The Early Fears, Bloch, Robert. Published by Fedogan & Bremer, Minneapolis, 1994. First Edition. 8vo 8″ – 9″ tall; 514pp. Black boards with gilt titles. In fine condition internally; a tiny dent lower edge front board with a corresponding dent to front panel of jacket which is otherwise in fine, unclipped condition.
Released in 1994 by Fedogan & Bremer in an edition of 2,400 copies. The collection reprints the stories from Bloch’s two earlier collections published by Arkham House, The Opener of the Way and Pleasant Dreams: Nightmares with three additional stories. The stories originally appeared in the magazines Unknown, Weird Tales, Amazing Stories, Strange Stories, Fantasy and Science Fiction, Beyond Fantasy Fiction, Fantastic, Imagination and Swank. The collection includes Bloch’s 1959 Hugo Award winning story, “That Hell-Bound Train.”
Robert Albert Bloch (1917-1994) was a prolific American writer, primarily of crime, horror, fantasy, and science fiction. He was the recipient of the Hugo Award, the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Psycho and in 1994 he won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement. He is best known as the writer of Psycho, the basis for the film of the same name by Alfred Hitchcock.
