"The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him." - Abraham Van Helsing (1931 film)



Professor Abraham van Helsing is one of the main characters in the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. He was an elderly European scholar who had delved into "occult" matters sufficiently to offer some assistance when the affliction of vampirism first appeared in England in the late 19th century. He was no action hero, and was reliant on the young wooers of Lucy Weston (Dr. Seward, Arthur Hamilton, and Quincey P. Morris) as well as the recovered Jonathan Harker, to carry out the more demanding physical tasks of vampire-hunting.