RobertBloch.

- El Vampir Esterlar.
- El Morador de les Tenebres.
- L'Ombra del campanar.

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