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Helsing is a Caliber Comics title about a Samantha Helsing and a John Van Helsing. The Vampirella comic books feature father-son vampire hunters Conrad and Adam Van Helsing. In The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Van Helsing and the story of Dracula is hinted by main character Mina Murray (Dracula's chosen bride in the novel).
She is protected by the faithful Hellsing family butler Walter C. Dornez, a deadly foe in his own right, and Alucard, the original and most powerful vampire, who swore loyalty to the Hellsing family after being defeated by Van Helsing one hundred years before the story takes place. These formidable guardians are joined early on in the storyline ...
Dysart has been extensively involved in multi-media crossovers over his career. He authored the one-shot Van Helsing: Beneath the Rue Morgue (an original story featuring the character from the Universal film) and penned Skull & Bones: A Monster House Story, which was tied into the Sony animated children's Monster House.
The book's characters have entered popular culture as archetypes: Count Dracula as the quintessential vampire, and Van Helsing as the most iconic vampire hunter. The novel, which is in the public domain , has been adapted for film over 30 times, and its characters have made numerous appearances in virtually all forms of media.
One of the many eerie encounters between Renfield (Harmon dot aut, seated) and Van Helsing (Rin Allen) in the Playhouse in the Park’s production of “Dracula.” In a sense, they were all correct.
Vámbéry was acquainted with Bram Stoker, during a stay in London, and Stoker claimed him as his consultant, and as relayer of Balkan folklore inspirator of main antagonist character Dracula and, of course, the book's title. The character of Professor Van Helsing in Stoker's novel, Dracula, is sometimes said to be based on Vámbéry, though ...
Saberhagen was inspired to write the first novel in the series, The Dracula Tape, as a result of "re-reading Stoker's original, and being struck by the fact that this titanic character was hardly ever on stage, though of course central to the book. Naturally in my contrarian way I wondered what he was really doing and thinking while the other ...
The book is an alternate history novel set in a world where Van Helsing never killed Dracula. The version of Rome shown in the book is heavily influenced by Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini . As always in the series, the novel contains a number of characters from other fictional works, though due to copyright restrictions some are not named ...