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Curiosities of Literature
How much heavier was Thackeray's brain than Walt Whitman's? Which novels do American soldiers read? When did cigarettes start making an appearance in English literature? And, while we're about it, who wrote the first Western, is there any link between asthma and literary genius, and what really happened on Dorothea's wedding night in Middlemarch?
In Curiosities of Literature, John Sutherland contemplates the full import of questions such as these, and attempts a few answers in a series of essays that are both witty and eclectic. His approach is also unashamedly discursive. An account of the fast-working Mickey Spillane, for example, leads to a consideration of the substances, both legal and illegal, that authors have employed to boost their creative energies. An essay on good and bad handwriting points out in passing that Thackeray could write the Lord's Prayer on the back of a stamp. As for Mary Shelley, a brief recital of the circumstances in which she wrote Frankenstein stops off to consider what impact the miserable summer weather of 1816 had on the future path of English literature.
Of course, it is debatable whether knowledge of these arcane topics adds to the wisdom of nations, but it does highlight the random pleasures to be found in reading literature and reading about it. As John Sutherland rightly asks, 'Why else read?'
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Haunting of Hill House
Part of a new six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by award-winning director Guillermo del Toro Filmmaker and longtime horror literature fan Guillermo del Toro serves as the curator for the Penguin Horror series, a new collection of classic tales and poems by masters of the genre. Included here are some of del Toro s favorites, from Mary Shelley s "Frankenstein" and Ray Russell s short story Sardonicus, considered by Stephen King to be perhaps the finest example of the modern Gothic ever written, to Shirley Jackson s "The Haunting of Hill House" and stories by Ray Bradbury, Joyce Carol Oates, Ted Klein, and Robert E. Howard. Featuring original cover art by Penguin Art Director Paul Buckley, these stunningly creepy deluxe hardcovers will be perfect additions to the shelves of horror, sci-fi, fantasy, and paranormal aficionados everywhere. "The Haunting of Hill House" The classic supernatural thriller by an author who helped define the genre. First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's"The Haunting of Hill House" has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a haunting;' Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powers and soon it will choose one of them to make its own."
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Rough Guide Horror Movies
The Rough Guide to Horror Movies is a comprehensive guide to the world''s most terrifying films. The guide includes all the icons, from Boris Karloff to Wes Craven and Frankenstein to Freddie Kruger, including classics from Argentina, Pakistan, South Africa and the recent chillers from East Asia. The canon of fifty essential horror movies features The Cabinet of Dr Caligari and Switchblade Romance, via Psycho and The Exorcist. Everything you need to know is covered from festivals, adaptations, magazines and merchandise. The guide tells the stories behind the movies that have scared us throughout the twentieth century.
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Puzzle New York s mrakodrapmi 2000 Ravensburger
Zažite neporovnateľnú zábavu pri skladaní vysoko kvalitných puzzle s motívom New Yorku s mrakodrapmi od spoločnosti Ravensburger. Jedinečné dieliky puzzle do seba perfektne zapadajú. Rozmer po zostavení je približne 98 x 75 cm. Rozmery balenia: 43 x 30 x 6 cm.
