> Energized by this playful exchange, Bloch went on to write “Psycho,” the 1959 novel that Alfred Hitchcock turned into a 1960 film. This makes it sound like a

> Energized by this playful exchange, Bloch went on to write “Psycho,” the 1959 novel that Alfred Hitchcock turned into a 1960 film. This makes it sound like a cause-and-effect relationship between exchanging stories with Lovecraft and writing Psycho 25ish years later. Clearly he was interested in the macabre if he submitted a story to Weird Tales as a kid. Are the two things at all related? "After eating a pastrami sandwich at Lou's Diner, Michael Jordan went on to win six NBA championships"