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Hellboy: Odder Jobs Paperback – October 19, 2004

by Frank Darabont (Author), Charles de Lint (Author), Graham Joyce (Author),

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As part of the ongoing Dark Horse celebration of Hellboy in 2004, Christopher Golden (author of the Hellboy novels The Lost Army and The Bones of Giants) has brought together a stellar array of talents to further the Hellboy canon. Included in this illustrious group are filmmakers Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, The Majestic), Mick Garris, Guillermo del Toro (Blade 2, The Devil's Backbone, Hellboy), and novelists Charles de Lint, Graham Joyce, Kim Newman, and Sharyn McCrumb, as well as many others. Lavishly illustrated by creator Mike Mignola!

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Dark Horse Books (October 19, 2004)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 216 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1593072260
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1593072261
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.03 x 0.68 x 8.97 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #1,798,223 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #2,119 in Dark Horse Comics & Graphic Novels
- #5,439 in Horror Graphic Novels (Books)
- #5,837 in TV, Movie & Game Tie-In Fiction

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CHRISTOPHER GOLDEN is the New York Times bestselling author of such novels as Ararat, Red Hands, Snowblind, Wildwood Road, The Boys Are Back in Town, The Ferryman, Strangewood, and Of Saints and Shadows. Golden co-created (with Mike Mignola) the comic book universe known as The Outerverse, featuring such characters as Baltimore, Joe Golem, and Lady Baltimore. As an editor, he has worked on the short story anthologies Hex Life, Seize the Night, and The New Dead, among others, and has also written and co-written comic books, video games, screenplays, a BBC radio play, and the online animated series Ghosts of Albion (with Amber Benson). A frequent speaker at conferences, schools, and libraries, Golden is also co-host of the podcast Defenders Dialogue, and the founder of the Merrimack Valley Halloween Book Festival. The winner of the Bram Stoker Award for best novel in 2017 for Ararat, Golden has been nominated ten times in eight different categories, winning twice. He has also been nominated multiple times for the Shirley Jackson Award, sharing a win in 2020 with James A. Moore for the anthology The Twisted Book of Shadows.

Golden was born and raised in Massachusetts, where he still lives with his family. His original novels have been published in more than fourteen languages in countries around the world. Please visit him at www.christophergolden.com

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Holly

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Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2024

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The book was in good shape

Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2008

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This is a must read for any Hellboy fan, and Fiction fans alike. The stories are short but all are superb.

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Adam Hasser

Short Stories

Reviewed in the United States on November 9, 2011

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I read these books awhile ago but thought I'd go back and give them a quick review. I like all 3 books and I think most Hellboy fans will enjoy them. Like the comics these books have a great blend of Horror, Sci Fi, Fantasy and Humor. Here are a few of favorite and least favorite stories in the books.

ODD JOBS:
Jigsaw is dark, creepy and just weird enough to be great. I actually recommend reading that one last because it was my favorite in all 3 books. Delivered is the lightest and funniest story of all 3 books.

ODDER JOBS:
I only remember wanting to skip one story in this book, Water Music. I found the story boring and I didn't understand why it was happening. I actually skipped the end which I never do. However this is the best book of the 3, because it's got so many good stories in it, even though my two favorite stories are in Odd Jobs.

ODDEST JOBS:
I only remember wanting to skip one story in this one as well, Second Honeymoon. I found that story confusing and boring. I liked the first 2 books better but this one still has enough good stories in it to be worth picking up.

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D Bittner

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Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2007

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Hellboy: Odder Jobs is a great collection, by a batch of writers trying their hand at Mike Mignola's big red guy and his "family" of oddities, misfits and world-savin' weirdies. Christopher Golden has chosen some terrific stories for inclusion. This volume is a must-read for anyone who call him- or herself a Hellboy fan.

Highly recommended!

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Michelle Brandl

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on November 30, 2015

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Great collection of Hellboy/BPRD short stories in written form.

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Gilbert M. Stack

I Especially Liked the Story, The Vampire Brief

Reviewed in the United States on June 15, 2023

Hellboy returns with yet another set of eclectic adventures. Each is fun, but only one really stood out to me. In The Vampire Brief, Hellboy is faced with a seemingly insurmountable problem. The vampire he is seeking to destroy has obtained a restraining order against him from the courts. So, Hellboy can’t kill the vampire because the police won’t let him anywhere near it. The solution to this problem made me smile.