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Bob Mizer
It s Raining Men: Two volumes and two decades of top physique modelsIn 1945 Bob Mizer began taking photographs of strapping young men on Muscle Beach in Venice, California. In December of that year he formed the Athletic Model Guild to market his photos, and physique photography was born. Before Mizer there were body builders and men who photographed them, but AMG photos, even those of the same men, were different, subtly provocative, discretely aimed at a gay audience. They weren t nude, but showed as much as the law allowed in 1945.In 1951 Mizer launched Physique Pictorial, America s first indisputably gay magazine, bringing his photos of top straight body builders to grateful readers worldwide. By the late 50s Mizer had photographed over 1,000 men, moving from the beach to his quirky Los Angeles studio, where he introduced props including Greek columns, Roman headdresses, rear projection, and famously, his mother s glassware, for theatrical Hollywood effect. In 1957 he published a catalog featuring all his men, titled 1000 Model Directory . In 1968 a second 1000 Model Directory followed, with the men photographed in the intervening years. The little 98-page books became instant collectibles, but the photos were so small, 12 to a page, that they were as frustrating to view as they were titillating.TASCHEN s two-volume edition of 1000 Model Directory contains prints from Mizer s original 4 x 5 negatives to present these handsome hunks in stunning clarity. Editor Dian Hanson trawled through a quarter million male nudes to select this lineup of top models, including movie stars Sammy Jackson, Richard Harrison, and Ed Fury. Glenn Corbett of TV s 77 Sunset Strip is also here, as well as Nick Adams, star of The Rebel, and top body builders Chris Dickerson, Dick Dubois, Vince Gironda, Bill Grant, Zabo Koszewski, Henry Lenz, Don Peters, Bob Shealy, Charles Stroeder, Armand Tanny, and John Tristram.An hour-long DVD is also included, containing 18 films made by Bob Mizer between 1954 and 1968, in black and white and color, all edited specifically for this book. They range from simple posing routines by bodybuilding stars Keith Stephan and AMG favorites Forrester Millard, John Davidson and Steve Buono, to sword and sandal star Ed Fury s first physique film, to gladiator extravaganzas, wrestling adventures, crime dramas, and a Bob specialty humorous morality tales, starring Jim Paris, John Tristram, Monte Hanson and other models featured in the book. Mizer s take on Dr. Frankenstein s Monster, in posing straps, is a stand-out.Text in English, French, and German.
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Haunted Castles
Part of a new six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by award-winning director Guillermo del Toro Filmmaker and longtime horror literature fan Guillermo del Toro serves as the curator for the Penguin Horror series, a new collection of classic tales and poems by masters of the genre. Included here are some of del Toro's favorites, from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Ray Russell's short story 'Sardonicus', considered by Stephen King to be 'perhaps the finest example of the modern Gothic ever written', to Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House and stories by Ray Bradbury, Joyce Carol Oates, Ted Klein, and Robert E. Howard. These stunningly creepy deluxe hardcovers will be perfect additions to the shelves of horror, sci-fi, fantasy, and paranormal aficionados everywhere. Haunted Castles Haunted Castles is the definitive, complete collection of Ray Russell's masterful Gothic horror stories, including the famously terrifying novella trio of 'Sardonicus', 'Sanguinarius', and 'Sagittarius'. The characters that sprawl through Haunted Castles are frightful to the core: the heartless monster holding two lovers in limbo; the beautiful dame journeying down a damned road toward depravity (with the help of an evil gypsy); the man who must wear his fatal crimes on his face in the form of an awful smile. Engrossing, grotesque, perverted, and completely entrancing, Russell's Gothic tales are the best kind of dreadful. Ray Russell was born in 1924 in Chicago, Illinois, and served in the United States Air Force during World War II in the South Pacific. After the war, he attended the Chicago Conservatory of Music and eventually joined the editorial staff at Playboy, where he published such writers as Ray Bradbury, Kurt Vonnegut, Richard Matheson, Jack Finney, Robert Bloch, and Charles Beaumont. His best-known work, 'Sardonicus', was called by Stephen King 'perhaps the finest example of the modern Gothic ever written'. He died in Los Angeles in 1999. Guillermo Del Toro is a Mexican director, producer, screenwriter, novelist, and designer, most famous for his Academy Award-winning film, Pan's Labyrinth, and the Hellboy film franchise. He has received the Nebula, Hugo, and Bram Stoker awards and is an avid collector and student of arcane memorabilia and weird fiction.
