A boy genius hired by the police during the 30's, who got ahead himself injured so badly he's now wheelchair-bound, Harmon's approached by Ktara with an offer he can't refuse. This series of novels centers around Professor Damien Harmon's encounters with the Count. Since then, the 'Count' has appeared in various civilizations on various continents though the one most remembered is his Transylvanian incarnation. Ktara very conveniently left behind a series of poem chronicling their lives and escape. Now we know the truth.Dracula actually came from Atlantis, having escaped from the doomed continent with his servant Ktara who appears often as a black cat. Under the publishing pseudonym Paul Edwards Lory wrote several volumes of the novel series John Eagle, Expeditor, a series of secret agent thrillers. Supported by Cameron Sanchez, an expert in martial arts, and shapeshifter Ktara, several super villains are being routed and their infernal plans thwarted.Īnother romance cycle is Horrorscope, in which an overpowering being - demon or embodied fate - brings the zodiac signs to life and brings horrific unhappiness and death over innocent people.īoth series are according to the lexicon of horror literature, 'pure Pulphorror for the mass market.' Lorry's science fiction is described by John Clute as 'mainly light, fantasy-driven adventure stories, unassuming but neat.' The nine-volume series Return of Dracula is a mixture of action thriller and horror novels tells the adventures of rich Professor Damien Harmon, telekinetic and paralyzed as a victim of a crime, now in the manner of a vigilante a vendetta against the crime, where he is the help served by the immortal Count Dracula, whom he forces to cooperate with an implanted wooden stake.

In 1969 appeared a first fantasy novel, The Eyes of Bolsk, followed in 1970 by the sequel Master of the Etrax. Since 1971 he is a freelance writer.ġ963 Lory published his first SF short story Rundown Worlds of If, more stories followed, which appeared in 1970 collected in A Harvest of Hoodwinks. Since 1968, Lory is married to Barbara Banner, with whom he has four children. From 1967 he worked for the Exxon Corporation, first as editor of the Esso Manhattan, Exxon Manhattan and Esso Eastern Review magazines, then as a PR consultant for Esso Eastern Inc. After completing his studies, he was a temporary folk singer, industrial photographer, advertising and public relations officer for an electricity and gas utility, sales promotion for a supplier and supervised publications of the Reynolds Metals Company. In 1964 he completed a Famous Writers Course and in 1973 a course of the Washington School of Art.

He studied history and social sciences at Harpur College, Binghamton, where he graduated in 1961 with a bachelor's degree. Lory is the son of Edward and Dorothy Lory.

Dracula's Lost World by Robert Lory