Bloch Related Material on the Web

The following is a list of materials relating to Robert Bloch available on the web. I have not listed the large number of sites that either mention Bloch in passing or that simply provide lists (usually incomplete or inaccurate) of his works. Please note that there are a wide variety of links contained throughout this site (especially in the Biography, FAQ, and sections) that are not duplicated here. None of Robert Bloch's works are in the public domain. They may not be published, reproduced, or posted online without the permission of the copyright holder.

Should you come across any other sites containing interesting Bloch-related material, please email me.

• A new website contains scans of various Bloch paperbacks.
• Robert Bloch's "Hitchcock Presents" episode The Sorcerer's Apprentice can now be viewed online.
• Myra Shinkman's interview with Robert Bloch: Terror with a Velvet Pen
• Leigh Blackmore's essay Writer's Bloch
• Charles A. Gramlich's interview with Charles Nuetzel
• Tom Weaver's essays Norman, Is That You? and "Psycho"-Genesis
• Essays by Horror Online and Pegasos on Robert Bloch's life and works
• Bloch's tribute to Fritz Leiber
• FANAC: Bloch's I Was a Fake Fan for the FBI!
• FANAC: Bloch's Left at the Post
• FANAC: Bloch's I'll Fry Tomorrow
• FANAC: Bloch's My Further Struggles by Floyd Scrilch
• FANAC: Bloch's Letter to Hyphen 5
• FANAC: Bloch's Letter to Quandry 14
• FANAC: Bloch's Letters to Quandry 16: Censorship on Fanzines and Ode to a Grecian Yearn
• FANAC: Photo of Bloch at 1980 World Fantasy Conference
• FANAC: Photo of Bloch with Larry Niven
• FANAC: Photos of Bloch with Wilson Tucker on a couch , another couch, and at Niagara Falls
• Ambrosia: Bloch's essay on Poe and Lovecraft
• Mimosa Online: essays on Bloch by Dean Grennell and Walt Willis
• A clip of the trailer for Strait-Jacket
• Buffalo News obituary for Robert Bloch.
• Mr. Stringer's That Hell-Bound Train
• The Robert Bloch Award
• Mushroom Plant's Robert Bloch Limited Edition Portrait
• Nathan Shumate's Cold Fusion Reviews of Asylum and The Dead Don't Die
• Seeing Ear Theatre's audio production of A Good Knight's Work

• Publishers
  • Subterranean Press
  • NESFA Press
  • Cemetery Dance Publications
  • Gauntlet Press
  • Stealth Press
  • Golden Gryphon Press
  • Fox Acre Press
  • Mark V. Ziesing
  • Dennis McMillan
  • Arkham House
  • Necronomicon Press
  • McFarland & Company
  • Creatures At Large Press

• Booksellers
  • Pandora's Books Ltd.
  • Cobblestone Books
  • Graham Holroyd
  • Mark V. Ziesing
  • Adventure House
  • The Vintage Library
  • Bud Plant
  • Advanced Book Exchange and Bibliofind
  • Amazon, Amazon UK and Chapters
  • Dealtime
  • All Books 4 Less

• Online Texts
  • Sci Fiction and @tVenture
  • SF & Fantasy Books Online and Literature of the Fantastic,
  • Classic Horror Fiction, The Literary Gothic, and Gaslight
  • Online Horror and Fantasy Fiction and The Shadow Magazine
  • Bibliomania, Project Gutenberg, and Athena
  • The Internet Classics Archive and Perseus
  • The Online Medieval and Classical Library and The Camelot Project

• Authors
  • Harlan Ellison: Webderland and Islets of Langerhans
  • James Gunn
  • Fritz Leiber
  • H.P. Lovecraft
  • Wilson Tucker
  • Robert Sheckley
  • William F. Nolan
  • Roald Dahl: Official Site and Fan Site
  • David J. Schow
  • Robert A. Heinlein: Website and Dean of SF Writers
  • Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
  • Charles Sheffield
  • Cordwainer Smith
  • Cornell Woolrich