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Frankenstein: Or The Modern Prometheus - The 1818 Text (Oxford World´s Classics)
Shelley's enduringly popular and rich gothic tale confronts some of the most feared innovations of evolutionism and science--topics such as degeneracy, hereditary disease, and humankind's ability to act as creator of the modern world. This new edition, based on the harder and wittier 1818 version of the text, draws on new research and examines the novel in the context of the controversial radical sciences developing in the years following the Napoleonic Wars, and shows the relationship of Frankenstein's experiment to the contemporary debate between champions of materialistic science and proponents of received religion.About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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Maľovanie podľa čísel Nočný Manhattan (40x80 cm) Schipper
"Nočný Manhattan". Siluety mrakodrapov a tisícky svetiel, ktoré sa odrážajú vo vode rieky East River. Výsek z úžasného, presláveného Skyline, ktorý sa bežne nazýva aj "Big Apple".
Rozmer obrazu: 40 x 80 cm
Balenie "Nočný Manhattan" obsahuje:
• 36 akrylových farieb na vodnej báze v uzatvárateľných nádobkách s dobrou krycou schopnosťou, ktoré nie je potrebné navzájom miešať alebo kombinovať. Všetky odtiene sú už harmonicky zladené a presne namiešané.
• Stabilný maliarsky kartón s ľanovou štruktúrou, na ktorom sú vyznačené exaktné tenké obrysy plôch s dobre čitateľnými číslami.
• Jemný maliarsky štetec.
• Kontrolný list.
• Jednoduchý návod na maľovanie.
Maľovanie podľa čísel od Schipper - to je skvelá zábava s dokonalým výsledkom! Vymaľovaný obraz má charakter skutočnej maľby.
Haunted
Haunted" is a novel made up of stories: twenty-three of them to be precise. Twenty-two of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales you'll ever encounter - sometimes all at once. They are told by the people who have all answered the ad headlined 'Artists Retreat: Abandon your life for three months'. They are led to believe that here they will leave behind all the distractions of 'real life' that are keeping them from creating the masterpiece that is in them. But 'here' turns out to be a cavernous and ornate old theatre where they are utterly isolated from the outside world - and where heat and power and, most importantly, food are in increasingly short supply. And the more desperate the circumstances become, the more desperate the stories they tell - and the more devious their machinations become to make themselves the hero of the inevitable play/movie/non-fiction blockbuster that will certainly be made from their plight. "Haunted" is at one level a satire of reality television. It draws from a great literary tradition - "The Canterbury Tales", "The Decameron", the English storytellers in the Villa Diodati who produced, among other works, "Frankenstein" - to tell an utterly contemporary tale of people desperate that their story be told at any cost. Appallingly entertaining, "Haunted" is Chuck Palahniuk at his finest - which means his most extreme and his most provocative."
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XIII. Století - Záhrada světel LP
KDO: Skupina XIII. Století vznikla v roce 1991. Hraje kytarový gothic rock vycházející z původního odkazu gotické vlny a punku. Ve svém žánru patří k naší absolutní špičce s přesahem do zahraničí. Vyhledávané jsou její koncerty v Polsku, v Německu, na Slovensku a v Rusku. Vystupuje na mezinárodních festivalech a přehlídkách. V roce 2013 byla skupina oceněna prestižní hudební cenou Břitva a byla uvedena do "Galerie legend". Skupina hraje ve složení Petr Štěpán (zpěv, kytara), Pavel Štěpán (bicí nástroje), Miroslav "Palda" Paleček (basová kytara) a Kateřina Kameníková (klávesové nástroje).
CO: Zahrada světel na vinylu. XIII. století na základě poptávky svých příznivců předělalo do nových verzí písně Into the Garden of Delight, Mystery ana, Dogma a Upír s houslemi. Skladbu Frankenstein se Petr Štěpán rozhodl tentokrát natočit pouze v instrumentální verzi. Vedle novinkové skladby Vítr z Karpat pak skupina na album zařadila jednu píseň z repertoáru skupiny Bratrstvo Luny. Tři skladby natočilo XIII. století s bývalou spoluhráčkou Janou Havlovou. Realizaci druhého alba projektu Hindenburg pojal Petr Štěpán jinak a vsadil na skladby v rychlejších, údernějších tempech nebo tanečních rytmech.
