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Psycho Trilogy Books in Order

by Robert BlochLiterature & Fiction

3 books and 1 novella from Psycho (1959) to Psycho House (1991). Rated 4.4 across 2,739 listener reviews.

Reading order

  1. Psycho

    Book 1 1959 4.5 (2.2k)

    It was a dark and stormy night when Mary Crane glimpsed the unlit neon sign announcing the vacancy at the Bates Motel. Exhausted, lost, and at the end of her rope, she was eager for a hot shower and a bed for the night.

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  2. Robert Bloch's Psycho: Sanitarium

    Novella 1.5 2016 by Chet Williamson 4.3 (88)

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  3. Psycho II

    Book 2 1982 3.8 (207)

    You remember Norman Bates, the shy motel manager with the fatal mother fixation. Now, years after his horrific bout of butchery, Norman is at large again.

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  4. Psycho House

    Book 3 1991 3.8 (250)

    The new Bates Motel is a tourist attraction, a re-creation of the infamous murder site, and the developers are already counting their profits.

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About this reading order

Books are listed in the series' own numbering, which for Psycho Trilogy is also the best order to read them in. Novellas and short stories sit between the novels they follow, numbered the way the publisher numbers them (1.5 comes after book 1). They are optional — you can skip them without missing the main story. Years are first publication where we could confirm it, and otherwise the first audiobook release.

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