روبرت بلوخ

روبرت إلبرت بلوتش (Robert Albert Bloch)‏ (من 05أبريل، 1917 إلى 23 سبتمبر، 1994) كان كاتب أمريكي مسهب، وخاصة في أدب الجريمة، أدب الرعب والخيال العلمي. ومن أشهر روايته سايكو والتي حولها للسينما المخرج ألفريد هيتشكوك في فيلمه الشهير سايكو.

وقد كتب بلوتش المئات من القصص الصغيرة وأكثر من عشرون روايه، عادة في أدب الجريمة، أدب الرعب والخيال العلمي، بما فيها الأكثر شهرة في أدب الرعب سايكو. وقد تأثر كثيرا بالكاتب هوارد فيليبس لافكرافت الذي راقب بلوتش وشجعه بجدية في بداياته على الكتابة.

وقد حصل بلوتش على العديد من الجوائز خلال حياته ومنها جائزة هوغو (Hugo Award)‏، جائزة برام ستوكر (Bram Stoker Award)‏ وجائزة العالم الخيالي (World Fantasy Award)‏.

الخلفية

Bloch was born in شيكاغو, the son of Raphael "Ray" Bloch (1884–1952), a bank cashier, and his wife Stella Loeb (1880–1944), a social worker, both of ألمان-يهود descent. Bloch's family moved to مايوود (إلينوي), a Chicago suburb, when he was five. He attended the Methodist Church there despite his parents' Jewish heritage. At eight or nine years of age, living in Maywood, he attended a screening of لون تشاني's شبح الأوبرا late at night on his own. The scene of Chaney removing his mask terrified the young Bloch.

بداية احترافه للكتابة

تأثره بهوارد فيليبس لافكرافت

إدارة الحملات الانتخابية

الأربعينات والخمسينات

الستينات

زيجاته وعائلته

وفاته

توفي بلوتش في لوس أنجلوس عام 1994 ودفن بها مع قبر زوجته إيلي.

جاك السفاح

سايكو

كتابات عن بلوتش

ببليوجرافيا

الروايات

• The Scarf (1947, rev. 1966)
• Spiderweb (1954)
• The Kidnapper (1954)
• The Will to Kill (1954)
• Shooting Star (1958) (note: published in a double volume with the ss collection Terror in the Night)
• This Crowded Earth (1958)
• Psycho (1959) (adapted into the 1960 film, سايكو (فيلم), directed by ألفريد هتشكوك; later remade in 1998 by Gus Van Sant)
• The Dead Beat (1960)
• Firebug (1961)
• The Couch (1962)
• Terror (1962)
• Ladies Day / This Crowded Earth (1968)
• The Star Stalker (1968)
• The Todd Dossier (1969)
• Sneak Preview (1971)
• It's All in Your Mind (1971)
• Night World (1972)
• American Gothic (1974)
• Strange Eons (1978) (a Cthulhu Mythos novel)
• There Is a Serpent in Eden (1979)
• Psycho II (1982) (unrelated to the film of the same name)
• Night of the Ripper (1984)
• Unholy Trinity (1986) (collects The Scarf, The Couch and The Dead Beat)
• Lori (1989)
• Screams: Three Novels of Suspense (collects The Will to Kill, Firebug and The Star Stalker)
• Psycho House (1990) (unrelated to the films Psycho II, Psycho III or Psycho IV: The Beginning)
• The Jekyll Legacy (1991)
• Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper (1991) (Pulphouse; a 100-copy hardbound signed edition of Bloch's famous short story)
• The Thing (1993) (Pretentious Press; a limited edition of 85 copies, only 9 bound in cloth, of the author's first appearance in print - a parody of H.P. Lovecraft which originally appeared in the April 1932 issue of The Quill, his Lincoln High School literary magazine)
• Psycho - The 35th Anniversary Edition (1994) (Gauntlet Press; limited edition of 500 copies; the last work to be signed by Bloch before his death; includes a new intro by ريتشارد ماثيسون and a new Afterword by راي برادبري)