LP
1. Zahrada světel (version 2020)
2. Mystery ana (version 2020)
3. Upír s houslemi (version 2020)
4. Frankenstein (orchestral version 2020)
5. Dogma (version 2020)
6. Vítr z Karpat
7. Fantasmagoria (prequel version)
Overkill - The Atlantic Years 1986 – 1996 6LP
KDO: Overkill jsou thrashmetalová skupina z amerického New Jersey založená roku 1980, která se pojmenovala po jednom z alb legendárních Motörhead. Jejich unikátní zvuk vychází z kombinace punk rocku a Nové vlny britského heavy metalu. Byli jednou z prvních kapel, která se upsala velkému labelu. V jejich případě se jednalo v roce 1986 o značku Atlantic.
CO: Tato kompilace mapuje působení Overkill pod značkou Atlantic a obsahuje šest alb vydaných u tohoto labelu. Jedná se o tato alba: Taking Over (1987), Under the Influence (1988), The Years of Decay (1989), Horrorscope (1991), I Hear Black (1993) a W.F.O. (1994), tedy druhé až sedmé album v diskografii skupiny, alba, kterými se Overkill stali jednou z nejúspěšnějších metalových skupin světa přelomu osmdesátých a devadesátých let dvacátého století.
LP1
1. A1 Deny The Cross
2. A2 Wrecking Crew
3. A3 Fear His Name
4. A4 Use Your Head
5. A5 Fatal If Swallowed
6. B1 Powersurge
7. B2 In Union We Stand
8. B3 Electro-Violence
9. B4 Overkill II (The Nightmare Continues)
LP2
1. C1 Time To Kill
2. C2 Elimination
3. C3 I Hate
4. C4 Nothing To Die For
5. C5 Playing With Spiders/Skullkrusher
6. D1 Birth Of Tension
7. D2 Who Tends The Fire
8. D3 The Years Of Decay
9. D4 E.vil N.ever D.ies
LP3
1. E1 Where It Hurts
2. E2 Fast Junkie
3. E3 The Wait-New High In Lows
4. E4 They Eat Their Young
5. E5 What's Your Problem
6. F1 Under One
7. F2 Supersonic Hate
8. F3 R.I.P. (Undone)
9. F4 Up To Zero
10. F5 Bastard Nation
11. F6 Gasoline Dream
LP4
1. G1 Dreaming In Colombian
2. G2 I Hear Black
3. G3 World Of Hurt
4. G4 Feed My Head
5. G5 Shades Of Grey
6. H1 Spiritual Void
7. H2 Ghost Dance
8. H3 Weight Of The World
9. H4 Ignorance & Innocence
10. H5 Undying
11. H6 Just Like You
LP5
1. I1 Shred
2. I2 Never Say Never
3. I3 Hello From The Gutter
4. I4 Mad Gone World
5. I5 Brainfade
6. J1 Drunken Wisdom
7. J2 End Of The Line
8. J3 Head First
9. J4 Overkill III (Under The Influence)
LP6
1. K1 Coma
2. K2 Infectious
3. K3 Blood Money
4. K4 Thanx For Nothin'
5. K5 Bare Bones
6. K6 Horrorscope
7. L1 New Machine
8. L2 Frankenstein
9. L3 Live Young, Die Free
10. L4 Nice Day…For A Funeral
11. L5 Soulitude
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Hotel Transylvánie 2 DVD
Ve zbrusu nové dobrodružné komedii o příšerkách to na první pohled vypadá, že se v hotelu Transylvánie konečně všechno mění k lepšímu! Draculu ale přesto sžírají pochybnosti, zda se jeho napůl lidský a napůl upíří vnuk Dennis vůbec někdy stane upírem. Když Mavis odjede na dovolenou, Drac toho využije a pověří své přátele Franka, Murrayho, Waynea a Griffi na, aby pro Dennise nachystali pořádný “kurz strašení”!
