Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 1 • Forword: The Heart of a Child • (2009) • essay by Robert Hood
• 5 • Preface (The Man Who Collected Psychos) • (2009) • essay by Benjamin Szumskyj
• 7 • Introduction (The Man Who Collected Psychos) • (2009) • essay by Benjamin Szumskyj
• 13 • Robert Bloch: The Psychology of Horror • (2009) • essay by Steve Vertlieb
• 23 • A Literary Tutelage: Robert Bloch and H. P. Lovecraft • (1995) • essay by S. T. Joshi
• 41 • Lessons from Providence: Bloch's Mentors, Bloch as a Mentor and Bloch and Fandom • (2009) • essay by Phillip A. Ellis
• 57 • The Lighter Side of Death: Robert Bloch as a Mentor • (2009) • essay by Darrell Schweitzer
• 68 • The Twisted World Inside Our Skulls: The 1950s Crime and Suspense Novels of Robert Bloch • (2009) • essay by Leigh Blackmore
• 89 • Yours Truly, Daniel Morley: An Examination of Robert Bloch's Novel The Scarf • (2009) • essay by John Howard
• 102 • The Keys to the Bates Motel: Robert Bloch's Psycho Trilogy • (2009) • essay by Scott D. Briggs
• 121 • "Better the House Than an Asylum": Gothic Strategies in Robert Bloch's Psycho • (2009) • essay by Rebecca Janicker
• 134 • Ripping Good Yarns: Robert Bloch's Partnership with Jack the Ripper • (2009) • essay by Randall D. Larson
• 150 • Robert Bloch and His Serial Killers • (2009) • essay by Philip L. Simpson
• 169 • Hell Is Other People: Robert Bloch and the Pathologies of the Family • (2009) • essay by Joel Lane
• 186 • Programming Bloch: The Small-Screen Career of Psycho's Creator • (2009) • essay by Matthew R. Bradley
• 239 • Index (The Man Who Collected Psychos) • (2009) • essay by uncredited