Three of my very favourite things are comics, Prague and the art of P Craig Russell so getting all three together is bound to be a winning combination.The occasion for the inspired confluence is "Hellboy: The Troll Witch and Others", the seventh trade paperback collection in the Hellboy series created by Mike Mignola.
Most of the volume is reprints of the Hellboy comic but The Vampire of Prague was commissioned for the collection and so had not appeared in print before.
It is in full colour but I chose this black and white sample from the few readily available online because it is so distinctly Prague.
The story itself, like most Hellboy stories, is short, mysterious and quirky; almost like Neil Gaiman but with fewer words. That means it is good.
If that is not enough to convince you to investigate this book then knowing that the last story was drawn by Richard Corben should be the clincher!
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