- Fiction, Norman Bates (Fictitious character), Hotelkeepers, Murderers
The new Bates Motel is a tourist attraction, a recreation of the murder site, and the developers are already counting their profits. And there's a new exhibit, one nobody expected: the bloody corpse of a teenage girl crumpled in the front hall, stabbed to death.
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Classical in form, grave, unpretentious and bleak.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- warmbleak
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Robert Bloch
- First published
- 1990
- Pages
- 217
- Publisher
- The Crowood Press, T. Doherty Associates, Robert Hale
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780312932176
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**Robert Albert Bloch** was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of German-Jewish Americans. During the 1930s, he was an avid reader of Weird Tales magazine and H. P. Lovecraft in particular. He wrote to Lovecraft, who responded with advice on writing, and Bloch sold his first published short story, "The Feast in the Abbey" to Weird Tales when he was just seventeen. He continued to write for Weird Tales and went on to become one of its most popular authors, while also contributing to other magazines. In 1946, his first published novel, The Scarf, was released. He received the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1959 for “That Hell-Bound Train” (1958). Also in 1959, he published one of his best-
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