Hellboy Reading Order Series by Mike Mignola

No one remembers the last time the church bells rang in the small town of Saint August. Now, the Balkan village has been wiped out overnight—167 brutal killings. Hellboy, world-renowned occult investigator, aims to lift a 780-year-old curse, in a tale of ghosts, werewolves, and crumbling chapels.Horror lives in Mike Mignola's Hellboy: The Wolves of Saint August, a 48-page prestige format graphic novel... moreNo one remembers the last time the church bells rang in the small town of Saint August. Now, the Balkan village has been wiped out overnight—167 brutal killings. Hellboy, world-renowned occult investigator, aims to lift a 780-year-old curse, in a tale of ghosts, werewolves, and crumbling chapels.Horror lives in Mike Mignola's Hellboy: The Wolves of Saint August, a 48-page prestige format graphic novel. Originally presented in black and white in Dark Horse Presents issues 88–91, Mignola has added eight new story pages to this full-color package, which also includes all four of the original covers; a fifth unused cover, plus an all-new painted cover, topping it all off. If you're unfamiliar with Hellboy, this book will come upon you like a judgment. less

In Hellboy: The Corpse and the Iron Shoes, the Monaghans have a problem faeries have stolen their baby. Tam O'Clannie's problem is he wants a Christian burial, and he's already getting pretty ripe. Hellboy has more than his share of problems with border goblins, dead men, and war monsters, as he tries to make everyone happy in one night, roaming the Irish landscape looking for a Christian graveyard and finding only pagan monstrosities... moreIn Hellboy: The Corpse and the Iron Shoes, the Monaghans have a problem faeries have stolen their baby. Tam O'Clannie's problem is he wants a Christian burial, and he's already getting pretty ripe. Hellboy has more than his share of problems with border goblins, dead men, and war monsters, as he tries to make everyone happy in one night, roaming the Irish landscape looking for a Christian graveyard and finding only pagan monstrosities. In the backup "The Iron Shoes," Hellboy enters a battered medieval tower to take on a footnote from Irish folklore. less

Hellboy spends Christmas underground with dead guys in a full-length story full of weird yuletide cheer.

Hellboy: Makoma; or, A Tale Told by a Mummy in the New York City Explorers' Club on August 16, 1993 #1 Award-winning Hellboy creator Mike Mignola teams with comics legend Richard Corben.Corben has been creating bizarre and beautiful comics since the 1970s, working on the most notable horror and sci-fi titles of the original small-press boom... moreHellboy: Makoma; or, A Tale Told by a Mummy in the New York City Explorers' Club on August 16, 1993 #1 Award-winning Hellboy creator Mike Mignola teams with comics legend Richard Corben.Corben has been creating bizarre and beautiful comics since the 1970s, working on the most notable horror and sci-fi titles of the original small-press boom. His work was brought to the big screen in the film Heavy Metal, and he achieved mainstream stardom after collaborations with Brian Azzarello and Garth Ennis, bringing a fresh perspective to such characters as the Hulk and the Punisher, among others.Set long before the life-changing events of The Island, the two-part Makoma reveals Hellboy's earlier encounter with the powerful mythology of Africa. Mignola writes and provides the cover, as well as drawing part of the story, with the lion's share drawn by Corben, in a collaboration that proves to be a horror-comics event that must be seen. less

A lifetime ago, Tom sold his soul to a devil of old Appalachia. Now, he and Hellboy are fighting to win it backthrough the witch who first lured it away and a host of supernatural horrors as old as the land itself. This three-issue series reunites Mignola and legendary horror artist Richard Corben (Hellboy in Mexico, Hellboy: Makoma, Hellboy: Being Human) in a tale of witchcraft rooted in Appalachian folklore.

Trapped in a crumbling church, Hellboy must save a man's soul from ancient witches, a rain of exploding corpses, and finally the evil magic of the Crooked Man himself. This three-issue series reunites Mignola and legendary horror artist Richard Corben (Hellboy in Mexico, Hellboy: Makoma, Hellboy: Being Human) in a tale of witchcraft rooted in Appalachian folklore.

Eisner Award-winning horror masters Mike Mignola and Richard Corben present this bloodcurdling double-feature comic with Hellboy entering two very different, but very deadly, housesa carnivorous home and a pagan temple, both hungry for human sacrifices.