Editing Robert Bloch (section)

==Bibliography==
{{category see also|Works by Robert Bloch}}

===Novels===
* ''In the Land of Sky-Blue Ointments'' (with Harold Gauer) (c. 1938) (unpublished, though characters and episodes from this book appear in later Bloch short stories, such as "The Travelling Salesman" and "The Strange Island of Dr Nork". The character Lefty Feep also appears for the first time in this work.<ref>Robert Bloch (1914–1994) by Frank M. Robinson ''Locus'', No. 406, November 1994</ref><ref>''Robert Bloch: An Unauthorised Autobiography'' Tor Books, 1993, p. 88</ref> Bloch owned the complete manuscript of the novel, which he described as "never intended or submitted for publication."<ref>"Lefty Feep and I" in Bloch's ''Out of My Head''. Cambridge MA: NESFA Press, 1986, 126.</ref> Bloch's estate has blocked posthumous publication<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mgpfeff.home.sprynet.com/interview_gauer01.html|title=Robert Bloch -- Interviews|website=mgpfeff.home.sprynet.com}}</ref>). Plot summary at: [http://mgpfeff.home.sprynet.com/gauer_sky-blue.html]
* ''Nobody Else Laughed'' (with Harold Gauer) (1939) (unpublished)<ref>''Robert Bloch: An Unauthorized Autobiography'' Tor Book, 1993, p. 103</ref>
* ''The Scarf'' NY: The Dial Press, 1947. Retitled reprint, NY: Avon, 1948 as ''The Scarf of Passion''. Revised text, Fawcett Gold Medal, 1966. Printings after the Avon 1948 edition revert title to the original, i.e. ''The Scarf''. See also ''Unholy Trinity,'' 1986.
* ''Spiderweb'' (NY: Ace Pocketbooks, 1954; one half of Ace Double, backed with David Alexander's ''The Corpse in My Bed'')
* ''The Kidnaper'' (Lion Pocketbooks, 1954). Later editions spell the title as ''The Kidnapper''.
* ''The Will to Kill'' (NY: Ace Pocketbooks,1954)
* ''Shooting Star'' (NY: Ace Pocketbooks, 1958) (first half of Ace Double, backed with Bloch's ss collection ''Terror in the Night'') No ISBN – 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 (novel)|Psycho]]'' (NY: Simon & Schuster, 1959; UK: Robert Hale, April 1960). Adapted into the 1960 film, ''[[Psycho (1960 film)|Psycho]]'', directed by [[Alfred Hitchcock]]; later [[Psycho (1998 film)|remade]] in 1998 by [[Gus Van Sant]]
* ''The Dead Beat'' (NY: Simon & Schuster, 1960; London: Robert Hale, 1961). No ISBN. An "Inner Sanctum" Mystery. Library of Congress Card No 60-6100. The most extensively translated of Bloch's novels save ''Psycho'' and ''Psycho II'' - Larson's bibliography lists 13 translations in various languages to 1986. See also ''Unholy Trinity'' (1986).
* ''Firebug'' (NY: Regency Books, 1961). RB 101.
* ''The Couch'' (NY: Gold Medal, 1962; London: Frederick Muller Gold medal, 1962). See also ''Unholy Trinity'' (1986). Novelisation by Bloch of his screenplay for the previously filmed movie.
* ''Terror'' (Belmont Books, 1962) {{No ISBN}}; Belmont L92-537 (Working title: ''Amok''; 2 German editions appeared under this title).
* ''Ladies Day / This Crowded Earth'' (1968) A Belmont Double. Belmont B60-080 {{OCLC|1649428}}. Two science fiction novelets.
* ''The Star Stalker'' (NY: Pyramid Books, 1968). Pyramid T-1869. Note: Bloch's title was ''Colossal.'' The publisher changed it without consultation with the author.<ref>Robert Bloch. ''Once Around the Bloch: An Unauthorised Autobiography.'' NY: Tor Books, 1993, p. 225.</ref>
* ''The Todd Dossier'' (1969, Delacorte US; Macmillan UK – no ISBN.)(as by [[Collier Young]]). 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.<ref>Robert Bloch, ''Once Around the Bloch: An Unauthorised Autobiography''. BY: Tor Books, 1993, pp.347–49</ref>
* ''Sneak Preview'' (Paperback Library, 1971) {{OCLC|2487497}}
* ''It's All in Your Mind'' (Curtis Books, 1971). Reprinted from its ''Imaginative Tales'' 1955 magazine appearance, where it was titled "The Big Binge". "The Big Binge" can also be found in ''The Lost Bloch, Volume One'' (see below).
