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b. 1936
Best known for fast-moving paperback horror and fantasy, this prolific American writer built cult followings with his Dracula novels and other speculative series. His work has a strong 1970s pulp energy, mixing occult thrills, adventure, and science-fiction ideas.
by Robert Lory
Robert Lory was an American writer of speculative fiction, born in Troy, New York, on December 29, 1936. Reference sources including The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and ISFDB credit him with a long career in paperback horror, fantasy, and science fiction, and report that he died in February 2020.
He is especially remembered for several series fiction readers still seek out today, including the Dracula novels, Horrorscope, Shamryke Odell, and Trovo books. He also wrote entries in the John Eagle Expeditor adventure series under the house name Paul Edwards.
Biographical sources note that he earned a BA from Harpur College in 1961 and later attended the Famous Writers School. Alongside his fiction, he also worked in corporate public relations and editing for Exxon, a background that sat in sharp contrast to the eerie, high-concept popular fiction that made his name.