Editing Robert Bloch (section)

===The 1980s===
Bloch's screenplay-writing career continued active through the 1980s, with teleplays for ''[[Tales of the Unexpected (TV series)|Tales of the Unexpected]]'' (one episode, 1980), ''[[Darkroom (TV series)|Darkroom]]'' (two episodes,1981), ''[[Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985 TV series)|Alfred Hitchcock Presents]]'' (1 episode, 1986), ''[[Tales from the Darkside]]'' (three episodes, 1984–87: "Beetles", "A Case of the Stubborns" and "Everybody Needs a Little Love") and ''[[Monsters (American TV series)|Monsters]]'' (three episodes, 1988–1989: "The Legacy", "Mannikins of Horror", and "Reaper"). No further screen work appeared in the last five years before his death, although an adaptation of his "collaboration" with [[Edgar Allan Poe]], "The Lighthouse", was filmed as an episode of ''[[The Hunger (TV series)|The Hunger]]'' in 1998.

''The First World Fantasy Convention: Three Authors Remember'' (Necronomicon Press, 1980) features reminiscences of that important event by Bloch, [[T. E. D. Klein|T.E.D. Klein]] and [[Fritz Leiber]]. In 1981, Zebra Books issued the first edition of the [[Cthulhu Mythos]]-themed collection ''Mysteries of the Worm''. This item was reprinted some years later in an expanded edition by Chaosium.

Bloch's sequel to the original ''Psycho'', ''[[Psycho II (novel)|Psycho II]]'', was published in 1982 and in 1983 he novelized ''[[Twilight Zone: The Movie]]''. His novel ''[[Night of the Ripper]]'' (1984), was another return to one of Bloch's favourite themes, the Jack the Ripper murders of 1888.

In 1986, Scream Press published the hardcover omnibus ''Unholy Trinity'', collecting three by now scarce Bloch novels, ''The Scarf'', ''The Dead Beat'', and ''The Couch.'' A second retrospective selection of Bloch's nonfiction was published by NESFA Press as ''Out of My Head.''

In 1987, Bloch celebrated his 70th birthday. Underwood-Miller issued the three-volume hardcover set ''The Selected Stories of Robert Bloch'' (individual volumes titled ''Final Reckonings'', ''Bitter Ends'' and ''Last Rites''). When Citadel Press reissued this in paperback they incorrectly named it ''The Collected Stories of Robert Bloch.'' The same year a collection, ''Midnight Pleasures'' appeared from Doubleday, and ''Lost in Time and Space with Lefty Feep'' (Creatures at Large Press) collected a number of the stories on the Lefty Feep series. The latter was the first of a projected series of three volumes, but the further volumes were never published. In 1988, Tor Books reissued Bloch's scarce second novel, ''The Kidnapper.''

In 1989, several works were published: the collection ''Fear and Trembling'', the thriller novel ''Lori'' (later adapted as a standalone graphic novel) and another omnibus of long out-of-print early novels, ''Screams'' (containing ''The Will to Kill'', ''Firebug'', and ''The Star Stalker''). Randall D. Larson issued ''The Robert Bloch Companion: Collected Interviews 1969-1986'' (Starmont House), together with ''Robert Bloch'' (Starmont Reader's Guide No 37), an exhaustive study of Bloch's work, and ''The Complete Robert Bloch: An Illustrated, Comprehensive Bibliography'' (Fandom Unlimited Enterprises). Larson's three books were bound in hardcover and distributed by Borgo Press.