Encyclopedia - Hellboy: Encyclopedia Ii - Hellboy - Bibliography
Hellboy - Art Book. Mignola, Mike (March 2003)The Art of Hellboy (ed. Scott Allie) Milwaukie: Dark Horse Books ISBN 1-56971-910-1 He...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hellboy: Encyclopedia Ii - Hellboy - Character History
Hellboy is a creature summoned in the final months of World War II by a fictional version of Grigori Rasputin, on a small island just off...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hellboy: Encyclopedia Ii - Hellboy - Other Media
Hellboy - Feature films. Guillermo del Toro directed a film adaptation titled Hellboy in 2004, a screenplay was originally written by P...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mike Mignola: Encyclopedia Ii - Mike Mignola - Hellboy
Previously, Mignola had always worked on characters and properties owned by others. He deviated from that practice in 1994, when Mignola'...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mike Mignola: Encyclopedia Ii - Mike Mignola - Career Before Hellboy
Mignola has worked on numerous superhero comics. He began his career in 1983 by illustrating issues of comic books such as Daredevil and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mike Mignola: Encyclopedia Ii - Mike Mignola - Work On Motion Pictures
Mignola's Hellboy was made into a feature film in 2004 by director Guillermo del Toro, and Mignola was closely involved with the movie's ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mike Mignola: Encyclopedia Ii - Mike Mignola - Mignola's Style
Mignola is particularly noted for his highly distinctive style, which was once called "German expressionism meets Jack Kirby." It is a fa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ogdru Jahad: Encyclopedia Ii - Ogdru Jahad - Who Are The Ogdru Jahad?
Ogdru Jahad - Origins of the Ogdru Jahad and the Ogdru Hem. In the beginning of time, God created an order of spirits. Of these, many ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bureau Of Paranormal Research And Defense: Encyclopedia Ii - Bureau Of Paranormal Research And Defense - The Agency
The B.P.R.D. was founded in late 1945 by Professor Trevor Bruttenholm to combat various occult threats uncovered in operations against Na...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ogdru Jahad: Encyclopedia Ii - Ogdru Jahad - What Do They Want?
Ogdru Jahad - The Ogdru Jahad's mortal agents. After being imprisoned in the void, the Ogdru Jahad turned their considerable forces to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Doug Jones Actor: Encyclopedia Ii - Doug Jones Actor - Partial Filmography
Doug Jones actor - Film. Lady in the Water Pan's Labyrinth The Benchwarmers Doom The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari A Series of Small Things ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hyperborea: Encyclopedia Ii - Hyperborea - Hyperborea In Recent Fiction
The cycle of Conan the Barbarian by Robert E. Howard, set in the fictitious "Hyborian era", features Hyperborea as a far northern land of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rupert Evans: Encyclopedia Ii - Rupert Evans - Biography
Rupert Evans graduated from the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. He has already secured a variety of television credits in the UK....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Video Games Based On Licensed Properties: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Video Games Based On Licensed Properties - Superheroes/comics
(Batman is a boss in some versions of Revenge of Shinobi) Catwoman Catwoman (GameCube, PC, PlayStation 2, Xbox) Catwoman (Game Boy Ad...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hecate: Encyclopedia Ii - Hecate - Hecate In Popular Culture
More recently, Hecate has appeared in Mike Mignola's Hellboy comics. She is also heavily mentioned in the popular TV series Buffy the Vam...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Drew Struzan: Encyclopedia Ii - Drew Struzan - The Decline Of Traditional Art: Other Outlets
In the 1990s, with the advent of computers and digital manipulation of images utilized to create poster art, Struzan experienced the decl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nazi Mysticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Nazi Mysticism - In Fiction
Nazi occult-hunters have been featured in the Indiana Jones films. Occult-obsessed Nazis have long been a staple of superhero comic books...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nazi Mysticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Nazi Mysticism - In Fiction
Nazi occult-hunters have been featured in the Indiana Jones films. Occult-obsessed Nazis have long been a staple of superhero comic books...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ragnarok: Encyclopedia - Ragnarok
In Norse mythology, Ragnarok ("fate of the gods"1) is the battle at the end of the world. It would supposedly be waged between the gods (...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hyperborea: Encyclopedia - Hyperborea
In Greek mythology, according to tradition, the Hyperboreans were a mythical people who lived to the far north of Greece, near the Ural M...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Samael: Encyclopedia - Samael
