Robert Lory

Robert Lory was an American writer of speculative fiction, born on December 29, 1936. He began publishing science fiction in the early 1960s, with his story "Rundown" appearing in Worlds of If in 1963, and later gathered short work in A Harvest of Hoodwinks.

He is best remembered for a long run of paperback series fiction, especially the Dracula novels, along with the Horrorscope, Shamryke Odell, and Trovo books. He also contributed to the John Eagle Expeditor adventures under the house name Paul Edwards, showing the versatility that made him a dependable and distinctive genre storyteller.

Reference works describe him not only as an author but also as someone who worked in public relations. Sources consulted during this search disagree on whether he was still living or had died in 2020, so that detail is best treated cautiously here.