Robert Bloch

Author of Psycho, who wrote the novel of Twilight Zone: The Movie.

Robert Bloch (1917–1994) was an American writer of crime, psychological horror and fantasy, best known for the 1959 novel Psycho, which Alfred Hitchcock filmed in 1960. A protégé of H. P. Lovecraft, he wrote hundreds of short stories and more than 30 novels, and worked for over 30 years in television and film.

Quick Facts

Pen name

Tarleton Fiske
Will Folke
Nathan Hindin
E. K. Jarvis
Floyd Scriltch
Wilson Kane
John Sheldon
Collier Young

Birth name

Robert Albert Bloch

Born

5 April 1917

Birthplace

Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

Died

23 September 1994

Place of death

Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Occupation

Novelist, short-story writer

Genre

Crime
Fantasy
Horror
Science fiction

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Background

His Twilight Zone credit is the 1983 novelisation of Twilight Zone: The Movie, written from the original screenplay; he later said he had seen only two of the film's segments in the six weeks he had to write it. In 1985 he received a Twilight Zone Dimension Award.