Délka: 86 min.
Dabing: český DS, slovenský DS, anglický 5.1, hebrejský DS, slovinský DS, turecký DS
Titulky: české, slovenské, anglické pro neslyšící, chorvatské, hebrejské, srbské, slovinské, turecké
Režie: Genndy Tartakovsky
Hrají: Petr Rychlý – Dracula, Lucie Vondráčková – Mavis, Ondřej Brzobohatý – Jonathan, Mikuláš Převrátil – Dennis, Filip Švarc – Murray, Tomáš Juřička – Frankenstein, Petr Gelnar – Dana, Radek Kuchař – Griffin, Nina Divíšková – Shrunkenhead, Karel Gult – Vlad, Libor Terš – Wayne, Jiří Ployhar – Brandon, Šárka Vondrová – Linda, Pavel Šrom – Mike, Dušan Kollár – Phantom
Bonusy:
· Videoklip Fifth Harmony “I’m In Love With A Monster”
· Návrhy postav - galerie
· Komentář režiséra Genndyho Tartakovskyho
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Hotel Transylvánie 1+2 DVD
Žáner: animovaný, komedie, rodinný
Délka: 174 minut
Titulky: české
Zvuk: český 2.0, slovenský 2.0, anglický 5.1
Režie: Genndy Tartakovsky
Hotel Transylvánie 1:
Málokdo o Draculovi ví, že není jen princem temnoty, ale také vlastníkem stylového Hotelu Transylvánie - luxusního pětihvězdičkového resortu, kde se mohou všechna monstra světa (tedy Frankenstein, Mumie, vlkodlaci, Zombie, neviditelný muž a spoustu dalších) dostat daleko od všech a být jen sami sebou v bezpečném prostředí bez lidí. Ale pro Drákulu existuje ještě daleko důležitější důvod, proč držet obyčejné smrtelníky dál od Hotelu Transylvánie: aby ochránil Mavis, svojí milovanou náctiletou dceru. Jako většina teenagerů i Mavis chce opustit hnízdo a prozkoumávat velký svět za hranicemi hotelu. Jenže to je myšlenka, která Draculu skutečně děsí! A navíc se blíží termín, kdy se budou ve velkém stylu slavit narozeniny jeho milované Mavis a v hotelu se nečekaně objeví člověk…
Hotel Transylvánie 2:
Zdá se, že Hotelu Transylvánie se začíná dařit... Dracula konečně ustoupil ze svých striktních zásad ubytovávat v hotelu pouze příšery, a ten se proto otevírá i lidským návštěvníkům. Za zavřenými dveřmi krypty ale Draculu sžírají pochybnosti o tom, zda se jeho napůl lidský a napůl upíří vnuk Dennis vůbec někdy stane upírem. Když tedy Mavis ve společnosti Johnnyho vyrazí na návštěvu lidské části příbuzenstva - na které ji ostatně také čeká nejedno překvapení - požádá "Děda" Drac o pomoc své přátele Franka, Murrayho, Waynea a Griffina a společně Dennisovi nachystají "kurz pro strašidla". Nemají ale nejmenší tušení, že se k návštěvě své rodiny v hotelu chystá také Dracův rozmrzelý a velmi, velmi, velmi staromódní otec Vlad. Když se tedy Vlad dozví, že jeho pravnuk není čistokrevný upír - a ještě k tomu teď do Hotelu Transylvánie mohou jezdit i lidé - nastane mela, ze které by dost možná i upírovi ztuhla krev v žilách...
