num_pages: 432
description: Robert Bloch, grand master of horror, recounts his tales in this hilarious autobiography, Once Around the Bloch.Once Around the Bloch takes the reader from Bloch's early years in an up-and-coming Chicago suburb to his first fateful encounter with the cult fiction magazine Weird Tales. Bloch's Hollywood adventures are also chronicled, including his encounters and friendships with such famous superstars as Vincent Price, Boris Karloff, Buster Keaton, and Joan Crawford. Bloch also recounts the inspiration for and the birth of one of the most famous villains of all time, Norman Bates.
language: English
title: Once Around the Bloch: An Unauthorized Autobiography
titlecomplete: Once Around the Bloch: An Unauthorized Autobiography
genres: Autobiography, Biography Memoir, Horror, Biography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 58
awards: awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Bram Stoker Award
category: Best Non-Fiction
publisher: Tor Books