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The Dark Horse Book Of Witchcraft Hardcover – July 13, 2004

by Mike Mignola (Author, Artist), Gary Gianni (Author), Tony Millionaire (Author, Artist),

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The Dark Horse Book of Witchcraft conjures up weird tales of horror and magic the likes of which one seldom sees in graphic novels. Mignola returns with another Hellboy story; Thompson (Scary Godmother) and Dorkin (Dork, Hectic Planet) return to their characters in the stunning "Stray" story, the surprise hit of the first volume in this series. Morse (Ancient Joe, Soulwind) presents an evocative and carefully researched tale of old Salem, digging into the madness of the accusations leveled there, which ended more than thirty lives in a few short months.

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96 pages
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English
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Dark Horse
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July 13, 2004
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6.25 x 0.75 x 9.25 inches
ISBN-10

1593071086
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978-1593071080
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From Publishers Weekly

This neat little collection is an interesting and sometimes stimulating hodgepodge that features stunning art by some top comics artists. Reflecting the shifting opinion of witches in both folklore and real life, the volume includes the idea of witches as agents of evil, trying to seduce ordinary people away from righteousness, and an interview with a Wiccan priestess. "Mother of Toads," a 1937 short story by Clark Ashton Smith, describes a young man's sexual initiation by a witch who wreaks vengeance when he insults her later. It emphasizes the loathsomeness of the sex act, especially with a fat old toad-woman; however, the young man certainly has sex on his mind and doesn't try too hard to resist. Mike Mignola's demonic psychic investigator Hellboy makes an appearance in the moody and atmospheric piece "The Troll Witch." Tony Millionaire's eccentric line art makes the familiar chant of the witches from Macbeth newly eerie. Other superior pieces by Scott Morse and by Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson further stretch our understanding of who witches are and how they should be combated. This is an anthology in which the parts actually support each other, so that even weaker items look good in context and may even cause a few chills.
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Grade 10 Up–This anthology, featuring such top artists as Tony Millionaire, Mike Mignola, and Jill Thompson, has predictable appeal. However, the images chosen for the cover and the book design, which evoke the Dark Ages, belie the range, depth, complexity, originality, and ambition of this remarkably modern compendium. The eight substantial horror tales include cartoon witches from Macbeth, a "Hellboy" story, and one set in Salem. Illustrated mostly in color and in widely different styles, each one draws readers into another perspective on witchcraft and the place it holds in the Western cultural imagination. A "rare, unexpurgated" version of Clark Ashton Smith's "Mother of Toads" is a disturbingly clear and explicit expression of the imagined and real misogyny that underlies many stories on the subject. At the other end of the psychological scale, in "The Truth about Witchcraft," High Priestess Phyllis Curott speaks personably as a scholar and insider, providing a reality check that amplifies the dark fantasy of folklore and lends the collection another dimension and still greater depth. That–and the concluding animal fable, "The Unfamiliar," a heartbreaking morality tale–will challenge some readers with much more than they bargained for.–Christine C. Menefee, Fairfax County Public Library, VA

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Dark Horse (July 13, 2004)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 96 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1593071086
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1593071080
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.1 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.25 x 0.75 x 9.25 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #617,042 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #520 in Graphic Novel Anthologies (Books)
- #1,145 in Dark Horse Comics & Graphic Novels
- #1,837 in Horror Graphic Novels (Books)

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Mike Mignola is best known as the multiple award-winning creator, writer, and artist of "B.P.R.D." and "Hellboy", but has fostered several other projects like "The Amazing Screw-On Head" and "Baltimore" with Christopher Golden. Although he began working as a professional cartoonist in the early 1980s, drawing 'a little bit of everything for just about everybody' - including characters like Batman and Wolverine - he was also a production designer on the Disney film "Atlantis: The Lost Empire". Mignola also acted as a visual consultant to Guillermo del Toro on "Blade 2" and the film versions of Hellboy, which were broadly adapted by del Toro from the original comic series. Mike Mignola currently lives in southern California with his wife, daughter, and cat.

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Nectar from the Dark (Horse) Gods

Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2007

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The Book of Witchcraft is another of the anthologies that Dark Horse released not too terrible long ago, and each one of them was surprisingly good considering how quietly they were received. I was happy to see Hellboy stories hitting the marketplace again after some absence from the shelves, and this particular book also has a story by the great Clark Ashton Smith that is worth re-adding to a collection. That has been one of the things I thought was great about each of the books Dark Horse released; since they were going with pulp stories they opted to reprint stories done by great writers, and their selections were some that I couldn't have been more pleased to look at. All the books are affordable and all are a nice distraction if you want to spend an hour or so reading/ admiring some of the pieces of comic art and, if you are into something that could be described as campy by people who aren't really fond of the word pulp, each of them makes good on their own specific byline.