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Spider-Man - Utrpení
Mezi mrakodrapy i skrz kanály, po celém New Yorku pronásleduje Spider-Man krvežíznivého maniaka, nebezpečnou bytost, která byla kdysi jeho přítelem. Jenže... na tom všem je něco hodně divné. Co pohání Lizarda a dělá z něj vraždící monstrum? Proč se Spideymu zjevují protivníci, kteří jsou už dávno mrtví... a v hlavě mu duní zvuk vzdálených bubnů? A především... dostane Spider-Man Lizarda dřív, než jeho samého dostihne šílenství a smrt? Komiks Utrpení ponořil Spider-Mana a s ním i čtenáře do temnoty. Je to děsivý, ponurý, strhující a akcí nadupaný příběh, který se stal základní součástí komiksové historie. Není také divu, právě jím totiž zahájil svou vlastní spider-manovskou sérii jeden z nejslavnějších komiksových malířů, legendární Todd McFarlane!
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HRC L5 BLUE - STRANGE CASE OF DR JEKYLL + MR HYDE
The young Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from repeated nightmares of living a double life, in which by day he worked as a respectable doctor and by night he roamed the back alleys of old-town Edinburgh. In three days of furious writing, he produced a story about his dream existence. His wife found it too gruesome, so he promptly burned the manuscript. In another three days, he wrote it again. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was published as a "shilling shocker" in 1886, and became an instant classic. In the first six months, 40,000 copies were sold. Queen Victoria read it. Sermons and editorials were written about it. When Stevenson and his family visited America a year later, they were mobbed by reporters at the dock in New York City. Compulsively readable from its opening pages, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is still one of the best tales ever written about the divided self. This University of Nebraska Press edition is a small, exquisitely produced paperback. The book design, based on the original first edition of 1886, includes wide margins, decorative capitals on the title page and first page of each chapter, and a clean, readable font that is 19th-century in style. Joyce Carol Oates contributes a foreword in which she calls Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde a "mythopoetic figure" like Frankenstein, Dracula, and Alice in Wonderland, and compares Stevenson's creation to doubled selves in the works of Plato, Poe, Wilde, and Dickens. This edition also features 12 full-page wood engravings by renowned illustrator Barry Moser. Moser is a skillful reader and interpreter as well as artist, and his afterword to the book, in which he explains the process by which he chose a self-portrait motif for the suite of engravings, is fascinating. For the image of Edward Hyde, he writes, "I went so far as to have my dentist fit me out with a carefully sculpted prosthetic of evil-looking teeth. But in the final moments I had to abandon the idea as being inappropriate. It was more important to stay in keeping with the text and, like Stevenson, not show Hyde's face." (Also recommended: the edition of Frankenstein illustrated by Barry Moser) --Fiona Webster
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Frankenstein
Světově proslulý horrorový román. Dramatický příběh vynálezce a jeho vynálezu. Mladý vědec Viktor Frankenstein stvoří umělého člověka, monstrum ohyzdné podoby s nadlidskou silou. Umělý člověk svou obrovskou sílu po prvních trpkých zkušenostech zasvět
í mstě a zkáze. Zloba je směřována hlavně proti rodině jeho tvůrce vynálezce Frankensteina.
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Frankenstein or modern prometheus
Victor Frankenstein is obsessed with the secret of resurrecting the dead. But when he makes a new 'man' out of plundered corpses, his hideous creation fills him disgust. Rejected by all humanity, the creature sets out to destroy Frankenstein and everyone he loves. And as the monster gets ever closer to his maker, hunter becomes prey in a lethal chase that carries them to the very end of the earth.
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Frankenstein: New World
Safely tucked away inside the hollow earth where humanity survived after Ragna Rok, precocious young Lilja receives visions of a new darkness taking root on the surface.
Defying her elders, Lilja awakens the timeless oracle—once known as Frankenstein—to investigate the warnings and, perhaps, even explore the new world above.
Frankenstein: New World, from Mike Mignola, Thomas Sniegoski, Christopher Golden, artist Peter Bergting, and colorist Michelle Madsen, explores a new chapter in the world of Hellboy!
Collects Frankenstein: New World #1–#4.
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