“An eldritch tale of stark horror and a terrible rendezvous in a hidden mausoleum.”

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We are a channel honoring the yellowed, and blackened bones of many prominent authors. We will be digging up several obscure, strange, and forgotten authors who influenced many of the great horror, science fiction, and fantasy writer’s today.

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We received quite the stir in our tomb recently. We were honored with a verification by The Horror Writer’s Association for “Wolves, Wings, & Other Things”. We’re keeping our claws crossed and breaking a wishbone or three for luck in the hope of further advancement. Hopefully, we get to howl at the moon if we win.

In the meantime, we’ll keep slithering on to new novels and quite a few new stories for the channel and collections.

Tonight, we bring back that master or horror and suspense, Robert Albert Bloch. Too many great horror writers owe this immortal their careers. More importantly for this writer, he’s a from-the-grave mentor.

Bloch was a fiction writer with a diverse array of stories in crime, horror, fantasy and science fiction. He is best known as the writer of “Psycho” that led to Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece, many great tales on Rod Serling’s “Night Gallery”, Weird Tales, Strange Stories, and others. Our personal favorite is the Hammer horror film classic, “The House That Dripped Blood”.

Horror and comedy were his trademark. Robert Bloch’s fondness for humor in horror was evident in puns. It could be seen 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”.

And of course, there’s the classic Bloch favorite line that tickles our funny bone, “I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf.”

A protégé’ to H.P. Lovecraft, Robert Bloch was in a select group known as the Lovecraft Circle with such greats as Frank Belknap Long, Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith and many more. Learning with these masters, Bloch created hundreds of short stories and over 30 novels.

Robert Bloch won numerous awards in writing.  He won The Hugo Award (“That Hell-Bound Train”), The Bram Stoker Award, and The World Fantasy Award. Bloch served a term as president of The Mystery Writers of America (1970). He was a member of The Mystery Writers of America, Science Fiction Writers of America, The Writers Guild of America, and The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Most notably, there is one society he probably still is an undead member of –The Count Dracula Society.

“The Secret in the Tomb” was written by Robert Bloch and published in May 1935 as part of Weird Tales Volume 25 Issue 5. It was described in the magazine as “an eldritch tale of stark horror and a terrible rendezvous in a hidden mausoleum.” The story focuses on the last descendant in a long line of sorcerers who is psychically drawn to an ancient tomb of a long dead ancestor. He is journeying into the crypt to learn of a diabolical family secret.

What is the secret of the tomb? Will our narrator escape once he learns the diabolical family secret?