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Surferofromantica

Something different, and good fun - the Thrice-Named Hill is tantalizing for those who think of the greater Hellboy mythos

Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2014

A wonderful collection of short stories by 16 authors, including Frank Darabont (the director of The Shawshank Redemption, who also wrote the foreword), and Guillermo del Toro (the director of the two Hellboy movies, who collaborated with Mike Mignola also on Blade 2 - his original treatment on tooth fairies, which occupied a place in the second Hellboy movie, appears here). Each short story also gets a Mignola illustration to open it. Nice.

Darabont's introduction talks about how he became acquainted with the world of Hellboy (and Guillermo del Toro) in an old laserdisc shop in Hollywood, and how this turned into a nice writing gig for him. His story starts it off - a cool tale of the old West, gunfighters, tourist traps, and ghostly vindication - a fun little thing called "Brotherhood Of The Gun". "From An Enchanter Fleeing" is a story about a haunted town, Dawson Corner, and the mist of tears that happens sometimes when there's an overload of emotion in the afterworld… or something. Couldn't quite follow this one. "Down In The Flood" is a weird little tale of a flooded zone with killer scepters - an Abe Sapien tale. "Newford Spook Squad" is a cool little story, framed "then" and "now" with hard boiled detectives figuring out how this whole thing works. Great dialogue, interesting voyage of discovery, and even an adventure or two thrown in. "Water Music" is some goofy thing about Abe Sapien hallucinating about possible civilizations and potential species fighting for life (his life) in his meditation tank. Strange stuff.

"The Vampire Brief" is a cool story about Hellboy getting a restraining order from a modern New Orleans vampire, and how managed to draw the clever creature to court; funky lawyers in this one. Short and sweet. "Unfinished Business" is a crazy story about a succubus haunting a New Mexico military base, and how Hellboy and the BPRD draw her out… sort of! "Saint Hellboy" is a cool tale of a possessed Italian grandmother, her three grandsons - a priest, a hit man, a deranged monk - and no shortage of weird, ancient baggage! Great dysfunctional family interaction here!! "Sleepless In Manhattan" is about fighting a water spirit and an imp in Central Park with Liz and Abe. Next! "The Wish Hounds" is about hunting in the deep countryside, and the call of the hunting party. "Act Of Mercy" is a strange tale of a Romanian ghoul issuing a weak threat to Hellboy, and getting put out of his misery. Odd. "The Thrice-Named Hill" is a peculiar tale as it's about a relative of Hellboy's! Worth reading to consider what it all means for the broader Hellboy narrative:

The church squatting on the crest of the steep hill was already cast in gloomy silhouette. Moment by moment the rain-streaked sky was turning the color of heated steel. Hewn from gray local stone, its rough outline and squat tower formed a knuckled fist raised a the scudding clouds. The church couldn't be said to grace the hill: it burdened it, and almost threatened to topple.
A direct ascent being too step, the church was approached by a worn path coiling the hill. "Odd place to settle a church," Hellboy said.
"Everything about this place is odd, " Liz said grimly.
"The locals say there's a reason for it being built up there," Gina said. "There's a legend."
"Liz Sherman turned up her collar like Gina's. "There always is."

"Of Blood, Of Clay" is a nice story of Roger, the Homunculus, discovering a brother in a modern-day Golem, searching for Nazi prey. Cool thing about fingernails. This one also has an appearance from Lobster Johnson at the beginning - wow! "A Full And Satisfying Life" is a story of Hellboy and a young, doomed BPRD agent, hunting a manticore that is chewing up boarding school kids. Nutty! But nice… "The Glass Road" is a story of weird goings-on in the Libyan desert, as Liz deals with some stray hell-hounds. Finally, "Tasty Teeth" tells of how Hellboy discovers what the tooth fairies really are, and how he gets rid of them. A bit different than what happens in Hellboy 2, actually...

So far, "Brotherhood Of The Gun" and "The Vampire Brief" are the best stories in the set, with the latter truly worthy of a Mignola-drawn adventure of its own. Love it!!

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NOT a Graphic Novel!

Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2006

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Despite what the product title says, Odder Jobs, is NOT a graphic novel. This was quite misleading, especially when one considers that "Odd Jobs" was another collection of random hellboy stories by various authoirs and artists and actually WAS a graphic novel.

I had expected this to be a sequil because of amazon's poor product labelling.

That rant aside, it IS a good read, with several fun stories in it. I would reccomend it if you are a HB fan, but NOT if you;re shopping for quick and easy graphic novels to read on your lunch break.

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