Hellboy Books
Novelizations
Hellboy: The Movie Novel – 2004
During WWII, Nazis summon a demon child rescued by Allies and raised as Hellboy. As a B.P.R.D. agent, he battles revived Rasputin manipulating his Right Hand of Doom to unleash world-ending Ogdru Jahad, choosing between humanity and infernal heritage.
Hellboy II: The Golden Army – 2008
Hellboy's public exposure strains relationships while elf prince Nuada breaks ancient truce, seeking to awaken an indestructible golden army against humans. Amid Liz's pregnancy and team tensions, Hellboy decides his place in the mythic war.
Graphic Novels
The Hellboy Omnibuses
Hellboy Omnibus Volume 1: Seed of Destruction – 2018
A demon child summoned by Nazis is raised by Allies to fight evil. As adult Hellboy, he battles Rasputin’s plot to unleash apocalyptic dragons using his Right Hand of Doom, uncovering origins, caverns horrors, and his conflicted destiny with the B.P.R.D.
Hellboy Omnibus Volume 2: Strange Places – 2018
Hellboy quits the Bureau, wandering Africa and ocean depths. Facing witches, fish-women, cosmic keepers, and ancient threats, he rejects or embraces his apocalyptic role amid myths, betrayals, and revelations about his Right Hand of Doom.
Hellboy Omnibus Volume 3: The Wild Hunt – 2018
Hellboy joins England’s giant hunt, discovering noble heritage. Facing witches, Nimue the Blood Queen, undead armies, and prophecies, he battles escalating mythic forces in a war threatening humanity’s survival.
Hellboy Omnibus Volume 4: Hellboy in Hell – 2018
Dead Hellboy descends into bizarre Hell, confronting family secrets, demonic kin, and throne claims. Amid grotesque horrors, old foes, and revelations, he fights for redemption or damnation in his final infernal journey.
Hellboy: The Complete Short Stories Volume 1 – 2018
Early tales: corpses, iron shoes, Baba Yaga, Christmas ghosts, wolves, Mexican vampires, Aztec mummies, drunken luchadores, coffinmen, midnight circuses, and sea horrors blend folklore, pulp, and Hellboy’s paranormal investigations.
Hellboy: The Complete Short Stories Volume 2 – 2018
Later shorts: trolls, hydras, vampires, ghouls, Makoma epic, Mexican adventures, evil doubles, sleeping dead, hellish brides, apocalyptic hints, and global myths showcase Hellboy’s humor, horror, and destiny struggles.
Standalone Hellboy Graphic Novels
Hellboy: The Bones of Giants – 2022
In Sweden, Hellboy and Abe Sapien investigate a Norse artifact discovery. Hellboy accidentally wields Thor’s hammer Mjolnir, awakening frost giants bent on Ragnarok. Battling across mythic realms, he confronts gods, monsters, and ties to his own demonic destiny in an epic Norse apocalypse showdown.
The Silver Lantern Club – 2022
Elderly Simon Bruttenholm regales Hellboy with tales from the Victorian-era Silver Lantern Club. Sir Edward Grey, Sarah Jewell, and occult hunters battle London ghosts, secret societies, and supernatural threats in 1890s England, blending mystery, horror, and historical paranormal investigations.
Hellboy in Love – 2023
Hellboy falls for archaeologist Anastasia Bransfield while investigating paranormal sites. Together they face goblin-infested nights, demonic shadow plays, and ancient fiery artifacts. Amid rare romance and affection, Hellboy balances heartfelt emotions with brutal monster fights in tender yet horrific adventures.
The Crooked Man & The Return of Effie Kolb – 2024
In rural Appalachia, Hellboy helps cursed locals against the devilish Crooked Man who collects souls through witchcraft pacts. Years later, witch Effie Kolb returns seeking vengeance. Battling covens, familiars, and folk horrors, Hellboy confronts moral deals and redemption.
B.P.R.D. Omnibuses
B.P.R.D.: Plague of Frogs Volume 1 – 2011
After Hellboy leaves, the Bureau confronts rising frog monsters and surviving Nazi occultists. Abe Sapien, Liz Sherman, Johann Kraus, and new recruits investigate subterranean horrors, spreading plagues, and ancient entities hinting at the impending awakening of the Ogdru Jahad.
B.P.R.D.: Plague of Frogs Volume 2 – 2012
Frog infestations explode worldwide. The team battles the fiery Black Flame, haunted Venetian souls, risen dead, and reality-warping machines. Personal losses, betrayals, and internal conflicts deepen as apocalyptic omens grow undeniable.
B.P.R.D.: Plague of Frogs Volume 3 – 2013
Flashbacks to the 1940s reveal early threats while modern agents face prophetic warnings, vengeful goddesses, massive frog wars, and a tyrannical king of fear. The Bureau splinters under relentless supernatural assaults.
B.P.R.D.: Plague of Frogs Volume 4 – 2014
The frog plague erupts fully, overwhelming civilization. Desperate agents uncover cosmic origins, make heartbreaking sacrifices, and fight futile battles against unstoppable monstrous hordes heralding the end of the world.
B.P.R.D.: Hell on Earth Volume 1 – 2017
Monsters dominate the planet. Scattered Bureau survivors navigate collapsed society, mutated gods, hidden refuges, and Russian horrors, struggling to protect scattered human remnants in a new age of darkness.
B.P.R.D.: Hell on Earth Volume 2 – 2018
Global horrors surge with infernal engines, drawn-out deaths, backwoods vampire infestations, and the master's terrifying return. Agents undergo mutations, forge fragile alliances, and helplessly watch civilization collapse under waves of unrelenting monstrous devastation.
