Van Helsing (film) Van Helsing (film) Van Helsing is a 2004 American horror film written and directed by Stephen Sommers. It stars Hugh Jackman as vigilante monster hunter Van Helsing, and Kate Beckinsale as Anna Valerious. The film is an homage and tribute to the Universal Horror Monster films from the 1930s and '40s (also produced by Universal Studios which were in turn based on novels by Bram Stoker and Mary Shelley), of which Sommers is a fan. The eponymous character was inspired by the Dutch vampire hunter Abraham Van Helsing from Irish author Bram Stoker's novel "Dracula". Distributed by Universal Pictures, the
Benjamin Kane Ethridge 2006 Ethridge began publishing short fantasy and horror fiction in his spare time. In October 2010 his novel, "Black & Orange", was published by Bad Moon Books and later won a Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in First Novel. His second work "Bottled Abyss" was nominated as well for the Bram Stoker Award in the novel category, as well as in the Long Fiction category for his novella "The Slaughter Man" in the LIMBUS, INC shared world anthology. Dates by original magazine or anthology publication. Benjamin Kane Ethridge Benjamin Kane Ethridge (born January 16, 1977) is an American author