Hellboy Christmas Special
Comic story
| Film editor | Scott Allie |
|---|---|
| Publication date | December 1997 |
Hellboy: Christmas Special #1 is a 1997 anthology collection. Opening with the full-length story A Christmas Underground, the rest of the Special features suitably eerie or macabre Christmas-themed tales and illustrations that do not have direct connections to Hellboy.
Content
A Christmas Underground
Ernie's Holiday Ditty
- By Steve Purcell
- Letters by Lois Buhalis
A Strange Story
- By Gary Gianni
Christmas
- By Geof Darrow
- Colors by Dave Stewart
Toybox
- By Steve Purcell
- Letters by Lois Buhalis
Corpus Monstrum in A Gift for the Wicked
- By Gary Gianni
- Letters by Sean Konot
Further Reading
- By Mike Mignola
- Colors by Dave Stewart
Mignola recommends several Christmas ghost stories:
- "The Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens
- "A New Christmas Carol" by Arthur Machen
- "The Ghost" by William D. O'Connor
- "The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall" by John Kendrick Bangs
- "The Ghosts of Grantley" by Leonard Kip
- "Christmas Eve in the Blue Chamber" by Jerome K. Jerome