{"id":5676,"date":"2009-06-03T23:58:26","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T22:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.slipserver.com\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/idw-announces-bloch-collection\/"},"modified":"2009-08-22T08:11:41","modified_gmt":"2009-08-22T15:11:41","slug":"idw-announces-bloch-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2009\/06\/idw-announces-bloch-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"IDW Announces Bloch Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IDW Publishing has signed a new licensing agreement with the estate of writer <b>Robert Bloch<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsarama.com\/\">Newsarama<\/a>, one hundred of the acclaimed writer&#8217;s stories will be developed as the Robert Block Collection, featuring comic books, graphic novels and feature entertainment. <!--more-->Bloch, who died in 1994, was best-known for his novel <i>Psycho<\/i>, which was later adapted into a screenplay by <b>Joseph Stefano<\/b> for the famous movie version directed by <b>Alfred Hitchcock<\/b> and starring <b>Anthony Perkins<\/b> and <b>Janet Leigh<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><i>Star Trek<\/i> fans know Bloch&#8217;s work through three original series episodes: <i>Catspaw, What Are Little Girls Made Of?<\/i> and <i>Wolf in the Fold<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bloch is one of the established masters of horror, and we are really looking forward to offering his stories to existing fans and to bringing in new ones,&#8221; said <b>Ted Adams<\/b>, IDW CEO. &#8220;Having inspired so many leading writers, Bloch&#8217;s work is pivotal to the horror and science fiction genres and is a must-read for fans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The first Bloch project is expected to launch next year.<\/p>\n<p>To read more, head to the article located <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsarama.com\/comics\/060903-IDW-Bloch.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IDW Publishing has signed a new licensing agreement with the estate of writer Robert Bloch&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[2714,2715],"class_list":["post-5676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-bloch","tag-idw-publishing"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a>","tag_info":"Cast &amp; Crew","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5676"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6866,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5676\/revisions\/6866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}