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Hellboy

Seed of Destruction

Hellboy( )
Author: Mignola, Mike
Byrne, John
Illustrator: Mignola, Mike
Introduction by: Bloch, Robert
ISBN:978-1-4223-6783-4
Publication Date:Aug 2007
Publisher:DIANE Publishing Company
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $18.00
Book Description:

The book that inspired the motion picture. From the introduction by Robert Bloch: ¿`Hellboy¿ is a brilliant example of how to elevate the comic of the future to a higher literary level while achieving a higher pitch of excitement. Its story line combines traditional concepts with modern frames of reference, the whole being swept along by a virtuoso treatment of dazzling artistic effect. . . This is far from the `pop art¿ of the Andy Warhol world or the inane imagery of the drug...
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Book Details
Pages:120
Detailed Subjects: Comics & Graphic Novels / Fantasy / General
Author Biography
Mignola, Mike (Author)
Robert Albert Bloch (April 5, 1917 -- September 23, 1994) was a prolific American writer, primarily of crime, horror, fantasy and science fiction. He is best known as the writer of Psycho, the basis for the film of the same name by Alfred Hitchcock. Bloch wrote hundreds of short stories and 30 plus novels. His mentor was H. P. Lovecraft, one of the first to encourage Bloch's horror fiction writing.

Bloch won the Hugo award for his story, That Hell-Bound Train, in 1959. In 1960 he won the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Psycho and in 1994 he won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Long Fiction for The Scent of Vinegar.

Bloch was born in Chicago, Illinois. In 1994 he died of cancer in Los Angeles, at the age of 77.

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