Robert Bloch, grand master of horror, recounts his tales in this hilarious autobiography, Once Around the Bloch. Once Around the Bloch takes the reader from Bloch's early years in an up-and-coming Chicago suburb to his first fateful encounter with the cult fiction magazine Weird Tales. Bloch's Hollywood adventures are also chronicled, including his encounters and friendships with such famous superstars as Vincent Price, Boris Karloff, Buster Keaton, and Joan Crawford. Bloch also recounts the inspiration for and the birth of one of the most famous villains of all time, Norman Bates.

A replica of the July 1942 issue of FANTASTIC ADVENTURES pulp magazine featuring THE EAGLE MAN by Don Wilcox. "Fire Jump was a hybrid--half man, half vulture; which complicated his search for real happiness." THE RETURN OF THE HUN by William J. Brittain, THE WEIRD DOOM OF FLOYD SCRILCH by Robert Bloch, THE TRAITOR by Arthur T. Harris, VITALITY FOR MURDER by Richard O. Lewis, SAFARI TO THE LOST AGES by William P. McGivern, THE MYSTERY OF SHAFT 13 by Robert Moore Williams, DUNCAN'S DREADFUL DOLL by P. F. Costello, HOKUM HOTEL by David Wright O'Brien, MEN SCARED OF NOTHING by E. K. Jarvis, and HEADLINES FOR TOD SHAYNE by August W. Derleth.