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It’s Writer’s in Horror Recognition Month

Our next writer’s profile for Writer’s in Horror Recognition Month is John Fenwick Anderson Blackburn.

John Fenwick Anderson Blackburn  (26 June 1923 – 1993) was a British novelist who wrote thrillers, and horror novels. Blackburn was described as "today's Master of Horror" by The Times Literary Supplement.

Many of his books feature stock characters, including General Charles Kirk of British Intelligence and his friends, the scientist Sir Marcus Levin and his Russian wife Tania.

His horror novels are often structured as thrillers, with detective story plots involving international espionage, but often leading to either a supernatural or science fictional resolution. This means that, as with some of the books of James Herbert, many of Blackburn's horror novels are notable for pace and plotting rather than for atmospheric effects. Blackburn specialised in mixing modern concerns such as germ warfare and international conspiracies with ancient traditions and curses, often to ingenious effect. The Flame and the Wind (1967), by contrast, is an unusual historical novel set in Roman times, in which a nephew of Pontius Pilate tries to discover the facts about the crucifixion of Jesus.

The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction has noted that in many of Blackburn's novels 'a powerful ambience of Horror derives from a calculated use of material from several genres, including science fiction, often simultaneously; he was a sophisticated, commercial exploiter of Equipoise in fantastic fiction'.[9] His use of science fiction is generally borderline, though not in Children of the Night, which features – in classic sci-fi fashion – an underground lost race, this time with telepathic powers.

Horror novels[

·        A Scent of New-Mown Hay (1958)

·        A Sour Apple Tree (1958)

·        Broken Boy (1959)

·        A Ring of Roses (1965)

·        Children of the Night (1966)

·        Nothing But the Night (1968)

·        Bury Him Darkly (1969)

·        Blow the House Down (1970), a non-supernatural story in which a racist architect deliberately designs a building to be a death-trap [12]

·        Devil Daddy (1972)

·        For Fear of Little Men (1972)

·        Our Lady of Pain (1974), based on Elizabeth Bathory, suggested by and dedicated to Christopher Lee

Thrillers

·        Dead Man Running (1960)

·        Bound to Kill (1963)

·        The Winds of Midnight (1964)

·        Murder at Midnight (1964)

·        Packed for Murder (1964)

·        The Reluctant Spy (1966)

·        The Gaunt Woman (1967)

·        Blue Octavo (1967)

·        Colonel Bogus (1969)

·        The Young Man from Lima (1970)

·        The Household Traitors (1971)

·        Deep Among the Dead Men (1973)

·        Mister Brown's Bodies (1975)

·        The Face of the Lion (1976)

·        The Cyclops Goblet (1977)

·        Dead Man's Handle (1978)

·        The Sins of the Father (1979)

·        A Beastly Business (1982)

·        A Book of the Dead (1984)

·        The Bad Penny (1985)

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For our next  Writers in Horror Recognition Month profile we got Robert Bloch. Robert Bloch (/blɒk/; April 5, 1917 – September 23, 1994) was an American fiction writer, primarily of crime, horror, fantasy and science fiction, from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is best known as the writer of Psycho, the basis for the film of the same name by Alfred Hitchcock. His fondness for a pun is evident in the titles of his story collections such as Tales in a Jugular Vein, Such Stuff as Screams Are Made Of and Out of the Mouths of Graves. Bloch wrote hundreds of short stories and over 30 novels. He was one of the youngest members of the Lovecraft Circle and began his professional writing career immediately after graduation, aged 17. He was a protege of H. P. Lovecraft who was the first to seriously encourage his talent. However, while Bloch started his career by emulating Lovecraft and his brand of "cosmic horror", he later specialized in crime and horror stories dealing with a more psychological approach. Bloch was a contributor to pulp magazines such as Weird Tales in his early career, and was also a prolific screenwriter and a major contributor to science fiction fanzines and fandom in general. He won the Hugo Award (for his story "That Hell-Bound Train"), the Bram Stoker Award, and the World Fantasy Award. He served a term as president of the Mystery Writers of America (1970) and was a member of that organization and of Science Fiction Writers of America, the Writers Guild of America, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Count Dracula Society. In 2008, The Library of America selected Bloch's essay "The Shambles of Ed Gein" (1962) for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American true crime. His favorites among his own novels were The Kidnapper, The Star Stalker, Psycho, Night-World, and Strange Eons. His work has been extensively adapted for the movies and television, comics and audio books.

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