tales, only Bloch and H. P. Lovecraft are represented by two stories. Of Bloch's, Stephen King chose "Sweets to the Sweet" and Joe R. Lansdale chose "The Animal Fair". The selected Lovecraft stories are "The Colour Out of Space" and "The Rats in the Walls." S.T. Joshi. There is an essay on Bloch's work, with particular reference to the novels Psycho and The Scarf, in S. T. Joshi's book The Modern Weird Tale (2001). Joshi examines Bloch's literary relationship with Lovecraft in a further essay in The Evolution of the Weird Tale (2004). Joshi also discusses Bloch's work in his 2 volume Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction (UK: PS Publishing 2012; NY: Hippocampus Press, 2014), pp. 556–59 inter alia. James Doig. "Robert Bloch in Australia: Cinecon 1981". Studies in Australian Weird Fiction 3 (2009): 47–57. Benjamin J. Szumskyj (ed) Robert Bloch: the Man Who Collected Psychos (McFarland, 2009). Collects a range of essays on Bloch's life and work. Leigh Blackmore. "A Chip Off the Old Bloch: An Interview with Robert Bloch's Daughter Sally Francy." Cemetery Dance(October 2017) External links Robert Bloch Obituary at Hitchcock wiki 1917 births 1994 deaths Writers from Milwaukee 20th-century American novelists 20th-century American male writers American fantasy writers American horror writers American people of German-Jewish descent Burials at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery Hugo Award-winning writers Inkpot Award winners World Fantasy Award-winning writers Writers from Chicago Writers from California American science fiction writers Cthulhu Mythos writers American mystery writers Jewish American novelists American male novelists People from Maywood, Illinois Novelists from Illinois Novelists from Wisconsin Weird fiction writers Pulp fiction writers Ghost story writers 20th-century pseudonymous writers