Horror
ATOMS AND EVIL.
London: Robert Hale & Company, [1976]. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. Collection of 13 stories. Originally published as a paperback original in 1962.
BLOOD RUNS COLD.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collection of seventeen short stories, mostly crime, but including several horror stories. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 211.
BLOOD RUNS COLD.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collection of seventeen short stories, mostly crime, but including several horror stories. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 211.
DRAGONS AND NIGHTMARES: FOUR SHORT NOVELS.
Baltimore: Mirage, 1968. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 1000 numbered copies. Signed by Bloch. Collects "A Good Knight's Work," "The Eager Dragon," "Nursemaid to Nightmares" and "Black Barter." Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-39.
FLOWERS FROM THE MOON AND OTHER LUNACIES.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House Publisher, Inc., 1998. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects twenty stories first published in WEIRD TALES, STRANGE STORIES, and ROGUE.
FLOWERS FROM THE MOON AND OTHER LUNACIES.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House Publisher, Inc., 1998. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects twenty stories first published in WEIRD TALES, STRANGE STORIES, and ROGUE.
IT'S ALL IN YOUR MIND.
New York: Curtis Books, 1971. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original.
THE KIDNAPER.
New York: Lion Books, Inc., [1954]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Lion Books #185. Paperback original. "...one of the author's own favorites among his work, is THE KIDNAPPER, another first person narrative of a psychopath, cold, clinical, and unsparingly honest in treatment." - Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 82-84.
THE LIVING DEMONS.
New York: Belmont Books, [1967]. Small octavo, printed wrappers. First edition. Belmont B0-787.. Paperback original. Signed inscription by Bloch to a well known mystery bookseller and publisher on the inside front cover. Collects twelve stories of horror.
ONCE AROUND THE BLOCH: AN UNAUTHORIZED AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
New York: Tor, [1993]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed inscription by Bloch on the front free endpaper to a mystery publisher and bookseller.
PLEASANT DREAMS - NIGHTMARES.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House: Publishers, 1960. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects fifteen stories. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-45. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 210. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-31.
THE SCARF.
New York: The Dial Press, 1947. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by the author on the title page: "Best wishes-Robert Bloch."
SCREAMS: THREE NOVELS OF SUSPENSE.
San Rafael, CA, Columbia, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1989. Octavo, cloth. First combined edition. Collects The Will to Kill (1954), Firebug (1961), and The Star Stalker (1968). First hardcover edition for all titles (all first printed in paperback). The Will to Kill "tells of a Korean War veteran searching to the secret of his periodic mental blackouts"; "Firebug was the story of a murderous pyromaniac"; "The Stark Stalker, an evocative novel set in Hollywood during the last days of silent movies." - Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 82-84.
SEA KISSED.
[London: Utopian Publications Ltd.], n.d. [1945]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. The author's scarce first book. A small booklet which collects four Robert Bloch stories; Sea Kissed (written with Henry Kuttner), Lady in Wax, Beetles, and Totem Pole.
SEA KISSED.
[London: Utopian Publications Ltd.], n.d. [1945]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. The author's scarce first book. A small booklet which collects four Robert Bloch stories; Sea Kissed (written with Henry Kuttner), Lady in Wax, Beetles, and Totem Pole.
THE SELECTED STORIES OF ROBERT BLOCH ...
Los Angeles, California, Columbia, Pennsylvania: Underwood-Miller, 1987. Octavo, three volumes, cloth. First edition. One of 500 numbered sets signed by Bloch (this is copy number 3). Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-47.
THE SKULL OF THE MARQUIS DE SADE AND OTHER STORIES.
New York: Pyramid Books, [1965]. Small octavo, printed wrappers. First edition. Pyramid R-1247. Paperback original. Signed inscription by Bloch to a well known mystery bookseller and publisher on the inside front cover. Collects seven stories, most first published in WEIRD TALES in the mid-1940s. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-33.
THE SKULL OF THE MARQUIS DE SADE: AND OTHER STORIES.
London: Robert Hale, 1975. Octavo, cloth. First British and first hardcover edition. Story collection.
STRANGE EONS.
[Chapel Hill, NC]: Whispers Press, 1978 [i.e. 1979]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. "Cthulhu Mythos novel built from the fundamental premise that the horror stories of H. P. Lovecraft integrate to form a vast mosaic which shows a well-wrought conspiracy against Earth and mankind by monsters from beyond space and time ... Bloch was a perceptive pupil who understood the philosophy of cosmic fatalism underlying Lovecraft's horrors better than most of Lovecraft's many disciples ... Not just a contribution to the Lovecraft mythos but also a study of mythos fiction, whose successes and failures are instructive about the limits of the form." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-41. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-48. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-34.
TALES IN A JUGULAR VEIN.
New York: Pyramid Books, [1965]. Small octavo, printed wrappers. First edition. Pyramid R-1139. Paperback original. Signed by Bloch on the inside front cover. Collects ten stories of terror, mystery and suspense.
THE BRAINS OF RATS.
Los Angeles: Scream /Press, 1990. Octavo, cloth. First edition.
CHOICE CUTS.
New York: E. P. Dutton, 1966. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition. Novel by the scriptwriters of Vertigo and Diabolique. "A very sophisticated, black funny novel." - Barron (ed.) Horror Literature 4-50. Basis for the film "Body Parts."
NIGHTMARES AND DAYDREAMS.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1968. Octavo, jacket illustration by Ronald Clyne, cloth. First edition. Signed inscription by Bond on the front free end paper. Story collection, fourteen stories and a poem. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 229.
NIGHTMARES AND DAYDREAMS.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1968. Octavo, illustration by Ronald Clyne, cloth. First edition. Story collection, fourteen stories and a poem. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 229.
NIGHTMARES AND DAYDREAMS.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1968. Octavo, illustration by Ronald Clyne, cloth. First edition. Story collection, fourteen stories and a poem. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 229.