About the author

Robert Bloch (1917–1994) was an American novelist. He is best known for his psychological thriller Psycho, which was later adapted for the screen by director Alfred Hitchcock and became a classic of thriller cinema. Bloch excelled at building tension through psychological suspense, using his characters' mental and emotional states to drive the narrative, so that the chilling effect comes less from external violence or grotesque scenes than from the probing of the human mind and the accumulation of unease. The library holds one of his works, This Crowded Earth. Public information about his life and writing career is limited, so this note relies only on the available facts, focusing on the themes and style of his work and on the wide influence of Psycho in both literature and film.

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