Samael is an important figure in Talmudic and post-Talmudic lore, a figure who is accuser, seducer, and destroyer. Legends mentioning Sat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Astaroth: Encyclopedia - Astaroth
Astaroth (also Ashtaroth, Astarot, and Asteroth) is a Grand Duke of Hell; his main assistants are four demons called Aamon, Pruslas, Barb...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hecate: Encyclopedia Ii - Hecate - Mythology
Despite popular belief, Hecate was not originally a Greek goddess. She is unknown to Homer and in fact the earliest written references to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Grigori Rasputin: Encyclopedia Ii - Grigori Rasputin - Controversial Activities And Beliefs
Rasputin in the meantime became a controversial figure, leading a scandalous personal life with his mostly female followers from Saint Pe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cthulhu Mythos Arcane Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Cthulhu Mythos Arcane Literature - Book Of Eibon Liber Ivonis
. . . The Book of Eibon, that strangest and rarest of occult forgotten volumes, ... is said to have come down through a series of manifol...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hollow Earth: Encyclopedia Ii - Hollow Earth - Hollow Earth Claims
Hollow Earth - Conventional hollow earths. In ancient times, the idea of subterranean realms seemed arguable, and became intertwined w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gorillas In Comics: Encyclopedia Ii - Gorillas In Comics - Silver Age
Gorillas were frequently used as a gimmick to increase sales for comic books during the Silver Age of Comic Books; this was most frequent...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Demon: Encyclopedia Ii - Demon - Demons In The Hebrew Bible
Demons as described in the Tanakh are not the same as "demons" commonly known in popular or Christian culture. The demons mentioned in th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Brian Transeau: Encyclopedia Ii - Brian Transeau - Musical Progression
The variety of BT's music is considered one its most notable qualities. In the early portion of his career (roughly 1995-2000), he was ge...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dark Horse Comics: Encyclopedia Ii - Dark Horse Comics - Dark Horse Titles
See also List of current Dark Horse Comics publications. Dark Horse Comics - Licensed properties. Æon Flux Alien Aliens Angel Buffy t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cyborg: Encyclopedia Ii - Cyborg - Overview
The concept of a man-machine mixture was widespread in science fiction before World War II. Edmond Hamilton presented space explorers wit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nazi Mysticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Nazi Mysticism - Early Influences
Nazi mysticism - Theozoology. In 1905 Lanz von Liebenfels published a fundamental statement of doctrine titled Theozoologie oder die Ku...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alchemy: Encyclopedia Ii - Alchemy - History
Alchemy encompasses several philosophical traditions spanning some four millennia and three continents. These traditions' general penchan...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Mexicans: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Mexicans - Politics
See also: List of Presidents of Mexico See also: List of Mexican state governors Miguel Alemán Valdés Miguel Alemán Velasco Eduardo B...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Samael: Encyclopedia Ii - Samael - Samael In Other Traditions
In the Apocryphon of John, found in the Nag Hammadi library, Samael is the third name of the evil demiurge, whose other names are Yaltaba...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ragnarok: Encyclopedia Ii - Ragnarok - Portents
Ragnarok will be preceded by the Fimbulwinter, the winter of winters. Three successive winters will follow each other with no summer in b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pyrokinesis: Encyclopedia Ii - Pyrokinesis - Fictional Pyrokinetics
Pyrokinesis - Comics. The Black Queen of Marvel Comics' Hellfire Club from the X-Men series Fire of DC Comics' Justice League Firebird...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Comic Books: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Comic Books - Belgium
(stripverhaal, strip; bande dessinée, BD) Main Article: Belgian comics Agent 212 by Raoul Cauvin (author) and Daniël Kox (artist) Bern...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Batman Comics: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Batman Comics - Starring Batman
List of Batman comics - Ongoing Series. Batman (1940 - ongoing) + 24 annuals Detective Comics (From issue #27, 1939 - ongoing) + 10 an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Brown University People: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Brown University People - Notable Alumni
List of Brown University people - Academia. Aaron T. Beck (1942) - "The Father of Cognitive Behavior Therapy"; founder, Beck Institute...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cyborg: Encyclopedia Ii - Cyborg - Cybernetic Organism, Beyond An Individual
