Original gathering of typescript notes, detailing a 1976 meeting to discuss a television adaptation of Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House"

N.p. N.p., 1976. Vintage six-page gathering of typescript and carbon typescript notes by Robert Bloch, detailing a meeting at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer with producer Mike Wise, writer Lou Randolph, and associates to discuss a then-forthcoming, ultimately unproduced television movie based on Shirley Jackson's 1959 novel "The Haunting of Hill House." Notes dated between February 11 and March 1, 1976.

Writer Robert Bloch is best known for penning Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" (1959), although his six-decade writing career encompassed novels, short stories, radio, cinema, and television. A protégé of H.P. Lovecraft, Bloch received the Hugo Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the World Fantasy Award, and served as the president of the Mystery Writers of America in 1970.

Bloch's notes detail his ideas for a new adaptation of Jackson's beloved work, including "intruders—two young counter-culturists, perhaps" who die in the opening sequence to the film.

Four typescript pages, two carbon typescript, rectos only. Housed in the original manila mailing envelope. Envelope and contents Near Fine.

[Book #164101]