Abraham Van Helsing
The next prominent figure in this tradition was Dr. Abraham Van Helsing in Bram Stoker's "Dracula" (1897), followed closely by E. and H. Heron's Flaxman Low, featured in a series of stories in "Pearson's Magazine" (1898–99), Algernon Blackwood's Dr. John Silence, and William Hope Hodgson's Carnacki the Ghost Finder. Other supernatural sleuths in fiction dating to the late nineteenth century include Alice &amp; Claude Askew's Aylmer Vance and Champion de Crespigny's Norton Vyse.