Best Selling Books by Michael Mignola

This collection of Hellboy shorts offers an intriguing introduction to Mignola''s unique blend of humor and horror. The title story, The Chained Coffin, gives the reader a glimpse into Hellboy''s mysterious origins, and the volume as a whole features much of the supporting cast from the main series. Other stories include: Abu Gung and the Beanstalk, The Right Hand of Doom, Abe Sapien: Drums of the Dead and Rusty Razorclam: President of Neptune.

Infected by a demonic vampire while fighting in the Ardennes forest during World War I, Lord Henry Baltimore summons three friends and prepares himself for a final showdown with the Red King.

In the wake of the Second World War, Professor Trevor Bruttenholm -- occult investigator and guardian of the infant Hellboy -- founded the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense to investigate and defuse the remains of the Axis''s sophisticated occult-warfare projects and potential Soviet threats. Now, with the help of a handful of war-weary American soldiers and their erstwhile Soviet allies, Bruttenholm unravels the mystery of the Nazi Occult Bureau''s greatest and most threatening initiative: Project Vampir Sturm.