A visit to a collector of Edgar Allan Poe memorabilia reveals the horrific depths of his obsession.
"During the whole of a dull, dark and soundless day of the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, by automobile, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of my destination."
Famous Fantastic Mysteries (October 1951)
Adapted for the film Torture Garden (Amicus, 1967).
Comment: An admirer of Poe's works, Bloch also completed one of Poe's unfinished tales, The Light-House. Another tale of an obsessed collector is Bloch's The Skull of the Marquis de Sade.
Bogey Men (1963)
Best of Robert Bloch (1977)
Complete Stories of Robert Bloch -- V 1: Final Reckonings (1990)