Hellboy Library Volume 4: The Crooked Man and the Troll Witch - by Mike Mignola (Hardcover)

About the Book

"This volume collects the Dark Horse comic-book series Hellboy: the crooked man #1-#3, and Hellboy: Makoma; stories from the books The Dark Horse book of hauntings, The Dark Horse book of witchcraft, The Dark Horse book of the dead, and The Dark Horse book of monsters; a story from the comic book Hellboy premiere edition; an original story from Hellboy: the troll witch and others; the one-shot comics Hellboy: in the chapel of Moloch, and Hellboy: they that go down to the sea in ships; and previously unpublished sketches"--Title page verso.

Book Synopsis

The oversized Hellboy Library hardcover series continues, featuring Mike Mignola and Richard Corben's award-winning Crooked Man story!

Hellboy has racked up multiple Eisner Awards, numerous spinoffs, a novel line, video games, cartoons, and two feature films. Hellboy Library Volume 4 collects two complete trade-paperbacks full of short stories: The Troll Witch and Other Stories and The Crooked Man, as well as an extensive selection of previously unreleased sketches and designs.

About the Author

Mike Mignola's fascination with ghosts and monsters began at an early age; reading Dracula at age twelve introduced him to Victorian literature and folklore, from which he has never recovered. Starting in 1982 as a bad inker for Marvel Comics, he swiftly evolved into a not-so-bad artist. By the late 1980s, he had begun to develop his own unique graphic style, with mainstream projects like Cosmic Odyssey and Batman: Gotham by Gaslight. In 1994, he published the first Hellboy series through Dark Horse. There are thirteen Hellboy graphic novels (with more on the way), several spin-off titles (B.P.R.D., Lobster Johnson, Abe Sapien, and Sir Edward Grey: Witchfinder), prose books, animated films, and two live-action films starring Ron Perlman. Along the way he worked on Francis Ford Coppola's film Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), was a production designer for Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001), and was the visual consultant to director Guillermo del Toro on Blade II (2002), Hellboy (2004), and Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008). Mike's books have earned numerous awards and are published in a great many countries. Mike lives in Southern California with his wife, daughter, and cat.