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American gothic

by Unknown Author

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222 pages1974Simon and SchusterISBN 9780671216917
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The Castle: It looms over the streets of modern Chicago. Its stone walls conceal a maze of secret passageways and hidden rooms, private laboratories and concealed trapdoors. The Castle is home to G. Gordon Gregg, physician--murderer. His victims are young, beautiful, wealthy women. His methods are swift, scientific, and painless, his crime perfect. Until a newspaper reporter becomes suspicious. Investigating Dr. Gregg, Crystal finds herself falling in love with the charismatic surgeon, despite the danger. It is that love that seals her doom--for what G. Gordon Gregg loves, he kills....

Publication Details

Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Published
1974
Pages
222
ISBN
9780671216917

About Unknown Author

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-known novels, Psycho, which was adapted for the screen in 1960 by Joseph Stefano, directed by Alfred Hitchcock. He wrote the screenplay for the movie The Night Walker (1964), and he also wrote three scripts for the television show Star Trek. Over the course of his career, he wrote hundreds of short stories and over twenty novels, mostly in the crime fiction, science fiction and, horror fiction genres.

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