tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6406557.post4567981262770133121..comments2023-10-16T15:55:58.937+01:00Comments on White Llama: This Land is Mine and Psycho - a comparisonClarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16799393732608887630noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6406557.post-82385628611885341292013-01-02T22:34:09.042+00:002013-01-02T22:34:09.042+00:00The movie of Psycho was closely based on the bests...The movie of Psycho was closely based on the bestselling horror novel _Psycho_ (1959) by Robert Bloch. Bloch had been part of the H.P. Lovecraft circle, so some might see in the novel a faint allusion to Lovecraft (devastated when his mother died, later lived with two spinster aunts, outwardly a conventional man but inwardly a master of horror). But, as Bloch stated many times, the actual source for the setting and plot details of _Psycho_ was the grisly real-life Ed Gein murder case of 1957.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com