* ''Night World'' (Simon & Schuster, 1972; UK: Robert Hale, 1974.) {{ISBN|0-7091-3805-9}}
* ''[[American Gothic (novel)|American Gothic]]'' (Simon & Schuster, 1974){{ISBN|0-671-21691-0}}. Note: This novel was inspired by the true life story of serial killer [[H.H. 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'' (Whispers Press, 1978) (a [[Cthulhu Mythos]] novel). {{ISBN|0-918372-30-5}} (trade ed); 0-918372-29-1 (signed/boxed ed.) Third runner-up in the Best Novel category, [[Balrog Award]], 1980.
* ''There Is a Serpent in Eden'' (1979). Reissued as ''The Cunning'' (Zebra Books, 1979). {{ISBN|0-89083-825-9}}
* ''[[Psycho II (novel)|Psycho II]]'' (Whispers Press, 1982). 0-91832-09-7 (trade ed); 0-918372-08-9 (signed/boxed ed, 750 copies). (Unrelated to the [[Psycho II (film)|film]] of the same name)
* ''[[Twilight Zone: The Movie]]''. (NY: Warner Books, 1983; London: Corgi, 1983). Novelisation of the Warner Bros movie, based on stories by [[John Landis]], [[George Clayton Johnson]], [[Richard Matheson]], Josh Rogan, and [[Jerome Bixby]]. {{ISBN|0-446-30840-4}}
* ''[[Night of the Ripper]]'' (Doubleday,1984).{{ISBN|0-385-19422-6}}. Novel about [[Jack the Ripper]].
* ''Unholy Trinity'' (collects ''The Scarf'', ''The Couch'' and ''The Dead Beat''(Scream/Press, 1986). {{ISBN|0-910489-09-2}} (Trade edition and 350 copy boxed ed signed by author and artist bear the same ISBN)
* ''Lori'' (Tor, 1989) {{ISBN|0-312-93176-X}}.
* ''Screams: Three Novels of Suspense'' (collects ''The Will to Kill'', ''Firebug'' and ''The Star Stalker'')(Underwood-Miller, 1989) {{ISBN|0-88733-079-7}} (trade edition); 0-88733-080-0 (signed edition, 300 numbered copies).
* ''[[Psycho House]]'' (Tor, 1990) {{ISBN|0-312-93217-0}}.(Unrelated to the films ''[[Psycho II (film)|Psycho II]]'', ''[[Psycho III]]'' or ''[[Psycho IV: The Beginning]]'')
* ''The Jekyll Legacy'' (Tor, 1991) {{ISBN|0-312-85037-9}}.
* ''Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper'' (1991) (Pulphouse; a 100-copy hardbound signed edition of Bloch's famous short story) {{ISBN|1-56146-906-8}}
* ''The Thing'' (1993) (Pretentious Press; a limited edition of 85 copies, only 9 bound in cloth, of the author's first appearance in print – a parody of H. P. Lovecraft which originally appeared in the April 1932 issue of ''The Quill'', his Lincoln High School literary magazine)
* ''Psycho – The 35th Anniversary Edition'' (Gauntlet Press, 1994). {{ISBN|0-9629659-9-5}}. 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===
* ''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. This item has been stated to be Bloch's first true book; however it actually seems to have appeared in the fanzine ''Novacious'' No 2 (March 1939) edited by [[Forrest J. Ackerman]] and Myrtle R. Douglas ('Morojo'); distributed by the [[Fantasy Amateur Press Association]]. A copy of this fanzine is held by the Special Collections at Kuhn Library, University of Maryland Baltimore.
[[File:Weird Tales September 1945.jpg|thumb|right|The title story of ''The Skull of the Marquis de Sade'' was originally published as the cover feature in the September 1945 ''Weird Tales'']]
* ''[[The Opener of the Way]]'' (Arkham House, 1945; UK Neville Spearman, 1974). Reissued by Panther Books, UK in two paperback volumes, 1976 - volume 1 as ''The Opener of the Way'' and volume 2 as ''The House of the Hatchet''. 
* ''Sea Kissed'' (London: Utopian, 1945). Chapbook of four stories. The title story, co-penned with Henry Kuttner, was originally titled "The Black Kiss" (1935).
* ''Terror in the Night'' (NY: Ace Books, 1958). (Published in a double volume with Bloch's novel ''Shooting Star''.) No ISBN – D-265 on spine.
* ''[[Pleasant Dreams: Nightmares]]'' (Arkham House,1960; UK: Whiting, 1967)). See also ''Nightmares'' and ''More Nightmares'' (1961), ''Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper'' (1962), ''Horror-7'' (1963), ''Pleasant Dreams'' (1979) and ''The Early Fears'' (1994). 
* ''Blood Runs Cold'' (1961). NY: Simon & Schuster, 1961. UK: Robert Hale, 1963. No ISBN. Note: British editions omit four stories from the US editions.
* ''Nightmares'' (NY: Belmont Books, 1961). 9 stories from ''[[Pleasant Dreams: Nightmares]]''. Contains new introduction by Bloch. 
