![]() ![]() ![]() He was a contributor to pulp magazines such as Weird Tales in his early career, and was also a prolific screenwriter. He was one of the youngest members of the Lovecraft Circle Lovecraft was Bloch's mentor and one of the first to seriously encourage his talent. ![]() He was the son of Raphael "Ray" Bloch (1884, Chicago-1952, Chicago), a bank cashier, and his wife Stella Loeb (1880, Attica, Indiana-1944, Milwaukee, WI), a social worker, both of German-Jewish descent.īloch wrote hundreds of short stories and over twenty novels, usually crime fiction, science fiction, and, perhaps most influentially, horror fiction ( Psycho). He was the recipient of the Hugo Award (for his story "That Hell-Bound Tra Robert Albert Bloch was a prolific American writer. ![]() Bloch wrote hundreds of short stories and over twenty novels, usually crime fiction, science fiction, and, perhaps most influentially, horror fiction ( Psycho). He was the son of Raphael "Ray" Bloch (1884, Chicago-1952, Chicago), a bank cashier, and his wife Stella Loeb (1880, Attica, Indiana-1944, Milwaukee, WI), a social worker, both of German-Jewish descent. Robert Albert Bloch was a prolific American writer. ![]()
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