Library Reads: Roberts Bloch's Psycho

Robert Bloch wrote Psycho in 1959, a year before the much popular movie was released. While Hitchcock would love to probably be the sole one who brought this story to the masses, it was really Bloch who put the idea into motion and onto paper. The story is quite scary, but I would say it's definitely not the writing masterpiece I thought. What it's probably better innovative for is being a slasher, and I assume in the 50's such straight up gore was quite shocking.

Summary: Norman Bates runs Bates Motel with his mother. The two are quite close despite his mother's abusive ways, but there are also some horrors that live there, that have been there for some time, and someone is about to discover just how bad it's gotten. When Mary visits the motel on her way to meet her fiance, it raises concern to others when she goes missing. With a private investigator, a sheriff, her fiance, and her sister, now looking into what has happened it seems like a sure thing that all Norman's secrets will be revealed.