* ''More Nightmares'' ([[Belmont Books]], 1961). No ISBN – Belmont #L92-530. 10 stories from ''[[The Opener of the Way]]'' and ''[[Pleasant Dreams: Nightmares]]''
* ''Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper'' (NY: Belmont Books, 1962) No ISBN – L 92–527 on spine. 9 stories drawn from "The Opener of the Way'' and ''Pleasant Dreams: Nightmares''. UK reissues by Tandem (1965) and Sphere (1971) appeared as ''The House of the Hatchet and Other Tales of Horror.' These UK variant title reissues are not to be confused with the later Panther UK collection ''House of the Hatchet,'' (1976; 11 stories), whose contents are almost entirely different.
* ''Atoms and Evil'' ([[Gold Medal Books]], 1962)
* ''Horror 7'' (Belmont Books, 1963). No ISBN. Belmont #90–275. Australian edition: Horwitz, 1963. Seven tales selected from ''[[The Opener of the Way]]'' and ''[[Pleasant Dreams: Nightmares]]'' 
* ''Bogey Men'' (Pyramid Books, March 1963) {{No ISBN}}; Pyramid F-839. Includes as afterword, a reprint of the essay "Psycho-Logical Bloch" by [[Sam Moskowitz]].
* ''The Skull of the Marquis de Sade and Other Stories'' (NY: Pyramid, 1965, pb; UK: Robert Hale, 1975, hc).
* ''Tales in a Jugular Vein'' (Pyramid Books, 1965) No ISBN – R-1130 on spine.
* ''Chamber of Horrors'' (Award Books, 1966) {{No ISBN}}; Award Books A187X.
* ''The Living Demons'' (NY: Belmont Books, Sept 1967). No ISBN – Belmont B50-787.
* ''Dragons and Nightmares: Four Short Novels'' (Mirage, 1968). No ISBN. Voyager series V-102. 1000 numbered copies. Note: All included stories were revised from their original magazine publications for their appearance here.
* ''Bloch and Bradbury'' (NY: Tower Books, 1969). Edited by [[Kurt Singer]]. Contains six stories by Bloch & five by [[Ray Bradbury]]. Retitled reprint, UK: Sphere, 1970, as ''Fever Dream and Other Fantasies.'' {{ISBN|9780722117149}};<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bookdepository.com/Fever-Dream-Other-Fantasies-Robert-Bloch/9780722117149|title = Fever Dream and Other Fantasies : Robert Bloch : 9780722117149}}</ref> Retitled reprint, large magazine format, possibly unauthorised, Chicago: Peacock Press,1969 as ''Whispers from Beyond.'' No ISBN.
* ''Fear Today, Gone Tomorrow'' (Award Books/Tandem Books, 1971). No ISBN Award/Tandem 426 & A811S on spine; AQ 1469 on front cover.
* ''House of the Hatchet'' (Panther Books, UK, 1976). Collection of 11 stories; the second half of the two-volume paperback reissue of ''The Opener of the Way''. Not to be confused with UK re-titles under this name by Tandem and Sphere of the US 1962 Belmont collection (9 stories) whose contents are almost entirely different.
* ''The King of Terrors: Tales of Madness and Death'' (The Mysterious Press, 1977). {{ISBN|0-89296-029-9}} (trade ed); 0-89296-030-2 (limited ed).
* ''[[The Best of Robert Bloch]]'' (Del Rey/Ballantine, 1977). {{ISBN|0-345-25757-X}}. Introduction by [[Lester Del Rey]].
* ''Cold Chills'' (Doubleday, 1977). {{ISBN|0-385-12421-X}}.
* ''Out of the Mouths of Graves'' (Mysterious Press, 1978) {{ISBN|0-89296-043-4}} (trade ed); 0-89296-044-2 (limited ed).
* ''The Laughter of a Ghoul/What Every Young Ghoul Should Know'' (Necronomicon Press, 1978).
* ''Pleasant Dreams'' (HBJ/Jove pbk, 1979). A variant edition/title of 1960's ''Pleasant Dreams - Nightmares'' which omits four stories from the Arkham House collection and adds three others. 
* ''Such Stuff as Screams Are Made Of'' (Ballantine Books, 1979) {{ISBN|0-345-27996-4}}.
* ''[[Mysteries of the Worm]]'' (Zebra Books, 1981). {{ISBN|0-89083-815-1}}. Introduction "Demon-Dreaded Lore" by [[Lin Carter]]. Afterword by Robert Bloch.
* ''Midnight Pleasures'' (Doubleday, 1987) {{ISBN|0-385-19439-0}}.
