Robert Bloch - Audio Adaptations

Audio Adaptations

A number of Bloch's works have been adapted for audio productions. For details on Stay Tuned for Terror, see 1940s section above.

Other adaptations include:

• "Almost Human". May 1950 NBC radio broadcast from Dimension X and 1955 NBC radio broadcast from show X Minus One. Available for download from: . Audio of this story also included on Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg (eds) Friends, Robots, Countrymen. Dercum Audio, 1997. ISBN 1-55656-256-X.
• Gravely, Robert Bloch. Alternate World Recordings, 1976. LP. Bloch himself reads "That Hellbound Train" and "Enoch".
• Blood! The Life and Times of Jack the Ripper. Alternate World recordings, 1977. LP (2 record set). Bloch himself reads "Yours Truly Jack the Ripper" and "A Toy for Juliette". Harlan Ellison reads his "The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World"
• Psycho House (Psycho III). Sunset Productions/Audio gems, June 1992. ISBN 1-56431-037-X. Read by Mike Steele. 2 cassettes. Abridged?
• Thrillogy. Read by Roger Zelazny. Sunset Productions, 1993. Includes the three Bloch stories "That Hellbound Train", "Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper", and "The Movie People. (1 cassette, running time 90 mins). ISBN 18008295723
• Psycho. Read by Kevin McCarthy. Listen for Pleasure, 1986. ISBN 0-88646-165-0 (2 cassettes, abridged, running time 2 hours). Reissued Feb 1999 ISBN 0-88646-492-7.
• Psycho II: The Nightmare Continues. Sunset Productions, Aug 1992. ISBN 1-56431-019-1.
• "Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper" on The Greatest Mysteries of All Time. Newstar Media, 1994. ISBN 0-7871-2092-8. 1 cassette. Packaged with "Hight Darktown" by James Ellroy. Read by Arte Johnson and Robert Forster. Running time ?
• The Living Dead. Stellar Audio Vol 5: Horror edition (Brilliance Audio), Aug 1996. Packaged with You'll Catch Your Death by P.N. Elrod. ISBN 1-56740-970-9. 1 cassette. Running time 90 mins.
• Psycho. Read by William Hootkins. Magmasters Sound Studios/ABC Audio, 1997. (2 cassettes, running time 3 hours). ISBN 1-84007-002-1.
• "The Movie People" on Hollywood Fantasies - Ten Surreal Visions of Tinsel Town. Dove Audio/Audio Literature, 1997. 4 cassettes. Running time 6 hours. Unabridged. ISBN 0-7871-0946-0
• "Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper". On The Greatest Horror Stories of the 20th Century edited by Martin Greenberg. Dove Audio, 1998. Read by various readers. 4 cassettes. Running time 6 hours. ISBN 0-7871-1723-4
• Psycho. BBC Radio Collection, June 2000. Read by William Hope. ? cassettes. Abridged. ISBN 0-563-47710-5.
• "A Good Knight's Work". Adapted by George Zarr, performed by a full cast. Seeing Ear Theatre, 2001. Running time 44 mins.
• Psycho. Blackstone Audio, Feb 2009. Read by Paul Michael Garcia. ISBN 978-1-4332-5705-6 (4 cassette set), 9781433257094 (1 mp3-cd), 9781433257063 (5 cd set). Unabridged. Running times 5.6 hours. Playaway preloaded digital audio ed with earbuds, Sept 2009 ISBN 1-4332-5713-0
• This Crowded Earth. Librivox, March 2009. Read by Gregg Margarite. (3 CD set, running time 3 hours, 30 mins). Available for download from Librivox:
• Psycho. (In German). Read by Matthias Brandt. (5 CD set). Der Audio Verlag, 2011. ISBN 978-3-89813-975-5

Various recordings of Bloch speaking at fantasy and sf conventions are also extant. Many of these are available for download from Will Hart's CthulhuWho site: