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Lovecraft in his horror story \"Pickman's Model.\" Keith and Waverly slowly begin to realize that Lovecraft's fiction may not be works of the imagination at all-instead they contain a message to mankind, a terrible warning about Cthulhu and his minions, the Great Old Ones. Keith sets off in search of the horrible truth, but can anything stop the Great Old Ones, or is mankind already doomed?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Bloch (1917-1994) was a friend and admirer of Lovecraft, and in his\u003cem\u003e Strange Eons \u003c\/em\u003e(1978), originally published as a limited edition and long out of print, he contributes his own notable entry to the Lovecraftian Mythos. This new edition includes an introduction by David J. Schow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Robert Bloch is one of the all-time masters.\" - Peter Straub\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A hundred years from now, devotees of this genre will still be reading Robert Bloch.\" - Richard Matheson\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101144781023,"sku":"9781960241559","price":30.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/0Vb0gI-Tv09781960241559.webp?v=1781068346"},{"product_id":"pleasant-dreams-paperback","title":"Pleasant Dreams - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eA classic collection of fifteen chilling horror tales by the author of \u003c\/em\u003ePsycho\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePleasant Dreams \u003c\/em\u003e(1960), published just a year after his more famous Psycho, finds Robert Bloch leaving behind his earlier Lovecraftian influences to find his own style and voice in this collection of masterful tales, in which the horror is often laced with an undercurrent of pitch-black humor. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \"Catnip,\" a young bully burns down the neighborhood witch's house and faces a grim reckoning with her black cat. \"The Light-House\" is a unique collaboration, in which Bloch completes a rare tale left unfinished by the great master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe. \"That Hell-Bound Train,\" winner of speculative fiction's most coveted prize, the Hugo Award, is the story of a pact with the devil in which readers may be surprised who gets the better end of the bargain. These and twelve other stories represent some of Bloch's best short fiction. This first-ever unabridged reprint of the original limited edition hardcover includes a new introduction by Joe R. Lansdale.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Bloch is the high priest of chills, the demon prince of sweaty palms, the dark genius behind a thousand nightmares.\" - Harlan Ellison\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A hundred years from now, devotees of this genre will still be reading Robert Bloch.\" - Richard Matheson\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101146779871,"sku":"9781960241405","price":32.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/naCVVemLXV9781960241405.webp?v=1781068350"},{"product_id":"the-night-of-the-ripper-paperback","title":"The Night of the Ripper - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe author of \u003cem\u003ePsycho \u003c\/em\u003etakes on the famous unsolved slayings of Jack the Ripper!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Bloch gave us fiction's most famous knife-wielding maniac in \u003cem\u003ePsycho\u003c\/em\u003e's Norman Bates, and in \u003cem\u003eThe Night of the Ripper\u003c\/em\u003e (1984), this master of horror fiction offers his own unique take on history's most infamous unsolved murder case.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhitechapel, 1888. A madman stalks the foggy streets, murdering prostitutes in acts of unimaginable horror and brutality. Two men - Frederick Abberline of the Metropolitan Police and Mark Robinson, a young American doctor - are determined to find the killer, but the list of suspects is a long one. 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