robert bloch

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    (Found) I am looking for a sci-fi short story I read in my childhood about the meaning of life

    In the story, life consists of going through rooms in which you have to pass tests in your childhood to prepare yourself for life. If you fail a test, you get swallowed by the ground. The main character passes all tests and is eager to start life. When he leaves the last classroom, he finds...
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    (Found) Post apocalypse scientist has his head grafted onto a computer

    I posted this on Stack Exchange a couple of years ago....no joy in getting an answer. I'd forgotten about posting it until I accidentally found the question a few minutes ago! Anybody recognise it? I read this, I think, in an unremembered anthology about 25 years ago but the style/language...
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    (Found) World of midgets

    c1970. Novelette or novella. Set c2020. To deal with overpopulation the human race was engineered to be dwarfs or midgets. Story featured generation gap between “shorts” and “normals”.
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    (Found) Planet of Sand; Stone Heads "Gulped" and Swallowed Space Flyer

    Media: Short story in anthology, probably, though I am not certain, paperback. Original year of publication/airing: I read this before 1990s; it could be from 1940s to 1980s at a guess. Major themes: Planetary exploration: by humans, of a single planet, possibly an exoplanet rather than Mars...
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    Robert Bloch

    Robert Bloch's short stories were one of my first introductions to the horror genre, such as it was in the years BK (Before King). So when I saw this, thought I'd share it since maybe someone here might find it this amusing, too. (CrimeReads, by the way, is a quite enjoyable website.) Robert...
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    That Hell Bound Train, by Robert Bloch

    The Hell Bound Train is a Hugo winning short story from Robert Bloch about outsmarting the devil himself. It is about a hobo-thief named Martin who rode the rails out of respect for his father, who was a rail man himself, and who died one day while working drunk. One day while in the middle of...
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