The book that the reader holds in his hands is unique in its own way. For the first time in Russian, the trilogy of the famous American writer Robert Bloch about Norman Bates is published, the first novel of which, written exactly half a century ago, formed the basis of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic thriller “Psychosis” (1960) and gave birth to a new iconic “monster” of modern Western culture. Hitchcock's celebrated film, ranked among the greatest films of all time, spawned several sequels and a huge number of imitations, becoming one of the most frequently cited films in world cinema. Meanwhile, Robert Bloch himself - the author of two dozen novels and hundreds of short stories, a successful film and television screenwriter, winner of a number of prestigious literary awards - returned to the image of his sinister hero in the 1980s, dedicating two more books to him. These author's continuations, which together with the first "Psychosis" form a plot-complete trilogy, are supplemented in this edition with an interview with the writer (also fully translated into Russian for the first time) and a new translation of a fragment of Francois Truffaut's book "Cinematograph according to Hitchcock", dedicated to the filming of the famous film. All published texts are accompanied by detailed notes designed to reveal in the author, whose work is considered exclusively a phenomenon of genre prose, a master of virtuoso literary and language games, an extraordinary scholar, an ironic commentator on stereotypes and fears of modern mass culture. In the library, the trilogy is presented in three separate books, each of which contains the above applications.