The Eighth Stage of Fandom

Assembled here are Robert Bloch's best essays from fan-produced magazines, including such classics as The Seven Ages of Fan, Through a Picture-Tube, Darkly, The Demolished Fan, Poe and Me, In Memoriam: Weird Tales, and The Incredible Head-Shrinking Man. Bloch's blend of wry humor, insight, awful puns, and verbal play make the 46 essays and 3 poems in The Eighth Stage of Fandom some of the most interesting and remarkable work in a career filled with the interesting and remarkable.