Witchfinder Omnibus Volume 1

by Mike Mignola, John Arcudi, Maura McHugh, Kim Newman, Ben Stenbeck (Illustrator)

Overview

The collected adventures of England’s greatest occult investigator!

When the man called the Witchfinder becomes an agent of the Queen, he is led from the sparkling echelons of Victorian London to its dark underbelly, through the American West, and to explore the mysteries of Unland! Throughout his adventures, he’ll face occult conspiracies, rampaging monsters, and London’s most infamous secret society: the Heliopic Brotherhood of Ra!

This first omnibus edition collects Sir Edward Grey: Witchfinder volumes 1-3, complete with extensive sketchbook section, now in paperback!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781506740737
Publisher:	Dark Horse Comics
Publication date:	04/02/2024
Pages:	440
Sales rank:	431,684
Product dimensions:	6.60(w) x 10.10(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Mike Mignola's fascination with ghosts and monsters began at an early age; reading Dracula at age twelve introduced him to Victorian literature and folklore, from which he has never recovered. Starting in 1982 as a bad inker for Marvel Comics, he swiftly evolved into a not-so-bad artist. By the late 1980s, he had begun to develop his own unique graphic style, with mainstream projects like Cosmic Odyssey and Batman: Gotham by Gaslight. In 1994, he published the first Hellboy series through Dark Horse, and several spin-off titles (B.P.R.D., Lobster Johnson, Abe Sapien, and Sir Edward Grey: Witchfinder), prose books, animated films, and two live-action films starring Ron Perlman. Along the way he worked on Francis Ford Coppola's film Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), was a production designer for Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001), and was the visual consultant to director Guillermo del Toro on Blade II (2002), Hellboy (2004), and Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008), as well as the upcoming Hellboy: Rise of the Blood Queen. Mike's books have earned numerous awards and are published in a great many countries. Mike lives in Southern California with his wife, daughter, and cat.

Editorial Reviews

Witchfinder continues to mean quality in horror.” —SciFi Pulse
 
“Mignola has a great sense of the macabre and fantastic. This book is dark both in story and art (thanks to the wonderful Ben Stenbeck), has a fast pace, and new twists on every page.”—Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

12/06/2019

Sir Edward Grey investigates supernatural occurrences at the behest of Queen Victoria in this omnibus edition of three previously released adventures. Creator Mignola and illustrator Stenbeck (both, Baltimore: Omnibus, Vol. 1) present the moodily unsettling "In the Service of Angels," in which an inquiry into the deaths of several explorers recently returned from an expedition to discover a legendary lost city finds Sir Grey caught up in a conspiracy involving creatures from the center of the earth, a beautiful woman who channels an ethereal spirit, and a dangerous cult. In "Lost and Gone Forever," Mignola joins coauthor Arcudi (B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth. Vol. 5) for a story set in Utah in 1880, as Sir Grey's faith in God and the English Crown is put to the test in a ripping yarn perfectly suited to legendary artist Severin (EC Archives: Weird Fantasy. Vol. 4). Finally, Sir Grey probes a murder linked to a small English town famed for producing a miracle elixir in the horrific "The Mysteries of Unland" from writers Kim Newman (Anno Dracula 1999: Daikaiju) and Maura McHugh (We Are the Martians: The Legacy of Nigel Kneale) and illustrator Tyler Crook (The Stone King). VERDICT Riveting mysteries and thrilling action combine in stories with ongoing ramifications for the larger Hellboy universe. A solid purchase.—Tom Batten, Grafton, VA

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