![]() ![]() In the 1960's, he wrote 3 stories for Star Trek. He was a good friend of the science fiction writer Stanley G. He also worked for a time in local vaudeville, and tried to break into writing for nationally-known performers. In the 1940s, he created the humorous character Lefty Feep in a story for Fantastic Adventures. Robert Bloch was also a major contributor to science fiction fanzines and fandom in general. He served a term as president of the Mystery Writers of America. He was the recipient of the Hugo Award (for his story "That Hell-Bound Train"), the Bram Stoker Award, and the World Fantasy Award. 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). Robert Albert Bloch was a prolific American writer. ![]()
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