Robert Bloch has 9 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 28 narrators, with an average listener rating of 3.8★ across 31 ratings. The most-rated is Psycho.
Psycho
Summary
It was a dark and stormy night when Mary Crane glimpsed the unlit neon sign announcing the vacancy at the Bates Motel. Exhausted, lost, and at the end of her rope, she was eager for a hot shower and a bed for the night. Her room was musty, but clean, and the manager seemed nice, if a little odd. This classic horror novel, which inspired the famous film by Alfred Hitchcock, has been thrilling people for 50 years. It introduced one of the most unexpectedly twisted villains of all time in Norman Bates, the reserved motel manager with a mother complex, and has been called the "first psychoanalytic thriller".
©1959 Robert Bloch (P)2009 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
HorrorBabble's Ultimate Weird Tales Collection, Volume 1
Summary
This collection comprises 40 stories by and inspired by the originators of weird fiction. From Blackwood's The Empty House, through to Philip K. Dick's The Hanging Stranger, Lovecraft's Out of The Aeons, and beyond. Time immemorial; worlds unimaginable. Contents: The Empty House (A. Blackwood) The Glamour of the Snow (A. Blackwood) The Wood of the Dead (A. Blackwood) The Creeper in the Crypt (R. Bloch) Notebook Found in an Abandoned House (R. Bloch) The Shambler from the Stars (R. Bloch) The Pendulum (R. Bradbury) Evening Primrose (J. Collier) A Terribly Strange Bed (W. Collins) A:B:O. (W. de la Mare) The Hanging Stranger (Dick) The Phantom Coach (A. B. Edwards) The Fear Experiment (I. Gordon) That Time of the Night (I. Gordon) VANITY LTD. (I. Gordon) The Horse of the Invisible (W. H. Hodgson) The Searcher of the End House (W. H. Hodgson) The Voice in the Night (W. H. Hodgson) The Dream Snake (R. E. Howard) The Horror from the Mound (R. E. Howard) The Thing on the Roof (R. E. Howard) The Ash-tree (M. R. James) Count Magnus (M. R. James) Lost Hearts (M. R. James) Number 13 (M. R. James) Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad (M. R. James) In Amundsen's Tent (J. M. Leahy) To Build a Fire (J. London) The Pale Man (J. Long) The Space-Eaters (F. B. Long) The Colour Out of Space (H. P. Lovecraft) The Music of Erich Zann (H. P. Lovecraft) Out of the Aeons (H. P. Lovecraft) The White People (A. Machen) The Drone (A. Merritt) The Black Cat (E. A. Poe) Tobermory (Saki) 2 B R 0 2 B (K. Vonnegut Jr.) The Fire Vampires (D. Wandrei) The Crystal Egg (H. G. Wells)
©2019 Ian Gordon (P)2019 Ian Gordon
Psycho II
Summary
You remember Norman Bates, the shy motel manager with the fatal mother fixation. Now, years after his horrific bout of butchery, Norman is at large again. Breaking free from the psycho ward, he cuts a shocking swath of blood all the way to Hollywood - where, it so happens, they are making a movie about Norman’s life and crimes. A movie that suddenly and terrifyingly becomes a lot like real life.
©1982 Robert Bloch (P)2008 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Psycho House
Summary
The new Bates Motel is a tourist attraction, a re-creation of the infamous murder site, and the developers are already counting their profits. But there’s a new exhibit that nobody expected: the bloody corpse of a teenage girl crumpled in the front hall, stabbed to death. Among the avalanche of press and publicity is reporter and true-crime book writer Amelia Haines, who is studying the original Psycho killings. To her, the new murders are a golden opportunity; if she can become part of the investigation, perhaps track down the killer herself, then her fame and fortune will be assured. But catching the madman won’t be easy: the town is full of suspects, and Amy’s best informants keep turning up murdered. If she isn’t careful, Amelia Haines may become the next permanent guest at the Bates Motel. Robert Bloch (1917-1994) was a horror, suspense, and science fiction writer and screenwriter, best known for the novel Psycho. Altogether, he wrote over 220 stories collected in over two dozen collections, two dozen novels, screenplays for a dozen movies, and three Star Trek episodes. His many awards include the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy Awards (including Lifetime Achievement), and five Bram Stoker Awards. His autobiography, Once Around the Bloch, was his last major work.
©1990 Robert Bloch (P)2012 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
The Vampire Archives
Summary
The Vampire Archives is the biggest, hungriest, undeadliest collection of vampire stories, as well as the most comprehensive bibliography of vampire fiction ever assembled. Dark, stormy, and delicious, once it sinks its teeth into you there’s no escape. Vampires! Whether imagined by Bram Stoker or Anne Rice, they are part of the human lexicon and as old as blood itself. They are your neighbors, your friends, and they are always lurking. Now Otto Penzler—editor of the best-selling Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps—has compiled the darkest, the scariest, and by far the most evil collection of vampire stories ever, with over 80 stories, including the works of Stephen King and D. H. Lawrence, alongside Lord Byron and Tanith Lee, not to mention Edgar Allan Poe and Harlan Ellison. The Vampire Archives will drive a stake through the heart of any other collection out there. Other contributors include Arthur Conan Doyle, Ray Bradbury, Ambrose Bierce, H. P. Lovecraft, Harlan Ellison, Roger Zelazny, Robert Bloch, and Clive Barker.
©2009 Otto Penzler (P)2011 Random House
Psycho
Summary
When the Bates Motel looms up out of the storm, Mary Crane thinks it is her salvation. The rooms are musty but clean. The manager, Norman Bates, seems like a nice enough fellow, if a little strange. Then Mary decides to take a shower, and the nightmare begins....
©2018 Deadtree Publishing (P)2018 Copyright Group
Coffins
Summary
A chill inducing and masterful collection of vampire tales, culled from the dark recesses of the nefarious and world renowned Vampires Archives. Coffins, the third volume in the mass market series, contains some of the best of the best of vampire fiction. Including Harlan Ellison, Robert Bloch, Edgar Allan Poe, and F. Paul Wilson, it takes its listeners deep inside the crypts of the living dead, in all their supernatural splendor. Featuring: "Heart Pounding Shrieks" "Blood Soaked Moonlit Hunts" "High Stakes Adventure" "Evil Assignations"
©2010 Otto Penzler (P)2010 Random House
Classic Tales of Horror
Summary
This collection of classic horror stories is sure to give you goose bumps, raise the hair on the back of your neck, and put some fright in your night. Includes Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper by Robert Bloch, Coin of the Realm by Charles L. Grant, Something Had to be Done by David Drake, The Graveyard Rats by Henry Kuttner, The Small Assassin by Ray Bradbury, Calling Card by Ramsey Campbell, The Words of Guru by C.M. Kornbluth, and Passengers by Robert Silverberg.
©1998 Martin Greenberg (P)2016 Phoenix Books
The Greatest Mysteries of All Time, Volume 3
Summary
Breathtaking suspense, cold-blooded crime and challenging twists of plot make this collection a chilling audio experience. Featuring the finest short story mystery fiction by the most acclaimed writers, past and present, including: "The Perfect Crime" by Ben Ray Redman, "Quitters, Inc. by Stephen King, "High Darktown" by James Ellroy, "Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper" by Robert Bloch, "Clerical Error" by James Gould Cozzens, "The Gettysburg Bugle" by Ellery Queen , "Last Spin" by Evan Hunter, "Karen Makes Out" by Elmore Leonard , "The Problem of Cell 13" by Jacques Futrelle.
©1998 Otto Penzler (P)1998, 2017 Dove Audio / Phoenix Books