Generally, the term "cyborg" is used to refer to a man or woman with bionic, or robotic, implants. More broadly, the full term "cyberneti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hyperborea: Encyclopedia Ii - Hyperborea - Hyperboreans In Nazi Mysticism
Hyperboreans consistently play a large role in Nazi, neo-nazi, and proto-nazi mysticism. Miguel Serrano was a Chilean diplomat and major ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Demon: Encyclopedia Ii - Demon - In Art Literature And Television
Many classic books and plays feature demons, such as the Divine Comedy, Paradise Lost and Faust. Anton Rubinstein's lushly chromatic oper...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Demon: Encyclopedia Ii - Demon - In Science
Scientists occasionally invent hypothetical entities with special abilities as part of a thought experiment. These "demons" have abilitie...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Demon: Encyclopedia Ii - Demon - In Games
The earliest connection of the word with games is that the British call a form of solitaire "Demon", from at least the nineteenth century...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nazi Mysticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Nazi Mysticism - Overview
Nazi mysticism is a Völkisch movement initiation with roots in the Thule society and theosophy, as well as the ideas of Arthur de Gobine...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Demon: Encyclopedia Ii - Demon - Demons In Hellenistic Neopaganism
In modern Hellenistic Neopaganism (particularly in self-described Hellenistic sects in the United States), a demon can be a variety of th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hyperborea: Encyclopedia Ii - Hyperborea - Modern Meaning
The term "Hyperborean" is used today to refer to any who live in a cold climate. For instance, under the Library of Congress classificati...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Demon: Encyclopedia Ii - Demon - In Islam
Islam recognized the existence of all the pagan demons, good and evil, protesting only against their being considered gods. Islam divides...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Demon: Encyclopedia Ii - Demon - In Hinduism
There are three kinds of anthromorphic beings, the devas (demigods), the manushyas (human beings) and the asuras (demons). The asuras liv...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Demon: Encyclopedia Ii - Demon - In Pre-islamic Arab Culture
Pre-Islamic mythology does not discriminate between gods and demons. The jinn are considered as divinities of inferior rank, having many ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Demon: Encyclopedia Ii - Demon - Demons In Other Cultures And Religions
Demons are found in many religions, and many cultures have developed a rich mythology of demons. The study of demons is called demonology...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nazi Mysticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Nazi Mysticism - Central Beliefs
The origin of the Aryan race, the Teutons generally, and the Germanic peoples specifically, the putative superiority of said Aryans over ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nazi Mysticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Nazi Mysticism - Esoteric Hitlerism
Nazi mysticism - Origin. The founder of Esoteric Hitlerism was Heinrich Himmler, who, more than any other high official in the Third Re...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Grigori Rasputin: Encyclopedia Ii - Grigori Rasputin - Healer To The Tsarevich
Rasputin was wandering as a pilgrim in Siberia when he heard reports of Tsarevich Alexei's hemophilia in 1904. The disease had been inher...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Batman Comics: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Batman Comics - Batman Playing A Major Role
In these comics Batman is not the lead character, but played a lengthy or significant role. List of Batman comics - Ongoing Series. Ju...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Grigori Rasputin: Encyclopedia Ii - Grigori Rasputin - The Spirit Of Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin
After his death, his secretary Simonovich realized that Rasputin had moved a lot of money into his daughter Maria's account, and generall...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Grigori Rasputin: Encyclopedia Ii - Grigori Rasputin - Assassination Myths
The legends recounting the death of Rasputin are perhaps even more bizarre than his strange life. Having decided that Rasputin's influenc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Grigori Rasputin: Encyclopedia Ii - Grigori Rasputin - The Latest Forensic And Historical Evidence
The details of the assassination given by Felix Yusupov have never stood up to close examination. The statement given to the Petrograd po...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Grigori Rasputin: Encyclopedia Ii - Grigori Rasputin - Reputation