مختارات القصص الصغيرة

• The Thing (1932) actually a single short story (parodying the style of هوارد فيليبس لافكرافت, the author's first, but initially published in book form by The Pretentious Press in (1993)
• A Portfolio Of Some Rare And Exquisite Poetry By The Bard Of Bards (1937 or 1938) written under the pseudonym Sarcophagus W. Dribble. One page folded to make 4. Poetry.
• The Opener of the Way (1945)
• Sea Kissed (1945)
• Terror in the Night (1958) (note: published in a double volume with the novel Shooting Star)
• Pleasant Dreams: Nightmares (1960)
• Blood Runs Cold (1961)
• Nightmares (1961)
• More Nightmares (1961)
• Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper (1962)
• Atoms and Evil (1962)
• Horror 7 (1963)
• Bogey Men (1963)
• House of the Hatchet (1965)
• The Skull of the Marquis de Sade (1965)
• Tales in a Jugular Vein (1965)
• Chamber of Horrors (1966)
• The Living Demons (1967)
• Dragons and Nightmares (1968)
• Bloch and Bradbury (1969)
• Fear Today, Gone Tomorrow (1971)
• House of the Hatchet (1976)
• The King of Terrors (1977)
• The Best of Robert Bloch (1977)
• Cold Chills (1977)
• Out of the Mouths of Graves (1978)
• Such Stuff as Screams Are Made Of (1979)
• Mysteries of the Worm (1981)
• Midnight Pleasures (1987)
• Lost in Space and Time With Lefty Feep (1987)
• The Complete Stories of Robert Bloch: Volume 1: Final Reckonings (1987)
• The Complete Stories of Robert Bloch: Volume 2: Bitter Ends (1987)
• The Complete Stories of Robert Bloch: Volume 3: Last Rites (1987)
• Fear and Trembling (1989)
• Mysteries of the Worm (rev. 1993) from Chaosium books
• The Early Fears (1994)
• Flowers from the Moon and Other Lunacies (1998)
• The Lost Bloch: Volume 1: The Devil With You! (1999)
• The Lost Bloch: Volume 2: Hell on Earth (2000)
• The Lost Bloch: Volume 3: Crimes and Punishments (2002)
• The Reader's Bloch: Volume 1: The Fear Planet and Other Unusual Destinations (2005)
• The Reader's Bloch: Volume 2: Skeleton in the Closet and Other Stories (2009)

غير خيالي

• The Eighth Stage of Fandom (1962)
• Out of My Head (1986)
• Once Around the Bloch: An Unauthorized Autobiography (1993)
• Robert Bloch: Appreciations of the Master (1995)

الجوائز

• 1959. "That Hell-Bound Train" جائزة هوغو لأفضل قصة قصيرة
• 1975. جائزة عالم الخيال , Life Achievement
• 1984. جائزة هوغو
• 1989. Bram Stoker Award, Life Achievement
• 1993. Once Around the Bloch: An Unauthorized Autobiography Bram Stoker, Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction
• 1994. The Early Fears Bram Stoker, Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection
• 1994. "The Scent of Vinegar" Bram Stoker, Superior Achievement in Long Fiction

الأفلام

The following is a list of films based on Bloch's work. For some of these he wrote the original screenplay; for others, he supplied the story or a novel (as in the case of Psycho) on which the screenplay was based.

• Psycho (1960)
• The Couch (1962)
• The Cabinet of Caligari (1962)
• Strait-Jacket (1964)
• The Night Walker (1964)
• The Skull (1965)
• The Psychopath (1966)
• Torture Garden (1967)
• The Deadly Bees (1967)
• The House That Dripped Blood (1970)
• Asylum (1972)
• The Cat Creature (Tv movie 1973)
• The Dead Don't Die (Tv movie 1974)
• The Amazing Captain Nemo (1978)[Bloch penned one episode, in collaboration with five other writers who worked on the script]
• Psycho (1998)

مراجع

وصلات خارجية

روبرت بلوخ على قاعدة بيانات الخيال التأملي على الإنترنت

• مؤلفات روبرت بلوخ في مشروع غوتنبرغ
• The Bat Is My Brother: The Unofficial Robert Bloch Website
• روبرت بلوخ على مشروع الدليل المفتوح

موسوعات ذات صلة :

• موسوعة أدب
• موسوعة أدب أمريكي
• موسوعة أعلام
• موسوعة الولايات المتحدة
• موسوعة حكايات الرعب
• موسوعة خيال علمي
• موسوعة شيكاغو