Psycho Century

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Bloch’s Origin Story: Cosmic Horror and Weird Tales
Inside Our Own Skulls: Bloch’s Slow Transition to Psychological Horror
Recognizable Human Monsters: Precursors to Psycho
The Real Lurking Horrors, or, How Psycho Changed Everything
After Psycho: Bloch’s Early 1960s
Hollywood and Beyond: Three Films of the 1960s
"No illusion. Jackson is dead": Two Scripts for Star Trek
Burgess Meredith Really Is the Devil: Torture Garden
A Pretty Path Ending in a Bear Trap: The House That Dripped Blood
Nothing to Lose but Your Mind: Asylum and Night-World
Who I Am, How I Am, or What I Am: American Gothic and Low-Budget TV
Unspeakable Revisions: Lovecraft at the End of Time
Famous Crimes: Jack the Ripper
The Final Exorcism: The Apotheosis of Norman Bates
Conclusion: The Gentlest Creature on the Planet
Works Cited
Index