tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post5103841076594274248..comments2024-03-25T10:22:04.995-07:00Comments on Ed Gorman's blog: Robert BlochEd Gormanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06126267358266480356noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-65290361489941137592008-12-14T16:06:00.000-08:002008-12-14T16:06:00.000-08:00THE DEAD BEAT is one I have to pick up, yet. I won...THE DEAD BEAT is one I have to pick up, yet. I wonder how his double from Hard Case has done. (Was the other day listening, on Hulu, to the last ALFRED HITCHCOCK HOUR to be broadcast, a Blcoh script of a Edward Hoch story (a rare dramatization of an AHMM itme), directed by William Friedkin. Not superb, but a decent finale, and quite possibly not meant as such (Hitchcok promises to see us Next Time). Even Bloch's most reflexive exercises in distaste for demimodial bastards, such as collected in BLOOD RUNS COLD, usually have a snap to them...and then there're things such as "The Animal Fair," where the improbability of the events is utterly overmatched by the verisimilitude Bloch brings to the work.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.com