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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, sonny <sforstater@...>
wrote:
>
> cool. i began thinking about it after i had wrote
and sent that.
generally
> i think of bloch as horror, but psycho certainly
starts off as
crime/noir
> and only then enters the realm of horror. but it
never leaves
crime. is
> there horror/noir?
>
PSYCHO was published as a mystery/suspense novel. There is no
supernatural element in the novel. It is pure crime/suspense,
although in its presentation, it prompts many readers to have
reactions similar to a horror novel.
Bloch was well-established as a mystery writer, often
appearing in the detective pulps and digests and all of his
five novels published prior to PSYCHO were crime
fiction.
Richard Moore
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