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The Eighth Stage of Fandom

Robert Bloch

First published 1962
Publisher Advent: Publishers
Format Hardcover
Type Nonfiction
Cover art Jon Stopa
Pages 176
Price $5.00

A selection of Bloch's fan writing published specially for the 1962 World Science Fiction Convention.

Contents from Chalker & Owings Trade edition of 875 copies.

Year Reviewer Publication
1963 John Carnell New Worlds Science Fiction, May 1963
2010 Bruce Gillespie SF Commentary, #80A

Page Title Author(s) Type
"The Lomokome Papers" Robert Bloch Essay
A Letter from Sally Ann Bloch Robert Bloch Essay
A Non-Lewis Carol Robert Bloch Poem
A Public Apology Robert Bloch Essay
A Way of Life Robert Bloch Essay
At the Headwaters Robert Bloch Essay
Bah! Humbug! Robert Bloch Essay
Birth of a Notion Robert Bloch Essay
Cassandra Robert Bloch Essay
Cause to Read Joyce Robert Bloch Essay
Children of Blunder Robert Bloch Essay
Credo for Fantasy Writers Robert Bloch Essay
Doctor Bloomington, I Presume? Robert Bloch Essay
Every Man His Own Psychiatrist Robert Bloch Essay
Forty Whacks Robert Bloch Essay
From a Letter to P. Howard Lyons Robert Bloch Essay
From Hubub Horizontal Robert Bloch Essay
Gafia House Robert Bloch Essay
How to Attend a Science Fiction Convention Robert Bloch Essay
How Weak Was My End Robert Bloch Essay
I'll Fry Tomorrow Robert Bloch Essay
Immodest Proposal Robert Bloch Essay
In Memoriam: Weird Tales Robert Bloch Essay
Introduce Robert Bloch? Wilson Tucker Essay
Jabberwocky for Fandom Robert Bloch Poem
Just a Goddam Hobby Robert Bloch Essay
Left at the Post Robert Bloch Essay
Letter to a Convention-Goer Robert Bloch Essay
Lost and Found Department Robert Bloch Essay
McGuffey's First Science Fiction Reader Robert Bloch Essay
Pete Kelly's Blue Dragnet Robert Bloch Essay
Poe and Me Robert Bloch Essay
Preface (The Eighth Stage of Fandom) Robert Bloch Essay
Pros and Con Robert Bloch Essay
Second Coming! Robert Bloch Essay
Surrogate in '58 Robert Bloch Essay
Thank You Earl Kemp Essay
The Art of William Rotsler Robert Bloch Essay
The Communist Robert Bloch Essay
The Dead Beat Generation Robert Bloch Essay
The Demolished Fan Robert Bloch Essay
The Ealing Art Robert Bloch Essay
The Fabulous Mr. Tucker Robert Bloch Essay
The Incredible Head-Shrinking Man Robert Bloch Essay
The Method of Catharsis Robert Bloch Essay
The Past Recaptured Robert Bloch Essay
The Seven Ages of Fan Robert Bloch Essay
The Tape of Things to Come Robert Bloch Essay
Them Ain't Bongo Drums— Robert Bloch Essay
Through a Picture Tube Darkly Robert Bloch Essay
Willis of America Robert Bloch Essay
Worst Foot Forward Robert Bloch Essay

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
The Eighth Stage of Fandom Cover 1962 Advent: Publishers Trade Paperback Nonfiction Jon Stopa 176
The Eighth Stage of Fandom: Selections From 25 Years of Fan Writing Cover 1962 Advent: Publishers Hardcover Nonfiction 176
The Eighth Stage of Fandom Cover 1992 Wildside Press Hardcover Nonfiction 208