Happy Birthday Robert Bloch (April 5, 1917 – September 23, 1994)
The legendary award winning author who is best known for creating Norman Bates and his dear mother would have been 101 today. Psycho is certainly Bloch's most famous work, but throughout his life he wrote hundreds of short stories, over 30 novels, and over a dozen screenplays. He corresponded with H.P. Lovecraft who encouraged his writing which would eventually be published in the seminal magazine Weird Tales. The quote that accompanies this illustration is one of his most fa