Chicago'da dünyaya gelmiş olan Bloch, hayatı boyunca yüzlerce öykü ve yirmiden fazla roman yazmıştır. H. P. Lovecraft'ın yakın arkadaşı idi ve gizli bir şekilde Lovecraft'ın "Robert Blake" karakterinde (The Haunter of the Dark) yer almaktadır. Almış olduğu ödüller arasında Hugo Award, Bram Stoker Award, ve World Fantasy Award de yer almaktadır. En tanınmış eserleri arasında A. Hitchcock tarafından sinemaya uyarlanan "Psycho/Sapık" romanı sayılabilir. Psycho Serisi: 1959 Psycho (Üç Ruhlu Adam, Sapık) 1982 Psycho II 1990 Psycho House / Psycho III Polisiye Romanları: 1947 The Scarf 1954 Spiderweb 1954 The Kidnapper 1954 The Will to Kill 1958 Shooting Star 1958 This Crowded Earth 1961 The Dead Beat 1961 Firebug 1962 The Couch 1962 Terror 1968 The Star Stalker 1969 The Todd Dossier (Collier Young adı altında) 1971 Sneak Preview 1971 It's All in Your Mind 1972 Night World 1974 American Gothic 1978 Strange Eons (Cthulhu Mythos) 1979 The Cunning / There is a Serpent in Eden 1984 Night of the Ripper 1989 Lori 1991 The Jekyll Legacy Toplu Kısa Öyküler: 1945 The Opener of the Way 1945 Sea Kissed 1958 Terror in the Night 1960 Pleasant Dreams 1961 Blood Runs Cold 1961 Nightmares 1961 More Nightmares 1962 Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper 1962 Atoms and Evil 1963 Horror 7 1963 Bogey Men 1965 House of the Hatchet 1965 The Skull of the Marquis de Sade 1965 Tales in a Jugular Vein 1966 Chamber of Horrors 1967 The Living Demons 1968 Dragons and Nightmares 1969 Bloch and Bradbury 1971 Fear Today, Gone Tomorrow 1976 House of the Hatchet 1977 The King of Terrors 1977 The Best of Robert Bloch 1977 Cold Chills 1978 Out of the Mouths of Graves 1979 Such Stuff as Screams Are Made Of 1981 Mysteries of the Worm 1986 Unholy Trinity 1987 Midnight Pleasures 1987 Lost in Space and Time With Lefty Feep 1987 The Complete Stories of Robert Bloch: Volume 1: Final Reckonings 1987 The Complete Stories of Robert Bloch: Volume 2: Bitter Ends 1987 The Complete Stories of Robert Bloch: Volume 3: Last Rites 1989 Fear and Trembling 1989 Screams 1993 Mysteries of the Worm (rev.) 1994 The Early Fears 1995 Robert Bloch: Appreciations of the Master 1998 Flowers from the Moon and Other Lunacies 1999 The Lost Bloch: Volume 1: The Devil With You! 2000 The Lost Bloch: Volume 2: Hell on Earth 2002 The Lost Bloch: Volume 3: Crimes and Punishments