It’s the birthday of Robert Bloch (1917-1994), best known for ruining so many showers for so many people as the author of the novel Psycho (1959), made into the eponymous Hitchcock film in 1960. Bloch wrote everything from mysteries to humor to horror, was one of the first to explore the minds of serial killers [...]
It’s the birthday of R.L. Stine (b. 1943), whose horror books for children have sold more than 400 million copies, landing him on all those bestselling-authors-of-all-time lists. He’s perhaps best known for his Goosebumps series, which my husband hates, and my husband is from Columbus, Ohio, which is why I find it ironic that… …Stine [...]
It’s the birthday of Stephen King (b. 1947), the King of Horror (ha—see what I did there? I’m sure I’m the first to think of that) and one of the bestselling authors of all time—the sort of author, in fact, that prompts one to google “bestselling authors of all time,” which I have done for [...]