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==Audio adaptations== A number of Bloch's works have been adapted for audio productions. Other adaptations include: * "Almost Human". May 1950 NBC radio broadcast from ''Dimension X'' and 1955 NBC radio broadcast from show ''X Minus One''. Available for download from: [http://cthulhuwho1.com/2010/10/09/a-robert-bloch-story-almost-human-on-x-minus-one-11-august-1955/]. Audio of this story also included on [[Isaac Asimov]] and [[Martin H. Greenberg]] (eds) ''Friends, Robots, Countrymen''. Dercum Audio, 1997. {{ISBN|1-55656-256-X}}. * ''Gravely, Robert Bloch''. Alternate World Recordings, 1976. LP. Bloch himself reads "That Hellbound Train" and "Enoch". * ''Blood! The Life and Times of Jack the Ripper''. Alternate World recordings, 1977. LP (2 record set). Bloch himself reads "Yours Truly Jack the Ripper" and "A Toy for Juliette". [[Harlan Ellison]] reads his "The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World" * ''Psycho House (Psycho III)''. Sunset Productions/Audio gems, June 1992. {{ISBN|1-56431-037-X}}. Read by Mike Steele. 2 cassettes. Abridged? * ''Thrillogy''. Read by [[Roger Zelazny]]. Sunset Productions, 1993. Includes the three Bloch stories "That Hellbound Train", "Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper", and "The Movie People. (1 cassette, running time 90 mins). {{ISBN|1-56431-045-0}} * ''Psycho''. Read by [[Kevin McCarthy (actor)|Kevin McCarthy]]. Listen for Pleasure, 1986. {{ISBN|0-88646-165-0}} (2 cassettes, abridged, running time 2 hours). Reissued Feb 1999 {{ISBN|0-88646-492-7}}. * ''Psycho II: The Nightmare Continues''. Sunset Productions, Aug 1992. {{ISBN|1-56431-019-1}}. * "Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper" on ''The Greatest Mysteries of All Time''. Newstar Media, 1994. {{ISBN|0-7871-2092-8}}. 1 cassette. Packaged with "Hight Darktown" by [[James Ellroy]]. Read by Arte Johnson and Robert Forster. Running time ? * ''The Living Dead''. Stellar Audio Vol 5: Horror edition (Brilliance Audio), Aug 1996. Packaged with ''You'll Catch Your Death'' by P.N. Elrod. {{ISBN|1-56740-970-9}}. 1 cassette. Running time 90 mins. * ''Psycho''. Read by [[William Hootkins]]. Magmasters Sound Studios/ABC Audio, 1997. (2 cassettes, running time 3 hours). {{ISBN|1-84007-002-1}}. * "The Movie People" on ''Hollywood Fantasies β Ten Surreal Visions of Tinsel Town''. Dove Audio/Audio Literature, 1997. 4 cassettes. Running time 6 hours. Unabridged. {{ISBN|0-7871-0946-0}} * "Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper". On ''The Greatest Horror Stories of the 20th Century'' edited by Martin Greenberg. Dove Audio, 1998. Read by various readers. 4 cassettes. Running time 6 hours. {{ISBN|0-7871-1723-4}} * ''Psycho''. BBC Radio Collection, June 2000. Read by William Hope. ? cassettes. Abridged. {{ISBN|0-563-47710-5}}. * "A Good Knight's Work". Adapted by George Zarr, performed by a full cast. Seeing Ear Theatre, 2001. Running time 44 mins. * ''Psycho''. Blackstone Audio, Feb 2009. Read by Paul Michael Garcia. {{ISBN|978-1-4332-5705-6}} (4 cassette set), 9781433257094 (1 mp3-cd), 9781433257063 (5 cd set). Unabridged. Running times 5.6 hours. Playaway preloaded digital audio ed with earbuds, Sept 2009 {{ISBN|1-4332-5713-0}} * ''This Crowded Earth''. Librivox, March 2009. Read by Gregg Margarite. (3-CD set, running time 3 hours, 30 mins). Available for download from Librivox: [http://librivox.org/this-crowded-earth-by-robert-bloch/] * ''Psycho''. (In German). Read by Matthias Brandt. (5-CD set). Der Audio Verlag, 2011. {{ISBN|978-3-89813-975-5}} Various recordings of Bloch speaking at fantasy and sf conventions are also extant. Many of these are available for download from Will Hart's CthulhuWho site: [http://cthulhuwho1.com/2010/09/18/robert-bloch-speaks-of-lovecraft-and-more-from-the-grave/]
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