This series continues on its trajectory of being a masterpiece in storytelling. Volume 3 is a collection of gothic horror stories featuring title character of the series Hellboy. Each one varies in length and tone. Each one showcases the authors ability to tell a rich, satisfying tale in only a few pages. What stands out to me in this volume is the character of Hellboy, how gains more depth than ever before. He’s intelligent in his occupation but goes at it like a drunk in a bar brawl. He’s high...

Re-read 8/1/15: I'm increasing my rating of the collection because I appreciate the thematic unity better than I did before. Each of these stories is based in folklore to some degree, underlining the series' commitment to myth and legend as opposed to the companion series B.P.R.D., which emphasizes the paranormal investigator aspect. I still love "The Wolves of August," but this time I was also drawn to "A Christmas Underground," which is a very creepy variation on The Twelve Dancing Princesses....

A great collection of tales that further world builds and character builds.I have pretty much everything that is Mignola and I find that at the beginning of his run on HB, it was the short one shots that were his most effective and entertaining stories and The Chained Coffin collection is a perfect example for that:World: It's HB and the Mignolaverse, if you've read through 2 trades that means you know what to expect. It is rich in mythology, subtle and slow world building and choked full of loc...

A terrific bouquet of some short stories and some shorter stories. All amazing. My cup of tea.

A collection of Hellboy shorts from 1994-1996, and maybe the best single volume of Hellboy. "The Corpse" is a darkly comic story involving fairies, a kidnapped child, and a talking, rotting corpse. Hellboy spends much of the story with the corpse strapped to his back, bickering with it while he deadpans his way through encounters with just about every creature in Irish mythology. Several of the other stories are key to Hellboy's own mythology, as they reveal the details of his conception and exp...

Mignola's first collection of shorter stories and it's a fantastic one. A lot of these appeared in other anthologies and the like first or were one off issues. You get both great stand alone stories like The Wolves of St. August and stories that ultimately matter to the ongoing narrative like The Chained Coffin or Almost Colossus. Regardless, you can rarely go wrong with Hellboy.

Read this weekend most of HELLBOY: THE CHAINED COFFIN AND OTHERS, and adored it. It's embarrassing how late I am to loving Hellboy.

I really enjoyed each story in this collection. I just wish Kate and every other woman in theses stories hadn't been damsels in distress.The artwork continues to impress.

This is the book that forever sold me on how cool Hellboy is. I never looked back.

This is a collection of shorter works, so it's easy to pick up and read a little bit at a time. Mignola continues to excel at combining occult and folklore in these supernatural tales.

I thoroughly enjoyed this! It's basically a bunch of short stories, with Hellboy coming up against random folk tale baddies, and doing what he does best - taking a whooping until he gets the upper hand, and then punching a monsters face in. I liked how these focused on Hellboy, without too much extra stuff going on. My two favorites were The Wolves of Saint August, because let's face it, I'm a sucker for a good werewolf story, and Almost Colossus, which wrapped up the Wake the Devil miniseries.

Now this was different. But still the same. Where Volumes 1 and 2 present one continuous storyline (with all its detours), Volume 3 of the “Hellboy” comic is a collection of several tales about the protagonist, with only one being a direct continuance of the previously established narrative. Following the Bureau’s prior case, there is an aftermath involving homunculi (looking more like golems though), semi-Faustian involvements in Heidelberg or Wittenberg or some other -bergian German town with

While Hellboy has a great big plot that runs through all of the 12 main volumes, several of those volumes, indicated by "and other stories" in the title, collect short stand-alone comics that Mike Mignola has written for many different kinds of magazines, anthologies and comic books over the years. This is the first such volume. And it's a brilliant one! It collects some of the best Hellboy stories, such as The Corpse, Iron Shoes, The Baba Yaga, The Chained Coffin, Almost Colossus — all of them

This collection of shorts does a great job of articulating all the reasons I live Hellboy so much. And he is a Capricorn after all! Yay us!

I have read Hellboy 1, then 4, then 2, and just finished 3, because why would you want to do that chronological thing? Hellboy 3 is like Hellboy 4: (or should that be the other way around?), where at the beginning of each section there are notes from author/illustrator, Mike Mignola, on his inspirations for the stories. I enjoyed the notes as much as I did the stories because they go into the mythology and folklore he used as the basis for the them.The stories in this volume include The Corpse,

I'm really getting into Hellboy now. I wasn't quite sure I was liking it for anything more than it's clever use of history, its esoteric occult or science bits, or everyone's acceptance of a big red demon carrying on paranormal investigations in the fifties and sixties. (How does no one mind this???)However, by this volume, I'm now emotionally invested as well. It's just a little, but it's something. I love the Fae and the Golem bits the most. I wasn't quite sure I'd get into all these tiny vign...

I think this may be the volume that's gotten me hooked to Hellboy. I love the way Mignola uses folklore as a starting point to his stories. (And I loved the notes he added to this collection.) Most of the stories here are very short, but none of them felt too short, or stretched out, for that matter. The Corpse in particular was nearly perfect in every way. The character of Hellboy makes for a great lead in these sorts of stories: professional and personable. My one criticism is how Mignola hand...

The heat is on!!! This third TPB edition features “Hellboy” #5-6, 12-14, along with a pin-up gallery.The general rating is an average result of individual ratings given to each short story contained here.Creative Team:Creator, Writer & Illustrator: Mike Mignola FINALLY THIS THING HEATED I have to admit that I wasn’t that impressed on the first two TPBs, Seed of Destruction & Wake the Devil. They were well done, but they lacked of character development and since it was the beginning of the s

Short stories, short stories everywhere. The chained coffin was my favorite, but the Corpse and Almost Colossus were great too! Even though this volume doesn't really move the plot forward, as the previous two, I love the little snippets of Hellboy's life as an agent of the B.P.R.D. and I love the various mythologies explored. I really enjoy the world building, the ghost stories with religious touches so I'm rounding my 3.5 to 4 stars.Also, there were a few chuckles here and there, Hellboy is a

The third volume of Hellboy series is a collection of short stories that follow Hellboy in his many adventures across the globes, fighting monsters and solving supernatural mysteries.The book has got a folkish, gothic vibe to it, and Mignola slays it in the artwork.