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Psycho by Robert Bloch

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Ted Gioia
Jan 01, 2000
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The horror story, in its earliest origins, almost always involved the supernatural. You can trace this back to the ghost stories of ancient times—Pliny the Younger related one in a letter almost 2,000 years ago, and it is surprisingly similar to those told round the campfire nowadays. Such tales no doubt came out of an even older tradition of myths abou…

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