Jacob Van Helsing

A science graduate, I was awarded a doctorate in genetic pharmacology and spent my career in medical and pharmaceutical research, primarily in cardiovascular disease, discovering an important drug for the treatment of high blood pressure and angina; which is prescribed world-wide.

Combining my practical knowledge of matters heart and blood related with my love of Victorian Gothic novels, led, unsurprisingly, to my speculating on the scientific credibility of literary Vampires.

The result was the creation of my own novels, in which Historical Gothic Fantasy meets Science - and emerges unspoilt.

Now retired from practical research, I live in rural Essex with my wife and our cute but wilful feline, Molly, and when not writing, I make “gothic” curiosities in my shed, which I refer to as Objet D’ark. (Instagram: lagalleriegothique)