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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} the Opener of the Way by Robert Bloch the Opener of the Way by Robert Bloch, Signed Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} The Opener of the Way by Robert Bloch The Opener of the Way by Robert Bloch, Signed. The Opener of the Way SIGNED & INSCRIBED. Robert Bloch. Published by Neville Spearman (1974) About this Item: Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hardcover edition of The Opener of the Way that is signed and inscribed by Robert Bloch. Robert Bloch inscribed this to L. Nieman with a brief message. 1974 Neville Spearman UK, 1st Neville-Spearman printing. Book is in very good condition has bumping to a couple of the corner and the top and bottom of the spine. An address stamp is present on the top of the page and twice on the interior front pastedown. Dust jacket is in good to good+ condition and has creasing, rubbing, peeling wear around the edges. Spine area also has rubbing present. Inscribed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # ABE-1588452786031. The Opener of the Way. Robert Bloch. Published by Neville Spearman Ltd, Jersey, UK (1974) From: JAC Books (Cortland, NY, U.S.A.) About this Item: Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reg Boorer (illustrator). First British Edition. Neville Spearman, Jersey, UK, 1974. Blue Hardcover First British Edition in DJ, ix + 309 pp. This copy is SIGNED "Just for Openers - Robert Bloch" on a label on the FFEP. This is one of several Spearman reprints of rare old Arkham House books (Arkham's "Opener" dates from 1941). These UK reprints themselves have become valued collector items and are difficult to find in good condition. This copy was purchased by me in the 1970s and has never been read. My name stamp is present (FFEP & top edge) and the unclipped DJ shows mild shelfwear. Otherwise this is a unusually fine, tight copy of a scarce collectible. Size: Octavo. Signed by Author. Private Press. Seller Inventory # 001007. The Opener of the Way. Bloch, Robert (SIGNED!) Published by Neville Spearman (1974) About this Item: Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Thus. First printing in Near Fine condition with a Very Good unclipped Dust Jacket protected by a Mylar Brodart. Signed to previous owner on the first page by Robert Bloch. Previous owner gift inscription on inside front cover. Signed by Author. Hardcover. Seller Inventory # H13197. THE OPENER OF THE WAY. Bloch, Robert. Published by Spearman (1945) About this Item: First Edition. THE OPENER OF THE WAY, Spearman, 1974, first English edition, vg+ in like dust-wrapper. INSCRIBED by the author. Seller Inventory # 14927. FEDOGAN & BREMER: The Early Fears ---by Robert Bloch ---a Signed Copy ( Includes shambler from the Stars; Yours Truly Jack the Ripper; Enoch; House of the Hatchet, etc)( collects the ARKHAM HOUSE Titles Opener of the Way /and/ Pleasant Dreams Nightmares ) Bloch, Robert ( Signed )(aka Robert A Bloch, Bob Bloch, Tarleton Fiske, Will Folke, Keith Hammond, Nathan Hindin, E K Jarvis, Wilson Kane, Herbert Scanlon, Collier Young ) Published by Minneapolis, MN.: Fedogan & Bremer / F&B, 1994, 1st Edition, First Printing (collects the ARKHAM HOUSE Editions of The Opener of the Way and Pleasant Dreams Nightmares ), Minneapolis, Minnesota (1994) From: Leonard Shoup (BURLINGTON, ON, Canada) About this Item: Hard Cover. Condition: Fine (see description). Dust Jacket Condition: Fine (see description). Jon Arfstrom Cover Art (illustrator). First Edition. ------------hardcover, a Fine example, small smudge mark on the bottom edge of the text block, small glue stain on front fixed endpaper (from the printer/printing company )in a Fine dustjacket, unread, one of 2300 copies, signed by Bloch on the title page without inscription, one of the last signings Bloch ever did so there are not a lot of signed copies avialble, ---Collects thirty-nine stories - all from his first two short story collections (''The Opener Of The Way'' and ''Pleasant Dreams'', both published by Arkham House, 1945 and 1960 respectively), plus three previously uncollected stories, contents include: the View from 1993 (essay); the Cloak; Beetles; the Fiddler's Fee; the Mannikin; the Strange Flight of Richard Clayton; Yours Truly Jack the Ripper; the Seal of the Satyr; the Dark Demon; the Faceless God; House of the Hatchet; the Opener of the Way; Return to the Sabbath; the Mandarin's Canaries; Waxworks; the Feast in the Abbey; Slave of the Flames; the Shambler from the Stars; Mother of Serpents; the Secret of Sebek; the Eyes of the Mummy; One Way to Mars; Sweets to the Sweet; the Dream Makers; the Sorcerer's Apprentice; I Kiss Your Shadow; Mr Steinway; the Proper Spirit; Catnip;; that Hell Bound Train; Enoch; the Bedposts of Life; the Grab Bag (written with Henry Kuttner;) the Creative Urge; the Cheaters; Hungarian Rhapsody; the Light House; the Hungry House; Sleeping Beauty; Sweet