The contemporary press, as well as sensationalist articles and books published in the 1920s and 1930s (one of them even by Yussoupov), tu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nazi Mysticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Nazi Mysticism - Nazi Mysticism And Modern Pseudoscience
The writings of Miguel Serrano, Julius Evola, Savitri Devi, and other proponents of Nazi Mysticism have spawned numerous later works conn...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Grigori Rasputin: Encyclopedia Ii - Grigori Rasputin - Prediction Of Disaster
On the night of his murder, Rasputin said to Yussoupov, "The aristocrats can't get used to the idea that a humble peasant should be welco...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nazi Mysticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Nazi Mysticism - Research And Expeditions
A great deal of time and resources were spent on researching or creating a popularly accepted “historical”, “cultural” and “sci...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nazi Mysticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Nazi Mysticism - Suppression Of Secret Societies
The Nazi party actively discouraged certain mystical secret societies, in fact interning, and sometimes executing, a number of high-ranki...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hollow Earth: Encyclopedia Ii - Hollow Earth - Hollow Earths In Fiction
An early science-fiction work called Symzonia: A Voyage of Discovery by a "Captain Adam Seaborn" appeared in print in 1823. It obviously ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Grigori Rasputin: Encyclopedia Ii - Grigori Rasputin - Meaning Of The Name Rasputin
The name Rasputin in Russian does not mean "licentious," as is often claimed. There is, however, a very similar Russian adjective rasputn...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hecate: Encyclopedia Ii - Hecate - Emblems
Image:Hecate and Cerberus.jpg Traditionally, Hecate is represented as carrying torches, very often has a knife, and may appear holding a ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cthulhu Mythos Arcane Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Cthulhu Mythos Arcane Literature - Eltdown Shards
The Eltdown Shards are mentioned in numerous mythos stories. They are mysterious pottery fragments found in 1882 and named after the plac...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cthulhu Mythos Arcane Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Cthulhu Mythos Arcane Literature - De Vermis Mysteriis
De Vermis Mysteriis (modern title: Mysteries of the Worm) is a grimoire created by Robert Bloch and is cited in some later mythos stories...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cthulhu Mythos Arcane Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Cthulhu Mythos Arcane Literature - Celaeno Fragments
The Celaeno Fragments is credited to August Derleth. In his novel, The Trail of Cthulhu, the name "Celaeno" refers to a distant planet th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cthulhu Mythos Arcane Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Cthulhu Mythos Arcane Literature - On The Sending Out Of The Soul
On the Sending Out of the Soul appears in Henry Kuttner's short story "Hydra". It is an eight page pamphlet on astral projection. The pam...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cthulhu Mythos Arcane Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Cthulhu Mythos Arcane Literature - Ponape Scripture
The Ponape Scripture first appeared in Lin Carter's short story "Out of the Ages". The Scripture is a manuscript found in the Caroline Is...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Demon: Encyclopedia Ii - Demon - Demons In Ancient Persia
During the time of Zarathustra the same word (Div) received the notion of demon in the Iranian tradition. In Zoroastrianism and the Avest...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alchemy: Encyclopedia Ii - Alchemy - Overview
Alchemy - Alchemy as a proto-science. The common perception of alchemists is that they were pseudo-scientists, crackpots and charlatans...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Brian Transeau: Encyclopedia Ii - Brian Transeau - Discography
Brian Transeau - Singles. "Moment of Truth" (1993) "Relativity" (1993) "Embracing the Sunshine" "Loving You More" featuring Vincent Co...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alchemy: Encyclopedia Ii - Alchemy - Alchemy In Art And Entertainment
Alchemy - Literature. Many authors lampooned alchemists and used them as the butt of satirical attacks. Two famous examples of these in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ragnarok: Encyclopedia Ii - Ragnarok - Aftermath
After the destruction, a new earth will arise out of the sea, green and fair. Barley will ripen in fields that were never sown. The meado...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ragnarok: Encyclopedia Ii - Ragnarok - The Final Battle
Odin will make straight for Fenrir; and Thor, right beside him, will be unable to help because Jörmungand, his old enemy, will at once a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Superhero: Encyclopedia Ii - Superhero - Character Subtypes
