It was a dark and stormy night when Mary Crane glimpsed the unlit neon sign announcing the vacancy at the Bates Motel. Fatigued, lost, and at the end of her rope, she was looking forward to a sizzling hot shower and a bed for the night time. Her area was musty but clean, as well as the supervisor seemed fine … if a little odd.

Norman Bates loves his Mom. She has been dead for the past twenty years, or so people think. Norman knows better though. He offers lived with Mom ever since leaving a healthcare facility in the older home up about Psycho within the hill above the Bates Motel. One night, Norman spies on a beautiful woman which has checked into the hotel. Norman can’t help but spy on her. Mother is there though. She actually is there to safeguard Norman from his filthy thoughts. She actually is there to protect him with her butcher knife.

This classic horror novel, which inspired the famous film by Alfred Hitchcock, continues to be thrilling people for a lot more than fifty years. It launched one of the most unexpectedly twisted villains ever in Norman Bates, the reserved motel supervisor with a mother complex, and has been called the initial psychoanalytic thriller.