The Book of Witchcraft includes the best of the three Hellboy stories in it in my opinion by far, with the engrossing short actually taking all of the Hellboy elements and delivering them in a surprisingly touching tale. I was taken with how well the story was written and, as always, how odd a tale can actually be and yet how much sense it can seem to make when Mignola sets down and delivers a pseudo-fairytales. Aside from the Troll-With there are 8 other tales in the book, the Clark Ashton Smith an actual story with art pieces done by the esteemed Gary Gianni and The Truth about Witchcraft taking an interview format, and each angles at witchcraft in its own particular way.

Included in the book are:

1. Macbeth. Adaptation by Tony Millionaire

2. The Troll With: A Hellboy Adventure. Mignola/writer

3. Mother of Toads. Clark Ashton Smith/writer

4. The Flower Girl. Allie/writer

5. The Gris-Gris. Keegan and Keegan/ writers

6. Golden Calf Blues. Ricketts/writers

7. The Truth about Witchcraft. Allie/ writer

8. Salem and Mary Sibley. Morse/ writer

9. Unfamiliar. Dorkin/writer

Again, this might be a selection for a specific audience and those in the forefront know who they are. Hellboy collectors aside, people who enjoy the feel of Lovecraftian days revisited will undoubtedly enjoy the reprinting of Clark Ashton Smith piece, and anyone with a love for Dark Horse's collections will like the way the book is made to look like a book of witchcraft.

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Jeremy L.

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2015

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excellent comic book

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A So-So Horror Anthology With A Bewitching Theme

Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2017

There were four Dark Horse anthology/sampler books issued between 2003 and 2006 - they are the books of Hauntings, Witchcraft, the Dead, and Monsters. Each book is available individually, (they were sort of like annuals), and as of September, 2017, they are all also available in a single collected megavolume. Each book stands alone; there is no story arc that runs through the series. The collected megavolume is mostly appealing for its convenience, completeness and solid look and feel.

Each volume has a generous helping of Mignola's Hellboy, an illustrated old school tale drawn from a classic author, and a long episode from the Dorkin/Thompson "Beasts of Burden" series, which is a remarkably appealing series that features a gang of neighborhood dogs who deal with supernatural happenings. At least to me, in story, execution and depth of characterization, the "Beasts of Burden" contributions were the happiest and most unexpected finds in these books.

"Witchcraft" struck me as the most mixed bag of the four volumes. I felt this was the best Hellboy of the series - moody and thoughtful. The classic tale, this time by Clark Ashton Smith, really was a creepy classic. The Beasts of Burden episode was the most complex of the four in the series. But, a Salem witch trials narrative was basic and bare bones. Illustrating the MacBeth witches scene didn't seem essential. An interview with a Wiccan "High Priestess" was pretty silly. The important point, I guess, is that everything is at least worth looking at, and there are way more hits than misses.

So, if you hold out the Hellboy, Beasts of Burden, and the interview, there are six new items. For each you get a new writer, a different artist, and different colors and lettering. That's a lot of variety and a nice way to find some new talent. I was happy with this and generally admired the efforts that were exhibited.

(Please note that I received a free advance will-self-destruct-in-x-days Adobe Digital copy of this book without a review requirement, or any influence regarding review content should I choose to post a review. Apart from that I have no connection at all to either the author or the publisher of this book.)

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Nora Peevy

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Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2018

This YA anthology is a beautifully illustrated collection of stories by various artists and authors, but the crown gem for me is the interview with Phyllis Curott. Her interview is concise and intelligent. It is a great introduction to what Wicca and being a witch is truly about. And it dispels all the superstitious and misguided stereotypes demonstrated in the stories included in this book. I highly recommend this collection simply for the interview, if you are curious about learning the truth about Wicca.

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L. Mintah

Scary

Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2006

The Dark Horse Book of Witchcraft features a leering, hideous old woman on the cover, in some kind of embrace with a goat. This is your first clue that these dark tales feature no young and curvaceous Charmed girls, no Sabrina the Teen-Aged Witch. The witches in this volume are the real thing, the original black magic practicioners who made convenants with the Devil and reveled in evil ways.

I enjoyed all of these original stories very much. They all provided horror chills. All but one are in comic format. The exception is an old tale about a horrible Toad Witch. This is text with a couple of black and white illustrations.

An interesting read, but one I hope no one takes seriously, is the editor's interview with a New York lawyer who is also the Wiccan High Priestess. This woman has serious delusions of self-grandeur. A lot of what she says is informative, but she engages in some ignorant Christian and Bible bashing. For a much truer version of Wicca and its origins, read The Forest House or The Mists of Avalon, both by Marion Zimmer Bradley.

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