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Robert Bloch's Psycho

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There are not many people who are not familiar with the Psycho, whether they only heard about it or actually encountered the book or the movie. All it took was a woman, a shower and a butcher’s knife combined with a widely recognizable sound effect in order to create one of the most famous and defining scenes in horror movie history. Unfortunately, more people are familiar with the movie and not the book itself. Psycho, which can be characterized as either a horror novel, a psychological, suspense or crime novel, was written by Robert Bloch in 1959. Upon reading the novel, one can say that it has characteristic pieces of every genre mentioned above. The story was then, in 1960, adapted into a movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Robert Bloch …show more content…

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