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Tag Archives: Robert Bloch
After “Psycho”: Robert Bloch in the 1960s
Last Halloween, we introduced the recently processed papers of author Robert Bloch, best known as the author of the novel Psycho (1959), which was adapted in 1960 by Alfred Hitchcock into the legendary film of the same name. In that … Continue reading
Psycho: Robert Bloch’s Modest Masterpiece
Author Robert Bloch (1917-1994) wrote, over the course of more than five decades, novels, stories, essays, and scripts for film and television. Best known for his novel Psycho, which was adapted into a feature film by director Alfred Hitchcock in … Continue reading
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Tagged 1960s films, Alfred Hitchcock, American Literature, Book contracts, Book translations, Ed Gein, Film rights, Halloween, Horror authors, Horror fiction, Horror Literature, Horror novels, Literary adaptations, Literary archives, Lon Chaney, Milwaukee writers, Psycho, Pulp Fiction, Robert Bloch, Shamley Productions, Weird Tales
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Behind the Scenes at the Cone: Organizing and Processing History
Organizing and arranging historical documents can be difficult. And at a world-renowned archive like the one at the University of Wyoming, there are a select number of people who can manage it. One of them is AHC Processing Archivist Roger … Continue reading
Meet Grande Dame Guignol at the American Heritage Center
This Halloween, we consider the sub-genre of horror films referred to as “Grande Dame Guignol,” also known as “Hagsploitation,” “Psycho-biddy,” or “Hag Horror,” and three films in that sub-genre that are represented in three of our collections. Films of this … Continue reading
Star Trek: Creating the Cultural Phenomenon
The 1960’s television show Star Trek spawned a long lived and beloved cultural phenomenon. Here at the American Heritage Center, we are fortunate to have photographs, scripts, and music scores from some of the original seventy-nine Star Trek episodes that … Continue reading
Robert Bloch: From Pulp to Psycho
Alfred Hitchcock’s film Psycho is based on a novel by Robert Bloch. It is the story of Norman Bates, a lonely motel caretaker who is seething with psychotic rage due to his mother’s domination. Robert Bloch was an author of … Continue reading