Robert Lory

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Robert Edward Lory (born December 29, 1936 in Troy , New York ) is an American horror , science fiction , and fantasy author.

Life

Lory is the son of Edward and Dorothy Lory. He studied history and social sciences at Harpur College in Binghamton , where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1961 . In 1964 he completed a Famous Writers Course and in 1973 a course from the Washington School of Art . After completing his studies, he worked as a folksinger , industrial photographer , did advertising and public relations for an electricity and gas supply company, carried out sales promotion for a supplier and supervised publications for the Reynolds Metals Company . From 1967 he worked for the Exxon Corporation , first as editor of the magazines Esso Manhattan , Exxon Manhattan and Esso Eastern Review , then as PR consultant for Esso Eastern Inc. Since 1968 Lory is married to Barbara Banner, with whom he has four children. He has been a freelance writer since 1971.

In 1963, Lory published his first SF short story Rundown in Worlds of If , followed by other stories that were collected in A Harvest of Hoodwinks in 1970 . In 1969 a first fantasy novel appeared, The Eyes of Bolsk , which was followed in 1970 by the sequel Master of the Etrax .

The nine-volume series Return of Dracula , a mixture of action thriller and horror novel, tells the adventures of the wealthy professor Damien Harmon, telekinetically gifted and paralyzed as a victim of a crime, who is now waging a vigilante campaign against the crime, in which he turns to help of the immortal Count Dracula , whom he forces to help with an implanted wooden stake. Supported by Cameron Sanchez, an expert in martial arts , and the shapeshifter Ktara, various super villains are hunted down and their infernal plans foiled. A large part of the volumes appeared in German translation in the Vampir-Taschenbuch series of the Pabel-Verlag .

Another novel cycle is Horrorscope , in which an overpowering being - demon or embodied fate - brings the zodiac signs to life and brings horrific misfortune and death to innocent people.

According to the lexicon of horror literature , both series are “pure pulp horror for the mass market”. Lory's science fiction is described by John Clute as "mainly light, fantasy-mixed adventure stories, undemanding but neat".

Under the publishing pseudonym Paul Edwards Lory wrote several volumes of the novel series John Eagle, Expeditor (German Protoagent John Eagle ), a series of semi-utopian agent thrillers.

For a very long time after 1976 no publications by Lory have been recorded. Ragnarok was only released in 2014 ! , a novel against the backdrop of Germanic mythology.

bibliography

The series are arranged according to the year of publication of the first part.

