Tom resolves to take his father's corpse to a church up in 'The Hurricane,' a part of the mountain dominated by 'The Crooked Man,' an eighteenth-century miser and war profiteer named Jeremiah Witkins who was hanged for his crimes yet returned from Hell as the region's resident Devil. They befriend Cora Fisher, a witch driven to magic by personal tragedy, and encounter Effie Kolb, the youthful-appearing witch who first initiated Tom, who brought Tom his dying father whom she turned into a horse that she rode to death. Ferrell has never practiced magic but carries a 'witch-bone' which has gotten him safely through his travels and his service in World War II. Wandering in the Appalachian Mountains in 1958 (after 'finishing up some stuff down South'), Hellboy encounters Tom Ferrell, a native of the region returning for the first time in decades to atone for his youthful initiation as a witch. The issues were numbered 33 through 35 of the overarching Hellboy series. The Crooked Man, scripted by Mignola with art by Richard Corben, was first published from July 2008 through September 2008 as issues 1–3 of an eponymous limited series. As with Hellboy stories generally, it was published by Dark Horse Comics. Hellboy: The Crooked Man and Others is the tenth collected edition of Mike Mignola's comic book series Hellboy, collecting Hellboy: The Crooked Man #1–3, Hellboy: In the Chapel of Moloch, Hellboy: They That Go Down to the Sea in Ships and the story 'The Mole' from 'Free Comic Book Day 2008: Hellboy.' The collected edition features an introduction by Gahan Wilson. Richard Corben, Jason Shawn Alexander, Duncan Fegredo

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