• Locus Online, SF Site, and Science Fiction Weekly
• Internet Speculative Fiction DataBase
• William G. Contento's Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections
• Science Fiction Resource Guide
• Memory Hole
• The Grand List of Over-Used Science Fiction Cliches
• Evil Overlord, Inc.
• Victoriana
• The Eternal Night

• Exhibitions of cover art and publication information can be found at these sites:
  
  
  • Strange Words' site on Ballantine originals
  • DAW SF Paperbacks
  • Graeme Flanagan's Carter Brown covers site
  • Jaap van Deijk's Pulp Art Palace
  • The Lynx's Pulp Cover Gallery
  • David Boone's Pulp Morgue
  • Stanford University's Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls
  • Scott Shaw's Oddball Comics
  • Cover to Cover
  • Crimeboss
  • Dave Studham's All Star Comics Page
  • Fiction House Comic Covers
  • Homeroom
  • Amazing World of DC Comics (DC's in-house "fanzine")
  • Prescription for Excitement! (includes a number of golden age stories)
  • Seanbaby's Hostess Page

• Sites devoted to specific publications or characters include:
  
  
  • Lars Klores' guide to Weird Tales
  • Doc Savage, The Spider, The Shadow, and Captain Future
  • Elseworlds
  • Marvelman
  • Legion of Super-Heroes: Encyclopedia Galactica
  • Alex Tam's Starman Compendium
  • The Annotated Justice Society of America Checklist
  • Annie and Little Orphan Annie

• Sites devoted to specific creators include:
  
  
  • Don Rosa: DUCK Hunt, The Scrooge McDuck Page, and Duckburg
  • Sheldon Mayer (creator of Sugar and Spike and The Red Tornado)
  • Will Eisner: Official Site and Wildwood Cemetary
  • Fred Hembeck: Official Site and The Hembeck Files
  • Neil Gaiman: The Dreaming and The Magician's Study
  • Alan Moore: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Annotations
  • Mark Evanier
  • Shane Glines
  • Nick Cardy
  • Scott McCloud
  • Basil Wolverton
  • Stephen R. Bissette
  • John Totleben
  • Kyle Baker
  • Dave Stevens
  • Mike Mignola
  • Phil Noto
  • Steve Ditko: Ditko Looked Up
  • Carol Lay
  • Al Capp
  • Ruben Bolling's Tom the Dancing Bug
  • Tom Toles' Toles
  • Bill Holbrook's Kevin and Kell
  • Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff's Celesteville
  • Graeme Flanagan's Robert McGinnis site
  • Frank R. Paul
  • Norm Saunders
  • Rumiko Takahashi: Ranma 1/2 Library, The New Ranma 1/2 Project and Tomobiki-cho
  • Kosuke Fujishima: Temple of Publishing Information and Ah! Megami-sama Universe
  • Hayao Miyazaki: Studio Ghibli, Nausicaa.net, Mononoke Miramax, Mononoke Fan Site and Miyazaki Fan Site

• Other sites of interest:
  
  
  • The Comic Book Periodic Table of the Elements
  • Disney's HooZoo
  • The History of Superhero Comic Books
  • Camelot in Four Colors
  • The Answer Man
  • Comic Book Resources and Newsarama
  • Robert Beerbohm's Comics Reality
  • Grand Comic Book Database and ComicsDB
  • Cool French Comics
  • The Anime Turnpike
  • Jerry Bails' Who's Who of American Comic Books and Scrapbook of Comic-Book Art

• Metropolis Walkthrough, Fritz Lang's Metropolis, and Metropolis Film Archive
• Boyd Campbell's King Kong site
• George Turner's article on Invasion of the Bodysnatchers
• The Various Versions of the Wicker Man and Nuada
• The Silents Majority, Slapstick, Mugshots and Taylorology
• The Lon Chaney Home Page
• Hello, Harold Lloyd!
• Classic Films and The Greatest Films
• Hammer Studios
• Horror-Wood and The Astounding B Monster
• Cartoon Research
• World Wide Box Office
• David Poland and Roger Ebert
• AFI Online Cinema, Movieflix, and Tune In Network

