title: Psycho House (Tor Horror)
author:  Robert Bloch 
description: Bloch's latest horror story is a disappointing effort, despite his attempt to exploit the character of Norman Bates of Psycho fame. Having decided to write a book about Bates, Amy Haines travels to Fairvale for material. She arrives in the wake of a young girl's knife-murder at the "Psycho House," a tourist trap re-creation of both the infamous Bates Motel and "mother's house." The murder serendipitously provides an angle for Amy, who has been casting about for a theme for her book. Enlisting the help of a demonologist, a newspaper publisher and a psychiatrist, Amy starts snooping around the once-sleepy community. Predictably, the townsfolk, including the sheriff, do not appreciate the intrusion. After several other victims are attacked with a knife and the tires of Amy's car are slashed, she is convinced that the murderer is closing in on her. But Amy's sleuthing has no real focus beyond her determination to find the killer, so we simply follow her around and wait for something to happen. Though Bloch provides all the elements of a horror story, they fail to coalesce into a truly frightening yarn. <br />Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: Robert Bloch
  THREE COMPLETE NOVELS
  PSYCHO
  PSYCHO II
  PSYCHO HOUSE
  Robert Bloch has been hailed as “the finest psychological horror writer
  working today” by fellow bestselling author and master of the macabre,
  Stephen King. And the Washington Post declared Robert Bloch a writer
  who has “etched [his] name permanently in the horror hall of fame.”
  Bestselling author Robert Bloch is famed as the creator of that great
  American horror classic, Psycho, the inspiration for the spine-tingling
  motion picture. He continued the story of Norman Bates and the Bates
  Motel—where Death is the desk clerk—in Psycho II and then Psycho
  House. Now, for the first time, all three suspense thrillers appear in one
  hardcover volume.
  PSYCHO
  When the Bates Motel loomed up out of the storm, Mary Crane thought it
  was her salvation. The rooms were musty but clean, and the manager,
  Norman Bates, seemed like a nice enough fellow, if a little strange . . . Then
  Mary met Norman’s mother . . . And the butcher knife . . . Th