Hellboy: Oddest Jobs

Hellboy: Oddest Jobs is the third anthology collecting non-chronological short stories written for the Hellboy novel series, based on the comic book series by Mike Mignola, who provided cover illustrations for each story.

Contents

Jiving with Shadows and Dragons and Long, Black Trains

Written by Joe R. Lansdale

Disappearances in towns across Midwestern America are linked to the passage of a mysterious ghost train, which turns out to be the astral projection of a teenage shut-in, formerly obsessed with pulp novels.

Straight, No Chaser

Written by Mark Chadbourn

Hellboy visits a jazz club exclusively for zombies, retrieving a sacred object as a wedding gift for one of the zombie's still-living beloved.

Second Honeymoon

Written by John Skipp & Cody Goodfellow

An action-packed confrontation at sea ensues as a Bureau team, led by Hellboy, Abe Sapien, and Liz Sherman, tries to prevent occultists from bringing together the ancient Greek monsters Typhon and Echidna, hoping to produce a whole new generation of monsters.

Danny Boy

Written by Ken Bruen

A mild-mannered bank clerk helps himself to some cash lost in a failed robbery, but Hellboy warns him that the cash is suspected to be cursed.

Strange Fishing in the Western Highlands

Written by Garth Nix

A Scottish doctor visits his elderly father and is stunned to find he is the head of a Druidical cult, enacting an annual ritual to keep a gateway shut, barring the "Old Ones" on the other side.

Salamander Blues

Written by Brian Keene

The Thursday Men

Written by Tad Williams

Produce

Written by Amber Benson

A toddler in a grocery store is enchanted by her new game, trying to catch something long and red on the floor, not knowing that it is Hellboy's tail, and not understanding her mother's hysterical reaction.

Repossession

Written by Barbara Hambly

In Cupboards and Bookshelves

Written by Gary A. Braunbeck

Feet of Sciron

Written by Rhys Hughes

Monster Boy

Written by Stephen Volk

A bullied schoolboy obsessed with monster movies happens to look out his window one night and see Hellboy battling something terrible, inspiring him to confront his tormentors wearing his own Right Hand of Doom.

Evolution and Hellhole Canyon

Written by Don Winslow

A Room of One's Own

Written by China Miéville

Liz Sherman attempts to redecorate her quarters at the B.P.R.D., inadvertently using a magically-woven wallpaper that entrances Hellboy.