Television

• David K. Smith's The Avengers Forever and Mrs. Peel -- We're Needed
• Brendan Dawes' Outer Limits site
• Twilight Zone
• Night Gallery
• Kipp Teague's The Prisoner site and Six of One
• Star Trek Continuum and Trek Today
• Ron Kurer's Toon Tracker (TV cartoons)
• Tsuburaya Studios (home of sixties sensation Ultraman!)
• Davey and Goliath
• TV Party!
• Iron Chef: Official Site and Iron Chef Compendium
• TV Tattle

• 2000x (available at audible.com)
• Imagination Theatre
• Seeing Ear Theatre
• Bob Cook's CBS Radio Mystery Theatre
• OTR Moments in MP3
• Clark Sinclair's Golden Days of Australian Radio
• RU Sitting Comfortably
• Sphere Audio Drama
• The OTR Radio Vault.
• Quiet, Please
• The Shadow Realaudio Radio Theatre
• The Cobalt Club
• The Mercury Theatre On Air
• Radio Days
• Lost and Found Sound
• This American Life
• American Radio Works

• The Gallery of Monster Toys
• J.A. Medrano's Bootleg Toys
• Gene Metcalf's Toy Ray Guns
• The Toy Shelf (Major Matt Mason, Strange Change Machine, and Thingmaker)
• John Kolesar's Thingmaker Collector's Page (Thingmaker and Strange Change Machine)
• Keith Meyer's The Space Station (Major Matt Mason)
• John Eaton's Where the Wild Toys Are (Major Matt Mason and Zeroids)
• The Colorforms Outer Space Men Collector's Site
• The CreatAbiliTOYS! Museum of Advertising Icons
• Mike Speth's Cereal Premiums site and its Toolie Birds subpage
• Tick Tock Toys (massive site -- premiums, toys, packaging)
• Erick Erickson's Marvin Glass (creator of Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Roberts) site
• Eric Harshbarger's Lego Creations

• Loch Ness Live!
• Institute of Official Cheer, Vot Der Domboozle?, and Hocus Pocus Palace
• The Harry Stephen Keeler Society and the Harry Stephen Keeler Home Page
• Lionel Fanthrope
• Gobler Toys
• Googie Architecture
• Forgotten New York and Ruins of Detroit
• Quisp!
• White Castle
• The Classic Typewriter Page
• Interesting Ideas
• Sodaplay
• Star Wars Asciimation
• Guess the Sitcom Character
• Romenesko's Obscure Store and Reading Room and News of the Weird
• Cruel Site of the Day
• Pop Culture Junk Mail
• Gaijan A Go-Go
• Suck, The Onion, Brunching Shuttlecocks, and Modern Humorist
• Urban Legends Reference Page

• CNN US, CNN Europe, CNN Asia, MSNBC, CBC, BBC, NPR and Marketplace
• The New York Times, The Washington Post, and New Times
• The Economist, Reason, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and Wired
• News Directory and Government Affairs/News Sources
• Salon and Slate
• Arts and Letters Daily, MediaNews, Honeyguide, Slashdot, Metafilter, and Alt Log
• Thomas, FedStats, US Patent & Trademark Office, Patent Number Search, EDGAR, and Oyez
• NASA, Jet Propulsion Lab, Space.com, and SETI@home
• Jane's Information Group and Thomas Register
• U of M Document Center, Academic Info Gateway and Biolinks
• Financial Find, Find Law, and CEO Express
• Brittanica, Compton's, and CIA World Fact Book
• Ancient World Web, Catholic Encyclopedia and Encyclopedia Mythica
• The Internet Archive
• How Stuff Works, Ref Desk, The Straight Dope, and Mythbusters
• FreeTranslation.com, Babel Fish and Systran
• Zip Code Look-Up
• US Gazetteer
• Your Dictionary and Symbols.com
• Internet Oracle Find People
• Website Garage
• Stroud's CWSApps and Tucows (software resources)
• Google is a search engine that tends to deliver the most relevent answers to queries. Through its cache system, it is also a good way to uncover "missing" webpages. Click on the link, or use the search box below.
• Visit the Hotel Pfefferkorn and dine at the Pfefferkorn Restaurants in Muenster, Essen, or Dortmund, or at the Hotel Cryston.






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