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"These 12 essays research Robert Bloch's novels, brief tales and lifestyles, in addition to the topics and matters explored in his influential canon. Bloch's fascination with killers, man's inhumanity to guy, the dichotomy of tragedy and comedy, and his contributions to monitor diversifications of his paintings are the following lined by means of major students of amazing literature"--Provided by way of publisher.
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I see no evidence that he had at this time read the early prose-poem “Nyarlathotep” (1920), which had appeared only in amateur magazines; it is here that the connection between Nyarlathotep and Egypt is explicitly made, and it is this connection that Bloch develops. The prose-poem is in fact listed in the list of stories Lovecraft sent to Bloch in April 1933, but it is crossed off; and the subsequent letters do not suggest that Lovecraft ever lent Bloch the story. If Lovecraft had in fact sent the item, one imagines that he would not have had to “define” Nyarlathotep as he did in the letter in May.
Gulther rested on the desk nonchalantly swinging his legs. “All that nervousness, that strain, has disappeared. But before I forget it, I’d like to apologize for telling you that crazy story about sorcery and my 36 The Man Who Collected Psychos obsession. Matter of fact, I’d feel better about the whole thing in the future if you just forget that all this ever happened” [76]. The pharmacist, dazed, agrees, but he knows that something has gone wrong. In fact, the shadow has now totally usurped Gulther.
Here the resemblance to the prose-poem “Nyarlathotep” is very marked, as all civilization seems to be cracking at the foundations. It is quite possible that Bloch was thinking not only of the prose-poem but of the passage (which he had already quoted in “The Shadow from the Steeple”) in the sonnet “Nyarlathotep” in Fungi from Yuggoth: Soon from the sea a noxious birth began; Forgotten lands with weedy spires of gold; The ground was cleft, and mad auroras rolled Down on the quaking citadels of man.
