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. As with Hellboy stories generally, it was published by Dark Horse Comics. The Crooked Man 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. The issues were numbered 33 through 35 of the overarching Hellboy series. Synopsis 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. 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. 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. 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. Tom invites Hellboy to accompany him and Cora, helping to save the girl's soul while knowing he can never escape the Crooked Man. Tom and Hellboy discuss the latter's burden to must be many times worse than Tom's but which he hasn't started to feel yet. They try to take Cora through a region of coal mines, but it was infested with deformed cannibal witches descended from the Roanoke colony since the mines' collapse in 1902. Cora can hear the witches calling her, Tom assuring her that they are safe during the day despite the Hurricane being "on the devil's time" and night falls immediately. Cora explodes into a shower of small demonic animals from whom Tom and Hellboy are only saved by Tom's first use of his witch-bone. They arrive at