Hellboy: The Troll Witch and Others
Hellboy: The Troll Witch and Others is the seventh trade paperback collection in the Hellboy series and published by Dark Horse Comics on October 3, 2007. It collects various mini-series, one-shots and back-up features featuring fictional paranormal detective Hellboy.
Publication history
The Penanggalan
[image:Hellboy premiere mignola.jpg|thumb|Cover by Mignola.]This story by Mike Mignola was originally published by Dark Horse Comics and Wizard Press as the lead story in Hellboy Premier Edition along with B.P.R.D.: Born Again which was a promotional for Wizard available in three different covers:
- A photographic cover was available to those who pre-ordered tickets to Wizard World Los Angeles 2004.
- A cover drawn by Guy Davis was available via a special offer to renew or subscribe to Wizard.
- A Mike Mignola-drawn cover was available via a mail-in offer found in Wizard #148.
Hellboy travels to Malaysia in 1958 where a village devoid of Bomah shamans has fallen victim to a demonic penanggalan. A young guide leads him to the demon's cave, where Hellboy is met with a betrayal.
The Hydra and the Lion
This story by Mike Mignola was originally published in one-shot anthology The Dark Horse Book of Monsters.Hellboy travels to Alaska in 1961, where he finds not only the grave of the recently deceased Hercules but a monstrous hydra. Hellboy's battle with the creature is interrupted by a mysterious lion girl that generates more than a few theories amongst the experts of the B.P.R.D.
The Troll Witch
This story by Mike Mignola was originally published in one-shot anthology The Dark Horse Book of Witchcraft.Hellboy travels to Norway in 1963 to seek the legendary troll witch, who, armed with only a wooden spoon, had ridden into battle against a group of trolls on the back of a goat.
Dr. Carp's Experiment
This story by Mike Mignola was originally published in one-shot anthology The Dark Horse Book of Hauntings and was Mignola's only original Hellboy comic book work that year.Hellboy travels to Long Island, New York in 1991, to investigate the haunted house of former Master of the Heliopic Brotherhood of Ra, Dr. Carp, who vanished in 1902. In a secret basement room, Hellboy uncovers the remains of the doctor's experiments and the source of the haunting.
The Ghoul
This story by Mike Mignola was originally published in one-shot anthology The Dark Horse Book of the Dead.Hellboy travels to London in 1992 to hunt down the ghoulish poetry-reciting grave robber Edward Stokes who is at work in the city's Hammersmith cemetery. Concurrently, B.P.R.D. agent Pauline Raskin encounters the innocent Mrs. Stokes, who is watching a puppet theatre production of William Shakespeare's Hamlet on television.
The Vampire of Prague
This story was created specially for the collection.Hellboy arrives in Prague on August 19, 1982, to challenge the former verger of St. Peter's Church, a vampiric gambler who was cursed for playing cards with the dead when he ran out of living opponents. Hellboy must beat him at his own game to end the reign of terror.