* ''Lost in Space and Time with Lefty Feep'' (Creatures at Large Press, 1987). {{ISBN|0-940064-03-0}} (trade ed); 0-940064-01-4 (boxed/deluxe ed, 250 copies signed). Note: This book was designated "Volume One" but in fact no further volumes of the series were published, leaving a number of the Lefty Feep stories uncollected.
*''Selected Stories of Robert Bloch'' (Underwood-Miller, 1987, 3 vols).
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]]'' (rev. 1993) from [[Chaosium]] books. Adds three additional stories not included in the first edition.
* ''[[The Early Fears]]'' (1994). Fedogan & Bremer. {{ISBN|1-878252-12-7}} (trade ed); 1-878252-13-5 (limited ed). Combines the contents of ''The Opener of the Way'' (1945) and ''Pleasant Dreams: Nightmares'' (1960) with three new stories and intro by the author.
* ''[[Flowers from the Moon and Other Lunacies]]'' (Arkham House, 1998) {{ISBN|0-87054-172-2}}. Introduction by [[Robert M. Price]]. Collects rarities from the Bloch canon, previously published in ''Weird 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!'' (Subterranean Press, 1999) {{ISBN|1-892284-19-7}}. (Limited ed 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'' in 1971, see above). The ''Lost Bloch'' supplements ''Flowers from the Moon'' in reprinting rare and unreprinted Bloch stories; however at early 2011 around 50 Bloch stories remain uncollected<ref>Arrived at by comparison of story titles listed in the ''Rarities: Unanthologized Stories'' section of Randall D. Larson, ''The Complete Robert Bloch: An Illustrated Comprehensive Bibliography'' (Fandom Unlimited, 1988) with contents of ''Flowers from the Moon'', the three volumes of the ''Lost Bloch'' series and the two volumes of the ''Reader's Bloch'' series.</ref>
* ''The Lost Bloch: Volume 2: Hell on Earth'' (2000). {{ISBN|1-892284-63-4}}. (Limited ed of 1250 numbered copies signed by editor/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'' (Subterranean Press, 2002) {{ISBN|1-931081-16-6}}. (Limited ed 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'' (Subterranean Press, 2005; limited ed, signed by editor, 750 numbered and 26 lettered copies). Edited by Stefan R. Dziemanowicz, who provides an introduction, "Future Imperfect". Collects more Bloch rarities; 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'' (Subterranean Press, 2008; 750 numbered copies signed by the editor). Edited by Stefan R. Dziemanowicz. No intro. An unthemed collection of Bloch rarities, most of whose 16 stories are otherwise unobtainable outside their original magazine appearances.
* ''[[Mysteries of the Worm]]'' ([[Chaosium]], rev. 2009) {{ISBN|1-56882-176-X}}. Preface "De Vermis Mysteriis" by [[Robert M. Price]]. Includes original Introduction by Lin Carter and After Word by Robert Bloch. Adds four additional stories not included in the first two editions.

===Anthologies and collections edited by Bloch===
* ''The Best of [[Fredric Brown]]'' (Nelson Doubleday, 1976). No ISBN. Book Club ed. 3180 on rear jacket flap.
* ''Psycho-Paths''. (Tor, 1991). {{ISBN|0-312-85048-4}}.
* ''Monsters in Our Midst'' (Tor, 1993). {{ISBN|0-312-85049-2}}.
* ''[[Robert Bloch's Psychos]]'' (1997). {{ISBN|1-56865-637-8}}. This anthology was being edited by Robert Bloch until his death in 1994. [[Martin H. Greenberg]] completed the editorial work posthumously.

===Short stories===
* "The Thing" (parodying the style of [[H. P. Lovecraft]]), the author's first. Initially published in ''The Quill'', his Lincoln High School literary magazine, in April, 1932; published in book form by The Pretentious Press in 1993.
* "Broomstick Ride", ''Super Science Fiction'', December 1957
* "Crime Machine", ''Galaxy'', October 1961
* "Sales of a Deathman", ''Galaxy'', February 1968
* "From Hell", ''[[Gotham by Gaslight]]'', February 1989

===Non-fiction===
* ''The Eighth Stage of Fandom'' (1962). Advent – no ISBN. Wildside Press reprint, 1992, with new intro by [[Wilson Tucker (writer)|Wilson Tucker]] and new afterword by [[Harlan Ellison]], {{ISBN|1-880448-16-5}}
* ''Out of My Head'' (1986) (essays). NESFA Press. {{ISBN|0-915368-30-7}} (trade ed); 0-915368-87-0 (slipcased ed). Edition limited to 800 numbered copies, the first 200 being slipcased.
* ''Once Around the Bloch: An Unauthorized Autobiography'' (Tor Books, 1993).
* ''Robert Bloch: Appreciations of the Master'' (Tor, 1995). This volume is a tribute to Bloch collecting essays by many writers who knew or worked with him, together with reprints of several Bloch stories.