Hellboy: Darkness Calls
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Dark Horse Comics |
| Format | Limited series |
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| Publication date | April – November 2007 |
| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) | Mike Mignola |
| Artist(s) | Duncan Fegredo |
| Letterer(s) | Clem Robins |
| Colorist(s) | Dave Stewart |
| Creator(s) | Mike Mignola |
| Editor(s) | Scott Allie |
| Collected editions | |
| Hellboy: Darkness Calls | |
Hellboy: Darkness Calls is a comic book limited series created by Mike Mignola and published by American company Dark Horse Comics. It starred Hellboy.
In Darkness Calls, several plotlines and characters from earlier stories converge.
In a tomb near Lucca, Italy, Igor Bromhead (last seen in Hellboy: Box Full of Evil) summons the witch-goddess Hecate to a catacomb using runes written in blood. She demands to see the lizard body with which the devil Astaroth had cursed him and he obliges. Before she can destroy him he surprises her by invoking her secret name, which, ever since her resurrection in Hellboy: Wake the Devil, has been that of Ilsa Haupstein, her luckless human host. Bromhead reveals the bones of Haupstein's lover and Hecate's son, the vampire Vladimir Giurescu, from which Bromhead has magically wrung the information which gives him full power over the horrified goddess.
Back in England, three witches meet among standing stones; they have recovered the horns Hellboy broke from his skull during Hellboy: Wake the Devil and carved a bust of him from one of them. Hellboy wakes in the house of Harry Middleton, an old friend of his and of his adoptive father Trevor Bruttenholm. Under the witches' (and the carved horn's) influence, Hellboy decides to go for a walk, but not before accepting a vintage pistol and holster from Middleton as a gift. On his walk into the woods he is followed by a troop of cats and spied upon from the trees by a haggard specter with copper coins for eyes. Hellboy encounters two odd men and a woman who see him and cut short their rendition of the evocative "Mister Stormalong" sea shanty, whose monster-hunting folk hero they identify with Hellboy, and whose verses we have been hearing over several pages of captions. They inform Hellboy that they have reached the spot where corrupt 17th-century witchfinder Henry Hood hung three witches, "their ladies", who cursed him with torture and undeath (he is the coin-eyed specter we have seen). After hearing the hanging scene reenacted, the trio rush off to find the burial site of the three hanged witches, whose doting animal familiars they reveal themselves to be: while Hellboy finds himself immobilized (by the spell being cast on his horn) they begin to assume the shapes of a frog, a raven and a cat, resurrecting their former mistresses with a potion poured on their gravesite, and promising Hellboy a gathering of witches (both alive and dead) "like none before in the history of the world" telling Hellboy: "They gather for you!!"
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