During his lifetime, Robert Bloch traveled through the horror subgenres in pursuit of any and all things strange, morbid, or macabre. He started his writing career by imitating his mentor H.P. Lovecraft and subsequently becoming Lovecraft's peer when he began to expand upon the Cthulhu mythos. It's fair to say that without the influence and encouragement of Lovecraft, Bloch may … [Read more...] about Robert Bloch: The Man Who Brought Us Psycho (1959)
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From Traumatized to Terror Creator, the Life of Robert Bloch
His Youth and Education Robert Albert Bloch was born in Chicago, Illinois on April 5 in 1917, to two German Jews, Raphael Bloch and Stella Loeb who, despite their Jewish heritage, had the family attend a Methodist Church. When Bloch was only eight years of age, he attended a screening of Lon Chaney Sr.’s The Phantom of the Opera (1925) on his own, where he was traumatized by … [Read more...] about From Traumatized to Terror Creator, the Life of Robert Bloch
A Look into the Life of Horror Writer Dennis Etchison
Possibly one of the most well-received writers and unfortunately, one of the most recently deceased within the horror writing community, Dennis Etchison made his waves in the world of writers at large. As an American writer and editor of fantasy and horror fiction, he has been hailed as, "one hell of a fiction writer," by his peer in horror, Stephen King. Etchison himself … [Read more...] about A Look into the Life of Horror Writer Dennis Etchison
A Lovecraftian Life and Death
Known as the Father of Cosmic Horror, H.P. Lovecraft only lived for forty-six short years. What he was able to accomplish in his lifetime, however, was enough to change the tides of an entire genre. A Visionary from an Early Age Howard Phillips Lovecraft was born in the late summer of 1890, to Sarah Susan Phillips Lovecraft and Winfield Scott Lovecraft, in Providence, … [Read more...] about A Lovecraftian Life and Death
Mary Shelley: How a Teenager Changed the Literary World
Growing Up in a Literary Household Born in London, England on August 30, 1797, as Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin--Mary was the daughter of famed feminist Wollstonecraft as well as the philosopher and political writer William Godwin. Her mother Mary Wollstonecraft authored The Vindication of the Rights of Woman in 1792, but she died shortly after Shelley was born, and … [Read more...] about Mary Shelley: How a Teenager Changed the Literary World