In superhero role-playing games (particularly Champions), superheroes are informally organized into categories based on their skills and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Superhero: Encyclopedia Ii - Superhero - History Of Superheroes In Comic Books
Superhero - Antecedents. The origins of superheroes can be found in several prior forms of fiction. Many share traits with protagonists...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alchemy: Encyclopedia Ii - Alchemy - Etymology
The word alchemy comes from the Arabic al-kīmiyaˀ or al-khīmiyaˀ (الكيمياء or الخيمياء), which is probably formed fro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Superhero: Encyclopedia Ii - Superhero - Growth In Diversity
From their birth until the early 1960s, superheroes largely conformed to the model of lead characters in American popular fiction in the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Demon: Encyclopedia Ii - Demon - In Christian Myth And Legend
Building upon the few references to daemons in the New Testament, especially the visionary poetry of the Apocalypse of John, Christian wr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hecate: Encyclopedia Ii - Hecate - Representations
The earliest depictions of Hecate are single faced, not triplicate. Farnell (1896) states: The evidence of the monuments as to the chara...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cyborg: Encyclopedia Ii - Cyborg - Cybernetic Organism Beyond An Individual
Generally, the term "cyborg" is used to refer to a man or woman with bionic, or robotic, implants. More broadly, the full term "cyberneti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hell: Encyclopedia Ii - Hell - Non-religious Context
The word "Hell" used away from its religious context was long considered to be profanity, particularly in North America. Although its use...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cyborg: Encyclopedia Ii - Cyborg - Examples
Cyborg - Non-fiction. Jesse Sullivan Steve Mann Kevin Warwick Cyborg - Fiction. Steve Austin, The Six Million Dollar Man Jaime Som...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Demon: Encyclopedia Ii - Demon - Etymology
The idea of demons is as old as religion itself, and the word "demon" seems to have ancient origins. The Merriam-Webster dictionary gives...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Demon: Encyclopedia Ii - Demon - In The New Testament And Christianity
"Demon" has a number of meanings, all related to the idea of a spirit that inhabited a place, or that accompanied a person. Whether such ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Demon: Encyclopedia Ii - Demon - In Jewish Rabbinic Literature
Rabbinical demonology has three classes of, demons, though they are scarcely separable one from another. There were the shedim, the mazzi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hell: Encyclopedia Ii - Hell - Hell In Entertainment And Other Popular Culture
Philip José Farmer in his Riverworld series (1971) created perhaps the best science fiction depiction of a "man" made hell created with ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hell: Encyclopedia Ii - Hell - Hell In Literature
Many of the great epics of European literature include episodes that occur in Hell. In the Roman poet Virgil's Latin epic, the Aeneid, Ae...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hecate: Encyclopedia Ii - Hecate - Cross-cultural Parallels
The figure of Hecate can often be associated with the figure of Isis in Egyptian myth (mainly due to her role as sorceress). In Hebrew my...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hecate: Encyclopedia Ii - Hecate - Other Names And Epithets
Hecate - Goddess of the crossroads. Hecate had a special role at three-way crossroads, where the Greeks set poles with masks of each of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hecate: Encyclopedia Ii - Hecate - Hecate In Literature
Hecate makes several appearances in William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth (c 1606); she is represented as a goddess or demon who commands...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hecate: Encyclopedia Ii - Hecate - Hecate In Modern Day Magic
In modern times, she has become popular in Paganism and Wicca, largely due to her association as the goddess of sorcery. In modern Pagani...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hell: Encyclopedia Ii - Hell - Origins
Hell, as it exists in the Western popular imagination, has its origins in Hellenized Christianity, particularly taken from adaptation of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hecate: Encyclopedia Ii - Hecate - Queen Of Ghosts
Queen of Ghosts a title associated with Hecate due to the belief that she can both prevent harm from leaving, but also allow harm to ente...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hecate: Encyclopedia Ii - Hecate - Relations In The Greek Pantheon
Hecate is a pre-Olympian chthonic goddess. The Greek sources don't offer a story of her parentage, beyond the Theogony, or of her relatio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hellboy: Encyclopedia Ii - Hellboy - Publication History
Hellboy debuted in 1993 in San Diego Comic-Con Comics #2 (Dark Horse Comics). Written and drawn by creator Mike Mignola, the stories have...   » Read the article