Are you ______ kidding me?! Who the hell wrote this book? Certainly not Robert Bloch. I am convinced this was by R. L. Stine but for what intended audience?At first I could not understand why such low ratings. Surely prior readers did not open a novel entitled Psycho House and expect Hemingway. But after struggling through I now see the light and it is DIM!I gave this novel every benefit of the doubt: The high character count in order make a list of suspects and victims. assumed the author cater...

(Maybe slightly over 2, but not quite 2.5.) Ten years after the grisly events that took place 30 years after the previous grisly events at the Bates Motel, certain residents have taken it upon themselves to recreate the infamous motel and the adjacent house, which had burned down. Other residents would rather forget the whole thing ever happened, and not subject their small town to a steady swarm of gaudy tourists interested in the gruesome affair. One Amy Haines, a non-resident and writer set o...

A little surprising to find this sequel may be the best of the trio. When Bloch penned the inventive Psycho, the story was a mishmash of psychological cleverness and twists, but he seemed to be writing an afterthought that he never figured would take off like it did. In Psycho House, the mystery is killer - pun intended - with clever red herrings and hints. We even get a demonologist of all things putting in the plausibility of a demon affecting Norman and his predecessors - sounds cheesy, but i...

What is Psycho without Norman Bates? Not much as it turns out in the third installment Psycho House. When an enterprising businessman rebuilds the Bates house as a tourist attraction a young girl is found murdered in it on the eve of its grand opening, bringing a crime novelist to town to cover the story, which gets bigger as more bodies pile up. Unfortunately the characters just aren’t that interesting, and the story’s not very well-written; as the sheriff is cartoonlishly dumb and is constantl...

This is the final book in the Psycho trilogy. I have to say I was pleasantly surprised,the book was well written and one or two bits in the book were really quite creepy. If you are expecting Norman Bates to show up you will be disappointed. The book is set many years after the terrible events at Bates Motel. Norman and Mother are long gone.I would recommend this trilogy to all Psycho or Bates Motel fans, these are well worth the read as they are so different from what you expect. I advise you r...

This may be Bloch's worst novel. It is the third of the Psycho "trilogy" and just feels tired and old. There little of the authors' usual wit and style. By now the Psycho phase was worn down and nothing new is added in this book. The only real mystery here is why it was even written.

Nope. Nope. Nope! This book was terrible! It was too much build up for a nothing conclusion. I always feel bad when I give a bad review but sometimes it is warranted. No stars... :(

I loved the first two Psycho novels (particularly the second one) but this was a major disappointment! It has a great opening and one other really scary part but the rest of it is just characters babbling on and on. Suffers from a severe lack of action. Feels like Bloch wrote this one strictly for a paycheck.

More like a 2 1/2. Meh. Love Robert Bloch though.

Loved this listen. The narration was amazing and I didn’t want to stop listening or for it to end.

I'm willing to give this one more than a 3, which may be what it deserves, because the plot was so implausible and I was so convinced at the beginning that it was going to be like a bad horror movie sequel that the pleasant surprise threw me for a loop. This man took what I was completely sure was a terrible plot, and he really sold it to me. It is well written, well plotted and actually pretty darn believable. A nice finish to a trilogy that I really loved. Long live Norman Bates. I'll be readi...

Unlike a lot of other people I actually liked this! The tone and underlying themes change again as it did so with the last book, this time the book is more of a crime/mystery story.I’ve come to realise that Robert Bloch didn’t write these books to follow Norman Bates but to look at mental health in a broader sense and how it affects society. The book is slower than the previous two but I suppose the plot favours a slower pace. It also isn’t as ground-breaking as the first or as hard hitting as t...

The third and final book in the Psycho series does not feature Norman Bates (and those who have read the second book will know why, so I don’t really understand all the complaints about his absence; I blame all the antagonist resurrections in horror movie franchises) but it’s none the worse for it.The focus in this volume is on Bates’ legacy and how the actions of serial killers resonates down through the years due, in part, to the media’s role in sensationalising them. This isn’t what you’d cal...

I was very disappointed in this final installment of a series I have really enjoyed. The "horror" element was practically nonexistent. The thriller and suspense elements were limited as well. This novel came off as much more of a murder mystery than a horror or psychological thriller. It took 3/4 of the way through the book before my attention was in the story.

This book is an absolute mess! It's told in the same intelligent, gothic way that Psycho and Psycho 2 were written in but there's just too much going on and nothing seems to make sense. There are about 3 different storylines all happening at the 1 time and far too many characters to keep track of, the author would've been better off picking 1 storyline (the one with the reporter writing a book about Norman was the best) and stuck with that instead of trying to combine too many elements into the

This novel has it all - sexism, racism, ableism, anti-semitism...Not to mention it's a perfect example of why male authors shouldn't write female protagonists.It has all the lousy stereotypes that you'd expect.

Meh. The first book was pretty good. This happened to be available from the library. Not the second book, which got decent reviews, but since you get a summary of that book at the beginning of this one I don't think I will read it since I already know who the killer is. Even though there were several murders this book lacked any sense of danger or foreboding. I doubt I would have gotten through it if it hadn't been an audiobook. And the ending? Big climax scene coming... and cut. On to explanati...

DNF @ 45 %I have no idea where this is going or who any of the characters are. There’s a demon hunter in here and Norman may have been possessed(?) If so, I don’t really want to know. The Psycho connection feels extremely forced and I’ll just forget about this late amendment.

I wish I could give this book less than one star. 'Nuff said.

Robert Bloch's final entry into the loosely-connected Psycho series, Psycho House is an improvement over its immediate predecessor but still a world away from the genius simplicity of Psycho . As in the previous two books, the action is driven by copious dialogue and numerous scenes spent with the inner thoughts of the main protagonist, who this time around is a writer working on a book about Norman Bates' original killing spree. She's in town at the same time a rebuilt Bates motel is opened