Editing Robert Bloch (section)

==Unproduced screenplays==
Bloch wrote a number of screenplays that remain unproduced. These include ''Merry-Go-Round'' for MGM (loosely based on [[Ray Bradbury]]'s story "Black Ferris");<ref>Jonathan R. Eller and William F. Toupence. ''Ray Bradbury: The Life of Fiction''. Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2004, p. 270</ref><ref>Robert Bloch, ''Once Around the Bloch: An Unauthorized Autobiography''. New York: Tor Books, 1993. pp. 256, 262–63.</ref> ''Night-World'' (from Bloch's novel, for MGM; this was aborted when its producer lost confidence, and his job when MGM went under new management); "The Twenty-First Witch"; ''Day of the Comet'' (from the [[H. G. Wells]] story) and "Berg!" (both for [[George Pal]]); and a television adaptation of "[[Out of the Aeons]]". See also ''The Todd Dossier''. Other unproduced scripts include a science fiction movie commissioned by AIP for 1972 release, ''Barracuda 2000 A.D.'' (about a cycle gang surviving atomic holocaust in 2000); James Whiton (co-writer of ''[[The Abominable Dr. Phibes]]'') also worked on Bloch's script but AIP abandoned the film when the bottom fell out of the cycle-picture vogue. There was also ''Linda'', based on a [[John D. MacDonald]] novella; Bloch's script was not used but the movie was eventually done in another form on TV as a 1973 [[ABC Movie of the Week|ABC ''Saturday Suspense Movie'']] starring Stella Stevens, with Ed Nelson playing Paul and John McIntire.

Some scenes from Bloch's incomplete screenplay for the unproduced movie ''Earthman's Burden'', to have been based on the Hoka stories of [[Gordon R. Dickson]] and [[Poul Anderson]], appear in Richard Matheson and Ricia Mainhardt, eds., ''Robert Bloch: Appreciations of the Master''. New York: Tor Books, 1995, pp.&nbsp;157–63.