Sixteen, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE/// Size: 5.75w x 8.5h Inches. Signed. NOT Price Clipped. Seller Inventory # 165546. The Vampire Stories of Robert Bloch. Robert Bloch (1917-1994) is one of the most fondly remembered and collected authors of crime, horror, fantasy, and science fiction of the 20th Century. Noted by many as the author of Psycho , Bloch wrote hundreds of short stories and over 30 novels. He was a member of the Lovecraft Circle and began his career by emulating H.P. Lovecraft’s brand of “cosmic horror.” He later specialized in crime and horror stories dealing with a more psychological approach. “The Shambler from the Stars” “The Opener of the Way” “The Mannikin” “A Question of Identity” “The Cloak” “Unheavenly Twin” “Nursemaid to Nightmares” “Fear Planet” “Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper” “Black Barter” “Death Is a Vampire” “The Bat Is My Brother” “The Skull of the Marquis de Sade” “The Bogey Man Will Get You” “Tooth or Consequences” “The Hungry House” “The Man Who Collected Poe” “The Light- House” “I Kiss Your Shadow” “Dig That Crazy Grave” “The Sleeping Redheads” aka “Sleeping Beauty” “Hungarian Rhapsody” “The Living Dead” “A Case of the Stubborns” “The Undead” “The Yougoslaves” “The Bedposts of Life” “The Scent of Vinegar” The Opener of the Way. The Opener of the Way is a collection of fantasy and horror short stories by American writer Robert Bloch. It was released in 1945 and was the author's first book. It was published by Arkham House in an edition of 2,065 copies. [1] A British hardcover was issued by Neville Spearman in 1974, with Panther Books issuing a two-volume paperback reprint in 1976. [2] An Italian translation, with the stories reordered, appeared in 1991. [3] The collection was never reprinted in the United States, but its contents (aside from Bloch's introduction) were included in the 1994 omnibus The Early Fears . [1] Horror is a genre of speculative fiction which is intended to frighten, scare, disgust, or startle its readers by inducing feelings of horror and terror. Literary historian J. A. Cuddon defined the horror story as "a piece of fiction in prose of variable length. which shocks, or even frightens the reader, or perhaps induces a feeling of repulsion or loathing". It creates an eerie and frightening atmosphere. Horror is frequently supernatural, though it can be non-supernatural. Often the central menace of a work of horror fiction can be interpreted as a metaphor for the larger fears of a society. Robert Albert Bloch was an American fiction writer, primarily of crime, horror, fantasy and science fiction, from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is best known as the writer of Psycho , the basis for the film of the same name by Alfred Hitchcock. His fondness for a pun is evident in the titles of his story collections such as Tales in a Jugular Vein , Such Stuff as Screams Are Made Of and Out of the Mouths of Graves . This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1945 . Contents. Contents Critical reception Trivia References. Most of the stories had appeared in the magazine Weird Tales in the 1930s and 1940s. Weird Tales is an American fantasy and horror fiction pulp magazine founded by J. C. Henneberger and J. M. Lansinger in late 1922. The first issue, dated March 1923, appeared on newsstands February 18. The first editor, Edwin Baird, printed early work by H. P. Lovecraft, Seabury Quinn, and Clark Ashton Smith, all of whom would go on to be popular writers, but within a year the magazine was in financial trouble. Henneberger sold his interest in the publisher, Rural Publishing Corporation, to Lansinger and refinanced Weird Tales , with Farnsworth Wright as the new editor. The first issue under Wright's control was dated November 1924. The magazine was more successful under Wright, and despite occasional financial setbacks it prospered over the next fifteen years. Under Wright's control the magazine lived up to its subtitle, "The Unique Magazine", and published a wide range of unusual fiction. Contents. The Opener of the Way contains the following tales: "By Way of Introduction" "The Cloak" "Beetles" "The Fiddler's Fee" "The Mannikin" "The Strange Flight of Richard Clayton" "Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper" "The Seal of the Satyr" "The Dark Demon" "The Faceless God" "The House of the Hatchet" "The Opener of the Way" "Return to the Sabbath" "The Mandarin's Canaries" "Waxworks" "The Feast in the Abbey" "Slave of the Flames" "The Shambler from the Stars" "Mother of Serpents" "The Secret of Sebek" "The Eyes of the Mummy" "One Way to Mars" Critical reception. Stephen King listed The Opener of the Way as one of Arkham House's "most important works". [4] Stephen Jones and Kim Newman included the collection in Horror: Another 100 Best Books , with Joel Lang noting that it demonstrated Bloch's "meteoric development from faux-Gothic pastiche to sour, elliptical portraits of urban damnation".
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