B.P.R.D.: Hell on Earth Volume 3 – 2019
Frozen hellscapes, blazing lakes, the Black Flame's tyrannical rule, demonic winged armies, and fractured cosmic equations overwhelm survivors. The ancient Ogdru Hem stir, driving what's left of humanity toward inevitable extinction.
B.P.R.D.: Hell on Earth Volume 4 – 2019
Grotesque flesh-stone hybrids, radical metamorphoses, end-of-days warfare, frantic exorcisms, and the climactic final hour descend. The last Bureau agents launch desperate all-or-nothing assaults against overwhelming forces of cosmic destruction.
B.P.R.D.: Hell on Earth Volume 5 – 2019
The apocalypse peaks with total monstrous dominion. Surviving agents face the ultimate Ogdru entities, suffer devastating losses, and wage impossible last stands to preserve Earth's final scattered remnants.
B.P.R.D.: The Devil You Know Omnibus – 2021
In the ultimate reckoning, ragged survivors confront false messiahs, plunge into pandemonium, and endure Ragna Rok. Directly connected to Hellboy's fate, the final agents fight primordial demons for the soul of humanity.
Abe Sapien Omnibuses
Abe Sapien: Dark and Terrible Volume 1 – 2017
In the monster-ravaged apocalypse, physically altered Abe Sapien deserts the shattered Bureau. Wandering ruined America, he encounters dark terrors, emerging mutant races, shifting realities, hidden sacred places, and an overwhelming inner darkness while uncovering his own monstrous origins.
Abe Sapien: Dark and Terrible Volume 2 – 2018
Abe's lonely odyssey continues across desolate shores and forgotten lives. Facing regressions, concealed gardens, secret fires, and devastating truths, he must finally accept or reject his deep connection to the forces destroying the world.
Abe Sapien: The Drowning and Other Stories – 2023
Collecting Abe's early solo missions: experimental drowning origins, haunted children, abyssal ocean horrors, devilish deceptions, subconscious nightmares, and gradual physical transformations that foreshadow his growing link to the coming apocalyptic catastrophe.
Tie-In Novels
Hellboy: The Lost Army – 1997
In 1986, a British archaeological team disappears while investigating the ancient Persian lost army in the Egyptian desert. The B.P.R.D. sends Hellboy to rescue them and uncover the truth behind the vanished 50,000 soldiers from 525 B.C., leading to horrors involving an undead army and ancient evil forces.
Hellboy: The Bones of Giants – 2001
On Sweden's frozen shores, a lightning storm exposes the skeleton of a Norse god clutching an iron hammer. Hellboy lifts Mjolnir, fusing it to his hand and hosting Thor's essence, as he and Abe Sapien battle resurrecting frost giants threatening the Nine Realms.
Hellboy: On Earth as It Is in Hell – 2005
Angels attack the Vatican, destroying library floors but sparing a scroll allegedly written by Jesus post-crucifixion. Hellboy and Abe investigate, facing heretical fanatics, ancient gods, vengeful demons, and a conspiracy aiming to unleash literal Hell on Earth.
Hellboy: Unnatural Selection – 2006
Mythical creatures resurface worldwide: dragons in Brazil, alligators in Venice, phoenixes in the Mediterranean. Hellboy, Abe, and Liz scramble to contain the chaos, discovering it's a distraction by a vengeful eco-radical plotting an apocalyptic cleansing of humanity.
Hellboy: The Dragon Pool – 2007
In the Himalayas, archaeologist (and Hellboy's ex) Anastasia Bransfield uncovers the legendary Dragon King Pool, site of ancient dragon sacrifices. Sabotage, unearthly creatures, and a child's kidnapping draw Hellboy into confronting the awakened dragon and unresolved past emotions.
Hellboy: Emerald Hell – 2008
In haunted Enigma, Georgia, Hellboy protects young Sarah Nail from her family's curse. Entangled with evil preacher Brother Jester's blood debt, he battles ghosts, demon trees, talking bullfrogs, and lost mutant children amid human malice and occult mysteries.
Hellboy: The All-Seeing Eye – 2008
Supernatural rampage hits London: rising dead, demon attacks, poltergeists, torso murders. Hellboy, Abe, and Liz trace black magic to London's underworld, where demons prophesy plague and an otherworldly eye opening to unleash death and destruction.
Hellboy: The Fire Wolves – 2009
In Amalfi, Italy, a family curse summons fire wolves. Hellboy aids Franca Esposito, uncovering ties to a fire demon escaped during Vesuvius's 79 AD eruption. As the volcano stirs again, thirsting for blood, Hellboy races to prevent catastrophe.
Hellboy: The Ice Wolves – 2009
Werewolves awaken globally, converging on America via possessed hosts. Hellboy tracks the primal savagery to Boston's haunted Grant Mansion, battling ice wolves and malevolent spirits in a race to stop a devastating wave of ancient fury.
Lobster Johnson: The Satan Factory – 2009
In pre-WWII New York, disgraced physician Jonas Chapel returns, creating occult monstrosities for mobsters. Vigilante Lobster Johnson and his team assault Chapel's twisted Satan Factory to halt the greed-fueled horrors threatening to consume the city.
Hellboy: The God Machine – 2010
Religious artifacts vanish worldwide. Hellboy and Liz foil a heist by robotic constructs powered by trapped human spirits, leading to a fanatical psychic order engineering a new messiah—and awakening a vengeful god intent on forced human evolution.