The novelist Robert Bloch came up with the idea of a killer "living in isolation with a religiously fanatical mother" on his own. He only included a vague allusion to real-life murderer and body snatcher Ed Gein (1906-1984) in one of the final chapters of his novel "Psycho", without studying Gein's life. Years later, Bloch realized that the details of Gein's upbringing closely matched details from Norman Bates' upbringing in the novel. He commented on his surprise at the coincidence: "the imaginary character I'd created resembled the real Ed Gein both in overt act and apparent motivation".
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