Showing posts with label Robert Bloch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Robert Bloch. Show all posts
Saturday, August 16, 2025

Robert Bloch: "The Clown At Midnight", ROGUE, March 1960; collected in ROBERT BLOCH: APPRECIATIONS OF THE MASTER, edited by Richard Matheson and Ricia Mainhardt (Tor Books, 1995)

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As reprinted in this fine anthology:   (<a link to the essay in this volume online) the paperback edition, 1995 Meanwhile, Ted White (wri...
Sunday, July 6, 2025

Friday's Books: the least of Robert Bloch's novels, PSYCHO HOUSE (Tor Books 1990)...and your much better Bloch choices.

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The worst of Bloch's novels I've read by some distance; one can see why he introduced the twist that is the story's most redeemi...
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Wednesday, January 29, 2025

SSW: Robert Bloch: "The Movie People" THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION, (F&SF), October 1969, edited by Edward Ferman; Jorge Luis Borges: "The Gospel According to Mark" in translation in THE NEW YORKER, 23 October 1971, edited by William Shawn; Marcelle Dubé: "Sky Lanterns" THE SATURDAY EVENING POST, November/December 2024, edited by Patrick Perry; Carl Jacobi: "Phantom Brass" RAILROAD STORIES, August 1934 (editor uncredited); Joyce Carol Oates: "The Maker of Parables" KENYON REVIEW, Spring 1990, edited by David H. Lynn; Wilma Shore: "A Bulletin from the Trustees of the Institute for Advanced Research at Marmouth, Massachusetts" F&SF, August 1964, edited by Avram Davidson: Short Story Wednesday

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Bloch: can be read gratis from the paperback edition of his collection Cold Chills at this site. Borges: can be read gratis at this teacher...
Friday, March 8, 2024

SSW/FFB: HITCHCOCK IN PRIME TIME edited by Francis M. Nevins, Jr. and Martin H. Greenberg (Avon 1985)

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(Avon Books, August 1985, 0-380-89673-7, $9.95, 356pp, trade pb, anthology)    Can be read here. 1  Introduction  ·    Henry Slesar     · in...
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Wednesday, October 18, 2023

20th Anniversary Issues: THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION October 1969, edited by Edward Ferman, and FANTASTIC August 1972, edited by Ted White: Short Story Wednesday

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this issue can be read here The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction , October 1969 ( View All Issues ) ( View Issue Grid ) Editor:   Edw...
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Wednesday, July 19, 2023

SSW: MIKE SHAYNE'S TORRID TWELVE edited by Leo Margulies? (and/or Cylvia Kleinman Margulies? Samuel Merwin, Jr.?), Dell Books 1961...a best-of the first four years of MIKE SHAYNE MYSTERY MAGAZINE, 1956-59; and MINK IS FOR A MINX, of similar possibly ghosted editorial responsibility, the only volume of a would-be annual series, 1964 (and taking stories from 1963 issues): Short Story Wednesday

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These are the two, and only two that I'm aware of, volumes drawing expressly from Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine (in its first issues mor...