Mignola, Michael

The Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense has sent Hellboy out on what will be his final mission to a ruined castle in Norway to intercept a returning manned capsule that the Nazis launched sixty years ago and destroy its single passenger--the Conqueror Worm.

The agents of the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense gather in the wake of Roger the homunculus' death to brainstorm for ideas on how he might be resurrected, and to share stories of their own deaths and strange adventures.

The Bureau for Paranormal Research and Development is called in after a madman shoots up a secret laboratory and allows a giant fungus to escape, marking the beginning of a plague of frogs meant to complete the doomsday work begun by the deranged monk Rasputin. Includes the origin of Abe Sapien.

Contains five stories that pit the paranormal team against vampires, ghosts, a Nazi ghost train, and a possessed psychic.

On the battlefields of World War I, Lord Henry Baltimore awakens the wrath of a vampire, unleashing a violent plague that leaves Baltimore fighting a battle against evil and relying on the aid of three friends whose experiences have shown them that evil is devouring the world around them.

Lord Henry Baltimore hunts and kills the vampires that have flooded Europe since the devastating plague that struckat the end of World War I began, all while searching for the one monster who was responsible for it all.