Trovo (series of novels)
  • 1 The Eyes of Bolsk (1969)
  • 2 Master of the Etrax (1970)
Shamryke Odell (series of novels)
  • 1 Masters of the Lamp (1970)
  • 2 The Veiled World (1972)
The Return of Dracula (novel series)
  • 1 Dracula Returns (1973)
    • English: Dracula returns. Pabel (Vampire Paperback # 5), 1974.
  • 2 The Hand of Dracula (1973)
    • English: Dracula's Sacrifice. Pabel (Vampir Taschenbuch # 9), 1974. Also as: Bastei (Demon Land # 112), 1994.
  • 3 Dracula's Brothers (1973)
    • English: Dracula's Brothers. Pabel (Vampire Paperback # 13), 1974.
  • 4 Dracula's Gold (1973)
    • German: Dracula's gold treasure. Pabel (Vampire Paperback # 19), 1975.
  • 5 The Drums of Dracula (1974)
    • English: Dracula's death drums. Pabel (Vampire Paperback # 25), 1975.
  • 6 The Witching of Dracula (1974)
  • 7 Dracula's Lost World (1974)
    • English: Dracula's kiss of death. Pabel (Vampire Paperback # 35), 1976.
  • 8 Dracula's Disciple (1975)
  • 9 Challenge to Dracula (1975)
    • English: Dracula's curse. Pabel (Vampire Paperback # 53), 1977.
John Eagle, Expeditor (series of novels, as Paul Edwards)
  • 3 The Laughing Death (1973)
    • German: The laughing death. Ullstein Crime # 1702, 1975.
  • 4 The Fist of Fatima (1973)
    • German: Fatima's Faust. Ullstein Crime # 1657, 1975.
  • 6 The Glyphs of Gold (1974)
    • English: The four Zeros. Ullstein Crime # 1689, 1975.
  • 8 The Death Devils (1974)
    • German: Die Mordteufel. Ullstein Crime # 1677, 1975.
  • 10 The Holocaust Auction (1975)
    • English: The one-eyed bomb. Ullstein Crime # 1767, 1976.
Horrorscope (series of novels)
  • 1 The Green Flames of Aries (1974)
  • 2 The Revenge of Taurus (1974)
    • English: the horror party. Pabel (Demon Killer Paperback # 8), 1975.
  • 3 The Curse of Leo (1974)
    • German: The nights of the were lion. Pabel (Demon Killer Paperback # 11), 1975.
  • 4 Gemini Smile, Gemini Kill (1975)
    • German: The diabolical sisters. Pabel (Demon Killer Paperback # 14), 1976.
  • 5 The Virgo Crypt (1975)
    • English: blood for the damned. Pabel (Demon Killer Paperback # 19), 1976.
  • 6 Claws of the Crab
    • English: Sothon: Death from the black water. Pabel (Vampire Paperback # 81), 1980.
Single novels
  • Identity Seven (1974)
    • German: The seventh I. Translated by Ingrid Rothmann. Bastei Lübbe # 21084, 1976, ISBN 3-404-00504-X .
  • The Thirteen Bracelets (1974)
  • Ragnarok! (2014)
Collections
  • A Harvest of Hoodwinks (1970)
  • Boris Karloff Presents More Tales of the Frightened (1975)
Short stories
  • Rundown (1963)
  • Appointment at Ten O'Clock (1964)
  • Mar-ti-an (1964)
  • The Star Party (1964)
    • German: zodiac party. In: Science-Fiction-Stories 55. Ullstein (Ullstein 2000 # 105 (3195)), 1975, ISBN 3-548-03195-1 .
  • Coming Out Party (1965)
  • Debut (1966)
  • Feodar's Box (1966)
  • The Courteous of Ghoor (1968)
  • Variant: Archimedes' Lever (1968)
  • The Locator (1968)
    • German: Precision landing. In: Wulf H. Bergner (ed.): Flight into the past. Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 3131), 1968.
  • However (1968)
  • Because of Purple Elephants (1970)
  • Futility Is Zuck (1970)
  • Only a God (1970)
  • Rolling Robert (1970)
  • Snowbird and the Seven Warfs (1970)
  • The Fall of All-Father (1970)
  • Kite: Yellow and Green (1973)
    • German: A kite, yellow and green. In: Wulf H. Bergner (Ed.): The uprising of the Kryonauts. Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 3454), 1975, ISBN 3-453-30338-5 .
  • A Small Trick (1975)
  • Blood Money (1975)
  • Blood Will Tell (1975)
  • Carafe of a Corpse (1975)
  • Chains (1975)
  • Dark Secret (1975)
  • Death Can't Wait (1975)
  • Don't Kill the Little Lamb (1975)
  • Down to the Sea in Screams (1975)
  • Grains of Death (1975)
  • Hanging House (1975)
  • Heartthrob (1975)
  • In the Graveyard One Night (1975)
  • Keeper of the Vault (1975)
  • Put on a Deadly Face (1975)
  • The Beat of Leather Wings (1975)
  • The Dead Rest Uneasily Tonight (1975)
  • The Empty Closet (1975)
  • The Fishmonger (1975)
  • The Flickering Candles (1975)
  • The Forbidden Page (1975)
  • The Laughing Buddha (1975)
  • The Masked Dolls (1975)
  • The Phantom Fiddler (1975)
  • The Terror Blend (1975)
  • There's Something in the Soup (1975)
  • The Recent Semifinals (1976)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "mostly light, fantasy-laced adventures, [...] unambitious but competent".
  2. ↑ John Clute : Edwards, Paul. In: John Clute, Peter Nicholls : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . 3rd edition (online edition), version from January 18, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Lory, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lory, Robert Edward (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American horror, science fiction and fantasy writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Troy , New York