Psycho by Robert Bloch

So even I, sheltered though I am, have seen this movie. I know what happens, and I imagine most people do, too. Therefore, reading the book version of this story was kind of anticlimactic. Because, though it’;s a horror classic, I saw everything coming.

Bloch does do a good job with bringing the creepiness factor, though, but I found the rest of his writing hackneyed and contrived and vaguely irritating. And there’s no way in hell I’d ever read the sequels.

So, yeah, read it if you want the classics of horror experience. Skip it if you can’t avoid rolling your eyes every fifteen minutes.