The Creative Urge (Original manuscript for the 1991 short story)

  • N.p.: N.p., 1990
By Robert Bloch
N.p.: N.p., 1990. Vintage five-page xerographically duplicated manuscript of Robert Bloch's 1991 short story. Annotations in manuscript ink in Bloch's hand on the first leaf, evidently detailing payment for the story, and noting a single editorial revision on the fifth leaf.

Writer Robert Bloch is best known for penning Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" (1959), although his six-decade writing career encompassed novels, short stories, radio, cinema, and television. A protégé of H.P. Lovecraft, Bloch received the Hugo Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the World Fantasy Award, and served as the president of the Mystery Writers of America in 1970.

Five leaves. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, bound at the top left corner with a single staple.

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